Posts Tagged ‘Utah’

A dangerously dysfunctional liberal

December 21st, 2009 | No Comments

OK, quit laughing.  Paul Krugman, the guy who won a Nobel prize for economics for criticizing George Bush ad nauseum, still lives on that one trick.  Citing a laundry list of bizarre claims, he criticizes Bush even though Bush had nothing to do with any of the issues.  But, the issues are complex and many.  [...]

Who ya gonna trust, EIA or your local electric company?

August 10th, 2009 | No Comments

The Energy Information Administration, who touts themselves as “Official Energy Statistics from the US Government”, released a rather astounding conclusion.  While most people have been scare-mongering by saying Waxman-Markey will practically bankrupt most lower income people through much higher energy prices, EIA says this is not true at all: ACESA increases energy prices, but effects [...]

Cap and Trade debate

May 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment

OK, so we’re no sooner finishing Obama’s reform of the housing, banking, and automakers industries, than we’re apparently ready to do the same to the energy industry.  Now, as with the other situati0ns, you’ve got two very different prevailing thoughts going apparently.  On one side, is the keep it simple philosophy.  In the other debates, [...]

Bipartisanship and Medicaid

February 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment

Just got the numbers for the Medicaid add-on from the stimulus package.  I don’t deal with Medicaid directly, but it indirectly affects what I do in a large way.  As such, I was interested in the numbers.  However, the bigger picture bugged me more than the dollars I was assigned to look at.  In essence, [...]

Yet another mining disaster gets much worse

August 17th, 2007 | No Comments

For two weeks, six miners have either been trapped in a mine in Utah, or they are by now most likely dead. Last night, while trying to get to those miners, three more died. Shortly after another mining disaster in West Virginia a year and half ago, I did a piece on preventing mine disasters. Apparently [...]