Is anybody starting to think that Obama is actually a conservative "secret weapon"? Is he undoing the work of 50+ years of liberalism? One can only hope...

Strictly speaking, we are all "terminally ill".

sorry, that should have read "needs scrutiny"

Wrong. Look up climateskeptic.com. You're putting the cart before the horse- alarmists have an agenda and that agenda bears scrutiny.

Then why are you a lib? Why is affirmative action necessary when folks can and do succeed? Don't give me the inherent racism stuff. Jim Crow has been over for a generation, killed off mostly by Republicans. Most of the problems faced in the black community are self imposed, and exacerbated by guilty white libs.

Rare earth elements are more rare (rarer?) than they would be otherwise, because the Powers-That-Be have decreed that the thorium tailings that come with them are too toxic for us to allow rare-earth mining in the US. Of course the highly enlightened ChiComs have no such concern. I ask you folks to look up : http://www.thoriumenergyalliance.com/ There is a "new" nuclear energy just waiting- all it takes is some levelheaded thinking to take hold.

Hi John, You piqued my curiosity, so I did a search, and found NO current reference to the DOD (displacement on demand) Hemi. All I could find was the fact that Chrysler went to the VVT (variable valve timing) system that made Ford's "coyote" motors so potent. The age of Internal Combustion Piston engines is not yet over...

Barackistan (formerly Illinois) now has at least 442 electricity producing windmills, the most in the country. to the best of my knowledge, they have not become profitable, yet.

WOW! There is a load of great stuff on this thread! Keep up the contentious work, all.

Hello John, You have written some of the most cogent and concise arguments I have read on these pages in a long time! Well done! In regards to Fukushima, I would like to point out that the reactors in question are 30+ year old designs that should have been retired and replaced already. Fat chance replacing a nuke station with our lib friends at the helm...A new reactor would have shut down safely.