Tag: oil disaster
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About That “Catastrophic” Gusher in the Gulf… Meh.
There’s a BP station on the route between my home and my work, and that’s where I always get my gas. I’m not a fan of boycotts, especially ones that primarily victimize local business owners with no say in corporate affairs. Besides, the station charges the same price for cash or credit. It’s hard to […]
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Victor Davis Hanson Offers a Useful Cliff Notes Guide to the Obama Presidency
Victor Davis Hanson is one of my favorite authors — so much so that I was surprised just now to discover that I never made a VDH “tag” for my blog posts. (I just made one now… maybe someday I’ll go through the annoyingly tedious process of assigning the tag to past blog posts. It […]
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Financial Services “Reform” to Complete Obama’s Tragic Trifecta
ObamaCare is such a train wreck that Americans support repealing it by a 2-1 margin. Don’t even get me started on the wasteful and dishonest Porkulus bill. And now comes yet another 2,000-plus page bill, a financial services "reform" measure that does a lot of things — but fails to address the actual causes of the financial meltdown that began nearly two years ago and has us staggering still.
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Zakaria Lays the Right Oily Blame at the Foot of the Wrong Target
It’s up to Obama to keep the media tail from wagging the presidential dog.
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Reaction to Obama’s Speech Reflects the Limits of Government Power
The President and the Left wing of his party believe that government is the answer to every problem. Obama now is being savaged from the Left over an environmental disaster that government is powerless to stop. I didn’t know what the issue would be, but I’m on record from before the inauguration predicting eventual disillusionment. […]
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Some Contrarian Thoughts on the Gulf Oil Disaster
I think my credentials as a critic of President Obama are fairly well established, but it’s absurd to blame him for the oil spill, or for the failure (so far) to stop it. And calls for Obama to show more anger have led only to the demeaning spectacles of Obama saying he wants to know […]