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What’s next for Guantanamo?
I spent the majority of my time last week up on Capitol Hill attending a seminar on intelligence operations and Congress. It was a fascinating seminar put on by the people at the Georgetown Institute. These are great courses (and I encourage any policy governmental employees to check them out) because they get members of [...]
The Challenges of Energy Part II: Petroleum & Ecology issues
In the second part of my series on energy issues - today I want to talk about oil, Texas tea, black gold. For most of us, we see “oil” when we gas our cars - cursing I’m sure at the high price of gasoline. However, oil is must more ubiquitous than just gasoline. Oil and [...]
Gone with the Wind? Pickens’ plan for America.
America is facing a serious long-term energy crisis. The price at the “pump” that people are so traumatized by is really the short-term symptom of a longer term problem. As the largest of the two “third world” nations industrialize, India and China, billions of people are rapidly increasing in their wealth, standard of living, and [...]
Marginal sins of taxation
Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama have put forth their tax plans, with specifics falling in line with party ideology. As election season progresses, we’ve also seen an infusion of religion—Obama’s firebrand pastor, McCain’s issues with far right evangelicals and an anti-Clinton priest who would be right at home alongside the fruitcake on your Christmas [...]
Press #1 for English? Enough.
America was not built around the premise of balkinization, factionalization, and mondialisation like Europe. America is built around a simple idea - come here, learn English, be assimilated, wave the flag. You don’t have to give up your entire entity from your homeland - but you have to become assimilated into US culture, and you [...]
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