Here is another misleading report, this time from Fortune: We are facing an epic competition between the 800 million motorists who want to protect their mobility and the two billion poorest people in the world who simply want to survive. In effect, supermarkets and service stations are now competing for the same resources. Sensationalist point, … Continue reading Ethanol versus food
This is a rather sharp counter to the multi-million dollar campaign led by Chevron to kill Proposition 87 in California: The full page New York Times ad run yesterday by your national political operation — the American Petroleum Institute — highlighted a messaging problem within your California campaign against Proposition 87. The ad stated: “… … Continue reading California Prop 87
Every once in a while when I need some comic relief, I go back and read the Vice President’s statement posted on Whitehouse.org: In closing, please keep in mind that I’m speaking as the mastermind of a legislative agenda predicated almost exclusively on Social Darwinism when I confess that I experience a slight, non-pacemaker-induced pang … Continue reading The Onion makes Whitehouse legal team cry out
The Washington Post has a blistering condemnation of the Bush administration’s reconstruction of Iraq. They point out that the long-condemned spoils system was not only favored, but taken to a new extreme: Many of those chosen by O’Beirne’s office to work for the Coalition Provisional Authority, which ran Iraq’s government from April 2003 to June … Continue reading More tragic evidence of the Bush spoils system