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This is going to help the Defense Department weather looming budget cuts, for sure. Teaming up with the Department of Agriculture (which has a cheery Rotary Club ring to it), the Navy has purchased 450,000 gallons of biofuel for about $16 a gallon, or about 4 times the price of its standard marine fuel, JP-5, which has been going for under $4 a gallon.(full story at hotair.com)
You won’t be surprised to learn that a member of Obama’s presidential transition team, T. J. Glauthier, is a “strategic advisor” at Solazyme, the California company that is selling a portion of the biofuel to the Navy. Glauthier worked – shock, shock – on the energy-sector portion of the 2009 stimulus bill.
The Navy sale isn’t Solazyme’s first trip to the public trough, of course. The company got a $21.8 million grant from the 2009 stimulus package.
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For conservatives accustomed to left-wing bogeymen falling neatly into either the “Marxist” or “sixties radical” box, Saul Alinsky can make for a bewildering figure.Alinsky significantly never joined the Communist Party during the Red Decade. He later reflected, “I didn’t join because I had a sense of humor.” As a Roosevelt-era apparatchik of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), Alinsky defended union reliance on Communists to organize workers but also oversaw a touring beat-down crew targeting troublemaking Communists at the behest of the CIO.
This reappearing hypocrisy, which Alinsky’s critics decried as a vice, Alinksy himself celebrated as a virtue. Flexibility to changing tactics, rather than rigid adherence to principle, was the Alinskyite hallmark of successful activism.
Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawks dump crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act (1773)
Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honor of the German Mother (1938)
Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first post-Depression era city to default on its loans, owing $14,000,000 to local banks (1978)
Revolt in Kazakhstan against Communist party becomes the first sign of ethnic strife during Mikhail Gorbachev's tenure (1986)
Ron Paul raises a record amount of money online in a single day "money bomb": over $6 million in 24 hours (2007)
b: George Santayana (1863), Rudolf Diels (1900); d: Gabriel Narutowicz (1922)