February 24, 2011 By Victor Davis Hanson President Obama established a bipartisan debt-reduction commission — and then ignored its findings, which called for unpopular reductions in entitlements and across-the-board spending cuts. His first two budgets led to the largest deficits in U.S. history. The ensuing $3 trillion dollars in red ink prompted the tea party […]
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FEBRUARY 22, 2011, 11:56 P.M. ET Arab Unrest Stuns Markets Oil Soars, Stocks Fall as Libyan Rebels Take Energy Zone; Shipments Are Halted By LIAM PLEVEN, JONATHAN CHENG And GUY CHAZAN Libya’s descent into violence rattled global financial markets Tuesday, sending oil prices surging to their biggest gain in more than two years and driving
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MIDDLE EAST NEWS FEBRUARY 21, 2011, 6:54 A.M. ET By CHARLES LEVINSON and TAHANI KARRAR-LEWSLEY CAIRO—Violent clashes between protesters and security forces snowballed in cities throughout eastern Libya Sunday, as the country’s leader, Moammar Gadhafi, struggled to crush an uprising aimed at ending his 42-year rule. Human Rights Watch said it had confirmed 233 deaths
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) In the Dock Get ready for two years of Obama administration oversight by the House GOP. Fred Barnes January 31, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 19 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Upton’s committee is taking up the White House review of past regulations, which the president announced in the Wall Street
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FEBRUARY 5, 2011 Listening to the Shale Revolution Often the only ‘reform’ needed is a plan to remove obstacles to innovation. By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR. With turmoil in the Middle East comes the inevitable spike in oil prices, topping $90 this week. Look for energy security to make one of its recurrent runs to
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AMERICAN THINKER February 05, 2011 By Victor Sharpe Not content with creating havoc in the U.S. economy, setting Americans against each other, and forcing through a health reform act which has nothing to do with health but everything to do with the redistribution of wealth and an immense increase in governmental interference, our president has
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Egypt Turmoil and Our Energy Supply: The Big Picture by Steve Maley (more by this author) Posted 02/03/2011 ET Egypt’s turmoil looms large over the world’s energy markets, but not for the reasons you might think. Egypt currently produces about 750 thousand barrels per day (BPD) of crude oil, which barely covers the country’s growing internal
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JANUARY 7, 2011 Microbes Mopped Up After Spill Bacteria Swiftly Devoured Methane Unleashed Into the Gulf of Mexico, Study Says By ROBERT LEE HOTZ Bacteria made quick work of the tons of methane that billowed into the Gulf of Mexico along with oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout, clearing the natural gas from the waterway
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Posted on Sat, Jan. 01, 2011 Dave Barry’s 2010 Year in Review By Dave Barry Jack Ohman / MCT Let’s put things into perspective: 2010 was not the worst year ever. There have been MUCH worse years. For example, toward the end of the Cretaceous Period, the Earth was struck by an asteroid that wiped
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BOOK REVIEW: By John R. Coyne Jr. The Washington Times December 10, 2010 WHEN OIL PEAKED By Kenneth S. Deffeyes Hill and Wang, $24, 143 pages In 2001, building on the geologist M. King Hubbert’s prediction that U.S. oil production would peak between 1965 and 1970, Kenneth S. Deffeyes, emeritus professor of geology at Princeton
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