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Feds say wolverines need protection
HELENA, Mont. — Wolverines should be added to the list of endangered and threatened species, but other species considered in greater danger will prevent the small, ferocious mammal from protection for now, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Monday. The federal agency’s decision found that the North American wolverine is a distinct population segment and that its addition to the Lists of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants is warranted. "Currently, however, listing the...

More evidence administration strangling domestic energy production
Image via Wikipedia Mark Tapscott: A new analysis of government data by the Western Energy Alliance shows a 79 percent drop in the number of energy development leases offered by the Federal Government on public lands in the Rocky Mountain region states of Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, New Mexico and Utah. The U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management, which oversees the activities of energy firms seeking to find and develop Oil and Natural Gas under public lands, has ...

Group: Leasing decline in West has serious impact
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Environmental red tape has contributed to a 79 percent decrease in Oil and gas leasing on public land in Rocky Mountain states, taking a toll on the region's economy, a petroleum industry group says. Members of the Denver-based Western Energy Alliance are prepared to spend $3.9 billion to drill in the West, creating 16,000 jobs, said Kathleen Sgamma, the group's government affairs director. Bureaucratic uncertainty is causing them to look elsewhere to invest, she said. "...

Tis The Season To Crack Down on Drunk Driving
(Alex Goldmark, Transportation Nation) The Department of Transportation kicked off the annual Holiday Drunk Driving Crackdown Monday. Specifically, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood wants Law Enforcement to get tougher on drunk drivers who refuse to take roadside breathalyzer tests with the use of on-call judges and blood tests. Law enforcement officials say too many drivers know that refusing to take a roadside breathalyzer improves their odds of beating a conviction. Secretary LaHood thin...

Congressional Magic: Nevada Now on the Pacific Ocean!
Today, the Democrats dropped a 1,900 page spending binge on the American public. With their grip on Capitol Hill expiring in just a few weeks, Democrats are rushing through one last party on the Taxpayer dime. No doubt, many spending whoppers will be unearthed as the bill becomes more public, but this little gem, passed to us by a source on Capitol Hill, really caught our eye: PACIFIC COASTAL SALMON RECOVERY For necessary expenses associated with the restoration of Pacific salmon populations, ...

Omnibus includes $8B in earmarks
Three hundred fifty thousand dollars for cool-season legume research in Idaho, North Dakota and Washington. A half million dollars for road roundabouts in Mississippi. And $1 million for arthropod damage in Nevada. They’re just a few of the 6,600 pet projects lawmakers from both parties – and both chambers – stuck inside an enormous spending bill unveiled by Senate Democrats on Tuesday, according to government Watchdog Taxpayers for Common Sense. The release of the $1.1 tril...

Judge says ObamaCare unconstitutional
A few hours ago, U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson in Richmond, Virginia, ruled that so-called ObamaCare is Unconstitutional.  The State of Virginia filed the Lawsuit immediately after Obama signed the bill into law.  The Judge noted that the law goes beyond the power of Congress. The legal action challenged the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (ObamaCare).  The lawsuit was filed immediately after Obama signed the bill into law. The legal action...

Republicans Cost The U.S. $1.4 Billion
1.4 billion dollars.  That’s how much the DREAM Act would have reduced the Deficit over ten years.  This of course ads to the list of positive impacts the DREAM Act would have, from helping Military recruitment, to bringing more people into our work force, to reaffirming American values to the rest of the world after Bush and co turned us into Pinochet wannabes, to simply being the right thing to do for good kids who did nothing wrong. This of course matters nothing to Republican...

The US Government and Nuclear Disinformation
The Downwinders (We are all downwinders): Before you forget about these places, consider some parameters you may not know about: Although the local "downwind area" is heavily polluted (radioactive from fallout), it is a mere 1/20 of the poison produced, but very concentrated because it is in a tiny area. Patterns are prevailing winds at lower altitudes, mostly. The inverse is the other 19/20's that flow in four or more directions or paths: prevailing winds speeds and directions at 10, 20, 30, ...

Gale Norton: Interior Ethics Probe A Waste Of Money
WASHINGTON — Former Interior Secretary Gale Norton says the Obama Administration "wasted millions of Taxpayer Dollars" in a now closed Probe of her ties to an oil company where she took a job after leaving government. Norton told The Associated Press that the nearly two-year investigation by the Interior Department's Inspector General was "an attempt to find imagined wrongdoing." Norton, who served as Interior secretary from 2001 to 2006, was accused of using her position to steer lucrat...

Russian firm buying U.S. uranium mine
Published: Dec. 12, 2010 at 5:00 PM Company sues Colo. over urarnium mine Salt Lake City, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- A Russian company has won approval to take over a U.S. Uranium operation, including a whole town in Utah, an executive says. Citing National Security, four members of Congress had urged the U.S. Treasury to keep the Canadian Uranium One company from selling majority ownership to Atomredmetzoloto, whose parent entity is Rosatom, the Russian nuclear agency. One concern is that Rosatom has se...

Americas undocumented students DREAM while Senate Republicans scheme
The vocal minority of uninformed readers against the DREAM Act mirrors Republican efforts to block the will of the majority who support it.  It is one thing to be against comprehensive Immigration Reform but quite another to take it out on the innocent Children of the undocumented using discredited arguments, Racism, and fear-mongering. For those who are truly interested in facts, here is a document by the Immigration Policy Center that should dispel widespread misconceptions about the bill...

