Why can locals block fracking, but not support it … get wind turbines, but not block them?Donald Trump recently said he supports giving local communities control over hydraulic fracturing. “If some areas don’t want” fracking, the decision should be “up to them,” he commented. Trump supports this proven and safe technology to develop America’s enormous…
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Obamacare Health Insurance Premiums To Jump Another 10 Percent in Wisconsin
[Madison, Wis…] Wisconsinites could face up to a 45 percent increase in their Obamacare compliant plans in 2017, according to data from the federal healthcare.gov website. Of the 87 Obamacare-compliant health insurance plans that reported rate changes to healthcare.gov, the average increase was 10 percent. Seventy-four plans requested increases, while 13 requested modest decreases. The…
Holly Elliott
Europe’s Black Market Economy Is Booming
Punitive tax regimes, increased labor market regulation and a growing lack of trust in governments are causing many Europeans to abandon formal employment and enter into the murky, illicit world of shadow economies worth billions of dollars, according to a pan-European study published on Tuesday. Research commissioned by the U.K.-based think tank, the Institute of…
Government Circus
BOEING 747-8 for President Jacob Zuma
President Zuma, is the current leader of South Africa. He has purchased the most expensive aircraft in the world for his own personal use and those of his hirelings and underlings. Welcome aboard the custom-built plane that makes Air Force One look like The Wright Brothers’ first effort. These extraordinary images show an enormous jumbo…
Government Circus, Larry Bell
Hillary’s Green Navy Sinks in Red Ink
America’s adversaries have good reasons to join with the Jolly Green Giant in hearty Ho-Ho-Hos thanks to pea-brained language snuck into the 2007 National Defense Authorization Act by former Senate Arms Service Committee members Hillary Clinton and Republican John Warner from Virginia. The NDAA amendment required the DOD to consider effects of climate change upon…
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Jokes
The Clock A man died and went to Heaven. As he stood in front of the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him. He asked, “What are all those clocks for?” St. Peter answered, “Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone who has ever been on earth has a Lie-Clock. Every time you lie,…