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Rand Paul: "I believe business should be left alone from government." - On mountaintop removal: "I think a lot of the land apparently is quite desirable once it's been flattened out.... I don't think anyone's going to be missing a hill or two here and th

Sure the WashPost mocked Sen. James Inhofe (R-OIL) as "the last flat-earther." But that was a purely metaphorical description of the pro-pollution right-winger.  Turns out U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul's (R-KY) actually thinks a lot of Kentucky would be "quite desirable" if it were literally flattened by big coal.

The scientific reality is quite different — see Science bombshell explodes myth of clean coal: Mountaintop "mining permits are being issued despite the preponderance of...

Rand Paul: "I believe business should be left alone from government." - On mountaintop removal: "I think a lot of the land apparently is quite desirable once it's been flattened out.... I don't think anyone's going to be missing a hill or two here and th

Sure the WashPost mocked Sen. James Inhofe (R-OIL) as "the last flat-earther." But that was a purely metaphorical description of the pro-pollution right-winger.  Turns out U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul's (R-KY) actually thinks a lot of Kentucky would be "quite desirable" if it were literally flattened by big coal.

The scientific reality is quite different — see Science bombshell explodes myth of clean coal: Mountaintop "mining permits are being issued despite the preponderance of...

Rand Paul: "I believe business should be left alone from government." - On mountaintop removal: "I think a lot of the land apparently is quite desirable once it's been flattened out.... I don't think anyone's going to be missing a hill or two here and th

Sure the WashPost mocked Sen. James Inhofe (R-OIL) as "the last flat-earther." But that was a purely metaphorical description of the pro-pollution right-winger.  Turns out U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul's (R-KY) actually thinks a lot of Kentucky would be "quite desirable" if it were literally flattened by big coal.

The scientific reality is quite different — see Science bombshell explodes myth of clean coal: Mountaintop "mining permits are being issued despite the preponderance of...

Rand Paul: "I believe business should be left alone from government." - On mountaintop removal: "I think a lot of the land apparently is quite desirable once it's been flattened out.... I don't think anyone's going to be missing a hill or two here and th

Sure the WashPost mocked Sen. James Inhofe (R-OIL) as "the last flat-earther." But that was a purely metaphorical description of the pro-pollution right-winger.  Turns out U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul's (R-KY) actually thinks a lot of Kentucky would be "quite desirable" if it were literally flattened by big coal.

The scientific reality is quite different — see Science bombshell explodes myth of clean coal: Mountaintop "mining permits are being issued despite the preponderance of...

Rand Paul: "I believe business should be left alone from government." - On mountaintop removal: "I think a lot of the land apparently is quite desirable once it's been flattened out.... I don't think anyone's going to be missing a hill or two here and th

Sure the WashPost mocked Sen. James Inhofe (R-OIL) as "the last flat-earther." But that was a purely metaphorical description of the pro-pollution right-winger.  Turns out U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul's (R-KY) actually thinks a lot of Kentucky would be "quite desirable" if it were literally flattened by big coal.

The scientific reality is quite different — see Science bombshell explodes myth of clean coal: Mountaintop "mining permits are being issued despite the preponderance of...

Rand Paul: "I believe business should be left alone from government." - On mountaintop removal: "I think a lot of the land apparently is quite desirable once it's been flattened out.... I don't think anyone's going to be missing a hill or two here and th

Sure the WashPost mocked Sen. James Inhofe (R-OIL) as "the last flat-earther." But that was a purely metaphorical description of the pro-pollution right-winger.  Turns out U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul's (R-KY) actually thinks a lot of Kentucky would be "quite desirable" if it were literally flattened by big coal.

The scientific reality is quite different — see Science bombshell explodes myth of clean coal: Mountaintop "mining permits are being issued despite the preponderance of...

Rand Paul: "I believe business should be left alone from government." - On mountaintop removal: "I think a lot of the land apparently is quite desirable once it's been flattened out.... I don't think anyone's going to be missing a hill or two here and th

Sure the WashPost mocked Sen. James Inhofe (R-OIL) as "the last flat-earther." But that was a purely metaphorical description of the pro-pollution right-winger.  Turns out U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul's (R-KY) actually thinks a lot of Kentucky would be "quite desirable" if it were literally flattened by big coal.

The scientific reality is quite different — see Science bombshell explodes myth of clean coal: Mountaintop "mining permits are being issued despite the preponderance of...

Rand Paul: "I believe business should be left alone from government." - On mountaintop removal: "I think a lot of the land apparently is quite desirable once it's been flattened out.... I don't think anyone's going to be missing a hill or two here and th

Sure the WashPost mocked Sen. James Inhofe (R-OIL) as "the last flat-earther." But that was a purely metaphorical description of the pro-pollution right-winger.  Turns out U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul's (R-KY) actually thinks a lot of Kentucky would be "quite desirable" if it were literally flattened by big coal.

The scientific reality is quite different — see Science bombshell explodes myth of clean coal: Mountaintop "mining permits are being issued despite the preponderance of...

Rep. Issa on oil clean up: "Our environment heals itself in time after you take most of the sludge away."

More for the "conservatives say the darndest things category," via TP.

This morning on Fox Business, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the ranking Republican legislator on the House Oversight Committee, spoke to host Don Imus about BP's oil spill disaster. Imus asked Issa if he thought the Gulf region will ever be cleaned up and fully restored to its original state before the spill. Issa responded that he did believe the oil pollution could be taken care of, and explained that in Alaska, after t...

BP, Halliburton, and Transocean skip Mississippi hearings on the oil disaster

Late last month, Mississippi state House Speaker Billy McCoy (D) and Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant (R) created a select committee to investigate the Gulf Coast oil spill. "[T:]he people of Mississippi deserve to know how this happened and what the future may hold for this most valuable part of our state," said McCoy. A key part of the select committees' mission would be to hold hearings with top officials from companies responsible for the spill.  TP explains things didn't quite pan out as planned.

Howe...