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Power to the People

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

by Mike

Energy policy is one of those tough topics to talk about intelligently. The problem is that everybody knows what the problems are (fossil fuels are bad for the environment and have a finite supply), everybody agrees what the ultimate solution has to be (we need to find new sources of cheap, plentiful energy), and [...]

Christian Conservation

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

by Mike

Humility. Temperance. Stewardship. Modesty. These are all good Christian values. They are good conservative values as well. Jesus taught them (as have most of the world’s great religious leaders of all faiths). In most cases, our parents and grandparents taught them as well. Christians, and I think [...]

Clinton as Colbert (Only It’s Not Funny When It’s Real)

Monday, May 5th, 2008

by Mike

Clinton had a Stephen Colbert moment yesterday. It doesn’t suit her. Here’s the transcript from This Week with George Stephanopoulos:

My Lonely Pet Rhinocerous

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

by Dave

I’m generally for treating animals with respect and kindness. But laws like those the Swiss are implementing are ridiculous! It may sound noble to make sure that guinea pigs are never kept alone in their cages, but it misses an important point. Humans are different from and more important than the animals they keep. When [...]

Free Public Transportation

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

by Mike

I was pretty critical of McCain’s support for a “gas-tax holiday”, and I’m pretty disappointed in Clinton’s support of the idea. As I said before, the gas-tax holiday just doesn’t make any sense if you think about it. It’s an extremely small amount of money ($0.18 on the gallon translates to about $10 [...]

Hypocrisy of Nuclear Energy

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

by Mike

I read McCain’s Foreign Affairs essay the other day, which is really quite good. There are certainly things in it I disagree with, but when compared with the nonsensical mess that Giuliani wrote, it does make you appreciate that McCain has some grasp of the issues at hand. On the issue of nuclear [...]

Global Warming Claptrap

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

by Mike

There is bias in the media. Now, I watch and read quite a bit of news, and so I can say with some confidence that usually the bias is subtle, and most of the time I think its unconscious. For instance, a reporter will ask basically the same question of two different candidates, [...]

Leading From The Front

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

by Mike

President Bush is struggling to find an acceptable compromise position on global warming. For years, he has said that the time wasn’t right to act on global warming. He rejected the Kyoto Protocol, dismissed setting benchmarks for carbon dioxide emissions, and repeatedly claimed that the issue needed further study. Lately, he’s been [...]

Price Gouging and Gasoline

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

by Mike

The average price of gasoline in the United States is now within a penny of the historical inflation-adjusted record, set in 1981. Now, personally this doesn’t bother me much. On a personal level, my wife and I drive a Honda Civic on which we put less than 500 miles a month, on average. [...]

Creeping Dunes

Friday, April 6th, 2007

by Doc Opp

I found this article very interesting. Its about how changes in climate and the cutting of trees are leading to sand dune migrations in Mauritania. Basically, the wind blows dunes across the desert, and they’re causing all sorts of chaos. Its an interesting problem that we don’t hear much about, so I [...]