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Financial Crisis: Deep Down, We All Knew This Was Coming

Posted on Oct 10, 2008, Source: CounterPunch

Given the countless warnings that came via Bush's decadent approach to government and regulation, there should be zero surprise we'd be robbed blind.

If We All Started Driving Priuses, We'd Consume More Energy Than Ever Before

Posted on May 10, 2008, Source: Public Affairs Books

While energy efficiency is laudable, history shows that it leads to people consuming more energy.

Was a Colonel's Death in Iraq Something More Sinister Than Suicide?

Posted on Feb 23, 2008, Source: Texas Observer

New questions surround the highest ranking officer to die in Iraq.

The Multi-Billion Dollar IED Boondoggle Continues

Posted on Sep 24, 2007, Source: The Washington Spectator

Like just about everything the U.S. touches in Iraq, the quest to beat the IED has been dogged by incompetence and graft.

Despite Its Huge Flaws, Ethanol Is Political Holy Water in DC

Posted on Jul 7, 2007, Source: The Washington Spectator

The inconvenient truth is that ethanol is bad for taxpayers, bad for air quality, bad for people who like to eat, and it will have no real effect on America's overall energy mix -- too bad DC's politicians won't say anything about it.

Suicide Was the Only Way Out of Iraq for Col. Westhusing

Posted on Mar 16, 2007, Source: Texas Observer

Writing in his suicide note, "I am sullied -- no more," U.S. Colonel Ted Westhusing, father of three, chose death over a life of lies and corruption in occupied Iraq.

Ethanol: Feed a Person for a Year or Fill Up an SUV?

Posted on Mar 5, 2007, Source: CounterPunch

While politicians and Big Agriculture insist on casting the need for ethanol in terms of national security, the larger issue is a moral one: are we going to use our precious farmland to grow food, or use it to make motor fuel?

The Man at Their Side

Posted on Sep 28, 2004, Source: The Nation

The Corleones had Robert Duvall as their consigliere. The Bushes have James A. Baker III.
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