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The economic toll from the drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico is beginning to mount. On July 28, Baker Hughes, an international oilfield services company based in Houston, announced that it was moving 300 of its employees and 25 percent of its assets out of Houston. Baker Hughes CEO, Chad Deaton, said that if the moratorium lingers, many companies such as his would be moving the research and development operations overseas to where the drilling will be taking place. Deaton said that 20,000 direct jobs and over 200,000 indirect ones could be lost if the moratorium continues.

But, unfortunately, the moratorium does continue, and there is no indication that the Obama administration has any plans to end it soon.

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Redstate.com’s Erick Erickson, who’s a Louisiana native, gave this speech at the RightOnline confab in Las Vegas last weekend.

Can’t add much to it.

Erik Erickson at RightOnline 2010 from AFPhq on Vimeo.

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The blogosphere is burning this morning with discussions of a memorandum circulated within the U.S.  Citizenship and Immigration Services bureau which discusses “Administrative Alternatives to Comprehensive Immigration Reform.”

In English, that means amnesty for illegal aliens delivered by presidential fiat.

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This piece originally ran at TheHill.com…

Two man-made disasters have hit the Gulf Coast: the BP oil spill and the President’s moratorium on energy production.  A third disaster is scheduled for a vote in the House today.

Two hundred twenty-six days before the Deepwater Horizon rig collapsed, the Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources (CLEAR) Act was introduced in the House.  A repackaged version is now being sold as a response to the BP oil spill.

This bill has much less to do with preventing another spill than it does preventing domestic energy production and destroying jobs.

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This guy needs a badge and a gun.

Actually, no he doesn’t. He’s doing great on his own.

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Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-Baton Rouge) took to the airwaves this morning, appearing with Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) on CNBC to talk about the CLEAR Act, which goes to a House vote today.

Cassidy’s got a lot of facts. Pallone? Watch it and decide if this guy knows anything other than how to pile up that Tony Manero do of his without a single strand out of place…

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We swear, that’s what President Barack Obama said on The View about African Americans.

But don’t worry – he wasn’t inflaming anything. Sez TheHill.com…

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“[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore … never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold at market.”

– Thomas Jefferson, letter to Judge William Johnson, 1823

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OK, he really shouldn’t have dropped the “sine qua non” thing on the crowd, particularly if he wants to be president, but otherwise this was a hell of a good video clip from the former Speaker. Newt is a pain in the rear end to support, because about 10-15 percent of the time he goes completely off the rails trying to make nice with the Left instead of destroying them, but when he’s on, well, he sounds like this…

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(Hat Tip – Cong. Bill Cassidy via Twitter)

A summary of the Senate Energy Bill, which will likely be debated on the Senate Floor tomorrow, is summarized and analyzed here.  It is essentially another federal bureaucracy that generates a CBO estimated $22.2billion in gross revenue offset by $20.5billion in costs, of which $14billion will be litigation costs to defend lawsuits resulting from the taxes it contains.

But it does not contain carbon cap language, and it does not impose mandatory levels of electric generation from “green” fuels.  We won’t be surprised to see those resurrected during a lame duck session in November and December.

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