Good News: EPA Takes Over Texas Carbon Emission Permits

It's like this - a state like Arizona cannot enforce existing federal immigration law that Obama refuses to enforce without being sued by the regime. But when the federal government wants an unconstitutional regulation enforced, it will take over a states business to get it done. In this case, the EPA is usurping Texas to cap harmless carbon emissions that don't contribute to a problem that doesn't exist. But terrorists continue to pour across the border that this same government refuses to even acknowledge. From Eco World: EPA Takes Over Texas Carbon Emission Permits

The Environmental Protection Agency Thursday announced its plans to take over carbon dioxide permitting of any new power plants and refineries in Texas, citing the state's refusal to comply with emissions regulations going into effect Jan. 2.

Texas industries have openly opposed the Obama administration's Clean Air Act, a program designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions. They claim that the cuts will threaten productivity, and that the economy, in turn, will take a hit.

The EPA said Thursday that it was reassuming the state's Clean Air Act Permits because "officials in Texas have made clear . . . they have no intention of implementing this portion of the federal air permitting program," The Associated Press reported.

"EPA prefers that the state of Texas and all states remain the permitting authority for (greenhouse gas) sources," the agency said in a statement. "In the same way that EPA has worked with other states and local agencies, the agency stands ready to do the same with (Texas)."

The EPA constructed a framework for carbon emissions regulations in seven other states: Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Oregon and Wyoming.



...The new carbon emissions standards were adopted after a 2007 Supreme Court ruled that greenhouse gases should be classified as pollutants under the Clean Air Act and EPA research in 2009 revealed that the gases have a harmful effect on human health.

How can CO2 have a harmful effect on human health? It's what humans exhale with every breath! Npo wonder global warming is at the bottom of the priority list of Americans, and rightfully so:

In essence, the jig is up. It was an excuse to impose more socialism, and nothing else. And that's why the EPA is going ahead with it's takeover of red states. More from Henry Payne over at The Michigan View: EPA Chief Jackson: Enforce Green religion in the public square

http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2010/12/good-news-epa-takes-over-texas-carbon.html

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Video: Former Agriculture Secretary Confirms FBI Investigations Into USDA Inside-Job Pigford Fraud

An update on last week's post: The Pigford fraud: US Government settles with 92,000 black farmers, 5 TIMES as many as were actually farming. The USDA claims there were only 3 cases of fraudulent claims filed for Pigford settlement money. It's of course not true. Black farmer Jimmy Dismuke, one of the original farmers who brought suit against the USDA, said that he was personally aware of many more cases that the FBI investigated and documented in Arkansas, "but for political purposes they have not been made public." Big Government released a follow-up blockbuster video: Key 'Black Farmers' Lawyer Admits Clients 'Got Away With Murder'. And now this: Former Agriculture Secretary Confirms FBI Investigations Into USDA Inside-Job Pigford Fraud

Yesterday, Pigford report co-author Peter Schweizer spoke to a specific USDA inside job wherein a federal employee was getting paid by Pigford lawyers to illegally sign up fraudulent claimants. Today, former Secretary of the Department of Agriculture Mike Espy, who now represents thousands of Pigford II claimants, says there is "no doubt" that he has heard those reports, and furthermore says there are FBI investigations that have looked into these troubling allegations. This comports with the Big Government witness report from a retired FBI agent who is willing to testify that he has evidence of widespread fraud involving Pigford claimants in Arkansas and a USDA employee, who still is on the job.

The video:

Big Government promises a lot more after the New Year. Ugh.

http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2010/12/video-former-agriculture-secretary.html

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Video: Cops arrest preacher for saying homosexuality a sin

²² "'Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable. - Leviticus 18 (NIV)

²⁶ Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. ²⁷ In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. - Romans 1 (NIV)

Repeating the abvove is punishable by jailtime in Britain. Want to know where Obama's hate crimes legislation will lead? Look over at what has happened in Britain under similar language:

At least in the above case, the preacher may himself be redeemed. He's suing:

Telling a street preacher that it is against the law to affirm the Bible's teaching on homosexuality is costing a team of British police officers some $11,000 – plus legal fees.

