Answers to Questions Nobody Is Asking

The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.  

Answers to Questions Nobody Is Asking
“Why Americans Never Fell in Love With Soccer”–headline, CNN.com, March 18

He’s Luckey the Blade Can’t Spell Any Better Than He Can
“Luckey Teen Wins Blade Spelling Bee”–headline, Toledo Blade, March 18

Obama Keeps a Promise
“Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s appointees at the Department of Water and Power took the first step Thursday toward imposing electric rate increases of up to 28%, despite complaints from neighborhood activists and business groups,” the Los Angeles Times reports:

On a 4-0 vote, the board agreed to increase the cost of electricity by 0.8 of a cent per kilowatt hour, the first of four increases planned over the next year to help the nation’s largest municipal utility cover its financial commitments and continue Villaraigosa’s plan for securing more renewable power. . . .

Backers of the plan called it a major step away from coal power, which makes up 44% of the DWP’s energy portfolio. Coal has been less expensive but is a huge polluter.

Here’s then-Sen. Barack Obama in January 2008: “Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Coal-powered plants, you know, natural gas, you name it, whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.”

Isn’t it great to see the president…fulfilling one of his campaign promises?

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