(AP) How Obama is wielding executive power in 2nd termBy CALVIN WOODWARD and RICHARD LARDNERAssociated PressWASHINGTONThis is what “Forward” looks like. Fast forward, even. President Barack Obama’s campaign slogan is springing to life in a surge of executive directives and
In response to Out of the Mouths of Reporters: After blaming “climate change” (caused, apparently, by my electric Margarita machine) for volcanos, earthquakes, and tsunamis, why the hell not asteroids? I eagerly await some intrepid journo-scientist investigating how climate change
Shortly after one of the worst snowstorms in history (I know, I know, it’s “climate change” now, not “global warming”), the mainstream media is obsessing over the question of whether President Barack Obama will mention climate change in his State
In response to Out of the Mouths of Reporters: Another thought about the “global warming attracts asteroids” nuttiness: Leftists understand that even patently absurd propaganda can be effective when it’s wall-to-wall. Global warming (and later, when that term became too
In response to Out of the Mouths of Reporters: That’s really one for the books, Ace, although as you mentioned, it’s not really all that far removed from the regular fare at the Church of Global Warming. It’s funny how
When filmmaker Phelim McAleer sought to bring some sanity to environmental alarmism he called his documentary Not Evil Just Wrong. The folks behind a new movie slamming anyone who doesn’t attend the Green Church of Al Gore are taking a
Koch Industries recently published a response to the work of UK Independent journalist Steve Connor, whose work, Koch says, “misled readers.” The two articles accused Koch Industries of secretly funding attacks on climate change. The articles written by Connor “got
Despite doom and gloom predictions that never came to pass, overpopulation alarmists continue to make their case that society must restrict the procreation of human beings. In 1968, Paul Ehrlich’s book Population Bomb said that hundreds of millions of people
Progressive actor Robert Redford must not have heard about Solyndra or any of the other crony capital green energy busts in President Barack Obama’s first term. Redford has a new op-ed at The Huffington Post begging Obama to stay the
According to reports, President Obama is leaning towards naming EPA official Gina McCarthy to succeed Lisa Jackson as EPA Administrator. McCarthy is currently in charge of air quality at the EPA. She has an extensive background, however, in climate change
LAUER: You sold Current TV, the network that you cofounded to Al-Jazeera for an estimated 500 million. According to the reports I’ve seen, your take on that was about 100 million pre-tax. Was that always just an investment to you?
The draft of a U.N. climate change report due to be published in 2014 has been leaked, and it shows that the four temperature models the U.N. used from 1990 to 2012 vastly overestimated the warming of the earth during
Now that President Obama has been re-elected, the vaunted jobs council is about to meet its demise. The Obama administration’s original announcement of a jobs council back in 2011 surprised few observers of the partisan political scene; the council was
In his second Inaugural Address, President Barack Obama issued a clarion call for government intervention to combat climate change. But Whole Foods Market CEO and co-founder John Mackey says dire warnings about global warming are overblown. In an interview with CNBC,
You would think that the Secretary of State’s job would be protecting America’s interests first, but by picking John Kerry, a staunch believer in climate change, Barack Obama has made it clear that he is an internationalist first and an
Senator John Kerry laid out his agenda for climate change and how to address the issue of green energy and job growth today during his confirmation hearing at the Senate Foreign relations committee. Kerry claimed that the largest growing job
Two of the world’s leaders in green energy production also have the world’s highest residential energy costs. Danish academic and writer Bjorn Lomborg posted a graph on his Facebook page highlighting the high cost of electricity in countries with a
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is taking a break from acting to help save the environment. DiCaprio told members of the entertainment media that after doing so many movies in a row he’s tired and needs a break from acting. And what
In yesterday’s inaugural address, President Obama stated, “We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.” But Obama was not shy about discarding reasoned debate in favor of brutal name-calling in order
Al Gore took time away from counting the cash in his bank account from selling Current TV to Al-Jazeera to compliment Barack Obama on the remarks in his inaugural speech regarding climate change. Gore had ripped Obama in the past
Chuck Hagel’s nomination as Secretary of Defense has provoked opposition due to his perceived hostility towards Israel, his posture of appeasement towards Iran, and his objection to the successful Iraq surge. He supports global nuclear disarmament, having signed onto the
At Globalchange.gov, a Federal Advisory Committee called The National Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee (NCADAC) is boasting of their climate report. In the upper right corner of the webpage, the motto is written: “Thirteen Agencies, One Vision: Empower the
Note from senior management: Americans for Prosperity is one of the nation’s foremost advocates of economic freedom, leading the charge for everything from lower taxes to the rights of workers. Their meteoric rise to the top of the conservative movement
Whether it’s the Sandy Hook massacre or Superstorm Sandy, progressives know how to use tragedies to manipulate public opinion and mobilize it behind a left-wing agenda. Environmental groups are using Superstorm Sandy as a weapon to force the public to
Hi, everybody. Over the past year, as I traveled across the country campaigning for this office, I told you that if I was fortunate enough to be re-elected, I’d work to change a tax code that too often benefited the