That was the resolution announced by The Christian Institute in a case that it fought on behalf of a street preacher, Dale Mcalpine, who was arrested and detained for nearly eight hours on the basis of the officers' decision that the Bible's teachings violated the law.

Mike Judge, spokesman for the institute, which fights on behalf of Christian and human rights in the United Kingdom, said perhaps the officers should remember the situation developed in Cumbria, not North Korea.

"Mr. Mcalpine was arrested and held in a cell for expressing his Christian views," Judge said of the case, which was resolved just days ago. "Sadly, it's not an isolated case. We have defended a number of Christians wrongfully arrested under Section 5 of the Public Order Act. There is a problem with the law and it needs to be fixed."

The fact that cops even approached him in the first place should be a warning that Britain has fallen into totalitarian hell, one in which you can't even quote from the Bible lest you be arrested.

http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2010/12/video-cops-arrest-preacher-for-saying.html

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AARP gets payoff for Obamacare support

AARP stands to make hundreds of millions with massive new Obamacare regulations giving breaks to AARP for its support for Obama and Obamacare. 90% of AARP election donations went to Democrats.

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Have you torn up your AARP card yet?

http://usactionnews.com/2010/12/aarp-gets-payoff-for-obamacare-support/

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Over the River and Through the Woods…

On Christmas Day in Hopewell Township, New Jersey, approximately 100 patriots will re-enact George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River.  This annual memorial to the Christmas Night crossing of 1776 historically draws large crowds, and takes place regardless of inclement weather.  In a war known for its many heroic deeds and acts of bravery, why does this specific moment merit such attention?

After the publication of his book 1776, historian David McCullough gave a speech at The Heritage Foundation in which he masterfully explained how Washington's courageous actions that Christmas Night determined the fate of America.  Click here to hear "America's historian" speak about the lasting significance of Washington's crossing of the Delaware 234 years ago.

http://blog.heritage.org/2010/12/24/over-the-river-and-through-the-woods%e2%80%a6/

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Obamacare: The Price Controls Begin

The Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday that, starting next year, health insurance companies must receive permission from the Obama administration before they can raise rates higher than 10%. As we warned before Obamacare even became law, this is a form of price control, a government intervention that has a long and well established history of failure.

Way back in 1993, Heritage Foundation scholar Heritage's Ed Haislmaier was detailing the shortcomings of price controls in health care:

Price controls would not work in health care because they attack the symptoms of runaway costs, not the cause. Medical costs today are soaring because consumers are largely insulated from them…and because the tax system discourages consumers from seeking good value for money in health care.
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Most policy makers who favor health care price controls view them as a way to curb rapid medical inflation. But most of the blame for that same inflation can be traced directly to previous government health care policies that they support or maintain. Health care price controls also are attractive to Members of Congress because they provide a benefit (cheaper medical care) to a favored constituency (health care consumers) at the expense of less favored constituencies (doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and insurance companies). This is why some Members of Congress are so quick to blame the health care industry for escalating medical costs, when in fact it is largely government laws, regulations, and policies that are responsible.

http://blog.heritage.org/2010/12/24/obamacare-the-price-controls-begin/

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Obama Uses EPA to Seize Control of Energy Sector

Dems were able to ram Cap & Tax through the House, but this debacle will never make it through the Senate, now that such a large number of people are aware that the government and media have been lying, and that global warming — or "climate change" as the lack of warming has forced moonbats to call it — has no validity whatsoever. But fortunately for advocates of totalitarian collectivism, Comrade Obama still has an ace up his sleeve: control of the faceless, unaccountable, and irredeemably leftist bureaucracy. Here's how it will be used for the next 2 years:

US President Barack Obama's administration said Thursday it will regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, after legislation on climate change died in Congress.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it would regulate fossil fuel power plants and petroleum refineries — which together emit nearly 40 percent of US greenhouse gases — starting in 2012.

"We are following through on our commitment to proceed in a measured and careful way to reduce greenhouse gas pollution that threatens the health and welfare of Americans and contributes to climate change," EPA chief Lisa Jackson said in a statement.

