California Senator Smacks Down California Farmers

On Monday we reported in the article below this one on the tragic  Obama Administration policy, enforced by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), of cutting off irrigation water to farms in California’s Central Valley, turning some of the nation’s most productive agricultural land into a barren dust bowl.
According to USFWS  the water [...]

To Comfort a Fish, Government Destroys Farms

As Congressmen and Senators stumble through the political process writing, negotiating, horse-trading and re-writing the thousands of pages that will empower government with dramatically increased authority over every American’s access to medical services, we should contemplate the experiences of others who have, in good faith, placed themselves at the mercy of the same political processes.
Consider [...]

An Energy Shortage Made in Washington

Last week, while the media was focused on the Michael Jackson drama in Los Angeles, the House of Representatives in Washington passed, by seven votes, President Obama’s gargantuan global warming bill, 1090 pages of new taxes, fees, regulations and artificially imposed energy shortages.   A 300 page collection of fine-print amendments miraculously appeared at three AM, [...]

Desperate in Denver: Limo Shortage Threatens DNC Amity

The hypocrisy of the Left is so transparent and ubiquitous it’s almost too routine to be real news.
But we couldn’t let this one go by.
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The alarming development is that even though there are roughly a thousand limousines available for hire in the DNC Convention city of Denver, theres a shortage for convention week. [...]

Obama’s Energy Speech: Sound & Fury Signifying Nothing

Last week Barack Obama said that if you get better about inflating your tires, no additional oil would be necessary. Here’s the video clip.

Today, in a Michigan speech, Obama spoke at length on energy but apparently forgot about how important tire pressure was last week. But some helpful folks from the McCain [...]

Gas Prices: The Crisis Made In Washington

Yesterday, President Bush again called on Congress
to repeal it’s bans against drilling for oil on
American territory and in American waters.
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From the Democrat leaders in the House and Senate came the usual insipid response that “Bush policies” caused high gas prices. As always, they were unable to identify or describe the bad “policies” [...]

Obama says “WE” can’t. Then “WE” should get out of the way

Barack Obama, the yes-we-can candidate has
joined the propagandist’s chorus chanting
“NO! We can’t drill our way out of this!”
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On July 11 at town hall meeting Obama said

“Even if you opened up every square inch of our land and our coast for drilling, America still only has three percent of the world’s oil [...]

ANWR: The Inconvenient Truth (Part 1)

The inconvenient truth is revealed in these winter and summer photos of ANWR’s barren, coastal plain…

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Using modern technology to explore for, and extract oil from a barren, frozen plain looks like this…

ANWR is a wildlife refuge because of politics, not because God or an infallible natural law made it so. In a [...]

Global Warming Update

From The National Climatic Data Center’s United States Climate Summary for April, 2008:

The average temperature in April 2008 was 51.0 F. This was -1.0 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average, the 29th coolest April [...]