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Richard Who? AP, NYT, Others Ignore UK’s Lindzen As He ‘Pwns’ Global Warming Alarmists
By Tom Blumer ~ As is the case with so much that is being reported in other countries about how much of the rest of the world is walking itself back from the extreme statist agenda supposedly necessitated by “climate change,” a presentation at the British House of Commons made by Professor Richard Lindzen, whom […]
If Nobel Were Alive, Would He Take His Prize Back?
By James Carafano Ph.D.~ Shocker news: Apparently, you don’t have to do anything to promote the cause of peace to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Bradley Manning, the disturbed young soldier on trial for handing over classified government information to WikiLeaks, has been nominated for the prize. They might as well have nominated […]
CO2 Tax Australia – A $4 Billion Tax On Your Power Bills
By Andrew Bolt ~ Bottom line: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s carbon tax will next year add $4 billion to power prices – or slash the value of power stations accordingly: ELECTRICITY generators have warned that they face a cashflow crunch of hundreds of millions of dollars to buy carbon tax permits as the latest […]
Subsidies and Costs in the Solar Industry
By David Kreutzer, Ph.D. ~ According to Germany’s environment minister, Norbert Roettgen, “Solar is a success story made in Germany.” “Success” appears to mean having the world’s largest amount of ridiculously overpriced electricity. (The German subsidy for solar energy is up to five times the actual wholesale cost in the U.S.) But even Roettgen realizes […]
NewsBusted – 12-059 – Video
Topics in today’s show: – Silent Movie The Artist wins big at The Oscars. – President’s Day was celebrated last week. – President Obama apologized to Afghanistan’s President Karzai for the accidental burning of copies of The Koran. – Gas Prices are now approaching $5.00 a gallon. – President Obama says he is working on […]
CO2 Tax Australia – Lunacy: Prime Minister Gillard Forces Business To Pay Triple The Market Price For A Carbon Permit
By Andrew Bolt ~ When a government must pass laws to make business pay three times more for stuff than the market rate, the odds are it’s defending a rort or a crock: The (Gillard) government has imposed a cap on buying international carbon permits at 50 per cent of a polluter’s obligations. On top […]
The Iranian Countdown
By Alan Caruba ~ How many times does Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and its president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have to publicly and loudly say that they intend to “wipe Israel off the map” and otherwise annihilate its Jewish population before the world takes seriously the murderous intent of Iran? How many negotiations between United […]
The 20 Richest Oscar Winners of All Time
By Noel Sheppard ~ As today is Oscars Sunday, we thought you might like to glimpse at just how wealthy some of the previous winners are/have been courtesy our friends at Celebrity Net Worth. Remove consumables from your mouth and combustibles from computer proximity for some of these figures are likely to make you gasp: […]
Fill ‘er Up!
A Dry Bones Cartoon ~ All this bellyaching about the high price of gasoline at American Gas stations?? Folks are freaking as prices pass $5 per gallon?!! What I am upset about is the price of computer printer ink ! Recent conservative calculations show that computer ink is being sold to us at a price […]
Sunday Music – While You See A Chance
February 26, 2012 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is ‘While You See A Chance’ from Steve Winwood. This video was posted to You Tube by nccodyssey While today’s featured song is Steve Winwood’s first hit as a solo artist, he already had a huge career of 15 years in some of the most celebrated bands of the 60′s and the […]
Australian Political Upheaval – From The Bolt Report
By Andrew Bolt ~ It is looking exceedingly unlikely that Kevin Rudd will have enough backers to return him to his former position of Prime Minister of Australia, as the numbers are quite solidly behind incumbent Julia Gillard. However, what is happening is that the Labor Government is committing virtual political suicide as more and […]
AP’s Boring Borenstein: Gleick’s Heartland Doc Theft ‘Mirrors’ Climategate Incidents
By Tom Blumer ~ On Thursday, over 40 hours after the Pacific Institute’s Peter Gleick (pictured) revealed that he stole documents from the Heartland Institute by posing as one of that organization’s board members, Seth Borenstein at the Associated Press finally broke the ice and filed a related three-paragraph “this is boring, you don’t need […]
The $4 Billion Obamacare Slush Fund for Progressives
By Michelle Malkin ~ If you like how the Obama administration’s multibillion-dollar “investments” in bankrupt solar companies have turned out, you’ll love the latest federal loan program to nowhere. It’s the Obamacare loyalty rewards program for progressives. To appease liberal Democrats pushing for the so-called “public option” (the full frontal government takeover of our health […]
End—Don’t Extend—the Wind Energy Tax Credit
By Romina Boccia ~ The Hill reports that a bipartisan group of Senators is urging lawmakers to extend the wind energy production tax credit, which is scheduled to expire by the end of this year. Congress should let the tax credit expire and offset the resulting tax hike with reductions elsewhere. The wind energy industry […]
Australian Political Upheaval – Labor Government’s Mutually Assured Destruction: Some Media Verdicts
By Andrew Bolt ~ Some Media Opinion Polls this morning favour Kevin Rudd as preferred Prime Minister ahead of Julia Gillard. The problem with this is that this is not an overall Poll where the whole voting public gets to say who they would prefer to lead the Country. This is a vote only for […]
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- American Minute for June 18thThe War of 1812 began on JUNE 18, 1812. While Napoleon was invading Russia on the other side of the world, the British captured American ships and enslaved sailors. They incited Indians to capture Fort Mims, massacring 500 men, women and children. They captured the U.S. Capitol, burnt the White House and the Library of Congress. They bombarded Fort McHenry, […]
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