I noticed with our local light rail service that no matter the condition, they need more money. Last summer when gas was $4 per gallon, ridership was insanely high, and light rail needed more money.
Now that ridership is down, light rail again needs more money. How odd.
Please be engaging in your mandatory voluntary following of my heroic worker’s Tweets.
From Leon on the Obama Administration’s abandonment of the term “War on Terror” for the less threatening but very government-esque “Overseas Contingency Operation”:
The simple explanation for this story is that they hace replaced the phrase “war on terror” with… nothing. You don’t need a term to describe something you’re not doing.
Quite right.
From an IBD editorial on the House approving a Senate-passed omnibus bill that puts 2 million more acres of energy-rich land off-limits:
“It took Moses 40 years to lead his people out of their wilderness to the Promised Land. The green lobby and its friends in Congress are leading the American people in the opposite direction.”
- JP
I did another podcast with Fausta again today: I personally think that I was babbling at the end (the kid decided to be up all night, so perforce so was I), so there’s that’s going to be entertaining. We talked a bit about Dodd, the inability of this administration to even run an Easter Egg roll, and why I’m responsible for the current economic crisis. Click on this link if you can’t see the Blogtalk radio box.
Michael Kraskin at AOL’s Political Machine has a very interesting post up about the NY-20 special election today. Tedisco supporters are cleaning up. This tracks, as conservatives seem to have mastered Twitter faster than our counterparts on the left.
Redstate’s feed is here, by the way, and mine is here. Just sayin’. Now, go read the article.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will host four regional public meetings in April to present Interior’s findings on Outer Continental Shelf (OSC)[sic] energy resources and information regarding sensitive areas and resources in the OCS from their development. At the meetings, the Secretary will also hear comment from public officials, interested organizations, advocacy groups and private citizens on OCS’s development. The meetings will be held at the Atlantic City Convention Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Monday, April 6; Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Wednesday, April 8; Dena’ina Convention Center in Anchorage, Alaska, on Tuesday, April 14; and at the University of California-San Francisco’s Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, California, on Thursday, April 16.
“President Obama has laid out his vision for energy independence for the sake of our national security, our economic security and our environmental security,” Secretary Salazar said. “The purpose of these meetings is to have an open, honest conversation with the American people to solicit the best information possible about an offshore energy plan. The Department’s efforts over the next six months to develop a comprehensive offshore energy plan will embrace the President’s commitment to a government that is open and inclusive and that makes decisions based on sound science and the public interest.”
That part in italics? Would that it were true.
Drill, Baby, Drill is just as important now as it ever was. C’mon, America; this is your chance to speak truth to power!
Blair’s Law™ – The ongoing process by which the world’s multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force.
…and it’s in full view at the G20 protests in London, where we get this report from The New Ledger’s Roger Bate about the eclectic nature of the protesters. Because it’s an antiglobo affair, it is of course dominated by the usual Communist and Israel-hating groups - the latter needing somewhere to go, now that the antiwar movement’s lost losing the war - and Bate suggests that the global warming cause may end up being added to the mix. To which I reply: if only. That’d be the fastist way to discredit the whole movement. Still, the dupes-fools-and-knaves contingent is in full force at London, and they think that they smell blood, so they’re energized.
As long as they stay energized over there. Faux-populist movements are annoying at best, and kind of intolerable at worst.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
Via Riehl World View:
DNC chair infuriates abortion backers
Tim Kaine, the Virginia governor and President Barack Obama’s hand-picked choice as the head of the Democratic National Committee, infuriated abortion-rights groups Monday by signing legislation that gives abortion foes a long-sought victory.
Kaine brushed off intense lobbying by abortion rights supporters in Richmond to sign a bill that allows Virginia motorists to advertise their anti-abortion views by sporting “Choose Life” specialty license plates.
Infuriated. How… brittle of them.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
