November 19, 2011 – 8:07 am
Hey, remember when the media and liberals excoriated the Bush administration for pressing the EPA to soften its climate change (hoax) reports? The resulting freakout? What happens when the guy who proclaimed that he would change the way business was done in Washington does something similar? Well, pretty much only Fox News bothers to cover […]
October 19, 2011 – 8:29 am
I know the supporters of Obama’s failed and destructive policies would love to say “Obamanomics!” Alas, no (ABC News) Steubenville, Ohio, may not look like a city sitting on a multi-billion dollar industry. Unemployment here reached 15 percent in 2010, and a now-shuttered steel mill — which was once the lifeline of the Steubenville economy […]
October 7, 2011 – 8:22 pm
Another day, another revelation that the Solyndra issue is not the not big deal that many want to make it out to be. I guess the big question will be “was there anything illegal about the loan?” But, if the GOP has any brains, they will beat the Obama admin with this, as The Most […]
October 6, 2011 – 4:10 pm
More taxpayer money flushed down the toilet (USA Today) Two taxpayer-backed clean energy companies that specialize in capturing heat from the earth and turning it into electricity are facing deep financial difficulties, according to an analysis of financial records. The companies, based in the West, have received $195 million in partial federal loan guarantees and […]
October 3, 2011 – 9:12 am
But, they just wanted to heal the planet, save it from evil mankind, which is killing the planet with trace amounts of a gas necessary for life! And, shockingly, the NY Times covers it: A U.S.-Backed Geothermal Plant in Nevada Struggles In a remote desert spot in northern Nevada, there is a geothermal plant run […]
September 29, 2011 – 8:35 am
Why? Well, why not? They have all this Monopoly money from the Stimulus to spend, and had to spend it by September 30th, so, what the hell. Here ya go. Enjoy. (Washington Post) The Energy Department on Wednesday approved two loan guarantees worth more than $1 billion for solar energy projects in Nevada and Arizona, […]
September 28, 2011 – 8:54 am
And all because of DICs When it comes to messaging, the right wing media machine has perfected the ability to turn molehills into mountain. Progressives, on the other hand, have perfected the art of turning mountains into molehills. So Joe’s admitting he’s a hardcore progressive with an agenda? Nowhere is that clearer than in the […]
September 26, 2011 – 11:40 am
Unsurprisingly, the Time magazine article by Mark Thompson takes a negative view of the Navy and how they waste money, while failing to take the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ie, Stimulus, Porkulus) to task Washington was buzzing last week with the news that Solyndra LLC, a California solar-energy firm with ties to […]
September 24, 2011 – 5:46 pm
This isn’t just any petition, folks: it is one sponsored on the official White House website. I mentioned this a while ago, was waiting for it to go live, went live Thursday (unshockingly, the majority of petitions are about doing away with drug laws) Welcome to We the People on WhiteHouse.gov. This tool provides you […]
September 22, 2011 – 6:23 pm
Let’s start off with this Less than three months before declaring bankruptcy, the federally-backed solar power company Solyndra sent a memo to Congress describing the company as “ramping” up its production, “competitive” with foreign rivals, and “on track” to hit its financial targets for the year. Uh huh. And now Solyndra Inc. wants more from […]
