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WASHINGTON - Offshore oil drilling, which has dominated energy debates in the presidential campaign, is now coming to the Senate. The House late Tuesday approved on a 236-189 vote legislation that would open waters 50 miles off the Pacific and Atlantic coasts to oil and natural gas development — if the adjacent states agree to go along. The legislation now goes to the Senate, where Democratic leaders are expected to mold it to their liking in the next few days.

Which of the two VP candidates has no sense of history? Here's a quiz: Which of the two VP candidates, Palin or Biden, said the following in an interview: When the stock market crashed, Frankin Roosevelt got on television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed... For the answer, watch the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV1pjb5ZGxU Maybe now we know why he has twice been found to have committed plagiarism! His own basic understanding of the world is completely inaccurate. This particular quote shows: He makes up things to support his points. He doesn't know that Herbert Hoover was president...

Which of the two VP candidates has no sense of history? Here's a quiz: Which of the two VP candidates, Palin or Biden, said the following in an interview: When the stock market crashed, Frankin Roosevelt got on television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed... For the answer, watch the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV1pjb5ZGxU Maybe now we know why he has twice been found to have committed plagiarism! His own basic understanding of the world is completely inaccurate. This particular quote shows: He makes up things to support his points. He doesn't know that Herbert Hoover was president...

WASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating four major U.S. financial institutions whose collapse helped trigger a $700 billion bailout plan by the Bush administration, The Associated Press has learned. Two law enforcement officials said Tuesday the FBI is looking at potential fraud by mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and insurer American International Group Inc. Additionally, a senior law enforcement official said Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. also is under investigation. The inquiries will focus on the financial institutions and the individuals that ran them, the senior law enforcement official said.

Iran's loony leader accused the U.S. of trying to colonize Iraq and then blamed "Zionist murderers" on Tuesday for everything from the plight of the Palestinians to the Russian invasion of Georgia. "Today, the Zionist regime is on a definite slope to collapse, and there is no way to get out of the cesspool created by itself," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the UN General Assembly. The "American empire in the world is reaching the end of its road," he added.

More Marginalizing of Women & Deification of Obama ONasty is still lifting his dawg-leg on women. His bots are "in their faces" for standing up to the gang rapes of Hillary and now Sarah. You should see some of nonsense I delete (and will continue to delete) from this blog. (FYI Obamabots - it's my blog, it's my opinion... if you don't like it there are millions of other blogs to choose from so shoo-shoo on back to NoBama's site with your own kind. As a PROGRESSIVE -- yeah, I said PROGRESSIVE -- I want to see PROGRESS. I see...

When 10 states in the U.S. Northeast launch the country's first cap and trade emissions market this week, their greatest service to the fight against global warming may be the mistakes they make. In the absence of guidance from the Bush administration on how to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, the states from Maryland to Maine stepped forward to form the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. The program will cap emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the main greenhouse gas, at 233 fossil fuel-fired power plants starting in January. RGGI, to be launched on Thursday, will serve as a live model for Western...

The Evil Son I know Rosh Hashana is coming up, but there was something in the back of my mind that was bothering me, and it was related to Pesach. During Pesach we read about the 4 sons. When you read the question of the Evil Son it is hardly different from the question of the Good Son - except that he excludes himself. The Rashah (The wicked son) - What does he say? 'Of what purpose is this service to you?' To you (he said), (implying) and not to himself." I wrote about Obama's interview with the Jerusalem Post...

NEW YORK: Chairman Senate Muhammadmian Soomro may be having a friend in White House if Barak Hussain Obama finally succeeds in his presidential bid. Hardly a few people know about Soomro's link with Obama, which he never discussed it in public. But in private interactions with influential Pakistanis here in the US, Obama disclosed that Soomro's father was his host when he went on a hunting expedition in Jacobabad during his visit to Pakistan in 1981. While in Karachi, Obama had stayed at the residence of his college friend, Hassan Chandio. In Jacobabad, he was the guest of Soomro...

