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More Renewable Power Leads To An Increase In Carbon Dioxide Emissions
That might seem to be a bold statement, but that is truth of the matter, and these statistics bear that out. This isn’t a small percentage increase in those CO2 emissions, but an increase well above the overall percentage increase in total power consumption across the whole of the U.S. While overall total power consumption […]
If I Were Dictator (Part 12)
By Marlin6 On 02/05/2008, I authored a post “Benevolent Dictators Make Good Government”. Examples are King David – Israel – (1010 BC –970 B.C.) in ancient times and General Douglas McArthur – Japan – (1945 –1947) in modern times. I started musing about what I would do if I were absolute dictator of the United […]
The Epicenter of Anti-Semitism
By Alan Caruba Anti-Semitism has a very long history. In June, Dr. Rivka Shpak Lissak, a Jewish historian, posted a section of her forthcoming book, noting that “The Roman Empire committed a genocide of the Jewish people under its occupation (63 BCE – 324 CE) of the land of Israel. From about 3,000,000 Jews in […]
AmeriCorps’ Favorite Scandal-Plagued Mayor
By Michelle Malkin A prominent Democratic politician who was banned from receiving federal aid three years ago over fraud charges is once again raking in government funds from the very same program he abused. It pays to be a FOTO — Friend of the Obamas. Our publicly subsidized con artist is Sacramento mayor and former […]
Dubious Anniversary for NRC, Yucca Mountain, and U.S. Nuclear Power
By Jack Spencer On June 28, 2010, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board—a three-judge panel charged with conducting licensing hearings for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)—rejected the Department of Energy’s motion to withdraw the license application to move forward with opening Yucca Mountain, the geologic repository meant to store our nation’s used nuclear fuel. Before […]
CO2 Tax Australia – Let’s Just Buy Dud Power Stations And Switch Off The Lights, She Babbled Brightly
By Andrew Bolt Amid all the paragraphs of babble about Labor, the Greens and the independents nearly closing their deal on a perfectly useless carbon dioxide tax comes the briefest of mentions of a disastrous consequence: As the committee settled on compensation for electricity generators, Standard & Poor’s warned that Australian baseload power generators faced […]
Environmentalists vs. Renewable Energy
By Rael Jean Isaac It’s become a truism that environmentalists want alternative energy—from wind, sun, water—to replace our reliance on fossil fuels. The trouble with this truism is that it isn’t true. Yes, in the abstract, environmentalists are all for so-called “renewable” sources of energy. But when it comes to specific projects it’s another story. […]
President Babe
By Alan Caruba There’s a lot I don’t know about Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota Representative who just announced that she wants to be the next President of the United States of America, but I do know she is great eye candy and, given the present occupier of the office, I would much rather look at […]
Your Tax Dollars Going to an Energy-Efficient TV Competition
By Nicolas Loris Doesn’t the Department of Energy (DOE) have enough needless programs and spending projects on its plate? DOE recently announced that it is launching a new program in cahoots with the Consortium for Energy Efficiency in which they will award the producer of the most efficient television. Producers will compete internationally for the […]
NewsBusted – 11-179 – Video
Topics in today’s show: – Last week, President Obama announced plans to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan. – New York State has just redefined its definition of marriage to include same sex couples. – During recent coverage of the U.S. Open Golf tournament, NBC omitted the words ‘Under God’ from the pledge of allegiance. – […]
Australia Will Give China The Coal We’ll Ban For Ourselves
By Andrew Bolt China isn’t just buying up the farm here in Australia – literally – but is rubbing our face in our suicidal stupidity. The fuss this week about the purchase of 43 farms in the Liverpool Plains by Chinese miner Shenhua Watermark actually ignores the biggest warning. Politicians are suddenly panicking that foreigners […]
PA Legislature’s New Budget
Think of the Emperor’s new clothes, and you’ll have an idea of what’s coming below. Click here for the current spreadsheet for the state budget as negotiated among House and Senate Republicans. Democrats were not part of the negotiations. The legislature’s budget begins on page 14. Altogether, it will cost taxpayers $1,221,180 per work day […]
If I Were Dictator (Part 10)
By Marlin6 On 02/05/2008, I authored a post “Benevolent Dictators Make Good Government”. Examples are King David – Israel – (1010 BC –970 B.C.) in ancient times and General Douglas McArthur – Japan – (1945 –1947) in modern times. I started musing about what I would do if I were absolute dictator of the United […]
First Ignored, Then Attacked: 6th International Climate Change Conference
By Alan Caruba In the words of Gandhi, “First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you, then you win.” Thursday, June 30, will mark the beginning of the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, sponsored by The Heartland Institute, a free market policy center headquartered in Chicago. The conference will be […]
Clearing the Air
By Paul Driessen Ever since public, congressional and union anger and anxiety persuaded the Environmental Protection Agency to delay action on its economy-strangling carbon dioxide rules, EPA has been on a take-no-prisoners crusade to impose other job-killing rules for electricity generating plants. As President Obama said when America rejected cap-tax-and-trade, “there’s more than one way […]
Carbon Dioxide Tax Australia – The Unlitateral Economic Disarmament: We’ll Pay, China Will Play
By Andrew Bolt Here another example of how our global warming politicians are unilaterally disarming our economy against far more aggressive competitors. When Europe threatens to whack a carboin dioxide tax on our airlines, under its new green protectionism, the Gillard Government just asks for more punishment: QANTAS will be forced to lift international airfares […]
Solar Power Australia – The Moree Solar Plant
June 27, 2011 by TonyfromOz
Two weeks ago, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced plans for two new Solar Power Plants in Australia. In a photo op complete with hard hat and darkened glasses to protect from the bright light, she posed for photographs at a place where all that exists now is the site for the as yet unconstructed […]
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