The Obama administration announced today a new Climate Service, akin to the National Weather Service. It will “provide Americans with predictions on how global warming will affect everything from drought to sea levels,” according to The Washington Post.

The toughest part of fighting back against big-government liberals these days is to keep up with all the reckless choices they make with our money and freedom.

You might have noticed, for instance, that Senate Democrats just voted to raise the federal "debt ceiling" -- the maximum amount Washington politicians can borrow on the backs of our children and grandchildren -- by an eye-popping $1.9 Trillion. Let's just hope and pray that Obama does not know what comes after a trillion.

President Obama and Budget Direct Peter Orszag have thrown transparency out the window and created a black box for taxes and spending on climate change hidden inside their 2011 budget.

February 02, 2010
By Phil Kerpen - FOXNews.com

The big news in last year’s budget release was the revelation that the Obama administration planned to use cap-and-trade to raise $646 billion dollars over ten years to finance its big spending programs. At the time I wrote here in the Fox Forum that estimate was a lowball of what actually constituted the biggest tax increase in U.S. history, something White House economist Jason Furman later admitted when he revealed the real revenue would likely be triple the official estimate. So the first thing I checked in this year’s budget was how much revenue was expected from the cap-and-trade energy tax, to which the president reiterated his commitment in his State of the Union address last week. The surprising answer is the budget actually has, literally, a blank line for the cap-and-trade tax. A black box. A slush fund. A secret budget-within-the-budget. Talk about a lack of transparency.

Read the rest at FOX Forum.

Listen to a related 2-minute KerpenCast here.

Catch AFP President Tim Phillips as he joins other conservative leaders for a special live Webcast tonight, Feb. 2!

What: "State of the Union: Voice of the People" -- a conservative response to the president
Where: Webcast on http://tvtownhall.com/ (broadcast live from Family Research Council)
Who: Herman Cain, host, with leaders from the Media Research Center, Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, FreedomWorks, AFP, Institute for Liberty, Tea Party Patriots
When: Tuesday, Feb. 2, 8 p.m. ET -- live Webcast

Join Americans for Prosperity New Hampshire for a townhall event with The Wall Street Journal's Steve Moore to respond to President Obama's speech in Nashua. Get past the spin and rhetoric and learn about the challenges facing the country from health care to the debt.

Register here for the free event below:

Date: Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Time: Doors Open at 3:30pm - the event starts at 4:00pm
Location: Marriott Courtyard Nashua (2200 Southwood Drive)