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Good question! QuestionsView Results What’s that you say? I left something out? Oh yeah. How many people would have answered differently if they had known it was Sarah Palin? Be honest. So many people are so hung up on the “Sarah Palin is stupid” liberal talking point that they more often than not will react [...]

1943. There were no Civil Rights Acts.  For that matter, there weren’t even 50 states.  The world was at war.  Israel didn’t exist.  Everything ran on coal. That was also the last time West Virginia elected a Republican Senator in a regular election. Candidate Year Party W. Chapman Revercomb 1943 Republican Harley Kilgore 1946 Democrat [...]

Per Barbara Boxer: “I’m going to put in the record … a host of quotes from our national security experts who tell us that carbon pollution leading to climate change will be over the next 20 years the leading cause of conflict, putting our troops in harm’s way,” Boxer said. “And that’s why we have [...]

That’s the story we’re being sold.  It’s hard to understand exactly where those jobs come from, but here’s a stab at it: President Barack Obama hits three nails on the head with his plan to cap carbon emissions: weaning us off fossil fuels, spurring a wave of investment and job creation, and putting cash in [...]

I receive several newsletters in regards to what I do at work.  This is one I received this morning. Kentucky lawmakers discuss possible effects of federal energy bill FRANKFORT – State lawmakers shared comments and concerns about a federal bill that proposes, among other changes, a three percent cut in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by [...]

The jam we’re in right now was put in place thirty years ago.  In that time, we’ve gone from being an energy exporter to an energy junkie.  It really doesn’t matter where we get our hit, so long as we don’t have to accept any responsibility for it.  For instance: Oil – The Democrats absolutely [...]

Now, I don’t believe that to be necessarily true, I just can’t find one I think is terribly smart.  Today’s example is Thom Hartmann.  In 2005, he tried convincing people that Jimmy Carter tried to prevent the Bush Energy Disasters – 28 years ago.  Now, the reason he states this is because Jimmy gave a [...]

Rescuers raced Saturday to pump water out of two coal mines flooded by a rain-swollen river in eastern China, where 181 miners were missing and feared dead. Water levels were rising, work areas were submerged and the miners “had only slim chances of survival,” the official Xinhua News Agency reported, citing Wang Ziqi, director of [...]

For two weeks, six miners have either been trapped in a mine in Utah, or they are by now most likely dead. Last night, while trying to get to those miners, three more died. Shortly after another mining disaster in West Virginia a year and half ago, I did a piece on preventing mine disasters. Apparently [...]

Livescience ran a fairly brief article on the 10 Most Polluted Places in the World.  Without further ado, here they are in alphabetical order by country: Linfen, China, where residents say they literally choke on coal dust in the evenings, exemplifies many Chinese cities; Haina, Dominican Republic, has severe lead contamination because of lead battery [...]