If this is true, it’s a great idea. Right in time for the summer driving season and…yes…the fall elections. From Raw Story: Democrats are set to introduce a measure that would create a “federal gas tax holiday” by eliminating the federal tax on gas and diesel for sixty days, RAW STORY has learned. The measure, [...]

Circa 1996.

In a short editorial in Human Events former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, lays out the five challenges Americans must meet in order to win the future and preserve the greatness of our nation. 1) Confronting a world in which America’s enemies, including the irreconcilable wing of Islam and rogue dictatorships, could acquire and [...]

The Pentagon has announced plans to summarily release 141 detainees at Guantanamo, roughly a third of the 490 remaining prisoners, and to charge an additional two dozen or so. Charges are pending against about two dozen of the remaining prisoners, the chief prosecutor said. But he left unclear why the rest face neither imminent freedom [...]

I’m certain this beats coffee as a morning jolt.

Are you? I’m tired of people who find principles when their pensions are secured and people who are all for free trade (except for the trade restrictions that benefit them, personally). I’m tired of Fortune 1000 CEO’s who make 100’s of millions of dollars when there’s not a doubt in my mind that an Indian [...]

Glad to see the legislators in South Carolina are tackling the “hard” issues: COLUMBIA â€â€? Lucy’s Love Shop employee Wanda Gillespie said she was flabbergasted that South Carolina’s Legislature is considering outlawing sex toys. But banning the sale of sex toys is actually quite common in some Southern states. The South Carolina bill, proposed by [...]

This is one of those stories where I just shake my head in disbelief. I just don’t understand why somebody, who now knows that the troop level was not adequate, would say that he’d do the same thing given a second chance. From the Washington Post: President Bush today said mistakes were made in planning [...]

Mary McCarthy “categorically denies being the source of the leak.” From Newsweek: After being told by agency interrogators that she may have been deceptive on one quesiton during a polygraph, McCarthy did acknowledge that she had failed to report contacts with Washington Post reporter Dana Priest and at least one other reporter, said a source [...]

It opens next week. Will you go see it? According to advance reviews, it doesn’t suck. In the city where it will premiere next Tuesday, United 93 is being greetedâ€â€?or repelled?â€â€?almost as if it were itself some kind of terror attack. Is the movie pornography? Exploitation? Too much too soon? Having seen it once (apparently [...]

Ethics question of the day: Is it right to do something you know is wrong, perhaps even illegal, for the sake of a greater good? Mary McCarthy at the CIA leaks highly classified information on a sensitive topic that compromises both the United States and some key allies. She clearly broke the law. It will [...]

And the first video is anything but. It’s a great look at China and our dangerous dance with them. Of course, I hesitate to really endorse this video blog as a whole because I know it’s going to eventually put out stories that are decidedly Malkinesque. However, this segment is spot on and since I [...]

From the comments section of our “FEMA Trailer Driver Speaks” post. First, a resident of Louisana who lost everything, moved back and is ashamed with the response of the government: I live in Slidell Louisiana and I am very angry about all of this. My house flooded and I lost everything as well as my [...]

Calm down, I’m not going to say there’s “long established ties” between them. But they’re both in headlines this weekend. Bin Laden wants a jihad in Darfur, “according to an audiotape attributed to him which aired on Sunday.” The speaker, who sounded like the Saudi-born militant, also said on the tape broadcast on Al Jazeera [...]

Even if they knew that they would be paying less in payroll taxes? I’m watching “Late Edition” on CNN this morning, and even though Osama has issued a new tape and Iraq has chosen a new PM, the loudest clamor is about the high price of gasoline (now $2.90 for a gallon of unleaded regular [...]

Gas is getting up there. Way up there. And that has some leading Republicans abandoning their “free market” ideology in favor questioning why the gas companies’ profits are going through the roof at the same time prices are too. After all, shouldn’t they be feeling the pinch too? From the Wash Post: House Speaker J. [...]

Cross-posted from AmbivaBlog, a few days ago, with updates “One of the more bizarre and frightening ways in which global warming could devastate our planet” is detailed by Nick Kristof in the April 18 Times — in money jail, needless to say. This column is too new to have been “liberated” yet, but here’s a [...]

And so am I… The Moose saw it up close and first hand back in the ’94 landslide. His fellow elephants were fit to be tied. They were seeing red and the states turned crimson. A natural disaster of Biblical proportions could not keep them from the polls to register their outrage with the ruling [...]

I’m writing this while sitting curled up in a window seat on the eighth floor of a hotel overlooking the Chicago River. No, it doesn’t suck. But I digress…. The CIA thinks that it has found and fired the person responsible for alerting reporters to the existence of the agency’s secret prison network. Her name: [...]