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FOIA Documents Regarding The Death of Col. Ted Westhusing

Amid the myriad tragedies and heartache caused by the Second Iraq War, the death of Col. Westhusing is among the saddest and most senseless. I have been asked by a number of people who knew Col. Westhusing for some of the documents that I obtained from the Defense Department via the Freedom of Information Act over the course of my year-long inquiry into his suicide. Rather than distribute paper copies, it makes sense to make them available in electronic form. Herewith, a batch of the key documents, in PDF:

Scalped! Why An Expansion Of The Ethanol Scam May Ruin Your Lawnmower (and Your Weedwhacker, and Your Snowmobile, and Your Boat…

July 15, 2010
Energy Tribune
(Note: This article shares a byline with Harry Wertheimer)
An increase in the amount of ethanol in your gasoline won’t hurt your lawnmower…if it’s a push-reel. Otherwise be prepared for big repair bills.

While that sounds alarmist, the threat is real. This fall, the Obama administration will, through the EPA, likely approve a change in federal regulations that will allow gasoline retailers to increase the “blend rate.”

Bechtel and B&W Team Up On Modular Reactors

July 14, 2010
Energy Tribune
Today’s announcement that engineering and construction giant Bechtel will join forces with Babcock & Wilcox to build modular nuclear reactors is a big deal.

Jon Stewart Vivisects “Energy Independence”

June 29, 2010
Energy Tribune
We live in the age of video. As a writer, particularly one who writes books, that fact is rather painful. But the reality is that television, and increasingly, video on the Internet – think YouTube, Hulu, etc. – is the dominant medium of our time.

Enron's Ken Lay and BP’s Tony Hayward: Paid to Be Reckless

June 25, 2010
The Daily Beast
Tony Hayward’s lips were moving but all I could hear was Ken Lay.

Indeed, the specter of the late Enron CEO was apparent last week during Hayward’s testimony in front of Congress whenever he said something to the effect of “it wasn’t my job” or “I wasn’t directly involved” in the decisions that preceded the blowout of the Macondo well.

Beyond Pathetic: BP’s Sorry Safety Record, A Look Back at 2005

June 24, 2010
Energy Tribune
With each passing day, as more news reports explain what happened aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the hours before the accident, it becomes ever clearer that BP’s mismanagement of the Macondo well was responsible for the disastrous blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.

Addicted to Prosperity

June 18, 2010
Energy Tribune
Back in 2006, George W. Bush declared that the US is “addicted to oil.” Since then, that phrase has been repeated ad nauseum by politicos on both the Left and the Right. But on Tuesday night, President Obama took the addiction meme to an entirely new level of inanity by saying “For decades, we’ve talked and talked about the need to end America’s century-long addiction to fossil fuels.”

Enemies of the Corn: The Ethanol Scammers Produce A Top Ten Enemies List

June 15, 2010
Energy Tribune
Richard Nixon had an enemies list. And now, so, too, do the corn ethanol scammers.

Last week, Tom Waterman, the editor and publisher of The Ethanol Monitor, published a list of the top ten enemies of ethanol. Here’s the list:

#10: Business Week/Ed Wallace (Bloomberg)
#9: GRIST
#8: “Big Oil”
#7: Grocery Manufacturers Association
#6: David Pimentel
#5: Robert Rapier

The Ethanol Trap

June 10, 2010
Slate
The most disgusting aspect of the blowout in the Gulf of Mexico isn’t the video images of oil-soaked birds or the incessant blather from pundits about what BP or the Obama administration should be doing to stem the flow of oil. Instead, it’s the ugly spectacle of the corn ethanol scammers doing all they can to capitalize on the disaster so that they can justify an expansion of the longest-running robbery of taxpayers in U.S. history.

The Deepwater Horizon Blowout: Losers and Winners

June 10, 2010
Energy Tribune
The oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico provides a near-perfect onshore platform for political demagoguery.

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