Speaking of oil and conservation… “Still fretting about our dependence on imported oil? The profligate use of gas-sucking behemoths clogging our roads as endlessly decried by the nannies at the New York Times and other media magnificos?” Well, then Tech Central’s Brock Yates points you toward the new generation of diesel engines as one possible solution to your energy concerns: The modern diesel now powers over half of the passenger

Writing in The Weekly Standard, Irwin Stelzer argues that “the key to a sound energy policy is a strong military.” From “Oil’s Well That Ends Well“: American soldiers marched off to World War II singing ‘We did it before, and we can do it again.’ That tune may become appropriate once more should any hostile group make a grab for power in Saudi Arabia. Our energy policy for the foreseeable

I just got through making this point in response to visitor Jack Warburton’s comments on my Chris Patten entry, but Jay Nordlinger makes it far more forcefully in his most recent “Impromptus” column (using The New York Times’ Thomas Friedman as his exemplar): A couple of brief words on the Middle East. It

From Joshua Claybourn of the supremely on-the-ball Hoosier Review: The FBI considers Luke John Helder to be the top suspect for a recent rash of pipe bombs across the Midwest. Apparently Luke was an avid Internet user. Here is his band’s web site. His bio reads, “He digs Nirvana (and Cobain) a great deal, and that’s pretty evident in, well, his life! Most of his songs are very Nirvana-esque, which