History Is Not Just Cruel. It Is

Preemption Is A Kind Of Pre-deterrence That Stops The Threat At An Earlier, Safer Stage.

I'm Not Against International Institutions That Would Try To Tackle Global Warming. But The Way To Go, At Least In The Short Run, Is To Go To Nuclear Power. It's Amazing To Me That People Who Are So Alarmed About Global Warming Are So Reluctant To Adopt The Obvious Short-term Solution - The Bridge Until The Day When We Have Affordable Renewable Energy - Of Nuclear Power.

An Oil Crisis Looms, Prices Are Spiking - And Our President Is Extolling Algae. After Solyndra, Keystone And Promises Of Seaweed In Their Gas Tanks, Americans Sense A President So Ideologically Antipathetic To Fossil Fuels - Which We Possess In Staggering Abundance - That He Is Utterly Unserious About The Real World Of Oil In Which The Rest Of Us Live.

Great Leaders Are Willing To Retire Unloved And Unpopular As The Price For Great Exertion.

To Understand The Workings Of American Politics, You Have To Understand This Fundamental Law: Conservatives Think Liberals Are Stupid. Liberals Think Conservatives Are Evil.