Our biggest oil company, Exxon, is one of the smallest oil companies in the world if you factor in the Saudis and all of the Gulf states and their companies and so forth. Our domestic oil companies are huge within the context of the continental United States — well, including Alaska and Hawaii, but in […]

Chris Matthews on DNCTV and his show, Hardball. MATTHEWS: I don’t understand why the Democratic Party doesn’t do to the Republicans what the Republicans did to the Democrats back in 1980 when we had a fuel crisis. You got gasoline going to five bucks a gallon. Everybody knows that. It could be at six by […]

< Part 3 of 4 -see links below > McCain went down to talk to Big Oil execs. He gave a speech on energy and conservation. Here is the first of two portions. MCCAIN: We have proven oil reserves of at least 21 billion barrels in the United States, but a broad federal moratorium stands […]

This story by SweetnessandLight.com, the blog, and a guy from the Philadelphia Daily News on April 14th, after having a conversation with Obama, published a story. Here’s the headline: “Obama AG To Review Potential Bush ‘Crimes.’” April 14th, 2008, the author Will Bunch. “Tonight I had an opportunity to ask Barack Obama a question that […]

The Democrats are still beside themselves over President Bush in Israel at the Knesset saying that Barack Obama — well, the Democrats are saying he was talking about Obama. The White House has denied that. This is the president yesterday in Jerusalem at the Knesset. THE PRESIDENT: Some seem to believe that we should negotiate […]