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Reader Scott sent this letter to his congressman about the dangerous Solyndra sinkhole. You should send one, too: How about a Green Energy loan moratorium? The White House instituted an off-shore drilling moratorium over “safety concerns” and to prevent reoccurrence. Isn’t ensuring tax dollars are not wasted on risky green energy companies important enough to [...]

My syndicated column today expounds on the green phony, crony capitalism that has flourished — and flopped — in the Age of Obama. The latest developments breaking in the Solyndra scandal last night? Obama’s White House tried to rush the $535 million loan review, prompting complaints from financial officials. The White House, naturally, denies any [...]

A week ago, I spotlighted the persecution and attempted prosecution of an Idaho man who shot a grizzly bear to protect his family. Local and state officials determined he did nothing wrong — and in fact, went out of his way to alert authorities. Nevertheless, the warped U.S. Attorney’s Office moved to put him on [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Given Gore’s enormous level of eco-hypocrisy, it’s possible he’s only opposed because the proposed pipeline wouldn’t run straight to his mansions, limos and private jets. From The Hill: Former Vice President Al Gore called on President Obama late Wednesday to reject a pending permit application for a controversial pipeline project, calling [...]

Maybe it’s time to start a Jackboot Watch feature. We’ve got DOJ lawyers going after Gibson guitars. There’s the ongoing Fast and Furious debacle. Add the eco-nitwit rogues at the Interior Department. Then there’s the War on Lemonade Stands. And now, we’ve got the U.S. Attorney in Idaho filing federal charges against Jeremy Hill, a [...]

Thinning the herd?

Endangered species.

**Written by Doug Powers Oh no… now where will Al Gore plug in his SUVs? From the New York Times: Costco, the membership warehouse-club chain, was an early leader in offering electric-vehicle charging to its customers, setting an example followed by other retailers, including Best Buy and Walgreen. By 2006, Costco had installed 90 chargers [...]

Since day one of the Obama administration, I’ve chronicled Loathsome Cowboy Ken Salazar’s War on the West, War on Jobs, and War on Science/Rule of Law as head of the Interior Department. His eco-radical sidekick Carol Browner is gone, yet Salazar remains in place. Federal judge after federal judge has spanked Salazar and Obama’s job-destroying [...]

**Written by Doug Powers On Saturday I wrote a little about an Al Gore diatribe from a conference in Aspen that was quoted in an article in the Colorado Independent. The partial transcript suggests that Gore is becoming even more frustrated than he was during the Great Dimpled Chad Hunt of 2000. If you missed [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Stand down, Green Helmets! From Forbes by way of Yahoo News: NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth’s atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing. [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Because the world isn’t paying attention generously enough, Al Gore is leaving behind the “Alliance for Climate Protection” and replacing it with the Climate Reality Project: Former Vice President Al Gore launched a new campaign Tuesday aimed at exposing the “full truth, scope, scale and impact of the climate crisis.” The [...]

They keep spending, and spending, and spending, and…

“That’s like saying ‘we want a kajillion-bajillion dollars!’”

**Written by Doug Powers It only stands to reason that if the 4th of July is more of a Republican holiday, it must be inherently bad for the environment. I mean, that’s what Republicans are all about, right? Fortunately, an op-ed in the New York Times is there to help “green” our Independence Day feast: [...]

Let the shames begin!

**Written by Doug Powers Thomas Friedman had a column in Wednesday’s New York Times entitled “The Earth is Full.” In the column, Friedman called for people to work less and own less in order to save the planet. Bla bla bla. There’s a common thread among many of the people who demand that everybody else [...]

Map via Frank Jacobs, Strange Maps blog/Big Think Yes, dear readers, corruptocrat Interior Secretary Ken Salazar can be stopped. Since day one of the Obama administration, I’ve chronicled Loathsome Cowboy Ken Salazar’s War on the West, War on Jobs, and War on Science/Rule of Law. The last straw was his attempted Wild Lands grab. GOP [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Because designing an economy around the assumption that we’re all about to die from man-made global warming is working out so well for commerce in Spain, let’s keep the ball rolling in the United States: (CNSNews.com) – John Bryson, nominated by President Barack Obama today to head the Department of Commerce, [...]

Never mind… SEIU bosses got their members and local citizens in Hastings PA all worked up about an evil shale driller in their neighborhood. They organized a noisy picket, demanding that the driller pay more taxes and staging a theatrical tollbooth display in order to collect. Only…there’s no shale drilling going on in their neighborhood. [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The good news: Due to the economic disaster that invariably accompanies or follows Socialist experiments, Socialist politicians are suffering defeats in Spain’s elections. The bad news: The “green economy” pushed by these people has been used as a model for the US economy. It was tempting to title this post “How’s [...]

**Written by Doug Powers “Green Ribbon Schools” — Because Al Gore deserves to head toward his twilight years with the comfort of knowing that the next generation is being trained to keep him in the lifestyle to which he’s become accustomed: (CNSNews.com) – Next year on Earth Day, the Obama administration plans to announce which [...]

**Written by Doug Powers A provision in the energy law signed by President Bush in 2007 mandates all light bulbs to be 70 percent more efficient in their use of electricity by the year 2020 (a bill mandating that government be 70 percent more efficient in their use of taxpayer dollars is nowhere in sight). [...]

**Written by Doug Powers One of President Obama’s 2012 slogans should be “Drill, maybe, drill.” Obama knows that merely a call for drilling isn’t actually drilling, so publicly he can sound as drill-happy as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood (as he did early last year and is starting to again). As long as [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Today a Senate bill will be introduced that would pay for the construction of a charging station for electric cars on the Senate side of Capitol Hill. John Kerry fully supports members of Congress leading by example: “We’re stuck in this crazy period where congressmen boast about bringing back plastic forks [...]

The heat is on. And 33 Democrats joined the House Republican majority yesterday to put the White House on notice that they take America’s energy independence seriously. The vote: The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to approve a measure intended to jump-start drilling off Virginia’s coast. It passed on a 266-149 vote, with [...]

A Prince with a beef

Map via Frank Jacobs, Strange Maps blog/Big Think It happened with immigration. It happened with health care. And now, thank goodness, it is happening with the Obama land grabs. States are rising up to challenge federal abuses. More power to them. I’ve been reporting on the stealth Obama land and ocean grabs for the past [...]

“Climate Pollution Deniers.” Shorter Think Progress headline via VerumSerum: “Tornadoes bring death, justice to climate deniers.” Of course. Never mind the facts: US meteorologists warned Thursday it would be a mistake to blame climate change for a seeming increase in tornadoes in the wake of deadly storms that have ripped through the US south. “If [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Just in from CNN: Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Monday he will not run for president in 2012. “I will not be a candidate for president next year,” Barbour, a Republican, said in a statement. “This has been a difficult, personal decision, and I am very grateful to my family for [...]