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What's Reducing Carbon Emissions? Natural Gas.

One of the unsung innovations in energy extraction is the ability to retrieve shale gas out of tight rock formations. It is cleaner than coal, and thanks to its abundance, natural gas prices have gone down significantly.

The Upside Down Attack on Josh Treviño

M.J. Rosenberg is a writer who—though himself of Jewish origin—regularly uses anti-Semitically loaded language to attack Israel and its defenders.

The Obama Campaign's Little Joke

Do you ever get the feeling the Obama campaign wakes up every morning thinking, "What can we do today to goad the Romney campaign and the media to discuss something other than jobs?" Here's today's brainwave, courtesy of Taegan Goddard:

Add Reinhold Niebuhr to Romney's Ticket

Frum Beast blog intern alumnus Ryan Prior has an essay at the American Conservative website, where he argues that Mitt Romney should more openly embrace a foreign policy based on principles and ideas developed by Reinhold Niebuhr. He suggests that this would allow Romney to critique Obama with more credibility and also give his campaign a foreign policy vision:

Signing Off

And so it comes time to post this, my last contribution to NRO. I hope readers will follow this Diary to its new home at NewMajority.com.
The site goe... . . .

Cobber Me

My wife Danielle testifies to the community service record of our Labrador retriever, Cobber, at the Huffington Post.
Off and on over the past eleven... . . .

Hamas Heroics

Hamas leaders in Gaza sue for truce - Hamas leaders in Qatar vow to fight to the last Gazan. From today's NYT:
Whether Hamas will comply with the term... . . .

Comeback?

Grover Norquist and I discuss/debate the future of the Republican party on Riz Khan's program on English-language Al Jazeera.
Click here for part 1, h... . . .

Talk to Hamas?

nbsp;I say no, for reasons explained in this National Post column:
Advocates of engagement with Hamas use the word "talk" to mean two very different t... . . .

A Tale of Two Stimuluses

One country is planning to try to blast its way out of the recession with vast new permanent spending commitments. Another will rely primarily on tax... . . .