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Texan: Congress should `clear path' for wind power
Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens asked Congress on Tuesday to "clear the path" for his plan to boost use of wind and natural gas for U.S. energy needs.
Cal Thomas: An innocent abroad
I remember the first time my wife and I visited Europe and the Middle East. The trip resembled Sen. Barack Obama’s current version of speed travel, but without the entourage, security and network coverage.
Don’t wait for yellowcake apologies
Popular myths — Lenin called them “useful fictions” — are found across the ideological spectrum, but nowhere are they more prevalent than at the extremes of left and right. For example, many on the far right once insisted that President Eisenhower was a tool of the international communist conspiracy, as claimed by Robert Welch, founder of the John Birch Society. That inspired the great line from Russell Kirk that “Eisenhower isn’t a communist, he’s a golfer.”
GM shares break crucial $10 mark
Shares of General Motors have closed below $10 for the first time since Dwight Eisenhower was president of the United States.
UT professor, Latin American scholar dies
John W.F. Dulles, professor of Latin American studies at the University of Texas and the eldest son of the former secretary of state, has died. He was 95.
U.S. Senate toasts Alaska statehood
The U.S. Senate noted the coming 50th anniversary of Alaska's statehood with a little cake.
Jay Ambrose: Not all JFK parallels are positive for Obama
It’s giddiness time for liberals. The future is theirs, they think, and they are skipping toward it gleefully, but also mean-spiritedly, tossing out all kinds of insults at conservatives and the Bush administration, often gratuitously, with no semblance of thought or intellectual honesty. |
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