The Foundry Another DOE-Backed Solar Company Goes Bankrupt
This is getting to be a sad—and expensive—routine.
Jonah Goldberg@National Review Spinning the ‘Pile of Manure’ Economy: Obama brags about the symptoms of an economic decline.
I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal—instead of being intolerant of anything and anybody that is not politically correct.
Weekly Standard MSNBC’s Undecided Voter Panel Swayed by Romney
That had to tick ol’ Tingles off.
The Libya kerfuffle isn’t going away:
Breitbart Crowley Interrupts Romney 28 Times, Obama Just 9
Nothing quite like an impartial moderator.
Michelle Malkin Hollywood’s Hysterical “Cancer Screening” Lie for Obama
Walter E. Williams@Townhall Poverty Nonsense
Hot on the heels of the latest data debunking global warming, National Geographic has an interview with a NASA researcher whose thinking is clearly muddled.
Trying to explain why the ice off Antarctica is at record-high levels, he muses,
That’s the leading explanation for what we’re seeing…
In other words, they don’t know, but it must be really bad.
Further down he tells us growing sea ice has no effect on sea levels, and follows that up with why melting Arctic ice is bad for sea levels. But Arctic ice is sea ice. If growing sea ice has no impact, how does melting sea ice? You can’t have it both ways…unless the interviewer is on your side and/or isn’t bright enough to ask the obvious.
Repeating ad nauseum that, “It’s all consistent,” doesn’t make it so.
Bloomberg Electric Car Battery Maker A123 Systems Files Bankruptcy
More of our tax dollars down the “green” rabbit hole.
Fox News Coburn’s ‘Waste Book’ details $19 billion in eye-opening government expenses
Yes, it’s a drop in the bucket, but it oh so clearly demonstrates the government’s disregard for our money.
Telegraph French business erupts in fury against “disastrous” François Hollande
A preview of Obama 2.
Townhall:
The demagoguery on “trickle down” economics is reaching epic proportions again this election cycle. The inimitable Thomas Sowell explodes the lies and misdirection of the Left in this excellent treatise.
First the good news—for Al Gore and the rest of the catastrophic global warming alarmist crowd. Global warming is over. Ceased. Finito. Fertig. In fact, the news gets even better for you! Global warming ended sixteen years ago. That’s right. You’ve been working yourselves into a lather for nothing for almost two decades. Time to relax. Put away the Xanax. Now you can drive your car and heat or cool your home guilt-free. [What’s that, Al? Right. You never stopped and never experienced guilt for your hypocrisy. Have a seat.]
Now the bad news—for the Goracle and the catastrophic global warming researchers he’s helped fund. Your computer models are wrong. All wrong. Not merely flawed and in need of a tweak here or there. Wrong. You’ve been predicting that as CO2 levels increased because of human activity, the average global temperature would increase as well. The problem is that CO2 emissions have done nothing except increase, but temperatures have flatlined. Back to the drawing board with the lot of you. (So many of you should be ever so thankful for tenure. Results like that would get the rest of us fired.)
This is, of course, bad news for President Obama as well, and the timing couldn’t be worse. Just when he’s coming up for reelection we find out his destructive energy policy has been not only extravagantly expensive and economically disastrous, but wholly unnecessary. Ouch. I suppose it’s entirely coincidental—and rather unfortunate for the Windmill-in-Chief—that conservatives have been making exactly those three points throughout his term.
Now for the really bad news—for the rest of us who are forced to pay the price for this mess. None of this matters to two key groups: environmental Leftists, for whom worship of Gaia has replaced traditional religion; and bureaucratic Leftists, for whom the issue was never the environment anyway, but simply greater control wherever they can grab it. Each will continue to work as hard as possible to throttle our economy and limit our individual freedom.
There is a silver lining, however. Both of the last two groups have coalesced—in the U.S., anyway—into one body: the Democratic Party. For those of us who have maintained some semblance of sanity, this makes the task of identifying and eliminating the real source of hot air much simpler.
Washington Free Beacon Cutter: Benghazi Is Only an Issue ‘Because of Romney and Ryan’
Right. It has nothing at all to do with the ongoing refusal of your administration to tell the truth.
Rep. Mike Kelly@Washington Times Libya security cut while Vienna embassy gained Chevy Volts
WSJ:
Townhall:
Glenn Harlan Reynolds@USA Today Do you want your goat scruffy or shiny?
WSJ:
Townhall:
Doug Powers@MichelleMalkin Plant that received $150 million Dept. of Energy grant and hasn’t produced a single battery begins worker furloughs
A lesson liberals demonstrate a continuous refusal to learn is cropping up again: the law of unintended consequences. That their policies so frequently do more harm than good is deemed irrelevant because their intentions were good.
Before ObamaCare was rammed through Congress, conservatives warned that it would hurt workers, costing both income and jobs. Those warnings were, of course, ignored. Those smart and compassionate folks on the Left know better than we mean, dumb conservatives—and the bulk of Americans—do.
Chickens meet roost.
The Darden family of restaurants has announced that it is cutting workers’ hours to stay under the 30 hour per week trigger built into ObamaCare—above which employers are required to provide government-approved health insurance or pay hefty fines.
Liberals can’t say we didn’t warn you. But you’re also not likely to care enough to accept the responsibility. It just felt like the “right thing to do.” Of such is the road to hell paved.