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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. average retail gasoline prices have reached a new high of almost $3.20 per gallon and will likely jump another 20 to 30 cents in the next month, worsening the pain of consumers struggling to make ends meet in an economic downturn. Gasoline prices are rising sharply as refiners, who have kept prices down in order to compete for sales, become more willing to pass on their higher costs of crude oil, according to an industry analyst on Sunday. The national average for self-serve regular unleaded gas was nearly $3.20 a gallon on March 7, up...

    Democratic Party's Problem Transcends Its Anti-War Contingent Mia T, 5.5.03   hyperlinked images of shamecopyright Mia T 2003. by Mia T, 4.6.03   If Act I was a thinly veiled allegory about naked clintonism, then Act II is a parable about the plan for world domination by the Establishment, aged hippies in pinstripes all, with their infantile, solipsistic world view amazingly untouched by time.   Mia T, THE ALIENS   Al From is sounding the alarm. "Unless we convince Americans that Democrats are strong on national security," he warns his party, "Democrats will continue to lose elections."...