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Bruce Thompson
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February 5, 2025
JD Vance visits East Palestine again, promises to bring MAGA common sense to clean-up Biden’s failuresIt’s time to get to the bottom of the derailment disaster.
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February 3, 2025
Incompetence at the IRSTax season is upon us, but weaponized failure reigns supreme.
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September 19, 2023
Stop blaming Venus for Green New Deal oppression on EarthOne big premise for the Green New Deal is that Venus's atmosphere is a 'runaway greenhouse.' And yet...just no.
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July 9, 2023
TEAM USA and diversityShouldn't recruitment ads for sports be featuring actual athletes instead of group-identity politics?
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June 28, 2023
Preventing the Next East Palestine, Ohio, Train DerailmentThe overarching message from the recently wrapped-up government hearings is to not expect much from the government entities involved in preventing future derailments.
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May 4, 2023
East Palestine derailment updateWe are now three months past the derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train in East Palestine, Ohio. What have we learned?
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March 25, 2023
Preliminary report card for the NTSB in East PalestineThe National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has a well earned reputation for after-the-fact analysis of transportation accidents. How did it do in East Palestine?
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September 8, 2022
Will California freeze in the dark?The current electricity crisis in California is an echo of a similar situation in 2000–2001.
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January 31, 2020
Hillary dodging process servers?In the fine tradition of mob bosses for over a century.
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September 1, 2019
Bernie Sanders’s TVA problem for his Green New DealThe largest government-owned electric utility reveals so much.
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July 20, 2019
The silence of the wind turbinesJust as electric demand for air conditioning is peaking, the wind turbines stop spinning.
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April 11, 2019
Nick Sandmann v. Washington Post: The defendant countersuesSo what are some of the scenarios? Here are a few...
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April 4, 2019
Don Blankenship, Round 2: Taxpayers to pay $550,000 for MSHA failuresA federal lawsuit settlement supports Blankenship's innocence.
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February 21, 2019
Nick Sandmann wouldn't be the first to win a libel suit against the Washington PostHe might take some pointers from an old oil magnate.
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February 14, 2019
Senator Ed 'Green New Deal' Markey's recordEd Markey has a record of spinning the facts.
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January 27, 2019
Hey, Ocasio-Cortez: The planet was saved two years before you were bornAlready missed her chance to save the world?
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January 6, 2019
Green Power in the Fourteenth Congressional District of New YorkAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez should take notes in her red notebook.
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November 29, 2018
Obama pathetically claims credit for increased oil productionNo thank-yous to President Obama (or Bush 43).
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November 21, 2018
Educating Chris Wallace – Trump StyleChris Wallace got an exclusive interview with President Trump for his “Fox News Sunday” show. How did Chris do?
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November 16, 2018
Governor Jerry Brown vs. UCLA scientistsCalifornia governor Jerry Brown is claiming that global warming is causing the current rash of severe, wind-driven wildfires in California.
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September 29, 2018
Michael Bromwich, left-wing superheroWhen leftists toss in Michael Bromwich, they're in deep trouble.
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August 16, 2018
Republican vs. Democratic mayors of Somerville, Mass.: A contrastThat was then; this is now.
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July 29, 2018
Want to pin down corrupt officials? Try 'obstruction of Congress'It is rarely pursued, but the statute is simple and to the point.
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May 5, 2018
Don Blankenship's West Virginia Senate candidacy putting DOJ on trialTV commercials in the West Virginia race make the case for regulatory and prosecutorial abuse in a coal mine accident.
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April 21, 2018
TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline updatePresident Trump's deregulation efforts are bearing fruit.
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February 25, 2018
Compare and contrast: Cowardice at Parkland vs. heroism in the deep seaPeople talk about the fires of Hell. Here are two heroes who have been there and lived to tell of it.
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February 10, 2018
When the French do 'military' better than the USAIt's not every day that President Trump needs to play catch-up to a French socialist ex-president.
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February 8, 2018
The stress is showing on Lisa Page's faceA new photo captured by the UK Daily Mail says a lot.
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January 23, 2018
President Obama, Jay-Z, and 's-holes'Maybe President Trump should put out a rap album.
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January 21, 2018
Mad Dog Mattis still working hard during shutdown timeChina and Russia had better look over their shoulders.
