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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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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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Unemployment Nonsense

February 5, 2011

The official unemployment rate dropped from 9.4% to 9.0% in January. Here's the good news from the Bureau Of Labor Statistics (BLS): The unemployment rate (9.0 percent) declined by 0.4 percentage point for the second month in a row. (See table A-1.) The number of unemployed persons decreased by about 600,000 in January to 13.9 [...]

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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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What Al Gore Has Wrought

September 2, 2010

A left-wing enviro-nut armed with a gun and metal canisters looking like bombs strapped to his chest entered the Discovery Channel headquarters outside Washington D.C. yesterday. The gunman, James J. Lee, took three hostages, and was eventually killed by the police. Fortunately, nobody else was hurt. Lee was mad at the Discovery Channel because he [...]

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President NewsCycle Reacts

June 11, 2010

Proactively taking swift action (if "swift" means slower than molasses, and 'proactive' means reactive), President NewsCycle (or is it President Kick-Ass now ?) has scheduled a meeting with BP executives on June 16th, 58 days after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion began spewing millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf Of Mexico. Who [...]

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Why Paul Krugman Can't Think, Part A

May 16, 2010

New York Times columnist and Princeton economics professor Paul Krugman wrote the following on his blog. It's called Why Libertarianism Doesn't Work, Part N. I quote it in it's entirety (though I must have missed parts A thru M): Why Libertarianism Doesn’t Work, Part N Thinking about BP and the Gulf: in this old interview, [...]

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Another Government Failure Magnifies Oil Spill Disaster

May 4, 2010

Something I think people of all political stripes can agree upon is this – a primary responsibility of the federal government is to keep us safe, to provide national security. Yet, it seems the federal government has become involved in so many different areas that it has lost sight of it's legitimate and primary focus. [...]

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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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If I Had A Hammer…

October 11, 2009

Let's get the crazy train rolling at high speed right off the bat with this first quote… “The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists – the Taliban and Hamas this morning – in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize.” – Democratic National Committee communications director Brad Woodhouse (link). [...]

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Our Radical New Science Czar

July 12, 2009

Upon taking office, President Obama vowed to "restore science to it's rightful place." Enter John Holdren, whom Barack Obama recently appointed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Holdren's informal title [...]

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Enough Already – Stop Cap-And-Trade

June 28, 2009

“Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends – life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.” – Thomas Jefferson Allow me to construct a hypothetical set of circumstances. Let's say our country was in the midst [...]

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