January 2011 Blog Posts (43)

In my continuing mission to educate Illinois legislators about The Zion Station, on the opening day of the IL General Assembly I shared Part  Three with them, which offer insight into how the energy situtation back in 1998 when Zion was shuttered is not the same as it is today.

Later in the day I received news from "Crain's Chicago Business" that the state Senate narrowly passed legislation easing the way for the construction…

Publius-Huldah has written another masterpiece "Judicial Abuse of the Fourteenth Amendment: Abortion, Sexual Orientation & Gay Marriage". I decided late last night that this would be the subject I would write about today. Then I read one more article at American Thinker that changed my mind and I was up most of the night writing on a…

It didn't take any time at all.  " Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.),pounced on the shooting massacre in Tucson, Ariz., Sunday, promising to introduce legislation as soon as Monday targeting the high-capacity ammunition clip the gunman used." Here's the source. And, "Rep. Robert Brady (D-Pa.) reportedly plans to introduce legislation that would make it a federal crime to use language or symbols that could be perceived as…

I surrender. The last thing I wanted to talk about today was anything that could be remotely related to the Tucson tragedy. I went to all my usual sources, both conservative and liberal, looking for the inspiration that I can normally  find with only a little effort for a subject to write about in my blog. Apparently, the only subject anyone is talking about is the Tucson tragedy. So who am I to buck the trend.

Surely as night follows day, there will be…

 This is journalism?  What kind of softball set up is "What is this about?"  Was the question referring to the reading of the Constitution on the floor of the people's house?  Or ,as a dimly lit clown, Joy…

Sent to selected Illinois Republican legislators in both the House and the Senate on Thursday, January 6th, 2011.

Part two:  Framing an argument to refurbish and restart the Dual Zion Nuclear Plant…

That's a pretty long title, isn't it? I suppose that if I had a more creative mind I could have come up with something shorter. But for now, this title will have to do.

Two recent articles by Thomas Sowell caught my attention and caused me to think about vote-buying, the price of success, and the killing of the golden goose. If any of you are not familiar with the works of Thomas Sowell, you need to visit his Website and read his articles at your leisure.…

In the first step in an FERC scheme to socialize transmission costs nationwide to subsidize wind and solar power the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is forcing states to pay for $20 billion in new transmission lines needed for wind power.

The Wall Street Journal points out that Michigan will receive no benefits from the wind surtax but will have to pay as…

Two different takes on the hot issue of Islam and Islamophobia came out of Human Events yesterday. The first is an article by Robert Spencer which asks the question "Are Muslims Being Victimized in America Today?". It seems that Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization often linked to Hamas. Mr. Spencer fills us in:

Attacks on the American Muslim…

During the Christmas media lull, the EPA announced that it had fined a Colorado company $230,000 for improperly

distributing pesticides. The EPA is tasked with ensuring that people are safe

from dangerous chemicals and pollution, so a company that ignores the importance

of pesticide regulations should be punished, right? Well, in this instance, the

‘pesticide’ is a pair…

Last Friday, I read an article in the Washing ton Post by C. Boyden Grey on Dodd-Frank financial reform law that was passed in June. Admittedly I didn't know a whole lot about the Dodd-Frank legislation but I assumed that if it were written by Dodd and Frank, there couldn't be much good in it.

 Mr. Grey sees Dodd-Frank as a real threat to the constitution. If…