Archive for Evironment
The Mother Of All Clean-Ups
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How do you lose 200 million gallons of oil? Apparently Mother Nature cleaned it up. Maybe she’ll sell it on the spot market.
Voltwagon
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Fredrich Hayek’s 1944 classic Road to Serfdom has become a best seller again. He said that governments tend to plan production for political, rather than market, purposes. Government owned GM’s new Volt costs $41,000, runs on a battery, and gets 40 miles per charge.
Lockerbie Bomber Not Dead Yet
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BP is off to drill offshore Libya in a few weeks. The simple explanation would be that offshore drilling is banned here. The more interesting explanation is that it has something to do with the release of the surprisingly fit Lockerbie Bomber.
You Know The Drill
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The Law-Enforcer-In-Chief responded to two court rulings overturning his deep water drilling ban by ordering a new deep water drilling ban. Here’s the story in Bloomberg Businessweek.
Walking Points
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Rub a Dub
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Here’s the rub on Al Gore. The National Enquirer uncovered a 2006 Portland police report in which a masseuse says Gore assaulted her like a crazed sex poodle. The mainstream media avoided the story. Claims erupted that Gore was being protected. If, instead of Gore, Cheney had been the sex crazed poodle (wrap your brain around that image) it would have been immediate page one news. Or it could be that the facts just weren’t there. Anyway, the cartoon is here. The Week has all sides here. American Spectator version is here .
Paperwork
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Slick
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Under White House pressure, BP suspended it’s dividend and established a $20 billion escrow account to help the “small people“. Here’s Steve Chapman’s lowdown on the shakedown.
I.G. on W.M.D.
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Adding to the country’s list of apparent unpreparedness, the Inspector General last week reported that the Justice Department is unprepared for a weapons of mass destruction attack. Read the USA Today story here (I drew this cartoon for USA Today).
President Canute
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Obama accepted the Democratic nomination two years ago by remarking that the occasion marked the moment when “our planet began to heal” and the “rise of the oceans began to slow”. Mark Steyn riffs on the subject here.