The Coming Cap and Trade Debacle
(A Real Man-Made Disaster)


"Coal makes us sick, oil makes us sick, it's global warming, it's ruining our country, it's ruining our world." Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid

"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded." F. A. Hayek

Over the past few years, energy and climate, two previously unrelated subjects have become conjoined in a way that demands that one cannot be discussed apart from the other.

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Posted on August 22nd, 2009

What We Believe

"We have given you a Republic, if you can keep it." Benjamin Franklin

We believe that when this country was formed it was uniquely blessed to have had at least six world class leaders among its founders. A world-class leader is one who impacts civilization in such a powerful way that a paradigm shift is created and typically comes along only once in a generation.

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Posted on June 5th, 2009

Tipping Point

"But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever." - John Adams

John Adams's considered opinion well describes the urgency I feel about the state of our nation.

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Posted on May 31st, 2009

Global Warming – An Old Idea

"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry." Thomas Paine

Our earth and solar system undergo warming and cooling cycles that occur over centuries and millennia that mankind does not control.

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Posted on February 11th, 2009

National Security and Oil

"If we lose the oil fields, we lose the war." -Adolph Hitler

It has become fashionable to excoriate our country for consuming almost 25% of the earth’s oil and yet comprising only 3% of the planet’s population. However, it is seldom mentioned that the United States and Western oil companies are responsible for the discovery of the majority of the world’s oil reserves.

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Posted on February 11th, 2009