FINANCIAL POST Avertible catastrophe Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post · Saturday, Jun. 26, 2010 Some are attuned to the possibility of looming catastrophe and know how to head it off. Others are unprepared for risk and even unable to get their priorities straight when risk turns to reality. The Dutch fall into the first group. Three […]
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JULY 2, 2010 Why Is the Gulf Cleanup So Slow? There are obvious actions to speed things up, but the government oddly resists taking them. H. RUBIN Destin, Fla. As the oil spill continues and the cleanup lags, we must begin to ask difficult and uncomfortable questions. There does not seem to be much that
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Oil Messed Up Anger grows along the Gulf Coast at the Obama administration’s pathetic response to the largest oil spill in U.S. history. BY Winston Groom July 5 – July 12, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 40 Point Clear, Alabama The most breathtaking irony in the whole sorry oil spill
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JUNE 28, 2010 Protests Rock Toronto Over Weekend Despite Stepped-Up Security Effort, Police Struggle to Halt Violence Near G-20 Summit, Arresting Nearly 600 By PHRED DVORAK And MONICA GUTSCHI TORONTO—The site of the weekend’s Group of 20 leaders’ meeting was rocked by some of the most violent protests to hit a global gathering in recent
THE WEEKLY STANDARD Beyond Pathetic BP’s Gulf disaster was no surprise to those who understood the corporate culture. BY Andrew B. Wilson June 28, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 39 Shortly after lunch on November 27, 2003, Oberon Houston was in his office beneath the helideck of BP’s Forties Alpha oil platform in the North Sea,
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JUNE 22, 2010 A Tale of Two Disasters Bush was blamed for local failures after Katrina. Obama got a free ride for weeks as federal failures mounted during the Gulf spill. By PAUL H. RUBIN In many respects, the Deepwater Horizon disaster and Katrina are mirror images of each other. The harm from Katrina was
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JUNE 21, 2010 The ‘Paralyzing’ Principle The Gulf disaster rehabilitates a discredited idea. The Gulf oil spill is having all sorts of nasty consequences well beyond damage to the regional environment and economy. Not least, the resulting political panic seems to be rehabilitating the thoroughly discredited theory of regulation known as the precautionary principle. This
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The Antidrilling Commission The White House choices seem to have made up their minds. “Under my Administration, the days of science taking a back seat to ideology are over. . . To undermine scientific integrity is to undermine our democracy. . . I want to be sure that facts are driving scientific decisions, and not
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townhall.com February 13th, 2010 – Obama’s date of Infamy Kevin McCullough Sunday, June 20, 2010 Ok who’s ready for a new federal law? How ’bout this: “No one may run for President of the United States after previously only being elected to a state legislature and U.S. Senate with no chief executive experience.” Instead of
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TownHall.com By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown June 18, 2010 At first blush this sounds like an outlandish question with a conspiratorial twist. The corollary question goes like this: Is the Obama administration intentionally scaling back clean-up efforts in the Gulf in an attempt to maximize the damage so Democrats in Congress will have an
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