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America’s decline and recovery from nuclear stupid (charts)
Posted on January 10, 2011 | No CommentsThe nuclear energy polices and regulations implemented by our U.S. government over the past 30-40 years are nothing short of nuclear stupidity or stupidity on steroids. Examples of how those policies have squandered our nuclear power plant design and technology competitive advantage over the rest... -
Put lipstick on Obama’s economic stimulus and it’s still a pig
Posted on December 29, 2010 | No CommentsApparently the mainstream media hasn’t given up on the Obama administration’s story line that us dumb as dirt country folks just need to be made to ‘understand’ what a wonderful thing the that stimulus legislation was and how bad things would have been without it. The... -
Purple Pennsylvania Act 47 solution is not a solution
Posted on December 20, 2010 | 4 CommentsWould you hire a two time loser on burglar charges to keep an eye on your house while you are away on vacation? Umm, probably not. Would you go back to a repeat offender state legislature in Pennsylvania to create a program to replace the... -
Earmarks; it’s not the amount stupid, it’s the result
Posted on November 22, 2010 | No CommentsThe end result of the government spending earmark debate will likely be determined by whether or not weak kneed Republicans in the U.S. Senate can resist being told how they should think by progressive pundits. Hopefully the addition of a few stalwart conservative Senators from... -
Cape Wind; too big to fail and too stupid to succeed
Posted on October 18, 2010 | No CommentsWhat happens when politicians ram through a massive renewable energy investment putting taxpayer dollars at risk and utility customers’ budgets in the red? You get Cape Wind, a $1 billion offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound sold by Governor Deval Patrick in 2006 as something... -
Yes Virginia, reducing size of government also means reducing the number of government employees
Posted on October 10, 2010 | No CommentsA government union council president says he doesn’t think the “general” state employee understands that when we say ‘cut government programs’ some ‘jobs may get cut’ in the process. It could be that such thoughts stem from year after year of government growth and having... -
Is the New York Times tossing a renewable energy source under the bus?
Posted on October 9, 2010 | No CommentsThere it was right on the front page of the New York Times; For Those Near, the Miserable Hum of Clean Energy[1]. An uncomplimentary and surprisingly unspin doctored article about what a crappy deal it is having big, noisy, over hyped wind turbines humming, whirring,... -
Is the electorate wising up to big “tax and spend” governors?
Posted on October 6, 2010 | No CommentsPerhaps the electorate is finally wising up to the fact that big talking, big taxing, big spending state governors, along with their Federal government counterparts, are “the problem” and need to be sent packing. If you are a citizen of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania don’t... -
Marcellus Shale natural gas and the corporate tax myth
Posted on September 30, 2010 | No CommentsAs Milton Friedman clearly explained corporations do not pay taxes. Buildings do not pay taxes, trucks do not pay taxes, natural gas at the well head cannot pay taxes, no inanimate objects pay taxes. People pay taxes. This endless rubbish about how much money any... -
Obama’s Stupid Czar and using the free market to de-develop America
Posted on September 18, 2010 | 2 CommentsDoes the notion of using the free market to de-develop the U.S. sound a little screwy to you? If so that’s probably because you are one of those hopelessly ignorant Country Class bumpkins. You can’t possibly understand the sophistication and nuances of the recommendations put...