While our first Affirmative Action president fiddles, Nero-like, over the smoking rubble that was the American economy, few outside of the gun-nut community – of which we are card-carrying members – noticed the newest death-rattle, this emanating from the small (pop. 3,468) town of Herculaneum, Missouri. There in Herculaneum, at year-end, we will witness the demise of Doe Run, this nation's last primary lead smelter and in operation since 1892 – thanks, once again, to the goal post-moving United Snakes Environmental Protection Agency and its lackeys in the green movement. When we started paying attention to the mining industry some 40 years ago, twenty primary lead smelters operated in the U.S. By the time of the closure of the Bunker Hill smelter in Kellogg, Idaho, at the end of 1981 we were down to six. And now there will be none/David Bond, Wallace Street Journal. More here.

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