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 […]

< Part 1 of 4 – see links below > We finally have an issue, an issue that represents a goal for the United States of America: Energy independence, drilling for our own oil and our own natural gas. Finally, the president of the United States is willing to lead the charge on this. I […]

On June 12, the Supreme Court bestowed constitutional rights on foreign-born terrorists. The ruling is a chilling demonstration of the American divide; conservative and liberal. Four liberals on the Court — aided by Justice Kennedy — grabbed power. Their decision overturned precedent since our Founding that placed the prosecution of wars within the Executive Branch. […]