[Washington Examiner] Canadian sources are confirming rumors that the Obama administration could soon reject the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project.
Sources close to the project told the Canadian Press over the weekend that the Canada-based firm TransCanada, which is constructing the project, is preparing for the decision.
The State Department has been reviewing the pipeline project for six years, becoming a source of contention between Democrats and Republicans, who spar over the benefits of the project. Republicans want the project approved for the economic and jobs creation benefits. But Democrats say the project would only worsen the environmental challenges posed by climate change.
The nearly 1,200-mile pipeline would deliver tar sands oil from Canada to refiners on the Gulf Coast. The State Department has the final say on the project because it crosses an international border.
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But Democrats say the project would only worsen the environmental challenges posed by climate change.
Which is why they want the oil burned in China under virtually no emission controls instead of here in America under the watchful eye of the EPA. Wait, isn't that totally backwards? This doesn't make a bit of sense.
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I'd suggest you scrap the firewood from your PC neighbor's house. Start soon, it could get cold early. They're gun-free so don't let their bitching stop you
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I sort of like seeing the 100+ unit tank car trains rolling into scenic Anacortes, WA behind a couple of diesels. The only thing better will be Big Boy 4014 on the main lines once the Union Pacific gets her all restored
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If the answer is Nyet Canada is gearing up to sue this administration under the NAFTA agreement.
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Here's a good one that will burn bunker oil:
But stay off the monkey deck between the engine and tender. In a tunnel you will be scalded by steam, exhaust from the combustion of fuel oil, and mud from feedwater treatment.
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[Daily Caller] Presidential candidate and former Gov. Jeb Bush got into some hot water recently over his past work with a foundation run by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for its funding of Planned Parenthood.
What went unnoticed, however, was that Bush worked with Bloomberg as he gave millions to environmental groups to take down the coal industry.
Bush, who's looking to win the Republican presidential nomination, served as a founding director of the Bloomberg Family Foundation -- now called Bloomberg Philanthropies -- from 2010 through 2014. During Bush's second year with the organization, Bloomberg donated $50 million to the Sierra Club's "Beyond Coal" campaign.
The Sierra Club's anti-coal campaign took Bloomberg's money in 2011 to cut coal production 30 percent by 2020 through litigation, lobbying for more environmental regulations and activism. The Beyond Coal campaign has also targeted coal-fired power plants with litigation, most recently forcing the closure of the 200th coal plant in the country.
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Meanwhile the Chinese have devalued the yuan. Which means their labor has now become cheaper to continue to flood the market with under priced goods. Of course the gullible 'free marketeers' have no problem with currency manipulation to exploit markets. They'll keep exporting goods and we'll keep importing unemployment. Keep the peons too busy to revolt.
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As long as Guam + other Pacific islands don't "capsize" vee US_vs-China struggle for dominance in East-Asia-Pacific, + as long as mainstream America is not asked to vote on anything affecting US sovereignty, I'M FINE WID THE TPP + TAP "DYING" ON THE VINE.
I HATE IT WHEN POLS PROCLAIM TO LISTEN OR RESPECT THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE = MASSES, THEN DON'T.
[Tablet] This use of anti-Jewish incitement as a political tool is a sickening new development in American political discourse, and we have heard too much of it lately--some coming, ominously, from our own White House and its representatives. Let's not mince words: Murmuring about "money" and "lobbying" and "foreign interests" who seek to drag America into war is a direct attempt to play the dual-loyalty card. It's the kind of dark, nasty stuff we might expect to hear at a white power rally, not from the President of the United States--and it's gotten so blatant that even many of us who are generally sympathetic to the administration, and even this deal, have been shaken by it.
We do not accept the idea that Senator Schumer or anyone else is a fair target for racist incitement, anymore than we accept the idea that the basic norms of political discourse in this country do not apply to Jews. Whatever one feels about the merits of the Iran deal, sales techniques that call into question the patriotism of American Jews are examples of bigotry--no matter who does it. On this question, we should all stand in defense of Senator Schumer. Nothing at all new here. See Sharpton, Jackson, or a mirror for more details.
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I'm surprised Shumer grew a spine, or was it that his donors gave him an option.
Let's just see where he stands on the veto override. I'll bet he is missing.
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Senator Schumer's statement on his decision to vote against President Obama's deal here. He is being lambasted as a straightforward Israel-loyal traitor, with none of the mealy-mouthed dog whistles mentioned in the article.
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Remember it was the National Socialist Workers Party. Didn't work too well with the International Socialists aka communists in Russia either. Seemed to recall a lot of effort to aid Russian Jews immigration in the 70s and 80s.
[Investor Bus Daily] With Hillary Clinton's multiple misdeeds coming to light and causing her political problems, reflected in her declining support in the polls, both she and the Democratic Party have reason to be concerned. But both of them may yet be rescued by "The Donald," who can turn out to be their Trump card.
Trump has virtually no chance of becoming even the Republican Party's candidate in 2016, much less being elected president of the United States.
