Daily Archives: January 13, 2012

EPA To Fine Companies $6.8 Million For Failing To Use Bio-Fuel That Doesn’t Exist

Yes, you read that right. Even the NY Times thinks this is silly When the companies that supply motor fuel close the books on 2011, they will pay about $6.8 million in penalties to the Treasury because they failed to mix a special type of biofuel into their gasoline and diesel as required by law. […]

Fact Checker Gives Gingrich Attack Ad 4 Pinocchios

The Fact Checker even compares Newt to Michael Moore (Washington Post) Newt Gingrich, meet Michael Moore! The 29-minute video “King of Bain” is such an over-the-top assault on former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney that it is hard to know where to begin. It uses evocative footage from distraught middle-class Americans who allege that Romney’s deal-making […]

If All You See…

…is evil CO2 infused beer, you might just be a Warmist

Bummer: “Chamber Of Commerce Pushes Civilization Ending Pollution Agenda”

Warmists like Brad Johnson are so cute when they are at their most deranged. And, yes, that is the exact headline in quotation marks. Think Progress’ is almost the same (Grist, and crossed at Think Progress Green) Thursday morning, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue argued that “free enterprise” requires a future of accelerated, […]

Book Proclaims Obama Didn’t Want To Take Pictures With Soldiers In Baghdad

A little red meat for a Friday morning. In the book “The Operators”, this passage appears, via Buzz Feed After the talk, out of earshot from the soldiers and diplomats, he starts to complain. He starts to act very un-Obamalike, according to a U.S. embassy official who helped organize the trip in Baghdad. He’s asked […]

Romney Attacked For…Wait, Speaking French?

Well, this is a strange one (Politico) A new Web ad from Newt Gingrich’s campaign, “The French Connection,” stresses the similarities between Mitt Romney and John Kerry, tying the two Massachusetts politicians together with the fact that both of them speak French. “Just like John Kerry, he speaks French, too,” the ad’s narrator says of […]

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