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A Two-Gallon Compact Car
By David Kreutzer, Ph.D. ~ How would you like to buy a nice compact car with a two-gallon gas tank? It costs only $36,000, and it takes seven hours to fill the tank. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu wants lots of those cars, though he insists they will be $10,000 cheaper. The car alluded to […]
Recent Energy and Environmental News – 29th June 2012
By John Droz, Jr. ~ Due to political pressure, the once extraordinary NC Sea Level Rise bill (HB-819) has been diluted since being passed by the NC Senate. may be I have not gotten a specific date for it to be voted in the NC House, but it should be shortly. See this for some background. Some […]
CO2 Tax Australia – The Pushmepullyou Tax
By Andrew Bolt ~ It’s absolutely insane, you know. First you pass a tax that’s meant to put heavy-emitting companies out of business. Then you give them handouts to keep going: The Julia Gillard led Labor Government has revealed $90 million in industry bailouts on the eve of the introduction of the carbon tax to […]
Senate GOP Will Use Reconciliation in Attempt to Repeal Obamacare
By Lachlan Markay ~ Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that Obamacare’s health insurance mandate is in fact a tax levied on those who do not purchase insurance, Senate Republicans will look to repeal the full law through the budget reconciliation process. Reconciliation was used to push Obamacare through the Senate in 2009. Generally […]
NewsBusted – 12-181 – Video
Topics in today’s show: – Obamacare has been upheld by the Supreme Court. – It has been discovered that President Obama supporters who heckled Mitt Romney in Michigan were paid to do so. – On the 4th of July, the U.S. will celebrate Independence Day, but liberals have a different name for the day. – […]
The Other Judicial Decision
By Alan Caruba ~ As this is being written, it is the Wednesday prior to the announcement of the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the fate of Obamacare. If SCOTUS upholds it, it will condemn Americans to having bureaucrats deny medical care to some because of their age and others to die while waiting for it. […]
Australia’s Labor Government Plans To Punish Its Media Critics
By Andrew Bolt ~ This is sinister. To report on stories that threaten the Gillard Government – such as the sexual harassment claim against Peter Slipper – is to be engaged in “sabotage”: Senior cabinet minister Anthony Albanese told Parliament yesterday: ‘’The media’s main role is to report the news, not to make the news.’’ […]
Court Upholds Greenhouse Gas Rule; Congress Needs to Step Up
By Nicolas Loris ~ Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia unanimously upheld the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) finding that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions are a threat to public health and the environment. Although not a surprising decision, the ruling is a disappointing one. Unless Congress prohibits the […]
NewsBusted – 12-179 – Video
Topics in today’s show: – Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was convicted of 45 counts of child abuse. – For the month of May, the Obama campaign spent more money than it raised, but that has at least one benefit. – Several gay activists invited to the White House were photographed giving the […]
Climate Change Australia – Dreaming Green
By Andrew Bolt ~ David Day, an honorary associate in the history program at La Trobe University, demonstrates all the giddy make-believing of the modern warming catastrophist: A government that was serious about global warming would not be introducing a price on carbon at the same time as it is overseeing an explosion in coal […]
Egypt’s Turmoil
By Alan Caruba ~ While the evening news showed thousands of Egyptians in Cairo’s Tahrir Square celebrating the election of Muslim Brotherhood-backed Mohammed Morsi, what it did not show was the nearly fifty percent of Egyptians who did not show up to vote, nor those Egyptians who now have good cause to live in fear […]
Muslim Brotherhood Victory In Egypt A Clarion Call Against Passivity In The Middle East
U.S. needs a Liberty Doctrine to guide the awakening in the region. PHOENIX (June 25, 2012) – M. Zuhdi Jasser president and founder of The American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) and author of “A Battle for the Soul of Islam: An American Muslim Patriot’s Fight for His Faith released the following statement regarding the […]
Climate Change Australia – Another Mothballed Desal Plant
By Andrew Bolt ~ Once, global warming alarmists warned of a permanent drought and empty dams: Australia’s Chief Climate Commissioner, Tim Flannery in 2007 warned global warming was draining our dams. “Even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and river systems,” said the Australian who has most whipped up global […]
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June 30, 2012 by papundits
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