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Topic: It Is Time to Stop
Putting Food in Our Cars |
It Is Time to Stop
Putting Food in Our Cars
American Magazine, by Ken Green
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Posted By:eagleblurst, 10/31/2012 10:51:06 AM
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| The ethanol mandate continues to do more harm than good — inflicting environmental damage, raising food prices, and distorting energy markets. Two recent developments warrant a reexamination of the fuel ethanol issue. First, on August 20, 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a call for comments on suspending the renewable fuel standard (RFS), sometimes known as the ethanol mandate: EPA is seeking comment on letters requesting a waiver of the renewable fuel standard and matters relevant to EPA’s consideration of those requests. Governors of the states of
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
nu74, 10/31/2012 10:53:31 AM (No. 8976694)
I agree 100%. It makes no sense at all and drives (pun intended) up the cost of food.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mickturn, 10/31/2012 11:02:39 AM (No. 8976725)
BUT, we need a warm dark place for all the corncobs! Any suggestions?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
pickle1, 10/31/2012 11:08:05 AM (No. 8976742)
I agree.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
K.I.S.S., 10/31/2012 11:14:06 AM (No. 8976764)
ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!!!!! God gave humans wood, coal, oil, gas and the genius to create nuclear power...THAT YOU CAN NOT EAT...so Democrats make natural fuels evil, destroy hundreds of thousands of acres and waste hundreds of billions of TAX dollars on FAILED wind and solar energy and replace them with FAILED FOOD ENERGY from corn and sugar leading to the starvation of millions in 3rd world countries. One thing though...now that we know liberals HATE minorities and 3rd world human "refuge"...like Margaret Sanger created Planned Parenthood to eliminate the "negro"...maybe, just maybe this is the Democrats plan, starve out the undesirables.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
woodsman, 10/31/2012 11:47:51 AM (No. 8976858)
It also ruins small engines
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Smart11344, 10/31/2012 11:57:31 AM (No. 8976882)
The EPA has completely spun out of control and needs to be reined in and their gestapo tactics stopped.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
OdinsAcolyte, 10/31/2012 12:31:18 PM (No. 8976974)
The by products are worse than petroleum combustion.
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Posted By: eagleblurst- 5/18/2013 9:10:11 AM
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Yesterday evening, the Independent Women´s Forum (the anti-NOW for conservative and libertarian females) hosted a panel discussion in downtown Washington on the topic of Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg´s runaway best-selling and highly controversial book Lean In. All four panelists were women, strung along a spectrum of political ideologies. The panel´s moderator was also a woman, and the overflow audience of about 230 people was nearly all women. Lean In, an extension of a TED talk that Sandberg gave in 2010, is a book that has managed to offend both the Left and Right, so its author
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The Perpetual Passion for Paper
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The American Magazine, by Edward Tenner
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Posted By: eagleblurst- 5/16/2013 10:35:29 AM
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Is paper obsolete? A Canadian who had a stash of new-style polymer $100 bills probably would disagree. He kept them in a coffee can near a radiator and they melted. Others have complained that Canada’s new individual notes stick together and resist folding. Canadian authorities insist problems are exaggerated and that the new plastic money is much harder to counterfeit than traditional rag-content paper. Still, it’s only a matter of time before counterfeiters imitate the technology, as they have with other safety features from watermarks to holograms, at least well enough to fool time-pressed cashiers.
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Could California Make a Comeback?
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The American Magazine, by Michael M. Rosen
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Posted By: eagleblurst- 5/15/2013 11:51:55 AM
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It’s getting depressingly repetitive to keep writing about California’s problems, which are legion and seemingly intractable. But this time, I’m pleased to report on an unexpected glimmer of hope that might, just might, cast a new light on the Golden State. First, a catalog of our recent woes, which, as ever, revolve around businesses and middle- and upper-income individuals decamping for other states that don’t suffer from California’s high-tax, high-regulation infection. William Ruger and Jason Sorens of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University observe in their new rankings, “Freedom in the 50 States,” that about 1.5 million Californians
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The Looming Student Loan Crisis
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The American Magazine, by Jackson Toby
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Posted By: eagleblurst- 5/14/2013 10:57:55 AM
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As the class of 2013 graduates, massive student-loan defaults loom. Too many loans were given to students without considering their prospects for finding jobs after graduating and being able to repay their debts. Why are many college graduates unable to find positions that enable them to pay off their student loans? Is it simply a sluggish economy that is not generating enough jobs? The official unemployment rate for people in their late teens and post-college years is around 16 percent — twice the national average — but factor in those who have taken lesser jobs than they expected or
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Batter Up
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American Magazine, by Joseph Epstein
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Baseball, the national pastime, may be past its time. Evidence suggests that the game’s popularity is slipping. “Sunday Night Football” remains the highest-rated television sports program, while the ratings for “Fox Saturday Baseball” continue to drop. Over the past few decades, the number of kids playing Little League baseball has steadily declined. Last year’s World Series attracted a television audience of only 12 percent of U.S. viewers, well down from the 50 percent who watched it 25 years ago. In the age of the Internet, computer games, cable, and on-demand television, well down from the
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Time for an Independent Kurdistan
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American Magazine, by Jay Hallen
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Posted By: eagleblurst- 5/10/2013 2:23:18 PM
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Recent events inside Iraq and Syria have made the moral and strategic case for an independent Kurdistan stronger than ever. Likewise, circumstances have shifted such that Turkish acceptance of a peaceful Kurdish state is increasingly evident. The United States would be wise to seize this historic opportunity and lend its diplomatic weight to the Kurdish cause. As Iraq heads toward an uncertain future, potentially under Iranian influence, a newly independent Kurdistan would overnight become one of the better U.S. allies in the Middle East. The country would not just be a strong partner on official levels…
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Money Printing Isn´t
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The American magazine, by Steve Conover
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Economic growth has been a persistent theme in the American magazine, and a new book from the AEI Press provides yet another explanation of why broadly shared economic growth deserves top priority in policy debates, as does removing barriers to that goal. One of those barriers is a too-narrow focus on tax cuts at the exclusion of investment spending, as AEI’s James Pethokoukis has explained. Another barrier is the tendency to confuse causes with effects in fiscal policy debates, the theme of my previous article. A similar confusion occurs in the debate over monetary policy.