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December 11, 2016
The Polar Vortex Comes to Kill AGW HypeNASA is going to face a choice, tell the truth about the hype of AGW, or see your funding for Mars exploration cut out. Elections have consequences.
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May 2, 2016
Hollywood’s October SurpriseIt is predictable that in the end phases of the 2016 election Hollywood will try to shape public perceptions. But in a big budget/big star vehicle film, we can guardedly take heart.
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April 6, 2016
Final justice in the BP spillKurt Mix should be nominated for the Congressional Gold Medal.
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March 12, 2016
Chicago, 1968, all over again?The thuggish behavior exhibited by students at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) hearkens back to an earlier era.
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March 11, 2016
The mathematics of ending the endless war on povertyDoes welfare state spending encourage ignorance and innumeracy?
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March 9, 2016
New report sheds light on Fukushima radiation incidentYou might wish to say a prayer of thanksgiving.
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March 7, 2016
DOJ seeks truce in BP oil spillThe results of the Deepwater Horizon settlement are extremely mixed.
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February 18, 2016
When SCOTUS justices are out of their elementThe late Justice Antonin Scalia once schooled his colleagues on the EPA and carbon dioxide.
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February 4, 2016
Time for Chelsea Clinton to get drafted?The new gender shake-up in the military could make things interesting for America's Most Ambitious Family.
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January 7, 2016
Hillary Clinton and drafting womenWomen have been exempted from registering with the Selective Service System. That's about to change.
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December 20, 2015
Carbon dioxide plus natural gas (or coal) equals zero-emissions electric power?What if the global nemesis, carbon dioxide, can play a role in providing clean, reliable, efficient electric power? Some companies are about to find out in Texas.
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July 9, 2015
Politicized Department of Justice loses againThe Deepwater Horizon case ends with a whimper.
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April 11, 2015
Video with ISIS point of view mocks Hillary on Libya fiascoSomeone ought to ask her if she still is proud of “We came, we saw, he died.”
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November 3, 2013
Deepwater Horizon -- Paul Hseih and the Missing Drill PipeThe government's payday is not going to be as big as some people were hoping.
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October 17, 2013
Deepwater Horizon -- The Government's InvolvementIs it the ObamaCare of oil well blowouts, or the Deepwater Horizon of healthcare systems? Time will tell.
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October 2, 2013
Opening Day at the BP Trial -- Phase 2It's beginning to look as if BP will be found not responsible -- and rightly so.
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September 30, 2013
Will Kurt Mix, Criminal Defendant in the BP Deepwater Horizon Incident, Go Free?Former BP engineer Kurt Mix was the first, and for some time only, person criminally charged in the Deepwater Horizon incident. He has a court date October 2nd.
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September 14, 2013
Feds eye billions in fines in Deepwater Horizon trialIn the Gulf Oil Spill trial underway now, it's all about the money.
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August 6, 2013
Deepwater Horizon -- Halliburton's Plea DealBP's claims concerning the Deepwater Horizon blowout gain support from no less than the FBI.
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July 14, 2013
Deepwater Horizon -- BP's Response to Inflated Government Flow EstimatesAs the Deepwater Horizon aftermath winds down, the government has its hands in BP's pockets.
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June 26, 2013
Deepwater Horizon -- Apportionment of BlameThe fat lady hasn't sung yet -- despite what the Administration would like us to believe.
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June 8, 2013
Is 'Defensive Engineering' Next?What happens when OSHA regulators disagree with state fire marshals?
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May 26, 2013
Lying to Congress -- the IRS vs. BPThe current IRS scandal has certain parallels to the government's handlling of the Deepwater Horizon fiasco.
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May 13, 2013
Republicans Block Obama's Choice for EPA AdministratorDoes she have the technical competence for the job?
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April 27, 2013
The Deepwater Horizon Trial: A Headache for Obama?The Obama administration might bite off more than it can chew if it tries to take every last penny out of BP.
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April 6, 2013
Was the White House Bin Laden Photo Photoshopped?President Obama's recent appointment of Julia Pierson to head the Secret Service provides an opportunity for the Republican senators to put her on record regarding the veracity of his claim to have gotten bin Laden.
