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The Morally Straight Boy Scouts Of America
By Alan Caruba ~ One of the goals of Communism is to “Present Homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as “normal, natural, and healthy”. It comes as no surprise that, during a CBS interview in February, President Obama supported having the Boy Scouts of America open its membership to gays and, presumably, those who lead scout troops […]
How The Greens Pick Your Pocket
By Alan Caruba ~ The famed Boston Tea Party was a protest against “taxation without representation”, but our pockets are picked every day by a plethora of taxes of which most Americans are not even aware. We get robbed when the federal government thwarts exploration and extraction of energy resources that would greatly reduce those […]
Farm Bill Wastes More Taxpayer Money On Green Subsidies
By Nicolas Loris ~ Slapping the word rural in front of a bunch of green subsidies does not mean they’re not subsidies. But that’s exactly what the Rural Energy Investment Act section of the Senate version of the farm bill legislation does. The legislation includes direct handouts and loan guarantees for advanced biofuels and bio-refineries, […]
Obama Breeds Rebellion Among The States
By Alan Caruba ~ The resistance to Obamacare is writing a new chapter in U.S. history. It may well become the most unpopular law since Prohibition became an Amendment to the Constitution in 1919. By 1933, another Amendment repealed it. Obamacare passed by a straight Democratic party vote on Christmas Eve in 2009. No Republican […]
Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion: Error and Terror Are Two Different Things
By Jessica Zuckerman ~ On April 17, a West Texas fertilizer plant exploded, leaving 14 dead and approximately 200 injured. Investigators continue to look into exactly what caused the explosion that left an estimated $100 million in damages in its wake. Yet, while investigators are still looking to determine if the blast was due to […]
How To Find A Most Wanted Terrorist
By Cliff Kincaid ~ We have seen in the Boston bombings case how terrorists depend on a network of sympathizers. But the Russian connection remains a mystery. The press should follow up on the Russian angle to the Islamic terrorist bombers story before President Obama gets carried away with cooperating with Russian President Vladimir Putin. […]
Keystone XL And Natural Gas Provide Energy Trade Opportunities
By Nicolas Loris ~ In June 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama said, “If we continue to let our trade policy be dictated by special interests, then American workers will continue to be undermined, and public support for robust trade will continue to erode.” That’s exactly what’s happening with respect to energy trade. Special interests want […]
Tier 3 Rules Are Unnecessary, Costly
And designed solely to provide EPA with more jobs and more power over people’s lives. By Paul Driessen ~ 1,920 and counting! That’s how many regulations President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has promulgated since his 2009 inauguration. Many, if not most, will bring few health or environmental benefits – but will impose high economic and […]
See Something, Say Nothing: Benghazi Accountability Report Under Scrutiny
By Helle Dale ~ The State Department inspector general made news Thursday with the revelation that the office is looking into the report produced by the Benghazi Accountability Review Board (ARB) in December on the terrorist attack on a U.S. facility in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012. Most shocking is the allegation that eyewitnesses […]
The Camp Bastion Cover-Up
By Michelle Malkin ~ Do you remember what happened last year on 9/14? Where are the White House phone calls for the families who continue to grieve? What is being done to prevent another fatal attack like the one on 9/14? And why is the full truth being withheld from the American public? Benghazi isn’t […]
Solar Energy Embarrassingly Less Productive Than Coal
By Rudy Takala ~ A map recently released by the Solar Foundation highlights the industry’s claim that 119,000 Americans are now employed in the solar industry. Its authors exclaim, “The United States solar industry employs more workers than coal mining.” What the map doesn’t touch on is whether solar energy is the most economical energy […]
Greens Oppose Drilling, Fracking, Keystone … And Exports
But we should support these job-creating, prosperity-creating, low-polluting activities that will keep us free! By Paul Driessen ~ The interminable war on drilling, fracking and the Keystone XL pipeline has taken some bizarre turns. Now it’s getting worse, as opponents grow more desperate, and the moon again grows full. Deepwater drilling, 3-dimension and 4-D seismic […]
Senators’ Nuke Waste Plan Renovates When We Really Need To Raze And Rebuild
By Jack Spencer ~ Senators Ron Wyden (D–OR), Dianne Feinstein (D–CA), Lamar Alexander (R–TN), and Lisa Murkowski (R–AK) finally released a discussion draft of their much anticipated nuclear waste bill this morning. It essentially accepts the assumption that the federal government should be responsible for nuclear waste management and disposal and that waste producers should […]
Professor Judith Curry: Less Warming Than Predicted. Models Seem Wrong
By Andrew Bolt ~ Professor Judith Curry’s statement yesterday to a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee investigating global warming: I am Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology… If all other things remain equal, it is clear that adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will warm […]
The EPA Snake Pit
By Alan Caruba ~ Under President Obama, two women have been the director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Carol Browner, who served in the Clinton administration and was one of the “czars” Obama appointed; her acolyte Lisa Jackson, and up for the post is Gina McCarthy. Browner and Jackson went out of their way to conceal their internal […]
Doubletalk, Double Standards Are SOP For America’s Ruling Elites
It is time to hold government accountable for mismanagement, misallocation of resources and mindless regulations that hurt our economy. This article also appeared in the Washington Times on April 18, 2013. By Paul Driessen ~ Americans must no longer ignore false realities and double standards that threaten our health and prosperity. Private sector errors and […]
Congress Wants To Tell Americans How To Be More Efficient? Really?
By Nicolas Loris and Katie Tubb ~ In the interest of trying to make better choices for consumers, Congress has been determined to legislate efficiency mandates for American homes and businesses since the late 1970s. The latest and much-awaited efficiency legislation is being reintroduced in the Senate tomorrow, with a House companion bill coming as […]
EPA Seeks To Punish Drivers (Again) Via Its Tier 3 Regulations
EPA’s proposed sulfur standards for gasoline will cost billions for no real benefits. By Paul Driessen ~ President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has already promulgated a tsunami of 1,920 regulations, many of which will bring few health or environmental benefits but will impose high economic and unemployment costs, often to advance the Administration’s decidedly anti-hydrocarbon […]
Object Lesson: ‘Temporary’ Amnesty Never Dies
By Michelle Malkin ~ Does America lack “compassion” and “humanity” for uninvited foreigners? Quite the contrary. While open-borders activists rail against “injustice” and demand new “pathways to citizenship,” official U.S. policy rewards countless line-jumpers with permanent residency and taxpayer-subsidized benefits. Case in point: the massive “Temporary Protected Status” (TPS) program run by the Department of […]
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