Why Fer the DOE

Why we we pay good taxpayer dollars to support the useless Department of  Energy?

Graph Source:  Department of Energy.

In the thirty-four years the federal Department of Energy has existed, domestic consumption of oil has increased, domestic production decreased

From Andrew Restuccia,Hill:

The Energy Department announced Wednesday that is has finalized more than $1 billion in loan guarantees for two separate solar energy projects.

The decision comes several weeks after Solyndra, a California-based solar manufacturer that received

In the fabled antebellum south, of Gone with the Wind, plantation slaves existed to create wealth for their white masters.

In the Twenty First Century democrat plantation, blacks exist to blindly give their votes to their largely white political

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• IT’S THE BOMB, BRO: The big news of last evening, of course, was the incendiary device on four wheels parked in the middle

The ears are already falling off of Dumbo Care. The Dim Won wants to fix anthropogenic global warming and the evils of capitalism.  Before we give Barack Obama more carte blanch power, we ought to demand that the Obami demonstrate

Jake Tapper says this morning that the White House has given a go ahead to offshore drilling.

On Wednesday morning at Joint Base Andrews Naval Air Facility in Washington, DC, President Obama will announce that his administration will allow the

Israel attacked, from Haaretz:

A Qassam rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck an open field in a kibbutz near Ashkelon on Sunday, just three days after a foreign worker was killed by a rocket in the northern

Jennifer Rubin over at Commentary, this morning, casts into words a lot of folks have already noticed:

Obama seems not to respect his fellow citizens — the uninformed rubes who crashed the health-care town halls — nor care

Stop playing games, MSM. John Patrick Bedell was a registered Democrat, Michelle

More Massa, When Eric Massa (NY-29) announced he would not seek re-election on Wednesday, cited health problems.  There were also reports of ethics investigation.  Yesterday, I asked a

International Atomic Energy Agency pulls head out.  There as been a change at at the head of the IAEA.  Wereas the old head, Mohamed ElBaradei, had his head buried whee ithe Sun never shines nad by the way is

Says George Will –

For many years, most oil was used for lighting and lubrication, and the amounts extracted were modest. Then in 1901, a new well named for an East Texas hillock, Spindletop, began gushing more per day than

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• YET MORE FT HOOD: Let’s have a look at the comments of Steve Hayes from last Night’s Brett

As a business owner, tax payer and elected official, I freely admit that I am VERY skeptical when the government warns me about anything. Government typically causes more problems than they solve, and it’s in their own best interests (power,

Doctor Charles Krauthammer, this morning:

Rahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a live pollster. Now he’s put a horse’s head in Roger Ailes’s bed.

Not very subtle. And not very smart. Ailes doesn’t scare easily.

The White House

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• MORE ANITA DUNN:  Victor Davis Hanson, on Saturday:
  

  I am not a big fan of saying that officials should resign