Almost three weeks ago, I published a post, Texas Chrysler Dealer Warns Fellow Americans, which included a warning letter written by Nicholas Parks, president of Rogers Dodge in Alvin, Texas, near Houston. Today, I share a recent House floor speech in which Rep. Ted Poe (R) of Texas’ 2nd Congressional District questions decisions made by [...]
Entries from June 2009
Texas Congressman Questions Chrysler Decisions
June 11th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: · 2nd congressional district, alvin, chrysler, chrysler dealer, chrysler dealership, congressman ted poe, dealer closings, doug ross, House of Representatives, houston, nicholas parks, rep. ted poe, rogers dodge, ted poe, texas, texas' 2nd congressional district
DeMint Calls GM Debacle ‘Political Bankruptcy’
June 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments
In a letter e-mailed to friends and supporters today, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) issued a scathing retort about the bankruptcy filing by General Motors. The text of that letter/e-mail appears below: Dear Friend, The bankruptcy filing of General Motors last week didn’t have to be this way. GM could have – and as many of [...]
Tags: · bailout, bankruptcy, Bob McCarty, general motors, Jim DeMint, Sen. Jim DeMint
Coming Soon: New Chevron Ecuador Lawsuit Post
June 10th, 2009 · No Comments
I’ve been super busy the past two days working on a new piece related to the $27 billion environmental lawsuit the Amazon Defense Coalition is waging against Chevron Corporation in Ecuador. Stay tuned as this one will be worth the wait. To learn more about the ADC’s spurious lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador, read these [...]
Tags: · amazon defense coalition, chevron, chevron corporation, donziger, ecuador, Lawsuit, steven r donziger, stever donziger
API: More Federal Regulations Will Cause U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Produciton to Drop Significantly
June 9th, 2009 · No Comments
When I visited sites in Western Colorado’s Piceance (pronounced “pee-ahnce,” not “Pic-ee-ahnce”) Basin in April, I was able to take an up-close look at natural gas facilities there and learned a lot about the care and concern employees of companies like Tulsa, Okla.-based Wiliams demonstrate for the environment: They reuse and recycle almost all of [...]
Tags: · 50-year-old technology, american petroleum institute, clean enough to drink, cutting-edge offshore driling technology, drilling operations, drilling site, Energy, energy security, fraccing, green completions, hydraulic fracturing, ihs global insight, Jack Gerard, natural gas, offshore drilling technology, oil and natural gas, oil and natural gas production, Oil Industry, piceance, piceance basin, recycle, reuse, well-completion technique, western colorado, williams
‘Dealergate’ Continues to Undermine Obama
June 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments
The video above shows representatives of Chrysler and General Motors auto dealerships appearing before members of a U.S. Senate committee recently to discuss “Dealergate,” the scandal that reveals auto dealers who contributed to Republican candidates as yet another set of victims in President Barack Obama’s sinister plan to redistribute wealth in the United States. Uncovered [...]
Tags: · auto dealers, automobile dealers, Barack Obama, car dealers, chrysler, chrysler dealers, clinton donors, Constitution, dealergate, dealergate maps, dealers, dealership closings, democrat-friendly dealers, doug ross, doug ross @ journal, general motors, general motors dealers, gm, gm dealers, Obama, olbermann, president barack obama, redistribute the wealth, Republican, republican candidates, Senate, stillborn motors, U.S. Senate, zero hedge
It Will Take a Miracle for GM to Pay U.S. Back
June 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment
I was impressed by what I learned today about the “bill of goods” that is being sold to the American taxpayer in the form of the government rescue of General Motors: $30.1 billion = 60 percent stake in New GM’s equity $20.6 billion = Amount federal government spent trying to keep GM out of bankruptcy [...]
Tags: · bankruptcy, bill of goods, federal government, general motors, gm, gm equity, gm's value, new gm, new gm's equity, taxpayers, treasury, us treasury, what i learned today
Limbaugh Says Obama ‘Incompetence on Parade’
June 9th, 2009 · No Comments
In his morning update today, Rush Limbaugh described President Barack Obama’s administration as “incompetence on parade.” Below is the full transcript of the morning update: “The Obama Administration is considering changing the law that applies to terrorists at Club GITMO. “The New York Times reports that changes to the law are detailed in a draft [...]
Tags: · 9-11, Bush, capital punishment, club GITMO, david glazier, GITMO, incompetence, incompetence on parade, international credibility, interrogations, Limbaugh, loyola law school, martyr, Martyrdom, National Security, New York Times, Obama, obama administration, Rush, Rush Limbaugh, Sept. 11, Terrorism, terrorists, The New York Times







































