You gotta love bureaucrats. In the aftermath of a cringe-inducing screw-up, they tend to come up with bold new plans to start doing what they should have been doing all along.
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Even if every country in the world adopts economy-killing carbon caps, they’ll have to wait about 1,000 years for global temperatures to fall, says Australia’s newly appointed climate commissioner.
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President Obama wants to rename the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) the “Transportation Trust Fund” (TTF) and establish two new accounts within it for high-speed passenger rail and a national infrastructure bank.
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Federal prosecutors in Baltimore want to invoke the “silent witness rule” in next month’s former National Security Agency employee Thomas Drake.
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Americans’ concern about global warming has dropped a dramatic 15 points in the last three years, according to Gallup’s most recent annual Environment poll. Eighty percent of Americans now say they understand the issue “very well” or “fairly well,” but only 51 percent “worry a great deal or fair amount” about it -- down from 66 percent just three years ago.
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Roger Keats, a former Illinois state senator and Cook County Board president, is packing up and leaving the Land of Lincoln for good. The 62-year-old Keats was a good government reformer who helped clean up the rampant corruption in the Chicago-area courts uncovered by Operations Greylord and Gambat.
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Legislation currently pending in the Senate Intelligence Committee chaired by Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., would require federal employees working at intelligence agencies to sign a contract stipulating that they would forfeit their federal pensions if they were caught leaking even non-classified information to the press, outside groups like Wikileaks, or even Congress. The provision was reportedly added to the intelligence authorization bill during a closed-door mark-up session last Tuesday.
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Remember how Democrats constantly whip out the race card against Republicans, always trying to paint GOP members with the racist brush?
Take a gander at this blog from the Baltimore Sun:
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Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has challenged President Obama to demonstrate his commitment to education reform by announcing his support of the popular D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.
Issa put the Obama administration on notice that congressional Republicans will not cooperate with the president’s plan to overhaul the No Child Left Behind Act, George W. Bush’s landmark legislation, if the he refuses to sign the D.C. voucher bill.
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Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., has taken a lot of flak for holding a congressional hearing on the extent of radicalization in the Muslim-American Community.
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Nine energy, food and retail industry groups have filed a federal court challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to allow refiners to increase ethanol use to 15 percent in vehicles manufactured between 2001 and 2006, claiming the agency lacks statutory authority and the decision puts businesses and consumers at risk.
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WMAL host resigns over ‘muzzled mic’
Catherine Mann, the wife of former Iowa Republican Congressman and WMAL-AM morning talk show host Fred Grandy, used to appear as a guest host on the radio station’s “Grandy Group” every Friday morning. Not any more.
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A representative of the National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest teachers union, recently told attendees at a United Nations conference on the status of women that “oral sex, masturbation, and orgasms need to be taught in education” worldwide. The advice for promoting sexual activity among children comes union-run schools in the U.S.
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A groundbreaking multi-year survey of 28,000 students attending 85 U.S. colleges and universities by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (www.isi.org) found that American institutions of higher learning are not providing students even basic instruction on American history, economics and government -- probably not even enough for them to make informed decisions at the ballot box.
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