Take Responsibility for Your Decisions: An Open Letter to Borrowers and Lenders
Throughout the housing crisis, we have heard demands from spokesmen for desperate homeowners, banks, and investors for every variety of government bailout. But there is one group from whom the nation has not heard: the millions of Americans who, like me, had nothing...Dumb or Ill-informed About Energy Problems
Environmentalists come to their senses when non-drilling philosophy costs them something. It’s two-faced hypocrisy.
The Real Culprit of Our Gasoline Woes: Environmentalists
Every year the price of gasoline rises as refiners switch over to producing “summer” blends of gasoline and every year virtually everyone blames oil companies for the sky rocketing price. However, virtually everyone is dead wrong. Environmentalists are...Irrelevant Apologies
It is amazing how seriously the media are taking Senator Barack Obama’s latest statement about the latest racist rant from the pulpit of the church he has attended for 20 years. But neither that statement nor the apology for his rant by Father Michael Pfleger...Investigate Bad Congress, Not Big Oil: How The American Government’s Anti-Capitalist Policies Increase Gas Prices
With gasoline prices exceeding $4 a gallon in some states, politicians are responding as usual: Blame Big Oil First. Several prominent senators have once again summoned industry leaders to Capitol Hill, subjecting them to yet another barrage of rhetorical questions,...In Search of Villains for Rising Food and Oil Prices
In searching for villains for rising food and oil prices, some commentators have turned to speculators, namely people trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and similar exchanges around the world. A sample of the claims: “Biofuels and droughts can’t...On The Rise of Islamic Rule in Turkey
Any “interpretation” of Islam that is consistent with the Koran as a revealed, unquestioned authority will end in a reversion to its brute, fundamental meaning: the subordination of women and non-Muslims to dictatorial rule by a clerical elite.
