My friends at the American Petroleum Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based group that represents some 400 companies involved in the oil and natural gas industry, sent me a note about an extremely-dangerous piece of legislation being sponsored by Sens. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.). It contained the substance of a statement API President [...]
Entries from October 2009
API: Kerry-Boxer Worse than Waxman-Markey
October 24th, 2009 · No Comments
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Obama Struggles with Teleprompter…Again!
October 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
President Barack Obama visited the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today to deliver an address about American leadership on clean energy and meet MIT faculty and students whose research is focused on energy. Unfortunately, as shown in the video above, the man who inspired my Barack Uhhbama line of merchandise spent an inordinate amount of energy [...]
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Uncle Sam Laments ‘Two Trillion Tons’ of Waste
October 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
In a humorous parody of Tennessee Ernie Ford’s 1955 hit, “Sixteen Tons,” the “Two Trillion Tons” video above features Uncle Sam warning Americans that President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan and budget could be hazardous to the nation’s economic well-being. The lyrics of the song were written by Jim Gossett and Lars Larson for The [...]
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Is There Link Between Nazi-Looted Paintings, Future Home of G.W. Bush’s Presidential Library? No!
October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
Some people seem willing to do anything to draw attention to themselves. Case in point: The headline of a news release (below) issued today by the Monuments Men Foundation: Nazi Looted Paintings Discovered at Southern Methodist University, Future Home of the George W. Bush Presidential Library Despite it being used in the headline (click here [...]
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Survey: Fewer Americans Worried About Warming
October 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment
There has been a sharp decline over the past year in the percentage of Americans who say there is solid evidence that global temperatures are rising, according to results of a new survey released today by The Pew Research Center for People and the Press. And fewer also see global warming as a very serious [...]
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Report: U.S. Failing to Address Urgent Biothreat
October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
The United States is failing to address its most urgent threat—biological proliferation and terrorism—concluded a report issued today by the bipartisan Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism. In a news release yesterday, the commission also felt the Obama Administration has given appropriate high-level attention to the nuclear threat but [...]
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‘Talking Pinata’ Author Makes Case for Virtue
October 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments
While the headline of a post I published eight days ago gave passing eyes an idea of the direction that post would take, it was the first paragraph (below) that offered more details: I find myself especially thankful that all three of my sons are old enough that they no longer require toys with every [...]
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