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Inhofe Declares Kerry-Lieberman Bill ‘Dead’ (Update)

May 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) made a lot of good points during a Fox Business interview with Stuart Varney this morning. Most importantly, Senator Inhofe explained that the Kerry-Lieberman Global Warming Bill is basically another form of cap-and-trade legislation and that it’s dead before it hits the U.S. Senate. On offshore drilling in the wake of [...]

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New Hertz Ad Says ‘BUYCOTT ARIZONA!’

May 2nd, 2010 · 9 Comments

Only days after Gov. Jan Brewer (R) signed into law Arizona’s tough new immigration measure, I expect officials at Hertz® Car Rental will be forced to decide whether or not they should pull a new television commercial from the airwaves.  After all, it appears to say, “BUYCOTT ARIZONA!” The television commercial features an obviously-in-love 20-somethings [...]

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Lease Sale Attracts Nearly $1 Billion in High Bids

March 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment

News that the Central Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Lease Sale 213, held today in New Orleans, attracted nearly $1 billion in high bids, according to the Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service, had leaders in the nation’s oil and natural gas industry excited and calling upon the federal government to replicate the [...]

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Video Offers New Take on ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’

November 9th, 2009 · No Comments

In a thinly-veiled video effort to generate buzz about their involvement in the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, Samsung recently released a new video that puts a whole new spin on a phrase made famous by former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin — “DRILL, BABY, DRILL!” The only thing that would have made this [...]

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Russian Solves College Football Playoff Dilemma (Updated)

December 29th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Igor Panarin, a Russian academic whose prediction of the United States’ demise in 2010 made him the subject of a Wall Street Journal article today, may have unwittingly provided those calling for a college football playoff with a solution. Put politics aside for the moment and take a look at Panarin’s 2010 map of the [...]

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Report: Increased Drilling Generates Revenue, Creates Thousands of Jobs, Boosts Energy Security

December 8th, 2008 · No Comments

The development of the United States’ vast domestic oil and natural gas resources that had been kept off limits by Congress for decades could generate more than $1.7 trillion in government revenue, create thousands of new jobs and enhance the nation’s energy security by significantly boosting domestic production, a study released Monday shows. The ICF [...]

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Writer Says ‘Something Monumentally Large Afoot’

November 13th, 2008 · 31 Comments

“There is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is just a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis,” reads a comment published today at PatDollard.com. “Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus.” [...]

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