Using a debunked hoax as justification for yet another outrageous power grab proves that the 2010 elections did not deflate the Moonbat Messiah's audacity, and that his lust for control is anything but measured and careful. Takeover of the energy sector will fit nicely with the federal government's newly acquired control of healthcare and the food supply. When all this power has been consolidated by the lumbering bureaucracy, calling America a free country will become an insult to the concept of freedom.

At least the Manchurian Moonbat is living up to one of his campaign promises. Remember when he promised to make energy prices "skyrocket"?

He actually said this before the election. Horrifyingly, millions of people were sufficiently deranged by moonbattery to vote for him anyway.

On tips from Byron and G. Fox.

http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2010/12/obama-uses-epa.html

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Obama To Read Reagan Book on Vacation (Wait Til He Finds Out He’s Not a Socialist!)

Barack Obama is actually going to read a book that's not about himself this Christmas season.
The White House (reportedly) says that the far left former community organizer is going to read a book about Ronald Reagan.

The last time Obama was seen reading a book in public it was one he reportedly wrote.

U.S. President Barack Obama reads his book "Of Thee I Sing" to 2nd graders at Long Branch Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, December 17, 2010. (REUTERS/Jim Young)

FOX News reported:

The White House says that President Obama plans on spending some of his Hawaiian vacation reading, and among the books on his list is one about President Reagan.

Obama will be digging into Lou Cannon's biography, "President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime."

The president has been reading up on books about other presidents in the past few months. Most recently before the midterm elections, he was reading "The Clinton TAPES" by Taylor Branch, among others.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said in a briefing Wednesday that reading will be part of Obama's vacation plans, "He'll read a good amount of stuff. He'll have, obviously, his daily intelligence briefing, as well as probably a novel or two."

It will be like a foreign language for Obama.

http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2010/12/obama-to-read-reagan-book-on-vacation-wait-til-he-finds-out-he%E2%80%99s-not-a-socialist/

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CHANGE! Obama Adminstration Approved Business With Blacklisted Nations

We're starting to see a pattern here…
When the Iraqi people were being slaughtered in the street Obama said genocide was preferable to continued US presence in the region.
When the Iranian freedom protesters were being shot at from rooftops, he turned his back on them.

When the Honduran people rose against their socialist tyrant, he supported the tyrant.

And, now we learn that the Obama Administration has allowed American companies to do billions of dollars of business with evil anti-democratic regimes – including the Iranians who are supplying terrorists with bombs to kill US soldiers.
The New York Times reported:

Despite sanctions and trade embargoes, over the past decade the United States government has allowed American companies to do billions of dollars in business with Iran and other countries blacklisted as state sponsors of terrorism, an examination by The New York Times has found.

In an interview, the Obama administration's point man on sanctions, Stuart A. Levey, said that focusing on the exceptions "misses the forest for the trees."

Hat Tip K. Solomon

And, yet Obama has the gall to lecture the global community to "Stand up for freedom."

http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2010/12/change-obama-adminstration-approved-business-with-blacklisted-nations/

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Unreal. Local Media Reports Union Thugs Screaming “F**k You!” Are “Christmas Caroling”

Hmm. Maybe this is the liberal version of Silent Night?
Dana Loesch at Big Journalism reported on a recent incident in Quincy.

Union thugs went to harass a business executive at his home.
WGEM reported:

It's Christmas caroling with a message.

Wednesday night, locked out workers from Roquette America in Keokuk staged a very unique protest.

They took a break from the picket lines to go caroling outside the homes of top Roquette executives who live in Quincy.

[...]

They took a break from the picket lines to go caroling outside the homes of top Roquette executives who live in Quincy.

Dana provdes the rest of the story: A caravan of 80 people went to a home to sing insults and, according to eyewitnesses, shouting "F*CK YOU" at various houses right before Christmas? …On private property. I'm told by locals that one of the houses they visited was down a private lane of an elderly couple whose granddaughter often stays with them (and luckily wasn't the night the union struck) – the union trespassed.

http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2010/12/unreal-local-media-reports-union-thugs-screaming-fk-you-are-christmas-caroling/

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