New York legislators set to ban natural
gas hookups in new buildings
Posted By: Imright, 4/28/2023 8:23:50 PM
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) and state lawmakers reached an agreement to phase out natural gas hookups in new buildings beginning in 2025, a first-of-its-kind state law designed to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and transition to cleaner sources of energy. Hochul said Thursday she reached a handshake deal with lawmakers on the agreement, which was included in New York’s fiscal 2024 budget. Though the budget stops short of an explicit ban on natural gas appliances, it will ban natural gas hookups in most new residential and commercial buildings under seven stories beginning in 2026. By 2029, that will extend to larger industrial and commercial properties as well.
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The annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner is traditionally filled with out-of-touch liberal elites in the media, Hollywood & politics rubbing elbows in fancy ball gowns and tuxedos, while they thumb their nose at middle America. While that was true this year, there were some moments that enraged liberals and delighted conservatives, with emphasis on the word some. It was overall a conservative bashing session filled with sanctimonious lectures from liberal reporters about how important their jobs are.
Saturday night’s dinner was hosted by government-funded National Public Radio’s Tamara Keith
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News exclusively that House Republicans have already changed the way Washington works in their short time in the majority during a long form video interview in the Speaker’s ceremonial office in the U.S. Capitol.
The interview, the latest installment of the in-depth On the Hill video series from Breitbart News, was taped in mid-March just after McCarthy released some security tapes from the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol to then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson. The last time McCarthy sat down with Breitbart News for an in-depth video interview like this was a year before the 2022 midterm elections
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The chairwoman of the Republican party has warned that candidates will need to address the abortion issue 'head on' in order to win back the presidency in 2024.
Ronna McDaniel said on Sunday that Democrats have turned the issue of abortion into a rallying cry following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade last summer, while Republicans have tried to steer clear of the issue.
But if Republican presidential candidates instead challenge Democrats on their beliefs, the party may be able to win back swing voters, McDaniel said on FOX News Sunday.
A government watchdog filed a public records request to receive emails between Secretary of State Antony Blinken's private email and a government address.
Evidence from Hunter Biden's laptop showed communications between himself and Blinken when he served as deputy secretary of state in the Obama administration. Emails on the laptop reviewed by the Washington Examiner showed that Blinken and Biden corresponded and set up personal meetings using Blinken's private AOL email address when he served as deputy secretary of state. Email threads were then forwarded to the government address of Blinken's then-personal assistant, Linda Landers, so she could schedule the meetings.
“Cringe” somehow doesn’t suffice here. This is supra-cringe, trans-cringe.
Biden’s handlers invited the Air Force football team to congratulate them on their past season and rolled their charge out to meet them for a brief photo op.It would seem to be quite a simple task for a lifelong Swamp member: smile like you’re greeting old friends, gladhand like only a plastic politician can, gracefully accept the gifts, smile for the cameras some more, and depart.
But even that mission was too much for the alleged President to complete.
Via Military Times:
Secretary of State Antony Blinken lied to Congress about his communications with President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden, a GOP senator claimed on Sunday.
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Ramaswamy: I am.
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Biden's Speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner 9 replies
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These people are the worst.
Last night the government-endorsed corporate media gave an award to WaPo hack Matt Viser for his dishonest portrayals of Joe Biden.
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It takes some real talent to be THAT dishonest!
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to spread. 36 replies
bad for the planet. Bans are beginning
to spread. 36 replies
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Saturday Schadenfreude: CNN aired an amazing
confrontation that devastated Randi Weingarten 28 replies
confrontation that devastated Randi Weingarten 28 replies
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Dobbs was probably leaked by Sotomayor
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The Supreme Court decision last year in Dobbs v. Jackson overruled Roe v. Wade, their 1973 decision that purported to find an abortion right in a U.S. Constitution that never mentions or alludes to it. Abortion is now rightly governed by the people’s elected legislators, and, sadly, to some extent by unelected bureaucrats, but, in any event, not by judges.
The Dobbs decision was leaked a couple of months in advance of its issuance.
Ever since the 69-year-old conspiratorial activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination last week, a curious new category has appeared among the commentariat—libertarians and/or right-of-center journalists expressing strange new respect for a Hugo Chavez–admiring scion of the Establishment who has serially fantasized about throwing his political opponents in jail. (snip) Recasting RFK Jr. as a foe of censorship and potential tamer of government requires ignoring what he has been and imagining things he'll never be. (snip)
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While I’m not fond of “unpack” in this usage, there’s a lot to unpack in answering the headline question.
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While Only Donating 2 Percent to Animal Shelters 25 replies
Remember those commercials showing footage of dogs and cats living in deplorable conditions while singer Sarah McLachlan croons about being in the arms of an angel? There is a chance that you might have been moved to donate to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), the organization behind those ads.
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President Joe Biden starts his day with a workout and caps it off with a phone call to son Hunter while, sandwhiched in between, are a national security briefing, staff meetings, events, day trips and whatever else the day may bring.
The president's schedule has returned to the spotlight amid a new report claiming aides struggle to get the 80-year-old to do evening or morning events.
Biden literally carries his schedule around with him on a long white notecard, checking off items with a black pen as he moves through the day.
“Cringe” somehow doesn’t suffice here. This is supra-cringe, trans-cringe.
Biden’s handlers invited the Air Force football team to congratulate them on their past season and rolled their charge out to meet them for a brief photo op.It would seem to be quite a simple task for a lifelong Swamp member: smile like you’re greeting old friends, gladhand like only a plastic politician can, gracefully accept the gifts, smile for the cameras some more, and depart.
But even that mission was too much for the alleged President to complete.
Via Military Times:
Daddy Dearest: Hunter Forced to Appear
in Arkansas in Fight Over His Child’s
Name and Support 22 replies
in Arkansas in Fight Over His Child’s
Name and Support 22 replies
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