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Obama Talks Job Growth While Killing Good Jobs

November 19th, 2009 · No Comments

During an interview that aired yesterday on Fox News Channel, President Barack Obama told Fox’s Major Garrett that his focus remains on job growth.  If he’s honest about wanting to keep Americans working, he should take note of the testimony of Mike Carey, president of the Ohio Coal Association, delivered before the Senate Environment and [...]

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Flashback: 10 Reasons Not to Elect Barack Obama

November 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Today, I offer a flashback to a post I published one year ago today which offered 10 Reasons Not to Elect Barack Obama president of the United States.  Was I right?
1. Obama said he wants to establish a civilian national security force and, in doing so, further enlarge the federal government.

2.  Obama said his energy [...]

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‘Open Letter’ to Obama Speaks Volumes

June 4th, 2009 · 14 Comments

Look at the statements below, then try to guess the identity of the person Lou Pritchett was describing as someone who “scares” him in a letter published May 19 at DallasBlog.com:

I know nothing about you;
I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no [...]

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Obama ‘Cap and Trade’ Energy Tax Plan Costly

March 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments

President Barack Obama’s “cap and trade” energy tax plan is drawing a lot of negative attention this week — and for several good reasons!
Yesterday, officials at the American Petroleum Institute issued the following statement that is critical of the plan:
“The White House’s unofficial new estimate for the cost of capping the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions [...]

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‘Electricity Costs Would Skyrocket’ Under Obama

November 3rd, 2008 · 5 Comments

In response to my inquiry about whether St. Louis-based Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU), the world’s largest private-sector coal company, had any reaction to the content of the San Francisco Chronicle audio which ends with Barack Obama saying he would take steps to effectively “bankrupt the coal industry,” I received the following statement from company spokesperson [...]

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