THE SWINGING POLITICAL PENDULUM – THE NEED TO GET INVOLVED BY PAUL J. MARINO, ESQUIRE This is the fourth in a series of editorials designed to educate the reader on the true facts about the current administration in Washington, and where the nation needs to be in the future to survive and to protect individual […]
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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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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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INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY Is U.S. Now On Slippery Slope To Tyranny? By THOMAS SOWELL Posted 06/21/2010 06:13 PM ET View Enlarged Image When Adolf Hitler was building up the Nazi movement in the 1920s, leading up to his taking power in the 1930s, he deliberately sought to activate people who did not normally pay much attention to
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JUNE 17, 2010 The President’s Animosities Since when was the American idea us versus them? By DANIEL HENNINGER The oil company formerly known as British Petroleum is starting to look kind of beaten up. So it goes when a business finds itself tossed into the ring with the current president of the United States. “We
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