The good news about future US energy supplies just keeps coming. In today’s Wall Street Journal Daniel Yergin, easily the country’s most thoughtful energy student, projects that US oil production is headed to grow by another 2 million barrels a day by 2020 — an increase of more than 50 percent in our current oil […]
U.S. Citizens suspected of terrorism and caught on U.S. soil forfeit their rights to due process and the presumption of innocence underlying the Constitution. That appears to be the current position of the Senate, according to many legal analysts and some in Congress, unless President Obama vetoes the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed […]
Hot on the heels of Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich in Iowa, Ron Paul is rallying the youth vote and drawing big crowds. Speaking to a standing-room-only gathering of more than 1,000 college-age students in Ames, Iowa, Thursday night, Paul declared again that the war on drugs had been a failure, reminding the audience that […]
A New York Times story about a “modest” global tax mentions some of those supporting the idea but forgets an important one—the United Nations. I attended a November 30 U.N.-sponsored conference in Washington, D.C., where officials of the U.N. Development Program (UNDP) appeared on a panel endorsing the idea. The UNDP is supported by about […]
Two days ago, Obama gave a speech at a high school in Kansas. The president told Americans that free market capitalism does not work. Let me repeat that so it can settle in. The President of the United States told Americans that free market capitalism does not work and has never worked. Now allow me […]
As German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy do their best to put on a public face of cooperation in resolving Europe’s escalating sovereign debt crisis, behind the scenes both leaders are seething. They are angry with each other, angry with each other’s policy choices, angry with each other’s friends and allies. It’s […]
Today, beleagured Attorney General Eric Holder is scheduled to be in front of the House Judiciary Committee to face very tough questions about Operation Fast and Furious from Reps. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), and Trey Gowdy (R-SC). A congressman who sits on the committee and is not an expert on the failed gun-walking […]
On Tuesday, Barack Obama gave a speech (stop the presses!) of dubious veracity in the small town of Osawatomie, Kansas, in a desperate attempt to wrap himself in the mantle of Theodore Roosevelt. But one wonders whether anyone in the Obama campaign read Roosevelt’s original speech before choosing it as a template for the two […]