Cold wave hits sugar beets in Park County | Wyoming

The recent cold snap in which temperatures plunged to 90-year record lows prompted the county commissioners on Tuesday to declare Park County an agricultural disaster area for sugar beets.

Following a presentation by Klodette Stroh of Powell, national sugar chairman for Women Involved in Farm Economics (WIFE), the commissioners unanimously agreed to the declaration.

Stroh estimated the crop loss in this area due to the freeze at about $12 million.

Phillips tapped to help White House on climate bill - Montana

On Thursday, the Pew Research Center released a poll showing that a vast majority of Americans don’t believe human-made carbon emitted from automobiles and coal-fired power plants is causing the Earth to warm.

The poll shows that the country needs to be “re-educated” about the issue, Phillips said.

“I would have naively assumed we had a growing awareness that emission of CO2 is a problem,” he said. “Now I know that is not a good assumption. We need to go back to step one: Alerting people about climate change.”

Why fund wars with debt, but not health care? - Washington Post

If Mr. Obama were to propose offsetting the cost of additional troops in Afghanistan with a gasoline or carbon tax, we would support it.

[Do liberals see climate swindle money as a miraculous "loaves and fishes" thing, where the same dollar could be spent over and over and over?]

The biblical account of the feeding of the five thousand with loaves and fishes is one of the few stories that are recounted by all four of the Gospel writers. Each of the accounts contains a verse similar to this one found in the Book of Matthew: "They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children" (Matthew 14:20-21).