It's official: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, at long last, published its rule to limit carbon emissions from new power plants. The proposed rule appeared Wednesday in the Federal Register, four months after EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy announced it back in September. The regulation...
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Shorter syndicated columnist William F. George: If you look at no other data but the number one selling vehicle in America, you can sustain the idea that Americans are driving.
Sometimes the jokes just write themselves: Dan Le Batard won’t be voting in future elections for baseball’s Hall of Fame — either on his own, or as proxy for Deadspin.
The menace of political correctness continues in the Age of Obama. Apparently, Microraptor and and Archaeopteryx were also black, or partly black. This is some bullshit. Fucking Microraptor didn't even exist when I was a kid. Liberal paleontologists are just making stuff up now. Time...
Gov. Christie: "All right, this one time I'll let you ask about my affairs, one last time." Press: "Is it true, Chris?" Gov. Christie: "No. It was a traffic study.".
Some Thursday links... Every time I read an article about economic inequality at Rolling Stone, I find the comment section is absolutely inundated with wingnuts. It’s the same in this.
Shorter James Taranto: "If fathers don't participate in raising children, we can safely blame women and their highly regrettable reproductive rights."
But it was worth it -- to inflict retaliation on a politician who refused to grant you an irrelevant endorsement! Emergency responders were delayed in attending to four medical situations.
Well, at least good for the three very deserving players who got in. The fourth deserving player who didn't get in by two votes in part because of voters with.
Arguments that the ACA is fundamentally a "Republican" proposal have three potential ways to go. One is to argue that the ACA was based on the Heritage plan for health care reform. This plan does quite accurately reflect Republican priorities on health care, which makes...
I haven't written about the forced traffic jams in Fort Lee because, while the speculation that it was done for political revenge against Fort Lee's anti-Christie mayor was plausible there.
The greatest war in American history turns 50 today. That's the War on Poverty. Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the House and Senate, my fellow Americans: I will be.