Black Leadership Failing Black Communities : 503 Days After Trayvon Martim

I wonder what this all means for our country? Who's in charge of bringing law and order to the black community? Why has this been allowed to continue even when we have a black president?

Doesn't the leadership care what happens in these communities?

Maybe the problem is, there just isn't any money to be made by trying to save black lives in black communities. And besides these black leaders might get shot themselves. The risk is to high without anybody with deep pockets to fill the plate when it's passed. These guys' motto is 'black lives matter' especially when it there own.

'It doesn't make good sense if I can't have some influence on how things go down standing next the mayor of Chicago, Rohm Emanuel, if I'm laying the street someplace, shot full of holes. Know what I mean? My job is to make things happen from the front row seats. If I can't sit tin the front row, how can I direct the action that we have to have to solve problems? Besides that, I'm in charge of passing the plate, and I'm good at that, know what I mean?

'Everybody has to have a job and mine is directing and soliciting, that is, making sure everyone puts enough in the plate so we can do things for the communities that need help. It's not an easy job, but someone has to do it, know what I mean? A lot of the time I have do and say things that aren't pleasant when the plate comes around and it's not full enough, but that how things get down.

'Look, it's what I do to make ends meet. We all have expenses and bills to pay, so when I have to get rough to make sure the plate is full, that's just how it is these days, know what I mean.'

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 This pretty well sums up the issue.  

That is, on average, over 21 per DAY!!!  ALSO: The United States ranks 3rd in Murders throughout the World.

 

However, if you take out Chicago ,  Detroit , Washington DC , and New Orleans , the United States is 4th from the Bottom for Murders.

These 4 Cities have the toughest Gun Control Laws in the United States . All 4 are also controlled by Democrats.

It would be absurd to draw any conclusions from this data ....... RIGHT....RIGHT? 

 

Evil Is That Evil Does : What's Happened To Fighting Back?

The problem is so many of us are hiding from anything that might disrupt their security and the good life. And as Edmond Burke stated, 'all that's necessary for tyranny to prosper is for good men to do nothing'.

Ever wonder why Mr Ogbjma and the progressive socialist liberal democrats have prospered even after having brought our country to it's collective knees?

The Clintions Are Perfect Deomcrat Candidates : Lawless and Shamless

Democrats will vote like there's no tomorrow to elect more insane people. And when Hillary and Bill win, the democrat voters will understand what it means to not have a tomorrow. Or will they? Not likely? No way!

And having a résumé's like this is just good democrat politics, and perfect reasons to vote for them. Of course, they left out negligent homicide for Benghazi, and treason for her personal email server. But who cares and really it doesn't matter, they're democrats. Everyone never expects democrats to be honest or trustworthy. It's just what they are. Republicans, or course most be held to higher standards, and if they step out of line, they are gone. Can you imagine a Republican with a resume like this running for president? Please!

Maybe the best way to explain the ideology of the democrat voter is to understand that the TV show, "The Walking Dead" was fashioned after the action of the democrat party and it's voters.

The producers saw so many comparisons between dead zombies and democrat voters, that they thought it was a perfect fit. And as we all know, it's a smashing success. WOW - who knew.

16 States AG's( All Democrats) Attacking : Climate Change Insanity Trumps Free Speech

Of course the 16 states AG's open letter stating they will attack any organization that believes they have a Constitutional right to free speech is seen as just crazy. But one has to understand what is happening here, this isn't just an attack to stop those that have a different opinion on climate change, they want to stop anyone from have any speech that the progressive socialist liberal democrats deem in conflict with their personal ideas of what free speech actually means.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute(CEI) that is being attacked has decided enough is enough and is fighting back. The fight is be long and expensive as is seems the prevailing wisdom by many supposedly Conservatives that say they are Constitutional based, but when it comes to actually making a stand to defend the Constitution, they run for cover. Luckily CEI is fight back against the horde of progressive AG democrat insanity. They are all democrats.
 
The most frightening thing in this attack by 16 AG's is there doesn't seem to be any push back by the media or by congressional members. Truly, if anyone ever wanted a definition of insanity this is it.
But think on this, have we lost of sense of the law for private individuals and their rights to free speech and opinion with fear of government attack.?
 
