August 7th, 2011
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It’s Not Easy Going Green, Part IV
Remember jatropha? In 2007, Goldman Sachs called it one of the best candidates for future biofuels. Time Magazine touted its promise in an article from January, 2009: Renewable energy, it turns out, does grow on trees. The fruit pods plucked from jatropha trees have seeds that produce clean-burning diesel fuel. But unlike corn and other [...]
Your Exciting Facts of the Day
With more and more media speculation that Rick Perry is getting in, I’m getting questions from reporters about a projected budget deficit in Texas and several of the reporters make clear that the Democrats are the ones pushing this. Let’s be clear about a few things: 1. Rick Perry has never signed into law a [...]
WI Democrats make (illiterate) threats to news organization.
Said threats being made by one Graeme Zielinski, communications director (his title will be funny in a moment; trust me) for the Wisconsin Democratic party – and my, but did he ever communicate! And more than Zielinski really intended to, methinks. Background information: there’s a site called WisconsinReporter.com. They apparently cover Wisconsin local politics – [...]
Our Snake-bit President
Maybe we should call him Lemony Snicket, given the series of unfortunate events that have taken place on his watch. There was the BP Oil spill and a terribly bungled Presidential response complete with a disastrous White House address. The Gulf Coast is still reeling from the loss of jobs the President’s policies then caused. [...]
One business woman’s view of the Oconomy
Business people seem to have a particularly good grasp of what’s going wrong in Obamaland. Amilya Antonetti articulates it well here. “What should the President say on Monday?” “I apologize. I apologize because i did not lead this country to success” If only that could fix the disaster that Barack Obama and his minions have [...]