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March 23, 2013
Deepwater Horizon: Coulda, Shoulda, WouldaEven now, one seems to have any interest in taking responsibility when it comes to the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
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March 15, 2013
Deepwater Horizon: Criminalizing an AccidentA case study in how corporate "political contributions" can undercut the public safety and short-circuit the civil law system.
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March 12, 2013
Deepwater Horizon -- Another Holder Coverup?Is there anything that Eric Holder won't hide from public view to advance the political interests of the Obama Administration?
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February 26, 2013
Deepwater Horizon: the Government on Trial?Too many cooks spoiled the Gulf of Mexico.
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February 23, 2013
Deepwater Horizon - The Unquenchable Expectations of the Politics of EnvyCivil trial starts Monday.
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February 17, 2013
Deepwater Horizon Update - The Civil Trial PhaseThe Deepwater Horizon legal proceedings get even deeper.
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February 2, 2013
Deepwater Horizon Update - BP's Rope-a-Dope Legal StrategyThe government has been had.
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December 6, 2012
Deepwater Horizon: Who's Lying to Congress?It makes sense to examine the quality and veracity of the government's own witnesses that we might expect to be called to testify in the Deepwater Horizon case.
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December 2, 2012
Is Kurt Mix Now the Government's Star Prosecution Witness?It seems that Assistant Attorney General Lanny Brewer is yet another Obama Administration legal "scholar" of the same caliber as his direct supervisors, Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama.
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October 3, 2012
Our Ill-Mannered PresidentSo, ladies, whom do want for your president -- a man or a spoiled brat?
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September 21, 2012
Gulf of Mexico Seafood Catch Has Rebounded to Its Highest Volume Since 1999Are you beginning to feel you have been played for a fool by the White House?
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September 18, 2012
Feds' Charge of Criminal Negligence in Gulf Oil Spill FlounderingDecision due two days after the November election
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September 15, 2012
Confronting an Obama administration stonewallOn Thursday September 13, the House Natural Resources Committee took a giant step toward achieving accountability in the Department of Interior
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September 10, 2012
'Tell Me This Isn't a Government Operation'Given the proclivity for President Obama to try and sell the American people on the idea that government is the fount of all goodness in life, perhaps someone will offer to show him the film, Apollo 13.
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July 27, 2012
Smart Regulation -- The Chemical Safety Board vs. OSHAWho's best equipped to handle disasters like what happened at the Deepwater Horizon? Do you really think it's OSHA?
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July 11, 2012
NAIIC Fukushima Report: A Warning Regarding Politicized Crisis ManagementA new report is quite tough in its assessments of all parties involved in last year's Fukushima disaster.
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July 3, 2012
Kurt Mix Counter-Attacks the DoJFormer BP engineer Kurt Mix, the only person criminally charged in the Gulf Oil Spill, has launched his counter-attack against the Eric Holder's Justice Department
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June 29, 2012
Only 43.7 Percent of Gulf 'Oil Spill' Was Actually OilThe man who stands between the Obama administration and billions of dollars in a slush fund.
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June 12, 2012
Why Didn't Obama Halt Gulf Oil Spill in the First Weeks of June 2010?For a man who could halt the rising level of the seas on the day he was elected, President Obama seems to have been incredibly inept in stopping the BP gulf oil spill.
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June 11, 2012
'Academic' Scientists Forced to Reveal Private E-Mails in BP TrialTaxpayer-funded scientists protest purported violation of academic freedom. BP prevails in court.
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June 7, 2012
Obama Stonewalling Gulf Oil Spill DisclosureThe Obama administration is desperately trying to avoid coming clean about its role in delaying capping the Gulf Oil Spill.
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June 4, 2012
Dept. of Justice Case against Former BP Engineer is Rapidly CrumblingThe motive behind all this governmental misbehavior is clear. They want to inflict maximum pain upon BP, and they will not let a little thing like the rule of law stop them.
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May 21, 2012
A Bush-Cheney Green Energy Project That May Increase America's Proven Natural Gas Reserves by a Factor of 100Earth-worshiping Democrats hardest hit.
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May 16, 2012
Feds jumped the gun in BP Engineer's arrestWith billions in fines at stake, the feds put pressure on a potential witness.
