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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]