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I love it when the Washington Post exposes its biases. Juliet Eilperin has an article today on The Heartland Institute’s climate change conference in NYC. Heartland is cited as “a free-market think tank funded by energy and health-care corporations as well as conservative foundations and individuals …” She doesn’t mention that energy companies give less [...]

Dennis Leary used to joke “only in America would there be a guy who cocaine wasn’t good enough for.” I was reminded of that quote this morning when I read that the “Honorable” Todd Stroger rejected a sales tax increase because it wasn’t enough. A 200% increase in the sales tax, it seems, just isn’t [...]

We’re already broke and we haven’t even started trying to solve global warming yet!