President Obama is once again "investing" taxpayer money into another green energy effort.
Will this be another Solyndra that will benefit his cronies?
President Barack Obama delivers remarks on American energy from Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois on Friday, March 15, 2013.
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In As Biofuel Demand Grows, So Do Guatemala's Hunger Pangs", the New York Times reports on how the the climate change activists have pushed biofuels so that the cost of such commodities as corn have risen to the point that poor children are starving in such counties as Guatemala.
Recent laws in the United States and Europe that mandate the increasing use of biofuel in cars have had far-flung ripple effects, economists say, as land once devoted to growing food for humans is now sometimes more profitably used for churning out vehicle fuel.
In a globalized world, the expansion of the biofuels industry has contributed to spikes in food prices and a shortage of land for food-based agriculture in poor corners of Asia, Africa and Latin America because the raw material is grown wherever it is cheapest.
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Hypocritical students from a number of campuses are demanding that universities divest energy stocks from their portfolios to fight climate change.
Why don't these students set an example: turn off the electricity, heating and cooling in their homes or dorms, stop driving, petition President Obama to get rid of Air Force One. And perhaps investments their parents and endowers made with such stocks helped finance their college tuition.
In recent weeks, college students on dozens of campuses have demanded that university endowment funds rid themselves of coal, oil and gas stocks. The students see it as a tactic that could force climate change, barely discussed in the presidential campaign, back onto the national political agenda.
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From Video:
After 4 years of decimating the coal industry with radical liberal policies, Obama is now trying to pretend he cares what happens to miners and their families. But just as his concern is a lie, so is the ad he is running to tell it. In a recent ad, Obama accuses miners of being "props" at a Romney event. The miners are standing up to Obama and demanding he stop lying about them. Why would Obama lie? Because that's all he has.
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President Obama is pushing "economic patriotism" by promoting jobs, energy production, investment for education at home.
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Laura Ingraham hosted Diane Furchtgott-Roth.
Furchtgott-Roth said few people don't realize how much green jobs will cost people, especially those in poverty as utility bills and dangers with smaller cars. She said that it may have been sensible in 2005, but now we know now much energy we have with natural gas which the green community demonizes.
Furchtgott-Roth detailed how the green energy agenda is being promoted by the Obama administration on the taxpayers dime with Solyndra being the most visible example.
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GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney appeared in Hobbs, New Mexico to address his jobs, education, and energy agenda.
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Solyndra CEO Chris Gronet referred to "The Bank of Washington" in an e-mail to President Obama in 2009. The company went down, costing taxpayers $500 million.
“The Bank of Washington continues to help us!” he wrote in the October 2009 e-mail, which sketched plans for Solyndra to exploit several additional federal programs and tax-incentives.
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Laura Ingraham hosted "The O'Reilly Factor" on June 7th.
Ingraham spoke to John Flannery and Katie Pavlich on Eric Holder's testimony before Congress on the "Fast and Furious scandal which resulted in the murder of agent Brian Terry. Flannery criticized the congressmen's questioning and the critique that the White House was assisting with the DOJ's response. Pavlich and Ingraham rebutted these claims.
Ingraham talked to Dick Harpootlian and Kirsten Powers about Democrats in disarray, undercutting President Obama and building up the Clintons. Harpootlian said the Democrats are coming together and that it is the silly season. Ingraham countered that Democrats are afraid Obama could lose. Powers said the Democrats are jumping around with their messaging.
Ingraham discussed the furor over White House security leaks with Representative Mike Rogers. He said that there must be authority to investigate and polygraph suspected leakers. Ingraham contended that there has been little follow up or outrage from the White House on this all. Rogers said it is criminal and must be investigated so that this work can proceed safely; He is calling for bipartisan investigations.
Ingraham spoke to Tara Dowdell and Ford O'Connell about the deployment of First Lady Michelle Obama on the campaign trail. O'Connell said that she is a needed distraction from their record. Dowdell said that she is an asset but that ultimately it will be a decision between the president and Mitt Romney.
Ingraham talked to Dr. Berman about Planned Parenthood operating a clinic in a California high school. Berman said the US has some of the highest teen pregnancy and STD rates in the world which is a crisis. Ingraham questioned whether students are being referred for abortions while Berman said abortion is legal.
Ingraham discussed Muslims suing the New York City police department spying on them with Ahmed Rehab of Chicago CAIR.
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Mitt Romney scooped President Obama's henchman David Axelrod who planned big hit on Romney in his hometown of Boston. Romney responded by calling a press conference in Fremont, California on a big business failure of President Obama's on the taxpayers' dime, Solyndra, the green energy company that went bankrupt.
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The federal government has a huge stinking green swamp monster that needs to be smited - as in nearly $70 billion being spent on climate change initiatives since 2008, according to a Congressional Research Service report.
Leading the charge against these outrageous expenditures is Senator James Inhofe who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. At this nexus he has a perfect lens in which to examine the $4 billion being spent by the Pentagon on climate change projects out of the federal total.
All this is coming at a time when the Pentagon is being asked to make large cuts in its budget. How many vital programs for our nation's defense will be sacrificed to feed the whims and predilections of the monstrous green agenda being pushed by the White House?
The immediate action that should be taken by the Pentagon and other federal departments is to don the green eyeshades and cut down the smelly green swemp monster that has seeped into their budgets to protect our nation from real threats - especially to the taxpayers' wallets.
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Laura Ingraham hosted Senate Majroity Leader Mitch McConnell.
McConnell said Obama seems to want credit for showing up and is supporting the lower portion of the Keystone Pipeline and not the first part. He said there will be a conference between the Republican Senate and House on getting the pipeline going.
Ingraham said that nothing will get done except show votes to campaign for Obama. He said the latest is having student loan rates going up and that the GOP is in agreement with him. He said they wil have an alternative to the "Violence Against Women Act" that isn't loaded up with extras.
McConnell said he doesn't agree with Erik Erickson of Red State that he is only an appropriator and not a conservative. He also said Erickson doesn't have much of an audience.
McConnell said the GOP has been on President Obama to deal with Medicare and Social Security.
McConnell said Obama can't run on his record and that Romney is an excellent candidate. He asked if people feel better about their circumstances than they did four years ago. He said he is supporting Senator Orrin Hatch and that the point is to defeat the Democrats.
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President Obama spoke Tuesday about increasing oversight of manipulation of the energy markets such as oil. Obviously gas prices are negatively impacting his re-election chances.
Will government manipulation increase gas prices for the consumers?
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President Obama came to the Associated Press with knives out to defend his record and to draw a contrast with his GOP rivals, waxing peevish from the jump in his remarks about open mics and the press. He then went on to eviscerate his own bipartisan cant with almost an hour of critiques.
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