The Obama Debt Commission: Too Much Taxes, Not Enough Cuts

from The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. by Conn Carroll

The Obama Debt Commission: Too Much Taxes, Not Enough Cuts: "

President Barack Obama’s 18 member National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (commission) just voted 11-7 in support of the commission’s official report. This is three votes short of the 14-vote mark President Obama said would be needed before the report could be sent to Congress.

While the commission deserves credit for addressing this problem, the report contains far too many tax hikes, and far too little spending cuts to be a workable solution. The Heritage Foundation’s Brian Riedl critique of the report mirrors the one made by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) in the video at right. Riedl writes:

Expanding spending—not declining revenues—drives America’s long-term deficits. Even if all tax cuts are extended, revenues will soon slightly exceed their historical average of 18 percent of the economy. Federal spending—rising from its historical average of 20 percent of the economy to a projected 26 percent by the end of the decade—is the moving variable.

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Overall, the fiscal commission would raise taxes by $3.3 trillion over the decade. Yet it recommends only minor tweaks to a broken health care system, fails to repeal Obamacare, and focuses Social Security reform too far on the tax side. Discretionary spending is the only source of significant first-decade spending restraint.

Surely larger entitlement savings are expected in future decades, yet much more can be done sooner. Lawmakers examining the commission report should demand stronger entitlement reform—particularly in health care, with a plan by Representative Paul Ryan (R–WI) and economist Alice Rivlin as the model[6]—and not settle for a plan that leaves the highest sustained tax burden in American history.

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Obama’s November Jobs Deficit One More Reason to Extend Bush Tax Cuts

from The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. by J.D. Foster, Ph.D.

Obama’s November Jobs Deficit One More Reason to Extend Bush Tax Cuts: "

“You are what your record says you are.” So says Bill Parcells, three-time Super Bowl–winning coach. Professional sports, athletes, coaches, and commentators can spin the numbers with the best of politicians, but in the end you are what your record says you are. The record on the first two years of President Obama’s economic policies is pretty dismal: publicly issued national debt up $2.9 trillion, unemployment rate jumping to 9.8 percent, and Obama’s personal metric—the Obama jobs deficit—a lofty 7.3 million workers.

The Obama Jobs Deficit

President Obama promised during the 2008 campaign (and after) that under his policies the economy would create millions of new jobs by the end of 2010. Well, we’ve reached the end of 2010. He also insisted that he be held accountable for these results. The Obama jobs deficit, which stands at 7.3 million jobs, measures the extent to which he has failed to deliver on his promised job creation. And as we saw in the midterm elections, his allies in Congress, governors’ mansions, and state legislations across the country were held accountable, paying a heavy price for Obama’s failure to perform.

The President’s original target for jobs creation set during the campaign in the fall of 2008 was 2.5 million jobs. But as employment fell at the end of 2008, he increased the employment target by 1 million to 3.5 million jobs. At the time, employment stood at about 135.1 million, according to the Department of Labor’s most commonly used measure. This establishes the current Obama jobs target at 138.6 million. According to the latest jobs report, total U.S. employment stood at 130.5 million in November, which means that the cumulative Obama jobs deficit—the difference between the end target and the current employment level—stands at 7.3 million. (The actual figure is 7.58 million—138.58 million in December 2010 minus 131 million in November 2009.)

Obama Tax Hike Weakening Job Creation

Despite a succession of costly failures masquerading as economic stimulus, the economy is finally showing tepid signs of sustained recovery. Today’s jobs report’s job growth of a paltry 39,000 is the latest evidence. The report is even weaker than it first appears, because all of the increase in net employment can be traced to an increase in temporary help services. An increase in temporary help service employment is of course welcome for those who have these jobs, and it is a natural early step in the recovery process, but it also reinforces that the recovery remains very weak.

