Bob McCarty Writes

Oil and natural gas industry officials were cautiously optimistic about their prospects Sept. 23 after House Democrats allowed an offshore drilling ban to expire.  After three and a half months of waiting for assurances from members of Congress, it appears those same officials might be on the verge of seeing their worst fears come true. [...]

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In a May 2007 post, I highlighted a Washington Post article in which writer Peter Finn pointed out that voluntarily or involuntarily placement of individuals in isolation or quarantine might not be far away.  Today, according to report in the Global Post, the South African government is already there, battling with multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis: Fearful [...]

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs today sent the following email to all Apple employees: Team, I am sure all of you saw my letter last week sharing something very personal with the Apple community. Unfortunately, the curiosity over my personal health continues to be a distraction not only for me and my family, but everyone else [...]

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Dear President-Elect Obama; If you do nothing else before taking office as president, I hope you will read The Joint Operating Environment 2008 (a.k.a., “The JOE”), a U.S. Joint Forces Command report that contains the following bit of military forecasting: In terms of worst-case scenarios for the Joint Force and indeed the world, two large [...]

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In a post yesterday, I pointed out the fact that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his fellow Democrats in the U.S. Senate seem focused on doing everything they can to oppose energy independence.  Fortunately, the folks in this country’s oil and natural gas industry are not following their lead.  Instead, they’re setting records for [...]

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Though the breakup of the Soviet Union began early in 1985, liberals haven’t stopped embracing communism.  In fact, “hammer and sickle” thinking is gaining ground in the United States, thanks largely to Barack Obama and the people he’s selected to serve in his administration. Yesterday alone, reports surfaced about two people with ties to communism [...]

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Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) used a YouTube video yesterday to express his extreme disappointment with President George W. Bush’s decision to give the Obama Administration and the Democrat-controlled Congress a “welcome present” in the form of the second $350 billion installment of the “vastly mismanaged and irresponsible $700 billion bank bailout to spend without oversight.” [...]

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