Think last week's Senate vote rejecting the $1.2 trillion global warming tax hike bill means the issue is dead?  Think again.  From this morning's Politico:Environmental lobbyists have already swung their focus around from the Senate to the House, from which the next big bill is predicted to emerge. Maintaining momentum from the old bill is key, they say, and members can expect a push this summer that is nothing short of global warming boot camp.

Americans for Prosperity's seventy-foot-tall hot air balloon will visit six more states from June 17th through June 21st, making stops in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, and Ohio.

Taxpayer champ and anti-earmark crusader Congressman Jeff Flake today struck back at Congressman David Obey's "Check Yes or No for Earmarks" Dear Colleague with this clever response. Click to read!

Good news from the presidential campaign trail this afternoon, via Rob Bluey at RedState -- Sen. John McCain has wholeheartedly endorsed an amendment sponsored by Sen. Jim DeMint that would impose a one-year moratorium on all pork-barrel earmarks: