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Trump Has Repealed These 7 Pieces Of Obama’s Environmental Legacy

http://comicallyincorrect.com/2015/06/04/obama-train/

Daily Caller  "President Donald Trump signed executive orders and new legislation this week that repealed much of President Obama’s environmental legacy.

"Trump eliminated the Clean Power Plan (CPP) as well as rules and regulations from several different federal agencies that had been implemented as part of Obama’s environmentalist agenda.

“ 'We fully expected the Clean Power Plan to be overturned, but were surprised at the breadth of the Executive Order,” Kathleen Sgamma, vice president for government at the Western Energy Alliance, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “It comprehensively clears out some of the regulatory overreach of the Obama Administration that was about greater federal control in the guise of environmental protection.”

“ 'Repealing those rules requires months if not years of rule-making and the inevitable follow-on litigation before they will be completely gone,” Sgamma continued." . . .

Here is an outline of parts of Obama’s environmental legacy Trump turned back. Each is discussed more in the article.

1. Stopping The Clean Power Plan
The Clean Power Plan would have only averted 0.019° Celsius of warming by the year 2100, an amount so small it can’t be detected, according to analysis by the libertarian Cato Institute using models created by the Environmental Protection Agency.

2. Changing How The Government Interprets The National Environmental Policy Act
3. Removing Strict Coal Mining Regulations
"America has 83,000 fewer coal jobs and 400 fewer coal mines than it did when Obama was elected in 2008, demonstrating the former president followed through on his pledge to “bankrupt” the coal industry."
4. EPA Denying Green Requests To Have Agency Ban Major Pesticide 
5. Simplifying How Public Lands Are Managed
6. Approving Keystone XL
7. Returning Environmental Regulation To The States. . . 

What Kind Of Man Is Mike Pence? Here’s That Article The Left Flipped Out Over.

RedState  "You know that profile of Mike Pence someone dredged up to try and make him out to be some chauvinist pig? The one where the online left lost their minds?

"It turns out; there is a video of it being read on C-SPAN in 2002. That video was found by Tommy Christopher and posted to Twitter. The contents of the video are revealing in their lack of anything scandalous."

Video at the link.

"So, let’s establish what Pence’s logic is/was:

1. He did not want to anyone to get a sense of impropriety about what he was doing.
2. He set for himself a list of rules to follow that included not eating alone with another woman and not drinking at any event that served liquor if his wife was not wife him.
3. He put his family first, even during campaign season, making sure he ate with his family at least twice a week and ran clean campaigns keeping the family out of the mix.
4. He never had staffers work late unless there was a critical vote, and it would be him and one (1) male staffer.

"My God. What a terrible man Mike Pence is.

"Here’s the thing. Everyone reporting on the story never really seemed to have it. They found one thing from a story that someone remembered and ran with this as though it were some shameful thing.

"When you hear the story being read, as it is in the video above, he is not some lunatic or chauvinist. He is a man trying to protect his family from the evils and the gossip-mongers of Washington D.C.

"Say what you want about the fact that he willingly went to work for Trump. Pence is a good man, and this profile is just another reason why."

California, a precious jewel wasted on Californians

Radical Leftist California Looking to Become Illegal Alien Dystopia: May Reconstitute as Defacto “Sanctuary State”  "Barry Secrest notes: The silver lining to this possibility might lie in the fact that California, through an illegal alien population approaching estimates of at least 1/4th of the total population, would most likely be barred from receiving a considerable amount of future federal funding, if it were to make illegals legal. 

"At present, the state is ranked first in the dizzying amount of both federal grants and benefits paid to the state based upon its current population…not to mention the dispensation of disallowing a large number of electoral votes, due to the states not meeting federal voting criteria." . . .

Leftist California Professors "Corrupt" Higher Education  . . . "California taxpayers spend $2.8 billion to educate the more than 230,000 students at the 10 campuses that comprise the UC system. But the report says the UC system does not help students learn how to think, but rather teaches them what to think. And what they "learn" is that they are victims -- whether of racism, sexism, classism or discrimination because of sexual orientation. Liberal profs, says the report, turn the UC campuses into "a sanctuary for a narrow ideological segment of the spectrum of social and political ideas."  

"Nationwide, left-wing professors vastly outnumber conservative professors in the humanities. It isn't even close."' . . .

Take the UC Berkeley history course that majors in that field must take, "The United States from Settlement to the Civil War." Its course description states its goals: "to understand how democratic political institutions emerged in the United States in this period in the context of an economy that depended on slave labor and violent land acquisition."

