On...Innovation and resourcefulness

I remember when I was in high school debate there were these findings about how the world was running out of coal. We only had until 2010 or something and then we'd be out. Well, here we are and we have enough coal reserves to lead us into the future. Huge coal strikes were found only a couple of years after that article was written. The same has now happened for natural gas. HERE. Of course we can't rest on our laurels but it shows how resourceful humans are (especially western civilization). We shall overcome the challenges. Innovation and resourcefulness.

On...Being Busy and not Blogging

NO TIME

I've been meaning to blog on President Obama's first 10 months (it was 9 when I had the idea) however I haven't had anytime to really do it right. Heck, I had to take a 55 minute break within the space of this blog to give the baby a bath, take the garbage out, etc.

So in loo of that here are two really interesting pieces from Slate.com

The first is an overview from the new Supreme Court session. I admit I've really come to enjoy the Supreme Court as a concept and would love to actually watch a round or two live.

HERE

Second is the bizarre "shell" process of law-making that both parties use that is a bit seedy.

HERE

RIP: Irving Kristol

Writer Irving Kristol died last week at 89. Though I didn't directly read a lot of his work (and there is a whole lot of it) I have been steadily influenced by those who he influenced and mentored, his son Bill and wife Gertrude along with James Q Wilson and others. I wish I would have known his magazine The Public Interest in its heyday.

Christopher Hitchens and James Q Wilson have articles about him below. They are especially useful in trying to understand the true origins of the term neoconservative without all the post-Iraq war baggage.

Hitchens on Irving Kristol

Wilson on Irving Kristol

On...If Only It Were True

How Newspapers Should Report...HERE

On...The Michigan Way

Two Governors and a Failed Idea

For those of us who live in Michigan this article in the Wall Street Journal is depressing. Sure the true believers (in Gov. Granholm, all twelve of them) will deny it and say the numbers are wrong and check back in 10 years, etc. Others will ignore it. But many will shake their heads and know deep down that this is what they feared. Michigan and its 15% unemployment, which would be even higher if people weren't allowed to leave, is becoming the New Mississippi. Progressives don't understand basic economic principles and refuse to learn them. Instead they role out big government (even on the state level) and expect miracle cures. It simply doesn't work that way. Yes, organized government can solve some problems on a small scale, but the marketplace is not one of them. But they'll keep trying.

Anyway, the article is HERE: Michigan Subsidies Fail

I found the movie subsidy aspect disappointing. I thought maybe that was a good idea initially. See, even I can get suckered it from time to time.

On...Texas Tea

Black Gold

Author of the award-winning history of oil, The Prize, has a new article in Foreign Policy magazine where he examines the controversial and volatile necessity of OIL in our modern world.

It's Still the One by Daniel Yergin