Contributed by: filbert Wednesday, June 16 2010 @ 01:31 PM CST
The Gulf – It Is Worse Than We Thought [*2] — So, tell me again how drilling in ANWR or off the coast of California within sight of the beaches would be worse than this? At least in those places, there would be a better chance of controlling and containing any such disastrous oil leak.
We’re not going to be able to snap our fingers and get off of dependency on hydrocarbons for energy in one decade, or even two. The avaliable alternatives (primarily nuclear fission, quite honestly) are inadequate. The proposed “renewable” options are not yet available, AND won’t be adequate to meet any foreseeable global energy demand. We’re going to burn a lot of oil, gas, and coal before we’re able to transition off of them to something else.
That’s the cold, hard, inalterable fact that Obama and his ilk absolutely, positively refuse to even concede. That just makes them unreasonable and irrational. None Dare Call Him Gasbag [*3]
Teenage boys really do eat a lot: study [*4]
Claim: Data in Error; No Evidence For Dark Matter or Dark Energy [*5]
Dems balking at spending demands from WH, leadership [*6]
Rush: Let me tell you about my new friend, Elton John [*7]
How the Minimum Wage kills jobs [*8]
An Iranian Radical Speaks the Truth [*9]
ESPN: North Korea’s World Cup fans are paid Chinese actors [*10]
Video: MSNBC hosts dump on Obama’s speech [*11]
Frank Luntz’s focus group rowdy over Obama’s oil spill address [*12]
Endaround: UN may order international probe of Israel’s flotilla raid despite U.S. veto [*13]
When The (Leg) Thrill Is Gone … [*14]
Olby, Matthews, Fineman Notice That Obama’s Rhetoric Is Kind of Nebulous [*15]
Opinion: Obama’s Vision Deficit on Display [*16]
William Voegeli: The necessity of doubt [*17]
Obama’s disaster of a disaster speech [*18]
Playboy: Confessions of a Tea Party Consultant [*19]
Another Liberal Failure… Fannie & Freddie Ordered to Delist From NY Stock Exchange [*20]
Tea Party 2.0: The Block Captain Revolution (Part I) [*21]
Jon Stewart: “Your campaign was premised on reigning in presidential power. WHAT HAPPENED??” [*22]
Morning Bell: A Crisis of Competence [*23]
The latest “crisis” speech [*24]
“Day of Reckoning” [*25]
Songbirds Learn Their Songs During Sleep [*26]
Some People Do Not Taste Salt Like Others [*27]
Obama drops to 42% in Rasmussen poll [*28]
An intergenerational con game of Orwellian proportions [*29]
Orrin Hatch: Drug-test Welfare Recipients [*30]
The moral of the story here is not new, but bears repeating: If you are at all dependent on the state, whether by choice or force, and you don’t have the good manners to be powerful, you will always stand the risk of being treated like a patient at a criminal asylum. It is as good a reason as any other to resist further encroachment of the government on our private lives.
Al Qaeda’s Clown College [*31] — You go to war with the clowns you have, not the clowns you wish you had . . .
BREAKING: ACORN Demanded And Won Changes To Preliminary ACORN Report That Whitewashes Wrongdoing [*32] — Well? WELL?
Saving the Soil and Maintaining Corn Yields: Early Research Says Yes to Both [*33]
Climate Change Threatens Food Supply of 60 Million People in Asia [*34]
German Teen in Court for Drawing Rabbits on Blackboard [*35]
The “Special Interests” That Rarely Get Called as Such [*36]
American Airlines adds option to let fliers board early … for a fee [*37]