Tomorrow morning, if you want a nice breakfast, have $2,500 to spare, and depend for your paycheck on federal energy subsidies, show up at Charlie Palmer Steak on Capitol Hill. Harry Reid is hosting a fundraiser “with energy and natural resources industry leaders,” including the lobbies for the utilities, wind, and solar lobbies
As of earlier this week, the hosts were:
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A recent episode of PBS’ award-winning science program NOVA on the issue of Global Warming was deemed insufficiently doomsday, so the left has hit on a curious explanation for why this happened — funding from one the conservative villains du jour, the Koch brothers:
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Louisiana State Banking Chairman and well-regarded economist Joseph Mason released the following statement ahead of the President’s job creation proposals to be released in Cleveland later today:
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In Silver Spring, Maryland a gunman has entered the headquarters of the popular cable network the Discovery Channel and taken at least one hostage. The gunman appears to have been protesting the cable channel for sometime, and has left behind an internet manifesto dedicated to pushing a radical environmental and anti-population growth philosophy.
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Filmmaker James Cameron challenged three global warming skeptics to a debate that was to be held at an environmental event in Colorado this past weekend. Representatives for Cameron contacted Ann McElhinney, the filmmaker behind the documentary Not Evil Just Wrong, Marc Morano of the Climate Depot website and new media guru Andrew Breitbart to participate. Then, according to McElhinney, Cameron started waffling:
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Happening in Las Vegas right now is the the annual lefty blogger confab know as the Netroots Nation conference. Fortunately, American Spectator’s Phil Klein has been covering the conference.
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Well, the job-killing proposal is dead for the time being, anyway:
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I just received an email from Change.org and the Alliance for Climate Protection, entitled “Don’t Let BP Win!” Ah good, I thought, the left has decided to campaign against the liability cap on offshore oil spills that almost certainly introduces moral hazard into decision-making on safety. But no, the email wasn’t about that.
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In response to the gulf oil spill, Democrats have proposed the CLEAR Act or “Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act of 2009.” Ostensibly, the bill is to fix problems in the Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service, the agency whose poor oversight has been blamed for failing to prevent the spill, and a few other items related to the restoration of the gulf. However, the ranking Republican on the House Natural Resources Committee, Rep.
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How will the Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act affect your state?
The Institute for Energy Research has a new interactive map showing the percentage of carbon-based fuels used by each state. The higher the percentage, the greater the cost if Kerry-Lieberman passes.
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