Jeff Jacoby: The Real Oil and Gas Profiteers Are the Demagogues on Capitol Hill
Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe nails Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) for the latter's attacks on oil companies: What would you call a return of $850,000 on an investment of just $20? A windfall? A rip-off? If such a killing were made by someone who was already a multimillionaire, would ...
Kelo v. New London: Scandalous Updates
Based on my casual conversations with folks who are familar with Kelo v. New London (the case in which the Supreme Court claimed governments can take private property from one private entity and give it to another), few folks who are outraged by the Court did are familar with the ...
White-Hating Segregationists Master Photoshop and a Few Big Words — Will Other Skills Follow?
The white-hating segregationists are at it again. Last week, one of their number put Maryland's black Lt. Governor Michael Steele in blackface, crudely attempting to claim that since Steele is conservative he's not truly black but a white man in blackface (it is taken for granted that to be white ...
Just Barely Inside the Beltway: New Tool Avoiding Traffic Congestion
Just Barely Inside the Beltway reports on a new possibility: Cell phones could be used to monitor traffic congestion, building a picture that could be used to help drivers avoid congested roads ...
Small Group of House Republicans Derails ANWR Drilling
BACKGROUND: Both the U.S. House and Senate budget bills included a provision that would allow for oil drilling in a small fraction of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Senate passed its budget bill last week, but leaders in the House dropped the ANWR provision late November 9 after a ...
White-Hating Segregationists Master Photoshop and a Few Big Words — Will Other Skills Follow?
BACKGROUND: Both the U.S. House and Senate budget bills included a provision that would allow for oil drilling in a small fraction of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Senate passed its budget bill last week, but leaders in the House dropped the ANWR provision late November 9 after a ...
House Moderates Block New Oil Drilling, Then Drive Home
The Senate blamed oil executives for oil supply shortages Wednesday, while the House, finding its budget-saving measure held hostage by a tiny group of anti-drilling Republican moderates, decided to drop an effort to permit drilling for oil. From the Washington Post: House GOP leaders agreed last night to strip plans ...
Does He Wear Croc Dentures?
A headline from Reuters: 135-Million-Year-Old Crocodile Found in Argentina I'll never complain that I feel old again! ...
Horace Cooper: The First Borking
Quiz: What judicial nominee was the first victim of a "borking," as described in this paragraph: Led by Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana, a cadre of Senate Democrats worked hand in glove with special interest groups to organize the first "borking" of a Supreme Court nominee. Read Law Professor Horace ...
Trial by Jury Beats Incarceration by Fiat
Rusty Yates, husband of the woman who drowned her five small children, claims the United States is "barbaric" for even putting the killer on trial: Rusty is no fan of the treatment of mentally ill patients in the United States. He says Americans don't have an accurate concept of mental ...
Historic Preservation v. Property Rights?
Peyton Knight has written a critique of the Trust for Historic Preservation, "Historically Untrustworthy: How the Trust for Historic Preservation Works Against Property Rights," for the Capital Research Center: "The National Park Service and others will use the National Register as a bludgeon against the property owner and trample his ...
WSJ: DDT Saves Lives
The Wall Street Journal says DDT saves lives: It's horrifying enough that malaria -- a preventable and curable disease -- claims one million lives every year and that most victims are Africa's pregnant women and children under five. Compounding this tragedy, however, is the global lobbying effort against the most ...
Historic Preservation v. Property Rights?
Peyton Knight has written a critique of the Trust for Historic Preservation, "Historically Untrustworthy: How the Trust for Historic Preservation Works Against Property Rights," for the Capital Research Center: "The National Park Service and others will use the National Register as a bludgeon against the property owner and trample his ...
New on Blogroll Today
New on blogroll today: The Liberty Zone Ragged Thots Judicial Philosophy Foundational Patriot Punch If you have this blog on your blogroll and I don't have yours, drop me a note. It might not happen immediately, but I try to reciprocate ...
Easy Way to Reduce Gas Prices
Dan Mitchell notes there is an easy way to reduce gas prices (but he also says Congress won't do it): Reduce the federal gas tax ...
Phyllis Schlafly v. Pentagon Feminists, with Rumsfeld as Arbiter
Men in the military -- and fair-minded Americans generally -- should read Phyllis Schlafly's latest column. Some excerpts: The feminists have launched a devious attack on the U.S. Armed Services that could have a very detrimental effect on morale, retention, and recruitment... ...They have persuaded Rumsfeld's Community and Family Policy ...
John Kerry: Self-Sufficiency is Off the Table
Courtesy of the The Massachusetts Daily Collegian, a quote from Senator John Kerry: All politics is a reaction to felt needs. You need to get people to feel the need. Our job is to make sure the right felt need is taken into consideration. I gather that, in the Senator's ...
Kendra Okonski: Environmentalist Priorities at Odds With Interests of Poor People
Writing in the Bangkok Post, Kendra Okonski says climate itself is a bigger problem than climate change: Nearly all the alleged negative consequences of climate change are in fact problems that we face today... ...In most poor countries, climate -- that is to say the prevailing weather -- is a ...
A Pro-France Revisionist View
I received a thoughtful letter today in response to a post I wrote after publication of John Miller and Mark Molesky's book, "Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France." My post was less than pro-France. This gentleman speaks up for France, thoughtfully, and his letter is ...
Health Care Quiz
In the paragraph below, a doctor is speaking at the inquest of a woman who died of an untreated perforated bowel. Question: Is the doctor a first world doctor working in a third world country, or a third world doctor working in a first world country? In my country, if ...
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