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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2010 5 Comments

Live at 8 p.m. HERE, because it will be more fun to be among friends than to listen very carefully to the "words, just words."(If you want your brilliant thoughts preserved for eternity, you still can leave a comment to this post.)Obama - The Historic...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2010 13 Comments

There is something profoundly bass ackwards in the way Obama is reacting to the disaster in the Gulf.Obama keeps focusing on legal liability:President Obama will use his first Oval Office speech Tuesday night to outline a plan to legally compel BP to create an escrow...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 16, 2010 10 Comments

The evidence mounts of bungled permitting, delays in response, and understating the impact:U.S. Said to Allow Drilling Without Needed Permits - "Those approvals, federal records show, include one for the well drilled by the Deepwater Horizon rig, which exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2010 6 Comments

This is my obligatory "Tommy, you're doing a heck of a job" post. Or more appropriately, "Tommy, keep paddling."Jake reports, I repeat:Though his agency was charged with coordinating the federal response to the major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Department of the Interior...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2010 11 Comments

Dana Milbank argues that conservatives are hypocritical in seeking government involvement in the Gulf oil cleanup, Through oil-fouled water, big government looks better and better:There is something exquisite about the moment when a conservative decides he needs more government in his life...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2010 19 Comments

My my, how Paul Krugman worries that our President may come under criticism from the vast right-wing conspiracy for the Eight Days In April.The Eight Days In April during which our President twiddled his environmental clean-up and emergency response thumbs in the face of what...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 01, 2010 5 Comments

As I posted earlier, the key elements in "green" technology are rare metals mined mostly in China. The green economy envisioned by the Obama administration as the means by which we will grow "green jobs" and lessen our dependence on foreign oil in fact simply...

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