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Fracking Can Be Done Safely, but Will It Be? →
It can be much safer. But since that involved government passing and enforcing laws, we can count on a segment of debate to be opposition for the sake of opposition.
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Tunneling KFC to Gazans Craving the World Outside →
The French fries arrive soggy, the chicken having long since lost its crunch. A 12-piece bucket goes for about $27 here — more than twice the $11.50 it costs just across the border in Egypt.
The situation in Gaza is absurd. The smuggling of fried chicken via tunnel is both tragic and comic.
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G.O.P. Split Over Whether to Waste Time Investigating Benghazi or Repealing Obamacare →
Warning that “the American people don’t have an endless appetite for meaningless political theater,” Cantor added, “If we’re going to do something that’s purely symbolic, pointless, and detached from reality, I say it should be repealing Obamacare for the thirtieth or fortieth time.”
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Do you want to know where all that education money is going? Looks like it isn’t going to education. School sports, the original edu-tainment industry.
And the highest paid public employee in your state is…
Just be you, Vermont.
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We need a 5th Geneva Convention
The first step to ending the Global War on Terrorism should be a Geneva Convention that defines what a terrorist is, what states can and can not do to fight them and what rights they have when captured. Until there is an agreed upon standard definition of terrorist, states are free to declare almost anyone a terrorist to escape the obligations of law.
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House of Un-Representatives →
This Republican House is almost like a parallel government, sitting in for some fantasy nation created in talk-radio land.
Sad and true. Worth a read.