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May 14, 2012
Did Steven Chu Sabotage BP's Top Kill Effort Just as It Was Succeeding?The Obama administration is stonewalling investigations in all three branches of government.
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April 30, 2012
Was BP's Kurt Mix a Criminal or a Hero?The FBI has arrested a former BP drilling and completions project engineer, Kurt Mix.
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April 23, 2012
House Republicans Fighting against an Oceans CzarThe Obama administration is still milking the "crisis" of the BP oil spill...but House Republicans may yet put up a fight.
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April 20, 2012
The Deepwater Horizon Two Years LaterThings have settled down since the BP oil spill in 2010, but now the Obama administration has some potentially embarrassing work to do.
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April 19, 2012
The Politics of the BP Settlement TermsThe President's Oil Spill Committee co-chairmen and House Democrats are trying to preemptively spin events in the executive branch's favor in the Gulf oil spill settlelement process.
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March 22, 2012
Kathleen Sebelius's War on Green Algae PowerTo fight "global climate change," the ditz-in-charge of ObamaCare and her allies are holding up an algae-powered energy revolution based in a state with a Democratic governor.
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March 20, 2012
Cheaper Gasoline Starts at the EPAThe rise of gasoline futures prices is an example of having adequate supplies of gasoline domestically, but in the wrong location.
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March 15, 2012
Sorting out Responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon Oil SpillWhy the Obama administration is likely to be quite accommodating to BP, Transocean, and the left's favorite whipping boy of the Bush era, Halliburton.
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March 10, 2012
The Pyrolysis of the Spent Fuel Rods at FukushimaTo understand the Fukushima incident, it is necessary to examine what was going on in the spent fuel ponds that were inside the reactor buildings, but outside the containment structures.
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March 3, 2012
BP's $7.8 billion settlement just the startThe little guys are taken care of. Now the big boys will fight it out in court over the big bucks.
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February 20, 2012
America's Maritime History vs. 21st Century Ambulance ChasersThe Deepwater Horizon liability trial is no place for your typical hot shot plaintiff's trial lawyers.
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February 6, 2012
Will Obama Cave to BP to Avoid Trial?It's Big Government versus Big Oil...and Big Government isn't looking too good.
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February 4, 2012
Public Safety: Voluntary Industry Standards vs. Government RegulationWhen it's life and death, you have to decide whether government regulations or voluntary industry standards will save you.
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February 2, 2012
Reality TV Coming Attractions: 'Plumegate'If you loved Climategate, you will swoon over Plumegate, the upcoming trial in Federal Court in New Orleans regarding the BP oil spill!
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January 28, 2012
'Hope and Change' in a 'Precautionary Principle' AdministrationIf there is one lesson I learned from the debates over how to stop the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico during the BP oil spill, it is how strongly committed the Obama administration is to the "Precautionary Principle."
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January 25, 2012
Plaintiffs bar feeding frenzy in Gulf oil spill"All they were preserving was their right to help make the trial lawyers rich."
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January 5, 2012
Deepwater Horizon: Halliburton Under the MicroscopeBP wants Halliburton to pay for whole Gulf oil spill. The matter will be in the hands of the federal courts
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December 29, 2011
Gulf Coast rebound defies Obama's doomsayingIt kind of spoils the narrative to have the Gulf Coast rebound so well and so fast!
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December 23, 2011
A Nuclear Christmas GiftLost in all the noise about the 2 month extension of the payroll tax deduction is a wonderful piece of good news.
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December 20, 2011
NY Times draws the wrong lessons from Deepwater HorizonThe New York Times has come out with an editorial whitewash of governemnt incompetence, "Lessons of the Deepwater Horizon."
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December 16, 2011
Deepwater Horizon: The National Academy of Engineering ReportThe left's favorite bogeyman is in the spotlight, and it's not BP
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December 4, 2011
Leader of Fukushima 50 Put On 'Medical Leave'We're still not getting the truth about the nuclear incident.
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November 16, 2011
Stopping the Decline in Housing PricesIt's as simple as the capital loss carryforward, as practiced most notably by General Electric
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October 26, 2011
Stalled energy projects moving forwardBelieve it or not, the current Obama energy strategy is not all that different from Rick Perry's. Under pressure from Congressional hearings, all of a sudden it is Drill Barry, Drill.
