As the FAT CAT Oil Companies get richer by the day, the average American is working harder and longer for less money. Hello!!!!! What's wrong with this picture????? How long can this go on! At the end of July, all the oil companies reported massive jumps in their revenue and profits. Was this profit made from LEGALLY MUGGING the American public? Let?s have a look at the facts. Two of the top three oil companies in the world, Exxon, Mobil and Shell recently posted combi...

Connecticut?s 18 year Senator Joes Lieberman has failed to win his own party?s primary for reelection. The figures are almost final, and country club liberal Ned Lamont has bested the Senator by 52% to 48%. The actual vote so far is 142,000 votes to 136,000 votes. How did Lamont get it done, and what does it mean for the country in the upcoming November election, and the financial markets? Lieberman self-imploded by being out of touch with his own base. What makes the resu...

The Department of Homeland Security (?DHS?), the brainchild of this current administration, has an operating budget for 2006 of $40.6 billion. After three years and more than $100 billion, have we really reached the point were we can sleep better at night with the knowledge that our ?Leaders? are doing everything possible to protect us against those terrorists attacks. According to the Government Accountability Office (?GAO?), nothing has changed since the inception of the...

Few books have rocked the publishing world like Rush Limbaugh's "The Way Things Ought To Be" (which he wrote by utilizing "talent on loan from God".) This book, along with author's daily radio program, literally launched a revolution - touching everything from the composition of Congress in 1994 to the resurrection of AM talk radio. Unlike his second book, "See, I Told You So", which deals in great part with the infant Clinton administration and the current events of the earl...

We never really seem to be too far away from another election whether it?s in our communities, for the city or the state. Then there's always the ?BIG? show - the Presidential election. Can anyone remember when it stopped being about issues and became a Media Circus. It's just like playing poker where the man (or woman) with the most money usually wins. It seems to me that we have allowed the ?Spin Doctors? to control our lives. Negative advertising campaigns have become t...

"Let's give a welcome to Macaca, here. Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia." -- Sen. George Allen, Republican Presidential hopeful calling a student of Indian descent a "Monkey" in coded racist language. Allen then began talking about the "war on terror." The recent terror arrests in Britain show the need to fight "for our security in a rational, serious way rather than being bogged down in a war than is harmful to our security." -- Ned Lamont on the terror a...

At the moment in the UK we have an ongoing debate about recycling. In particular the recycling of our household rubbish. We are reaching that point where Local Government Authorities are to be fined for not meeting their recycling targets. The councils are not getting the blame for this but the householders. The householders are being told that they are not recycling according to Council instructions. The debate going on is how to encourage a greater awareness amongst us to r...

Rush Limbaugh's second book, "See, I Told You So" is a great follow up to "The Way Things Ought To Be" and a conservative classic in its own right. And although most the book concerns the initial months of the Clinton Administration and the author's anticipation of administration policies, it's interesting to study his projections of the future and compare them to the actual events in their aftermath. In trademark Rush fashion, the book begins on a note of optimism with Ru...

Recently web logs, or blogs, have exploded in popularity and have come to occupy an increasingly important place in American politics. Given the disparity in resources and organization against other actors, their influence presents a puzzle. How can a collection of decentralized, nonprofit, contrarian and discordant websites exercise any influence over political and policy outputs? As the World Wide Web approaches its teens, we have new expectations about both the right to ex...

Did you know that there are certain kinds of medical treatments that insurance companies refuse to cover, even if a doctor deems the treatment necessary? It?s true, and this truth may make you wonder, are politics involved when it comes to insurance companies and their health insurance policies? To a certain degree, we can assume politics are involved when it comes to insurance companies and the medical treatments they?ll cover under their health insurance policies. These ...