Carlsbad: Storing Defense Dept. Waste
Progressive: Defending the Muslim Brotherhood
Progressive - Much commentary in the United States has attempted to liken the current Egyptian revolution to that of Iran in 1979. Alleged experts on CNN, FOX News and other major outlets have linked the Muslim Brotherhood to anti-Americanism and terrorist activity in fomenting fear among the average American.
These individuals are missing the realities on the ground. Commentators continue to paint the Muslim Brotherhood -- Egypt's largest and most organized political force -- as a firebrand radical conservative Islamist movement with a goal of forcing religion on others and achieving world domination based in Islamic law. It is allegedly a group in favor of censorship, repression, anti- Americanism and anti-women. The group is much more complex than these assumptions argue. Read full column here:
Hill: California is an Addict
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| Austin Hill |
Digging Out of the Low Energy Mess
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| Governor Martinez |
Over 400 utility employees, fire fighters, plumbers and pipefitters are working throughout the affected communities to restore natural gas and will continue their work late into the evening tonight. Governor Martinez has also announced that plumbers and pipefitters who sign up to help restore natural gas service in New Mexico will be exempt from certain unemployment rules. “Those who are answering the call to assist New Mexicans in regaining their heating will not be inhibited from receiving future unemployment benefits,” she said. If any licensed plumber or pipefitter would like to work tonight or tomorrow to help in this effort, they are encouraged to call 505-798-3317. Residents and business owners who are not present when gas company technicians arrive will have a tag placed on their doors with instructions on how to contact the gas company for a return visit.
“If any New Mexican is unsure about whether someone approaching their door is a licensed technician, they can call 1-888-664-2726 to have the identity and credentials of the individual verified,” Governor Martinez continued. Fire safety and pipe thawing tips are available on the Governor’s website at www.gov.state.nm.us and on the website of the Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management at www.nmdhsem.org. Emergency shelters will continue to be in place this evening, and a list of shelters can be found at either of these websites as well. “To the people of New Mexico: I am thankful for your patience, and for the grace with which you have banded together to support and look after one another during this challenging time,” Governor Martinez concluded.
Saunders: Tracking Evergreen Solar and Solyndra
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| Debra Saunders |
Reagan's Boyhood Home in Limbo
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| Ronald Reagan |
EPA to Regulate Dairy Milk Spills as per Oil Spills
From hotair.com -Two weeks ago, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule that subjects dairy producers to the Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure program, which was created in 1970 to prevent oil discharges in navigable waters or near shorelines. Naturally, it usually applies to oil and natural gas outfits. But the EPA has discovered that milk contains “a percentage of animal fat, which is a non-petroleum oil,” as the agency put it in the Federal Register. In other words, the EPA thinks the next blowout may happen in rural Vermont or Wisconsin. Other dangerous pollution risks that somehow haven’t made it onto the EPA docket include leaks from maple sugar taps and the vapors at Badger State breweries. More here
Request for Rule on Border Gun Sales Denied
From nytimes.com -The Obama administration on Friday rejected a request for an emergency rule requiring gun dealers along the Mexican border to report bulk sales of assault rifles, a proposal intended to make it harder for drug cartels to smuggle weapons. The White House told the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that gunrunning to Mexico was a continuing problem, rather than the kind of fast-moving emergency that justified an exception to the normal process for reviewing proposed regulations. Still, the administration said, the time elapsed since the bureau published its request for the emergency rule on Dec. 17 would count toward the 60-day public comment period required by normal procedures. That means the bureau might still be able to impose the rule by late March. Under the proposal, dealers in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas would be required to tell the bureau whenever they sold, to the same buyer within a five-day period, two or more semiautomatic rifles of at least .22 caliber and the ability to accept a detachable magazine. Among such weapons are AK-47s. Dealers nationwide are already required to report bulk sales of handguns. Supporters of gun rights have criticized the push for the regulation on semiautomatic rifles.
Global Warming? Nope, Climate Change
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| Torquemada - Spanish Inquisition |
Recent climate-gate scandals provide the clearest signs yet that there has been much scientific suppression by the beneficiaries of global warming and climate change grant money. Scientific colleagues noticing the egregious errors in the both the collection, storage, and manipulation of relevant scientific data, have been academically crucified by their franchise protecting “scientific” detractors. There is no intellectual incest like scientific incest with dollar incentives. One of the most impressive rhetorical tactics of the non-scientific background intellectual elites, people who are particularly fond of all the central-planning policies that global warming/climate change seems to require, is to look down their noses at anyone who does not buy into the nuances of the wider intellectual net known as “climate change.” As is always the case, when ulterior motives are at work stubbornness sets in and then debate evades all logic.
The problem is with those of us who think global warming should also involve trends of warmer temperature readings. We are not sufficiently sophisticated. Don’t we realize that all the other changes in climate (and overall planet temperatures) in the geological records are irrelevant? Why can’t we ignorant Neanderthals simply trust government-funded scientists? Can’t we see that trillions of tax dollars can triumph over the cycles of nature? Non-believing “deniers” are a scourge because they are selfish and greedy. And they are also morally inferior, because unlike those on the receiving end of billions in government grants, they are not in favor of science or the greater good. Pity. Guess I'll go outside and take a deep breath. Oops, can't do that, its freezing out there.
Irony: Otero County Freezing, No Natural Gas
In one of life’s great ironies, senior citizens living in Otero County New Mexico reported to us that they ran out of natural gas this week. They were bundled in blankets and literally freezing in their homes. All of this was occurring while elected officials in Santa Fe New Mexico Otero County
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| Ray Powell Jr. |
Representative Egolf has made it clear he will do everything in his power to fight the elimination of radical environmental restrictions that might actually bring more access and production of energy to the state. The only exception to Egolf’s anti-energy stance is a curious willingness to take millions of dollars out of state coffers to subsidize “green” energy schemes that cannot provide warmth to the citizens of the state.
It would seem that when New Mexico needs common sense the most, simply to bring something essential such as home heating during record cold temperatures to its residents, too many of our elected officials continue to insist on drinking from the global warming kool-aid cups. How many New Mexicans will fall ill or freeze to death before reason prevails? Nobody knows.
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