Iraq’s Descent Back into Civil War Makes the Case for American Energy Independence

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  May 2nd at 10:45 AM  | 

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

-George Santayana (HT: Wikiquote)

America now faces a typical conundrum that has plagued all of our recent Presidents from Dwight D. Eisenhower all the way forward to President Barack Obama. We depend upon the Middle East for much of the energy that provides our motive power. As a result of this debilitating dependence upon people who hate us and practice a system of ethics and morals totally alien to our own, we are increasingly compromised and forced into courses of action that do not benefit our national commonweal. If we produce enough of our own energy, while curbing our domestic consumption, we can break this cycle of self-sabotage. If we don’t break the cycle, every US President going forward will wage his own, pointless version of a Punic War in Western Asia. I describe the current state of play below.

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Obama’s Path to Energy Independence?

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  December 17th at 12:00 PM  | 

Via correspondent Poe Leggette, the Western Energy Alliance‘s analysis of oil and gas leasing in the RockY Mountain states under the last three administrations: Bear in mind that the Federal government is the primary owner of much of the land in several western states. Combine that with the fact that the March 2010 Lease Sale was the last one we’ll see in the Gulf of | Read More »

Tech at Night: Google, Daily Kos, Australia, Nuclear Power, Fraud, DRM

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  October 19th at 02:00 AM  | 

Previously we covered Chris Bowers working over at Daily Kos on a linking scheme to manipulate Google’s search service. Now we come across a new attack on the company, a plan to manipulate click tracking the firm does to figure out what links are most interesting to its users. Of course, the Daily Kos folk want to smear Republicans using Google. Again, we look to | Read More »