The real choice that we face is a choice between jobs that create a cleaner, more sustainable economy, and jobs that maintain the dangerous, dirty economy of the past.

John Shimkus doesn’t really want to drill or mine. He wants other people to do the dirty work and drill and mine for him.

Last year, when Illinois congressman John Shimkus was invited by his constituents to a discussion on climate change, he didn’t show up. John Shimkus is, on the other hand, an attending guest of honor at a weekend-long bash thrown for him this Friday in Orlando, Florida. Shimkus represents neither the city of Orlando nor the [...]

Results of the 2010 congressional primaries in Illinois, and the special primary election in Florida’s 19th district as well.

A summary of the Illinois primary elections for Congress held today.

The truth is that Iran has no such capability. Iran’s most powerful missile can only reach Israel, a thousand miles from Iran. The east coast of the United States is almost another seven thousand miles beyond that.

The entire planet, in the view of Shimkus, should defer to the profitability of those two coal mines.

A coal job is a job with a dwindling future. Congressman Shimkus would better serve his constituents by supporting legislation to replace old coal jobs with new jobs that will provide the skills and opportunities to be successful in the future.

John Shimkus is arguing that if you’re a good Christian, you should let the coal industry have its way. Polluting the atmosphere without restraint is what God wants.

If an oil company isn’t even using the leases of public lands they already have, why should they take on yet more leases… unless what those oil companies really want to do is just squat on their leases of public lands with oil under them only in order to prevent the oil from being drilled, thus decreasing supply and artificially driving up the cost of petroleum products so that they can make a bigger profit without doing any more work.