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October 22, 2011
Marx Was Right - Woodstock to Zuccotti ParkYou think jobless college grads is sad? Let me tell you a real sob story.
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October 6, 2011
Questions for the Co-Chairmen of the Joint Coast Guard - Minerals Management Service Investigation TeamThe Gulf oil spill may have been contained, but the fallout from the Obama administration's subsequent conduct continues to raise eyebrows.
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September 17, 2011
Sweeping the Oil under the Rug: More Chicanery on the BP SpillAmid a cloud of controversy, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) has just released its final report on the Deepwater Horizon accident.
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September 5, 2011
McDonald's, Technology, and Job CreationWith all the blather about "green energy," a real story about using technology to improve energy efficiency and thereby create jobs seems to be in order.
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August 4, 2011
First Anniversary of the Killing of the Deepwater Horizon Macondo WellThere are 230,000 workers looking for high paying jobs waiting for the government to do its job. If President Obama is still looking for an ass to kick, he ought to look at his own cabinet first.
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July 23, 2011
Defending the Full Faith and Credit of the United StatesThe people are waking. The biggest challenge facing America is the entitlement mentality, particularly regarding pensions and retiree medical benefits
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June 28, 2011
Obama's Mickey Mouse AdministrationGiven the well-established Disney empire of theme parks, it might be forgotten why the term "Mickey Mouse" first entered the public mind as a dysphemism.
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June 22, 2011
Deepwater Horizon Update: Transocean's InvestigationMore than 14 months after the blowout and explosion aboard Transocean's Deepwater Horizon drill rig, the company has come forth with their public investigative report
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May 18, 2011
Solving the Piracy ProblemPiracy is too big a problem to be left solely to lawyers to solve
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May 9, 2011
Obama's Next VacationGiven the hectic pace of recent events, it is clear that President Obama and his family will soon need a vacation. So it's time to find an appropriate vacation spot for them to visit.
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May 6, 2011
Government action to reduce prices at the pumpThe House passed a bill to force the administration to sell offshore drilling permits in the Gulf of Mexico and off the Virginia coast, and the price of oil fell 8.6% in one day, the largest drop in over two years!
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May 1, 2011
Risk to Fukushima 50 FallingNobody has yet exceeded safe limits for annual exposure to readiation. Heroes, but far from condemned to certain death.
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April 27, 2011
Regulating Extraordinary Disasters into ExistenceGovernment over-regulation played a major role in both of the extraordinary man-caused disasters of the past year: the BP Macondo well accident and the Fukushima power plant incident.
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April 24, 2011
Easter in Fukushima -- American Exceptionalism at WorkEaster is about resurrection and we are about to see the resurrection of the Japanese prefecture of Fukushima after the twin battering of the tsunami and the reactor accident.
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March 22, 2011
Intellectuals vs. Men With MachineryA lesson in the difference, from the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
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March 4, 2011
Gulf Oil Spill Could Have Been Stopped 48 days EarlierThe Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, said no.
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February 20, 2011
The Oil Spill Crisis That Didn't Go To WasteThe extent of the Obama Administration's political opportunism in the Gulf oil spill is being revealed by the Deepwater Invetsigation.
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December 6, 2010
Auditing the President's Oil Spill CommissionThe blinders are on when it comes to assessing the role of the executive branch in this disaster.
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November 27, 2010
Gulf Oil Spill Response in PerspectiveAustralia suffered an offshore oil blowout similar to the Gulf's Deepwater Horizon. The official response, however, was quite different.
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November 23, 2010
'Unrealized at the time...' - Deepwater Horizon UpdateClueless "Nobel Prize winning physicist" and his team mishandled closing of the well.
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November 21, 2010
Janet Napolitano - Eleanor Roosevelt as Farce"When in trouble, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout".
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November 15, 2010
Deepwater Horizon's Blowout Preventer Rusts While Lawyers ArgueThe politicians initiating the investigations also had real time input and control during the events which also need investigation, especially the containment and intervention efforts.
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November 4, 2010
Time For the GOP to Go On OffenseA simple and far-reaching step to test the mettle of the new Congress.
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October 30, 2010
Obama's Katrina -- Hurricane RahmThe BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill gave the administration its chance to put its words on not wasting a crisis into action. The result was a disaster of Katrina magnitude.
