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Not Evil Just Wrong: Irish Filmmaker Is Confronting Al Gore & Eco-Hypocrisy (http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=mpg&mpid=140&load=5075)

Ann McElhinney visits PJTV to talk about her documentary, Not Evil Just Wrong. She challenged Al Gore on global warming, and is challenging conservatives to tell their side of the story when it comes to global warming. McElhinney thinks that many celebrity environmentalists are just hypocrites with supersized carbon footprints. Hear her opinion on Michael Moore, Robert Redford and more as she sits with Stephen Kruiser.


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High Speed to Insolvency (http://www.newsweek.com/2011/02/27/high-speed-to-insolvency.html)
Why liberals love trains.


Generations hence, when the river of time has worn this presidency’s importance to a small, smooth pebble in the stream of history, people will still marvel that its defining trait was a mania for high-speed rail projects. This disorder illuminates the progressive mind.

Remarkably widespread derision has greeted the Obama administration’s damn-the-arithmetic-full-speed-ahead proposal to spend $53 billion more (after the $8 billion in stimulus money and $2.4 billion in enticements to 23 states) in the next six years pursuant to the president’s loopy goal of giving “80 percent of Americans access to high-speed rail.” “Access” and “high-speed” to be defined later.

Criticism of this optional and irrational spending—meaning: borrowing —during a deficit crisis has been withering. Only an administration blinkered by ideology would persist.

Florida’s new Republican governor, Rick Scott, has joined Ohio’s (John Kasich) and Wisconsin’s (Scott Walker) in rejecting federal incentives—more than $2 billion in Florida’s case—to begin a high-speed rail project. Florida’s 84-mile line, which would have run parallel to Interstate 4, would have connected Tampa and Orlando. One preposterous projection was that it would attract 3 million passengers a year—almost as many as ride Amtrak’s Acela in the densely populated Boston–New York–Washington corridor.


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