Author: McQ

The USGS released the following on April 10th: North Dakota and Montana have an estimated 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil in an area known as the Bakken Formation. […] Technically recoverable oil resources are those producible using currently available technology and industry practices. USGS is the only provider of publicly […]

Pretty soon she’s not going to have anything to talk about: Over the last five weeks, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York has featured in her campaign stump speeches the story of a health care horror: an uninsured pregnant woman who lost her baby and died herself after being denied care by an Ohio […]

Let me recommend some reading for those of you interested in some good sources of opinion that provide a context and insight about what is going on in Basra. But before I do, let me make a few comments. What is happening in Basra is what all of us, from the anti-war side to the […]

An interesting recent claim about al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) says it is a totally homegrown and separate entity from the al Qaeda (AQ) that Osama bin Laden heads. Sen. Chuck Schumer, on Tuesday’s “Larry King Live” said, “The al Qaeda the president is talking about is different than the al Qaeda of Mesopotamia, which […]

I‘m talking about his gig as the Goracle. Is it over? Last Monday – on ABC Radio National, of all places – there was a tipping point of a different kind in the debate on climate change. It was a remarkable interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and […]

You’ve all heard the famous Obama line where he’s referring to Hillary Clinton and her campaign and claiming they’re trying to put one over on everyone? “You all know the okey-dokey, when someone’s trying to bamboozle you, when they’re trying to hoodwink you?” More and more people are beginning to examine the Obama background and […]

You know all those “green energy” jobs Clinton and Obama love to go on about? Well, here’s a place where those green jobs aren’t particularly doing the environment any favors: The first time Li Gengxuan saw the dump trucks from the nearby factory pull into his village, he couldn’t believe what happened. Stopping between the […]

Finally some examination and some information about this vast experience Hillary Clinton claims – like helping to bring peace to Northern Ireland: Hillary Clinton had no direct role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland and is a “wee bit silly” for exaggerating the part she played, according to Lord Trimble of Lisnagarvey, the Nobel Peace […]

And that seems to be the case with a bunch of feminists who got together to discuss Hillary, Barack, progressive politics and the state of feminism for The Nation. First noting that while they were “diverse”, they were still all “progressive” (yay for that), but they wondered why it was that the selection process for […]

Congress has recently mandated the use of alternative fuels, specifically ethanol, in the latest energy bill to become law. In fact, it has specifically outlined both the amount and type of ethanol which must be produced. But as we will see below, that has and will continue to have some unintended consequences that will be […]

Ezra Klein has his boxers in a bunch over the Clinton campaign’s declaration that it plans to get whatever delegates it needs to win by any means necessary. This demonstrates not only a gross ruthlessness on the part of Clinton’s campaign, but an astonishingly cavalier attitude towards the preservation of the progressive coalition. To be […]

This gets more and more interesting by the day. Super Delegates – the Democratic Party’s manner of controlling the primary process while giving lip-service to “democracy” and the “power of the vote” – is about to get a significant test. And it is shaping up to be a new form of the same old power […]

That’s what British doctors are suggesting: Doctors are calling for NHS treatment to be withheld from patients who are too old or who lead unhealthy lives. Smokers, heavy drinkers, the obese and the elderly should be barred from receiving some operations, according to doctors, with most saying the health service cannot afford to provide free […]

The first and the most important theme is that of the “Electable Democrat”. Prior to Iowa, the political world wondered if Barack Obama was really politically viable as a candidate. His win in Iowa changed that, at least to the degree than he was taken much more seriously. NH slowed it down a touch, but […]

Ed Morrissey points to a story out of Nevada that just made me laugh. Bill Clinton talking to reporters: Today when my daughter and I were wandering through the hotel, and all these culinary workers were mobbing us telling us they didn’t care what the union told them to do, they were gonna caucus for […]

HuffPo has become a must read for me. Why? Because there in all its glory you can see the vacuous reasoning of the left proudly displayed. And it is a must read because its value is contained in articles by lefties that would never, ever be accepted by the editor of a newspaper for the […]

The most ludicrous moment of last night’s Democratic debate (and there were many of them) took place when all 4 of the candidates went out of their way to deny the surge had done any good, or if it had, to claim it was because of the Democrats. Barack Obama, who explained his version of […]

Some of the more interesting things found in QandO posts from the left during a review of this year. First, let’s do a little comparing and contrasting: Carl Levin in March, 1999: “Whether we like it or not, the Balkans is an important crossroads. […] This is not the time to take risks in undermining […]

Or has it never ended? Rhetorical questions. Unfortunately, I think we all know the answer, best typified by this particular quote: JESSICA YELLIN: [Iowa voters] really take this process as a legitimate experience and feel entitled to ask “how are you going to fix my life?” Oh government will “fix” it in such a way […]

Ed Morrissey was on a teleconference with Rep. Michele Bachmann who relayed the following news: [T]he National Assembly passed a pension bill, a critical step in reconciliation. That did not get much mention in the American media, but the Sunnis now have government pensions denied them after the fall of Saddam, which should alleviate much […]

Uh, not exactly. Another classic of media dissembling. The lede: Between railroad tracks and beneath the roar of departing planes sits “tent city,” a terminus for homeless people. It is not, as might be expected, in a blighted city center, but in the once-booming suburbia of Southern California. The noisy, dusty camp sprang up in […]

Seems odd, in fact, it seems almost un-American, to see words like this: “If the Bush administration brings forward a free-trade agreement with Colombia, I hope Congress will agree with me and say ‘Hell No,’.” Well it might seem odd until you understand who said them – Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa. Hoffa followed those […]

Oh, joy, the energy bill has passed the House. It appears to be “policy” disguised as a collection of mandates. On Thursday, just over a year after winning the majority, Democrats in the House of Representatives voted through an energy bill that represents a stark departure from the administration’s approach. It would raise vehicle fuel […]

I think you’ll enjoy this story. It is the script of what I’ll be presenting tonight on Pundit Review radio’s “Someone You Should Know” segment. The story comes from a Gina Cavallaro piece in the Military Times. There’s also a video at that link which is a “must see”. But to the story – One […]

This past week, in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Maureen Downey penned an editorial in which she decided it was time for the US to “right a wrong”. A “wrong”? The point of the editorial is we, the US, are one of only two countries that hasn’t signed on to the U.N. treaty that upholds the […]

Earlier this week, Chris and I were watching a CNN investigative report on the use of performance enhancing dugs in professional wrestling. I don’t know why Chris wanted to watch it, since neither of us are wrestling fans, but I generally let her have her way with the TV. The thrust of the hour-long show […]

I’ll say, up front, anyone who doubts all veteran’s are heroes need read no further. But for the vast majority of you who do, I’d like to take a little different slant in my tribute to veterans on Veteran’s day than you might see elsewhere. Most of the time, when you read tributes to vets, […]

At first, the situation seemed like an extreme way to deal with a Supreme Court Musharraf disagrees with: He accused the country’s Supreme Court of releasing 61 men who he said were under investigation for terrorist activities. “Judicial activism,” he said, had demoralized the security forces, hurt the fight against terrorism and slowed the spread […]

Anyone else notice the first reaction by some to the attack on Hillary Clinton during Tuesday’s Democratic debate was to play the “chick” card. You know, “the guys are ganging up on a girl” defense? I thought this was about presidential politics and front-runners. Can anyone remember a time when the front-runner wasn’t attacked both […]

As mentioned in before in many posts, the focus of the political fight here about Iraq is on national reconciliation. But it should be noted that despite the fact that it still hasn’t happened on a national level, reconciliation is happening in Iraq. A prefect example of that is in Diayla province where the provincial […]