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October 20, 2010
Crisis and Presidential Management Skills: Obama and Chile's PiñeraObama and Chilean President Sebastián Piñera each faced a major crisis recently, and their leadership styles have been put on public display for all to judge.
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October 13, 2010
Happy Birthday, US Navy!On October 13, 1775 the Continental Congress authorized the procurement of two fast, agile, well armed vessels to seize munitions bound for the British army in America thus giving birth to the United States Navy.
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July 19, 2010
Steven Chu's Snake OilYou probably have been hearing a lot of nonsense lately about the integrity of BP's Macondo well casing.
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July 17, 2010
NYT Confirms Steven Chu Frustrated Spill Intervention AttemptsA report on Steven Chu's meddling in the BP spill recovery efforts.
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July 10, 2010
Deepwater Horizon updateBP has the equipment in place and a spell of good weather to work on finally controlling the well.
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July 8, 2010
Progress made on Deepwater HorizonSo now the decision goes back to the secretaries of Energy and Interior to make a decision that could finally "plug the damn hole."
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July 1, 2010
Progress in the Gulf?Although the flow of information from BP and the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command has been less than transparent, there are some encouraging developments.
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June 14, 2010
Botching the Gulf Spill InvestigationEnriching trial lawyers seems to be the first priority.
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May 28, 2010
Obama's 'best and brightest'Even some of Obama's media lackeys are irritated at the intellectual elitism on display in the White House.
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May 27, 2010
Waiting and studying while the oil washes in"I know several fishermen, shrimpers and oystermen who were hired to deploy oil boom, but they are sitting around waiting on drug tests"
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May 7, 2010
Good news from the GulfThe oil leak could be over sooner than the prophets of doom proclaimed.
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May 2, 2010
What if Obama was aware of a bribe to fill IL Senate seat?Not reporting a bribe could be construed as "misprision of a felony."
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May 1, 2010
A novel solution to the offshore oil well problemPerhaps a "Hail Mary" solution but the seriousness of the leak may demand drastic measures.
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April 12, 2010
A Justice Stevens Performance ReviewLiteracy in math and science was a profound weakness of Justice Stevens.
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March 27, 2010
Electric Green WasteGreen initiatives are costing hard-pressed Americans billions of dollars.
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March 13, 2010
The Granularity of Climate ModelsOne basic fault of the Hadley Climate models is their granularity.
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July 26, 2009
Obama's appalling ignoranceThe past week has been a strange one for American-Japanese relations. While discussing an unrelated subject, the President ignorantly mischaracterized the Japanese surrender.
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May 2, 2009
Another 'catch and release' incident with Somali piratesToday there is yet another story of a NATO ship, this time from Portugal, catching pirates, now armed with explosives, and releasing them.
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April 19, 2009
'Daley baby sitters'"Daley baby sitters" is a phrase from the Chicago Tribune's John Kass. It has a meaning that goes well beyond the Cook County line.
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April 14, 2009
Somalia's Coast Guard?This morning comes the news that Somalis have captured three more vessels. But are the captors pirates or a militia coast guard?
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April 13, 2009
Shriners hospitals under threat of closureThe Shriners Children's Hospitals, which have provided free medical care to children, may be closing many of their facilities.
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March 9, 2009
Chicago buyer's remorseCould it be that the citizens of Chicago might start to develop buyer's remorse with their native son President?
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February 27, 2009
Atlas shrugs, moves to MassachusettsWhy bother working if you can receive the median family income by moving to the Bay State?
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December 13, 2008
The First Time as Tragedy, the Second as FarceA parallel that gives the President-elect heartburn.
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December 5, 2008
James Hansen's carbon tax dreamsThe father of Anthropogenic Global Warming, James Hansen, has come out in favor of a 100% rebated carbon tax and fourth generation nuclear power plants!
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November 22, 2008
Email the EPA to Avoid CO2 RegulationThe EPA public comment phase for carbon control ends next Friday 11/28/08. Time for the public to speak out.
