October 3rd, 2011
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Nevada Geothermal Power: Solyndra Lite?
The New York Times reports on another Department of Energy green energy loan going bad. This one involves Nevada Geothermal Power, which generates electrical power using near-surface geothermal heat. After $79 million in loans and $66 million in outright grants, the company’s auditor has concluded that there is significant doubts about its ability to continue [...]
Forget Oil…We Can Power Our Country with a Something Box…Like..Forever.
The Keystone pipeline has a lot going for it. The case for it is construction is strong and most reasonable people are for it. As Steve Maley noted: Opponents of the Keystone XL project might think they’re saving the environment by blocking the line. Not so. Without the line, Canadians will sell the oil to [...]
Harold Hamm and the North Dakota Miracle
Unlike most of his peers, Harold Hamm didn’t get his start in the oil field with degree in geology or engineering. Hamm drove a truck. Maybe the lack of a college degree made it easier for Hamm to imagine the possible and focus on making it happen. “Imagining the possible” allowed Hamm to build the [...]
EPA Shutting Three of its Doors Permanently for $300,000 Savings
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is suddenly on the side of budget restraint and savings and wants you to know that they are looking out for your dollar: The Environmental Protection Agency is shuttering three staff-only entrances at its Washington headquarters starting this weekend as part of a “budget-driven decision to reduce expenses” for building security, according [...]
Meet #OccupyWallSt’s @JeffRae: Rabble Rouser, Agitator, Organizer & Labor Activist
Saturday, marked the second week of the #OccupyWallSt protests. With the endorsements of union bosses now firmly in their back pockets, protesters in New York celebrated the anniversary of their campout in a New York City park by shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge. This, of course, led to the NYPD to arrest many of the—more [...]
Maybe Stephanie McCrummen Just Likes Using the N Word
This is perhaps the most bizarre attack on Rick Perry to come so far. Hugh Hewtitt has a very good take down of it. It shows the extent to which the Democrats will go to attack Republicans. Stephanie McCrummen, a Washington Post based reporter formerly stationed in Nairobi has a history of fanning racial flames [...]
This WSJ article on deficiency lawsuits leaves me curiously unsympathetic.
I mean, the basic concept behind the practice is worrisome enough: banks foreclose on a property when it goes into default, discover that the foreclosure sale doesn’t recoup their losses, so they get a ‘deficiency judgment’ to try to get the rest from the original borrower. So far, such is life – but where it [...]
Optimism
“The President is giving the Republicans every opportunity to shine. But they are all so busy talking down the other guys in the field” I’ve been dwelling on this for a couple of weeks. Call it, if you will, the “Carville Rule” named for the consultant who came up with it (at least I’ll give [...]
