As Donald Trump surrendered America’s leadership in the fight to protect the planet (and human rights) from climate change, he repeated the same boostery bushwah that…
Tag: Barack Obama
Senate Protects Obama Climate-Change Rule from Trump Repeal
Published 2017-05-11
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Cory Allen Heidelberger
Is Donald Trump already heading toward lame-duck status? Last November, President Barack Obama approved a rule limiting venting and flaring of natural gas from oil and gas wells…
Obama Already Sped Up Infrastructure Approval Process; Don’t Put Environment at Further Risk
Published 2017-04-12
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Cory Allen Heidelberger
At his Monday town hall here in Aberdeen, Senator John Thune fluff-responded to a question about speeding up the process for approving road projects (see video #13).…
ObamaCare Wins Again! Republicans in Trumple
Published 2017-03-25
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Cory Allen Heidelberger
On our Thursday walk home, when I explained the difficulties the Republicans were having getting votes for their health care bill, my daughter said, “It sounds like the…
South Dakota Senate Inviting Trump to Black Hills for Fourth of July
Published 2017-01-22
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Cory Allen Heidelberger
Speaking of Al Novstrup’s likeness to Donald Trump, my District 3 Senator has signed on to Senate Concurrent Resolution 1, a gentle call for more political…
“The Best Vice-President America’s Ever Had, Mr. Joe Biden”
Published 2017-01-12
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Cory Allen Heidelberger
Let’s celebrate what’s good about America. Let’s celebrate honest, thoughtful, and selfless public service. Let us celebrate, in the President’s words, “a lion in American history”…
Trump Stock Rally Fallacious and/or Based on Corruption
Published 2017-01-04
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Cory Allen Heidelberger
Economist Noah Smith says the blog post I’m about to write is full of crap: The Fundamental Fallacy of Pop Economics (which I get to name, because…
Merry Christmas from the President and First Lady of the United States
Published 2016-12-24
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Cory Allen Heidelberger
Grace, humor, dignity, love, and a call to service: our President and our First Lady wish us all a Merry Christmas: President Barack Obama: As we…
U.S. Law Now Explicitly Protects Religious Freedom of Atheists
Published 2016-12-23
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Cory Allen Heidelberger
Merry Christmas, fellow atheists! An eager reader notices that President Obama sent us secular humanists a present last Friday when he signed the Frank Wolf International Religious Freedom…
Democratic AGs Ready to Follow Jackley’s Lead, Fight Trump in Court
Published 2016-12-16
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Cory Allen Heidelberger
South Dakota Attorney General has joined lawsuits against the Obama Administration on transgender access to school facilities, immigration, greenhouse gas emissions, and the Affordable Care Act. (I…