But wait, remember how in Wisconsin, the Milwaukee county district attorney, John Chisholm attacked Republican political individuals in the middle of the night with swat teams just because he doesn't like their politics? This fight for retribution is more then three years old and there still isn't any real consequences for his actions. No one is in jail.

Yeah, and he is a progressive democrat - who knew!!!

Victim of AGs’ Climate Change Inquisition Fights Back
Hans von Spakovsky / @HvonSpakovsky / April 22, 2016    

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) has launched a fierce counter-attack against Claude Walker, the attorney general for the Virgin Islands, who recently served a subpoena on CEI demanding documents related to CEI’s research on global “climate change.”

On April 20, CEI’s attorney, Andrew Grossman, filed a long and extensive objection to the subpoena and made it clear that CEI will not comply with it. Grossman, a lawyer at BakerHostetler and co-founder of the Free Speech in Science Project, told Walker in his cover letter that the attorney general’s legal action targeting CEI is “a blatant attempt to intimidate and harass an organization for advancing views that you oppose.” The only reason to try to force CEI to turn over its internal research and documents on this issue is “to punish [CEI] for its public policy views, chill its associations, and silence its advocacy.”

Grossman cites Walker’s own statements at the press conference held by AGs United for Clean Power on March 29 to show that Walker launched this investigation to achieve political ends, not “carry out any law enforcement duty.” Walker said his investigation was intended to “make it clear to our residents as well as the American people that we have to do something transformational” about climate change, stop “rely[ing] on fossil fuels,” and “look at reliable energy.” As Grossman says, Walker is entitled to his opinions on public policy, but Walker doesn’t have a right to wield his “power as a prosecutor to advance a policy agenda by persecuting those who disagree with” Walker.

The objection filed by Grossman on behalf of CEI not only points out the constitutional problems with Walker’s investigation, but some crucial procedural mistakes made by Walker. For example, Walker didn’t actually get a court in the Virgin Islands to issue the subpoena; he simply issued it himself. Subpoenas that are not issued by a “court of record” and that are not part of a “pending judicial action” cannot be domesticated in another jurisdiction like the District of Columbia where CEI is located and was served with the subpoena. This is the type of basic error that one might expect from a young law firm associate, not the attorney general of a U.S. protectorate.

But more fundamentally, CEI is objecting on First Amendment grounds, citing to court cases prohibiting the compelled disclosure of the type of information and documents that Walker is trying to obtain. Grossman claims that the subpoena “violates the First Amendment because it constitutes an attempt to silence and intimidate, as well as retaliate against, speech espousing a particular viewpoint with which the Attorney General disagrees.” CEI asserts that the subpoena is also “invalid because the underlying investigation is pretextual, is being undertaken in bad faith, is intended as a fishing expedition, and is in support of an investigation of charges that have no likelihood of success.”

In what may be a sign of the involvement of the plaintiffs’ bar in pushing these climate change persecutions in the same way it helped instigate the massive tobacco industry litigation, CEI says the subpoena is invalid and violates the Fifth and 14th Amendments because Walker has delegated “investigative and prosecutorial authority to private parties.”

CEI is referring to the fact that Walker’s subpoena was handled by a private law firm in Washington, D.C., Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, which has been called one of the “most feared plaintiffs’ firms” in the country. The firm itself brags about being the “most effective law firm in the United States for lawsuits with a strong social and political component” (emphasis added). CEI says that Walker’s investigation “could result in penalties available only to government prosecutors.” Thus, delegating “investigative and prosecutorial authority to a private attorney, Ms. Linda Singer, and a private law firm, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, that are most likely being compensated on a contingency-fee basis, violates due process of law.”

That raises a very interesting question about “AGs United for Clean Power”—are they hiring private firms like Cohen Milstein on a contingency basis to target climate change deniers?
CEI’s objection also claims that Walker, Singer, and the Cohen Milstein firm may be subject to sanctions for violating a local court rule in the District of Columbia that required them to “take reasonable steps to avoid imposing undue burden or expense” on CEI, and that this broad, burdensome subpoena “plainly violates that duty given its facial invalidity, astonishing overbreadth, and evident purpose of imposing unwarranted and illegitimate burdens on CEI and CEI’s exercise of its constitutional rights.”

