Who's to blame for high gas prices?: "From drilling to refining to distribution, environmentalists have done everything they can to raise the price of gasoline."

How Dangerous Is Outsourcing?: "Exaggerating the dangers of outsourcing and sending data abroad won't make our data any more secure. On the contrary, the facts of the Mphasis case suggest that in some cases, data may be safer once sent abroad. Reflect for a moment on how quickly the alleged criminals in Pune were caught. Consider for a second the fact that they were caught by the 'cybercrime

boortz.com: Nealz Nuze Today's Nuze: "These people are actually selling 'I love Social Security' bumper stickers, shirts and more. Is there a better way to show your friends and neighbors that you have completely lost all touch with reality? Here we have a system where they have to cough up 14% of their earnings every single paycheck, and that money is either (a) sent to current Social

THE LARRY SUMMERS JIHAD: "Besides, what ever happened to academic freedom? We're told that in the case of Ward Churchill, outrageous anti-American statements should be considered protected speech with no consequences. Yet when Larry Summers suggests in a speech that there must be some reason why women don't do as well in math and science...now he should be fired. Liberals are all for freedom

Marines driven out of UAW lot: "[Y]ou don't come into my office and say, 'OK, we're not going to support some of your Marines.' I don't know what a foreign car is today anyway. BMWs are made in South Carolina now." -- Lt. Col. Joe Rutledge, C.O.

Ann Coulter: Calling the kettle gay: "So now liberals are lashing out at the gays. Two weeks ago, the New York Times turned over half of its op-ed page to outing gays with some connection to Republicans. There is no principled or intellectual basis for these outings. Conservatives don't want gays to die; we just don't want to transform the Pentagon into the Office of Gay Studies. By contrast,

Jonah Goldberg: How many are there?: "Elite liberal journalists never have agendas, even when they're peddling and defending lies. Conservatives always have an agenda, even when they're trading in facts."

John Leo: Playing the old blame game: "Patricia Frankhouser of Jeannette, Pa., is suing Norfolk Southern Railway over injuries she sustained when she was hit by a freight train. In her suit, she argued that the railroad should have warned her that walking along the tracks was dangerous. She also charged that the train should have yielded the right of way."

Nealz Nuze Today's Nuze: More Zero Common Sense Policies: "Today's lesson in government idiocy comes to us courtesy of the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia. It seems last Thursday little 10-year-old Porsche Brown took a pair of scissors to school. That's right, a pair of scissors. These were 8-inch scissors. In other words, full-sized scissors...like sewing scissors. About the length of

Nealz Nuze Today's Nuze: Serves Them Right: "Gay marriage is legal in Massachusetts. Fine. There is no way in the world that is going to have any affect on my life or marriage. I do think, however, that if they want to be married they should take all that comes with it. Now it seems that they are. Gay couples who got legally married back in the Spring are now filing for divorce. How long

This is a test of the email blogging facility.

Senators Take Out $800 Billion Homeland Equity Loan: "The U.S. Senate today voted to increase the federal debt ceiling to $8.18 trillion by applying for an $800 billion Homeland Equity Loan through Ditech.com. Under the terms of the loan, which the President of the Senate Pro Tempore applied for online in only minutes, the United States government can borrow up to 80 percent of the value of the

Record tomato prices squeeze fast-food sellers' profits - Food and Beverage - Commodities: "A 25-pound crate of tomatoes is selling for $24, more than triple last year's $7 average price, and freight costs push the cost to about $30 a crate. With restaurants loathe to pass those costs on to consumers, a number of companies may see their bottom lines diced by rampant tomato-price

Dennis Prager: 'Things you have to believe to vote Republican': A response: "One of the more popular anti-Republican documents making the rounds on the Internet is titled 'Things You Have to Believe to Vote Republican Today.' Its popularity is exceeded only by its shallowness, which renders the document much more reflective of the liberals who admire it than of the Republicans it attacks. But

Dems Register al-Qaida Terrorists in Ohio Vote Drive: "In a bid to get out the vote for John Kerry, Democrat activist groups in Ohio have registered at least two known terrorists involved in a plot to blow up a shopping center."