The Dems just handed Trump and the GOP a gift

Lerner

Ed Lasky  . . . "Of course, Davidson who is a very liberal, pro-big government columnist, attacks Trump’s plan to trim the IRS. Davidson actually depicts the IRS as a money-making venture. He quotes, as he does in every one of his columns, complaints about demoralized and over-worked federal employees.

"Trump should go on offense. The IRS has really escaped punishment for leaking private tax information for political purposes  as well as its campaign against conservative grassroots groups to quash their free speech rights and help Democrats.

"The fact that Lois Lerner escaped prison, that records were destroyed in a campaign to obstruct justice and allow other guilty parties to escape punishment . . ." 

Israel takes baby step toward rebuilding Temple ...

WND

The future Third Temple … as it would appear

"With June marking the 50th anniversary of Israel’s reunification of the capital city of Jerusalem along with the Temple Mount, the Israeli government is considering a proposal to create a new foundation responsible for providing “research, information and advocacy” about the Jewish connection to what many consider the holiest site in all of Judaism – the place where the Temple stood until A.D. 70.

"The Temple Mount Heritage Foundation was proposed by Culture Minister Miri Regev and Environmental Protection and Jerusalem Minister Ze’ev Elkin, with an annual budget starting at $550,000. It will be based on the government-funded Western Wall Heritage Fund, which administers the site adjacent to the Temple Mount – believed to be the retaining wall for the 35-acre foundation upon which the Temple was built.

"The project is getting high praise from Israel advocates for rebuilding the Temple.

"Rabbi Yehuda Glick, a target of an assassination attempt in 2014 for his Temple advocacy, said he welcomed the plan for a Temple Mount Heritage Foundation and has personally lobbied for its creation.

“ 'We need to state clearly: The Temple Mount is the foundation of the history of the Jewish people and of the return to the land since the beginning of Zionism,” he said.

"Temple Mount activism has become an increasingly prominent issue in the Israeli political debate, even as Arab Palestinians have sought to deny any connection between the site and the Jewish Temple – in some cases, aided by the United Nations.

"The foundation proposal makes direct reference to the attacks on the historicity of the Temple Mount." . . .

Wishful thinking: Obama official Evelyn Farkas Could Become the John Dean of Trump Surveillance Scandal

thefederalistpapers

Daniel John Sobieski  "How long does a smoking gun have to smoke before someone picks it up? With all the gorilla dust being tossed about by Democrats and the media, including some on Fox News, that there is no evidence the Obama administration deliberately surveilled Team Trump, an Obama administration State Department official, who later worked for the Hillary Clinton campaign, admitted that was going on.

"Dr. Evelyn Farkas, a non-resident fellow at the vehemently anti-Russia Atlantic Council and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia in the Obama administration. According to Politico, she was the Pentagon’s top Russia official, resigning in 2015.

"With the exception of Sean Hannity, who talked at length Wednesday night about her incriminating March 2 interview with MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski, few have noted that she not only admitted the Obama administration was conducting surveillance of Team Trump, but was feeding that information to “people on the Hill”. She told MSNBC in an interview available on YouTube:" . . .

. . . "Farkas does not like Donald Trump and has been writing pieces trashing his credibility and fitness for office while leading the chorus on Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia. She was a perfect fit for the Clinton campaign." . . .

. . . "Evelyn Farkas could be the John Dean of the Obama surveillance scandal.John Dean revealed the secrets of Watergate that helped topple Richard Nixon. Farkas has inadvertently revealed the Obama administration’s secret – that a sitting president was conducting surveillance of the team of his successor. From Hillary’s emails to pay-for-play at the Clinton Foundation to Obama’s illegal surveillance, this was in fact the most corrupy administration in American history, more worthy of Venezuela than our great democracy."

Voxsplained: Vox Says Pence Policy Of Not Eating Alone With Ladies Is Illegal…

It's about time for another "American Silliness" gallery

Weasel Zippers

Guardian Feminazi Calls Mike Pence A “Sexist” For Respecting His Wife…

Trump: Pence has 'one hell of a good marriage'  . . . "Liberal critics and many women said the rule was misogynistic and limited women's options for advancement in workplaces with male bosses. Some religious conservatives, however, likened Pence's practice to that of famed evangelist Billy Graham, who would not meet, eat or travel with a woman alone, which came to be known as the "Billy Graham Rule.'"

Why It’s Taking So Long To Get People Into Trump’s White House And What Can Be Done About It

GotNews

"You might have noticed that leaker and now former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Katie Walsh was fired today — a month after I broke the story that she was leaking to The New York Times.

"But she’s probably not the only one: the top #NeverTrump Republican donor has an employee who works in the Office of Personnel Management in the Trump administration.

"Hedge funder Paul Singer spent millions of dollars against then-candidate Donald J. Trump, but — incredibly — one of his top employees is deciding who makes it into the government through the Office of Personnel Management.