As we have seen yet again, the federal government cannot stimulate the economy in the short term by increased borrowing and reshuffling total demand through wasteful deficit spending. But government can stimulate the economy by improving incentives and the general economic environment. The massive tax hike President Obama has proposed—and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D–CA) is threatening to unleash on the economy by allowing the 2001/2003 tax relief to expire at the end of this year—goes in the diametrically opposite direction and is already draining the vitality from the economy and job creation.

Nor is this just any tax hike. Seemingly bent on perpetuating joblessness, Obama and his allies are seeking to raise some of the most damaging taxes possible. They seek to raise tax rates on the investors who are needed to provide seed corn for new businesses and on small businesses that use this seed corn to spur innovation and job growth. Foolish in the best of times, raising these economically punishing taxes in the face of high unemployment is indefensible.

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Churchill Saw It Coming

from The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. by Julia Shaw


Churchill Saw It Coming: "

One hundred and thirty six years ago this week, Winston Churchill—arguably the leading statesman of the twentieth century—was born. The son of a British father and an American mother, Churchill is often remembered for his formidable oratory skills and his love of fine cigars. Yet Churchill was also a great friend to America whose warnings about the empty promises of the nascent welfare state have come to fruition.

A great admirer of America, Churchill especially praised our founding document: “The Declaration is not only an American document. It follows on the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights as the third great title deed on which the liberties of the English-speaking peoples are founded.” Though Britain and America were two separate nations with different forms of governments, they were united in principle: “I believe that our differences are more apparent than real, and are the result of geographical and other physical conditions rather than any true division of principle.” As Justin Lyons explains in “Winston Churchill’s Constitutionalism: A Critique of Socialism in America,” Churchill’s ideas about individual liberty, constitutionalism, and limited government “stemmed from his explicit agreement with the crucial statements of these principles by the American Founders.”

When Churchill saw America’s principles of liberty, constitutionalism, and limited government, threatened with the rise of the welfare state, he admonished America to resist this soft despotism. In “Roosevelt from Afar,” Churchill admits that the American economy was suffering when FDR took office, but FDR used this crisis as an opportunity to centralize his political authority rather than to bolster the free market through decentralized alternatives. Churchill commends Roosevelt’s desire to improve the economic well-being for poorer Americans, but he critiques Roosevelt’s policies toward trade unionism and attacks on wealthy Americans as harmful to the free enterprise system. Drawing on Britain’s experience with trade unions, Churchill understood that unions can cripple an economy: “when one sees an attempt made within the space of a few months to lift American trade unionism by great heaves and bounds [to equal that of Great Britain],” one worries that result could be “a general crippling of that enterprise and flexibility upon which not only the wealth, but the happiness of modern communities depends.” Similarly, redistribution of wealth through penalties on the rich harms the economy: “far from depriving ordinary people of their earnings, [the millionaire] launches enterprise and carries it through, raises values, and he expands that credit without which on a vast scale no fuller economic life can be opened to the millions. To hunt wealth is not to capture commonwealth.” Ultimately, attacks on the wealthy only serve as a distraction from other economic issues.

We can readily recall Churchill’s foresight in foreign affairs—his warnings about appeasing Hitler and the rise of the Soviet Union—but we forget his warnings about America’s welfare state. Unlike the progressives in America and abroad, Churchill recognized that tyranny is still possible—even with a well-intentioned welfare state. Political change does not necessarily mean change for the better. Throughout the nineteenth century, political progress was assumed to be boundless and perpetual. After “terrible wars shattering great empires, laying nations low, sweeping away old institutions and ideas with a scourge of molten steel,” it became evident that the twentieth century would not live up to the nineteenth century’s promise of progress. Democratic regimes—even in America—would not be immune from destruction and degradation.

Years later, Churchill’s warnings about trade unionism and redistribution have proven accurate. Though our current economic situation seems bleak, we must also remember (as Churchill reminds us) that politics is not a mere victim of history. Just as progress is not inevitable in politics, neither is decline. Isn’t it time we looked to our old friend Winston Churchill?

