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...