Bursting bubbles

The Carbonator

The Interior Department is on a roll — a steamroll over American jobs at the expense of common sense, sound science, and integrity in government. Earlier this week, I called attention to the 9.6 million acre land grab masquerading as a northern spotted owl rescue that will cost thousands of timber-related jobs, while subsidizing the […]

Obama the Job-Killing Owl-Killer by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2012 Welcome to the pretzel logic of liberal environmental protection: In order to “save” owls, the Obama administration is going to shoot them dead. This is not — I repeat not — an Onion parody. Over the Thanksgiving holiday, the White House released a big […]

Parting gifts

Fire up

Up in smoke

The Hope-a-Nomics Disaster: One Company’s Horror Story by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2012 President Obama promises to move the country forward with his recycled pledge of five million green jobs. But in the real world, small businesses are struggling to stay afloat as they deal with the fiscal wreckage of this administration’s disastrous venture […]

What took so long?

Preparations

Down time we can believe in

Recovery

Hmmmm. We told you yesterday about stimulus-subsidized eco-boondoggle A123′s debt default announcement bankruptcy filing. Turns out it was elaborately orchestrated to induce a rescue by another big green energy interest: Fisker Automotive’s roller-coaster ride took another few steep turns Tuesday when the manufacturer of the battery pack that powers its electric cars filed for bankruptcy […]

I told you about $250 million stimulus-subsidized battery maker A123 back in March. Recap: While President Obama was busy lambasting Big Oil tax breaks on Thursday, yet another one of his environmental welfare recipients (the very kind he wants to redistribute oil subsidies to) was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Who needs to win […]

Wealth in the balance

If it’s a day that ends in “y,” it’s a day of trouble for an Obama green loan recipient somewhere in America. Like Mitt Romney said during the debate last week, the crony-in-chief doesn’t just pick winners and losers, he picks the losers: Doug Powers and I continue to chronicle the world of failed, federally-funded […]

Denied

Good Will Propagandizing

Doug Powers and I have tracked failed green boondoggle after failed green boondoggle for you over the past four years, including Colorado’s own Abound Solar. The company went bankrupt in June despite $70 million in federal DOE loan guarantees. A tipster notes that the auction for Abound Solar began this week. He writes: “The listings […]

“Conspiracy of silence” gets even quieter

Photoshop credit: Doug Ross My column today looks at the latest radical maneuver by the Obama administration — slipped through yesterday while much of the media’s attention was on Hurricane Isaac and the RNC convention. GOP leaders of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee issued a related statement today on the flawed, rushed rules […]

“Clean Energy” Is Obama-Speak for Crony Government by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2012 Breaking news: The Fishwrap of Record has finally discovered that the Obama administration gives its Chicago corporate pals special access to power and regulatory favoritism. On Thursday, The Not-So-New York Times published an A1 story titled “Ties to Obama Aided in […]

Objectivity

Down the tubes

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