N.C. Universities, Businesses Try To Spur Economic Growth
Yet it’s unclear how much the ivory tower boosts entrepreneurship By Jane S. Shaw RALEIGH — In 2007, the University of North Carolina issued its “UNC Tomorrow” report, designed as a blueprint for the university system. The document envisioned a broad role for the university and recommended that UNC do more in “enhancing the economic transformation and community development” of North Carolina. Economic prospects for both the state and the university have changed dramatic

Angle Wants to Lead Tea Party
Former Nevada Senate Candidate Sharron Angle (R) is angling to lead the Tea Party movement heading into 2012, Politico reports. Angle unveiled the Patriot Caucus -- which she claims has the support of Tea Party organizers in 15 states -- and will open offices in Iowa, New Hampshire, Florida and Nevada early next year. ...

Could Ron Paul Take Down Sarah Palin?
Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images Long before the Tea Party movement grabbed half a dozen Senate seats, before its early proponents ever even dreamed of wearing Colonial-era garb in public, there was longtime Texas Republican Ron Paul, the one guy in Congress trying to abolish the Federal Reserve and shrink the government into near nonexistence. Paul won a devoted-bordering-on-cultish following during his 2008 presidential run, one which, obviously, didn't work out. But now Paul is telling the...

Nevada near bottom in health report
A national report says Nevada ranks near the bottom in a review of how well states are prepared for a widespread health emergency. Nevada was among nine states that scored only six points out of 10 indicators. Only Iowa and Montana ranked worse. ...

Iowans Recieve “Christmas Blessings” From Tim Pawlenty
Yesterday, I received my first Christmas Card for a potential 2012 Presidential Candidate.  Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty is spreading some “Christmas Blessing’s” to Iowans this holiday season.  Pawlenty’s Freedom First PAC paid for the card. Craig Robinson has written 783 stories on this site. Craig Robinson serves as the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheIowaRepublican.com. Prior to founding Iowa's largest conservative news site, Robinson served as the Polit...

Angle Launches New Tea Party PAC
Politico reports: Former Nevada GOP Senate Candidate Sharron Angle is angling to lead the Tea Party movement heading into 2012. Angle over the weekend unveiled the Patriot Caucus, a PAC that she says has the support of Tea Party organizers in 15 states and which will “organize a ground game across most Battleground states for the 2012 election cycle.” The group plans to open offices in Iowa, New Hampshire, Florida and Nevada - states with early presidential primaries and caucuses...

Angle eyes Tea Party prospects for 2012
Angle, a Tea Party- backed Candidate who lost to Democrat and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the 2010 election, said in a statement posted on her Facebook page, "The tea party movement stood with me through a hard fought race against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid." According to the statement, Angle will collaborate with Tea Party groups from 15 states; the PAC will open offices in Iowa, New Hampshire, Florida and Nevada in early 2011 to begin preparing Grassroots campaigns for the 2012...

Joel Campbell: State panel, not courts, should handle appeals for records
As such, leadership PACs are widespread throughout Washington. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., spent more than $4 million helping Tea Party-backed Candidates, such as Utah Sen.-elect Mike Lee, win their races. Prominent politicians, from outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Sarah Palin, have active accounts. And with Chaffetz starting BudgetHawks, every member of Utah’s federal delegation now has one. None is as large or as active as OrrinPAC, run by Hatch, which has raised nearly $500,000 in t...

Lockheed test fires improved rocket
Published: Dec. 14, 2010 at 9:02 AM DALLAS, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Lockheed Martin successfully launched a Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System Plus rocket recently to test target acquisition and other capabilities. The GMLRS+ rocket is a Lockheed Martin internal research and development program to incrementally improve the combat-proven GMLRS Unitary program. GMLRS+ is anticipated to address operational needs including increased range, scalable effects and fleeting targets. "We have a very high degre...

Listen up, America: We're not stoopid!
We're a bunch of dimwits. That's the verdict from the latest survey of America's smartest communities by Portfolio.com. Orlando ranked 115th out of 200. I think that puts us in the bottom half … though who really knows? I'm a Floridian, not a math major. Catch up with the latest on health on our Booster Shots blog. The whole state fared pretty poorly in this study. But frankly, I am sick and tired of reading studies that allow big-city elitists to look down their n...

B.I.A.W. S.O.B. R.I.P.
It’s official (and remember, you heard it here first): BIAW (Bastard Idiot Association of Washington) executive Vice President Tom McCabe is out. Here is the release,which comes amid rumors and background statements by sources close to BIAW that McCabe was negotiating a $1.25 million buy-out. A $1.25 million buy-out. Sweet. Perhaps if the Seattle Times editorial board is so concerned about rising Workers Compensation rates, they might want to look at how the BIAW manages to use the retro...

DEC has hot line on Web
The State Department of Environmental Conservation has devised a digital way for people to report possible environmental law violations. Turn in Poachers and Polluters, a hot line for reporting violations, now has a Web-based form that assists those who can provide information about violations. Stephen J. Pierson, a DEC police captain, said the phone option has been in place for years. The TIPP website now gives people more in-depth options to explain what they're reporting. "Everything is...

US: Idaho Hunter Snaps Photo of Possible UFO
© Unknown Published: 12/10/10 Date: 11/27/10 My son-in-law and I were deer hunting near Placerville, Idaho, around 11:15 AM on November 27, 2010. It was a clear day with some cloud cover and about 38 degrees. There was no deer/elk to be found or even a chipmunk or squirrel. I thought that was a bit odd since this area is teaming with wildlife. In fact, the whole time we were in that valley it felt as if someone was watching us. Normally that doesn't bother me due to the fact that thi...