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This story was written by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Satyam Khanna, Matt Corley, Ali Frick, Benjamin Armbruster, and Brad Johnson. Yesterday, citing the " squeeze of rising prices at the pump ," President Bush rescinded the presidential moratorium on offshore drilling . The moratorium on lease sales in the Outer Continental Shelf was established in 1990 by his father, George H.W. Bush, in response...
On Friday, the Bush administration “ rejected its own experts’ conclusion that global warming poses a threat to the public welfare, launching a comment period that will delay action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at least until the next president takes office.” As the Wonk Room’s Brad Johnson notes, EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson “attack[ed] the clear and present threat of global warming” and...
PhinPhanatic remembers a pair of frustrating Dolphins losses. The Vikings have had a few (hundred) of those too. Brad Johnson’s back-up job with the Cowboys may be in trouble. Cat Crave is counting down the top 10 moments in Panthers history. Where does “Steve Smith makes Fred Smoot his bitch for all-time” rank? Arrowhead Addict considers the Matt [...]
Not three days after Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he is confident with the backup quarterback position going to Brad Johnson, the team is looking for a new guy to play behind star Tony Romo. The only other guy on the roster is Richard Bartel, a seemingly unknown who has no starting experience (heck, neither [...]
Filed under: Cowboys , NFC East , NFL Fans , NFL Rumors So it looks like Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was lying through his teeth when he said he " had a lot of confidence in [backup quarterback] Brad Johnson ." Of course, he could've been joking, or j ust being a good general manager . Whatever, I'm guessing Dallas fans were a little concerned. Well, some good news on the Tony Romo Understudy position:...
Filed under: Cowboys , NFC East Before their abbreviated hibernation prior to training camp, the Dallas Morning News ' Cowboys Blog caught up with owner Jerry Jones and unearthed this nugget : A few weeks ago you said you would be open to getting a backup QB. You still trying to do that? "All the confidence. A lot of confidence in Brad. Had real good camps and real good work." That's Brad Johnson...
Last night, CNN’s Larry King Live stacked its show with oil, coal, and nuclear apologists. One of the show’s guests — prominent libertarian pundit John Stossel — said of Big Oil: “I think these oil companies are heroes.” Watch it: The Wonk Room’s Brad Johnson reveals CNN’s pro-energy industry bias.
By Kate Sheppard Brad Johnson over at Wonk Room acquired a copy of the EPA's recommendations on regulating greenhouse-gas emissions that the White House has been trying so hard to hide . The documents give you a good idea why: EPA officials concluded that the benefits of new, tougher standards "far outweigh their costs." In fact, if gas prices stay in the range of $3.50 a gallon, "the net benefit...
Food for thought on the Iowa floods By Brad Johnson I think Friends of the Earth has a good response: http://foe.org/ If we don't have honest discussions about our failures of planning and the need to respect climate change when we rebuild, we're all in a heap of trouble. I hope what I've been writing doesn't sound [...]
As the Wonk Room’s Brad Johnson reports, President Bush today exerted executive privilege to block the House Oversight Committee’s subpoenas for EPA documents on global warming, heading off a scheduled contempt vote for EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson and White House Office of Management and Budget regulatory administrator Susan Dudley. Committee chairman Henry Waxman’s (D-CA) blistering [...]
By Brad Johnson Originally posted at the Wonk Room . The traditional media rarely discusses extreme weather events in the context of global warming. However, as the Wonk Room Global Boiling series has documented, scientists have been warning us for years that climate change will increase catastrophic weather events like the California wildfires, the East Coast heatwave, and the Midwest floods that...
In the Center For American Progress Action Fund’s Progress Report yesterday, the Wonk Room’s Brad Johnson wrote that “the evidence for the consequences of global warming is appearing with alarming frequency.” Citing the recent flurry of destructive storms, floods, heat waves, and droughts that have hit the U.S., Johnson argued that “the media are strangely [...]
The freaks have no shame. The latest burst of glabal warming idiocy comes from the ironically named The Center for American Progress: June 12, 2008by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Satyam Khanna, Matt Corley, Ali Frick, Benjamin Armbruster, and Brad Johnson ENVIRONMENT Global Boiling The evidence for the consequences of global warming is appearing with alarming frequency. This morning's headlines are...
Our resident superstar and blogger extraordinaire was a guest today for the Football Guys podcast. You can listen to the show here. The Cowboys currently employ Brad Johnson as the backup quarterback to Tony Romo. Great leader in the locker room. Solid veteran presence on the team. A Super Bowl winner. And someone who will be 40 years old in September. While Johnson certainly isn't the worst backup...
