The administration seems to be re-working air pollution regulations: The Bush administration has drafted regulations that would ease pollution controls on older, dirtier power plants and could allow those that modernize to emit more pollution, rather than less. The language could undercut dozens of pending state and federal lawsuits aimed at forcing coal-fired plants to …
Archives for August 2005
More Horrific News
This is, quite simply, horrifying: More than 600 people were killed and hundreds injured this morning when rumors of a suicide bomber led to a stampede in a vast procession of Shiite pilgrims as they crossed a bridge on their way to a shrine in northern Baghdad. Most of the dead were crushed or suffocated, …
The Lickspittle Sycophant Responds
As a bedtime gift for you, the angry and stupid left: The absence of large portions of the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama National Guards is dismissed as unimportant, because after all, 3,500 guards are available in LA, 1600 in MS, and 750 in AL…those numbers are perfectly sufficient! Or maybe not. Oh, and what about …
Hurricane News
Via The Instapundit, Michele at a Small Victory is blogging the good news (rescues) from the Hurricane. For my money, I saw one of the greatest things I have ever seen in one of these tragedies just a little while ago on CNN. IN the heart of ravaged Biloxi, a reporter was giving an update …
New Air Force Regulations
In an update to an issue I have followed closely (previous posts on this issue here, here, here, and here and here), the Air Force has issued new regulations regarding religious displays: The Air Force issued new religion guidelines to its commanders yesterday that caution against promoting any particular faith – or even “the idea …
Best Comment Ever
I have had a few pieces of hate mail, and I have weathered some pretty stupid commentary, but this is hands down the best comment I have ever received (for sheer entertainment value): Dear fascists on this site: I am a liberal. I would rather live as a slave on my knees… …then die on …
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