The reason is not hard to understand: Republican voters simply do not trust him, as the polls show. Nor is there any reason why they should trust him, given his chameleon-like changes in the past. Why then is he the front-runner in the polls?
One reason is arithmetic. When there is a small army of GOP candidates, each with a tiny set of supporters, anyone with enough name recognition to get the support of a fifth or a fourth of the Republicans polled stands out, even if twice that many Republicans say they would never vote for him.
When both kinds of Republicans are counted, Trump is both the front-runner and the leading pariah. The danger is not that he will get the nomination, but that his irresponsible talk will become the image of the Republican Party, and that his bombast will drown out more sober voices that need to be heard, thereby making it harder to select the best candidate.
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The hand wringers are worried about offending people who'll never vote for them, and playing PC for the Left's media monopoly. Meanwhile the people they need to actually turn out to vote are sick and tired of pablum candidates who will not fight but pander and posture and talk civilly while the enemy wages war on them. If your strategy is not to fail because of fear saying the 'wrong' thing rather than the content, you've already lost the game cause you're playing the enemy's game by the enemy's rules.
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I've been trying to understand the Trump phenomenon. Byron York said this morning that "Trump is always on the offensive" which got me to thinking about something George S. Patton said a long time ago. He said Americans are winners, they can't stand to lose. With that said:
1. We have been embroiled in half-hearted wars for too long, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and each time, we have reached a stalemate or worse. Our people want our armies to come back victorious--not feeling like they have been defeated. We are not accustomed to losing.
2. Because Trump always seems to be on offensive, he seems like he has the possibility of being a winner to a good many voters. People are tired of pissing away our blood and treasure. They are tired of Rhinos and they are tired of Democrats. They are tired of being handcuffed by political correctness. They are tired of self-serving Washington politicians.
3. Trump has tapped this wellspring of discontent with the Washington Beltway and a big uncontrollable government that is not answerable to the voters.
With all that said, we need to be wary of substituting one self-aggrandizing, egotistical, narcissist for another.
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I believe I heard it on the radio this morning - Jeb has the largest war chest. BY far.
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Trump is using up the oxygen early in the game. If he bows out early to concentrate on book sales or something his damage will be minimal and might be a net boom as it got people watching the debates.
If he continues to suck the air he will be a pariah the way Perot is and will probably end up moving to Europe to avoid the sneers every time he leaves his office building.
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I have said from the beginning that Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are playing "good cop - bad cop" with the Republican party. Donald Trump shouts from the rooftops anything that would be considered too radical for Ted Cruz to say himself.
Without a doubt Donald Trump brings right wing conservatives out of the woodwork. The longer Trump stays atop the polls the better for true conservatives. Although it may be Trump who gets the conservative voters out to vote, the voters, in my opinion, will choose someone more presidential than Trump (like Rubio or Cruz) behind the curtain of the voting booth.
Donald Trump without a doubt enjoys the media spotlight and is not afraid to make outrageous statements because, in my opinion, he does not really want to be U.S. President in the first place.
I think what Donald Trump wants, above all else, is to be mayor of New York City.
And if Trump can promote Ted Cruz into the White House along the way, he sees that as all the more gravey for himself.
[PJ Media] Amid the Trump psychodramas, the public has forgotten not just Hillary Clinton's latest contortions over her emails, but Mrs. Clinton herself. Hillary has assumed the position of a tired vice president in waiting, without any of the perks that might accrue from a lame-duck president to his dutiful VP.
Ostensibly Clinton's candidacy is to be a continuation of her boss's eight years. The problem, however, is that for all Obama's iconic status, the president polls well below 50% in approval ratings. He lost both the House and Senate, and the majority of state governorships and legislatures are now Republican, if not solidly conservative.
His signature legacies -- Obamacare, the Iran nuke deal, open borders, and massive deficits -- poll poorly. Is borrowing another $8 trillion Clinton's agenda? Cutting another 25% from defense? No one believes that Obama's liberal boilerplate -- more government regulation, zero interest rates, higher taxes, bigger deficits, smaller defense, more illegal aliens, greater racial hyphenation -- is working.
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The Left's base will vote for Satan regardless. Never waste your time appealing to them. The Liberals expect, no demand, the Right vote for their candidate no matter what they shove in front of them. No one wants to really appeal to many on the Right, so when someone actually does, they go into a panic. The problem isn't the Right, it's the establishment that has allowed it to happen by stiffing the Right election after election after election. They made Trump.
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It really doesn't matter anymore. The 67-IQ/Entitlement Crowd, the Crony Capitalist and Bureacracy Complex simply dominate the electoral college and they know the liberal boilerplate is working for them.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Investor Bus Daily] With Hillary Clinton's multiple misdeeds coming to light and causing her political problems, reflected in her declining support in the polls, both she and the Democratic Party have reason to be concerned. But both of them may yet be rescued by "The Donald," who can turn out to be their Trump card.
