August 6, 2008 - Uh-oh! Looks like Iraq's been making a little money while we've been spending a lot of money.
If you're not like me--who would want to be? --you think it's time we took a little bit of that oil money.
I think the best way...
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August 6, 2008 - Today, we launch a new feature called WAR IS SWELL! in which we take a break from the body counts to focus on some of the good news coming out of our wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and any other wars that we haven't gone public with yet. (Get ready...
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August 4, 2008 - I was going to write this whole thing about how Barack Obama was going to solve the Brett Favre problem, beat Condi Rice and Rush to the NFL Commissioner job and drop out of the presidential race. Unfortunately, all I got out of that idea was the preceding sentence, so...
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July 31, 2008 - Poor Exxon Mobil. They just can't seem to catch a break. After reporting the largest quarterly profit in U.S. history...
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July 30, 2008 - These gas prices are killing me. We only drive places now that are downhill. We've had to relocate several times.
I'm shamefully ignorant about energy use and the environment, despite reading the occasional tipster book about being "green." I started using cloth bags for grocery shopping long befor...
July 28, 2008 - You take a week off and the world goes nuts! I'll get to the media's Obamathon and "Barack Does Berlin" later this week. Bush went and reversed an executive order and the price of gas in my area dropped fifty cents...
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July 12, 2008 - I am no economist. I couldn't tell you the difference between Adam Smith and Paul Craig Roberts. I don't know if NAFTA was good or bad for most of us, but I do know I liked it better when the person at tech support spoke English as their...
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July 8, 2008 - You know you've got a gas crisis when the lotto takes notice. The Florida state lottery has begun offering "free gas for life" as second prize in its Summer Cash lottery game. Considering the price of gas, many of Flor...
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July 7, 2008 - John Stossel, the co-anchor of ABC's "20/20", dropped by "Larry King Live" to praise oilmen...
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July 4, 2008 - If the energy company CEOs, oil speculators, and Saudi princes ever needed a great PR line, it's now.
And here 'tis.
Oil Companies: In the Business of Saving Lives
The bad news: Fuel prices have skyrocketed.
The good news: You're around not to afford them
Yessiree. Tha...
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July 3, 2008 - Minor chords, major friends...
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July 1, 2008 - King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is warning Americans that high oil prices are here to stay: "Consumer countries have to adapt to the prices and the mechanisms of the market...
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June 22, 2008 - John McCain called for an end to the moratorium on offshore oil drilling. If you destroy our oceans, our fish, and our wildlife, offshore and in the Ar...
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June 20, 2008 - Fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again.
-- The President of the United States of America
Why have gasoline prices doubled in a year? Demand hasn't doubled. Supplies are the same. I have this horrible feeling -- having liv...
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June 18, 2008 - President Bush and John McCain have decided to toss aside that one difference they have (tie color) and join forces in...
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