Category: Energy

Gulf Oil Spill: Guess Who Was The Top BP Donation Recipient, Plus Ex Post Facto

Posted on by William Teach

If you guess Barack Hussein Obama, take a shot of tequila (via Jammie Wearing Fool). Open Secrets posted this story back on the 30th During the 2008 election cycle, individuals and political action committees associated with BP — a Center for Responsive Politics’ “heavy hitter” — contributed half a million dollars to federal candidates. About […]

 

Sarah Palin: Drill, Baby Drill!

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Sarah Palin encouraged Americans to still believe in domestic drilling. From her Facebook page she says: In the coming days, there will be hearings to discover the cause of the explosion and the subsequent leak. Actions will be taken to increase oversight to prevent future accidents. Government can and must play an appropriate role here. […]

 

Say, Where Are All Those “Green” Jobs?

Posted on by William Teach

Twenty years ago, “green” meant real environmental issues, such as clean air, water, and land. It meant protecting species, wise land usage, refoliation, stopping deforestation, replacing dirty with clean. Now it means climate alarmism, and it is failing: Training for Green Jobs Is the Easy Part Joliet (Ill.) is discovering what cities across the U.S. […]

 

Senate Dems Prepare to Sneak Through Tax & Charade

Posted on by Dave Blount

The coup de grâce to our capitalist economy, Cap & Trade, has gone under the radar, but is still in play. This outrageous act of sabotage (“likely to be the biggest tax in American history” per the Wall Street Journal) passed the House, and prior to being thrown out of office this fall, Harry Reid […]

 

Meeting the EPA’s Decrees

Posted on by Dave Blount

Increasingly, elected politicians are just figureheads. The real power festers in a vast and ever-expanding swamp known as the federal bureaucracy, which crawls with faceless, unelected petty tyrants who are choking the life out of our once-free nation. The most tyrannical among them can be found at the EPA, which recently issued outlandish new edicts […]