"Of course there are obstacles standing in the way of the building of such plants to wrest transportation fuels from coal using methods that are both economical and have little impact on the environment — even satisfying most of the global-warming crowd. Tax disincentives and costly regulatory penalties for projects are high on the list of hurdles to overcome."
Rising Food Costs
"In an age of global plenty, such disruptions of the food supply as we have seen in recent years have all been man made."
Middle East Countries About To Abandon Sinking Dollar
"Kuwait de-pegged its currency from the dollar last year. Now Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are considering following suit. It is interesting to note that reports about these plans are not showing up in the U.S. mainstream media."
Top-level Torture
"It turned Abu Ghraib’s hooded, leashed, and naked “detainees” from an aberration that shamed America into official policy. No longer can the administration claim that only “a few” low-hanging “bad apples” are guilty: the president and his advisers are the biggest of those apples."
Ex-Press Secretary Charges Bush ‘Propaganda’ on Iraq
"Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan, in his new exposé, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception, charges that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated 'political propaganda campaign' led by President Bush. McClellan says the campaign was aimed at 'manipulating sources of public opinion' and 'downplaying the major reason for going to war.'"
Senate Bill to Reduce Greenhouse Gases Would Cripple U.S. Economy
"The emissions cuts called for in the Lieberman-Warner bill are so draconian that, as reported in Investor's Business Daily, 'The Environmental Protection Agency reckons it would cost as much as $3 trillion a year in lost GDP. In an economy of roughly $14 trillion, that's a significant loss.'"
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