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Gov. Palin “knocks it out of the park” with her convention speech…
Text of the speech… it was amazingly delivered and was hard hitting:
Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored to be considered for the nomination for Vice President of the United States…
I accept the call to help our nominee for president to serve and defend America.
I accept the challenge of a tough fight in [...]
Has the “oil bubble” finally burst?
Back on June 23, I wrote a piece entitled “Why is Crude Oil (and gasoline) so expensive?” Since then, I’ve received quite a few emalis and comments to that piece - many of which essentially chastising me for not adopting the “drill here, drill now” framework as being the main lynchpin to solving US oil [...]
What would Iran’s nuclear weapons mean for the United States?
I am sure that my readers have all been watching this week Iran’s missile tests. Iran launched a series of missiles to demonstrate its capability to deliver warheads at medium-range distances (2000 km). While there is some dispute as to how many missiles it has launched over the last three days - the message from [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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