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November 10, 2008
'Only Glimmer of Hope' is Obama's Mentor's RetirementAn editorial from the self-proclaimed "progressive" newspaper, the Chicago Sun-Times, highlights the malign influence of Emil Jones, Barack Obama's mentor in the Illinois State Senate
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November 9, 2008
Obama and the Daley MachineA well-spoken black liberal from Hyde Park is elected to the highest office. Blacks are rejoicing that one of their own had risen so high. Been there, done that with the election of Harold Washington as Mayor of Chicago in 1983.
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November 8, 2008
That's the Chicago way...It's a good thing for Chicago that so many tourists want to visit Barack Obama's hometown! Other jobs are not exactly blooming.
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October 14, 2008
'That's the Chicago way'SDS radicals meet big city machine politics, and produce a leading presidential candidate and financial chaos.
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October 10, 2008
Obama's electricity plans versus economic realityBarack Obama wants the United States to replace its current electric power generation capability with Green Power (e.g. wind) in 10 years. Where is the money going to come from?
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September 17, 2008
Ethics, anyone? In the Illinois State Legislature?Here is Carol Marin's take in the Chicago Sun-Times on the status of ethics reform in the new home of the national Democratic Party, Illinois, under the control of Barack Obama's mentor Emil Jones
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September 6, 2008
Chicago Mayor Daley: 'There's no machine'As they say in Chicago "Move along, nothing to see here. Move along!"
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July 27, 2008
Don't tear down this wall, Mr. ObamaAs a counter to Barack Obama's call to tear down walls, it would help to review what a Marine recently wrote:
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March 29, 2008
Questioning ChelseaChelsea Clinton took offense when questioned about her mother's reaction to the Monica Lewinsky affair, claiming it was a personal matter. Okay, let's ask Chelsea about Mom's cattle futures trading
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March 26, 2008
Robin Hood populismA big part of the Barack Obama philosophy is to bring more money into poor neighborhoods by a variation of a well established Cook County Illinois policy, which I will call Robin Hood Populism.
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March 14, 2008
The first Winter SoldiersNeither the VVAW or the IVAW, discussed yesterday by Kyle-Anne Shiver, are the original Winter Soldiers. That honor goes to those who stood by George Washington through the winter of 1776-77.
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March 10, 2008
Real science versus 'settled science'Even a casual perusal of the paper by Miskolcki's discussed in James Lewis' article today gives a hint as to the overwhelming complexity of atmospheric science.
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March 2, 2008
The 'Hussein' memory holeIn responding to Hillary Clinton's latest ad, the Obama campaign has once again slipped the name "Hussein" down the memory hole. Specifically Saddam Hussein.
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July 14, 2007
Proposed solution to the CO2 'problem'The Japanese National Maritime Research Institute has proposed a new technique to sequester CO2.
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June 12, 2007
Another anniversary todayToday is the 232nd anniversary of the capture of the British warship Margaretta by the men of Machias, Maine. This was the first naval victory of the American Revolution and occurred on June 12, 1775, 5 days before the Battle of Bunker Hill.
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May 12, 2007
Safer alternatives to CFL light bulbsA more environmentally friendly alternative to compact flourescent lights(CFL) is likely to be one of several forms of solid state lighting, variations on the familiar light emitting diode (LED).
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March 2, 2007
Deconstructing Al Gore's utility bill (updated)Much of what has been written about Al Gore's carbon footprint demonstrates the ignorance of the writers more than it illuminates the facts.
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March 1, 2007
TXU and global warmingThe proposed buyout of TXU Corp by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is an example of fashion over technology when it comes to global warming.
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February 7, 2007
IPCC's cloudy forecastThe bold assurances of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that their predictions are 90% sure should give the layman pause. "If it sounds too good to be true..."
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January 1, 2007
Force size in IraqOne of the changes our forces in Iraq are undergoing is the shift from division size units to battalion size units. These are then subdivided into even smaller units used to embed with Iraqi forces. In the process, we greatly reduce the logistics tail for a given amount of combat force. This improved tooth to tail ratio will lessen the demands on our forces.
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August 24, 2006
Climate of Fear: From Nuclear Winter to Global Warming -
December 8, 2004
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November 11, 2004
Bob Dole, enigma to the Democrats -
November 5, 2004
Mayor Daley -
October 27, 2004
Presidential campaigns and the draft -
October 11, 2004
Kerry clueless on military transformation