Three U.S. senators just introduced new legislation concerning national environmental policy. It’s designed, according to the description found on page one of the bill, “To prohibit the use of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to document, predict, or mitigate the climate effects of specific Federal actions.” I found out about it via this [...]
Entries from April 2010
Senators Introduce NEPA Certainty Act
April 20th, 2010 · No Comments
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Government Video Contest Invites Parody
April 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment
If ever a government project invited parody, THIS ONE DOES! The EPA invites citizens to submit entries to a video contest under the theme, “RULEMAKING MATTERS”. Now, my mind is spinning as I think about my possible entries for this contest. The entry deadline is May 17. Learn more about the contest at Regulations.gov. Hat [...]
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Navy SEAL Court-Martial Begins at Camp Victory
April 19th, 2010 · Comments Off
Four months ago, I began covering the cases of three U.S. Navy SEALs who stand accused of roughing up a detainee in Iraq believed responsible for shooting and killing four American contractors in Fallujah, Iraq, and then dragging their bodies through the streets and hanging them from a bridge. Today, the court-martial begins for one [...]
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‘Perfect Storm’ Leaves Americans Critical
April 19th, 2010 · No Comments
By almost every conceivable measure Americans are less positive and more critical of government these days, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Sunday. Pew describes the political environment as “a perfect storm of conditions associated with distrust of government — a dismal economy, an unhappy public, bitter partisan-based backlash, and epic discontent with [...]
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Is iPad Responsible for Suicides at Chinese Plant?
April 18th, 2010 · 2 Comments
After reading the first paragraph (below) of a recently-published article (“Why Are iPad Factory Workers Killing Themselves?’) by Amanda Kloer, you might think the people at Apple are involved in a sinister conspiracy to produced iPads at the cost of many Chinese lives: A growing string of worker suicides and attempts has plagued a Chinese [...]
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Freedom-Loving Patriots Rally Again and Again
April 17th, 2010 · No Comments
Only two days after rallying more than 200 people for a Tax Day Tea Party in downtown St. Charles, Mo., the K and N Patriots rallied more than 50 patriots at the corner of Highways K and N in O’Fallon, Mo., this afternoon for the group’s weekly rally against socialism.
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Missouri Tea Party Provocateur Spills ‘Beans’ (Update)
April 17th, 2010 · 40 Comments
Yesterday, I was able to positively identify the two “party crashers” who cited free speech as their justification for interrupting speakers Thursday afternoon at the Tax Day Tea Party in downtown St. Charles, Mo. Better still, I got one of them to “spill the beans” about the thinking behind his left-wing activism during a recent [...]
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