From the Cheap Seats

ProgressNow has encouraged supporters of the left-wing agenda to take to Twitter with the hashtag #ProudToPay

If you’re grumbling about filing your taxes today, look on the bright side: You’re part of the revolution.

The tireless lefties at ProgressNow Colorado, who are never so upbeat as when they’re taking other people’s money, have an April 15 Facebook post that combines the best of the Cultural Revolution with a dash of the old Soviet Union’s Young Pioneers. It shows a line of smiling schoolchildren with the message, “Taxes Teach Kids.” Read more »

Fisker is looking a lot like the motorized version of Solyndra and Abound

A funny thing happened to the taxpayers of 2025. They just got a heck of a shock from from an electric car.  Those poor kids have been Fiskered and they don’t even know it.  But they will.

The California-based company Fisker Automotive got $500 million from the freespending Obama administration – and if you want to think of it as half a billion bucks, feel free -  and Fisker promptly went out of business. Read more »

Environment Colorado’s plans for a global warming press conference were sidelined by, you guessed it, a snowstorm

Environment Colorado, also known as the Colorado chapter of the National Association of the Irony Challenged, is to release a report this week about how global warming – keep that word “warming”  in mind – is endangering Colorado. Read more »

Does Rep. DeGette think a high-capacity magazine is a multi-year subscription to 5280?

It’s now an article of faith among the enviros and leftists that those who are least competent should regulate.

It started this month when Dems in the Legislature decided that people in the energy industry ought not sit on the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.  What, Cheap Seats wonders, could possibly go wrong? Read more »

Worries about how modern advances are fracking up the atmosphere are, in a word, bogus

President Lyndon Johnson supposedly said that when he lost Walter Cronkite, he lost the Vietnam War.

We might soon find out what will happen now that rabid environmentalists have lost the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

It’s become an article of faith among the rabid enviros that hydraulic fracturing causes more greenhouse gases to enter the atmosphere than conventional drilling. The belief is what fires up all the fanning of fears of fracking. Read more »

Britain is braced for the coldest Easter on record with the bitter Arctic blast showing no signs of easing

If the globe is getting so warm that James Hansen has issued yet another “game-over” warning, then why is Europe’s temperature falling faster than bank accounts in Cyprus?

Weathermen in Great Britain must be be feeling a little nervous when they try to explain why England is bracing for the coldest Easter on record. Read more »

Cheaps Seats, you and even Maggie Fox (aka Mrs. Mark Udall) are carbon-based life forms dependent on the abundance of the element for existence

Mrs. Sen. Mark Udall is going farther off the rails,if that’s possible.  Maggie Fox, wife of the Colorado Democrat and head of the Climate Reality Project (CRaP), has released a  video about “The Cost of Carbon,” whining about how there’s just too much darned carbon. Read more »

Jones’ e-mail was among tens of thousands released by Mr. FOIA, and there are likely more illuminating emails yet to be discovered

Big Warming, it turns out, likes to use opposition to raise money.  In fact, Mrs. Sen. Mark Udall could learn a few lessons, assuming, of course, that she hasn’t already.

One of the high priests of global warming, Phil Jones, back in 2005 wrote to his fellow members of the priesthood that something profitable might be afoot. Read more »

The Senate, which hasn’t passed a budget in years, managed to find time to pass a resolution recognizing World Plumbing Day

The U.S. Senate, which likes to describe itself as the “most deliberative body in the world” – so deliberative in fact that it has proven itself completely incapable of passing a budget for three consecutive years – has thrown caution to the winds and found the time to recognize World Plumbing Day. Read more »

The same bunglers at the State Dept. who botched Benghazi came close to giving an award to an outspoken anti-Semite who celebrated the 9/11 attacks

WWTJD?  Well, we know what the ever-watchful Obama-Clinton-Kerry State Department, those observant folks who brought us the Benghazi disaster, did.  Last week, the same band of geniuses was all set to give a big award to Samira Ibrahim, an Egyptian activist as one of nine International Women of Courage.  Read more »