Hurricane Katrina has done incredible damage to the Gulf Coasts oil refinement capacity. Some industry experts have said it will take a month or more for refineries to be back at normal production. Oil prices crossed $70 a barrel yesterday (remember the good old days - earlier this summer - when prices over $60 were […]

Another bleak report about the US Auto industry came out today:
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp. lost an average of $1,227 per vehicle in the first half of this year in North America, while cross-town rival Ford Motor Co. lost $139, according to new research from Harbour Consulting.
“GM has two to three […]

Anyone notice that the Rove/Plame issue has been dropped? Remember those glorious two days when the White House Press Corps got nasty? Where are they now? Where are the pressing questions about the Iraqi constitution? Unless the insurgents have been lulled to sleep by our 24/7 hurricane watch, I assume we’re still fighting them. I’ll […]

When Pat Buchanan starts bashing Bush and the GOP and starts praising Hillary Clinton, you know something is up. In his column on WorldNetDaily, Buchanan has this to say:
Some courageous Republican, to get the attention of this White House, should drop into the hopper a bill of impeachment, charging George W. Bush with a conscious […]

Reading Wes Clark’s first post at TPM Cafe it occurred to me that the US is in a very particular sort of situation right now in Iraq. Clark has made the great observation that President Bush has presented America with a false choice: “stay the course” or “cut and run.” Bush doesn’t allow for a […]

Ten plus hours traveling by car with The Stuffed Tiger on Saturday gave us an opportunity to rap on a whole lot of politics. From all that is wrong with the arguments by the proponents of intelligent design (see Dan Dennett’s op-ed)to Bush’s failures in Iraq to the dream platform of a legitimate third party, […]

I know that Philo wants to discuss Wes Clark’s op-ed from the Washington Post, and I don’t want to take the wind out of his sails. So instead I want to focus on one line from his piece–the last one:
“If the administration won’t adopt a winning strategy, then the American people will be justified […]

Senator Frist, don’t you know better than to enrage the moral values crew?:

An evangelical group has begun a weeklong advertising campaign in Iowa criticizing Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist for backing expanded embryonic stem cell research…
Iowa is a critical state in the presidential nominating process and Frist is considered a potential candidate for the Republican […]

America is dumb–even more so than it was a decade ago!
From Pollingreport.com (sorry for the spacing issues):

Harris Poll. June 17-21, 2005. N=1,000 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.

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“Do you think human beings developed from earlier species or not?”

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It’s a common theme here at the Baltimore Group, but China is a cheater:
WASHINGTON (CNN) – The FBI and the Pentagon are investigating whether Chinese spies have been hacking into U.S. government computer systems, U.S. officials said Thursday.
Now, to be fair, we are still investigating whether the hackers are actually […]