Obama’s “Truth Squad”: prosecutors gone wild?

Jennifer Joyce is the Circuit Attorney for the City of Saint Louis, Missouri.  She has an important role as the chief prosecutor in that historic town.  She states it right on her website:
You deserve to live, work and play in a historically rich, culturally fertile and safe city that respects the rights of all people. [...]

Wise, but old, hand overtakes strong, energetic neophyte

That’s the upshot of tonight’s first presidential debate in Oxford, MS.  The debate cannot be judged, though, without taking note of the drama behind whether it was going to take place to begin with.
McCain took a gamble this week and suspended his campaign so he could fly back to Washington and broker a deal on [...]

Old-Time Religion

Wall Street Journal writer, Dan Henninger, notes the apolyptic tones in Washington over the current financial crisis and hears the strains of “Give Me That Old-Time Religion” coming from Congressmen on Capitol Hill.  He says:
You can’t claim, as holier-than-thou politics is now, that sending an army of regulatory storm-troopers into Wall Street will ensure integrity [...]

Reid last minute attempt to sneak in drilling ban

UPDATE II: Specifics of the amendment are posted at Sen. Jim DeMint’s website.  The ban specifically targets oil shale development.  Reid’s specific proposal can be found here.
UPDATE, OPINIONTIMES.COM EXCLUSIVE: At the same time Harry Reid is attempting to renew the ban on oil exploration, an array of environmental groups will be submitting a lawsuit today [...]

Warren Buffett is buying with $31 billion cash

While credit markets have tightened considerably in the last few months, those with cash have the upper hand and are buying up companies in trouble.  Chief among them is Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway.
With $31 billion in cash, Buffet is buying up energy companies, adding cash to merger deals with other companies and, frankly, smiling when [...]

McCain/Palin Troops beware: you may be sleeping too secure

OpinionTimes.com EDITORIAL:
The recently converted McCain supporters (once disaffected members of the Republican base) should be excited about the current McCain bump.  But it will be all for naught if the McCain campaign doesn’t focus that energy on a strong effort to get like-minded voters to the polls.  Just kiss it all goodbye without a grassroots [...]

Disaster for McCain if he signs on to “Gang of 16″

RedState.com has a great editorial on the rumors that John McCain plains to sign on to the disasterous “Gang of 16″ energy “plan:”
For the past several months, John McCain has ridden the energy issue, moreso than any other single issue, to the top of the polls. Governor Palin, one of the nation’s leading proponents of [...]

Oil Prices below $100 for first time in six months

Oil has gone below $100 for the first time in six months.  The reason for the drop?  Expectations for low demand due to a sagging economy.
The demise of Lehman Brothers who declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday after failing to find a buyer over the weekend put all the markets in a tizzy.  And the belief [...]

Would you save a Firefighter before he saves a child?

This Iraq war veteran asks that very question:

America not ready for Salazar’s unbalanced energy plan

Colorado Senator Ken Salazar spoke on Friday to an energy forum of the Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States.  He called for a “balanced national energy policy” and dismissed claims he is against drilling and exploration in the United States.  He told his critics to just turn it “down a couple decibels.”

He pointed to the [...]

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