The Waxman-Markey “Let’s-Hogtie-The-Economy-and-Throw-It-In-A-Ditch” Act of 2009 will be brought up for a vote of the full House on Friday. Here is a pdf with an analysis, and a map, showing the surplus (or shortfall) that your state is projected to have based on allowances apportioned by the Congress. Any shortfall will be made up in increased utility charges. Note that this analysis is through 2012 | Read More »
U.S. Attorney Jim Letten today announced an investigation in New Orleans City Hall, this time into the city’s ill-fated foray into anti-crime surveillance cameras. And, yes, this investigation will reach into Democratic Mayor Ray Nagin’s office. U.S. Attorney’s office confirms federal investigation into City Hall Letten’s success in bringing charges against corrupt New Orleans-area Democrats has been previously chronicled in these pages, here,here, here, here, | Read More »
H/T Drudge A lot of government-supported research projects sound wasteful at first blush. That usually doesn’t bother me; after all, if somebody hadn’t studied bread mold in the first place, we might have never discovered penicillin. But, guys, come on: NIH Funds $423,500 Study of Why Men Don’t Like to Use Condoms Researchers at Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute, with funding from the National Institutes of | Read More »
H/T BLT blog, via WSJ’s Law Blog [In a new] filing, Jefferson’s legal team argues that the congressman was only placating [erstwhile business partner and FBI informant Lori] Mody, fearing that she might otherwise suffer an emotional collapse and jeopardize the otherwise legitimate business deal. Jefferson, they said, had no plans to actually follow through with the bribe. Reads the filing: Mr. Jefferson was aware | Read More »
Melancon ready to run against Vitter in Louisiana’s 2010 Senate race, columnist reports A Louisiana political columnist reported Thursday night that Democratic Congressman Charlie Melancon plans to run for the U.S. Senate next year against Republican incumbent Sen. David Vitter. John Maginnis, in his LaPolitics Weekly, said the 3rd District representative is not prepared to make a public announcement but has told national Democratic campaign | Read More »
Opening statement Point-Counterpoint in the trial of former US Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA): In an opening that lasted one hour and 10 minutes, [Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark] Lytle sketched out nearly a dozen different telecommunications, oil, sugar and incinerator deals in which he said Jefferson wielded the enormous influence in west Africa that he had accrued in Congress, including direct access to heads of state, | Read More »
Buried in the 900-odd pages of legislation promoted by Messrs. Waxman and Markey (official name: The Let’s-Hogtie-the-American-Economy-and-Throw-It-In-the-Ditch Act of 2009) is language that would cede control of local building codes to the Department of Energy if states and municipalities fail to meet draconian goals to cut carbon emissions in the future. (See the Washington Post editorial quoted below.) Let’s do a quick accounting of the | Read More »
Thank G_d Jimmy Carter’s looking after our interests. From Stratfor: June 12, 2009 | 2116 GMT The Iranian election is currently in turmoil. Both Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi are claiming to be ahead in the vote. Preliminary results from the presidential vote show Ahmadinejad leading; Iranian Election Commission chief Kamran Danesho held a press conference at 11:45 p.m. local time | Read More »
No, it’s not the American Petroleum Institute, the American Coal Council or some right-wing think tank. Or even Francis Cianfrocca. It’s the Friends of the Earth. The Friends of the Freakin’ Earth. You won’t find me quoting them often. But in a March report titled Subprime Carbon: Re-thinking the World’s Largest New Derivatives Market, Michelle Chan with the FOE does a fine job of laying | Read More »
Link. Experts said the government will still be able to introduce the many hours of tape-recorded conversations but will lose testimony from Mody about unrecorded conversations she had with Jefferson, including one in the congressional dining room. It also opens the door for the defense to raise doubts about the dealings and Mody’s credibility. Asked if the government’s failure to call Mody would compromise the | Read More »
As jury selection began yesterday in the bribery and racketeering trial of former Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA), prosecutors released a 152-page list of exhibits. Contained in those exhibits are details of tuition payments made by Jefferson and the “ANJ Group” in support of his daughters’ elite educations. Exhibits in Jefferson trial reveal payments to daughters’ colleges Nothing in the court document suggests that Jefferson’s daughters | Read More »
After four years, two Congressional election cycles and numerous appeals, jury selection begins today in the trial of former Rep. William Jefferson (D-New Orleans). VendomePlace.org has a good bibliography of news articles related to Jefferson and his extended family, a good number of whom (4, to be exact) are under separate RICO indictment for corrupt practices. Times-Picayune article: Trial of former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson | Read More »
Ladies and germs, the votes are in! Let us honor the cynical sell-outs and the self-dealing businessmen with a Green veneer – the ones most likely to profit, and profit in a big way, from the New Green Economy. (Posted as a follow up to a previous diary: The Climate-Industrial Complex, or Green Energy Whores) 10. Rep. Henry Waxman (D – the People’s Republic of | Read More »
And before you correct me on a persistent point of ruminant digestion, cows do fart. I have it on the authority of The New York Times. So there. Greening the Herds: A New Diet to Cap Gas Photo credit: Cheryl Senter for The New York Times, possibly enhanced by Vladimir HIGHGATE, Vt. — Chewing her cud on a recent sunny morning, Libby, a 1,400-pound Holstein, | Read More »
I’m in Houston, Texas, on business. Houston is the undisputed nexus of America’s energy industry. For now. Is Prime Directive #1, the New Green Economy, all about permanently blunting the political power of the Red States?
H/T Drudge The regime of Kim Jong-Il in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is set to name a successor to the Dear Leader. Kim’s youngest son, 26-year-old Kim Jong Un, described as “competitive, proficient in English and a heavy drinker” — kind of like me when I was a sophomore in college. According to the article in the Washington Post, the regime will likely | Read More »
H/T Cooler Heads Digest, The Competitive Enterprise Institute General Electric Corporation has strategically positioned itself to be a prime beneficiary of The New Green Economy, under Obama’s Prime Directive #1. As Timothy Carney points out in a washingtonexaminer.com opinion piece, not only does GE own the manufacturing technologies (high tech batteries and windmills) to benefit from the Big Green Push, it is positioning to make | Read More »
Weather forecasters at the National Hurricane Center have really stuck their necks out this time, predicting an average hurricane season in 2009. On average. WASHINGTON D.C.: Forecasters from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are predicting that a near-normal Atlantic hurricane season is most likely for 2009. The NOAA’s initial outlook for the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season calls for a 50 percent probability of | Read More »
Another Saturday, another set of indictments against corrupt New Orleans-area Democrats. First, it was a judge in St. Bernard Parish. Then it was a corrupt city councilman in Gretna. Now, US Attorney Jim Letten brings a 75-page RICO indictment down on four members of the extended clan of former Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) (IN HIS FREEZER!), who himself will soon to stand trial on 16 | Read More »
I am RedState’s self-described energy whore. My life and my livelihood are wrapped around the oil and gas industry. With that fact fully disclosed, a reader can consider the possibility that Vladimir’s opinions may be influenced by self-interest. When it comes to energy policy, the industry voice (and that of anyone with an industry connection) is deemed by the current Administration to be tainted and | Read More »
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