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Another session of Sunday morning shows came around and I found myself watching Meet the Press. (Something which happens more and more since ABC made the disastrous decision to drop the indispensable Jake Tapper as host of This Week in favor of Christiane Amanpour.) One of the guests was President Obama’s Chief of Staff Bill Daley, and the subject of the discussion turned to the rising prices of both gasoline and barrels of oil. “Aha!” I thought. “Now we’re getting down to something important. The administration has been choking off domestic oil production and the unrest on the Arab street...

May 27, 2008 -- The polar bears are doing just fine, thank you very much. So says Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who announced last week that her state would sue to block Washington from listing the animals as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act. And it's a good thing, too - because the new bear-population protections mask what may be the most serious threat to American economic might in decades. Yes, polar bears. The polar bear, you see, marks the first species on the "threatened" list whose supposed predicament is linked directly to global warming. The current Alaskan polar-bear population...

"It's not that liberals don't know anything; it's just that they know so many things that aren't so." - Ronald Reagan Remember how the Gipper used to inspire us from the Oval Office and on the stump? Remember "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" George W. Bush could learn a lot from the great communicator. On the recent outburst by a Chinese dissident during a joint press conference with Chinese President Hu Jintao, I would have loved to have heard my president say: "What you are witnessing is freedom of speech in defense of freedom of religion, Mr. President. These...

Saudi Arabia Accused of 'Hate Literature' Distribution in U.S. Saturday, Nov. 26, 2005 Posted: 12:41:52PM EST The Saudi Arabian government is distributing hate literature, pamphlets, and materials across the United States in an effort to cause division and hostility between American Muslims and Christians and Jews, according to the director of a religious freedom organization Freedom House Center for Religious Freedom told the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this month that the Saudi Embassy in Washington offers instructions on how to “build a wall of resentment” between Muslims and infidels, reported Nina Shea, director of the Center for Religious Freedom, according...

PESHAWAR: Tehran warned the United States against attacking Iran over the nuclear issue on Tuesday and asserted that such a move would jeopardize the global economy. “The US will not mistake Iran as Iraq and invade,” Mohammad Hassan Imani, the consul-general of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Peshawar, told reporters during an Iftar party at his residence. He said that an American invasion of Iran would drive the price of oil per barrel close to $150. “The Iranian people are fully committed to the government in Tehran,” he said. He said that any US attack on Iran should be...

How well OPEC complies with its own decision to reduce its crude-oil production by 1 million barrels per day will determine the impending overall international impact on prices. Ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, meeting in Cairo Friday, voted to leave their 27 million bpd production quota intact and instead will rein in the chronic overproduction of crude that in recent weeks has resulted in an average of an extra 1 million bpd being placed on the market, causing prices to soften. "Member countries, which have responded to the market need for additional supply over the course of...