UncategorizedDHS: border not just "a line in the frozen tundra up there"Early in the Obama administration there were fears that Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano saw the Canadian and...
UncategorizedMaybe Petraeus could also plug that hole in the GulfBelow is Obama’s statement. Reasonable people disagree, but I don’t think he had much choice in replacing McChrystal. If he...
UncategorizedPodesta: "green oil sands" like "error-free deepwater drilling"John Podesta, the head of an influential center-left think tank here in DC, whose many alumni populate the Obama...
UncategorizedInstead of cap-and-trade, "cap-and-dividend"As attention on Capitol Hill shifts to the crafting of energy legislation, two US senators make the case for an alternative regime...
UncategorizedHow to write a Thank You noteIt’s Friday -- time for something non-depressing and non-oil spill or G-20 related. On June 28, the US Senate will begin...
UncategorizedDid Obama just kill cap-and-trade?Will cap-and-trade legislation go the way of the "public option" for health care?
UncategorizedGeneral Petraeus faints at Afghanistan hearingI hope he’s okay. I had just turned on C-SPAN.org to hear his testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee but all I saw...
UncategorizedBP & the politics of energy: in bar graphsPolitico reports that Obama’s pollster is making the case on the Hill that the BP spill has primed public opinion for a major...
UncategorizedSomething else to fight about: big piles of lithium in AfghanistanSo the Pentagon has figured out that Afghanistan sits on extreme untapped mineral wealth , including lithium used to make laptops...
UncategorizedBP Spill = more Alberta oil stateside? And more Canadian energy promotionGary Mar, Alberta’s envoy in Washington, is telling lawmakers that it’s likely that the BP oil spill could result in more...