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Electric City Weblog: Another federal entitlement headed for insolvency

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:18:45 -0500

As Congress creates even more entitlements, yet another existing one heads towards insolvency: “Pell Grant program’s deficit is largest ever.”

Yesterday, President Obama proposed another $150 in federal “stimulus” spending.

Today’s question to commenters: How do you think it will it all end?

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Electric City Weblog: 500 Green Jobs

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:08:41 -0500

These 500 families are apparently still waiting for the effects of the Green Revolution:

A Pittsburgh-based coal company, CONSOL Energy, will lay off nearly 500 of its West Virginia workers next year and its CEO blames environmentalists dead-set against mountaintop mining who have waged “nuisance” lawsuits for the job loss.

But [...]

Left in the West: "Open Letter" to social democrats

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:09:36 -0500

In Dec.1920, German steelworkers,acting on the initiative of revolutionary socialists, published a letter with "transitional" demands that not only embraced issues of bread and pay but the initial steps towards worker's power. The idea was one of a "popular front" between those who felt capitalism could be reformed (the unions, [...]

Piece Of Mind: The Fix Up

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:18:34 -0500

If only Kramer were here to break up all blog-o-wars – things would be a lot easier ’round here. For this particular one, I suggest fast-forwarding to 2:35 – it’s strangely apt. [...]

4&20 blackbirds: County Seeking to Consolidate Precincts – Proposal Includes Eliminating Courthouse & University Polling Stations

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:41:19 -0500

Number of comments: 2
by jhwygirl Missoula County Commissioners are taking comments regarding their proposal to consolidate a number of precincts along with reducing a number of polling stations throughout the county. Here is a link to the spreadsheet summarizing the proposal, along with statistics on the number of voters affected. I’m one of a pretty [...]

Left in the West: Cobell wins trust lawsuit

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:37:17 -0500

Congratulations to Eloise Cobell for her perseverance in a lawsuit to recoup losses from the federal government's mismanagement of tribal land accounts since the 1880s.

Cobell:

Under the terms of the Settlement in Cobell v. Salazar, the federal government will create a $1.412 billion Accounting/Trust Administration Fund and a [...]

Left in the West: On climate skeptics' magic wands

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:02:20 -0500

What Al Gore said:

The physical relationship between CO2 molecules and the atmosphere and the trapping of heat is as well-established as gravity, for God's sakes. It's not some mystery. One hundred and fifty years ago this year, John Tyndall discovered CO2 traps heat, and that was the same year [...]

GreaterFalls: Furnace Fiasco

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:10:19 -0500

Number of comments: 4

Our story so far: on Monday night, when the temperature outside was around -24 and still falling, the furnace died. We didn’t know it at first – we heard a strange “whining” sort of sound around 10 pm, figured it might have been someone’s brakes outside; a few minutes later, [...]

prairiemary: BLACKFEET PROSPERITY

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:19:00 -0500

Number of comments: 0

Today's tribal chief: Willie Sharp's senior portrait.

It was 1973 and in Browning one of the worst winters I ever lived through (barely). The snow was so deep and the wind was so strong that you could not walk outdoors. I mean, you could get [...]

thoughtstreaming: Liberal Fraying

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:32:00 -0500

While the Camels Back has a virtual mountain of straw piled upon it, this is one tough camel! But it could very well be that the so-called "Danish text" which has emerged at the Copenhagen Climate Summit will finally crush the liberal/ progressive consensus that planet saving reforms are possible [...]

Electric City Weblog: EPA As Obama Button Man

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:14:23 -0500

The Obama Administration warns:

The Obama administration is warning Congress that if it doesn’t move to regulate greenhouse gases, the Environmental Protection Agency will take a “command-and-control” role over the process in a way that could hurt business.

Which reminds me of this:

But I think we should call [...]