Democrats’ Climate Change Emphasis is Hurting Their Own
The Democrats think that climate change is a winning issue for them in 2014—and, if they handle it correctly, this could be a winning issue for the Republicans.
Author: Marita Noon
Shoot, shovel and shut up!
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) was signed into law in 1973 by President Richard Nixon to preserve, protect and recover key domestic species. Though well intentioned at the start, the ESA has since been used as a tool to hinder or block economic activity from logging and farming to mining and oil-and-gas development—often to protect species that don’t truly need it.
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Obama’s SOTU: Where are the opportunities?
On one hand, President Obama extoled efforts to increase fuel efficiency to “help America wean itself off foreign oil.” He touted the new reality of “more oil produced at home than we buy from the rest of the world, the first time that’s happened in nearly twenty years.” On the other hand, he promised to use his “authority to protect more of our pristine federal lands for future generations”—which is code for more national monuments and endangered species designations that will lock up federal lands from productive use.
The Endless, Fruitless Search for Climate Refugees
The current cold covering a large portion of the country has, once again, brought out the climate change alarmists with claims of ‘serious threat.’
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics · Regulation
Is This Any Way to Treat the Job Creators?
If Obama truly wanted to “create jobs and opportunities for the middle class,” he could tell the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) to work with—instead of against—those ready to risk their capital in the development of our natural resources and create jobs.
Annoying Greenies on the Defense
If Leslie Stahl of ’60 Minutes’ had read the entire list of Obama-backed taxpayer-funded green-energy projects that have gone bust—let alone those that are circling the drain, she would have truly been fatigued.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Liberty · Regulation
If You Like Your Light Bulb, You Can’t Keep Your Light Bulb
As people are literally being forced to live in the dark, there will be public outcry.
The Secret Danger Liberals Don’t Want You to Know: Fracking is Safe
Hydraulic fracturing started out as an “exploding torpedo” back in 1865. Today, nearly 150 years later, the actual process has made giant technological strides, but now, it’s the topic that’s explosive.
Obama Doctrine: Reward Friends, Punish Enemies
“Canada is a sovereign nation and we will develop our resources with appropriate regulations and enforcement to protect the environment,” said Paula Caldwell St-Onge. The Consulate General of Canada, St-Onge was in Albuquerque to talk up, and answer questions about, the Keystone pipeline.
Renewable Energy: A Death Sentence for Wildlife
Think of the millions of birds being killed by renewables. Think of the billions of taxpayer dollars that have gone down the drain in “the quest for the holy grail of cheap renewable power.” Whether you oppose death by renewables for avian or economic reasons isn’t important. But what does matter is making your opposition heard.
Harry Reid’s Green Energy Goldmine
We are weeks away from being fully immersed in the 2014 election cycle. Predictions abound, likening the 2014 cycle to 2010—when the House flipped from Democratic to Republican. Only this time, it is the Senate that has the potential to change. Twenty of the 33seats up in 2014 are currently held by Democrats—more than half of whom are in trouble.
U.N. Climate Change Talks: It’s Really All About the Money
“Rich countries are still not pledging enough money to begin financing a shift to a cleaner global economy,” reports the Financial Times (FT) in its coverage of the United Nations climate talks in Warsaw that ended with little more than a “vague road map on how to prepare for a global climate pact they’re supposed to adopt in two years.”
Green Energy: The Rotary Dial Phone of the Future
[The idea of green energy] was in the 1970s, following the OPEC Oil Embargo that solar panels began popping up on rooftops and “gasohol” subsidies were enacted. It was believed that green energy would move the U.S. off of foreign oil and prevent oil from being used as a weapon against us.
The Fracking Fight Goes Way Left
The fight against hydraulic fracturing has recently ratcheted up. On November 5, one town in Ohio and three in Colorado, passed ballot measures designed to ban or temporarily halt hydraulic fracturing—the brief (3-5 day) phase, often referred to as “fracking”—that is essential to the advanced oil-and-gas extraction processes that have given America the lead in global energy production.
Economics · Featured · Government · Liberty · Random
Put the Permanently Furloughed Private-sector Employees Back To Work
Following a rough week for Obamacare, the President, understandably, wants to pivot to anything other than the devastating coverage of HealthCare.gov.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Regulation · Science
Mining Policy Designed to Benefit Our Own—Mighty Rare
What is essential to modern energy production and management including oil-and-gas development, wind and solar, and LED lights, and has rare bipartisan support in both houses of Congress?
Forty Years Ago, Scarcity Was Our Reality
October 17 was the fortieth anniversary of the oil embargo slapped on America by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). That action changed the entire geopolitical map by taking the power from the United States and giving it to the Middle East. As a result of the embargo, America slid into a serious recession.
Green Tea Not Welcome at Tea Party
Hitting the right notes, but singing the wrong song.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured
Goodbye OPEC, Hello Independence
Forty years ago, scarcity was our reality
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Environment/Energy · Featured
Get Rid of Ethanol Exchanges Too
“In modern times no major entitlement, once it was implemented, has ever been unwound.”
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