Monetary damages for poultry lawsuit thrown out

For those of you who are familiar this story, (you should be if you live in the Oklahoma/Arkansas border area) let me ask this question. Does it seem that the lawsuit that seeks monetary damages for pollution to the Illinois River watershed has been going on forever? Stop and think about it for a moment. [...]

Can Americans afford cap and trade?

Do you know of anyone who doesn’t believe in protecting the environment? If you can find someone who really believes it is okay to treat the Earth any old way, you will have found someone who is very lacking in their knowledge about the world in which we live. When I was a young boy, I thought nothing about some of the things I did, such as throwing glass bottles in my father’s stock pond (actually a small lake) and shooting them up with a .22 revolver.

Obama’s attack on Detroit

The news from the weekend and then on Monday has been dominated by the announcement by the Obama administration that there would be no more chances for General Motors and Chrysler. I have already raised the question and asked why the Detroit automakers didn’t deserve the same bailouts that have been extended to companies such [...]

Barack Obama plans to bankrupt the coal industry

The words in the title of this post sound like a bit of a stretch, don’t they? I mean, how can anyone believe that Barack Obama is really out to kill the coal industry? After all, he has tried his best to make sure the people of America and especially those in West Virginia, Virginia, [...]