Read ’em and Weep

Let Go of the Past and Allow Offshore Drilling – George Skelton writes in the LA Times (h/t The Foundry)

So there’s a gusher of hypocrisy here: The state that is the biggest consumer of gasoline in the nation — but produces less than 40% of what it uses — is opposed to drilling for more oil off its shores. We’re slackers not pulling our weight.

Who Often Blocks Alternative Energy Projects? Radical Greens – Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial

They represented the handful of environmental extremist groups that are all for a renewable revolution, as long as it doesn’t involve the construction of wind turbines (they might kill birds), solar power arrays (they take up too much land and displace threatened bugs and rodents) or transmissions lines (they ruin scenic views), and as long as it doesn’t allow this country’s metropolitan areas to grow larger.

Don’t believe it?  Head over to www.lightsonOregon.com to see more radical opposition to alternative energy sources.

The Foundry has a great update on the state of card check and unions.

The president of California’s largest union local, the 160,000-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in Los Angeles, yesterday announced he would take a leave of absence and the local would be placed in a temporary trusteeship. Tyrone Freeman’s departure comes after an in-depth series of Los Angeles Times articles detailing how Freeman fleeced union members —  who make about $9 an hour caring for the infirm and disabled — of over $1 million in 2006 and 2007 alone.

And it gets worse from there.  The LA Times articles the blog mentioned are well worth a read to get caught up on what will definitely be an important issue next year.

Readers interested in checking into union activities on their own can go to www.unionreports.gov and read up on things like the non-salaried dispersements and perks union bosses get.