California Gives the Lie to Obama’s Clean Energy Promises
Why bother editorializing when — as lawyers and Romans would say — Res ipsa loquitur. From President Obama’s Oval Office address last night: When I was a candidate for this office, I laid out a set of...
View ArticleVideo: The Green Bailout
In this week’s Freedom Minute, CFIF’s Renee Giachino lambasts the Obama Administration and Congressional leadership for their shameless exploitation of the oil spill disaster in the Gulf to advance...
View ArticleThe Only Problem with Green Jobs is that they Don’t Exist
Senik’s Law of Subsidies: Subsidizing any industry into existence requires destroying its more efficient competitors. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the story of green jobs. Luckily, the Obama...
View ArticleRamirez Cartoon: Obama’s Green Economy
Below is one of the latest cartoons from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Ramirez. View more of Michael Ramirez’s cartoons on CFIF’s website here.
View ArticleUnions, Environmentalists at War over EPA Regulations
Since at least the FDR era, the Democratic Party has served as an umbrella for a motley coalition of special interest groups that have only one thing in common: demanding action from government. Most...
View Article$20 Million Obama “Green Jobs” Program Creates Work for 14 in Seattle
In the Obama era, the news on any given day seems seems like a real-time seminar on the disutility of Keynesian economics and “green energy” faddishness. The latest such entry comes from KOMO-TV news...
View ArticleFBI Raids Obama Green Jobs Company
There’s been quite a bit of media buzz surrounding the recently announced bankruptcy of Solyndra, the California solar panel company that couldn’t turn a profit even after a $535 million loan from the...
View ArticleThe Case for Green Jobs: America Should be More Like Bankrupt Countries
At a time when Spain is in the news because it lingers on the edge of a full-blown economic meltdown, it’s instructive to remember that this is the country that’s supposed to be the model for the green...
View ArticleBLS: “Green Jobs” Include Oil Lobbyists, Bus Drivers
Thanks to The Daily Caller’s Nicholas Ballasy for posting an extended exchange between House oversight committee chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and two officials from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on...
View ArticleFederal Government Creating Green Jobs … at $12 Million a Pop
Further evidence that the Obama Administration’s green jobs fetish defies all logic, economic or otherwise, comes from this report from CNS News: An Obama administration green jobs grant program that...
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