William Tucker
It has often been said that declining aristocracies spend all their time reliving the glories of the past. I can think of no better example than American environmentalism’s obsession that abstaining from nuclear power in this country will prevent the…
Al Gore braved a midwinter snowstorm yesterday to tell a Senate committee that the world is heating up and the only thing that can save us is “conservation and renewables.” Gore’s testimony, of course, was a prelude to the national…
Outlining his positions on energy last week, Secretary -designate Steven Chu listed three technologies that “would be nice to have, but are not ready for use, either because they are too expensive to be practical, or not demonstrated to be…
You could probably spend your whole life arguing with Paul Krugman but every once in a while the great Nobel Prize Winner comes up with a doozy that can’t be ignored. (He won the prize for international trade, not political…
The PowerGen Conference is a gathering of power generators from around the world sponsored by PennWell, the Oklahoma publishing empire. Its gathering in Orlando in early December was the largest ever, attended by 18,000 people. Energy is a hot topic…
Americans face an unprecedented economic crisis centered in the housing sector. At the same time we face an energy crisis that matches dwindling oil supplies with global warming. These problems are unprecedented. The old ways of doing things don’t apply…
I subscribe to an Internet newsletter called Energy Central and the news is getting more depressing every week. Every time I scan the headlines I realize I’m looking at another piece of a gathering energy debacle. Take last Thursday’s edition….
Even a glance at the electoral map from Tuesday night shows that the Republican are in trouble for the future. But it also reveals a simple strategy for working back toward majority status. For the last 20 years the red-and-blue…
Four years ago on the eve of the 2004 election, I wrote in a Spectator column, “Let’s let this guy govern.” In case John Kerry won, I said, conservatives should stand by the election without carping about skullduggery or fraud….
