Fracking: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

The process of hydraulic fracturing – shooting water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into underground wells to release natural gas – is a divisive issue: Some say it dumps chemicals into ground water supplies, others argue it causes earthquakes, and still others think it can revolutionize America’s energy industry.Late last week, the NYT ran […]

Walking on Water in the South China Sea?

The Asian Great Game welcomes its newest big league player: Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta. His debut trip to Asia is something of a pep-talk express for America’s allies, bringing good tidings of continued American military and maritime presence despite deep budget cuts and increased Chinese assertiveness. From the NYT: Mr. Panetta said, “I’ve made […]

Greens Missing the Green Revolution

Texas is coming up with green solutions without looking for them.  Businesses in the heartland of brown jobs may not intend to reduce their carbon footprint, but they are always looking for ways to save money.  Finding more efficient ways to allocate energy is one of the places they’re starting.  The Economist reports: For many […]

Good For Me, Good For Thee

Embattled French President Nicolas Sarkozy (getting hammered in the polls and facing likely defeat by his moderate French leftie challenger François Hollande) is boosting his frail re-election hopes in a classically Gallic way: by taking a swipe at the Brits.Railing at Britain muscling its way in to what France hoped would be a eurozone only […]

Rhode Island: Athens of America?

Rhode Island is looking more and more like Greece, and not in a good way.  That is one message of this important piece by Mary Williams Walsh in the New York Times.  Years of blue social policy have wrecked local and state government finance in the country’s smallest state, and now the bills are coming […]

At Last: Some Actual Green Jobs Of The Future

While the Obama administration has been squandering billions of dollars on green jobs initiatives that don’t ever quite seem to pan out, entrepreneurs without subsidies of any kind are creating actual jobs that are actually green — without subsidies and without government ‘help’.As alert reader Victor Adefuye points out, there’s a story in the Paper […]

News Parents Can Use: Check Your Kids' Schedules in College

In a study college students everywhere will be trying to hide from their parents, researchers at St. Lawrence University have found that students who sign up for early classes drink less, work more and do better in school than the slug-a-beds.Daniel Devise at the Washington Post let the cat out of the bag, and says […]

More Moves in the Great Asian Game

This time it is India and Vietnam making new moves in the Great Game of Asian geopolitics, and the new “strategic partnership” on its doorstep isn’t making China happy. The Economist‘s Banyan column offers a useful update on the emerging pattern of Vietnamese-Indian cooperation.  India hawks hope, in Banyan’s words, that “Vietnam could be “India’s […]

Permanent Security Council Seat Up For Grabs?

News from the not-very-United Kingdom these days is that the Scottish National Party, now in full control of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, plans to press ahead for a referendum on full independence for the land of Burns.  Rejecting the idea that fiscal independence would be enough, SNP head and Scots first minister Alex Salmond […]

Dreaming of a Unified Korea?

Kids think the darndest things.  In South Korea, they have the Unification Ministry scratching its head trying to figure out why the younger generation doesn’t want to reunify with the North.  The WaPo has the story: Younger South Koreans are increasingly second-guessing a national goal. They don’t think an eventual unification with North Korea will […]

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