New fire-fighting technology could help put them out. Why isn’t it being used? By Paul Driessen Millions of Americans watched their evening news in horrified fascination. The Colorado Springs wildfire had doubled in size overnight, to 24 square miles – half the size of San Francisco – as 50-mph gusts carried fiery branches from exploding…
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Tom DeWeese
The Power of One
By Tom DeWeese “If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Barack Obama, Roanoke, VA July 13, 2012 Thomas Edison tried over 1,000 times to come up with the successful process to make an incandescent light bulb work. When someone remarked that he had failed 1,000 times, he…
Jim Geraghty
Digging Into U.S. Attorneys’ Political Donations
By Jim Geraghty Over on the home page, I take a look at Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to assign the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Ronald C. Machen Jr., and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, Rod J. Rosenstein, to lead criminal investigations into recent instances of possible unauthorized disclosures…
General
10 Poorest Cities in America and how did it happen
% of People Below the City State Poverty Level 1 Detroit MI 32.5% 2 Buffalo NY 29.9% 3 Cincinnati OH 27.8% 4 Cleveland OH 27.0% 5 Miami FL 26.9% 5 St. Louis MO 26.8% 7 El Paso TX 26.4% 8 Milwaukee WI 26.2% 9 Philadelphia…
Deroy Murdock
Team Obama Fines Oil Companies For Not Using Fantasy Fuel
There is no such thing as “cellulosic” ethanol, but EPA fines companies for not using it By Deroy Murdock Why does America’s economy feel like an SUV that is running on fumes? The Obama Administration’s laughably rigid enforcement of a Baby Bush-era ethanol mandate typifies today’s regulatory climate. When Uncle Sam governs with a tire…
Paul Driessen
Beat GSA!
Navy’s biofuel program vanquishes GSA in battle for wasteful spending supremacy By Paul Driessen If America had a “Spend Like a Drunken Sailor Award,” Navy Secretary Ray Mabus would win hands-down, for blowing $12 million on biofuel for Navy ships. Even as the armed services face drastic budget cuts under “automatic sequestration” and other proposed…