Free Republic

Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) said he thinks President Obama will approve the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. In the wake of multiple crude-by-rail train accidents in North Dakota -- leaving railcars ablaze and nearby residents at risk --Hoeven said on "Platts Energy Week" that the U.S. needs more pipelines. The U.S. needs pipelines "not only to improve conditions in terms of rail, but trucks," Hoeven said on Sunday. "With the Keystone pipeline, we'd take 500 trucks a day off our roads in western North Dakota." "So clearly pipelines are a part of the solution. But also we have to do everything...

Randall Hoven, an engineer by training, writing at the American Thinker asks a set of questions that are *on the money* (exactly right or accurate): How did this financial mess happen? And why did it apparently happen in Europe first then in the U.S.? And how could a proportionately small decline in the U.S. real estate market first bring about a sudden crash in European investment markets? See here: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/how_did_this_happen.html Respectfully, the answers that Hoven and his online commenters give are mostly off base and likely confuse symptoms for causes. I would suggest that Hoven and others read Anthony Downs...

Return to the Article November 28, 2008Making the World Safe for MarxismBy Randall Hoven In the novel Catch-22  there is a character named Howard Snowden who is injured when his aircraft is shot.  The novel's protagonist, Yossarian, treats the wound on Snowden's leg and thinks he's done a satisfactory job of tending to his injured crewmate.  It is a recurring vignette in the novel, but we don't get to its conclusion until near the end of the novel. After thinking Snowden's wounds adequately treated, Yossarian opens Snowden's jacket.  He finds him basically eviscerated; his intestines are pouring out of...

In the morning of March 11, 2004, Susan Lindauer woke to find five F.B.I. agents at her front door. After reading her her rights, the agents took Lindauer from her home in Takoma Park, Md., to the F.B.I. field office in Baltimore, where she was charged with having acted as an unregistered agent of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government and otherwise having elevated the interests of a foreign country above her allegiance to the United States. ''The only visible sign of stress is that I'm chain-smoking,'' she said when I met with her recently. Forty-one and free on bail, she wore...