{"id":18274,"date":"2013-06-27T14:13:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T18:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18274"},"modified":"2013-06-27T14:13:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T18:13:31","slug":"puncturing-liberal-climate-change-pretension-in-a-single-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18274\/puncturing-liberal-climate-change-pretension-in-a-single-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Puncturing Liberal Climate Change Pretension in a Single Tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In<a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/44-energy-and-environment\/1886-the-imperial-presidency-goes-green\" target=\"_blank\"> my column this week<\/a>, I take aim at President Obama&#8217;s announcement earlier this week that he&#8217;s unilaterally moving the EPA towards forcing carbon emission reductions on coal producers. Of course, this will impact the job prospects of precisely the sort of everymen that liberals claim to champion, an observation rendered beautifully concise by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospectmagazine.co.uk\/blog\/renewable-energy-socialism-rupert-darwall-age-of-global-warming\/#.UcyADOvaiWS\" target=\"_blank\">Rupert Darwall writing at the <em>Prospect <\/em>blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A brilliant tweet at the time of the Thatcher funeral encapsulates the  left\u2019s ideological confusion\u2014being in favour of coal miners and against  what they mined.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my column this week, I take aim at President Obama&#8217;s announcement earlier this week that he&#8217;s unilaterally moving the EPA towards forcing carbon emission reductions on coal producers. Of course, this will impact the job prospects of precisely the sort of everymen that liberals claim to champion, an observation rendered beautifully concise by Rupert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,26,608,205,121,4182],"class_list":["post-18274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-climate-change","tag-epa","tag-global-warming","tag-margaret-thatcher","tag-rupert-darwall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18276,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18274\/revisions\/18276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}