Hot Climates May Create Sluggish Economies : NPR

Whatever the cause, there are some countries that buck the trend. Singapore is just about on the equator and has a strong economy. Indonesia is growing fast.

But now her gases smell sweeter | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

“Before” doesn’’t quite seem the right word, actually. Even now, Hall can’t quit her nasty habit of hedonistically gassing on at high altitude:

Waxman-Markey: An Exercise in Unreality — MasterResource

Unfortunately, the Senate is using Waxman-Markey as its launching point for crafting their own legislation. As Steve Hayward jokes, given that Waxman-Markey gives away 85% of the emission permits, and given that the Senate hasn’t started its own horse-trading and buy-offs yet, by the time this is all done, the government might give away 150% of the the available permits.

The devil is in the details, as it is often said. Waxman-Markey’s devil is monstrously big, and it begins qualitatively by setting up the machinery of control that would politicize energy for an open-ended future. Watering down a bad bill is not good enough.

American Thinker: My turn coat GOP congressman announces for Senate

Kirk is presently on a marathon town meeting cycle trying to justify his radical and unjustified "yes" vote after being brutally raked over the coal for his vote and even booed while participating in 4th of July parades. Kirk is trying to appease his constituents by telling them that "cap and trade" would only cost 10th District voters $117 or so per month, and because he knew the bill would die in the Senate, it did no harm for him to vote for it. Recently Kirk has made attempts to weasel out of his vote by informing some constituents that his "yes" vote on Waxman-Markey was the "worst" vote he had ever made.