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Weapons of Mass Destruction… in Iraq?
We all remember Secretary of State Colin Powell’s address to the United Nations. To critics of the Bush Administration, this speech is nothing but lies. There were no weapons of mass destruction they said, nor the precusors of such programs. Saddam was defenseless.
Let me briefly revisit one part of Secretary Powell’s speech:
Thanks to intelligence they [...]
Why is crude oil (and gasoline) so expensive?
I have been getting emails from readers essentially asking me to do a post on oil - why is it so expensive, and what, if anything should be the GOP’s party platform on energy. While energy economics is not my specialty - I do understand commodities markets, and I believe I probably understand better than [...]
Obama’s tax plan is a sham…
Barack Obama told voters yesterday he would push an aggressive economic agenda as president: cutting taxes for the middle class, raising taxes on the wealthy, pouring money into “green energy” and requiring employers to set up retirement saving plans for their workers.
Speaking to about 200 people in Wayne, a Philadelphia suburb, Obama made no new [...]
AP: Pentagon announces Iraq, Afghanistan troop deployments
The Pentagon on Monday announced upcoming deployments of more than 42,000 troops, including 25,000 active duty Army soldiers who would be sent to Iraq beginning in the fall to replace troops scheduled to come home by year’s end.
The deployments would maintain a level of 15 brigades in Iraq, or roughly 140,000 troops - the number [...]
1700 Miles per Fill Up - and you can even get Fries with that!
An interesting video on You Tube - basically a converted VW that runs on bio-diesel (used cooking oil). It looks like you don’t have to convert it using the normal diesel/glycol type conversion first. Just pour it in and away you go.
I think technology like his is neat - but ultimately - I can’t see [...]
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