We Must Now Brace Ourselves For Disquisitions

An Oil Crisis Looms, Prices Are Spiking - And Our President Is Extolling Algae. After Solyndra, Keystone And Promises Of Seaweed In Their Gas Tanks, Americans Sense A President So Ideologically Antipathetic To Fossil Fuels - Which We Possess In Staggering Abundance - That He Is Utterly Unserious About The Real World Of Oil In Which The Rest Of Us Live.

The Liberal Vision Of America Is That It Should Be Less Arrogant, Less Unilateral, More Internationalist. In Obama's View, America Would Subsume Itself Under A Fuzzy Internationalism In Which The International Community, Which I Think Is A Fiction, Governs Itself Through The U.n.

[barack Obama Failed To Sell A Health Care Reform Plan To American Voters] Because The Utter Implausibility Of Its Central Promise - Expanded Coverage At Lower Cost - Led Voters To Conclude That It Would Lead Ultimately To More Government, More Taxes And More Debt.

As The Romance Of Manned Space Exploration Has Waned, The Drive Today Is To Find Our Living, Thinking Counterparts In The Universe. For All The Excitement, However, The Search Betrays A Profound Melancholy - A Lonely Species In A Merciless Universe Anxiously Awaits An Answering Voice Amid Utter Silence.

The Democratic Line Is That The Republican House Does Nothing But Block And Oppose. In Fact, It Has Passed Hundreds Of Bills Only To Have Them Die Upon Reaching The Desk Of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He Has Rendered The Senate Inert By Simply Ensuring That Any Bill That Might Present A Politically Difficult Vote For His Democratic Colleagues Never Even Comes To The Floor.