by C. Ward Bond
Thirty five years ago, Embree Easterly, president of Capital Bank and Trust of Baton Rouge, fought a losing battle for the preservation of banking integrity while he was the leader of the Independent Banker’s Association of Louisiana.
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According to this article at the Baton Rouge Advocate today, cap and trade will be good for Louisiana.
I don’t think so.
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From a release by U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon’s office…
WASHINGTON, D.C. —Congressman Charlie Melancon (La.-03) requested a meeting today with a key Administration official to discuss possible changes to federal fishing regulations. Congressman Melancon issued the following statement:
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Back in January, we posted an update on the lobbying war between FedEx and UPS over the question of regulating the former under the National Labor Relations Act as opposed to the Railway Labor Act it currently falls under. Developments this week merit a progress report on the fight.
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It seems there is no bottom to the depths the House Democrat Leadership will plumb in search of a way to defeat American popular opinion and pass Obamacare.
The new low involves bypassing an actual House vote on the Senate Obamacare bill. It appears the Democrats simply don’t have the votes to pass the bill on an up-or-down basis, and the problem is getting worse as time goes forward.
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Last night House Minority Leader John Boehner, together with nine other party leaders, took a pledge to drop the practice of earmarks in Congressional appropriations…
“For millions of Americans, the earmark process in Congress has become a symbol of a broken Washington. We believe the time has come for House Republicans to adopt an immediate, unilateral moratorium on all earmarks, including tax and tariff-related earmarks, and we will support changing the official rules of the House Republican Conference to incorporate such a moratorium when a special conference meeting on the matter takes place Thursday. When Republicans take back the House, we will rein in out-of-control federal spending and bring fundamental change to the process by which Congress spends American taxpayers’ money.”
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When Phil Jones (the now disgraced and suspended director of the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia) claimed that he had lost most of the raw data that he and others have used to pronounce the impending doom of our little planet from anthropogenic global warming (AGW), the official word from the warmists was that it made no difference because the completely separate databases of NASA and NOAA showed the same results. The fact that CRU’s raw data had been randomly and arbitrarily twisted to fit their goals of getting massive grants to continue their “research” supposedly didn’t alter the fact that the science was settled. Read more »
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History will record that Harry Reid was among the dumbest men ever to serve in the United States Senate, barring Joe Biden.
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Don Briggs’ piece yesterday on the Davy Jones gas find off Louisiana’s southwest coast is certainly a hopeful one. McMoran’s discovery of between 2-6 trillion cubic feet of natural gas with one exploratory well has opened up speculation that there may be a vast trend of oil and gas running offshore from the Davy Jones well all the way to the Jack deepwater find to the south, thus perhaps revitalizing Louisiana’s offshore oil industry and putting tens of thousands of our people to work in high-paying jobs.
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As heard on the Mark Levin Show…
(Hat tip: Riehl World View, which is a blog well worth a spot on your favorites list.)
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