Day: May 22, 2013

In Memory of Doors’ keyboard wizard Ray Manzarek who passed away earlier this week:

All these past months I have been on a tirade against the Keystone XL pipeline partly because the dang thing would run thousands of miles across the country…risking any number of fragile local eco-systems…with the resulting fuels exported around the world from the gulf refineries…with only a small group of…

In a short question and answer session with AARP, President Obama readily admits that the fuels refined from oil transported to the gulf through the Keystone XL pipeline will be exported…not used in the good ole USA and won’t hold down the prices of domestic fuels…no matter what the proponents…

Apparently the Constitution doesn’t matter much in Obama-land… The Obama administration has killed four U.S. citizens in drone strikes, the Justice Department said in new revelations Wednesday, ahead of President Obama’s major national security speech set for Thursday at the National Defense University in Washington. Attorney General Eric Holder’s letter,…

Alan Grayson: GOP’s Keystone XL Bill Is Unconstitutional Grayson: Keystone XL Pipeline is an Earmark | Congressman Alan Grayson This is so supremely beautiful I can hardly contain myself; James Wilson would be proud: http://graysonforcongress.com/sites/default/files/LettertoSpeaker5-21-13.pdf The shorthand version: The Northern Route Approval Act allows TransCanada a back-door approval process by…

Presidential Commission on Election Administration Launched | Support The Voter Without Ginsberg this initiative might have had a little promise.  A reminder on Ginsberg from Ari Berman: Obama Appoints a Controversial GOP Lawyer to His Voting Commission | The Nation

Taking on the Chamber with Operation Green Jobs | Shut the Chamber Operation Green Jobs – Cheri Honkala to march on US Chamber of Commerce | Green Party Watch This march is on and will be on for another two days. You can still join the virtual march here: Virtual…

A  peek at what the USTR will be doing for the next couple of days: USTR Press Week Ahead: May 20-24 | Office of the United States Trade Representative Why on earth would Ambassador Sapiro meet with the head of the Motion Picture Association? Er, well, as it happens, France…

The devastating tornado that struck Oklahoma registered 5 on the the Enhanced Fujita Scale, the strongest intensity rating. The scale runs from E1 (the lowest) to E5 (the highest). Winds for an E5 measure >200 mph. Dopplar radar measured actual wind speed at 318 mph. The Most Incredible Footage From…