Bob McCarty Writes

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar continues to display ineptitude of the highest order on Day 85 of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. Below is the text of an e-mail he sent to all Department of the Interior employees “mole” — as a “Secretary’s Priority Message” Wednesday afternoon.  More than anything else, it [...]

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Oil and natural gas industry officials called for an early return to deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico during testimony delivered in New Orleans today at the first meeting of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. Andy Radford, senior policy advisor for the American Petroleum Institute, told [...]

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The American Petroleum Institute urged the U.S. Court of Appeals to uphold Judge Martin Feldman’s decision to stay the federal moratorium on deepwater offshore drilling. “The government took the proper steps to review the safety and operations of all rigs in the Gulf, following the Deepwater Horizon incident, but a blanket moratorium was a step [...]

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I just finished a 10-minute interview with Jeff Horwich, a reporter with American Public Media’s “Marketplace“, a program carried on more than 500 public radio stations across the country. Asked questions about the recently-released consumer confidence numbers and the relationship between those numbers being down and the news media’s reporting on the economy, I focused [...]

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How far are environmentalists willing to go to exploit the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster?  I have proof that they’re gushing outright lies about “Big Oil”. Below is an example of the kinds of blatant lies being circulated via e-mail about San Ramon, Calif.-based Chevron Corporation [Note: To protect the identity of the recipient of the [...]

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President Barack Obama knows all too well how easy it is to criticize others when you’re not in charge.  Five years ago, as shown in the video below, he seemed to revel in criticizing President George W. Bush for allegedly taking too long to respond to Hurricane Katrina and for being ineffective when he did [...]

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Though barely visible on the edge of the “cloud” of bad news related to the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, a “silver lining” can be seen.  Think 2012. One can only hope this silver lining becomes more clearly visible to voters as the Obama Administration’s ineptness at dealing with the oil [...]

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