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Hidden In The Apparent Insanity
I have long felt that the thinnest line is the one between insanity and genius. Remember genius can be diabolical. The radical right of the Tea Party/Republican coalition is so obsessed with their dangerous agenda that they will use every … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, budget, coal, Congress, disaster relief, Eric Cantor, federal budget, Grover Norquist, House, House of Representatives, Hurricane Irene, Mick Mulvaney, money in elections, money in politics, natural disaster, New Jersey, New York, oil, oil industry, petroleum industry, politics, Republicans, Sandy, South Carolina, Superstorm Sandy, Tea Party, union busting, unions, Virginia
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Apples And Oranges In The Other Guy’s Orchard
The best friends of a disinformation campaign are repetition and massive dissemination. No industry on earth has more of the resources needed to execute a disinformation campaign than the energy industry and they prove it every day.
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Tagged American Petroleum Institute, big oil, Canada, ConocoPhillips, Dimock Pennsylvania, energy, environment, environmental impact, ExxonMobil, fracing, fracking, gas, gas prices, gasoline, government regulation, health care, hyrodolic fracturing, Keystone XL, Keystone XL pipeline, Middle East, natural gas, North America, Obama, oil, oil futures, oil industry, oil production, oil sand, oil spills, Pennsylvania, politics, pollution, regulation, Saudi Arabia
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Tournament Politics
Super Tuesday really gave us more of the same despite some drama. With nine of the ten states either called or close enough to draw conclusions Mitt Romney remains the man to beat and nobody was able to do that … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012 election, abortion, Alabama, Alabama primary, Alaska, Alaska caucus, Bob Kerrey, energy, Georgia, Georgia primary, gerrymandering, House, Idaho, Idaho caucus, Massachusetts, Massachusetts primary, Mississippi, Mississippi primary, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, North Carolina, North Dakota, North Dakota caucus, Obama, Ohio, Ohio primary, oil, Oklahoma, Oklahoma primary, Olympia Snowe, politics, redistricting, Republican, Republican Presidential Primary, Rick Santorum, RNC, RNC Rule 15, Ron Paul, Senate, Sheldon Adelson, Super Tuesday, Tampa, Tennessee, Tennessee primary, Vermont, Vermont primary, Virginia, Virginia primary, war on women, Willard Mitt Romney, women's health issues, women's issues, women's rights
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Now We Are Aware
Let me begin today by paraphrasing a statement I recently heard attributed to the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It went along the lines of, you don’t demonstrate to solve a problem; you demonstrate to bring attention to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberta Canada, BP oil spill, Calgary, Canada, debt ceiling, energy, energy prices, environment, environmental impact, ExxonMobil, George W. Bush, Globe and Mail, Gulf of Mexico, House, Houston Texas, HR 1938, HR 370, Jeffrey Simpson, Keystone XL pipeline, Koch brothers, Koch Industries, Martin Luther King, oil, oil sand, oil spills, Raleigh North Carolina, Republicans, Reuters, tar sand, Texas, Yellowstone River, Yellowstone River Oil Spill
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The Best Governor That Nobody Has Ever Heard Of
Unless you’re a real political junkie you probably can’t name the Governor of Montana. With less than a million people Montana ranks 44th in population. It is in the Mountain Time Zone, not exactly conducive to getting a lot of … Continue reading
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Tagged 2008 Democratic National Convention, Bill Clinton, Bill Richardson, Bill Ritter, Brian Schweitzer, capital punishment, coal, conservative, cyanide mining, Deep South, Democrats, energy, environment, Exxon Mobil, George W. Bush, gun control, Inner Mountain West, Iowa, Iraq, John Bohlinger, Jon Tester, libertarian, Montana, Montana State Legislature, Montana State University, oil, Republicans, Saudi Arabia, South Dakota, Yellowstone River, Yellowstone River Oil Spill
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