Despite several statements to the contrary in recent months, it turns out that AARP, a membership organization that purports to represent the interests of people 50 and older, was behind ObamaCare all along. According to an article in The Hill tonight, Associated Press is reporting that AARP is planning to endorse the House version of [...]
Despite Early Denials, AARP Endorsing ObamaCare
November 4th, 2009 · 5 Comments
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Senators Demand EPA Chief Provide Critical Data (Update)
November 4th, 2009 · No Comments
Four Republican Senators — South Carolina’s Lindsay Graham, New Hampshire’s Judd Gregg and Maine’s Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins — sent a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson today, asking her to provide critical data requested by Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) during Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearings on climate change Oct. 27. During [...]
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Tea Party Documentary Trailer Released
November 4th, 2009 · No Comments
A trailer (above) for the movie, TEA PARTY: The Documentary Film, has been released and Americans are being invited to schedule special sneak-peek showings. As the title implies, the film documents the too-rarely-seen groundswell of grassroots political fervor known as the Tea Party Movement that has prompted hundreds of thousands of ordinary and extraordinary Americans [...]
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Major Media Outlets Ignore Report on Energy
November 4th, 2009 · No Comments
Members of the mainstream media — people who call themselves “journalists” — seem to have paid absolutely no attention to a Congressional Research Service report on energy released Oct. 27 — this, despite the fact that two energy-related measures (i.e., the Kerry-Boxer and Waxman-Markey) are at the center of heated debate now taking place on [...]
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United States Could Be Energy Independent If…
November 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment
The United States could be energy independent if it possessed the collective political will to make it happen. After all, the country has the largest energy reserves on earth, according to a recently-released Congressional Research Service report. As shown in the first chart below, the United States’ 1,321 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) tops [...]
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‘Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad’ for Conservatives
November 4th, 2009 · No Comments
Conservatives won governorships in New Jersey and Virginia yesterday, but lost the much-talked-about 23rd Congressional District race in Upstate New York. To commemorate the election results, I thought a song from Meatloaf’s 1977 album, Bat Out of Hell, was in order. After all, two out of three ain’t bad. For more serious coverage of yesterday’s [...]
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