Eric Florack on May 15th, 2008

Me at Outside the Beltway, yesterday:

For most of my adult life, I’ve worked in the Downtown area of Rochester, at one job or another. For the first year or so, and on and off after that, I tried

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davidl on May 13th, 2008

It is clear, and sadly predictable that John McCain has fallen for the hoax of anthropogenic global warming,.    Roy Spencer on “McCain’s Assault on Reason:”

John McCain’s global-warming speech on Monday made it clear that there will be

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davidl on May 13th, 2008

It is not the investor owned oil companies driving up the price of oil.  Doctor Sowell, Townhall, explains the price of oil in terms simple enough for even BO and  Mrs. Clinton to be able to understand:

With all

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Eric Florack on May 12th, 2008

Hume, Friday:

New information from the National Climatic Data Center might cool some global warming theories. According to the center, April 2008 was the coldest April in 11 years. The average temperature last month here in the U.S. was 51-degrees

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davidl on May 6th, 2008

Al GoreJeff Poor, Business & Media Institute “ Gore Calls Myanmar Cyclone a ‘Consequence’ of Global Warming:”

Using tragedy to advance an agenda has been a strategy for many global warming activists, and it was just a matter of time before

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Eric Florack on May 6th, 2008

Let’s break this down:

  1. Had Bill Clinton not vetoed ANWR drilling back in 1995, our supply of available crude would be at least 20% higher than it is today.
  2. That is one of several examples of our being prevented from

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Eric Florack on May 2nd, 2008

The New York Times, this morning, as well as Breitbart are pushing the line about how small car sales are through the roof.  But not really.

Bruce notes the Times link and says:

Apparently this qualifies as news.

Well, yeah,

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Eric Florack on May 2nd, 2008

Hume, last night:

There are strong indications that much the world may soon experience a decrease in surface temperatures. A report by German scientists in Thursday’s issue of the journal ‘Nature’ says shifting Atlantic Ocean currents will cool parts of

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Hillary Clinton has now joined John McCain in proposing the most irresponsible policy idea of the year—an idea that actually could aid the terrorists. What’s worse, both of them know that suspending the federal gas tax this summer is a

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davidl on April 29th, 2008

The North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources has releases a state report on the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota    The currentlly recoverable portion of the Bakken formation represents about ten percent of known domestic reserves.   That is just over

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Eric Florack on April 28th, 2008

Hemry Lamb in World Net Daily over the weekend:

With gas prices now yon-side of $3.50 per gallon, wouldn’t it be great to have an extra million barrels of domestic oil flowing daily into the American pipeline? Blame William Jefferson

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Eric Florack on April 23rd, 2008

It’s a famous scene from a great movie… Mel Brooks’ “Blazing Saddles”… where Slim Pickens and his band rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers,

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Eric Florack on April 22nd, 2008

As you may or may not know, today is officially “Earth Day”.

What you likley don’t know is that NBC and the WSJ sponsored a poll, the results of which are encouraging; Only around 4% of Americans think that “Global

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Eric Florack on April 19th, 2008

Says Billy Beck:

“Yet in recent years Russia has quietly become the world’s top producer of oil, in part by drilling wells as deep as 40,000 feet — far below the graveyards of T-Rex and his Mesozoic buddies.”

No matter

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Eric Florack on April 15th, 2008

“The reality is that people are dying already,” said Jacques Diouf, of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). “Naturally people won’t be sitting dying of starvation, they will react,” he said.

The UN says it takes 232kg of corn

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