CEI says that Walker, Singer, and the firm “violated their ethical obligations” under a D.C. Bar Rule that prohibits an attorney from “knowingly us[ing] methods of obtaining evidence that violate the legal rights of” a third party. CEI’s attorney concludes his letter to Walker by calling him (and all of the other attorneys general involved in this climate change cartel) out in very plain spoken terms:

 Your demand on CEI is offensive, it is un-American, it is unlawful, and it will not stand.

He gives Walker a warning and a choice: “You can either withdraw [the subpoena] or expect to fight … the law does not allow government officials to violate Americans’ civil rights with impunity.”

The Religion of Peace : History of Death to 270 Million

This is the reason why our government is against Christianity, they believe it's right and reasonable to accept Islam jihad to bring the entire world under the control of the Islamic ideology.

Mr Ogbjma believes that he must be a part of the Islamic jihad by demanding more then 10,000 refugees from war torn areas allowed into America every year.

But wait, according to several states governors, Muslim refugees are already arriving in many states unannounced by the bus loads all over the states, large and small cities.

The "transformation" is in full force. What good reasons  to vote for more democrats.

 

Defeating Islam's Jihad : A Video

Here is a great video that explains what most of already understands, that have been paying attention to the real war of Islam against the civilized world, but being ignored by the progressive socialist that believe accommodation is a winning strategy for themselves and for Islam radicals

How America Can Win the War Against the Global Jihadi Movement
Genevieve Wood / @genevievewood / April 22, 2016    

America has been at war since Sept. 11, 2001, but many Americans question whether we are winning. In his new book, “Defeating Jihad,” national security expert Sebastian Gorka makes the case that this is indeed a winnable war but that the first step to winning is identifying your enemy.

In his interview with The Daily Signal, Gorka says our enemy is not “terror” or “violent extremism.” It is the global jihadi movement—a modern totalitarian ideology rooted in the doctrines and martial history of Islam.

Gorka points to the Cold War as proof America has defeated totalitarian enemies before and lays out a plan for how we can do it again.

For more information on this topic please join us at The Heritage Foundation on April 25 for an event with Sebastian Gorka entitled, “Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War.”


 https://youtu.be/wb0NnCgu47U
 

Religious Liberty Bill : House Finally Moving Forward

Why is there so much push back against religious organizations and states that believe in first amendment rights of freedom to believe as they wish, free from government intimidation, but are
being attacked by main stream  news media, corporations and celebrities that threatening them because of their religious beliefs?

Easy - this is part of the "transformation" that Mr Ogbjma promised back in 2008. It also appears the Republicans are dragging collective feet allowing this bill to wallow for 10 months without taking actions.

Religious Liberty Bill Inches Forward in House After 10 Months
Philip Wegmann / @PhilipWegmann / April 21, 2016    

After more than 300 days, a bill to safeguard religious liberty in the marriage debate appears to be gaining momentum in committee. The legislation has attracted 164 co-sponsors since it was referred in June to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Now, with “the majority of the majority’s support,” Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, says circumstances “bode much better” for the bill. Rep. Raúl Labrador, R-Idaho, the original sponsor, sounded more bullish. Labrador told The Daily Signal that he expects “we’re going to see a bill [advance] here pretty soon.”

Called the First Amendment Defense Act, the bill would prohibit the government from discriminating against individuals or organizations based on their belief that marriage is exclusively a union between a man and a woman.
Labrador introduced the legislation 10 months ago as a stopgap measure to protect conscience rights after the Supreme Court’s decision last summer legalizing same-sex marriage.

The issue has gained attention at the state level. On April 5, Mississippi passed a religious liberty bill into law, while Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, a Republican, vetoed similar legislation. Conservatives have agitated for a bill to create a federal standard.

Asked why the bill languished in committee for so long, Chaffetz told The Daily Signal that a path needed to be cleared for passage before bringing up the measure for a vote. “We have to make sure we’ve got all the right people on board, and also look how to structure such a hearing,” Chaffetz, a co-sponsor, said.

It’s “a big, weighty issue,” he added, “and we want to make sure we lay the foundation properly.”
Labrador didn’t make much of the delay. “Congress is slow,” Labrador said, shrugging his shoulders. “It’s an important issue. It’s a controversial issue. [And] we need to be prepared for the hearing, but it’s time we do it.”

