Feb 1 2010

A Logic Error, If Anyone Cares

No one expects consistency from Democratic politicians, but the Institute for Energy Research notes an egregious contradiction in President Obama’s FY 2011 budget:

[Obama's budget] contained $36.5 billion in new taxes over ten years on the oil and gas industries, while heaping new billions in taxpayer support for politically-favored energies.
The White House budget request claims that, [...]

Dec 16 2009

A Modish Proposal

A silly thought just occurred. Utterly ridiculous.
One of the big bugaboos of angloamophous google climbup chants, often played as the trump card in any AGCC debate — where “debate” has that special liberal definition of a lengthy series of pronunciamentos by the anointed, followed by the suppression of Mr. Opponent’s research papers, and topped [...]

Oct 1 2009

Freedom From Foreign Oil

WASHINGTON — Boone Pickens likes to call it a “game changer,”
and the game he has in mind is a big one, the game for our global
energy security. Boone is the billionaire Texas oilman who years
ago warned that the price of oil will continue to go up, price
[...]

Aug 6 2009

Meanwhile, Our Energy Policy Is Still Perverse

In a less tumultuous historical moment, energy policy would be the issue of the day. The United States, for reasons that remain unfathomable, continues to be the only country in the world that refuses to develop its own energy resources. As a result, our economy is competing in the global marketplace with one [...]

Jul 21 2009

Coup on You!

In mounting desperation, Barack H. Obama and his band of merry men now demand the restoration of Manuel “Mel” Zelaya as dictator of Honduras on the same time schedule as the typical “revolutionary” (radical leftist, that is) Obamic legislation — e.g., government-run health care, crippling energy production, and shooting trillions of dollars of Monopoly money [...]

May 29 2009

Nancy Pelosi: ‘Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory …’

Nancy Pelosi spills the beans - Big Brother government has arrived!
As Rob at Say Anything aptly points out: The proponents of big government love global warming hysteria because it gives the justification to regulate every single aspect of our lives. Pelosi says as much while visiting China:
In answering a question [...]