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Putin and Medvedev Threaten a Renewed Arms Race

from The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. by Ariel Cohen


Putin and Medvedev Threaten a Renewed Arms Race: "

In his annual address Tuesday to both houses of parliament, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev warned that a new arms race would erupt if Moscow and the West cannot agree on a joint European missile defense program. Medvedev gave the following ultimatum: “Either we reach agreement on missile defense and create a full joint cooperation mechanism, or, if we don’t go into a constructive agreement, a new phase of the arms race will begin. And we will have to make a decision on deploying new means of attack.”

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin reiterated the threat of a renewed arms race in an interview with Larry King on Wednesday. He threatened a renewed arms race if the Senate does not ratify New START. This challenge comes in the midst of Moscow denying reports that it moved its nuclear weapons closer to NATO borders because of the threat it perceives from U.S. and NATO missile defense plans.

Threats—and bluff—are bad policy. Russia today has severe difficulties to build enough nuclear systems to meet the ceiling of New START, and in the future its military–industrial capacity may further deteriorate. Moreover, these threats demonstrate the shallowness of President Obama’s “reset” policies. If a new strategic partnership was near, the Kremlin wouldn’t resort to Cold War rhetoric.

An arms race would be counterproductive for Moscow, since the U.S., with its almost $14 trillion economy, has the economic power and capacity to build more modern nuclear weapons and ballistic missile defenses than Russia does. Russian GDP is $1.2–1.8 trillion, depending on the price of oil that day. In addition, an arms race would create insecurity throughout the world, bringing more challenges to Russia as its neighbors in Asia, the Middle East, and the West would be likely to respond in kind.

However, Medvedev declared that his government will combine space, anti-air and anti-missile forces in order to strengthen its security and indicated that Russia takes future nuclear confrontations seriously. Moscow’s main concern with regards to U.S. missile defense is that it would offset Russia’s strategic nuclear deterrent. This concern is unwarranted. In fact, missile defenses would serve to stabilize relations in the region.

The Heritage Foundation conducted a gaming exercise to evaluate the effects that missile defenses had on arms control. This exercise produced two critical conclusions: First, having the option to field missile defenses gave the U.S. broader options for pursuing an arms control policy to limit or reduce nuclear arms. Second, pursuing arms control through a “protect and defend” strategy—in other words, fielding missile defenses and maintaining a smaller, modernized, credible nuclear deterrent—appears to be the best option for pursuing arms control and nonproliferation policy while limiting the potential for conflict.

In a deja-vu moment from the Cold War, the Putin–Medvedev’s ultimatum serves as warning to U.S. Senators to ratify New START—or else. It is also a hook to lure NATO into a missile defense relationship, which would enable Russia to control NATO defenses and thus dilute the security of the alliance. While cooperation on missile defenses between Russia and the West may have an upside, it should not provide Russia a veto power on development, deployment, and use of missile defense systems.

Missile defense has also been a major concern among U.S. Senators. New START may ultimately limit U.S. missile defenses on the European continent. Russia has already been successful in pressing the U.S. to cancel plans for missile defenses in Poland and the Czech Republic. Building on this success, Moscow has sought to limit missile defense through New START and the NATO cooperation agreement. However, because of Russian fears that New START may not be ratified by the Senate, it appears likely that the leadership in Moscow is searching for alternative ways to curb U.S. missile defenses—e.g., through NATO.

The alliance should not be pressured into cooperating just for the sake of cooperation. Instead, NATO must get missile defense right. Moscow should understand that NATO has an inherent right to self-defense and that such a defense is not a threat to Russia. Both the alliance and Russia face similar threats from Iran and North Korea. Working together on missile defense to ensure security will be vital to thwarting these threats. However, cooperation should not come at the expense of NATO security. Both sides’ deployments should be complimentary. While exchanging information and undertaking computer exercises is a good way to start, Moscow should not be able to decide which threats to NATO members to address (and which not to) or exercise veto on NATO missile defense deployments.

