Obama Administration Continues its Anti-Drilling Chicanery in Alaska

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  June 3rd at 08:41 AM  | 

Last month, during his weekly radio address, Barack Obama announced his plans to drill in NPR-A.  No-he wasn’t planning to eviscerate his genuflecting media outlet; he was promising to issue more land leases in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Like most of his capricious gestures to conservative policy initiatives, this promise was vapid of substance and lacking accountability.  He knew all along that his unelected bureaucrats | Read More »

Let’s Nail Democrats on Their Duplicity with Energy Subsidies

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  May 18th at 09:26 AM  | 

“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”~ President Ronald Reagan Democrats (and the Maine Republicans ladies) are agog to demonize oil companies and punish them with punitive tax increases.  Their effort was defeat yesterday 52-48, but they plan to continue | Read More »

Obama’s Oil Drilling Subterfuge

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  May 16th at 07:48 AM  | 

Many liberals in the media are expressing shock over Obama’s apparent willingness to increase oil production.  We all know that he is full of …, I mean ethanol, and they do too. Those of you who were befuddled at the news that Obama will ‘expand drilling’ in Alaska are not missing anything.  Obama has pulled this political chicanery a number of times.  Whenever a specific | Read More »

Are There Any Solutions for High Gas Prices?

By: Ben Domenech (Diary)  |  May 12th at 10:45 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, we’ll discuss what’s driving gas prices and other environmental issues with James Taylor of the Heartland Institute. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. If you’d like to email us, you can do so at coffee[at]newledger.com. We hope you enjoy the show. Related Links: James | Read More »

Senate Action Alert: Small Business Bill

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  March 28th at 04:44 PM  | 

The major legislative item on the agenda in the Senate this week will be The Small Business Reauthorization Act (S. 493).  Republicans plan to use this bill as a platform to promote critical pieces of legislation through the process of non-germane amendments to the bill.  Here are some vital amendments that will be debated and voted on throughout the week: Senator Mitch McConnell is offering | Read More »

CRS Report: U.S. is Leader in Fossil Fuel Resources

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  March 10th at 07:56 PM  | 

While Obama continues his implacable war on fossil fuels and campaigns for impotent and unreliable energy sources, he incessantly condemns oil as ‘the energy of the past’.  He is obviously referring to his self-fulfilling dream of eradicating oil from our economy; not the proven reality of our oil reserves.  According to the latest research by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), America has more proven reserves | Read More »

The Pro-Environment Anti-Environmentalist

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  July 31st at 10:42 AM  | 

As oil stopped flowing in the Gulf, we’ve seen a flurry of “Where Did The Oil Go?” stories from the USA Today, Tom Friedman at the New York Times, and others. A new TIME Magazine article begrudgingly admits that “obnoxious anti-environmentalist Rush Limbaugh” may have been right when he asserted that the BP oil spill was something less than “the worst environmental disaster America has | Read More »

A Presidency on the Brink

By: Ben Domenech (Diary)  |  June 15th at 07:54 AM  | 

Tonight, President Obama will speak to the country from the Oval Office for the first time in an effort to recover from his disastrous response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The president will try to push back against the perception among the American people that he and his administration don’t know what they’re doing when it comes to the spill—a | Read More »

Our EPA: Keeping the Environment Safe for … Mayflies?!

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  September 7th at 11:30 AM  | 

Even though Iron Eyes Cody, the Crying Indian, was a fake, he had a point: America in the 60′s had become a nasty place. You used to see people throw all kinds of litter out of their cars; nowadays the only socially-acceptable forms of automotive litter are cigarette butts and dirty diapers. No longer do babbling brooks foam from phosphates. Emissions from cars and coal | Read More »