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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File this under “The best news I’ve heard in a long time”:
Libyan Leader Mu’ammar Qaddafi thanked the United States for hosting the United Nations for 50-plus years and implored his fellow world leaders to relocate the U.N. to someplace outside of the United States!  I agree wholeheartedly with the tinpot dictator from North Africa! Do [...]

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In a post published June 18, 2007, I shared news of an ABC News story published under the headline, Exclusive: Suicide Bomb Teams Sent to U.S., Europe.
ABC News correspondent Brian Ross reported that large teams of newly-trained suicide bombers were being sent to the United States and Europe. According to evidence contained in a then-new [...]

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Earlier this week, Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) drew criticism from liberals for saying he fears President-elect Barack Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist or fascist dictatorship.  I wonder, however, how those same liberals will react upon learning that representatives of the Taliban are comparing the president-elect to both the leaders [...]

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