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The Decline in Economic Freedom

from USACTION NEWS by Editor


The Decline in Economic Freedom: "

We are now in the midst of a great debate between the proponents of limited government and open markets on the one hand and those favoring more collectivism and political direction of the economy on the other. The outcome of this debate will determine the future of both economic freedom and the prosperity of Americans and others throughout the world.

James D. Gwartney, Joshua C. Hall and Robert A. Lawson at The Freeman

EXCERPTS:

From 1980 to 2007 there was a gradual but steady movement toward economic freedom. (The graph includes only the countries that have been in the index since 1980.) However, as the world confronted financial instability and economic decline in 2008, the average economic freedom rating fell for the first time in several decades.

The rating of the United States is down from 8.45 in 2000 to 7.93 in 2008, which has sent the accompanying ranking down to sixth from third in 2000. The rating reduction in the United States was primarily the result of lower ratings in the area of “Legal Structure and Security of Property Rights,” but the huge recent increase in government borrowing was also a contributing factor. The increased government expenditures, larger deficits, and increased regulations of the past two years are sure to push the U.S. economic freedom rating even lower in the years immediately ahead.

The world now faces a situation similar to that of the Great Depression. During the 1930s perverse economic policies transformed a cyclical downturn into a decade of hardship and suffering. The length and severity of the Great Depression were the result of a sharp monetary contraction, imposition of trade restrictions, higher taxes, increases in government spending financed with debt, price controls, and uncertainty created by constant policy changes that were supposed to hasten the end of the crisis. This is ironic since perverse policies caused the Great Depression in the first place.

The policy response to the crisis has also been similar to that of the Great Depression: more regulation, growth of government spending financed by debt, and constant policy changes that have created uncertainty and undermined private-sector activity.

It is important to distinguish between market entrepreneurs and crony capitalists. Market entrepreneurs succeed by providing customers with better products, more reliable service, and lower prices than are available elsewhere. They succeed by creating wealth—by producing goods and services that are worth more than the value of the resources required for their production. Crony capitalists are different: They get ahead through subsidies, special tax breaks, regulatory favors, and other forms of political favoritism. Rather than providing consumers with better products at attractive prices, crony capitalists form an alliance with politicians. The crony capitalists provide the politicians with contributions, other political resources, and, in some cases, bribes in exchange for subsidies and regulations that give them an advantage relative to other firms. Rather than create wealth, crony capitalists form a coalition with political officials to plunder wealth from taxpayers and other citizens.

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REINing in the Regulatory State

from USACTION NEWS by Editor

REINing in the Regulatory State: "

Representative Goeff Davis (R-KY) talks about his REINS Act, a proposal that would finally subject economically significant regulation (Internet regs, EPA rules, etc.) to Congressional oversight.

This is a bold proposal, one that would bring badly needed accountability to executive rule-making. There’s no good reason it shouldn’t receive bipartisan support. All of the media oxygen of late has been on the Bush tax cuts and the deficit commission plans, but this is a significant piece of legislation that would fundamentally transform how Washington conducts its affairs. It deserves serious attention. – By Nick Schulz at The Enterprise blog





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The Senate’s Secret Scrooge Agenda

from USACTION NEWS by Editor


The Senate’s Secret Scrooge Agenda: "

The U.S. economy added an anemic 39,000 jobs this month and the nation’s unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent. That marks the 19th month in a row that the unemployment has been over 9 percent, a post–World War II record.

From The Heritage Foundation

Today the Labor Department released its monthly jobs report, which showed that the U.S. economy added an anemic 39,000 jobs this month and that the nation’s unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent. That marks the 19th month in a row that the unemployment has been over 9 percent, a post–World War II record.

So how is this lame duck Congress, a Congress that was thoroughly rejected at the polls just last month, greeting this news? By raising taxes on the American people by $700 billion. Is this what the American people want? Not at all. According to Gallup, only 31 percent of Americans believe the best approach for dealing with the economy is raising taxes. The vast majority of Americans (62 percent) believe that the best way to fix the economy is either through deficit reduction (39 percent) or lower taxes (23 percent). But neither of those items is on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D–NV) agenda.