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Officials on Benghazi:
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CBS News, by Sharyl Attkisson
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Posted By: Drive- 5/17/2013 3:02:24 PM
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Obama administration officials who were in key positions on Sept. 11, 2012, acknowledge that a range of mistakes were made the night of the attacks on the U.S. missions in Benghazi, and in messaging to Congress and the public in the aftermath. The officials spoke to CBS News in a series of interviews and communications under the condition of anonymity so that they could be more frank in their assessments. They do not all agree on the list of mistakes and it's important to note that they universally claim that any errors or missteps did not cost lives and reflect "incompetence rather than malice or cover up.
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Raindrops wash away
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New York Post, by Michael Goodwin
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/17/2013 5:28:00 AM
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Watching President Obama trying to dodge raindrops and responsibility yesterday reminded me of the moment when Dorothy pulls back the curtain and discovers that the Wizard of Oz is “just a man.” Stripped of his spell of mystery and power, the wizard is worse than mortal. He’s a fake. So it was with Obama in the Rose Garden. His performance was tired and trite, ordinary to the point of dull. His veneer of passion was so transparent that you could see him trying to summon his old-time magic by pushing the buttons
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Obama a new Nixon?
Oh, get serious.
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Washington Post, by Editorial
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/16/2013 10:54:51 PM
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STANDING BEFORE reporters Thursday, President Obama declined an invitation to compare the recent scandals weighing down his administration with those that forced President Nixon to resign in 1974. So allow us to do the work for him: There is no comparison. Nixon, in a series of crimes that collectively came to be known as Watergate, directed from the White House and Justice Department a concerted campaign against those he perceived as political enemies, in the process subverting the FBI, the IRS, other government agencies and the electoral process to his nefarious purposes. Mr. Obama has done nothing of the kind.
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Weiner’s Wife Didn’t Disclose Consulting
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New York Times, by Raymond Hernandez
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/17/2013 5:43:54 AM
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The State Department, under Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, created an arrangement for her longtime aide and confidante Huma Abedin to work for private clients as a consultant while serving as a top adviser in the department. Ms. Abedin did not disclose the arrangement — or how much income she earned — on her financial report. It requires officials to make public any significant sources of income. An adviser to Mrs. Clinton, Philippe Reines, said that Ms. Abedin was not obligated to do so. The disclosure of the agreement that Ms. Abedin made with the State Department comes as her husband,
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Watergate 2.0 -- why the
IRS scandal is far worse
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Fox News, by Matt Kibbe
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/18/2013 5:59:17 AM
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In the wake of one of the worst abuses of government power in recent history, many are rushing to frame the Internal Revenue Service scandal as simply an attack on conservative activists. That view risks creating a partisan political football and misses a fundamentally scarier abuse that exceeds the scandals of Watergate or any other prior government abuse. The IRS has admitted that since May 2010 it targeted grassroots-conservative organizations that had applied for tax-exempt status, unfairly subjecting them to rigorous scrutiny due to their political leanings. Such groups were told they were required to comply with IRS requests,
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When it rains, it pours: Ten
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Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/17/2013 4:52:42 AM
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President Obama’s press conference in the rain was not a success, if by success, his supporters would mean an event which convinces anyone who doesn’t work for him that he’s getting ahead of the scandal deluge. The sight of a Marine holding an umbrella over his head only added to the weirdness of the event. So what did we learn? 1. He has full confidence in Attorney General Eric Holder, the man who purportedly recused himself (whenever) without putting it in writing (whatever). When asked about the untrammeled snooping on Associated Press reporters and editors,
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Rep. Issa subpoenas Benghazi
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Julian Pecquet
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/17/2013 3:53:45 PM
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The lawmaker leading the charge to investigate the Benghazi terror attack on Friday subpoenaed the co-author of a report that slammed the State Department but didn´t interview Hillary Clinton. House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) formally demanded that retired ambassador Thomas Pickering submit to being deposed by the committee next Thursday. The subpoena comes in the wake of a series of acrimonious public exchanges this week between the two men. Issa didn´t issue a subpoena to former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen, who co-authored the Benghazi report with Pickering.
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