PA Pundits - International

• Renewable Power Australia – What Has This Green Madness Cost Us?
  By Andrew Bolt ~ June, 2011 – the Prime Minister announces her latest green scheme: The Federal Government will provide more than three quarters of a billion dollars to help build two of the largest solar power stations in the world… Solar Dawn and Moree Solar Farm have been selected as the two successful consortiums [...]
  
  
• Presidents’ Day Humor
  Presidents’ Day I was eating lunch with my 6-year-old and I asked her, “What is the 20th of February?” She answered, “Presidents’ Day!” I asked her: “What does Presidents’ Day mean?” and I waited for something about Washington or Lincoln. She replied, “Presidents’ Day is when President Obama steps out of the White House, and [...]
  
  
• I’m Outta Here
  By Alan Caruba ~ Those who follow politics more intently than I will no doubt be able to identify why, specifically, various incumbent Senators and Representatives have decided not to run for office in the 2012 elections, but as of this writing 43 incumbents have made it known they will not seek reelection. Among the [...]
  
  
• A Half-Million-Dollar, Taxpayer-Funded Thermometer?
  By Mike Brownfield and Ryan McNulty ~ Wonder if it’s too hot to go outside at your workplace? Don’t bother checking the thermometer or stepping outside—the federal government has the answer for you. And it’s only costing taxpayers $643,997.60. Josh Peterson of the Daily Caller reports that the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health [...]
  
  
• NewsBusted – 12-038 – Video
  Topics in today’s show: – The New York Giants win Super Bowl XLVI. – Americans enjoyed Super Bowl Sunday food not recommended by some. – President Obama mistakenly claims that he created 22 million jobs. – The Susan G. Komen Cancer Research Foundation says it may withhold funds from Planned Parenthood. – A painting showing [...]
  
  
• A Sceptics’ Crime Is A Warmist’s Virtue
  By Andrew Bolt ~ Sierra Club attacks: Climate Skeptic: Paid for By Big Oil New information has revealed that Dr. Pat Michaels, a climate skeptic, is funded by the oil industry.  Sierra Club accepts: The Sierra Club disclosed Thursday that it received over $26 million from natural-gas giant Chesapeake Energy Corp. between 2007 and 2010 [...]
  
  
• Planned Parenthood Forces Komen’s Collapse on Funding + More
  The Patriot Post  Brief   The Foundation “The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.” –James Madison Essential Liberty “The Susan G. Komen foundation succumbed [Friday] to a relentless barrage of political bullying, a fact that is not only sad news for those who cherish the sanctity and dignity of [...]
  
  
• Not If, But When
  By Alan Caruba ~ The Jewish sage, Hillel, said, “In a place where there are no men, strive to be a man.” This has been interpreted to mean that it is an obligation to stand against evil, even if others courage deserts them. One doesn’t have to be a historian, a military strategist, a biblical [...]
  
  
• Agenda-Driven “Science” at EPA
  By Willie Soon and Paul Driessen ~ In December 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency released new Clean Air Act “National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants.” Once again, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson touted the supposedly huge benefits of controlling emissions of mercury (Hg) and other air toxics from U.S. coal- and oil-fired power plants (or [...]
  
  
• Chart of the Week: Obama’s Abuse of FEMA Declarations
  By Rob Bluey ~ President Obama has used his executive power in many ways to expand the role of government. But there’s one area that stands out: Obama’s frequent and repeated use of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to issue emergency and disaster declarations. (Click on the image to open it in a new and [...]
  
  
• Australian Politics – Is Bob Brown Sexist By Defending Gillard Like This?
  By Andrew Bolt ~ Greens leader Bob Brown makes one of the silliest interventions yet in Labor’s leadership battle in a desperate bid to preserve his meal ticket: GREENS leader Bob Brown says criticism of Julia Gillard is sexist and unfair … “Quite a bit of the criticism is sexist and unfair and unrelenting and [...]
  
  
• Sunday Music – Six Months In A Leaky Boat
  Today’s music video is ‘Six Months In A Leaky Boat’ from the New Zealand and Australian band Split Enz. This video was posted to You Tube by nzoz1982 As Popular Music started to become the huge phenomenon it became in the 60′s, when an Australian act, be it a solo artist or a band made [...]
  
  
• The Looney Tunes Version of the GOP Campaigns
  By Alan Caruba ~ I have begun to think of the Republican campaign as a series of Looney Tunes cartoons being replayed again and again. They are filled with a combination of laughs and the fantastical, self-defeating violence of Wily Coyote trying to catch the Roadrunner As the primary season moves along, I sometimes think [...]
  
  
• Read This, Brian Williams and NBC: Deadly, Record-Breaking Cold Winter in Eastern Europe
  By Tom Blumer ~ On Wednesday, Kyle Drennen at NewsBusters noted how NBC news anchor Brian Williams, chief environmental correspondent Anne Thompson, and old reliable global warming proponent Dr. Gerald Meehl of the National Center for Atmospheric Research took advantage of this year’s mild winter in the lower 48 U.S. states as an excuse to [...]
  
  
• Renewable Power Australia – Can Wind Power Make 20% By 2020?
  Australia has the aspiration to be able to provide 20% of all its electrical power from renewable sources, and to achieve this by 2020. Can something like this actually be achieved? While it may be a possibility, the most probable result is that it will not be achieved. This is something that can actually be [...]
  
  

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