The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Is Our Republicans Learning? Nope

Do you remember Obama Energy Secretary Steven Chu candidly telling the Wall Street Journal that "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe"?

There is no denying that the administration's objective is substantially higher energy prices, to coerce you out of your lifestyle and into the one they have in mind for you -- a Power Grab, as detailed in a very timely book now ready to be shipped to you on Monday, just as the bidding begins in the Senate, more on which book later -- and indeed absent substantial price hikes no global warming scheme would reduce emissions. But nothing ever proposed would detectably impact the climate. According to anyone.

[More dangerous than trace amounts of CO2?]: Chemicals used on iPhones led to paralysis.

Would you believe that building the touch screens on Apple’s iPhone and other popular high-tech toys is sickening and perhaps killing Chinese workers who put them together?

The electronics-assembly company Wintek has admitted that more than 60 workers were sickened by exposure to n-hexane exposure, a highly toxic solvent used to clean the electronic touch screens.

Big Coal on Capitol Hill: Liveblogging Today's House Hearing

10:58am - Rep. Inslee objects to Mike Carey's comment that President Obama & Congressional Democrats are "waging a war on coal." Rep. Inslee says when he thinks about threats to coral reefs, Glacier National Park & the Pacific Northwest's salmon, he thinks about how these drastic changes could occur during his own grandson's lifetime thanks to carbon emissions from coal. "If there's a war being waged here, it's a war on our grandkids."

Twitter / Kate Sheppard

Sensenbrenner: under cap and tax, "the jobs won't be green, however, they'll be red." (i.e., Chinese, or COMMIE if you prefer)

Twitter / Kate Sheppard

Markey: "I ask that you cease efforts to deny the science of global warming and stop spending millions of dollars in misleading the public."