A hearing doesn’t guarantee the bill will advance out of committee. A politically boisterous session could swing public opinion against the measure.
Conservatives are pushing for a markup and floor vote on the legislation. 

Christianity IS Democracy's Foundation : The Peoples God Ruled

If you ever wondered why the Ogbjma administration, and the progressive socialist liberals are attacking Christians, wonder no longer. It is imperative that the God of the people that guides them in their daily lives must be destroyed.

To the progressive socialist there can only be one god, and that is the god of government.

How Christianity Helped Create Our American Democracy
Carson Holloway / April 22, 2016    

Alexis de Tocqueville, in his masterful work, “Democracy in America,” taught that religion is necessary for a healthy political order. As I argue at greater length in a new First Principles essay, American democracy, according to Tocqueville, owes both its origins and its preservation to Christianity. He thought religion “should be considered the first” of America’s “political institutions.”

Tocqueville observed that the modern impulse toward democracy and belief in equality emerged first and made great progress in the Christian nations of Europe. This was no accident: By teaching the equality of all men before God, Christianity laid the groundwork for the rise of a belief in equality of all before the law.

Christianity also played a key role in fostering the growth of democratic self-government in America. The tone of American political life was set by the Puritan settlers of New England. These pilgrims came to America in order to live out their religious beliefs in communities of their own creation. They governed their churches democratically, and by so doing they developed the expectation that they would settle political questions democratically, forming as well the habits of participation by which they could do so.

Nevertheless, Tocqueville did not treat American Christianity as if it were a mere relic of the past, necessary to institute American democracy but to be discarded after it had performed this useful political task. On the contrary, he held that the spirit of Christianity helped American democracy to continue to flourish even after it had been established. For Tocqueville, political freedom requires an unshakeable moral foundation that only religion can supply.

We tend to think of democracy as necessarily entailing freedom. But Tocqueville understood that democracy can end up resulting in various forms of oppression. Democracy means that the majority rules, which, when the majority is animated by a spirit of injustice, can result in majority tyranny. Democracy can also succumb to despotism of the government over its own people. This occurs when the people are so committed to the pursuit of their own private interests that they neglect the active participation in politics that is necessary to the preservation of their liberty.

Christianity, Tocqueville argued, supports American democracy by counteracting these dangerous tendencies. It checks majority tyranny by reminding members of the majority that there are inviolable rules of justice that must be respected in the treatment of minorities. And it prevents the rise of a despotic government by emphasizing the duties of citizens to each other, including their duty to protect their freedom through political participation.

It is true that Christianity does not dominate American culture the way it did in the 1830s, when Tocqueville wrote “Democracy in America.” We live today in a very different America. It does not follow, however, that Tocqueville’s advice to Americans to cherish and guard Christianity is now irrelevant.

For Tocqueville, statesmen today should faithfully preserve what’s left of a moral culture and teach others about the benefits of religion in general. A religion that supports limits on the just power of a majority and teaches obligations to others is necessary to support democratic flourishing. “What makes a people master of itself if it has not submitted to God?” Tocqueville asked.

Today, as conservatives continue to fight for religious liberty, we might recall not only individual rights to religious liberty, but religion’s essential feature for the preservation of our political order.
The byline for this piece has been updated to reflect Carson Holloway is the author.

IRS Continues Attack On Conservatives : Cell Phone Tracking Devices

Who knew? The IRS is still in the business of attacking Conservative taxpayers?  Now can it be? They promised all this criminal activity against the people would end. But of course there is little or no reason to believe that they have made any changes in their collective tactics to intimidate Republicans and Conservative groups for political reason.

Especially with Mr Ogbjma still in the White House, one has to believe his attack, the Ogbjma jihad against the country, is still on going. 2008, "I will fundamentally transform America".

IRS Can Track Your Cell Phone, but Leaves Billions in Taxes Uncollected
Philip Wegmann / @PhilipWegmann / April 21, 2016 



Koskinen, 'I am telling the truth, believe me'.

   

While the Internal Revenue Service continues to leave uncollected tax money on the table, the agency beefed up its surveillance capabilities in a move that alarms both conservative and liberal privacy advocates. Now some complain the IRS is acting too much like Big Brother and not enough like a traditional taxman.

