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The Bully’s Pulpit
There is so much wrong with how Barack Obama has handled the Gulf oil spill, it's almost hard to know where to begin.Put aside the ineptitude of the approval process and clean up response. For today, I'm focusing on the tentative settlement with BP. While...
Claims Adjuster In Chief
There is something profoundly bass ackwards in the way Obama is reacting to the disaster in the Gulf.Obama keeps focusing on legal liability:President Obama will use his first Oval Office speech Tuesday night to outline a plan to legally compel BP to create an escrow...
Is It His Katrina Yet?
The evidence mounts of bungled permitting, delays in response, and understating the impact:U.S. Said to Allow Drilling Without Needed Permits - "Those approvals, federal records show, include one for the well drilled by the Deepwater Horizon rig, which exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers...
Whitewater II
This is my obligatory "Tommy, you're doing a heck of a job" post. Or more appropriately, "Tommy, keep paddling."Jake reports, I repeat:Though his agency was charged with coordinating the federal response to the major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Department of the Interior...
“Eight Days In April,” by Paul Krugman
My my, how Paul Krugman worries that our President may come under criticism from the vast right-wing conspiracy for the Eight Days In April.The Eight Days In April during which our President twiddled his environmental clean-up and emergency response thumbs in the face of what...
Droll, Baby, Droll!
The reaction to Obama's announcement that he is opening up some offshore areas to drilling is laughable. There will be no drilling anytime soon, and the plan closes more areas to drilling than it opens.This likely is Obama's attempt to tack to the center as...
The Coming “Green” Collapse
As I posted earlier, the key elements in "green" technology are rare metals mined mostly in China. The green economy envisioned by the Obama administration as the means by which we will grow "green jobs" and lessen our dependence on foreign oil in fact simply...
Obama Green Plan: Substitute Dependence On Chinese Metals For Dependence On Saudi Oil
From where do the ingredients of "green" technology come? Apparently, mostly from some environmentally toxic mines in China:Some of the greenest technologies of the age, from electric cars to efficient light bulbs to very large wind turbines, are made possible by an unusual group of...
Bush Hid Ice Images From People Who Can’t Use Google
The global warming debate has entered the conspiracy-theory phase with this hysterical article at The Guardian: Revealed: the secret evidence of global warming Bush tried to hide.Contrary to what the global-warming alarmists claim, however, there is scientific dispute over ice measurements.What is not lacking, however,...
He Even Called Boxer “Ma’am”
This video has been active on the internet because the head of the National Black Chamber of Commerce took offense to Barbara Boxer's condescending attitudeBut at least Boxer held her temper, even though the witness repeatedly called her "ma'am," in contrast to when Boxer chewed...
“Shut Your Mouth” To Save The Planet
One of my enlightened readers from Seattle has a solution to save the planet. He took time out of his busy day to share the secret with me. And since this secret is so important, I will share the advice with you:Have a nice life,...
Because I’m Entitled
I did it because I'm entitled to burn a jet-load full of fuel, even though:I plan to cap industry's production of carbon emissions regardless of whether it destroys our global competitivenessMy carbon emission caps will cost consumers thousands of dollars per family in higher energy...
Shell Gives Heave-Ho To Wind, Solar and Hydrogen
The centerpiece of Obama's energy plan is "alternative" energy, such as wind and solar power. Tens of billions of dollars in the "stimulus" package go towards these technologies. The viability of Obama's energy plan is called into question by Royal Dutch Shell's announcement that...
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