Libertarian-minded............

Ron Paul says he hasn’t decided if he’ll challenge President Obama for re-election in 2012, but he does predict that Republicans will be more open than they were in 2008 to nominating a Libertarian-minded candidate. “I think there’s no doubt about it,” Paul said in an interview with The Daily Caller. This year, Libertarian-Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate — like Paul’s son Rand Paul in Kentucky and Sharron Angle in Nevada — have won Republican primaries with the help of the Tea Party support. Noting the “big Libertarian influence in the Tea Party movement,” Paul says Libertarian beliefs are making their way into the lexicon of traditional Republicans.Link

Awesome debate............

Address Obama ’should have given’.

In a somewhat novel take for a talk show host on President Barack Obama's Oval Office address on the BP oil spill, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow delivered a mock address of the speech on her program Wednesday.Link

License To Drill.

At his long-awaited press conference on the Gulf oil disaster last month, President Obama announced a moratorium on new oil drilling and exploration for six months. "We can't do this stuff if we don't have confidence that we can prevent crises like this from happening again," he declared. But while existing rigs may be out of commission for the near future, the administration hasn't exactly put the brakes on new oil and gas drilling ventures. In recent weeks, the government has quietly approved the sale of more than 400 new leases for vast swaths of the Gulf of Mexico. And these contracts—which mark the first step in the drilling process—were subjected to the same slapdash environmental oversight that failed to prevent the BP catastrophe.Link

An Energy-Independent Future

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