Tim Blair: THE TERRIFYING FACE OF FORGIVENESS And these peace creeps don't think for a second that the Islamic Fascists they openly support wouldn't murder them at the drop of a hat if they had half a chance? Why don't they go over there with their Islamic terrorist buddies and fight against the Allies? What a bunch of spineless whiners and malcontents who enjoy the freedoms America provides

Jonah Goldberg: The myth of the disenfranchised: "Already, in state after state, the Democrats have said that voter confusion over how to vote constitutes voter disenfranchisement. But, as George Will recently noted, disenfranchisement is something the government does to you. It's not something you do to yourself. If you can't figure out how to fill in the ovals or punch the chads - and some

Mike S. Adams: The impotence of being earnest "Oscar Wilde also said this about making moral judgments: “It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.” Oscar Wilde wasn’t bright enough to recognize that calling something “absurd” and

Dennis Prager: Why I cannot vote for John Kerry: "A vote for John Kerry is a vote for Michael Moore, the ACLU, Ted Kennedy, trial lawyers, George Soros, the leftist academics who morally confuse generations of young Americans, and for Dan Rather, CBS News, and nearly the entire news complex that daily presents a proctologist's view of America. A vote for John Kerry is a vote for Jesse Jackson,

The Producer. Meet Mary Mapes, the crusading journalist behind CBS's current troubles. : "Former employees of KIRO, the CBS affiliate in Seattle where Ms. Mapes got her start in the 1980s, agree. Some told me that the seeds of CBS's current troubles may have been planted more than 15 years ago when Ms. Mapes was a hard-charging producer at KIRO. Before she left Seattle to become a producer at

Black Voters 'Afraid' of Electronic Voting Machines, Activist Says -- 09/30/2004: "'I got the hell out of there Saturday, and I would suggest you do, too. Until we get rid of those Bushes (President George W. Bush and his brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush), we're going to have a problem in Florida,' Bland said. " No, Ms. Joanne Bland, the problem is not President or Governor Bush. The

Black Voters 'Afraid' of Electronic Voting Machines, Activist Says -- 09/30/2004: "An African-American civil rights spokeswoman said on Wednesday that the new computerized voting machines 'terrify' her, and that blacks are 'afraid of machines like that.'" I thought the reason we went to electronic voting machines (without paper trails, by the way) is because some people (read: Democrat

Is Cat Stevens a Terrorist?: "In 1996, Imam Hamza Yusuf declared, 'I am a citizen of this country [the U.S.A.] not by choice but by birth. I reside in this country not by choice but by conviction in attempting to spread the message of Islam in this country. I became Muslim in part because I did not believe in the false gods of this society whether we call them Jesus or democracy or the Bill of

Democrat slugs area GOP chief, GPD says. Another example of the open-minded, tolerant, peace-loving Democrats going "postal" because they know they are losers. In this case, the Democrats sent a goon, an assistant professor at Santa Fe Community College -- influencing our young skulls full of mush in a government school -- to the Republican HQ to start a fight with the staffers there.

boortz.com: HOW VERY PROUD THEY MUST BE: "We're getting close to the start of the Olympics in Athens. Almost $1.5 billion (that's with a 'B') has been spent just on security for these Olympics. That's more than ten times what was spent on security in Atlanta eight years ago. There's one primary reason for these concerns over security and this spending. One reason, one word. Muslims. The

Terror in the Skies, Again? - WomensWallStreet A vivid first-person account of an incident that happened recently on a domestic flight from Detroit to Los Angeles. In short, 14 Syrian men, allegedly musicians, boarded the flight. They did not associate with each other the flight and they were dispersed throughout the aircraft. Once in the air, they stood in the isles for much of the flight,

Michelle Malkin: Five reasons to fear the Democratic party: "Here are five other reasons to be afraid, very afraid, of putting a Democratic administration in charge of guarding America's gates." (A definite must-read for every American.)

