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    Obama Just Got Punked by the Chinese: They Won’t Honor New Climate Change Deal
    That sound you’re hearing from across the Pacific is the Chinese rulers and Beijing laughing at us. President Obama and the “green” lobby actually think China is going to honor the new U.S.-China climate-change agreement that pushes both nations to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions over the next 15 years. China agreed to a “target” of deriving…
    Stephen Moore
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    The Real Story on China Climate Change Deal: We Make Changes Now, They Wait Until 2030
    President Obama has announced what he calls “an historic agreement” in a climate change deal with China. In his commitment to reduce carbon emissions 26 percent to 28 percent below 2005 levels, the president is committing Americans to higher energy prices, a weaker economy and a lost competitive advantage. China’s commitment to reduce greenhouse gas…
    Nicolas Loris
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    Are Libertarians a ‘Spoiler’ for the GOP? Here’s John Stossel’s Take
    Republican candidate Ed Gillespie trails Democratic Sen. Mark Warner by 16,727 votes in Virginia’s razor-thin U.S. Senate race. It’s so close the Associated Press won’t call it. The margin between Gillespie and Warner is much smaller than the 53,396 votes for Libertarian Robert Sarvis. So, was Sarvis a spoiler? On Thursday’s Varney & Co. on…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Billionaire Steyer Spends $15M Pushing Low-Priority Climate Change Message in Florida
    In an effort to oust Gov. Rick Scott, billionaire activist Tom Steyer has underwritten a nearly $15 million campaign focusing on climate change, an issue one poll says few Florida voters care about. Steyer’s advocacy group, NextGen Climate Action, set up shop in Miami this year, targeting Scott as oblivious to global warming disasters, a…
    Tori Richards | William Patrick
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    The True Reason Gas Prices Are Falling (Hint: It’s Not Because of Green Energy)
    American workers and motorists got some badly-needed relief this week when the price of oil plunged to its lowest level in years. The oil price has fallen by about 25 percent since its peak back in June of $105 a barrel.  This is translating to lower prices at the pump with many states now below…
    Stephen Moore
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    Governor Jindal: Energy Exports Help the U.S. Domestically and Diplomatically
    Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal recently spoke at the American Enterprise Institute to introduce his vision for defense policy. He pointed out that America has a tool at its disposal that isn’t the traditional weapon or diplomatic position: America’s vast energy supply. Jindal said energy exports can strengthen ties with allies who need energy and can counterbalance…
    Thomas Lee
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    Hey, Defense Department: Focus on ISIS, not Climate Change
    As world leaders remain locked in on the threat of ISIS, the U.S. Department of Defense laid out its plan to fight a different battle: ice caps. In a new report, DOD argues that climate change poses “immediate risks to U.S. national security” because of warmer temperatures, rising sea levels, changing precipitation patterns and more…
    Nicolas Loris
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    State’s Welfare Recipients Withdraw Money in Far-Off Places (Hawaii, Las Vegas and Even Virgin Islands)
    Taxpayers are apparently buying welfare recipients booze and cigarettes for the road—at times a quite exotic road. An analysis of a Colorado Department of Human Services welfare ATM withdrawals database shows that $3.8 million was withdrawn by Colorado welfare recipients outside the state in the past two years. There were withdrawals at out-of-state liquor stores…
    Arthur Kane
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    Google Chairman: Climate Change Skeptics Are ‘Making the World a Much Worse Place’
    More than 150 state lawmakers are firing back at Google after the technology company left the American Legislative Exchange Council and its chairman, billionaire Eric Schmidt, said those who oppose vigorous policy action to fight global warming are “just literally lying” about the climate. “Everyone understands climate change is occurring and the people who oppose it…
    Josh Peterson
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    5 Policies That Would Make Gas Cheaper
    Sick of paying too much at the pump? If you are, there’s good news: There are policies Congress and the Obama administration could implement that likely would lead to lower prices. If you’re looking to lower gas prices, first look at crude oil prices. Crude oil contributes the largest component to the price of gasoline….
    Nicolas Loris
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    Obama Believes Our Urgent Threat Is … Climate Change
    At the 2014 United Nations Climate Summit on Tuesday, President Barack Obama offered a stunning–in fact, deeply disturbing–insight into his views on threats to the United States and the American people. According to Obama, “For all the immediate challenges that we gather to address this week–terrorism, instability, inequality, disease–there’s one issue that will define the…
    Brett Schaefer
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    Why Climate Change Is Not a Top Priority for Many World Leaders
    Seems world leaders are busy — too busy, in fact, to attend the U.N. Climate Change Summit in New York today. Apparently coalition building isn’t as easy as it used to be. The White House says addressing global warning and climate change is a top priority, but it has failed to sway some top world…
    Genevieve Wood
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    Memo to Leonardo DiCaprio: Climate Change ‘Reforms’ Would Hurt People
    United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recently designated actor Leonardo DiCaprio as a “U.N. Messenger of Peace” for climate change, touting him as a “credible voice in the environmental movement.” Upon receiving the designation, DiCaprio, who will give an acceptance speech at this week’s Climate Summit in New York City, said he feels a “moral obligation…
    Scott Blakeman
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    This One Policy Switch Could Make Gas Way Cheaper
    For nearly 40 years, there’s a been a ban on exporting crude oil from the United States to other nations in the world. Now, a just-released study from a liberal think tank says lifting the ban could boost the U.S. economy between $600 billion to $1.8 trillion and save motorists up to 12 cents a…
    Rob Nikolewski
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    The Crazy Turmoil That Could Have Happened If Scotland Voted to Be Independent
    Great Britain can breathe a huge sigh of relief. The people of Scotland voted Thursday to remain a part of the United Kingdom. This is great news not only for Britain, but also for the United States. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is America’s closest ally on the world stage. The…
    Nile Gardiner
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    Combating Climate Change with Sunshine and Fuzzy Math
    The White House yesterday released a list of executive actions to “combat climate change” with “solar deployment and energy efficiency” regulations that promise to cut 300 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2030 and allegedly billions from electricity bills. For the most part, the list doesn’t consist of anything new or grand but…
    Katie Tubb
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    The Scary Amount of Oil Money ISIS Makes Every Day
    President Obama, laying out his strategy last night to defeat the Islamist jihadists known as ISIS, stressed that “it will take time to eradicate a cancer” such as the terrorist group represents in the Middle East. One hurdle in the way of Obama’s intention to work with allies to “degrade and ultimately destroy” ISIS (also…
    Kelsey Bolar
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    The U.N. Is Releasing Scary Videos of Climate Change’s Effect in 2050. Why You Should Be Skeptical.
    We’re not all that surprised when weather predictions for next week—or even tomorrow—don’t pan out. So when the United Nations seeks to drum up support for this month’s Climate Summit by posting videos of “weather reports from the future” to show us what weather will look like in 2050 if we don’t change our carbon-emitting…
    Scott Blakeman
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    Poverty, Not Climate Change, Bigger Concern for China and India
    According to a recent news story, President Xi Jinping of China and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India will not attend the upcoming UN climate summit. The clear, but unsaid, implication is that the two most populous and still poor countries do not want to attend a bashing of CO2 emitters—of which they are major…
    David Kreutzer
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    Four Legs and a Life of Service: The Fight to Allow Military Working Dogs to ‘Retire’ on U.S. Soil
    For Army Staff Sgt. James Harrington,  it was a day he thought would never arrive. It had been two and a half years since he last saw his golden-haired, brown-eyed girl, and Harrington had made a point to keep track of the 7-year-old’s travels, even after their lives went separate ways. But standing at Armstrong…
    Melissa Quinn
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