Author: KJ McElrath

Fed. Judge Issues Injunction against EPA Clean Water Rule: Polluting to Continue

Fed. Judge Issues Injunction against EPA Clean Water Rule: Polluting to Continue

Posted by | Aug 29, 2015 | , |

Ruling that “on the whole, the greater public interest favors issuance of the preliminary injunction,” Federal Judge Ralph R. Erickson of the District of North Dakota has blocked the Obama Administration’s new Clean Water Act. This law would have extended EPA protection to streams and wetlands that ultimately feed lakes, rivers and other major waterways. The logic is simple: protecting water at its source means cleaner, safer water for the general public. According to an EPA press release issued in June: “The rule ensures that waters protected under the Clean Water Act are more precisely defined and predictably determined,...

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So Much For the “Affordable” Care Act: Health Insurers Get Big Increases, Consumers Get The Shaft

So Much For the “Affordable” Care Act: Health Insurers Get Big Increases, Consumers Get The Shaft

Posted by | Aug 28, 2015 | , |

Despite the Obama Administration’s attempts at health care “reform,” Americans are headed right back to the bad old days of unaffordable premiums. Despite President Obama’s recent assurances that rate increases will “come in significantly lower than what’s being expected,” private, profit-driven health insurers are requesting stiff premium increases – and state insurance commissioners are approving them. Tennessee is just one example, where insurance commissioner Julie McPeak approved an increase of nearly 40% by Blue Cross Blue Shield, the Volunteer State’s largest health insurer. That was the largest increase approved, but insurers in several other states have received approval for...

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Burger King Tries Commercializing and Trivializing UN’s International Day of Peace

Burger King Tries Commercializing and Trivializing UN’s International Day of Peace

Posted by | Aug 28, 2015 | |

Leave it to Corporate America to take something sacred and meaningful, co-opt it, and turn it into something cheap and tawdry in order to capitalize on it. The most recent demonstration of this is a publicity stunt Burger King tried to pull off.  On August 26th, Burger King published an “open letter” to McDonald’s in full-page ads appearing in the New York Times and Chicago Tribune: “We come in peace. In fact, we come in honor of peace. We know we’ve had our petty differences, but how about we call a ceasefire on these so-called ‘burger wars’?” Burger King’s...

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Biden’s Decision to Run for Prez complicated: Polls say yes; Son’s Dying wish was yes; “Emotion Fuel” says no

Biden’s Decision to Run for Prez complicated: Polls say yes; Son’s Dying wish was yes; “Emotion Fuel” says no

Posted by | Aug 28, 2015 | |

If current Vice-President Joe Biden wants to jump into the race for the Democratic nomination, he’ll have to make a commitment soon – or pass on the opportunity altogether. Were Biden anyone other than a sitting Vice-President, it would be too late already. On one hand, he isn’t attending the DNC meeting in Minneapolis this Friday with other Democratic candidates. There also are indications that he would skip the New Hampshire primary and the Iowa caucus, even if he now chose to run. According to New Hampshire Democratic chairman Ray Buckley, missing the first two primary elections “has not...

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Ring of Fire now Bigger than Rush Limbaugh: Progressives Rising, Conservatives Dying

Ring of Fire now Bigger than Rush Limbaugh: Progressives Rising, Conservatives Dying

Posted by | Aug 27, 2015 | |

Alexa Internet, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon.com, and the leading authority on internet traffic in the world, released its current rankings today. The Ring of Fire (www.ringoffireradio.com) is now bigger than Rush Limbaugh (www.rushlimbaugh.com). Ring of Fire is in the top 2,300 in U.S. internet traffic, among the hundreds of millions of internet sites. Rush Limbaugh is 400 spots behind ROF. The Progressive voice in America is rising, while the Conservative voice is dying. Traditional media, the GOP, and much of the Democratic party simply are out-of-touch with current society. We thank our audience for your continued support. The Ring...

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