Since 2006, the IRS has overseen an annual tax gap—the shortfall between taxes owed and collected—of about $385 billion, government analysts say. And according to an April report, the agency has not implemented 70 of 112 actions identified by the Government Accountability Office to close that loop. In 2009, though, the IRS purchased a “cell-site simulator,” more commonly known as Stingray technology. And since November, the agency has been trying to buy another of the devices.

Like something from a spy movie, a Stingray device mimics a cellphone tower, tricking all mobile phones in an area into revealing their location and numbers. Authorities can deploy the powerful technology to tag and track an individual’s location in real time.  More advanced versions of the devices can be used to copy information stored on a cellphone and to download malware remotely.
The devices are as controversial as they are prevalent. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, 61 agencies in 23 states and the District of Columbia own the devices.
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen says the IRS uses its Stingray to hunt down fraudsters and stop money laundering. The agency’s use of the devices remained a secret until an October report in the Guardian.

In a November letter to House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, Koskinen wrote that the agency’s technology “cannot be used to intercept the content of real-time communications” such as voicemails, text messages, and emails. Instead, the IRS chief said, the device has been used “to track 37 phone numbers.” And the IRS commissioner insists his agency deploys the tech only in accordance with state and federal laws. But during an April 13 hearing of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the deputy IRS commissioner for service and enforcement, John Dalrymple, couldn’t say whether the IRS obtained a warrant before activating the device.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, says he finds that concerning.

With a federal budget deficit projected at $544 billion in 2016, Jordan told The Daily Signal he’d rather have the IRS focus on “their fundamental job, which is to collect revenue due to the federal Treasury.”  He added:

The GAO has 112 things they suggest, recommendations for the IRS to actually deal with the $385 billion dollar tax gap. Not one of those recommendations was to purchase a second Stingray unit.

More than a misappropriation of resources, the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus said, he fears the IRS could abuse the technology to monitor political groups like it did in 2013, when the agency began targeting conservative nonprofits. “Now you have this same agency, who again for a long period of time went after people for exercising their First Amendment free speech rights, are using this technology and without a Fourth Amendment probable cause warrant,” Jordan said.
Nathan Wessler, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, said the technology poses a significant threat even when gathering basic information like names and numbers. In an interview with The Daily Signal, Wessler said Stingray devices could be “quite chilling on people’s right to protest.” And there’s already a precedent for misconduct, albeit at a more local level.

Wessler points to a 2003 incident when the Miami-Dade Police Department purchased a Stingray device to monitor a protest of a conference on the Free Trade Area of the Americas. According to an expense report obtained by the ACLU, police wanted the device because they “anticipated criminal activities.”  “It’s a pretty short step from those words to being concerned about the police intentionally downloading a list of every protester who shows up at some demonstration,” Wessler said. “It’s a powerful way to know who’s there.”

The IRS Criminal Investigations Division is already one of the more elite investigative agencies. Koskinen boasts that in 2015 the division achieved a 93.2 percent conviction rate, “the highest in all of federal law enforcement.”

It’s an open question whether the agency needs Stingray technology to complete its mission.
The IRS did not respond to The Daily Signal’s requests for comment made by emails and phone calls. Paul Larkin argues that the nature of IRS investigations makes real-time intelligence irrelevant. Larkin, senior legal research fellow at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal that IRS agents are following a paper trail to investigate previous crimes:

There is no good reason the IRS would ever need real-time data information. The crimes that the IRS investigates all occurred in the past. They’re investigating fraud against the government that’s already happened. They don’t have crimes in progress like a burglary.

But if the IRS ever needed to track a suspect in the moment, Larkin said, there’s a practical solution—teamwork. He explains that there’s “no legal hurdle” that prohibits the IRS from teaming up, for instance, with the Department of Justice and borrowing its Stingray technology.

Jordan says he isn’t ready to accept that the IRS ever needs access to the device. “Really, should the IRS have this and be using this at all?” the Ohio Republican said. “I tend to think you’d be better off with this technology not being in their hands.”

EPA's Environmental Terror : Jihad By Any Other Name - -

Again, we broach the subject of environmental tyranny, terror, and again it seems the clarion call to arms is lost on the majority of citizens.

The alarming news then and now is the same, the environmental movement has nothing to do with the environment, this is all about the plan by the progressive socialists democrats to get and keep power. How many times do we have revisit this subject before it sinks in that the environmentalist are not nice people. The EPA has only one function and that's to limit the options for access to abundant and cheap energy for industry and the people to prosper.

