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Greenbacks beat the greens in ubergreen California

June 17, 2013
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Greenbacks beat the greens in ubergreen California

If there is anyplace the gang green can expect to get its way, it would surely be California. The state has the highest renewable energy standards in the country, the legislature is currently dominated by a liberal supermajority, and Governor Jerry Brown’s environmental record runs deep. When the Energy Information Agency reported that California’s Monterey Shale potentially contains more than 15 billion barrels of oil—a supply three times greater than North Dakota’s Bakken and the Texas Eagle Ford formations, environmental groups ratcheted up their efforts to keep the resource in the ground. The weapon of choice? Demonize the technology that…

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The Sierra Club exposed

June 10, 2013
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The Sierra Club exposed

In a news cycle where the lack of transparency is revealed daily, it is refreshing when something previously opaque exposes its true motives. Such is the case for the Sierra Club and its desire to block oil and gas drilling. I’ve written many times on environmental groups’ influence over use of public lands and how they often use claims of some endangered flora or fauna as cover for their efforts to block any beneficial economic development, such as mineral extraction or agricultural activity. They cry about some critter when in fact it is really about control—control of public lands. It…

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Joseph Goebbels would love Lindsey Graham

June 5, 2013
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Joseph Goebbels would love Lindsey Graham

As we have documented in the past, dangerous and destructive gangs are roaming the halls of the nation’s capitol. These gangs typically number from eight to sixteen; a small number, but powerful nonetheless. In years past, they have brought wreckage to many areas, including: Supreme Court Justice nominations, Cap-and-trade legislation, Fiscal Cliff negotiations, and Immigration Reform – Strident Conservative (January, 2013). Sadly, their power appears to be increasing. Using the well-established gang hierarchy—Lindsey Graham, RINO-SC and Chuck Schumer, D-NY—these political thugs are looking at how to deny freedom of speech rights to bloggers and others who use the internet to report the news and express their views. Joseph Goebbels…

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Renewable energy’s reversal of fortune

June 3, 2013
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Renewable energy’s reversal of fortune

“They told us the wind turbines were going to be good for the city; that our electric rates would go down. But that hasn’t happened. They keep putting up more and more of them and they are getting closer to the neighborhoods where you hear the noise all night while you are trying to sleep. Plus,” Monica told me last week during my Palm Springs vacation, “they look horrible; like a junk yard. It totally ruins our mountain views!” I met Monica in a store where she works. When she found out that I write on energy issues, she told…

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CAGW Names Sen. Mary Landrieu Porker of the Month

May 30, 2013
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CAGW Names Sen. Mary Landrieu Porker of the Month

(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) named Senator Mary Landrieu (D-La.) its May 2013 Porker of the Month for her sour comments on sugar reform in the Senate version of the 2013 farm bill. The United States sugar program, a misguided relic of the 1930s that CAGW has opposed for many years, arbitrarily protects a select few large and prosperous sugar producers at the expense of U.S. consumers and manufacturers of sugar-containing products and their workers. In the days leading up to the final farm bill vote in the Senate, Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Pat Toomey (R-Pa.),…

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