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ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING ABOUT $100 OIL |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 09 November 2007 |
Yesterday
(11/08), the Wall Street Journal ran an article giving ten reasons Why
$100 Can't Float. They were good,
persuasive reasons. Yet taken together,
they were not sufficiently persuasive as they ignored the political dimension
of the problem.
Put in a
nutshell, we have near $100 oil instead of energy independence at a fraction of
the cost because Congress is an obstacle rather than a solution to the problem.
Right here in
America, we have enormous energy reserves of coal, natural gas, liquid oil, and
oil shale. With foreign oil now so
expensive, it should be easy to produce our own energy at far less cost. And it will be easy if Congress does three
things:
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RUNNING WITH RUDY |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 01 November 2007 |
So many folks here in Washington are taking it for granted
that Bill Clinton's wife has the Dem nomination sewed up that they've gone on
to handicapping who her running mate will be.
Her ridiculous performance in the Dem debate this week
(10/30) may have given them a moment of doubt, but just a moment, for she has,
they will tell you, no serious opposition.
Hillary supporters can't take bat-eared neophytes like
Obambi or the Breck Boy seriously. The
rest of the Gang of Eight up on the debating stage with her are just there for
the media spotlight.
Except for one fellow who's really not running for
president, but running for running-mate.
That's New Mexico's Governor Bill Richardson, and he's everyone's
odds-on favorite to be Hillary's pick. He's
dumb as a stump (which he confirmed
this week when he said the government should "come clean" over what it knows
about aliens crashing their spacecraft in Roswell 60 years ago - just about
nine months before Hillary was born, by the way.) Nonetheless, word is he's her #2.
More interesting is who will run with Rudy.
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HANDICAPPING THE SENATE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 19 October 2007 |
One of the nicest and sharpest guys in the Senate is John Ensign of Nevada. As the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, he's in a good position to handicap the Senate races for 2008.
He did just that at a small briefing on Capitol Hill this week, promising to do so without any Pollyannic varnish. Judge for yourself.
Currently, of 100 Senate seats, 51 are Democrat (counting Bernie Sanders and Joe Lieberman), 49 are Republican. The odds seem slim that the GOP could gain the majority, but less slim that the Dems will expand theirs. Thirteen months is an eternity on an election clock. There will be surprises on both sides, count on it.
There are 22 Republican seats up, including five retirements, while the Dems have only 12. Many GOP seats are vulnerable, but the Dems' main targets are:
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DO YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION? |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 18 October 2007 |
A fellow I know, Dave Marlett, answered yes to this question and has come up with a real way to do so. A real way any individual American can.
It happened when he wanted to get his house painted last spring. He couldn't find, out of all the house painting businesses that he called, one that could guarantee it didn't employ illegal alien workers.
There have to be companies who follow the law and refuse to hire illegals, he told himself. But how would he or anyone find them? What if there was a way to find them, a sort of clearinghouse enabling customers all over the country to locate companies that have pledged to hire only legal workers?
That's how Dave conceived of ProAmericaCompanies. http://rebelholiday.biz/ rebel holiday
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A ROMAN HOLIDAY FOR ETHANOL |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 18 October 2007 |
The Germans have a word for it: schadenfreude (shay-din-froy-deh). It means someone being happy over someone
else being unhappy. The only English
equivalent is the term "Roman holiday," referring to the happy excitement
Romans got over gladiators' suffering in the Colosseum.
It says a lot about us that we don't even have a word for
this terrible and all too-common emotion.
Yet all of us have probably experienced it at one time or another, and
right now it's hard to resist it regarding folks who are biting the financial
dust with ethanol.
As this recent story, Ethanol Boom Is
Running Out of Gas, in the Wall Street Journal details, the glut of ethanol
plants has caused a collapse of ethanol prices while the price of the corn from
which it is made is rising. Thus many
ethanol companies are now "under deathwatch."
So of course, the corn farmer lobby and ethanol producers
are screaming for more subsidies from Congress.
They won't get them because a Nobel Prize winner has just
pounded in the final nail in ethanol's coffin.
No - not the phony you just thought of, a real Nobel
Laureate.
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