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Green Jobs Status Update

February 1, 2012

We already know about the failure of Obama's stimulus investment in Solyndra, which cost the American taxpayers $535 million. We found out a few days ago about the failure of Ener1, another Obama stimulus-funded alternative energy company, which has filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The taxpayers put up $118 million for that one. Another stimulus-funded alternative [...]

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The Party Of No Forces Another Possible Government Shutdown

September 24, 2011

I keep hearing the Republicans are "The Party Of No", but it's the Democrats who keep rejecting legislation passed by the Republican-led House. Earlier this year, the Democrat-led Senate rejected the House budget proposal. In August, the Senate rejected the House's Cut, Cap, And Balance plan to raise the debt limit and balance the budget. [...]

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Crazy People

September 1, 2011

Actress Daryl Hannah, co-star of the 1990 movie Crazy People, was arrested in a protest outside the White House on tuesday. Hannah and other environ-mental-ists conducted a sit-in to protest against the planned Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would transport oil from Canada to the Gulf Of Mexico. The actress told reporters she wants to [...]

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Energy Prices To Necessarily Skyrocket

June 13, 2011

Beware. Liberals are about to "help" us peons again. A few years ago, then Senator Obama said electricity rates would "necessarily skyrocket" if his energy policies were implemented. In spite of this, for some odd reason, we decided to elect him President. Not our wisest move, America, because here comes the skyrocket: Consumers could see [...]

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Gas Pains – Part II

April 28, 2011

Last month, President Obama attempted to blame the oil companies for not doing more drilling and exploration in America, as follows: There is more we can do, however. For example, right now, the (oil) industry holds leases on tens of millions of acres — both offshore and on land — where they aren’t producing a [...]

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Gas Pains (And Obama's Birth Certificate ! Yippee !)

April 27, 2011

"Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe [$6-$7 per gallon]" – Obama Energy Secretary Steven Chu. As the price of gas reaches $4 per gallon in some parts of the United States, placing additional financial hardships on all of us, it is worth remembering [...]

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Global Warming Not So Hot

December 10, 2010

Irony of the global warming variety: 7 Dec 10 – With the UN Climate Change Conference underway in Cancun to discuss the dangers of Global Warming, the resort host location is experiencing its third straight day of record cold temperatures… Today the mercury fell to 53F in Cancun. The record for this date – 57F [...]

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Meet The Chevy Volt

August 17, 2010

The latest "great success" of the Obama administration is the newly announced Chevy Volt, a plug-in electric/gasoline hybrid automobile from General Motors (a subsidiary of ObamaCorp). The Obama Volt has all the luxurious amenties of a Honda Civic, but at twice the price. Retailing at $41,000, the Volt is sure to be a big hit [...]

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The Kanjorski Connection

July 12, 2010

Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) is a great guy. He really likes to use taxpayer dollars to help people…especially if those people are members of the Kanjorski family. Some years ago, Rep. Kanjorski secured earmarks of $9 million in federal grants for an energy company called Cornerstone Technologies LLC. Cornerstone was run by members of the [...]

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What Caused The Oil Rig Explosion ?

April 30, 2010

On March 30, 2010, President Obama announced plans to open up vast new areas to offshore oil drilling. Three weeks later, on April 20, 2010, the biggest offshore oil platform explosion (pictured above) in American history is looking like it might turn into the worst oil-related ecological disaster ever in this country. Now all the [...]

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Thank You For Cutting My Taxes ???

April 17, 2010

Let me start by saying I agree with several things Obama has done recently – instituting an effort to secure loose nukes is great. Probably the single greatest threat to the USA and the world is a nuke falling into terrorist hands. Obama's move to start offshore oil drilling is a step forward. I supported [...]

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Obama On Energy

April 6, 2010

President Obama visited the Celgard plant in Charlotte, North Carolina the other day. Obama chose Celgard because they make batteries, and received $50 million in taxpayer funds via Obama's stimulus package. Celgard is using the money for expansion. Obama touted that achievement, though I always thought it was banks who were supposed to loan money [...]

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