powerlineblog.com - 9/15/2009
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Do you have to be smarter to run a dry cleaning shop than to be President? In some respects, yes. If you are a dry cleaner and the numbers don't add up, you go broke. If you are President (or a Congressman) and the numbers don't add up, you just tax or borrow more money. No one has ever said ...
instituteforenergyresearch.org - 9/15/2009
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 14, 2009 Contact: Chris
Tucker, 202.346.8825 Patrick Creighton, 202.621.2947 Something Rotten? Obama Says...
Danes Receive 20% of Their Power Via Wind; New Study Tells the Real Story Danish experts visit Washington this ...
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Something Rotten? Obama Says Danes Receive 20% of Their ...
blogs.dailymail.com - 9/17/2009
huffingtonpost.com - 9/16/2009
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COPENHAGEN (AP) -- Denmark's tourism agency has removed
an advertisement from YouTube after complaints that it promoted...
promiscuity in the liberal Scandinavian country. The video clip, nearly 3 minutes long, shows a young, blond woman cradling a ...
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Denmark: Tourism Ad Pulled Over Promiscuity Charges (VIDEO)
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The Myth of Green Jobs
Southern Appeal —
From Powerline . Just devastating. Here’s a sample: The upshot? The Danes retain the title of world’s most prolific wind producer, and President Obama cites their experience as a path to be followed. The cost? Danish ratepayers are forced to pay the highest utility rates in Europe. And the American people are led to believe that, though wind may only provide a little more than one percent of our electricity now, reaching a 20 percent platform – as the Danes have allegedly done – will come at no cost, with no jobs lost and no externalities to consider. Speaking of jobs, the ...
Are You Smarter Than A Dry Cleaner?
Sadly, No! —
... From the smartest lawyer in Minneapolis:
Do you have to be smarter to run a dry cleaning shop than to be President?
A better question: do you have to be smarter than Wile E. Coyote to be a PowerLine blogger?
No one has ever said that Barack Obama is a numbers guy; in fact, his ignorance of mathematics is just one facet of his ignorance of business and economics.
On the other hand, John Hinderaker, Esq., can convert polar coordinates to rectangular coordinates in his head while ...
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