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It looks like the
darling of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, in what is an
apparent flirtation with the GOP presidential nomination, was Rand Paul,
the son of Ron Paul and, like his father, a firebrand libertarian.
Paul’s message of less and less government has some staying power for this
conference. The Kentucky Senator was similarly lauded at last year’s CPAC. As
the way things are going for Appalachians, I have little hope that things will
change for the better in those states. They can continue to expect toxic spills
in their rivers. With a Rand Paul administration, however, that dismal future
would be a certainty. For him, the companies that mine coal can pretty much do as they please, and he dismisses mountaintop removal by saying, “I don’t’ think that anyone is going to be missing a hill
or two here and there.”
Looking
at some of the other things to come out of CPAC, it certainly seems like a lot
of Big Crazy is going on there. Here we have William Peter Pendly, author of Sagebrush
Rebel: Reagan's Battle with Environmental Extremists and Why It Matters Today speaking on
president Obama’s fictitious “war on fossil fuels.” Later in the video someone
in on the panel discussion dismisses concern or action on climate change by
saying that there is a “prejudice against the man-made,” due to “human racism.”
That, in essence, folks who are concerned about melting glaciers, rising
oceans, possible worsening weather events such as drought, floods, and more
sever storms, are only concerned because of their prejudice against the human
race. Is that Big Crazy or what?
