Hans Bader: Corporate welfare on a vast scale: Obama’s cap-and-trade scam threatens economy

One of Obama’s own advisers admits that the cap-and-trade energy-rationing scheme backed by the “Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats” would “have a trivially small effect on global warming while imposing substantial costs on all American households. And to get political support in key states, the legislation would abandon the auctioning of permits in favor of giving permits to selected corporations.”

Groundhog Day, plus 4 months, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula

I VISITED THE SOUTH SHORE OF LAKE SUPERIOR THE OTHER DAY. I was wearing a turtleneck, a coat, and mittens. Back down here in the banana belt of the U.P., we had frost on the windshields this week. This morning the temperature was in the HIGH 30s!

May second is the official U.P. Groundhog Day, but June second is the "second" Groundhog Day, in case our groundhog doesn't even "show" on May second. But this morning he saw his shadow, meaning six more weeks of the stuff anyway.

It's been such a cold spring that the Liberals would rather talk about religion or how to run a car company — ANYTHING BUT THE WEATHER!

George Allen returns, tries to counter Democrats on climate - NYTimes.com

Nearly three years after the "macaca" moment that pushed him from national politics, former Virginia governor and senator George Allen re-emerged today as leader of an effort to fight Democratic energy bills and push for coal, oil and natural gas production.