EPA Tyrants - Don't Mess With Texas!

The latest salvo in the war against Federal tyranny
Quoting Marlo Lewis at OpenMarket.org:

“In a blistering letter published earlier in the week, the head of Texas’s environmental agency and the State’s attorney general told the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): ‘Texas has neither the authority nor the intention of interpreting, ignoring, or amending its laws in order to compel the permitting of greenhouse gas regulations.’

The letter, by Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Chairman Bryan Shaw and Attorney General Gregg Abbott, comes hard on heels of EPA’s denial of 10 petitions (including one from the State of Texas) to reconsider EPA’s endangerment rule. That rule — the agency’s response to the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in Massachusetts v. EPA – is both trigger and precedent for potentially dramatic and far-reaching Clean Air Act restrictions on fossil energy production and use.”

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Time For a Divorce

Quoting David Harsanyi at Townhall.com:

“In the 1500s, a pestering theologian instituted something called the Marriage Ordinance in Geneva, which made ‘state registration and church consecration’ a dual requirement of matrimony.

We have yet to get over this mistake. But isn't it about time we freed marriage from the state?

Imagine if government had no interest in the definition of marriage. Individuals could commit to each other, head to the local priest or rabbi or shaman -- or no one at all -- and enter into contractual agreements, call their blissful union whatever they felt it should be called and go about the business of their lives…

As the debate stands now, we have two activist groups trying to force their own ethical construction of marriage on the rest of us. And to enforce it, they have been using the power of the state -- one via majority rule and the other using the judiciary (subject to change with the vagaries of public opinion)…

In our Utopian vision, no group is empowered to dictate what marriage should mean to another. And one of the great perks would be the end of this debate.”

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Ed Morrissey at HotAir.com offered this commentary:

“[W]hile I don’t think that this is an easy path to adopt, it’s going to be the eventual solution. Not only does it take government out of people’s private lives, it also means an end to a divisive and essentially meaningless debate — and it protects houses of faith and ends a potential government interference in matters of religion.”

Click here for the rest of Ed’s commentary.
We ALL need to stop looking to big government for “solutions”!
Invariably, today’s “solution” becomes tomorrow’s nightmare!

Cartoon of the Day 8/7/10

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With Obama’s absurd “Recovery Summer” tour, he and his fellow Dims seem to be the only living things in the known universe which STILL fail to comprehend the enormity of their epic economic failure.

Just yesterday, we learned that unemployment REMAINS at 9.5% and ANOTHER 131,000 jobs were LOST!

John Stossel Explores Threats to our Freedom

The Market Value of Leftist Propaganda is $1

Various sources confirm that we now know the market value of Leftist propaganda (Newsweek style) -- $1.

$1 was the sum total of what Sidney Harman paid to purchase Newsweek magazine.

Click the image & read one account:
In truth, $1 is a price artificially inflated by the totalitarian zeal of a one foot in the grave Limo-Liberal “Progressive” buyer who “served” in the Jimmy Carter administration.

Another Rat Abandons the USS Obama

White House Budget Director Peter Orszag has already resigned. Rahm Emanuel is expected to be leaving.

Now, quoting a reliable source:

“Christina Romer, Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors Chair, has leaped from the breached and listing USS (r) Obumbles.”

Click here to hear the neo-Socialist Berkeley bimbo in her own absurd words.

With his equally absurd “Recovery Summer” tour, Obama seems to be the only living thing in the known universe which STILL fails to comprehend the enormity of his epic economic failure.

Just today, we learned that unemployment REMAINS at 9.5% and ANOTHER 131,000 jobs were LOST!

Dims, like all other Socialists, NEVER LEARN!

Only the Ignorant Love a Free Lunch

Quoting Rasmussen Reports:

“48% of Americans like the idea of tax credits for alternative energy cars…

But support drops dramatically when adults are told that the tax credits could cost taxpayers up to $2 billion over the next 10 years. Then just 27% support the credits”

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Ethanol is a GREAT example demonstrating why
government should NEVER pick winners & losers.