Gulf Coast
July 7th, 2010
Part Three:I get several emails per day by the federal administration’s “Unified Command” that purport to be making progress on the blowout. They fly two aircraft from Louisiana to Galveston with a cargo of brown pelicans...
June 26th, 2010
I certainly can’t recall 2 years when I’ve seen an administration barrel its agenda directly into the wing, whether political or judicial. George W. Bush resolutely prosecuted the war in Iraq, even as its public popularity...
June 23rd, 2010
At the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico is a canyon, much like the Grand Canyon in Arizona, except that it is covered by about a mile of sea water. It is both wide and deep. It has steep cliff-like walls. And two or three...
June 17th, 2010
I have often said, and commented yesterday, that it’s no good use and even counter-productive to make assertions about moral or intellectual deficiencies like the low-rent MSNBC criticisms of conservatives, when we aren’t in...
June 16th, 2010
Organizing For America (AKA barackobama.com), used last night's Presidential address to send out an email blast in support of cap-and-trade legislation. The email is quoted below:Tonight, in his very first speech from the...
June 10th, 2010
I try to focus on the wisdom of the policy and not the deceitfulness or ignorance of the politician. Speculations of mine are just that: speculations. And, they serve little purpose but to distract from a consideration of...
June 2nd, 2010
TexasGOPVote attended a joint news conference with Harris, Galveston, and Brazoria county judges Tuesday to report on how the BP oil spill will affect Texas coasts.
May 27th, 2010
Obama held a press conference Thursday, primarily to discuss the BP oil leak. Despite talks of conducting monthly press conferences back when he was running for president, today's conference was his first full-blown news...
June 30th, 2010
There are numerous sources of bad information, misinformation, intentionally distorted information, and even outright lies circulating in media and government circles regarding the accidental BP Macondo blowout in the...
June 24th, 2010
It is more than a bit strange to talk about the “nature” of corporations. Humans have an inherent nature, and further are distinguished from animal nature in that they are morally assessed as responsible and judged “good”...
June 22nd, 2010
Today, I issued the following statement after a federal judge blocked the Obama Administration’s six-month ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico:Today’s ruling on the drilling moratorium is a victory for Gulf Coast...
June 17th, 2010
It is a policy of this administration to “never let a crisis go to waste,” and the Obama “Oil Spill” speech was a classic Obama performance in which he went from let's plug that hole to let's save the planet.
June 15th, 2010
I issued the following statement after the conclusion of President Obama’s address to the American people:
June 3rd, 2010
The oil spill is already impacting Florida beaches as a six-foot-long oil sheen from the BP oil spill was spotted near Pensacola Wednesday. Oil is also expected to wash up on other parts of the Florida coast in the next few...
May 30th, 2010
BPs latest effort to stop the flow of oil leaking into the Gulf Coast waters by plugging the well with mud and cement was determined Saturday to have failed. According to the BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles:“After...