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The Olden Days of Air Travel Were Horridly Primitive

March 16th, 2012

By Dan Miller We didn’t have the TSA, delicious airline meals or pleasant flight attendants. It’s all so much better now. Don’t believe it? Just watch these shocking videos.

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: 747, aircraft, airlines, aviation, comfort, cost, crew, Pan Am, satire
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Conservation for the Sake of Our Children Is Far More Important than Mere Cost

December 12th, 2011

By Dan Miller Green stuff is scarce and is too important to waste. According to this article, Last week, the Navy signed a contract with two biofuel companies to purchase 450,000 gallons of advanced biofuels at $12 million to assist in President Obama’s goal to establish a domestic biofuels industry and to advance it in […]

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Tags: biofuels, conservation, cost, energy, environment, oil, satire, U.S. Navy
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A Dolt on the Volt

January 29th, 2011

By Tom Carter Gene Weingarten wrote a very funny satirical article in The Washington Post today about the Chevrolet Volt. That’s the “volt” referred to in the title; Weingarten is the “dolt,” by his own admission. Like most people, I suppose, I didn’t know much about the Volt before I read Weingarten’s article. From what […]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Chevrolet, cost, energy, environment, incentive, performance, subsidy, Volt
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Winding Down a Misbegotten War

August 20th, 2010

By Jan Barry As the last U.S. combat units rumbled out of Iraq under President Obama’s August deadline, Time magazine’s chief political columnist, Joe Klein, summed up the costly consequences of what he called “a war that should never have been fought.” Blasting the Bush administration for blundering into “a neo-colonialist delusion” that caused hundreds […]

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: Afghanistan, casualties, cost, end, invasion, Iraq, occupation, threat, war
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Let ’em Eat Cake

August 8th, 2010

By Larry Ennis The President’s wife has gone on vacation in Spain. Total cost for her little getaway? How about $375,000? The good news is that we taxpayers aren’t paying for all of it. According to the White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, the First Lady is traveling just like any other private citizen. According […]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: cost, First Lady, Michelle, press coverage, security, Spain, vacation
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