Earth Day Ain’t Vladimir Lenin’s Birthday by Accident Happy New Year, All. ’Tis the time to resolve them if you’ve got them. For Republican presidential primary contenders, here’s an anti-Establishment thought: Pledge to shut down the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). (There are, after all, fifty state versions thereof. The federal is thus, at the very least, utterly redundant.) The EPA is all that is wrong with Washington, D.C. It is the result of yet another awful foray into bipartisanship (in DC, if it’s bipartisan - it’s almost always awful). Pseudo-Republican Richard Nixon created the mess in 1970 in typical DC fashion - he pretended to be Congress and signed an executive order. The Democrat-controlled Congress then pretended to be Congress - and