President Obama’s State of the Union address was geared towards refuting Republican claims that he is some kind of “European socialist” hostile to the “free market”. Had they the capacity to utilize facts in their purely ideological narrative, the Grand Old Party of doom & gloom would have realized that nearly all European countries have been under conservative control for the past decade – their collective supply-side economics experiment now teetering on the brink of another financial meltdown akin to what decades of Reagan/Bush policies brought the US in 2008.
Of particular interest were Obama’s remarks on energy, as he laid to rest the 2,000 job, no oil for the US, Keystone Pipeline fiasco by citing increased US oil exploration, integral government-funded natural gas extraction research and the need for clean energy. Read the rest of this entry »



















