Due to political gridlock in Congress over provisions in the Energy Bill, it now seems that Senate and House reps are so scared of not passing a bill that they are again (as they did with ENDA) at risk of passing a less than mediocre piece of legislation.
Yesterday, US federal appeals courts made a move in the right direction by rejecting the Bush administration’s 2008-2011 fuel-economy regulations for model light trucks and SUVs. They criticized the administration's new regulations for vehicle gas emissions by claiming that the regulations failed to take into acccount the economic impact of gas emissions' dangerous impact on climate change. The judges rejected the proposal demanding that the Transportation Department go back and add tougher standards for vehicle gas emissions.
Nothing like a little federal smack down in the name of climate change. I like it.
In February, the Journal of Youth and Adolescence published a longitudinal study performed by a groups of researchers from Ohio State that indicated a strong connection between the onset of teenage sexual behavior and delinquency. Wait…. what? Their findings suggest the classic conservative notion that “sex is bad” and so concluded that the loss of virginity at a relatively young age appears to, as the researchers wrote, "open the doorway to problem behaviors." (Check it out on the Post). This is brilliant! What better way to continue the hoax of abstinence only education than to show that having sex no longer solely implies shaky morals, but in fact, now leads to a full blown criminal record? Read More »
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