Solar meets polar as winter curbs clean energy (12/26/08, not in CCTimes)
One of the drawbacks of solar panels is that when real weather hits (like snow), there is no power.
Now this photo is from a story by the liberal NYTimes. Generally, the liberal CCTimes doesn’t hesistate to run pro-man-made global warming stories, but somehow they missed this one that showed the failure of “green” energy.Â
Excerpt: In January 2007, a [...]
California budget facts (12/21/08, not in CCTimes)
The liberal CCTimes likes to run stories about how budget cuts affect the less fortunate, but they never tell you how much the state takes from it’s citizens, so we at CCTimesWatch will do their job for you.
California has:
The highest income tax rates in the USA
The highest sales tax rate in the USA
The highest gas [...]
Global warming? (12/21/08, not in CCTimes)
The liberal CCTimes managed to squeeze in a story about how cold it is and has been across the country. The story reported the facts, but unlike stories about huricanes and droughts, this one never mentioned global warming.
Let’s summarize the current weather:
It has snowed in Las Vegas, New Orleans and Houston in the past two weeks.
It’s [...]
Cleaning up our air (12/19/08, page A18)
Editorial
Every day it becomes more obvious why newspapers are failing. Idiotic, short-sighted, myopic op-eds like this one make it clear these people running our newspapers are economically clueless.
1) Who’s going to buy the newspaper when the price has reached $1.50 an issue because of the high price of producing it (higher electricity costs for production, [...]
Republicans present their California budget (12/16/08, not in CCTimes)
So the Contra Costa Times run another biased hit piece on California Republicans who presented their ideas for a balanced budget. Of course the liberal CCTimes hated it.
But if they had shown you what the Republicans presented to the press maybe YOU would feel differently.
Check out the spending increases over the past 8 years.
$45,000,000,000 increase! [...]
Bush’s plaudits met with anger (12/15/08, Front Page)
Jennifer Loven, AP
It’s so obvious Jennifer was thrilled by the shoe thrower. It was a great opportunity to rant against President Bush. Check out these terms and quotes:
“[President Bush] got a size-10 reminder of his unpopularity”
“whirl-wind trip shrouded in secrecy and marred by dissent”
“the unannounced trip was a victory lap without a clear victory”
“nearly 150,000 [...]
Pressure on Illinois governor intensifies (12/12/08, page A12)
Deanna Bellandi & Christopher Wills, AP
When Senator Larry Craig had his little wide-stance incident, the liberal CCTimes couldn’t run enough front page stories about it. And in all of those stories it was pretty clear which party Craig was a member of.
Now we have a Democratic governor of one of our biggest states selling one of [...]