Toxic Toledo
Western Lake Erie suffers toxic algae blooms this time of year. Last Saturday the stuff got into Toledo’s drinking water.Holy ToledoHere’s a Daily Beast essay by Toledo Tough, P.J. O’Rourke, embracing...
View ArticleDisney World Government
Departed Secret Service director Julia Pierson wanted the Secret Service to become more like Disney World – more welcoming. Omar Gonzales felt welcome enough to dash through the unlocked front door of...
View ArticleSilly Shirt Season
World leaders showed up at the APEC summit in China last week wearing silly shirts. It’s an annual tradition to distract us from the silly stuff they do.China is filled with with smog. You can taste...
View ArticleEPA Spill
EPA chief Gina McCarthy says the Animas River is cleaning itself. The EPA spilled 3 million gallons of toxic waste into the river when one of its contractors pulled the plug to the abandoned Gold King...
View ArticleGlobal Community versus Global Warming
The civilized world rebuked ISIS by agreeing to turn down the global thermostat.Al Gore was giddy. He proclaimed, “the global community is speaking with one voice”.Last time the “global community”...
View ArticleTapped Out In Flint
Flint Michigan has third world tap water.In a cost cutting move the City stopped buying water from Detroit and began building a pipeline to Lake Huron. Detroit cut Flint off before the pipeline was...
View ArticleEnd of Coal
Two stories lured me off from the campaign trail for today.Peabody Energy, the world’s biggest coal company, filed for bankruptcy. President Obama promised to drive the coal industry into bankruptcy....
View ArticleStanding Rock Unhappy Campers Threaten Missouri River Watershed
Standing Rock Pipeline protesters became the most immediate threat of pollution to the Missouri river they sought to protect. They had braved the North Dakota winter by camping at the construction site...
View ArticleThe 2000s are Calling, They Want Their Landlines Back
“I feel like it’s the early 2000s,” Transportation Secretary Buttigieg said in defense of the Biden administration’s EV policies which aim for 50% EV sales by 2030, “and I’m talking to some people who...
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