davidl on December 13th, 2007

Speaker Pelosi

If there is one thing I admire about Mrs. Pelosi is how clean her toes are: 

WASHINGTON (AP) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lashed out at Republicans on Thursday, saying they want the Iraq war to drag on

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Eric Florack on November 28th, 2007

McQ, this morning, looks at the Citibank investment yesterday:


Soren Dayton says this may be the “Defining news story of the cycle”…

Citigroup Inc., the biggest U.S. bank by assets, will receive a $7.5 billion cash infusion from Abu Dhabi

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

McQ gets into a fairly well detailed examination of our energy policy woes:

We hear (and have heard) political promises to make the US “energy independent” by x number of years coming from all the current presidential candidates. And

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Eric Florack on November 26th, 2007

Over at Right Wing News, our Fellow Swamp Stopmer, Sister Toldjah, notes the Eco-Nazis are at it again:

—- The SF Chronicle reported earlier this month that the Bay Area Air Quality Management District is considering a ban on the

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Eric Florack on November 25th, 2007

Fellow Swamp Stomper, McGehee:

Forget about the threat that mankind poses to the Earth: our activities may be shortening the life of the universe too.

Damned SUVs.

The startling claim is made by a pair of American cosmologists investigating the

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Eric Florack on November 24th, 2007

I note this morning by way of Memeorandum, that Australia has condemned itself to a labor government.  I suspect that by the time they figure out how badly they succeeded and damaging themselves will be too late.  The Belmont Club

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Eric Florack on November 22nd, 2007

I always said it would happen. Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters:

As irrefutable evidence mounts that Nobel Laureate Al Gore’s climate alarmism is about nothing other than lining his supposedly green pockets with green currency, manmade global warming skeptics around the

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2007

McQ over at Q&O:

Frankly I’m surprised it has taken him so long to realize the potential.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wants to turn OPEC into “an organization of monopoly and exploitation,” according to Saudi King

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Eric Florack on November 19th, 2007

McQ over at O&O made a trip to an oil platform, and relates his experiences here.

There’s a lot going on in that post, but I do want to point up something  that relates to a discussion we had the

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Eric Florack on November 18th, 2007

Times are tough for the Republican Party and its candidates. Earlier this month, according to Gallup, more people strongly disapproved of George W. Bush than any previous president since the advent?of polling—and, really, how could things be any different? Bush

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davidl on November 13th, 2007

hillary31.jpgChris Welch and David Schechter, CNN, report on Muriel  Gallo-Chasanoff of one Mrs. Clinton’s plants from Grinnell, Iowa:

Gallo-Chasanoff, whose story was first reported in the campus newspaper, said what happened was simple: She said a senior Clinton staffer

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Boortz, doing a message to Bill Clinton:

You want to talk about being “rough” on your wife?  Let’s do a short review:

We’ll start with a few names: Gennifer Flowers, Dolly Kyle Browning, Then there’s Monica Lewinsky, Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen

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davidl on November 13th, 2007

Mike Allen, Politico, reports on Howard Dean’s latest gaff:

In another statement likely to stir debate among the evangelical Christians his party is urgently trying to court, Dean also asserted “there are no bars to heaven for anybody,” according

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Eric Florack on November 10th, 2007

Here’s a little-used graphic of currently understood domestic oil potential, that the Washington Post ran some months ago:domesticoil.gif

(Drill the pic for full size)

Now, before you comment on the limitations involved, be aware most of the limits are man

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Eric Florack on November 10th, 2007

Major Garrett At Fox News:

IOUX CITY, Iowa —Fox- Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s campaign admitted Friday that it planted a global warming question in Newton, Iowa, Tuesday during a town hall meeting to discuss clean energy.

Clinton campaign spokesman

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