Despite having a budget for only a few years, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) is quickly becoming a microcosm of the larger problems associated with the entire Department of Energy (DOE). ARPA-E, a program within the DOE, is meant to fund high-risk, high-reward projects that the private sector would likely not fund because the […]
Be prepared for the worst, Europe and China are both in free fall. This is getting very ugly real quick. Then comes the Greek elections and the bad begins. QE3 won’t do anything just like operation twist and QE2. The economy is on the brink of global depression, we never did get out of the […]
Only in America 1) Only in America could the President talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000 a plate campaign fund-raising event. 2) Only in America could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when we have a black President, a black Attorney General, and roughly 18% of the […]
Hear the latest news? JPMorgan, another Wall Street bailout, is reporting losses that could top $3 billion. Yet, in the face of this news, President Obama praised the bank and its CEO saying, “JPMorgan is one of the best-managed banks there is.” Could the more than $800,000 JPMorgan Chase employees donated to him in 2008 […]
In its latest joint report with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the World Trade Organization (WTO) issued sharp warnings on global trade restrictions: The past seven months have not witnessed any slowdown in the imposition of new trade restrictions. And there is no indication […]
(CNSNews.com) – In a move that recalls the government venture that pulverized 700,000 used cars under the “cash for clunkers” program, the Environmental Protection Agency is now praising a company for “crushing its 1 millionth refrigerator.” EPA hailed Southern California Edison (SCE), a partner in its Responsible Appliance Disposal (RAD) Program, for reaching the “national […]
“What Mr. Walker and his backers are trying to do is to make Wisconsin—and eventually, America—less of a functioning democracy and more of a third-world-style oligarchy.” New York Times columnist Paul Krugman was more theatrical than most in denouncing Act 10, the set of public-sector reforms signed by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) on March […]
Boycott Switzerland’s Migros Supermarket Switzerland’s largest supermarket chain, Migros, announced on Tuesday that it will tell its customers if products have come from Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria (Shomron) and east Jerusalem. According to a report on SwissInfo, the reason for the decision is Migros’ desire to offer customers greater transparency. The report noted that […]
The Obama Administration has once again created a “backdoor” amnesty that allows illegal immigrants to gain a “Provisional Unlawful Presence Waiver” that puts them on a fast track to legal status. This latest amnesty initiative was published quietly by the Obama team in the Federal Register as a “Proposed Rule.” Under the new rule, illegal […]
Suppose you could produce $50 of electricity but it cost you $100 to do so. Would that make any sense? It would if you work at the White House. In a speech at a wind-turbine blade manufacturer in Iowa, President Obama called for extending two sets of subsidies that turn energy economics upside down and […]
