It's probably more interesting to readers of my other sites vulcanhammer.net and vulcanhammer.info, but this is a welcome to the blogosphere for Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters' blog The Fast Lane. Above: Secretary Peters on a Harley.
Jeremiah Wright: Ego Inflatable to Any Size
My church has a humourist who does an "Inflatable Campmeeting" routine, where he features a blow-up campmeeting with an inflatable campground, organ, pulpit, etc. But no campmeeting is complete without general and state church officials, so they're inflatable too. For good measure, he throws in an additional remark about the officials: "egos inflatable to any …
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Staying Ahead of Dick Morris
Staying ahead of Dick Morris isn't easy, but it's doable. On the subject of Hillary Clinton's real intention of staying in the race: From my piece a month ago Hillary Clinton has Nothing to Lose by Ploughing On: Hillary has no good reason to quit. If she wins the nomination, she has a shot at …
Tim Gill: So Where’s the Equality and Progress?
Quark founder Tim Gill is making quite a splash, funding in a big way state legislative candidates who support same-sex civil marriage. This was reported on the 700 Club a couple of days ago, and; you can see the video by clicking here. Gill tells us he wants equality. That should constitute progress. I've dealt …
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The Country Where No One Satisfies
I've been pilloried for having doubts about Obama's patriotism, but evidently Peggy Noonan has hers too: Main thought. Hillary Clinton is not Barack Obama's problem. America is Mr. Obama's problem. He has been tagged as a snooty lefty, as the glamorous, ambivalent candidate from Men's Vogue, the candidate who loves America because of the great …
Nuclear Power: Now They Tell Us
Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore connects the dots at last: Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore says there is no proof global warming is caused by humans, but it is likely enough that the world should turn to nuclear power - a concept tied closely to the underground nuclear testing his former environmental group formed to oppose. The …
Brazil Leads the Way in New Sources of Oil
Brazil is once again taking the lead as a source for oil: Brazil's state-controlled Petroleo Brasileiro SA in November said the offshore Tupi field may hold 8 billion barrels of recoverable crude. Among discoveries in the past 30 years, only the 15-billion-barrel Kashagan field in Kazakhstan is larger. Haroldo Lima, director of the country's oil …
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You’re Not as Dumb as You Look
David at the Political Chase seems taken aback that this "conservative blogger" wouldn't go along with the Jonesville COG's pastor's implication that Barack Obama is a Muslim: Interestingly enough, not every right-wing conservative blogger supports Pastor Byrd’s thought provoking idea. At least two conservative bloggers do not. This reminds me of something that happened to …
One Church of God Weighs in on Obama and Osama
The Jonesville (SC) Church of God and its pastor are making a stir with their latest sign out in front of the church: Pastor Roger Byrd said that he just wanted to get people thinking. So last Thursday, he put a new message on the sign at the Jonesville Church of God. It reads: "Obama, …
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With Environmentalists, It’s Always the Wrong Cause
Muhammad Cohen's article No Friends of the Earth highlights the backward priorities that so often plague the environmental movement: Within days of the Bali breakthrough, activists from environmental group Greenpeace were speeding toward Antarctica, ground zero for global warming, with an embedded BBC reporter aboard. The polar ice caps are melting at accelerating rates, and …
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