So what legislative gifts is Reid planning on giving the American people this Christmas? No one knows for sure, but Reid’s wish list is long.

New START. Just this week we learned not only that Russia has moved tactical nuclear weapons closer to our NATO European allies but also that the State Department has been negotiating with Russia on missile defense “cooperation.” This after claiming for months that New START in no way limited our missile defense options. But before the ink was even dry on the treaty, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov insisted that “linkage to missile defense is clearly spelled out in the accord and is legally binding.” The Heritage Foundation has identified at least five sections of the treaty that limit missile defense. If the Administration has nothing to hide on this issue, then it should have no problem releasing the treaty negotiation records to confirm what U.S. negotiators were saying about missile defense.

Higher Spending. Last night the Senate approved a continuing resolution (CR) that will keep the government running through December 18. The Senate could easily pass a CR that would fund the government at current levels through early next year, but that is not want the left wants. A short CR would allow the next Congress to reduce discretionary spending to 2008 levels, thus saving the American taxpayers $100 billion in new debt. But the left wants an omnibus spending bill that will allow them to increase discretionary spending and deliver earmarks to their constituents.

Higher Taxes. Lost in the debate over personal income tax rates are the slew of other taxes set to rise on January 1. Taxes on dividends, capital gains, and estates are just some of the higher tax rates Americans will face under President Obama’s tax plan. The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis has estimated the impacts of the Obama tax hikes and found they would (1) decrease inflation-adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) by $1.1 trillion by 2020; (2) decrease business investment by $33 billion a year; (3) decrease personal savings by $38 billion in 2011 alone; (4) decrease consumer spending by $706 billion through 2020; and (5) kill an average of 693,000 jobs a year through 2020.

Higher Energy Prices. The left is still desperate to appease its environmentalist base, so Reid has also promised a vote on nationwide renewable electricity standards (RES), too. Mandated renewable electricity necessarily costs more than traditional electricity, because otherwise a mandate would not be necessary to force people to use it. And what would these higher energy prices do to the economy? A Heritage Foundation analysis of 22.5 percent RES by 2025 found that (1) household electricity prices would jump 36 percent; (2) industry prices would rise by 60 percent; (3) national income (GDP) would be cut by $5.2 trillion between 2012 and 2035; and most importantly (4) RES would kill more than 1 million jobs.

Amnesty. No leftist wish list would be complete without legislation providing amnesty to illegal immigrants. This week Reid introduced yet another version of the DREAM Act, which would provide amnesty to any illegal alien who attended any college for just two years. None of these amnesty proposals has been reviewed by the Senate Judiciary Committee, and none of them has been scored by the Congressional Budget Office. Reid is clearly a firm believer in the Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D–CA) maxim: You have to vote for the bill to find out what is in it.

This would be an ambitious leftist wish list any time of the year, but cramming it all into four weeks—just one month after the American people thoroughly rejected the left’s agenda at the polls—is particularly audacious. The only way Reid can get all this done before the next Congress is sworn in is to repeat the exact same backroom deals he used to get Obamacare passed last Christmas Eve. The American people can expect to see more Cornhusker Kickbacks, Louisiana Purchases, Gator Aids, and Cash for Clotures.

Reid should stop playing Santa now and listen to his colleague from Nebraska, Sen. Ben Nelson: “Most of the [legislation] being dealt with right now should be held over until 2011, because we should be focused on jobs, taxes, and debt reduction. … I think we can hold off on START; I don’t want it to crowd out taxes, debt reduction, and jobs.” With unemployment at 9.8% the American people have received enough surprise gifts from this Democratic Congress.

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Senators warn Clinton against helping poor countries fight climate change

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Senators warn Clinton against helping poor countries fight climate change: "

Four Senate Republicans are urging the State Department to freeze new funding for international climate change programs, saying the spending should cease to help rein in the deficit.

Talk about throwing money away! Continuing revelations show that the whole climate warming theory is an unsubstantiated scam. The real question is why only four senators have the guts to sign this letter.

