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Be sure to READ THIS!!Please continue prayers for TrueblackmanCONGRESSMAN MIKE PENCE Joins Bill Collier of DontGo on BTR!Today, Tuesday, August 26th at 4:30 pm EDT!DON'T MISS THIS SHOW!  Brokaw, Pelosi and Pickens"Media" Tries to Downplay Pelosi's Abuse of PowerBut the REAL Media Says "NOT SO FAST!"  DON'T STOP FOLKS!!JUST SAY NO TO GANGS!!Congressman John R Carter of Texas says Gang of 10 a "Bad Deal"Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed a total lack of our "Establishment Media/Misinformation Socialist Monarchy" reporting on the price of gas and food for the past 2 weeks?New FTC Rule Could Apply To Pelosi After...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s message on energy, already evolving in recent weeks, might have to evolve a little more. On NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, the speaker twice seemed to suggest that natural gas – an energy source she favors – is not a fossil fuel. “I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels,” she said at one point. Natural gas “is cheap, abundant and clean compared to fossil fuels,” she said at another. The speaker apparently was trying to contrast her support for expanded use of natural gas as a motor-vehicle fuel, and...

LONDON -- The British government, pressed for solutions to soaring fuel prices, said it will exempt about 30 existing North Sea crude-oil and natural-gas fields from some taxes and approved the development of two new North Sea oil fields, which could begin production in early 2009. But the measures, announced as U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling met with U.K. oil-industry executives to explore ways to increase oil and gas production, seemed unlikely to significantly alter Britain's fuel-price problems. The British government, like others in Europe, has come under fire in recent weeks from...

WASHINGTON — Yucca Mountain dropped back into the presidential race today when Sen. John McCain suggested the planned nuclear waste dump outside of Las Vegas may not be needed after all. Among the remaining presidential contenders, McCain has been the lone supporter of Yucca Mountain, making him the odd candidate out among Nevadans who overwhelmingly oppose the repository. Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama have both assured Nevada they would oppose the dump. But in a talk on nuclear security at the University of Denver, McCain offered another approach as part of global efforts to watchdog civilian nuclear power:...

Senate Democrats are in a quandary over how to deal with twin Republican-led initiatives to enact Medicare reform and a comprehensive energy bill this year. Many of the Senate’s 48 Democrats see both pieces of legislation as flawed. But, given the high political stakes involved, they have yet to make a concerted strategic decision on how to proceed. Still, it appears that the Democrats are not prepared to mount a filibuster when Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) calls up the energy package today; the House passed the measure last night. Republican negotiators who assembled the energy conference report over...

Like the deafening din of the cicadas every 17 years, each election season brings "energy-policy" proposals-wealth-redistribution schemes — to the front pages. We now have a congressional conference committee attempting to concoct a House/Senate compromise on yet another energy bill, justified as always on the basis of substantial analytic error and misguided conventional wisdom. That the same-old nostrums every election cycle are promoted with other peoples' money should give pause, as public officials offer erroneous arguments, perhaps sincerely, while citizens are left to scratch their heads amid attempts to separate wrongheaded assertion from fact. Herewith, a few counterintuitive truths. The...