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http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/a_serious_plan_for_prosperity_and_peace.html

This recent speech by Rick Perry on energy policy and this article by Stephen Moore in the Wall Street Journal discussing Harold Hamm’s analysis of our nation’s oil and gas potential ought to constitute a bigger story in the presidential campaign. Hamm, who grew up in rural Oklahoma as the son of sharecroppers, has roots like Perry’s, who grew up in rural Texas as the son of sharecroppers.

America rose to superpower status in large part through the genius and grit of its oilmen. In the Second World War, our nation produced much more oil than all the rest of the world put together — more than 80% of Allied oil production. It is hard to imagine how we could have won that war, which required huge amounts of oil to sail our warships, fly our aircraft, fuel our tanks and trucks — and to fill that need for our allies — without our incredibly productive oil industry.

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Republican presidential candidate, Gov. Rick Perry, says his energy plan will “kick start economic growth: and create 1.2 million jobs,” and he is correct. He revealed his “Energizing American Jobs and Security” plan in an October 14 speech at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh, saying, “We are standing atop the next American economic boom … energy…. But we can only do that if environmental bureaucrats are told to stand down.”

He pointed out:

America has proven but untapped supplies of natural gas, oil and coal. America is the Saudi Arabia of coal with 25 percent of the world’s supply. Our country contains up to 134 billion barrels of oil and nearly 1.2 quadrillion cubic feet of natural gas.

Mark Steyn: U.S. schools teach how to do less with more
http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/money-323181-york-school.html

As in so many other areas, the problem with public education is not lack of money but that so much money is utterly wasted.In one of those inspired innovations designed to keep American classrooms on the cutting edge of educational excellence, the administration has been sending Joe Biden out to talk to schoolchildren. Last week, it was the Fourth Grade at Alexander B. Goode Elementary School in York, Pennsylvania, that found itself on the receiving end of the vice president’s wisdom:

“Here in this school, your school, you’ve had a lot of teachers who used to work here, but because there’s no money for them in the city, they’re not working. And so what happens is, when that occurs, each of the teachers that stays have more kids to teach. And they don’t get to spend as much time with you as they did when your classes were smaller. We think the federal government in Washington, D.C., should say to the cities and states, look, we’re going to give you some money so that you can hire back all those people. And the way we’re going to do it, we’re going to ask people who have a lot of money to pay just a little bit more in taxes.”

http://phillipsblog.dailymail.co.uk/2011/10/bad-man-killed-but-worse-may-win.html
Bad man killed — but worse may win

Britain’s astonishing naivety and credulity when it comes to the Arab and Muslim world have given way, with the killing of Col Gaddafy, to a tardy tremulousness as people wonder nervously: ‘Now what?’ Too late! Britain treated Gaddafy as a cartoon character – not just because of his caricature as a bizarre and unpredictable ‘mad dog’, but because British commentators and even politicians tend to depict armed conflict in cartoonish terms: ‘bad man killed, so goodies win’. Alas, in the Arab and Muslim world it’s very often ‘bad man killed, even worse men win’.

Gaddafy was undoubtedly a very bad man. But the Prime Minister’s self-congratulation yesterday for having helped bring about the fall of the Gaddafy regime and thus give Libyans the chance ‘of building for themselves a strong and democratic future’ was, although statesmanlike in its relative restraint, still distinctly premature.

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2011/10/what-piece-of-work-guardians-sinister.html
What A Piece Of Work! The Guardian’s sinister mistranslation of Abbas’s words regarding the Shalit deal
The sometimes quite unscrupulous anti-Israel reportage of the leftist-“intellectual” British newspaper The Guardian is, of course, notorious, and not only to Israel’s friends in the UK. Sydney lawyer David Singer, a founder member of the International Analysts Network, has drawn attention to a recent instance in the following article via the antipodean J-Wire service. It’s entitled “Palestine – Abbas Gets Lost In The Translation”

Writes David Singer:
‘PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has been often criticised for making statements in English that are contradicted by other statements made by him in Arabic. Abbas has continued this art of doublespeak first perfected by his predecessor Yasser Arafat – tailoring his views to the audience that he is addressing.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-20123711/qaddafi-body-stashed-in-shopping-center-freezer/ MISRATA, Libya – Muammar Qaddafi’s blood-streaked body has been stashed in a commercial freezer at a shopping center as Libyans try to keep it away from crowds as they figure out where and when to bury the hated leader. An AP correspondent saw the body Friday at the shopping center in the coastal city […]

Energizing American Jobs and Security THE DEBATES ARE WEAK BUT NO OTHER GOP CANDIDATE HAS A PLAN THAT ACTUALLY CREATES JOBS IN THE SHORT TERM….THIS IS A VIABLE PLAN THE MEDIA HAS MOSTLY IGNORED. ….RSK We will energize American jobs and national security through executive orders and executive actions that expand energy exploration all across […]

The Primary Week That Was: Cain’s 9-9-9 Becomes 9.1-9.1-9.1; Vegas Hosted Fight Night; Bachmann’s NH Staff Quits http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/10/21/the-primary-week-that-was-cains-9-9-9-becomes-9-1-9-1-9-1-vegas-hosted-fight-night-bachmanns-nh-staff-quits/?singlepage=true “Rick Perry’s run in the debate was a risky one, and he may trade some short term poll weakness for long-term gains. Polls a week or three from now will tell us if the risk/reward equation works […]

As Issa Closes in on FBI Role in Gunwalker, Dems Feign Outrage Posted By Bob Owens URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/as-issa-closes-in-on-fbi-role-in-gunwalker-dems-feign-outrage/ As the Gunwalker conspiracy continues to unravel, initial claims that the multi-agency plot was an isolated and localized Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives operation are falling apart. Following up on comments made this […]

Team Obama: ‘Must … Stop … Rubio!’ Posted By Henry Gomez URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/team-obama-must-stop-rubio/ Recent articles published in the Washington Post and the St. Petersburg Times delve into the family story of  Marco Rubio, Florida’s junior senator, implying that he’s embellished it for dramatic effect. It’s no surprise that Rubio is the subject of increasing […]