Bob McCarty Writes

Members of the mainstream media — people who call themselves “journalists” — seem to have paid absolutely no attention to a Congressional Research Service report on energy released Oct. 27 — this, despite the fact that two energy-related measures (i.e., the Kerry-Boxer and Waxman-Markey) are at the center of heated debate now taking place on [...]

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The United States could be energy independent if it possessed the collective political will to make it happen.  After all, the country has the largest energy reserves on earth, according to a recently-released Congressional Research Service report.
As shown in the first chart below, the United States’ 1,321 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) tops number [...]

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Though speaking almost one year apart, King Abdullah II of Saudi Arabia Jordan and President Barack Obama seem to have a penchant for the concept of 57 states.
In a TimesOnline article this morning about prospects of Middle East peace, Saudi Arabia Jordan’s king was quoted by writer Richard Beeston as saying, “This is not a [...]

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President Barack Obama gave his first sit-down media interview to Al Arabiya TV’s Hisham Melhem — much to the chagrin of U.S. media outlets — Monday evening. Due to the fact that Press Secretary Robert Gibbs opted to publish a six-paragraph snippet on The White House Blog instead of providing a full transcript, I had [...]

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If President Barack Obama succeeds in shutting down Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility within 12 months, he will be tempted to describe himself as an emancipator in the mold of Abraham Lincoln.  Unfortunately, as shown in the My Personal Litmus cartoon above, the terror suspects who will inevitably be released from “GITMO” as a result of [...]

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