“We don’t want the West to go and find alternatives,” he said, “because, clearly, the higher the price of oil goes, the more they have incentives to go and find alternatives.” – Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia. (Toronto Sun) And apparently, neither does Greenpeace and a host of other environmental groups operating in Canada. The Toronto Sun reports 100 professional environmental activists on | Read More »
Promoted from the diaries. – ed. Our crushing $14 trillion national debt is as much a national security threat as it is an economic disaster. According to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen, “The most significant threat to our national security is our debt.” Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has said, “We can’t have a strong military if we have a weak economy.” Even | Read More »
You may have heard that there was an election in Ohio last year. Popular Governor Ted Strickland (D) was defeated in his re-election campaign by John Kasich (R), and Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher (D) was crushed in the Senate race by former Bush advisor Rob Portman (R). Senator Sherrod Brown (D) has sure noticed. He’s also noticed that gas prices are going up, and up, | Read More »
“If Saudi Arabia were to become unhinged, the consequences are almost impossible to imagine—politically, economically, at every level,” said Ryan Crocker, who was the U.S. ambassador to Iraq until 2009. “But I don’t see it happening.” National Journal.com. Saudi Arabia suffers from a despotic, myopic, reactionary government that bases its authority upon a religion that quite literally demands that its followers render all non-Islamic countries | Read More »
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