Bird’s-Eye View

When the fiancee and I left Cincinnati on Sunday, her Hyundai four-door had a little less than half a tank of gasoline. The journey from my parents’ house to our front door in Lancaster is roughly 500 miles, so we filled up before hopping on I-71 and zipping through the flat country scenery of southwestern Ohio. […]

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Excellent. U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio is leading a Republican delegation to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in photo-op/staged event to drum up support for oil drilling there.
From CNN.com:
Calling the trip the “American Energy Tour,” the Republican Members will stop first at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado on Friday, […]

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… never hurt anyone, right?
Factcheck.org has taken John McCain’s campaign and the Republican National Committee to task twice today for false claims made against Democrat Barack Obama. Here’s the first one:
A new ad from the Republican National Committee claims Barack Obama proposes “no new solutions” for the energy and climate crises. In fact, the Illinois senator […]

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Maybe the heat’s getting to John McCain and Barack Obama, but this week they made two strategic mistakes which could haunt them when the humidity makes way for the cooler climes of the fall.
This is particularly true for Obama, who today responded to Iran’s missile tests by saying:
“What this underscores is the need for a […]

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John McCain has certainly scored a victory in the early primary season. This from the Associated Press:
The poll released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center shows nearly half of those surveyed — or 47 percent — now rate energy exploration, drilling and building new power plants as the top priority, compared with 35 percent who […]

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Here’s something from the F&M poll that’s been underreported today:
“About seven in ten (66 percent) registered adults believe that the problems they are facing can be solved with the help of the government.”
As director of the F&M poll, G. Terry Madonna, said during an interview Thursday night: “You and I both know (free market policies) work […]

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June may be the cruelest month, not April, because all those voter polls really don’t tell us much about what’s going to happen in November. We’re four months out from the election, and anything - a foreign attack, a major scandal, Swift Boating - can change the playing field and equalize any advantage one candidate […]

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As Aerosmith once said, “I’m back in the saddle, again!” Had a couple of nice days off, and I see the political arena has gotten itself in a frenzy.
Some random thoughts:
Obama foregoes public financing
I spent a couple of days with close friends in York County. One of them - mother of two, college educated, someone I […]

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Watching the evening news gave me a sense of how American auto makers just don’t get it. Dodge is offering a new program where you get a special card and receive $2.99-a-gallon unleaded gasoline or diesel for up to 12,000 miles or three years. The program is called “Refuel America,” but if they want to […]

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12:37 p.m. McCain’s exiting now. Nothing much new, and he’s exiting to the (CLICHE ALERT! CLICHE ALERT!) the Rocky theme. McCain’s not learning much from Clinton’s failures. She invoked Rocky but forget the movie involves a white boxer who went toe-to-toe but did not defeat the charismatic African-American champion with a funny name.
12:33 p.m. WOW! […]

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