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[Daily Caller] Let's face it. The veto of Keystone XL was political, nothing more, nothing less. It was a childish attempt at revenge; the equivalent of taking one's ball and going home. The Sohioan magazine, Oct 1977, Trans-Alaskan Pipeline, and a silent tribute to the thousands of hard working men and women [many of them gone now] who had the vision and determination to see it built. I salute them, great Americans all. If this sounds conspiratorial at all, consider a recent study from Reuters. The international news agency found that from 2009-2013, during the dog days of the recession, red state federal funding fell by 40 percent while blue state funding fell only 22.5 percent. Coincidence? Perhaps, but doubtful given the partisanship of this administration.
As a thought experiment, let's suppose for a moment that Keystone XL ran through Illinois or California, states that favor Obama and Obama favors. Is it realistic in any way to assume that Obama would deny his home state, one of the most Democratic in the country, 40,000 jobs? Or in California, where the Obama administration issued cushy green energy loans to Solyndra, a company connected to Nancy Pelosi's brother-in-law?
Now, consider South Carolina, a red state if there ever was one and the home of a shiny new Boeing manufacturing plant sued by the National Labor Relations Board, a body stacked with Obama appointees. First barrel of oil through the Trans-Alaskan pumped in 1977. Impact on environment, absolutely minimal. Link
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Champ's minders and PR apparatus covet all forms of controversy. Constantly keeping the pot stirred serves to effectively mask former and future misdeeds.
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Besoeker, lots of environmental impact from TAPS; the caribou love it. And bad impact too, though indirect - associated with the Exxon Valdez spill. a Keystone alternative, to a West Coast, foggy, rocky export port, stands to repeat that disaster.
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Unless you simply want to leave it in the ground, I believe a cost/risk benefit analysis would show pipelines and ocean going vessels are much safer than railroad tank cars. Anecdotal yes, but I'd go with a pipeline over rail.
Gov. Cuomo is conducting an early spring cleaning of Albany's e-mails ‐ all of them, right down to cyber bedrock.
But is this a big deal? If you can't trust Uncle Andrew, who can you trust? Baracky's IRS? DOJ, EPA?
Never mind that US Attorney Preet Bharara ‐ fresh from taking down Sheldon Silver ‐ seems to be breathing right down the gubernatorial neck. "Stay tuned," the prosecutor warned ‐ with both eyes fixed firmly on Andrew.
Never mind that Cuomo's former chief of staff, Larry Schwartz, who left as the noose was tightening around Silver's neck, now can't find a job ‐ reportedly because of Bharara's continuing probe.
Never mind that state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman just opened an inquiry into Cuomo's casino-siting commission. Oops
And never mind that an administration that has cut as many ethical corners as this one ‐ especially regarding campaign-finance regulations and related transgressions ‐ long ago forfeited all presumption to the public's trust.
What's important is that Cuomo's cyber scrubbers soon will have vaporized all e-mail generated by state government that's more than three months old ‐ eradicating evidence of, well, who knows what.
New Yorkers will never know. blissfully unaware
Those who trusted Andrew Cuomo no longer have reason to. Those who didn't have had their worst suspicions confirmed. Trust Cuomo? What fool does that?
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American writer Avijit Roy was hacked to death on the street, his wife who was with him was also attacked when she tried to defend him. She survived. Ansar Bangla, an Islamist group, has claimed responsibility. Roy had written critically of Islamic radicals and had been on their hit list for years.
QUESTION: ‐ does the â is the Administration at a point where it can ascribe any kind of motive to this? Do you believe that it was anything more than just a murder? It certainly seems that the circumstances surrounding it would indicate that it is.
MS. PSAKI: We don't have more information at this point. We, of course, will provide consular assistance as is appropriate. We're also â stand ready to assist in the investigation if asked. Clearly, we know his background, which was why I outlined it, but don't have anything to ascribe in terms of a motive in this case. Possibly ...cuz of Bibi's speech? You've blamed everything else on that
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[Kanuk Free Press] During the National Prayer Breakfast earlier thislast month, U.S. President Obama tried to shield Islam from criticism by depicting Christianity as equally violent and intolerant (via comments about crusades, inquisitions, and "high horses"). Much lesser known is that he also tried to shield Islam by invoking Christian virtues.
In many ways, his comments on "humility" might be the strangest of his entire speech--to the point that Obama himself got visibly confused by his own lack of coherency and even admitted it. There is no "confusion," only complicity.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Gov. Cuomo is conducting an early spring cleaning of Albany's e-mails ‐ all of them, right down to cyber bedrock.
[Kanuk Free Press] During the National Prayer Breakfast earlier 
