Patriotism that loves our country, our land, and our planet
Why did a crazy person shoot at Democratic Elected officials? Is it just because he’s crazy? Or could it just possibly be because Republican elected officials call Democrats tyrants, power-grabbers and traitors, and talk about taking up guns and doing something about it? (For background on this story, see our previous article, “Giffords Shooting: Environmentalists [...]
The Tea Partiers said “If ballots don’t work, bullets will.” Today, Arizona Democrat Gabrielle Giffords was cut down by a gunman at a “Congress On Your Corner” event at a Tuscon Safeway. Federal Judge John Roll was killed in the same incident, along with a 9-year-old girl. Giffords is in critical condition with a gunshot [...]
Mercury is bad. Nobody disagrees with that. But As part of their anti-EPA agenda, the new GOP/Tea Party Congressional Majority is pushing to roll back the EPA’s new rules on mercury emissions from cement plants – the third largest source in the US. Key phrases: “Jobkilling” and “powergrab”. Here’s the backstory on the rule, issued [...]
The Tea Party is making its presence known in Washington this week. Even before freshmen lawmakers were sworn in, party leader Senator Jim DeMint was trying to push the GOP to the right by criticizing what the conservatives call Rinos: Republicans in name only (so much for the big tent party). I expect the 112th Congress [...]
Here’s what’s coming down the pike: A selection of bills introduced in the new GOP/Tea Party dominated Congress. Some of these are traditional conservative bugaboos, like cutting funding for Public Broadcasting and National Public Radio (H.R. 68 & H.R.69). Some of these are continuations of fights that have been going on for years, like drilling in [...]
It’s official. The Hill’s Energy and Environment blog reports that 46 House Republicans are introducing a bill to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of the ability to protect the environment by regulating carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act. With the Senate gridlocked for the past two years, and more gridlock in store with the [...]
Alfred Hitchcock must be smiling. Officials are still telling people the recent fish and bird deaths in Arkansas and Louisiana that some have dubbed “aflockalypse” are perfectly normal – while also admitting they have no idea what really caused the die-offs. Stepping into that information vacuum, bloggers are asking if there’s a link between the deaths [...]
I remember the first time I wore a seatbelt. It was 1964 and I was nine. My dad had them installed in our Chevrolet Bel Air Station Wagon. The lack of seat belts was only one of many safety deficiencies of that vehicle! Obviously there have been vast improvements in the safety of car travel [...]
Somehow, Dave Barry always manages to make his year-in-review column funnier from year to year. And with seriousness in short supply, his look back at 2010 is about what you’d expect – very silly. What follows are some of the environment-related highlights. Read the whole thing here. Let’s put things into perspective: 2010 was not [...]
As the new GOP/Tea Party majority takes control of the House of Representatives, it’s refreshing that some conservatives are reminding them that there’s more to life than cutting spending. Columnist George Will, one of the pre-eminent conservative voices of the past 30 years, uses his column in the Washington Post to remind Boehner & Company [...]
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