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By Steve Erbach on
Saturday, May 26, 2007 12:28 PM
Sooner or later it had to happen. Gas prices continue to rise so Congress decided to do something rather than leave well enough alone. As Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute writes:
Tuesday, they voted to sic the Justice Department on OPEC for violating U.S. anti-trust laws (good luck with that). Wednesday, they voted to ban service stations from taking "unfair advantage" of motorists and outlawed "unconscionably excessive" prices for gasoline and other fuels were the president to declare an energy emergency.
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By Steve Erbach on
Thursday, May 24, 2007 6:35 AM
Just in case, as James Taranto of Best of the Web Today says, "some adult hasn't stepped in and taken it down", here are three screen shots of the graphics accompanying a "survey" on the Amnesty International web site.
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By Steve Erbach on
Monday, May 21, 2007 6:57 PM
...the review had some very interesting and compelling things to say about the Iraq War. But first...
I haven't said much about the war. I supported our entry into the war for a number of reasons. But there has always been an issue that holds me back from being you-rah-rah about our continuing, though necessary, effort there.
That issue is the new kind of war that the U. S. invented in the waning years of the Reagan administration: technology-aided warfare. Because our armed forces had come out of a period of low defense budgets after the Vietnam War, the appeal of techno-war with little commitment of ground forces seemed to be just the ticket for future conflicts. The U. S. could keep its nose from getting bloodied if we just bombed from afar with smart bombs. Of course, when we did get our nose bloodied, as in Somalia, ...
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By Steve Erbach on
Sunday, May 20, 2007 10:21 AM
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By Steve Erbach on
Thursday, May 10, 2007 9:38 PM
Do you plan on participating in the May 15 "gas out"?
(published 14-May-2007, Appleton Post-Crescent)
Stupid ideas never die; they live forever on the Internet. The Gas Out is the perfect protest: it doesn't cost anything, you don't have to march in the rain with people who haven't bathed in a while...it isn't even inconvenient! You simply buy gas a day earlier or later than May 15th and voila! Those evil oil companies will lose ... um ... well, nothing. Talk about a hollow threat.
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By Steve Erbach on
Monday, May 07, 2007 9:00 PM
Another round-up of recent anthropogenic global warming stories...
First, "These things are fact, not hypothesis." That's what Wendy Baker, the president of Lloyd's America, said about her company's report on the awful things that are going to might happen:
Mon May 7, 2007 7:06PM EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lloyd's of London, the world's oldest insurer, offered a gloomy forecast of floods, droughts and disastrous storms over the next 50 years in a recently published report ...
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By Steve Erbach on
Friday, May 04, 2007 9:59 PM
Do we in the Western world consider ourselves civilized? We are certainly aware of the distant and the not-too-distant past history of the Christian religions. And there are some who see no moral difference between Christianity and Islam.
So what do you think?
The moment a teenage girl was stoned to death for loving the wrong boy
3rd May 2007
A 17-year-old girl has been stoned to death in Iraq because she loved a teenage boy of the wrong religion.
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By Steve Erbach on
Friday, May 04, 2007 9:50 PM
That's the title of a 60-year-old short story by Robert Heinlein. It relates the successful attempt by a shady lawyer to get a genetically modified chimpanzee declared human in court.
Life imitates art:
May 4 12:24 PM US/Eastern
By WILLIAM J. KOLE
Associated Press Writer
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - In some ways, Hiasl is like any other Viennese: He indulges a weakness for pastry, likes to paint and enjoys chilling out watching TV.
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By Steve Erbach on
Thursday, May 03, 2007 7:03 PM
This story goes right along with Chavez' plan to drop three zeroes from the currency next February:
Chavez Threatens to Nationalize Banks
May 3, 4:53 PM (ET)
By JORGE RUEDA
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday threatened to nationalize the country's banks and largest steel producer, accusing them of unscrupulous practices.
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