Articles Tagged “fracking”
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Democracy’s Death Dance With Capitalism
BY VERN TURNER There are two quotes, one anonymous and the other from the great economist John Maynard Keynes, that play the music for this dance between competing ideologies as our nation ratchets up its lusty search for hydrocarbons. Capitalism is the childish idea that there is no such thing as too much. – Anonymous [...]
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Saving Our Ravaged Planet … And Ourselves
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Romney’s Hamm-Handed Energy Policy
BY JIM HIGHTOWER Poor Mitt Romney. He keeps trying to prop up his bad policy proposals with gimmicky political props that flop. He recently unveiled his energy policy, for example, in Hobbs, NM, rather than in ExxonMobil’s boardroom, which is the only place his oil-soaked proposal would actually receive genuine, full-throated huzzahs. But a group [...]
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Misplaced Sympathy For Ryan Averted
BY KAREN WEBB When I started my “Who is Paul Ryan?” quest a few days ago, I was about to do a sympathetic piece comparing him to my father because they both lost their fathers as teenagers. I read this long article that used quotes from Ryan’s neighbors, his brother, his schoolmates. It talked about [...]
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What The Frack?
The more things change at the Daily Disappointment, the more they remain the same. Oklahoma’s largest “newspaper” still routinely violates a basic principle of journalism that demands a firewall between editorial opinion and news coverage. Check out the new report from Media Matters for America on how the Oklahoman shades its coverage of fracking to [...]
