One of America’s great legal rackets is cable/satellite television, where somewhere around 100 million Americans pay for literally dozens of channels they never watch. As you well know, to do business with any cable/satellite provider means being forced into expensive
NAACP President Ben Jealous claimed yesterday that Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)–the first black Senator from the South since Reconstruction–does not believe in civil rights: “[W]e have Republicans who believe in civil rights. Unfortunately he is not one of them.” The
Leonardo DiCaprio is the greenest of green celebrities. The actor was a driving force behind “The 11th Hour,” a 2007 documentary sounding the alarm about global warming, deforestation and other environmental causes. He drives a hybrid car, warns us about
(AP) EPA Administrator Jackson announces resignationBy KEVIN FREKINGAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Obama administration’s chief environmental watchdog, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, is stepping down after a nearly four-year tenure marked by high-profile brawls over global warming pollution, the Keystone XL oil pipeline, new
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), whom President Barack Obama nominated to be his next Secretary of State and replace Hillary Clinton, wrote an op-ed for the Huffington Post in 2009 in which he compared global warming to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Coal is set to surpass oil as the world’s top fuel within a decade, driven by growth in emerging market giants China and India, with even Europe finding it hard to cut use despite pollution concerns, according to a report
Hollywood isn’t doing all it can to let the public know about global warming er, rather, climate change. So sayeth Al Gore, the prophet of the green movement. Al Gore slipped into town Dec. 6 for a quick chat with
The UN has drafted a resolution that calls for universal health coverage, and unsurprisingly, the Obama Administration has backed it wholeheartedly. There are a host of problems attendant with this action by the U.S. One problem is that according to
By KARL RITTER and MICHAEL CASEYAssociated PressDOHA, QatarBleary-eyed negotiators from nearly 200 countries haggled through the night over new draft agreements on emissions cuts by rich countries and aid for poor as United Nations climate talks spilled into Saturday. The
In a speech delivered in New York City on Thursday, former Vice President Al Gore criticized President Obama for his failure to push policies designed to address what Gore considers to be a man-made global warming crisis. “We cannot have four
After a few post-Hurricane Sandy weeks of new jobless claims hitting over 400,000, it looks as though we’ve settled back into the new and accepted normal of new claims landing somewhere in the 360,000 to 390,000 range. According to the
(AP) AP Interview: UN chief blames rich for warmingDOHA, QatarThe U.N. chief says rich countries are to blame for global warming and should take the lead in forging a worldwide climate pact by 2015. Ban Ki-moon says it’s a deadline
Today, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) directed a letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson asking for clarification on President Obama’s recent statement that “the temperature around the globe is increasing faster than was predicted even 10 years ago.” That
By accident or design, the Washington Post’s Erik Wemple has come up with the perfect plan to destroy the NFL: Such reaction speaks to the mentality of the sports consumer: Give me the game, the X’s and the O’s, the instant replays, the
By accident or design, the Washington Post’s Erik Wemple has come up with the perfect plan to destroy the NFL: Such reaction speaks to the mentality of the sports consumer: Give me the game, the X’s and the O’s, the
By KARL RITTERAssociated PressDOHA, QatarThe United States on Monday challenged China’s view of how to split the burden of curbing carbon emissions, saying the rich-poor divide in past climate agreements has no place in a future pact to fight global
By KARL RITTERAssociated PressDOHA, QatarThe United Nations climate chief is urging people not to look solely to their governments to make tough decisions to slow global warming, and instead to consider their own role in solving the problem. Approaching the
President Obama has made noises about pursuing carbon taxes in order to curb global warming. Now, look for that noise to increase. A new study contends that sea levels between 1993 and 2011 rose 60% faster than predicted previously by
In a little-noticed move that bears significant ramifications for fiscal cliff negotiations, President Obama quietly signed a bill today excluding US airlines from any European carbon emissions fee. While environmentalists were pushing Obama to allow Europe to tax the hell
RUSH: As you know, I’m a big technophile, and I read every tech blog there is, particularly those related to Apple. And all of these people contributing and writing and posting these blogs are under 30. And they live in
President Barack Obama got the facts wrong on global temperatures in his brief discussion of climate change Wednesday afternoon, according to Joe Bastardi, a meteorologist and Chief Forecaster to Weatherbell Analytics. In his first press conference since March, Obama addressed
In the wake of hurricane Sandy, many have rushed to seize the opportunity as a platform for pushing forward their global warming agendas. Headlines are rampant, sparking fears about more storms to come if climate change isn’t addressed. New York
You would think that after eight months, the media would be loaded for bear when the opportunity finally arose to ask President Obama serious questions about something other than a campaign — especially in the wake of Libya, an anemic
Like the rest of the left-wing media, BuzzFeed Politics is feeling emboldened by their electoral victory last Tuesday night. Now the push is on to pretend Global Warming actually exists and must be dealt with and you just know we’re not going
On Thursday, outgoing Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) told MSNBC that the Republican Party suffered at the polls because of its “abysmal stupidity” on climate change. Climate change — it brought on the endorsement of Mike Bloomberg,because one of the things
