Between Greenhouse Gas regulations through the Clean Air Act, Boiler Maximum Achievable Control Technology standards, and National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone and other criteria pollutants, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) onerous regulatory agenda was perceived as the greatest threat to business.
Archive for February, 2011
University police remove questioner of Islamic propaganda
The Muslim Students Association (MSA) at the University of Central Florida invites Jamal Badawi, listed as #20 on the Hamas conspirators list, and is welcomed at UCF. Police forcibly drag out attendee for simply asking a question. And to add insult to injury UCF is once again hosting another Hamas supporter Siraj Wahhaj this coming Friday.
Feds arrest Saudi man who tried to kill former president, three soldiers once based Abu Ghraib
A Saudi man has been busted for allegedly buying chemicals and equipment to make a bomb and researching US targets, including the Dallas home of former President George W. Bush, federal officials said today.
Most voters agree with union cutbacks in benefits and power
Two-thirds of likely voters agree that state legislatures have the authority to cut state employee salaries and 52% agree they can void collective bargaining agreements to reduce spending. – Zogby
Unions join in $30 million pushback
Funds will be dedicated to paid media, lobbying, work-site leaflets, and a range of other campaign items, including opposition research into groups that unions believe could be funding state efforts to restrict union rights, such as the Koch Brothers, and the Scaife and Walton Foundations. – WSJ
Union protest in Atlanta calls for violence and war in America
Unions, Democrats, socialists, and communists held a protest in front of the Georgia State Capitol. Signs said “ready for class war” and one speaker said ‘its time for us all to go to jail’. Another said “We should have known that the day after Obama got elected we were gonna have warfare in this country”. A speaker calls on the crowd to use the method used in Egypt.
Obama administration backs gay marrriage, calls DOMA unconstitutional
Attorney General Eric Holder said the Obama administration will no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act which passed with bi-partisn support in 1996 and defines marriage as between one man and one woman.
GOP RINOs Desert New Conservatives on Funding
The old Establishment GOP, mostly silent in recent weeks since the new upstart conservative rookies have been making good on their promises to cut big spending, suddenly found their voices and as usual, sided with the liberal big-spending Democrats.
Gadhafi Ordered Pan-Am Lockerbie Bombing
Libya’s ex-justice minister was quoted as telling a Swedish newspaper that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi personally ordered the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people in 1988. (Feb. 23)
Union thug smacks FreedomWorks videographer
FreedomWorks employee Tabitha Hale was filming a heated exchange with a union thug outside the FreedomWorks office when he got violent.