When is news really propaganda?
Lesson One:

The week of February 15, a press release sounded the clarion call that our oceans were being acidified by carbon dioxide emissions. I did not hear the first part, but I assume it was the work of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Check out this statement from NRDC web site:

“Ocean acidification is the quiet tsunami of environmental degradation. Within a few decades, ocean acidification may devastate some marine ecosystems and threaten the productivity of our fisheries. When we burn oil, coal, or gas, scientists have recently shown, we are transforming the fundamental chemistry of the oceans, rapidly making the water more acidic.”

This really took me by surprise.  It appears that the president is going to betray his doting followers in the environmental groups and allow drilling off the United States coast.  Hopefully this will help with energy prices and an economy that his other policies are destroying.

In 2008, the wind energy industry employed 85,000 American workers.  After collecting nearly $2 billion of federal stimulus funding in 2009, it still provides 85,000 jobs according the America Wind Energy Association.  Without taxpayer subsidies in 2008, the industry added 13,000 jobs.  With the subsidies last year, the industry lost 1,500 to 2000 manufacturing jobs and replaced them with temporary construction jobs that last an average of nine months and a handful of maintenance positions.

On Wednesday, legislative attorneys briefed 18 lawmakers who serve on the special committees charged with reviewing Governor Doyle’s global warming legislation (Assembly Bill 649 and Senate Bill 450) about its contents.  But after nearly two hours and 92 PowerPoint slides, a series of importa

A good friend and colleague occasionally reminds me that Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.  She may have a point since this legislative session marks the fourth that I’ve pursued a repeal of Wisconsin’s nuclear power moratorium.  Yet, I remain confident that a different result is not just possible, but imperative for our state.  I prefer to believe that Winston Ch