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Blood for Oil!

July 2nd, 2011

By Dan Miller When we went to war in Iraq, those on the left yelled that we were shedding blood for oil. It seems that they may have been right — oil for our great friend and ally China. According to this article, China starts oil pumping in Iraq China has begun pumping oil […]

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Tags: China, domestic, drilling, Iraq, oil, satire, U.S.
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The Obama-Gaia Energy Partnership

April 9th, 2011

By Dan Miller The community organizer in chief does what he does best. Years ago, a Venezuelan acquaintance told me a story: Venezuelans and Germans had a rowing race. The German crew had ten oarsmen and one leader who shouted commands; the Venezuelan crew had one oarsman and ten shouters. Surprisingly, the German crew won […]

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Tags: Brazil, climate, drilling, employment, energy, environment, Gaia, oil, satire
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Are Two Constitutional Crises on the Way?

February 9th, 2011

By Dan Miller I don’t know how we avoid them if the administration does not change its approach to court rulings on both ObamaCare and Gulf oil drilling. On January 31, Judge Vinson of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Pensacola Division, held the mandatory insurance provisions of ObamaCare unconstitutional […]

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Tags: contempt, court, drilling, individual mandate, Obamacare, unconstitutional
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Know What Obama Could Use? A Snake Oil Czar

July 4th, 2010

By Dan Miller President Obama is just one man. He clearly can’t sell all this snake oil himself. * * * We have a disastrously inadequate petroleum reserve; there is a crisis. “We consume more than 20 percent of the world’s oil but have less than 2 percent of the world’s oil reserves,” or so […]

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Tags: czars, drilling, leadership, oil, President, reserves, satire, Senate, snake oil
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King for a Day, Part I

January 21st, 2010

By Brian Bagent How do we disentangle ourselves from the Gordian Knot that can characterize what has become many of our foreign affairs, especially what is going on in the Middle East? How can we reduce unemployment back to an acceptable level of 3-5% and sustain it indefinitely? How can we reduce our staggering $12,000,000,000,000 debt […]

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Tags: deficit, drilling, environment, Middle East, oil, production, unemployment
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