Nancy Pelosi took over as Speaker of the House in January, 2007. The U.S. national average for regular conventional gasoline was $2.13. On Sunday, September 14, the national average is $3.82 – an increase of $1.69 a gallon. Here’s the chart. Good work, Nancy. We’ll keep up with this figure in the sidebar to the [...]
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Jake Tapper of ABC News reports on a speech that Senator Obama gave this morning. The Democratic presidential candidate was speaking before the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers when he said: “So, when American workers hear John McCain talking about putting ‘Country First,'” Obama said, “it’s fair to ask –- which country?” Astounding. [...]
Dr. Darsi Ferar sent out an email telling what he had seen of the destruciton caused by Hurricane Ike on the island of Cuba. George at The Real Cuba translated it into English better than I could. The destruction here after the hurricane is tragic. We simply got to the limit, we no longer have [...]
Here, we remember the victims of Osama bin Landen’s murderous attack on September 11, 2001. I want to also remember the people who brought us the news that horrible day. We criticize the media ruthlessly here, but, having worked as a news producer, I know what a hard, thankless job it can be. Robert Lee [...]
Bill Ayers, as has been well documented, is a friend of Barack Obama’s. He and his wife Bernadine Dohrn were terrorists back in the late 60s and early 70s – they liked to blow things up. And talk and talk and talk. On September 11, 2001, while the rest of the world was watching the [...]