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Bush spins ethanol, lies about ANWR

Saturday, May 03, 2008 11:20 PM
Following a speech in Missouri yesterday, President Bush engaged in an exceedingly rare question-and-answer session with employees of the company where he was speaking. Among other topics, he repeated his threadbare spin of ethanol as a viable fuel source
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Poll: Where do you think the price of oil will be in one year?

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 5:49 PM
Here's my first poll: Share this post: Email | del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit
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$200 a barrel coming soon?

Monday, April 28, 2008 10:45 PM
I'm not one to automatically trust the word of any OPEC minister, but this quote from Chakib Khelil, Algeria's energy minister, bears some consideration : Opec's president on Monday warned oil prices could hit $200 a barrel and there would be little the
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GOP obstructionists block Senate action on housing crisis

Friday, February 29, 2008 10:37 AM
The professional obstructionists who constitute the GOP minority in the Senate have blocked a bill aimed at addressing part of the sub-prime mortgage crisis: The housing proposal includes billions of dollars for local communities to buy up subprime mortgages
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Bernanke predicts bank failures, promises to start enforcing laws

Thursday, February 28, 2008 10:25 PM
In his semi-annual appearance before Congress, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke predicted that the current economic crisis will likely result in bank failures : On the second day of his biannual testimony to Congress, Bernanke said that some small
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Congressional Dems cave to Bush twice in one day

Thursday, January 24, 2008 8:30 PM
The spineless Democratic leadership of Congress has outdone itself; Pelosi and Reid caved to the Bush White House twice in one day. On the proposed emergency stimulus package, House Dems caved to the White House and struck provisions which would have
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Quote of the day (on economic stimulus)

Friday, January 18, 2008 4:34 PM
In response to a post about Bush's proposed economic stimulus (which includes the possibility of a tax rebate), a commenter at KnoxViews said this : Can I get my rebate in EUROS? You said it, Sarge. Share this post: Email | del.icio.us | Digg | Reddi
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Some thoughts on Edwards

Friday, January 04, 2008 12:07 PM
After John Edwards's strong second-place finish in last night's Iowa caucus, he had this to say : [C]orporate greed has got a stranglehold on America. And unless and until we have a president in the proud tradition of Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt,
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Quote of the day (on the economy)

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 1:06 PM
Found in comments here : Perhaps it's easier to sell a $500K home than a $50K home or even a $150K home because the rich are getting richer and the poor and middle class are getting 38% on their Discover card. You said it, Mamaw. Share this post: Email
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Carbon dioxide reduction may be cheaper than you think

Saturday, December 08, 2007 4:55 PM
Perhaps the most frequently cited canard used as an argument against reducing carbon dioxide emissions is the allegation that it would be prohibitively expensive; some extreme analyses have placed the estimate as high as $20 trillion. A new study shows
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Candidates should speak to the American worker

Wednesday, December 05, 2007 9:33 PM
Democratic candidates for the Presidency would do well to pay attention to the fundamental, structural issues facing the American workforce, issues which have so far been given short shrift by most of the candidates. First, the quality of the workplace
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Thompson's plan to gut Social Security

Saturday, November 10, 2007 5:40 PM
Not surprisingly, Republican Fred Thompson wants to do away with Social Security and replace it with a privatized system which would benefit those in the upper income brackets and penalize the poor and middle class : Thompson's plan draws on ideas favored
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The Chinese beating us at our own game

Monday, November 05, 2007 9:07 PM
China's state-owned oil company, PetroChina, held its IPO today on the Shanghai stock market. The debut raised $9 billion in one day; since this offering was only a tiny fraction of PetroChina's total stock, the company ended the trading day with a market
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The death trade

Wednesday, October 31, 2007 4:50 PM
This article provides an in-depth survey of the current state of international arms trading. A couple of choice quotes: Vast government subsidies are sought after in the pursuit of arms trading. US and European corporations receive enormous tax breaks
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A widening gap and a justified award

Friday, October 12, 2007 10:04 PM
Two mostly unrelated things struck me today. First, of course, was the news of Al Gore and the IPCC winning the Nobel Peace Prize . Any man who can push right wing zealots and their libertarian enablers to extremes of rage merely by winning an award is
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Oil industry wastes $40 billion per year by "flaring" gas

Sunday, September 09, 2007 10:10 AM
This is incredible: a study conducted by NOAA has concluded that the practice of "flaring" natural gas (burning it at the outlet of an oil well) wastes an amount of gas worth $40 billion per year, resulting in an unnecessary annual injection of 400 million
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Romney panders on health care reform

Friday, August 24, 2007 12:40 PM
So, what kind of country do we want, and what kind of people do we want to be? We can either continue making the mistakes of the past, pretending they never happened, or we can really apply ourselves and solve the problems that face us. That's the choice
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A couple of notes on poverty

Thursday, August 16, 2007 10:02 AM
One of the flashpoint issues of the 1965 Watts riot was the lack of a hospital in that inner-city LA district. As a result of the riots, Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital was built. Its recent failures of care and performance have made headlines;
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More of Bush's corporate welfare

Thursday, August 09, 2007 9:20 AM
Shockingly, Bush wants to hand out even more corporate welfare : President Bush said yesterday that he is considering a fresh plan to cut tax rates for U.S. corporations to make them more competitive around the world, an initiative that could further
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Insurers bail on climate change coverage

Thursday, August 02, 2007 10:15 PM
Uh oh (via Tom Paine ): In the wake of skyrocketing insurance claims due to natural disasters—hurricanes, wildfires, droughts, blizzards and the like—insurers have been imposing steep rate hikes and, in some cases, fleeing high-risk areas, leaving consumers
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