The one covered here.

After thinking it over, and not reading anything on the issue, I've made up my mind.

Clearly, the Republicans are on to something. But we cannot leave it to the politicians.

Today, the kind of war we're fighting is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. We, as citizens, have to step up.

For myself, I can no longer sit back and allow Muslim infiltration, Muslim indoctrination, Muslim subversion and the international Muslim conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

I wonder if this will result in a need to cite "those who fail to learn from history"?

At the NYT, there is this story:

New Way to Tap Gas May Expand Global Supplies By CLIFFORD KRAUSS Published: October 9, 2009

OKLAHOMA CITY -- A new technique that tapped previously inaccessible supplies of natural gas in the United States is spreading to the rest of the world, raising hopes of a huge expansion in global reserves of the cleanest fossil fuel. Italian and Norwegian oil engineers and geologists have arrived in Texas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania to learn how to extract gas from layers of a black rock called shale.

The author:

"Clifford Krauss has been a correspondent for The New York Times since 1990. He currently is a national business correspondent based in Houston. "

A version of this article appeared in print on October 10, 2009, on page A1 of the New York edition.

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