Rick Perry
Warming Planet Losing Its Tree Cover, Political Defenders
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
It's all related, folks. Whether
disappearing forests or
polar ice, the trend is definitely in the wrong direction, and it doesn't help to have deniers and oil industry errand boys like Rick Perry still blathering on about no scientific consensus.
even as his drought-ravaged state burns.
Or Scott Walker pushing anew under the misleading heading of "job-creation" for easier permissions to fill the state's wetlands.
These one-dimensional leaders are wrong, at public expense, but, t may be too late to turn it around.
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
Texas Gov. and GOP Presidential candidate Rick Perry urges President Barack Obama t
o suspend clean air regulations that will help the country recover from hazardous air pollution to which Texas contributes disproportionately.
The new clean air rules are designed to significantly reduce smog and soot pollution by requiring 27 states, including Texas, to decrease smokestack emissions.
The new guidelines apply to sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions, which mostly come from coal-fired plants.
Texas has 19 coal-fired power plants -- more than any other state -- and plans to build nine more. It is one of the few states still adding coal-fired plants and releases more air pollutants than any other state. Most other states are building generation plants that use sources other than coal, particularly natural gas.
Clearly, Perry has failed to manage the issue in his own state, which also happens to be sitting on 30% of the country's supply of cleaner-burning natural gas, making it the nation;
Rick Perry Becomes Frank Costanza
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
On "Seinfeld," Frank Costanza explained that he preferred
his bare Festivus pole to the traditional Christmas tree in part because he found tinsel "distracting."
Not that there's anything wrong with it, but Rick Perry, an actual major state governor and Republican Presidential candidate, has come out against
"pastels."
Look for him next week to campaign against trapezoids, foods that are not available in nuggets and the letter "t."
The Scott Walker-Paul Ryan-Rick Perry tax-cut mania, destroyed in two paragraphs
Original Author:
<a href="/user/man-mke" title="View user profile.">Man MKE</a>
GranholmFormer Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm puts the lie to the current Republican mantra that tax cuts and smaller government will boost the economy. Granholm, a Democrat, faced an economic crisis in Michigan that at one point in the Great Recession pushed official unemployment to 20 percent.She explained to Salon.com's Andrew Leonard why Michigan's experiment with tax cuts and smaller government was a resounding failure. In her new book on fixing the economy:
Death Certificates For The Executed Read "Homicide"
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
Just so you know, capital punishment is a nice way of say "killing," plain and simple, and I don't care if the executed person was
Troy Davis in Georgia or Lawrence Brewer, the white supremacist in the
Texas dragging death of James Byrd, Jr.
State killing is state killing. Wrong is wrong.
It's brutal, ugly,
solves nothing, and deters no one.
And no one anywhere is any safer now than they were yesterday.
I had a bit more to say about this a few years ago, after having witnessed an execution in Texas - - George W. Bush's 1st, in 1995 - - and long before Rick Perry started to run up his bigger Texas execution toll, now numbering 244.
The Capital Times
© Copyright 2006, Madison Newspapers, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, October 07, 2006
SECTION: EDITORIAL
PAGE: A9
BYLINE: James Rowen
TEXAS-STYLE JUSTICE LOOMS IN STATE VOTE
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