Is Earth Day a Religious Event?
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 137 Current Event According to the Washington Post, March 26,2012 EPA to impose first greenhouse gas limits on power plants The Environmental Protection Agency will issue the first limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants as early as Tuesday, according to several people briefed on the proposal. [...]
State of the Union Report: The State of Energy
“We need to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world,” said President Barack Obama, in a moment that largely defined his 2010 State of the Union speech. It also aptly describes the focus of his energy policy. President Obama is correct to advocate pursuing an innovation policy to combat dependence on foreign oil [...]
Cap-and-Trade Lives On
Piling economy-defeating liberal agenda items upon each other, President Barack Obama has announced that one of his “top priorities” after the November midterm elections will be his administration’s pursuit of “an energy policy that begins to address all facets of our overreliance on fossil fuels.” If that sounds like a euphemism for “cap-and-trade,” it is. [...]
Just Another Fifty BILLION Dollars
After the $700B TARP bill (2008), the $152B Stimulus Bill #1 (2008), and the $500B Stimulus Bill #2 (2009), the passage of ObamaCare (2010), and continuing pressure for a business-punishing cap-and-trade policy, President Obama has sent a letter to congress urging them to endorse yet another government-sponsored, tax-payer-funded stimulus spending spree. This one another fifty billion dollars! [...]
The Year of the Anti-Establishment Candidate
Last week, ten states held congressional and gubernatorial primaries. Further, in recent months, roughly fifteen states in total have held primary elections. In each of these elections a common theme has been present: anti-incumbency. If this trend continues in the coming months, it appears that establishment candidates, party-endorsed candidates, and incumbents will be in for [...]
President Obama Calls For an Increase In Offshore Oil Drilling
President Obama surprised many in the political world this week by announcing that the United States needed to expand its offshore drilling program. Throughout his presidential campaign in 2008, President Obama was a staunch critic of offshore drilling. Members of both political parties are unhappy with President Obama’s decision. Democratic leaders are opposed because they [...]
