Today, thousands of gas station owners around California will hit a hard deadline passed by the California Air Resources Board to "upgrade" their pumps to make an extremely minor reduction in fumes released. Yes, this is yet another manifestation of that happens when the liberals in the legislature, teaming up with Governor "Green" — set board direction to regulatory boards to reduce carbon emissions. Editorial Boards across the state have and continue to praise and support the idea of using government regulation to reduce man-made greenhouse gas emissions — this despite the opinion of a great many leading scientists that global warming is not caused by people.

I wrote about this extensively here, and we also have carried a column from Assemblyman Jeff Miller on this subject… Read More

Today, thousands of gas station owners around California will hit a hard deadline passed by the California Air Resources Board to "upgrade" their pumps to make an extremely minor reduction in fumes released. Yes, this is yet another manifestation of that happens when the liberals in the legislature, teaming up with Governor "Green" — set board direction to regulatory boards to reduce carbon emissions. Editorial Boards across the state have and continue to praise and support the idea of using government regulation to reduce man-made greenhouse gas emissions — this despite the opinion of a great many leading scientists that global warming is not caused by people.

I wrote about this extensively here, and we also have carried a column from Assemblyman Jeff Miller on this subject… Read More

Yesterday morning I had the pleasure of representing the Flash Report in a bloggers conference call with Republican congressional leadership. Hosting the call were California Congressmen Kevin McCarthy and John Campbell (a fellow FR blogger), who were joined by Congressmen Patrick McHenry and Paul Ryan. The purpose of the biweekly teleconference is to engage the new media and ensure they are well informed of what’s taking place on Capitol Hill. New media have obviously become the major source of information for conservatives who are locked out of the MSM and it’s crucial for Republicans to provide them access.

In this particular call the topic was the President’s budget that will be voted on this week. Instead of simply criticizing the behemoth spending spree, Republicans are proposing their own budget which promises to cut spending and spur economic recovery. Obviously Congressman Campbell can explain the details of the budget much better than I, but I will say that based upon the information shared during the teleconference, this is an “all hands on deck” moment for freedom-loving Americans. Each congressman warned that if this budget passes, America as we… Read More