"He's a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys; he may look dumb but that's just a disguise; he's a mastermind in the ways of espionage." Charlie Daniels, "Uneasy Rider" obama - TT's Lost in Tokyo

Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize; "What For?" asks green group by TokyoTom

Pres. Obama has apparently been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this morning " for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples, " but there appears to be a few on the left who feel that the award...

Obama uses climate change concerns to mandate a slimming of government energy use and carbon footprint by TokyoTom

I`d like to see how conservatives can figure out how to bitch about Obama`s new executive order . From WaPo on Monday (Juliet Eilerin) The federal government will require each agency to measure its greenhouse-gas emissions for the first time and set targets...

Steve Milloy criticizes GE’s "smart-meter profiteering" via green mandates, but ignores state grants of "public utility" monopolies by TokyoTom

 

 

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Obama-Man Can! Laugh (and cry) at this spoof by Canadian comedian Greg Morton by TokyoTom

A buddy sent me this and I just had to pass it on:
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Executive compensation: Robert Wenzel sees a "United States of Obama"; I see people too frazzled to give a screwdriver to a those who only have a hammer by TokyoTom

Robert Wenzel has a couple of posts up on his blog that rightly ring alarm bells about the plans of the Obama administration to seek legislative changes that would allow regulators to oversee executive compensation (1) in the financial sector ("...
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Bob Murphy, the Heritage Foundation and "green jobs" - ignore coal! We only pay attention to rent-seeking from greens/the left by TokyoTom

Bob Murphy has recently noted that he is busy at work, doing yeoman`s work in fighting the good battle against stupid "green" or "clean" jobs that the Obama administration and some enviros are pushing. This is fine as far as it goes...
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A note to the American Conservative Union on "Obama's Political Prosecutions of Opponents" by TokyoTom

Although Pres. Obama had earlier indicated he had no intention or interest in pursuing criminal or other public investigations into possible criminal wrong-doing in connection with acts of torture auuthorized by the Bush administration , Obama is now...
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Who are the misanthropes - "Malthusians" or those who hate them? Rob Bradley and others resist good faith engagement despite obvious institutional failures/absence of property rights by TokyoTom

In a series of posts at the self-declared "free market" blog of the fossil-fuel energy industry funded Institute for Energy Research , energy expert Rob Bradley (former Ken Lay speechwriter and Enron policy wonk) explores his dark forebodings...
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Empowering power consumers: Google beta tests software to give consumers real-time info by TokyoTom

"If you cannot measure it; You cannot improve it." -- Lord Kelvin Consistent with its mission to "organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful," Google , whose climate change-related efforts...
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Update from Rob Bradley: My BOOKS prove that I'm a free-marketer! (That's why I'm free to boost fossil fuels and bash enviros on my blogs!) by TokyoTom

I noted in a previous post that Rob Bradley , CEO of the Institute for Energy Research and lead blogger at MasterResource , has cheered on big coal and bashed what he calls "Malthusian anti-energy crusaders", but ignoring while he does so the...
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Rob Bradley cheers on coal, but are all those who want to better manage commons and environmental impacts "Malthusian" idiots, or only in the case of coal? by TokyoTom

Rob Bradley has a new post up at MasterResource , cheering on big (and now "clean") coal, which has apparently received assurances from the Obama administration - after being bad-mouthed by NASA scientist Jim Hansen , Steven Chu and Obama himself...
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It's finally beginning to look alot like Fitzmas - for corrupt Dems: Illinois Gov. Blagojevich arrested for trying to auction Obama's Senate seat by TokyoTom

US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald , who disappointed by bagging only Cheney 's assistant Scooter Libby in connection with the White House planned unmasking of CIA agent Valerie Plame , is in the news again - this time to the cheers of Republicans - as...
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Beggar's Banquet: a note on bailouts to the NYT's Tim Egan by TokyoTom

Timothy Egan , reporter, acclaimed book author and current columnist at the New York Times , posted an honest and understandably confused piece last week , in which he called for a temporary end to the frenzy of Bush-era socializations and wealth-transfers...
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Fein on Iraq: Obama should unilaterally limit Presidential discretion by rejecting the AUMF by TokyoTom

Good idea, Bruce , but do you really expect Obama to bite, and thereby drastically reduce his own discretion? Obama already has George W. Bush and Congress to blame for the war - what important advantage does he gain by claiming the AUMF was an unconstitutional...
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