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**Written by Doug Powers For the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, which began today, representatives from somewhere in the neighborhood of 194 countries flew to Mexico from all around the world. Why? Well, partly to tell the rest of us we need to chill out on the long-haul flights: In one paper Professor [...]

Back in April 2009, we took note of how the green jobs boondoggle turned out in Spain. In two words: Epic fail. No matter. The Obama White House shoveled more and more enviro-slush fund money into the green jobs/union jobs black hole. Now, the Washington Post reports that retrained workers who followed the green jobs’ [...]

Map via Frank Jacobs, Strange Maps blog/Big Think The TSA isn’t the only one with grabby hands. I’ve been reporting on the stealth Obama land and ocean grabs for the past several months now — and there is another new, under-the-radar-screen development that deserves your attention. Quick review: In August, I told you about the [...]

He’s got hang-ups. My column today shines light on the autocratic agenda of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. Readers of Culture of Corruption already know all about this Chicago crony porker’s ties to Rahm Emanuel, Richard Daley, Rod Blagojevich, and Tony Rezko. For a trenchant look at LaHood’s penchant for government coercion and central planning, see [...]

Scroll for updates… The deepwater drilling moratorium may have been “lifted” in an election-season feint, but the eco-radicals have already accomplished their mission: Zero drilling permits issued. Today’s column spotlights the ideological engine behind the Obama job-killing machine: Carol “The Green Menace” Browner. Update: The Senate Republicans on the Committee on Environment and Public Works [...]

I’ve been covering Loathsome Cowboy/job-killer Ken Salazar’s ongoing corruption of science and environmental policy at the Interior Department for you extensively here. He has largely escaped mainstream scrutiny. But with a new House GOP majority and independent watch dogs on his tail, he may finally get the lasting ass-kicking he deserves. As you’ll recall, Salazar [...]

Over the past month, I’ve noted how short-sighted enviro-zealots helped create the conditions for the current rare earth metal crisis (see here and here). The NYTimes reports on the latest developments as China purportedly tightens the noose: China, which has been blocking shipments of crucial minerals to Japan for the last month, has now quietly [...]

My column today is a rejoinder to Maureen Dowd’s plaintive wail about Republican Mean Girls in the NY Times on Sunday. I’ll take a GOP mama grizzly who wants government to leave you alone over a Democrat bully bureaucrat any day. As yesterday’s failed attacks on Sarah Palin, Christine O’Donnell, and Sharron Angle showed, the [...]

**Written by Doug Powers New from “Gorebot Wearhouse” — the moonbat outfitters who brought you “Endangered Garanimals” as well as “Brazilian Magnum,” the hemp-flannel body condom specially designed for making sweet hippie love to unwitting rainforests, comes another perverse encroachment upon Mother Nature’s civil liberties: the Glacier Embracing Suit: This suit explores the avenue of [...]

9:30pm ET 10/13 All miners out and safe. Rejoice! Rescuers still need to return to surface…Video of the last miner and group leader joining in on Chilean national anthem here… 10:42am ET 14 now out. More unforgettable words of faith from 2nd miner Mario Sepulveda: “I was with God and I was with the Devil, [...]

Model for sustainable living

Update 10/10: Commemorate the 10:10 eco-snuff promoters’ campaign today…spread the word about the Green War on Children… The Green War on Children by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2010 Halloween isn’t for another three weeks, but environmental ghouls are on the haunt. A sadistic video released by global warming fear-mongerers reveals an inconvenient truth about [...]

President Obama is pushing solar panels and other green technology pet projects as a way to create jobs and promote energy independence. What his eco-radical bureaucrats won’t mention is that they are simply trading one type of foreign dependence for another: From Saudi oil…to Chinese rare earth metals. As some of you may have read, [...]

The Lyin’ King

Grim reaper photoshop credit: Manly Rash Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has an exclusive sneak peek at the economic havoc that Obama’s eco rules are wreaking. Bottom line: More than 800,000 jobs are at risk in a broad cross-section of industries. Read the details here. On a related note, the Obama’s offshore drilling moratorium isn’t [...]

**Written by Doug Powers (Alternate title: Is the Climate Disrupting in Here, or is John Holdren Crazy?”) The Obama Administration’s free-range uber-leftist psychopath “Science Czar” John Holdren, the same guy who wants to de-develop America (but in a “free market” kinda way) has obviously been charged with re-branding the foundering “global warming” movement: The White [...]

And the winner is…

Grim reaper.

**Written by Doug Powers Another job saved but mostly created by the White House: The White House said today it has chosen John Goss, former director of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, as its Asian carp czar. Goss described himself as a fisherman who is very concerned about the possible spread of the voracious [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The $75.5-million Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Sciences in Los Angeles is set to open on September 13th — maybe. The school is named after uber capitalist hyper-hypocrite Al Gore, as well as Rachel Carson, who championed a DDT ban that was responsible for millions of malaria deaths but somehow saved the [...]

Alleged Discovery Channel attacker James Jay Lee Scroll for updates… There’s been a breaking hostage situation at the Discovery Channel office in Silver Spring, MD all morning. The alleged gunman reportedly has explosives strapped to his body and there have been reports of at least one hostage. The office has been evacuated, including many children [...]

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and the Obama job-killing machine get kicked in the ass one more time. They wanted federal judge Martin Feldman to dismiss the drillers’ lawsuit challenging their original moratorium. No dice. Via Reuters: A federal judge in New Orleans rejected on Wednesday the U.S. government’s request to dismiss a lawsuit challenging its [...]

Finally, California shows some sense. Lawmakers trashed an onerous, ill-timed, empty-gesture plastic bag ban pushed by radical greens this week: California lawmakers have rejected a bill seeking to ban plastic shopping bags after a contentious debate over whether the state was going too far in trying to regulate personal choice. The Democratic bill, which failed [...]

Continuing my coverage of the revolt against the White House ocean grab, here’s the latest on today’s fishermen’s protest flotilla gathering at Martha’s Vineyard while President Obama plays Scrabble and golf with his Chicago cronies. Takeaway quote from this local news report from one of the fishermen outraged at the administration’s junk science-based catch limits: [...]

Building on my continuing War on the West/War on Jobs series, today’s column initiates an Obama jobs death toll. The social justice Left has always used Alinskyite story-telling to get its way. Time for the Right to better tell the stories of the forgotten victims of the Obama job-killing machine. Regarding the new CBO report [...]

I spotlighted the neon green radical-led White House ocean grab last week that is undermining the health of the fishing industry. On Thursday, a fleet of fishermen will gather at Martha’s Vineyard to protest Obama’s destructive eco-policies. It’s just one more wave of the citizen backlash by thousands of victims of the White House war [...]

Loathsome cowboys How’s that Summer of Recovery working out for you? Continuing my series on the White House War on the West, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s attack on the economy, and the White House land lock-up (Part 1, Part 2) and ocean grab, here is the latest on Barack Obama’s deliberate job destruction policies. According [...]

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