New Trommetter Times

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

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Prof, others charged in cross case
A professor and six students at Northern Kentucky University were charged Wednesday with misdemeanors related to the April 12 destruction of a pro-life display on campus. Sally Jacobsen of the literature and language department, has been charged with criminal mischief, theft by unlawful taking and criminal solicitation. The third charge relates to evidence that she encouraged students to participate in the destruction. The six students, who range in age from 21 to 27, were charged with criminal mischief and theft by unlawful taking. (via Stop the ACLU )

It’s hard out here for a pump

I would be more interested in what the Democrats had to say about high gas prices if these were not the same people who refused to let us drill for oil in Alaska, imposed massive restrictions on building new refineries, and who shut down the development of nuclear power in this country decades ago. But it’s too much having to watch Democrats wail about the awful calamity to poor working families of having to pay high gas prices.

Will an energy crisis bring the oil industry to our shores?

Every few years, when geopolitics or other factors suddenly drive the cost of crude oil through the roof, industry insiders start looking to America’s coastal waters for new supplies of oil and natural gas. It happened in the 1970s. It happened in the 1980s. It happened again last October, when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita — along with other factors — conspired to push the price of a gallon of gasoline over three dollars for the first time.