Energy for the Future

Recently a start up company, Hyperion, in Santa Fe New Mexico revealed a new form of technology that could really help wean the United States off foreign oil. The device generates power from a new nuclear power process and they actually like to refer to this device as a batter,y probably due to it's very small size. The technology appears to be truly remarkable and along with its diminutive size appears to be inherently safe to operate. Use of this power source would lead to many town and cities installing these batteries and hence weaning us all off dependence of foreign oil. Well done American entrepreneurs! I can see other uses of this power source as a way to economically extract oil from the huge amounts of shale reserves we have in Colorado and California. The trick will be to convince the vast majority of the American public this technology is safe, affordable and will not result in any health hazards. Unfortunately when you couple the word nuclear with any other word imaginable you get hysteria from the environmentalists. Their buddies in the media, who forgot how to research a story objectively a long time ago, will also go after this new technology with the intent of killing it off, preferring to cover stories of people freezing to death in the northeast due to the high cost of imported oil.

Team of Rivals circa 2009

President Elect O'bama is hard at work assembling his 21st century "Team of Rivals". He has none other than Hillary Clinton first up at bat as a nominee for Secretary of State. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer eh Barry? Besides being a junior Senator from New York, what does this women know about foreign policy? Sarah Palin probably knows more but you won't see the press carving Hillary up! This is an attempt to take Hillary out as a potential challenger for the 2012 nomination and to push the Clinton's off the world stage. Republicans can thank O'bama for putting the final nail in the coffin of the Clinton's and there are plenty of Democrats that will also be happy. The problems is we face some real challenges in the next four years and I doubt she's up to the task. Her vacancy will also be filled by a left wing fruit to be Chuck Schumer's sidekick. God help the people of upstate New York. Are their voices ever heard?