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Typical liberal logic: destroy the earth to save the earth. This report from PBS indicates the rare elements necessary to build eco-friendly cars are themselves an ecological disaster to mine. Read more »

A panel on Fox News points out that some of the economic groups common sense would say should have been at President Obama’s Jobs Summit were notably absent. Charles Krauthammer: “It’s the conceit of liberals in power to imagine that the government not only should, but can create jobs.” Read more »

Developers want to build a huge solar collection system in El Centro, California. Normally you would expect environmental extremists to love this idea; after all, it doesn’t involve any of those fossil fuels they find so distasteful. But no. Read more »

Why does the “mainstream” media freak out over a 26.5% electric rate increase to fund needed infrastructure, but yawns over a 41% cap and trade global warming tax? It can’t be media bias, can it? How does it feel to be manipulated by the media? Read more »

The best of the best from Dakota Voice last week, including: Cat Climbs Cops Head During Traffic Stop; President Obama’s Teleprompter Fails During Family Meal; Proof Global Warming has Been Fraud All Along?; Some Scientists ‘Baffled’ by Lack of Global Warming; Scientist Speaks in Rapid City on Stem Cell Research; President Obama Again Bows in Shanghai; and more! Read more »

So-called “green jobs” cost more to produce the same output, and cost twice as many jobs in real industry as are created. So why should we waste our time investing in such things to fight an imaginary problem that doesn’t exist in the first place? Read more »

Environmentalists shot themselves in the foot with their promotion of the cap and trade global warming tax. In their zeal to bring down a new and much-needed coal power plant, they also brought down the high capacity power lines that would have come with it–high capacity power lines needed to expand wind energy in South Dakota. Read more »

We are frequently told it is the fossil fuel industry that is full of greed. So is the “green” energy industry a paragon of virtue and altruism? The arrests of wind farm millionaires in Europe–who have ties to wind energy in the United States–for taxpayer funded fraud seems to tell another story. Read more »

Legislation will increase consumer prices, kill jobs, and put South Dakota at a competitive disadvantage with overseas countries
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 27, 2009
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Craig Dewey at 605-261-3842 or craigdewey@hotmail.com
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Sioux Falls, SD – On Tuesday, four gubernatorial candidates urged Senators Tim Johnson and John Thune to oppose Cap and Trade legislation in the US [...] Read more »

When a power company asks for a rate increase to cover rising production costs, this makes front-page above-the-fold news. When the federal government proposes taxing us nearly twice as much to solve a problem that doesn’t even exist, this merits barely a mention. What’s wrong with this picture? Read more »

Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer can call the Waxman-Markey carbon cap-and-tax bill to be introduced in the Senate anything they want. “Pollution reduction.” “Cap-and-trade.” “Carbon limits.” But, at the end of the day, it’s still a tax. And it’s still stealing Read more »

It is a blessing to see that NAE , World Relief and others are calling on the G20 to address the needs of the poor. Sadly, part of the agenda of the G20 is directly at odds with the needs of the poor and this agenda is supported by many evangelicals and the President of the NAE. This is the global warming agenda. Read more »

The South Dakota legislative Joint Transportation Committee is searching for ways to raise more money to maintain our state’s highways and bridges. Raising the gas tax by 10 cents has been discussed, as has a 1% boost in the excise tax. Which way will they go? Read more »

Hyperion moves one step closer to building the first new refinery in the United States in over 30 years. New refining capacity is badly needed, as our current capacity is practically maxed out. Read more »

Gordon Garnos shares some thoughts on health care reform and rationing, the South Dakota smoking ban, education funding, and ethanol blends. Read more »

As we get more time to examine the monster 1,400+ page cap and trade global warming tax bill passed by the House recently, more and more government intrusions and taxpayer thefts come to light. Here are some of the latest. Read more »

The South Dakota legislature is looking for a “painless” way to increase funding for the state’s highways and bridges. Is there a “painless” way to do that which doesn’t cause pain to the taxpayer and pain to the elected representative’s re-election chances? Don’t hold your breath. Read more »

An interview with Republican candidate for U.S. House of Representatives Thad Wasson from Piedmont, South Dakota, on the issues of cap and trade legislation, bailouts, hate crimes, the war on terrorism, Native American issues, the Constitution and more. Read more »

A new GAO report shows that not only will the cap and trade global warming tax raise our electric bills and the price of gas, destroy thousands of jobs, and threaten construction of new power plants, it will also severely handicap the ability of American businesses to be competitive in the global market. Read more »

As we get a chance to digest everything that was in the 1,400-page cap and trade global warming tax passed by the House last Friday, we find more and more assaults on American freedom and property rights, and more and more indecipherable garbage that may provide excuses to attack our liberties even more later on. Read more »

The environmental extremists at the EPA were probably hoping the report they hid which pointed to natural causes of global warming would just go away permanently after the cap and trade tax vote, but people found out about it and now Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) and Senator John Thune (R-SD) are calling for an investigation into the incident. Read more »