As gasoline prices surge above $4 per gallon, we need many more efforts to reduce energy costs in the future. We also need to work harder at reducing our dependence on oil. So then this seems pretty ridiculous:
DENVER — Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has [...]

A great day for freedom in America:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Individual Americans have a right to own guns, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday for the first time in the country’s history, striking down a strict gun control law in the U.S. capital.
The landmark 5-4 ruling marked the first time in nearly 70 years the high [...]

Okay, I may have not yet found 199 reasons not to vote for Obama, but give me time.
It is so easy to find issues that I disagree with Obama on. Every time I look at a stance he has on an issue - I disagree. I mean this guy is a true-blue left-winger. Regarding labor [...]

In my last post I wrote Long Live the MSM. I certainly didn’t mean that the major media institutions are fault free. Journalists in the major news media tend to fall into a pattern of group think. This can create a general slant in their reporting - even if they believe on an individual basis [...]

Instapundit links to this video blog piece today by Ed Driscoll. It is somewhat interesting, but I guess I just don’t get the main point …

Many bloggers talk, like Ed Driscoll, as if the mainstream media is a dinosaur that will soon go away (and many even rejoice at this). Yes, many big media companies [...]

This week I had this site upgraded to the latest version of WordPress software. I had safeguards added to keep out hackers (they had broken into this site). I have re-enabled comments now too.
I will put up some new posts soon. How often will I publish new posts? Can’t say. But at least the NoSpeedBumps [...]

Now that Obama will be the Democratic nominee for president, it is time to start paying more attention to what he is proposing for policies. While I like Obama, his policy proposals are those of an old school liberal. Just take the New Deal, the Great Society, and even Jimmy Carter liberalism - add a [...]

If you ever wondered how the starry-eye liberals that are the editors of the New York Times think, read this editorial today. They just can’t understand how anyone could support cracking down on illegal immigration. But they note there is hope: “There are few national figures standing firm against restrictionism. Senator Edward Kennedy has bravely [...]

I am back home in the great state of Texas in the USA. I thought I would investigate a bit regarding my last post about Denmark and taxes. Yes, taxes really are outrageous and as a result many young Danes are leaving Denmark:
The problem, employers and economists believe, has a lot to do with the [...]