Lenoir, TN - In yet another stroke of stunning consequences-be-damned thinking the EPA, acting under a directive from the idiots leading Congress, are going to increase the percentage of ethanol allowed in gasoline blends. The old line was 10%, the new line is 15%.

In a move that triggered immediate, furious controversy, the government said ( Read more... )

The environmental nut-jobs have taken their brand of stupidity to new and previously unimagined heights. Check this out:

Lost in the images of aircraft dropping giant red plumes of retardant on a Colorado wildfire this week is the fact that the practice may not be legal under federal environmental laws.

A federal judge in July declared that ( Read more... )

Many people, some who might even be reading this blog, based some part of their 2008 presidential vote on objections to President Bush's warrant-less collection of cell phone call records, location data and taps on international calls. No matter how misguided and misinformed those perceptions were, that was one of the Left's chief complaints and ( Read more... )

One of the things the President and his staff keep repeating over and over to the point of exhaustion is that national health care will not take away from or do away with private health insurance. They have repeatedly stated that employer provided insurance will not be touched.

In fact former television journalist turned White House Communications ( Read more... )

Foothill High School valedictorian Brittany McComb only gave part of her graduation speech to the class of 2006 during ceremonies this year. She only gave part of the speech because school officials pulled the plug on her microphone only a couple minutes into the speech. She continued to talk trying to project her voice with out amplification, but ( Read more... )

US Rep. Peter King (R-Long Island, NY) called upon the New York State Attorney General to begin a criminal investigation of the New York Times for publicizing sensitive anti-terror operations. He made this call this morning on Fox News (So far there are no websites carrying the story ( Read more... )

Lakeland, FL - Danny Westneat wrote a column int he Seattle Times about Todd Boutte who's website was shut down by Washington State officials. Boutte may even face criminal charges under a new anti-internet gambling law. Mr. Boutte's sin? Writing about and reviewing various internet gambling sites, having ads for internet gambling sites and having ( Read more... )

Recent conversations both in person and on line have led to this post. Based on the incredible amount of misinformation contained within those conversations it is obvious that the facts need to be posted.

( Who's calling who records being turned over to intelligence services )

Andrew Kantor is becoming one of my favorite writers and columnists. His latest column for USA Today deals with proposed legislation that would put the FCC in charge of just about anything with video or audio outputs.
If this was law a few years ago, the entire digital music movement would have been stopped in its tracks. See, the RIAA fought tooth ( Read more... )