Oil producers liked it when they were poking world energy markets and getting over $100 per barrel. It looks like they are going to get the pointy end of the stick.
Big oil producers who rely heavily on oil earnings have lately been pretty conservative with their oil-price forecasts—leaving plenty of upside room for market prices. […]
Billy Kristol likes to think he is a grown-up thinker. But he has a long way to go.
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
No, appeals to patriotism reduce the ability to see the enemy as he is, and cause us to to see him as we want to see him. […]
I try not to use profanity on my blog because my kids, Bookzilla and JMan, might read this. I like the fact that they seem to use less profanity than I did at their age. I remember my sixth grade year as being quite profane, even though I went to a fundie church. In my […]
One of my favorite songs is “A Change is Gonna Come” by Sam Cooke. I like the version by the Neville Brothers. I think about that song sometimes and wonder how for people who lived in the 1950’s, long it would take for change to come. I used to live near the Rainier Valley in […]
I just saw a bit of Obama’s press event yesterday announcing his economic team. I can’t find the video on line but he was markedly tired. Biden was up and bouncy, but that may be his experience of the last 30 years showing through. Obama needs to center before walking in front of the cameras.
I missed two questions from this quiz. How will you do?
Civic Literacy Report - Civics Quiz
I got a twinge of that feeling while watching William Weld on MSNBC. The former governor of Massachusetts was droning on about things and he said that he was in the Reagan government and he and his fiscal conservatives joined with the social conservatives to do the president’s bidding.
This comment came after he came on […]
Sebastian Mallaby on the nuts of the crisis:
Yet, in the course of this crisis, an estimated $11 trillion in household wealth has been wiped out.
Bush, et co., have added 5 trillion dollars to the national debt, most of it borrowed from Asian banks, and burned it in the deserts of Iraq.
No one should have […]
I think that Bush will pardon a bunch of people and dare the Democrats to investigate his presidency. Bush is belligerent and arrogant. You can count on more stone walling.
This country has transgressed in many ways over the last 8 years and there many not be a form of redress that actually gets to the […]
There is the saying that all history is revisionist. Maybe.
Obama is now choosing his cabinet and references have been made to the last President from Illinios. Matthew Pinsker quotes Doris Kearns Goodwin:
“Lincoln basically pulled in all the people who had been running against him into his Cabinet,” is the way Obama has summarized Goodwin’s […]