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**Written by Doug Powers In honor of Earth Day, here’s a nice job of bumper sticker recycling from Tea Party Artwork: Speaking of Earth Day, we all knew when Barack Obama was elected that the environment was a primary concern of his supporters –so much so that his inauguration in 2009 closely resembled the first [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Keep reminding yourself as you read the story that we pump a good deal of money into supporting this cuckoos nest. Sometimes though I think it’s worth it in order to keep them isolated in pockets of New York, Vienna and Geneva instead of being entirely free-range socialist nut cases, and [...]

The dream is slipping away

Your tax dollars at work, folks. Courtesy of a tipster, here’s a fresh e-mail exchange among EPA bureaucrats on the job…protecting their jobs through media fear-mongering: From:Adora Andy/DC/USEPA/US To:PADs and Alternates Cc:Alisha Johnson/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Brendan Gilfillan/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Shira Sternberg/DC/USEPA/US@EPA Date:04/06/2011 12:06 PM Subject:ASAP ACTION: GUIDANCE Hey PADs, Please start pulling together a quick, bulleted list of what [...]

Brazil, baby, Brazil

**Written by Doug Powers Tonight at 8:30 p.m. local time all around the globe, private homes and major landmarks will turn off their lights for one hour. Fortunately this means there should be more than enough available electricity for me to turn on everything I own and light up my house brighter than Perth when [...]

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. His eco-radical sidekick Carol Browner is gone, yet Salazar remains in place — and has launched a new public campaign to demonstrate his purported moderation on energy policy. Yesterday, [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Granted there’s a lot of speculation in Hugo’s statement. To follow this, you must assume the following: A) There was once an intelligent civilization on Mars, and B) They had Starbucks, Baby Gaps, a stock exchange, lots of smokestacks, zero scrubber technology and lived in an alternate reality written and directed [...]

Stuck with 8 to 10 miles a gallon?

Things are bad enough in Japan and around the world without cranking up the baseless rumor mill. Jeff Schogol at Stars and Stripes debunks a radiation scare map being circulated on the web: Japan is facing the very real possibility of a massive release of radiation following three explosions at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, [...]

**Written by Doug Powers A fairly nice day in Las Vegas will mean that I’m out wandering instead of in the hotel writing where I should be, so here’s an open thread for discussion. Possible topics: In February, GM sold just 281 Chevy Volts. That number is actually down from January. Sure, only 281 were [...]

The job-killing Obama White House has finally issued the first deepwater drilling permit since the BP Horizon oil spill in the Gulf last spring. But as the folks at Louisiana-based blog The Hayride put it: Hoo-freaking-rah. It’s gesture politics, as always: There is much rejoicing in the oil patch today over the news that the [...]

This is becoming a weekly feature. How long are Americans going to tolerate the determined disregard of the Obama administration’s job-killing, rule-of-law-defying environmental corruptocrats? A little more than a week ago, I blasted the Interior Department’s culture of contempt for the umpteenth time. Let’s review one more time before we get to the latest spanking: [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Al Gore blamed the nasty late-January/early February winter weather on global warming, in spite of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Environmental Protection Agency predicting warmer winters with less snow. With an additional inconvenient truth for the Goracle, Anne Jolis writes in the Wall Street Journal about the Twentieth [...]

Here’s a perfect companion article to my lead story on Team Obama’s eco-radical culture of contempt. There’s red tape…and then there’s green tape: Shell Alaska has dropped plans to drill in the Arctic waters of the Beaufort Sea this year and will concentrate on obtaining permits for the 2012 season, company Vice President Pete Slaiby [...]

Eco-radical Carol Browner may no longer be on the Team Obama bus, but her departure has done little to change the culture of corruption — and contempt — at 1600 Pennsylvania. As I reported yesterday, federal judge Martin Feldman kicked the administration’s ass yet again over its rogue drilling moratorium. My column today zeroes in [...]

I’ll have much more in my syndicated column tomorrow on federal judge Martin Feldman’s new ruling on the Obama Interior Department’s “determined disregard” for the rule of law. For now, I’ve obtained and am embedding here the full decision issued yesterday. Read, share, use: Judge spanks Obama Interior Department – again *** News coverage of [...]

**Written by Doug Powers There are always so many to choose from, but this week’s distinction goes to the oil tax promoting actor Robert Redford. Video by way of Breitbart: Congrats on winning this week’s Golden Goracle, Mr. Redford! **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe

Grim reaper photoshop credit: Manly Rash President Obama used the word “jobs” 31 times in his State of the Union Address. Did you add “-killing” under your breath every time he read the word on his teleprompter? Me, too. While Obama was out on the trail filming 2012 campaign ads on the taxpayer’s dime, workers [...]

The Obama Culture of Corruption won’t be the same without her. But the question is: While lying, eco-radical czar Carol Browner may be stepping down (Politico has the scoop), does it really mean she’s stepping out of the inner circle? Word has it she may have lost out to health care czar Nancy DeParle for [...]

The myth that “green jobs” are a boon to the economy keeps getting pierced by failed green jobs boondoggle after failed green jobs boondoggle. As I noted in April 2009, the truth about green jobs has been told all over the world. Case in point: Spain. Every “green job” created with government money in Spain [...]

Grim reaper photoshop credit: Manly Rash You already knew that the election-season “lifting” of President Obama’s deepwater drilling moratorium was a sham announcement. Loathsome cowboy Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and radical eco-czar Carol Browner have lied through their teeth from day one about the rationale and impact of their job-killing policies not only on deepwater [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Today, New York City Mayor Bloomberg delivered a message in Spanish concerning the blizzard that has crippled much of the eastern US. Click the pic to hear the announcement: If you don’t speak Spanish, here’s a translation of the Mayor’s update: ***** My fellow Spanish-speaking New Yorkers. You may have noticed [...]

The science is settled: That stuff won’t fit in there

**Written by Doug Powers New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez is still a true believer. This letter appeared in the Huffington Post: Dear Santa Claus, I am writing out of concern, because you may have to move from the North Pole due to the dramatic melting of Arctic sea ice. The Navy’s chief oceanographer says that [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Admittedly, it would be a perfect fit: Who’s more qualified to peddle the most expensive myth in history than a guy who made a fortune in fiction? Is Arnold Schwarzenegger angling for a job in the Obama administration? In an interview with editors at the Los Angeles Times, the outgoing California [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Early this morning, there was a lunar eclipse. Did you see it? My eyes were eclipsed by my eyelids so I missed it. The event reminded me of another lunar eclipse that occurred in February of 2008 — a cycle known as “the eclipse that saved Columbus.” The story begins more [...]

Yesterday, Senate Democrats dropped their 1,924-page omnibus spending bomb on Capitol Hill. My column today reports on the other omnibus bomb up their sleeves — a massive omnibus land grab that Dingy Harry Reid vowed yesterday to bring up before the stretched-out lame-duck session ends. It’s green pork galore: “Reid’s staff sees a natural resources [...]

You should have this many kids

**Written by Doug Powers ********** This “Gore Effect” update is brought to you by Carhartt. Carhartt, the cold-weather outfitter of choice for the discerning Gorebot who knows that freezing to death at a global warming summit gives the deniers the upper hand ********** One thing’s for certain: Ixchtel, the Mayan Moon Goddess to which the [...]