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Vindication

A flack for Media Matters for America, the Soros-backed one-trick GOP-bashing pony, sent an e-mail peddling the group’s latest anti-Keystone XL “study” to the Senate Democrats’ communications director at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Mary Kerr. For some reason, Senate Republican EPW communications director Matt Dempsey with GOP Sen. James Inhofe’s office also [...]

Obama’s Green Robber Barons by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2012 Had enough of fat cat Barack Obama, his jet-setting wife and his multi-millionaire Chicago consigliere/real-estate mogul Valerie Jarrett attacking the “rich”? Well, brace yourselves. You’ll be hearing much more from the White House about the “wealthy few” who aren’t paying their “fair share” as [...]

Official White House photo The Land of Obama Make-Believe by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2012 Where did President Obama go after killing off thousands of Keystone XL pipeline construction and manufacturing jobs? Why, Disney World, of course. Sabotaging work is hard work for Goofy and his pals. And where’d he head after that? Why, [...]

We can wait?

World of Gorecraft

**Written by Doug Powers Maybe it’s not as bad as it sounds. Technically a “call back” is a notch below a recall, and it only affects 8,000 vehicles — which is a mere, um, 100% of all Volts sold in 2011. Lucky sales didn’t catch fire or the fixes would have been a more massive [...]

**Written by Doug Powers A measure attached to a one-year spending bill passed early in December prevents the Department of Energy from enforcing light bulb efficiency standards through September 2012. The standards themselves, however, will still be phased in. Until the funding kicks in that will allow the Department of Energy to police our artificial [...]

Photoshop source: Ed Driscoll The Year in Obama Scandals — and Scandal Deniers by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 With 2011 drawing to a close, it is time to account. As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama’s snowblowers in the media. See [...]

Keystone Carolers on standby

My column is a year-end review of Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi’s congressional self-dealing and ethics covers-up. On a related note, here’s an amusing story of blue-on-blue corruption conflict: Calif. Democrat Rep. Laura Richardson (flashback here on her financial scams) attacking Pelosi’s wealth: The sources disagreed on the exact wording of the unusually direct shot at [...]

I’ve written before about Cozy Nancy Pelosi and her financial stake in the eco-adventures of billionaire T. Boone Pickens. See August 2008 – Nan and the Big Wind Boone-doggle. Refresher: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called congressional Republicans who want up-or-down drilling votes “hand maidens of the oil companies.” Let’s call Pelosi what she is: House [...]

Oh, there’s just one other thing

**Written by Doug Powers The Labor Secretary nods in agreement. From the Washington Examiner: President Obama said that he will delay his vacation and keep Congress in session until the passage of his desired payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits extension — two proposals that Obama said would create more jobs than the Keystone XL [...]

Not to mention certain stock portfolios

The Accountability Charade by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 You can’t spell “accountability” without “A,” “C” and “T.” But in Washington, government officials routinely get away with “taking personal responsibility” by mouthing empty words devoid of action. Heads nod in collective agreement that mistakes were made. But heads never roll. The Obama administration has [...]

Solar-powered grilling

“Empty shell” games

Scroll down for latest updates… The Great Stonewall of Obama by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 The White House laments that America hasn’t built enough massive government infrastructure projects. Nonsense. At the rate it’s growing, the Great Stonewall of Obama may soon be the second largest manmade object visible from outer space. While many [...]

The White House is foisting Commerce Secretary nominee John Bryson on the public. Harry Reid wants a vote this week. GOP Sen. James Inhofe is leading the opposition, such as it is. Time for Tea Party activists to mobilize. Call your Senators – 202- 224- 3121. We can’t afford another eco-radical crony with more power [...]

Java in the balance

Logo credit: Sloane Get ready for another Solyndra flare-up in Washington Friday morning. Just in from GOP Rep. Cliff Stearns’s office: STEARNS HOLDING HEARING ON TREASURY’S ROLE IN REVIEWING SOLYNDRA LOAN GUARANTEE TREASURY STAFF INDICATED IN EMAILS SUBORDINATION OF TAXPAYERS WAS ILLEGAL WASHINGTON, OCT. 13, 2011 – “This investigation has learned that the Treasury Department [...]

Logo credit: Sloane Stepped down or pushed out? Will he hush up now — or sing? WaPo reports: The head of the Energy Department’s controversial loan guarantee program has decided to step down, department officials confirmed to The Washington Post on Thursday. Jonathan Silver, who was named executive director of DOE’s Loan Programs Office in [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The Obama administration was preparing to toss another very expensive life preserver, but Solyndra had already forever slipped beneath the rolling, green waves. From the Washington Post: The Obama administration’s Department of Energy was poised last summer to give Solyndra a second major taxpayer loan of $469 million, even as the [...]

My latest column investigates the green-washing of the government-funded solar energy racket going in America’s schools. Do you know what your kids are being taught — or rather, not being taught about failed eco-subsidies? Find out below. First, a quick Solyndra Watch link round-up: The White House is doing a Chu-step – sending Energy Secretary [...]

Logo credit: Sloane Just keeping you up to date on all the Obama boondoggles du jour… *The Wall Street Journal reports that Solyndra violated the terms of its government loan… Solyndra LLC had such steep financial problems in late 2010 that the company violated terms of its loan-guarantee agreement with the Department of Energy and [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Last month Democrat Rep. Ed Markey from Massachusetts touted a wonderful side-effect of government regulations: more jobs. The EPA agrees and is trying to run with it more aggressively than ever. From the Daily Caller: The Environmental Protection Agency has said new greenhouse gas regulations, as proposed, may be “absurd” in [...]

**Written by Doug Powers On any given day I’d bet the amount of greenhouse gases Al Gore singlehandedly spews into the atmosphere more than trumps the chlorofluorocarbon footprint of all the epinephrine asthma inhalers in the U.S. combined. That said, since we’ve apparently solved all other major problems, it’s time to save the world from [...]

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