The Hill reports that Sens. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), David Vitter (R-La.) and George Voinovich (R-Ohio) signed the letter which states:

“We do not believe that billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars should be transferred to developing countries through unaccountable multilateral or bilateral channels for adaptation, deforestation and other international climate finance programs,”

As if there might be some other good reason that “billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars should be transferred to developing countries”?

We commend these senators for at least trying to stem the flood of funds being wasted to the climate hoax but until they are willing to do a little research and stand up to the propaganda by calling this sham science what it really is don’t expect much progress.

Not only is there little or no real scientific evidence of man caused global warming, but there is growing evidence to the contrary. The only people continuing to push this false theory are either making money from it or using it to push a political agenda.

Here are just a few articles that show how utterly ridiculous these climate claims are.

~ Michael Whipple, Editor

Another Climate Change Scare Is On Thin Ice

Apocalypse Now! (Or Pretty Soon, Anyway)

The U.S.’s ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ Turns 40

Phony Claims Infest Cancun Climate Conference

Top Science Panel Caught in Another Global Warming Data Fraud

US tells climate conference ‘not backing away’ from $100 billion climate fund

The Last Fling of the Thermophobics?

There are black days ahead for the carbon industry

Obama plans to avoid congress for global climate agreement

Time For Economic Restoration Now That Climate Change Deception Is Exposed

GOP should say no on Upton energy and commerce chair

Will The Light Bulb Ban Inspire A Conversion?

Boycott the Cancun Climate Circus

Climate Deception Is A Crime Against Humanity?

Global Warming Skeptics Ascend In U.S. Congress

IPCC Exclusions And Inclusions Of Climate Mechanisms Are Both Failures

Another Top International Scientist Jumps off Global Warming ‘Titanic’

Cars, Cattle and Ethanol

Why the Government Should Stay Out of Green Energy

Thanks to Congress, Ethanol and Biofuel Mandates Cause Food Prices to Soar

Al Gore presidential aspirations cost US $16 billion in worthless ethanol subsidies and caused world’s poor to pay more for food

Electric cars could cause blackouts

Investors Business Daily calls global warming a ’scam’ and ‘Marxist’

No policy on climate is better than bad policy

UN climate official admits climate hoax is about redistributing wealth globally

November 20, 2009: The Day “Global Warming” Ended

The Left and Energy Policy

Inconvenient nonsense infiltrates the classroom

Man-made global warming – the BIG lie

Climategate: One Year and Sixty House Seats Later

Memo to House GOP: Get a grip on the EPA

The Renewable Electricity Standard Con

Global Warming, Global Taxes pushed by Obama administration

Dems extol facts and science but act on ideology

Time to end the mother of all corporate welfare: ethanol subsidies

Hiding climate truth from journalists

Official Climate Science Ignores Essential and Critical Details Right At The Surface

Biofuel worse for climate than fossil fuel – study

Global crooks – Soros, Summers call for global bank and carbon taxes

Day of reckoning for climate clowns

Obama still intends to redistribute your green with his green agenda

The Green Bubble is about to Burst

Transparency According to Carol Browner: “Put nothing in writing, ever”

Climate History Key to Future; Inuit Travels Provide Political Direction

Whining Kerry says America ‘lost our minds’

John Kerry’s Big Business Buyoff to get cap and trade passed

Crime, Inc. (also known as cap and trade) highlights -parts A, B, C, D

The many links between failed Shore Bank and Chicago Climate Exchange criminal enterprise

Why they still push carbon trading – money

Is Green Socialism EPA’s Real Goal?

Energy and anger

How EPA Could Revive Cap-and-Trade

5 Leftist Lies About the Best Source of Oil on Earth

It ain’t easy being green

Dem energy tax just won’t die

Pop Went the Climate Bubble

Who’s ‘In Climate Denial, Again’? The New York Times

Is the EPA Trying to Murder the USA?