The liberal economist John Kenneth Galbraith, a key figure in President John F. Kennedy’s administration, famously blamed Goldman Sachs in his book, The Great Crash, 1929, for helping to set the stage for the Great Depression. Galbraith, who died in 2006, devoted a whole chapter he titled “In Goldman, Sachs, We Trust,” to detailing the “large-scale corporate thimblerigging” that Goldman and other investment firms practiced in the 1920s. Now Goldman Sachs veterans at the highest levels of the Bush administration are trying to convince policy makers and the public that they know the way out of the current market troubles....

A group of 10 states, including Maryland and Delaware, are taking steps to monitor global warming. The coalition is called the "Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative." They'll conduct the nation's first carbon auction. The auction would put limits on carbon dioxide emissions from utility plants and make them pay for each ton of pollutants. The auction is set for September 25.

Obama is GREAT (with other people's money) When Senator Obama talks about how he would be so much better handling the economy it is very surprising that he doesn't talk about his experience. When one looks at his political contributions, earmarks to his wife's hospital, and funky real estate deals, Senator Barack Obama is GREAT at handling money-->OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY, or as Mac Fuller calls it, Obama Dollars: Obama Dollars by Mac Fuller American Thinker Watch the money flow. Obama dollars can tell us a lot. 1. $120,349. Other People's Money. Senator Obama received more political contribution money from now-collapsed...

Sarah Palin and the Liberal RAPE KIT LIE Last week the vicious rumor arose that when she was Mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin made victims of sexual assault pay for their own Rape Kits. Surprise, Surprise, this one is just as full of crap as the the other rumors. The Democratic sponsor of the legislation, Eric Croft, told USA Today recently that “the law was aimed in part at Wasilla, where now-Gov. Sarah Palin was mayor.” Yet in six committee meetings, Wasilla was never mentioned, even when the discussion turned to the specific topic of where victims were being charged....

I did some googling on John Adams because of the miniseries on him (want to sort the fact from the dramatization) and found The Online Library of Liberty. Looks like a great resource. http://oll.libertyfund.org/

... "These Credit Default Swaps have been written (as insurance is written) as private contracts. There is nil government regulation of them. Who writes these policies? Banks. Investment banks. Insurance companies. They now owe the buyers of these Credit Default Swaps on junk mortgage debt trillions of dollars. It is this liability that is the bottomless pit of liability for the financial institutions of America." ...

If you're expecting, as we are all expecting, the post-racial Democrats to get more racist in the coming weeks, we have just the thing for you. Print out a bunch of these on card stock and carry them around in case, by expressing even the smallest reservation about the fitness of Barack Obama, you get hit with the R-Bomb. These also come in handy if you misspeak or use a previously racially neutral word that has become racially-charged overnight. Also, do not forget to take one to the polls in November, where you can trade it for your ballot!High Resolution...

Will talk about charity work and "First Dude".

Actress Laura Linney demonstrated for all the world to see last night that she has no idea what she’s talking about. During her acceptance speech at the Emmy awards show, Linney, a Democratic donor who gave to Senator Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign earlier this year, called America’s Founding Fathers “the great community organizers that helped form our country.” Linney, who played Abigail Adams in the TV mini-series, “John Adams,” took aim at critics of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama who have mocked the work he did in Chicago as a community organizer. “I just have the most tremendous respect for...

It's no secret that everyone is weighing in on politics these days, from David Letterman to Barbara Walters and the esteemed ladies of "The View," who, as the New York Times pointed out today, have had Barack Obama, John McCain and even Bill Clinton on their couch, with McCain clearly getting the toughest grilling. But should film critics be weighing in on the presidential race as well? It's no secret that America's leading film critic, the Chicago Sun-Times' Roger Ebert, has been on quite a roll lately, writing a series of barbed commentaries about GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin....

Despite the anxiety roiling AmericaÂ’s markets, lawmakers on Capitol Hill refuse to curb their insatiable appetite for pork barrel spending. With the federal government set to run out of money on October 1 (the beginning of the new fiscal year), they just keep larding pork on to the continuing resolution, which is the temporary spending legislation that would keep government doors open. AP reports that The legislation is coming together in a remarkably secretive process in which decisions are concentrated in the hands of just a few lawmakers such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and...