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In the first four years of the Obama Administration, the Department of Labor spent $595 million training workers for the New Green Economy that President Obama promised. A recent Washington Post article (“Why it’s hard for the government to create … Continue reading →

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidblackmon/2013/07/16/as-fracking-rises-peak-oil-theory-slowly-dies/ Those of us who are advanced enough in age will remember U.S. President Jimmy Carter, in 1978, telling the public in a televised speech that the world was in fact running out of oil at a rapid pace – … Continue reading →

Well we are big rock singers, we’ve got golden fingers And we’re loved everywhere we go We sing about beauty and we sing about truth At ten thousand dollars a show We take all kind of pills to give us … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/sports/olympics/tulsa-mayor-no-longer-backs-long-shot-olympic-bid.html?src=recg The Tulsa mayor, Dewey F. Bartlett Jr., withdrew his support this week of the plan to bring the Summer Games to Oklahoma, acknowledging that the city was not equipped to host an enormous international event like the Olympics. Bartlett’s … Continue reading →

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2013/07/new_orleans_rapper_booked_with.html#incart_river DeGruy had fled to California after arrest warrants alleged that he had shot at, and narrowly missed, an eastern St. Bernard man he knew on April 29. He allegedly had beaten and robbed that man and another eastern St. … Continue reading →

In the U.S., they’re much more likely to wear a Guy Fawkes mask, carry an SIEU card or a Federal badge. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/02/mongolian-neo-nazis-rebrand-environmentalists “A Mongolian neo-Nazi group has rebranded itself as an environmentalist organisation fighting pollution by foreign-owned mines, seeking legitimacy … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/01/sports/olympics/london-tokyo-athens-tulsa-a-mid-american-olympic-dream.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0 But Tulsa, its boosters argue, offers something that big-ticket American rivals like Los Angeles, Boston and Dallas can only dream of — the vast frontier of America. This part of the country produced Woody Guthrie and Jim Thorpe. Neon … Continue reading →

Everyone, regardless of the mode of expression, has a constitutionally protected right to free speech. But when it comes to freedom of the press, I believe we must define a journalist and the constitutional and statutory protections those journalists should … Continue reading →