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Today, the American Clean Energy and Security Act — the most expansive legislation aimed at curbing global warming ever introduced in Congress — won approval from the House Energy and Commerce Committee 33-to-25, with Democrats and Republicans splitting along party lines. The win closely follows president Barack Obama’s call for a... (Read more)

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How appropriate that the poster persons for this legislation are Pelosi and Waxman. What better example of misguided government encroachment leading to economic disaster than California. They now lead the country, in the wrong direction, in unemployment and people fleeing a once prosperous state. And our country's governmental leaders want to go this direction because Al Gore and other politicians (non-scientists) believe in man-made global warming? And we can correct this by reducing carbon dioxide (the air that we exhale)?

What in the world is wrong? Are we suicidal?

If we do not respond to our legislators regarding the fallacy of this direction, we will be digging a hole that we may never escape.


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