Frightening Quotes from Environmentalists

Corrupted Climate Science Exploited Basic Human Realities

Is green the new red (communism)?

Time to get real about climate change

The $10 Trillion Climate Fraud

Climate Science Corruption: Practiced And Perpetuated By Scientific Societies

‘Obama’s EPA a Growing Menace to Economy’ – Sen. Inhofe

BIG GREEN 3, Green Gold: BP, GE & the World’s First Carbon Billionaire

The Green $windle

The Big Green machine – The Big Money & The Global Governance Agenda That Fuels Environmentalism

Al Gore’s Carbon crusade: The Money and Connections Behind It

Another Massive Energy Tax Looms on the Horizon

Renewable Electricity Promotion Act of 2010 sponsors

Wind energy is a lot of hot air

High and Hidden Costs: There is Nothing Free about the Wind

The Big Green machine – The Big Money & The Global Governance Agenda That Fuels Environmentalism

Obama: My Plan Makes Electricity Rates Skyrocket

The Big Wind-Power Cover-Up – ‘green’ slime of corruption

UC Santa Barbara emeritus professor of physics quits American Physical Society over global climate hoax

Stink in the air – Carnahan’s brother gets $107 million for wind farm

Windmills killing bats by the thousands

The Great Global Warming Swindle – video documentary on CO2

The Green Con Job – higher ‘green’ energy costs = job losses

The Big Green machine – The Big Money & The Global Governance Agenda That Fuels Environmentalism

Big Green: Emanuel’s pot of green gold is called Exelon

No Science, Fake Science, and the Deliberate Destruction of the Nation

Green slime – The people behind Obama’s war against fossil fuels

Turning Off the (Incandescent) Light of Liberty

Reid to force renewable energy mandate in lame duck session

Climate propaganda still pushed by media

Congressman Calls For Schools To ‘Promote The Agenda’ Of Climate Change, Population Limitation

Education secretary vows climate indoctrination

No Science, Fake Science, and the Deliberate Destruction of the Nation

Texas Sues to Block Bizarre “Global Warming” EPA Rules

Rebranding the climate hoax

Green slime – The people behind Obama’s war against fossil fuels

Warmist Slander of Scientific Skeptics

Turning Off the (Incandescent) Light of Liberty

Eco-Terror’s Inspiration – Al Gore

Two Lies Make A Truth In Green and Liberal Views on Climate Science

Green scheme dims lights of freedom

Founder of The Weather Channel says sue Al Gore

Nazi Dreams were Green Dreams

Meltdown of the climate ‘consensus’

Environmental terrorism: Alive, well and dangerous.

The untold story of Waxman-Markey: USCAP and the green industrial complex

Update: Enviro terrorist killed by police – Environmental hysteria causing looney lefties to go off the deep end?

Desperate Greens Make Desperate Claims

UN climate commission found flawed in investigation

IPCC and CRU Rewrite Facts But Can’t Rewrite History

The Green $windle

Pushing ‘green’ for fun and profit

Run Like A Deere From Cap-And-Trade

Wind energy is a lot of hot air

Lone Star state won’t participate in Obama’s lawless policy

McConnell: Cap-and-trade ‘dead’ – but watch out for executive orders

Secretary Clinton’s Climate Con

Reflected Sunlight Shines On IPCC Deceptions And Gross Inadequacies

Forecaster predicted Russian heatwave, Pakistan flood and exposes CO2 fraud

Banning the Incandescent Light Bulb

Hillary uses Pakistan flood disaster to push climate hoax

Leading US Physicist Labels Satellitegate Scandal a ‘Catastrophe’ for climate hoax

Cancer of Tropic – the Algoreaholics are still at it

Gore calls for major protests to push his climate hoax legislation

Why Warming Is Falsely Reported When World Is Cooling

Global warming lies, damn lies and easy rebuttals

Blacklisted Scientist Challenges Global Warming Orthodoxy

Big Green Lies are Imploding

Henny-Penny Discovers Feet of Clay

Global Warming, R.I.P

Leftist climate activist bails out of global warming hoax

Carbon Cronyism: Why Cap-and-Trade Is Not Dead Yet

The sky is falling, the sky is falling, the ice is melting

Dems Ditch ‘Cap and Trade’ but don’t be fooled

What you should know about the lie that is coming in cap and trade

Dems change ‘climate’ saving language to ‘pollution’

Cap and trade bill will clobber D.C. and you

EPA pushes ahead to kill energy industry

Obama: My Plan Makes Electricity Rates Skyrocket

Obama is Strangling Big Oil -$7 a gallon gas anyone?

