June 13, 2008 – 3:39 pm
I don’t see anything on the wire services, but, the news update text I recieved states that the NY Times is reporting that Tim Russert has died of a heart attack at age 58. It’s showing on their front page.
June 11, 2008 – 8:20 am
A National Review piece printed at CBS News by Larry Kudlow The recent spike in oil prices and unemployment is dramatically changing this presidential campaign – virtually overnight. The near $20 jump in oil to $140 a barrel, the unexpected half-point increase in the jobless rate to 5.5 percent (the biggest monthly increase in 20 […]
June 10, 2008 – 7:39 pm
The NY Times discusses the defeat of 2 bills, one by Democrats, and one by Republicans A Democratic proposal to impose heavier taxes on big oil companies stalled in the Senate on Tuesday as Republicans and Democrats offered different ideas on how to deal with soaring energy costs. A bill that would have rolled back […]
June 9, 2008 – 9:24 am
CNS News “The United States has an opportunity to help increase the supply of oil on the market,” thereby easing gasoline prices for hard-working Americans,” President Bush said on Monday. He reminded Congress that he has proposed opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Continental Shelf to domestic oil drilling — something that would […]
June 7, 2008 – 7:20 pm
This should cause a massive hissy fit, what do ya think? South Carolina drivers will be the first in the nation to be offered license plates that carry the phrase “I Believe†and a Christian cross over a stained-glass window under a law that took effect on Thursday. Critics have threatened to fight the law […]
May 31, 2008 – 8:48 am
Perhaps Senator Fluffy can go in and send some hope and change to his buddy Mahmoud to change Iran’s mind Iran will not give up its right to enrich uranium, a senior Iranian official said on Saturday, days before major powers submit an upgraded package of incentives to try to coax Tehran into halting the work. “Suspending […]
May 26, 2008 – 9:32 am
Wait, didn’t John Kerry just tells us the other day that we weren’t talking to Iran? In short, not talking to Iran has failed. Miserably. And you had all the other left wing lunatics claiming, in their defense of Obama wanting his without pre-condition tea and crumpets talks with the Ahmadenijad, that we are not […]
May 22, 2008 – 5:55 pm
This is guaranteed to drive the left up to a level 8, at least Canada is set to deport in June the first of possibly hundreds of American soldiers who sought asylum to avoid military duty in Iraq, a group backing the US deserters said Wednesday. Corey Glass, 25, came to Canada in August 2006 […]
May 22, 2008 – 8:18 am
Remember back when one of cBS’s star witnesses to the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina was complaining that the levee’s were bombed, and cBS ignored that? ‘Memba how they joined in on the “President Bush’s FEMA was bad,” but never mentioned Chocolate City Nagin’s and Governor Blanco’s failure to do their jobs? Oh, hell, they […]
May 20, 2008 – 8:30 am
How much you want to bet that he has money riding on the downfall of the world economy? Â Billionaire investor George Soros has given his gloomiest assessment of the state of the US and world economies. He told BBC business editor Robert Peston that the “acute phase” of the credit crunch may be over but […]
