Author: William Teach

Say, Why Doesn’t America Have Any Off-shore Wind Farms?

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Surprising, Mother Jones’ Tim McDonnell never mentions how Democrats, especially the late Ted Kennedy and current Secretary of Climate Change, er, State, John Kerry worked hard to block the Cape Wind project (Mother Jones) Despite massive growth of the offshore wind industry in Europe, a blossoming array of land-based wind turbines stateside, and plenty of […]

 

Sequestration Starts: World Has Yet To End

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And the media is still spinning as to what the “cuts” really are. Either that or they are just partisan fools (The Hill) Nineteen months after it was put into place, the sequester has arrived. Barring unexpected developments, President Obama will issue an order at some point on Friday – perhaps as late as 11:59 […]

 

Do Republicans Need To Go Negative?

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That’s what Keith Koffler, reporter and editor of White House Dossier, recommends, and something I’ve been saying and writing for quite some time now (Politico) If Republicans want a chance at resurgence, they must take a page or two out of President Obama’s worn playbook and veer sharply negative. But only a page or two. […]

 

Obama To Finally Meet With Congressional Leaders On Day Sequester Takes Effect

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This is leadership in the age of Obama (Daily Caller) President Barack Obama will wait until the sequester hits to have his first sequester-related face-to-face meeting with congressional leaders on Friday, according to a report by ABC News’s Jonathan Karl: “A congressional source with direct knowledge of the plans tells me the top four congressional […]

 

Kentucky Senate Passes Gun Nullification Legislation

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Kentucky wants no part of the draconian gun ‘n law abiding citizen restrictions flowing from federally elected Democrats (Kentucky.com) The state Senate on Monday overwhelmingly passed a nullification bill that would prohibit Kentucky from enforcing new federal gun control laws if they’re enacted, despite concerns about the bill’s constitutionality. The vote was 34-3. Three of […]

 

Sequestration In Context: US Borrows Cost Of Sequestration Every 28 Days

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Daily reminder: they aren’t cuts. Just a slight reduction in the rate of spending increase, but, you know, if the Sequestration is allowed to proceed the animals in the national parks will turn feral and start eating tourists before joining forces and attacking cities (Daily Caller) In an effort to put the looming automatic spending […]

 

White House Release Super Duper Dire We’re Doomed List Of State By State Sequestration Results

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Leading by fear-mongering (The Blaze) On Sunday, the White House continued its effort to prevent the $85 billion in automatic spending cuts known as “sequestration” from starting this Friday, releasing a dramatic state-by-state list of how they claim each state will be impacted if Congress fails to act. It’s worth remembering that the “cut” is […]

 

Majority Of US Citizens Are Big Meanies, Want Illegal Aliens Deported

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Well, the story doesn’t actually call Americans big meanies, yet that will certainly be the viewpoint of people who support amnesty (Reuters) More than half of U.S. citizens believe that most or all of the country’s 11 million illegal immigrants should be deported, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday that highlights the difficulties […]

 

Climate Astrology: Global Warming Means More Blizzards

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The Associated Press’ biggest globull warming cheerleader, Seth Borenstein, is back with more climastrology (WRAL) With scant snowfall and barren ski slopes in parts of the Midwest and Northeast the past couple of years, some scientists have pointed to global warming as the culprit. Then, when a whopper of a blizzard smacked the Northeast with […]

 

Thousands Of Climastrologers Freeze Their Buns Off Protesting Keystone Pipeline

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They’re really, really upset about the potential use of Canadian tar sands by fellow Americans (Politico) Tens of thousands of people converged on the National Mall on Sunday to urge President Barack Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline, a project they say will cause irreparable damage to the climate. The rally, which was organized […]

 

Obama Tells Law Abiding Chicagoans They Should Be Further Disarmed Since He Knows What It’s Like To Grow Up On The Mean Streets

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No, really (Politico) President Barack Obama offered a personal reflection on gun violence here Friday, tackling the issue not as a policymaker or parent, but as a black man himself who knew how close he’d come to a very different fate. Obama’s talked frequently about gun violence since the Newtown massacre, but never in these […]

 

Fossil Fueled Bus Driver Tells Us Why We Should Protest The Weather (And Enjoy The Gore Effect)

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I’m guessing Fury Young forgot to read the memo that his own usage of fossil fuels is causing the planet to boil Why protest climate change? I’m a bus organizer for 350.org’s Forward on Climate rally. I’ve been on board with the protest for months now. “Why is it important to protest climate change?” you […]

 

Whew! “Marco Rubio’s Water Flap Shall Pass”

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Our long national nightmare is over! (Politico) Sen. Marco Rubio’s inopportune case of cotton mouth during his State of the Union response may slow his rapidly rising stock, but will likely have no little lingering impact on his 2016 prospects, Republican operatives said Wednesday. “The water moment did not bother me,” said Republican strategist Bruce […]