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Date: June 16th, 2010

Overheated rhetoric about alleged overheated rhetoric: Rep. Cao (LA) did not demand BP exec commit suicide

16 June, 2010 (11:33) | Energy, Environment, Politics, The Media | By: ricjames

The headline at FoxNews.com reads “Rep. Cao Suggests BP Exec Commit ‘Hara-Kiri’ Over Spill.” It’s not just a headline snafu, either. In the story itself it reads: Lawmakers are fuming at BP, but Rep. Joseph Cao took that anger to a new level during a congressional hearing when he suggested a top executive  commit ritual [...]

Obama speech demonstrates that “never let a crisis go to waste” is the credo his administration lives by

16 June, 2010 (08:57) | Energy, Environment, Politics, Technology | By: ricjames

Obama’s speech last night that was allegedly going to be addressing the status and progress on the Gulf oil spill turned, as I suspected it would, into a policy speech designed to start lining up support for his legislation taxing energy. He and his advisors clearly think the only thing on the minds of the [...]