Oil shale just might be this country’s energy salvation, although a friend of mine isn’t excited about it. He’s an engineer and was involved in some extraction and processing of the kerogen-loaded, sedimentary rock during the 1970s energy crisis, and witnessed what was apparently one heck of an explosion.
This month marks the 35th anniversary of the suspension of the military draft at the end of the Vietnam War.
But even though the Pentagon regularly — not to mention unequivocally — assures lawmakers and others that the current all-volunteer force continues to handle its combat and other defense duties splendidly, rumors of a return to the draft won’t die.
If you believe the propaganda offered up by some Democrats or liberals or progressives or whatever they call themselves these days, the problems that inflict America began on January 20, 2001 – the day George W. Bush took office.
Recently I was accused of being a partisan. I have no idea how one could construe this from my writing. I’m way too far down the rabbit hole to be worried about petty partisanship.
I’m concerned about the global-fascist dictatorship I found myself living in on October 26, 2001. This is the signing of the PATRIOT Act. This was my rebirth into the world after taking the red pill.
Some members of Congress criticized the plan to aid Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as an open-ended request for cash.
During a pretrial hearing, Salim Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden, discussed life as a detainee at Guantánamo.
Blacks and whites hold vastly different views of Senator Barack Obama and the state of race relations, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
A sense of economic gloom gripped Washington as the Federal Reserve chairman warned of the risks of a long slowdown.
Democratic leaders have begun fashioning a package of stimulus measures, but President Bush and the Fed chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, both pronounced such action premature on Tuesday.
A Pennsylvania-based lobbyist was charged with destroying evidence related to a Federal Bureau of Investigation inquiry involving former Representative Curt Weldon and the awarding of government contracts.