President Umaru Yar’Adua is listed to appear before the House of Representatives Committee on Power and Steel to explain his take on the $10 billion former President Olusegun Obasanjo spent on power supply between 1999 and 2007. Obasanjo and Speaker Dimeji Bankole are also expected to appear before the committee, whose Chairman, Ndudi Godwin Elumelu, […]
Hydrogen Cars: Efficiency Equals Economy
Hydrogen can appear to be the answer to our fuel problem, unless you’ve looked at the big picture. I saw a comment to an article I was reading about BMW and a hydrogen car they were supposedly going to market next year. The person asked why we didn’t have a full-on hydrogen car in the […]
Citizen Media in Smalltown, USA
Rebuttal to the Rebuttal (aka We Should Both Get a Life) Dobbs Ferry, New York Rob Mintzes wrote an excellent piece on GroundReport attacking the invocation of Republican demagogues like Karl Rove (aka Turd Blossom, Boy Genius) to discredit card-carrying Democrats. Though I don’t agree with all the allegations he leveled at the Dobbs Ferry Democratic Committee (aka the […]
Romney and McCain Clash Before Super Tuesday At California Debate
As John McCain and Mitt Romney fought each other for the party’s top spot prelude to Super Tuesday, both attacked one another’s conservative credentials. The sharpest part of the exchange would come when Romney was asked about McCain’s charge that he had at one point supported a strict timetable for removing the troops from Iraq. […]
The Market Is Inefficient
Frankfurt, Germany, January 2008 “The market is inefficient”. There I said it. I know that I am committing an inexcusable act of apostasy, especially for a master of business administration. But volatility in the world financial markets this week brings the issue into focus. Even the liberal bastion, the Financial Times, is musing about the meaning of these convolutions. […]
Clinton Reveals Proposal To Stimulate Economy
Hillary Clinton’s five part plan was created to help homeowners whom have been hurt by the crisis of housing foreclosures, families with difficulty playing energy bills, and people who had lost jobs according to her campaign. She also urged the government to invest in “green collar jobs” to help stimulate the economy along with improving […]