By Marita Noon OPEC’s Secretary General Abdulla al-Badri made headlines when he announced that the oil price may have bottomed out — indeed, we had four straight days of increase — and predicted “you will see more than $200 when it comes to future oil […]
By Rick Manning The science-is-settled crowd got a little more uncomfortable as the settled science of cholesterol being bad for us is being dismantled by the U.S. government’s top nutrition advisory panel. That’s right. After more than fifty years of government and public health harpies hectoring against […]
By Rick Manning Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) just made the strongest case for House Republicans to pass an EPA funding bill that rips the regulatory heart out of the rogue Agency. Alaska’s Murkowski who has just seen the Obama Administration unilaterally attack her state’s economic viability through […]
By Marita Noon President Obama’s newly announced plans to designate one of the largest oil fields in U.S . as “wilderness,” is foolhardy at best—and may be anti-American at worst. When you look at the bigger story, you have to wonder whose side he stands on in the new “cold […]
By Rick Manning President Obama and his regulators have made the people of the state of Alaska their personal punching bags over the past year with the announcement that an area that is the equivalent of 80 percent of the entire state of West Virginia will be […]
By Robert Romano It may be time for the wind energy industry to finally stand on its own two feet. On January 28, the U.S. Senate defeated an amendment by Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) in favor of the now-expired wind production tax credit. It failed by a vote of 47 to 51 . And that was […]
By Marita Noon What are the Republicans thinking? Coming right out of the gate, at the start of the new GOP-controlled Congress, they began talking about the crazy idea of increasing the gasoline tax. It has little chance of passing, yet can easily taint the […]
By Rick Manning “I am embarrassed by the scientific community’s behavior on the [human driven climate change] subject.” That is just one of the jarring remarks by climate scientist Roy Spencer, PhD. Spencer in his must read response to those who claim that 2014 was the warmest year on record. […]
By Robert Romano “[I]t is the sense of Congress that — (1) climate change is real; and (2) human activity contributes to climate change.” That was part of an amendment offered by Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) to S.1, legislation that will require the Obama administration to allow construction of […]
By Marita Noon The unity march, following the brutal attacks in Paris, reminded us all of America’s absence on the global stage. I wondered: “How has the state of our Union gone from being the shining city on the hill, to a country whose light […]