No objectivity in climate debate

The Bait-And-Switch On Cap-And-Trade

Malkin explains Salazar’s deception on drilling ban

New $3.4 TRILLION in taxes hits all Americans

Obama’s Gulf Oil Spill Commission and the Missing Experts – agenda to pass cap and trade?

Obama Is Wrong; Alternative Energy is Not an Alternative

Obama Trumpets Radical Energy Agenda -Sen. Inhofe

Dems ready for big push on global warming

$7-a-gallon gas?

Krauthammer: Dreamer in chief wants to lead us down green path to destruction

Obama’s ‘green’ jobs role model, Spain, is next European bailout

Green Stimulus Money Costs More Jobs Than It Creates, Study Shows

Obama administration hides truth on ‘green’ jobs with help of big wind businesses which stand to make big money with government subsidies

The ‘green jobs’ lie

The Big Wind-Power Cover-Up – ‘green’ slime of corruption

The Weatherization Boondoggle -’green’ union money pit

The Green Pied Piper from Chicago

Billions for ‘green jobs,’ whatever they are

Myth of ‘green jobs’ continues

The Green Con Job – higher ‘green’ energy costs = job losses

Obama Still Backs Job-Destroying Global-Warming Agenda by Sen. Inhofe

Obama Sells Economic Snake Oil

The Great Global Warming Swindle – video documentary on CO2

Cap & Ruin also known as the American Power Act

Obama: Under My Plan Electricity Rates Skyrocket

American Power Act: Oil Spill Does Not Justify Wrecking the Economy

BP is Kerry ally on cap and trade (now known as American Power Act)

John Kerry’s Big Business Buyoff to get cap and trade passed

Obama uses oil spill to push cap and trade

Crime, Inc. (also known as cap and trade) highlights

Nonpartisan Proof: Cap-and-Trade Is an Economy-Killer

Obama: Under My Plan Electricity Rates Skyrocket

Cap and Trade is a UN power grab orchestrated by Maurice Strong et al

Exposing the cap and trade bill as a criminal enterprise

Cap-and-Trade: A Scam Based on a Scam

Drive those SUVs! Global Cooling Is Coming — and Beware the Big Chill, Scientist Warns

Iceland volcanoes could cause climate cooling!

Former White house staffer & communist Van Jones on the father of the climate scam Joel Rogers

Crime inc.~ Joel Rogers & The New Green Deal

Al Gore’s Carbon crusade: The Money and Connections Behind It

Cap and Trade is a UN power grab orchestrated by Maurice Strong et al

Exposing the cap and trade bill as a criminal enterprise

Cap-and-Trade: A Scam Based on a Scam

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Here comes the Obama regime thought police

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Here comes the Obama regime thought police: "

FCC Commissioner Michael Copps says to bolster “traditional media,” the FCC should conduct a “public value test” of every commercial broadcast station at re-licensing time. Programming must pass government ‘test’ or no license.

By Susan Jones at CNSNews.com

EXCERPTS:

“If a station passes the Public Value Test, it of course keeps the license it has earned to use the people’s airwaves,” Copps said. “If not, it goes on probation for a year, renewable for an additional year if it demonstrates measurable progress. If the station fails again, give the license to someone who will use it to serve the public interest.”

Although Copps has said the FCC will not reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, his prescription for “testing” commercial broadcast stations (see below) will alarm defenders of free speech and free enterprise.

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