It has been proven over and over again by historical facts, there is no man-made climate change, global warming, and yet the narrative is we are all going to die if we don't continue the research that will cost $billions of tax dollars to save the planet.

The environmentalist are driven to force the population to do their bidding through fear, intimidations and maybe worst of all, the citizen's ignorance on the subject of what the progressive socialist have in mind when they say they want to "fundamentally transform America". The citizens careless ignorance will actually allow the progressives to obtain their dream of  transforming America into a third world state where the people become dependent subjects of the few elites in Washington.

Even worse yet, it appears a majority are willing to accept this fate as the new normal. Can this actually be happening in America?

The Green War Against the Working Class
Stephen Moore / @StephenMoore / April 20, 2016    

There was a time in America—and it wasn’t even so long ago—that liberals actually cared about working class people. They may have been misguided in many of their policy solutions (i.e., raising the minimum wage) but at least their heart was in the right place. Then a strange thing happened about a decade ago. The radical leftwing environmentalists took control. These are people who care more about the supposed rise of the oceans than the financial survival of the middle class. The industrial unions made a catastrophic decision to get in bed with these radicals and now they—and all of us—are paying a heavy price.

The latest evidence came last week when another coal giant in America, Peabody Energy Corp., declared bankruptcy. This is the same fate suffered by Arch Coal Inc., Alpha Natural Resources Inc., and other coal producers that have filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors.

Peabody has stated that the lower cost of natural gas may have been a factor in their decline, and I am all for market competition, but this isn’t a result of free market creative destruction. This was largely a policy strategy by the White House and green groups. They wanted this to happen. This was what Clean Power Plant rules from the Environmental Protection Agency were all about. The EPA set standards by design that were impossible to meet and even flouted the law that says the regulations should be “commercially achievable.” This was a key component of the climate change fanaticism that pervades this White House.

Ideas have consequences. Obama has succeeded in decimating whole towns dependent on coal—in Wyoming, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Illinois. Progressive liberals don’t seem to care that an estimated 31,000 coal miners, truckers, engineers, construction workers and others have lost their job since 2009 as a result of this global warming fanaticism. Another 5,000 or so could be given pink slips at Peabody. To the left, the families whose lives are ruined are collateral damage to achieve their utopian dream of saving the planet. The Stalinists who now run the green movement believe the ends justify the ruthless means.

Investors have gotten crushed too as a result of coal’s demise. The coal industry has lost tens of billions of dollars in stock value since 2009—with many of these losses in union pension funds and 401k plans. What is maddening about all of this is that coal is much cleaner than ever before. EPA statistics show that emissions of sulfer, lead, carbon monoxide, and smog from coal plants have been reduced by 50 to 90 percent in the last 40 years. (The air we breathe is cleaner than ever. Carbon dioxide, by the way, is not a pollutant—it doesn’t make you sick.)

Global warming fanatics should ask themselves what they are accomplishing. For every coal plant we shut down, China and India build another 10 or so. Our coal is much cleaner and our environmental laws much stricter than China’s and India’s, so this shift of output and jobs from the U.S. to our rivals succeeds in making us poorer and the planet dirtier.

America is the Saudi Arabia of coal. We have an estimated 500-year supply. So for economic and ecological reasons, we should want American coal to dominate the world market, but the mindless environmentalists’ rallying cry is: “Keep it in the ground.”

Do liberals care that the demise of coal could lead to major disruptions in America’s electric power supply?

Coal still supplies more than one-third of our electricity, because it is cheap and highly reliable—much more so than wind and solar energy. Perhaps the millennials will realize their mistake when they won’t be able to power up their PlayStation 4s, their iPhones, and their laptops.

Republicans in Congress aren’t blameless here. They have controlled the House for five years and both chambers since 2015. But they have sat by while the EPA destroys an iconic American industry.
Why has Congress not overruled EPA rules on carbon, which is not a pollutant? Every poll shows Americans care most about jobs and the economy—and only about 3 percent care most about climate change. Yet, they refuse to stand up to Obama and take the side of the American worker.

It’s not too late to revive American coal, but that strategy starts with putting jobs first. I thought that’s what both parties have been promising.