"One of the reasons you haven’t gotten the government you voted for is that it is taking longer than any other administration in recent history to get people into the government." . . .

Gotnews.com founder and editor-in-chief Charles C. Johnson is an investigative journalist, author, and sought after researcher. He was a contributor to the Daily Caller and the Blaze, and his work is frequently featured on Drudge Report. He is author of Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America’s Most Underrated President and The Truth About the IRS Scandal. Charles is an award-winning journalist who has also written for Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Los Angeles Times, American Spectator, Daily Beast, National Review Online, PJ Media, and Weekly Standard. Charles has appeared on Fox News with Megyn Kelly, Sean Hannity, and Lou Dobbs and numerous radio programs, including Rusty Humphries, Dennis Prager, Larry Elder, and Mark Levin. He is at work on a new book about the researcher community and Barack Obama.

The road to single-payer health care

Charles Krauthammer   "Repeal-and-replace (for Obamacare) is not quite dead. It has been declared so, but what that means is that, for now, the president has (apparently) washed his hands of it and the House Republicans appear unable to reconcile their differences.

"Neither condition need be permanent. There are ideological differences among the various GOP factions, but what’s overlooked is the role that procedure played in producing the deadlock. And procedure can easily be changed.

"House leadership crafted a bill that would meet the delicate requirements of “reconciliation” in order to create a (more achievable) threshold of 51 rather than 60 votes in the Senate. But this meant that some of the more attractive, market-oriented reforms had to be left out, relegated to a future measure (a so-called phase-three bill) that might never actually arrive.

"Yet the more stripped-down proposal died anyway. So why not go for the gold next time? Pass a bill that incorporates phase-three reforms and send it on to the Senate.

"September might be the time for resurrecting repeal-and-replace. That’s when insurers recalibrate premiums for the coming year, precipitating our annual bout of Obamacare sticker shock. By then, even more insurers will be dropping out of the exchanges, further reducing choice and service. These should help dissipate the preemptive nostalgia for Obamacare that emerged during the current debate." . . .

Farkas Friday, so far

Evelyn Farkas Goes Full Sergeant Schultz  "Evelyn Farkas is the former Obama administration/Department of Defense official who appeared on MSNBC earlier this month to explain and vouch for the page-one New York Times story on the Obama administration efforts to get disseminate word of the Trump team’s supposed connection to Russian “hacking.” Farkas left the Department of Defense in late 2015 to become a Clinton campaign adviser. I wrote about her in “A Times source outs herself.”

Appearing on MSNBC on March 2, Farkas spoke as a former Obama administration insider with personal knowledge of the game that was afoot: “I was urging my former colleagues, and, and, frankly speaking, the people on the Hill, it was more actually aimed at telling the Hill people, get as much information as you can – get as much intelligence as you can – before President Obama leaves the administration. Because I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior [Obama] people who left.” And so on.

"Appearing on CNBC yesterday, however, in the wake of the attention drawn to her comments, Farkas denied knowledge of anything. She only knew what she read in the newspapers. Who doesn’t remember Hogan’s Heroes? She went full Sergeant Schultz." . . .

Tucker Carlson’s evisceration of a lefty prof is more than entertaining

Thomas Lifson  "A counter-narrative is building to the MSM’s constant Trump-hating.  It is not that Trump is driven by hate ("Love Trumps Hate"), rather it is the left that is driven by hate – for America, especially the Trump-voting, America-loving, war-fighting parts of it.  The mainstream media is so widely mistrusted that there is plenty of room for counter-narratives to flourish.

"Last night, Tucker Carlson made an important contribution to the counter-narrative, as he demonstrated his mastery of blood sport interviewing, allowing leftist fools to flaunt their folly and then hanging them with their own words."

You've met this professor before. Remember him from these?

Tucker Carlson interviews professor who struggled ‘not to vomit’ over show of gratitude for soldier

White Professor wants “White Genocide” for Christmas  "A Drexel University professor may just have put himself on the top of the list for most hated people in America after he tweeted a message on Christmas Eve in support of “white genocide.” By the way, the professor who said it is white. Yes, he actually has a PhD in political science. George Ciccariello-Maher, the associate professor at Drexel, tweeted, “All I Want for Christmas is White Genocide.” The school didn’t think it was as funny as he did. The University responded with “While the University recognizes the right of its faculty to freely express their thoughts and opinions in public debate, Professor Ciccariello-Maher’s comments are utterly reprehensible, deeply disturbing, and do not in any way reflect the values of the University.”

When challenged with opposition, his response was usually something like, "I'm sorry you have been so poorly educated that you can't understand me"