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AP IMPACT: Wind farms get pass on eagle deaths – AP News
By MB Snow at May 14, 2013 | 5:52 am
AP News | May 14, 2013 CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. (AP) — It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground. Killing these iconic birds is not just an irreplaceable loss for a vulnerable species. It's also ... Go To Article
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CALIFORNIA TAX REVENUE yields multibillion-dollar surplus – latimes
By MB Snow at May 3, 2013 | 1:25 am
By Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times, May 2, 2013, 7:30 p.m. SACRAMENTO — California has been flooded with revenue this tax season and is on track to finish the fiscal year with a surplus of billions of dollars, according to officials. State coffers contain about $4.5 billion more than expected in personal income tax payments. Nearly $2.8 billion of it arrived ... Go To Article
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JERRY BROWN OKs funds to seize guns held illegally – LATimes
By MB Snow at May 2, 2013 | 9:36 am
By Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times May 1, 2013, 9:05 p.m. -- SACRAMENTO — The state will send dozens of new agents into California neighborhoods this summer to confiscate nearly 40,000 handguns and assault rifles from people barred by law from owning firearms, officials said Wednesday. via Jerry Brown OKs funds to seize guns held illegally - ... Go To Article
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STEVEN HAYWARD:: California’s Latest Suicide Attempt | Power Line
By MB Snow at April 25, 2013 | 11:34 am
APRIL 25, 2013 BY STEVEN HAYWARD -- Modern liberalism is all about “rights”—rights to health care, right to a job, right to food, the right to more rights, and so forth. You know the drill. Of course, these kind of liberal “rights” aren’t rights at all property understood; they are benefits that require the state to tax or expropriate someone’s ... Go To Article
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CONN CARROLL: Fracking revolutionized American energy as green energy failed | WashEx
By MB Snow at April 14, 2013 | 8:00 am
April 13, 2013 - Conn Carroll It's hard to remember now that President Obama's agenda has degenerated into a sham gun control bill with loopholes big enough to drive a Mack truck through, but back in 2008, progressives had big dreams about how to reshape the entire U.S. economy, starting with the energy sector. For years, liberal efforts to unite around a green ... Go To Article
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STEVEN GREENHUT:: California’s Latest Environmental Boondoggle – Reason
By MB Snow at April 13, 2013 | 3:21 pm
Steven Greenhut | April 12, 2013 -- In Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov,” a priest recalls the words of a man who confessed: “The more I love mankind in general, the less I love people in particular.” We can all think of people like that – folks of varied political persuasions who rally to “save” humanity, but become so consumed by their cause that ... Go To Article
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CALIFORNIA:: A “Comeback” in Name Only – City Journal
By MB Snow at April 13, 2013 | 3:12 pm
The New York Times sees fit to print only good news about California. The New York Times loves California. Well, parts of it, anyway. Adam Nagourney, writing a few weeks after voters approved a temporary income- and sales-tax hike, reported that the state’s economic gloom was “starting to lift,” even before the tax had taken effect. Last month, Timothy Egan found ... Go To Article
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CA CRIME Skyrockets in Wake of Brown’s Prison Release Plan
By MB Snow at April 12, 2013 | 4:19 pm
In 2011, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law California Assembly Bill 109, a piece of legislation designed to relieve overcrowded prisons in accordance with a Supreme Court decision. AB 109 enshrined “realignment” into law – a plan to place supposedly “non-violent, non-serious, and non-sex offenders” in county jails rather than state prisons. In other words, ... Go To Article
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VDH’s Private Papers:: America in the Age of Myth – The Coastal Aristocrat
By MB Snow at April 7, 2013 | 12:18 am
April 6, 2013, by Victor Davis Hanson We live in a mythic age — but mythic in the sense of made-up. In the last thirty years, I have probably spoken 200 times at a coastal university of some sort, most of which were on the Eastern seaboard. I spent eight years at UC Santa Cruz and Stanford. I go to Palo Alto every week to work, and often lecture or teach in ... Go To Article
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STEVEN GREENHUT:: To the left, California is now the model for America
By MB Snow at April 5, 2013 | 10:08 am
By: Steven Greenhut 4/4/2013 01:34 PM -- SACRAMENTO – Ever since California’s voters approved the Prop. 30 sales- and income-tax increase on the November ballot, liberal commentators have been gloating about the resurgence of the Golden State after many years of predicted doom and gloom. Their evidence: Higher taxes seem to have cleared up the state’s budget ... Go To Article
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