boortz.com: 'SHALL WE FINISH IT OFF?': "Those were the words of one of the 9/11 Muslim hijackers flying the plane that crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. The 9/11 Commission report released yesterday reveals the passenger revolt began at 9:57am on September 11, 2001, 30 minutes after the Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked the plane. The report says they intended to fly the plane into the White

Scouting jetliners for new attacks - The Washington Times: "Flight crews and air marshals say Middle Eastern men are staking out airports, probing security measures and conducting test runs aboard airplanes for a terrorist attack. At least two midflight incidents have involved numerous men of Middle Eastern descent behaving in what one pilot called 'stereotypical' behavior of an organized

Brent Bozell: The FOX-hater's upside-down world: "They think conservative dissent is a clear and present danger to the socialist 'paradise' they want to inflict on society. "

Michelle Malkin: The dangerous game of catch-and-release: "As for the federal government's priority of only enforcing the law against 'previously deported' aliens, Chamberlain wonders -- at a time when millions of illegal aliens are living, working, studying, voting and lobbying for their 'rights' -- how anybody ever gets deported anymore. Chamberlain is furious and decided to go public with the

NewsMax.com: New York Times Hides Berger's Shame: "The scandal-plagued paper has buried the day's big news, about Sandy 'Light Fingers' Berger, at the bottom of Page A16 in a seven-paragraph wire story. This unpleasant reality isn't even mentioned on the front page."

Walter E. Williams: Free health care: "The Fraser Institute, a Vancouver, B.C.-based think tank, has done yeoman's work keeping track of Canada's socialized health-care system. It has just come out with its 13th annual waiting-list survey. It shows that the average time a patient waited between referral from a general practitioner to treatment rose from 16.5 weeks in 2001-02 to 17.7 weeks in

boortz.com: LOONY LEFT TAKES OVER NAALCP : "Yesterday, NAACP Chairman Julian Bond delivered a speech bashing the Republican party, accusing them of 'playing the race card in election after election.' This is interesting, because it is Democrats that play the race card in every election, not Republicans. It is Democrats that insultingly pander to the black community, begging for votes in

Jonah Goldberg: Malign Condescension - or Benign Neglect?: "Leftists, both white and black, have always warned that poor blacks would starve if government stopped 'helping' them - or they'd turn to crime, riot, spontaneously combust, whatever. Personally, I've always found the notion condescending and racist that blacks would turn animal without the domesticating influence of government

boortz.com: FAHRENHYPE 911 FADING INTO OBSCURITY : "After barely opening at #1 (slightly edging 'White Chicks',) Fahrenheit 911 was blown away by Spider-Man 2, when it opened the following Wednesday. Now that Spidey has been in theaters for over a week, where is Michael Moore? Well, his movie has slipped to third, behind 'King Arthur,' which hauled in nearly twice as much on Wednesday. So

boortz.com: FLORIDA VOTING GAMES: "The Florida Division of Elections has decided to allow 2,500 convicted felons back onto the voter rolls under the guise of not disenfranchising voters. By the way, that's also a pant load, because no one was disenfranchised in 2000. Every vote was counted, recounted and counted again. George W. Bush won the State of Florida fair and square (I know that makes

Nets Treat Liberal Label for Edwards as Unsupportable Accusation -- Media Research Center: "FNC's Carl Cameron, on Special Report with Brit Hume, uniquely stated as a fact that Edwards is a liberal: 'Kerry, who had the most liberal voting record in the Senate last year, has now picked a multi-millionaire former trial lawyer with the fourth most liberal voting record.'"

Brokaw Corrects Allawi When He Claims Saddam-al-Qaeda Link --6/30/2004-- Media Research Center: "That ended the interview, but I noticed that in Allawi's last answer NBC cut from what aired a sentence which appeared in the posted transcript on MSNBC.com: www.msnbc.msn.com In the that version, Allawi's last answer began, with what NBC cut in ALL CAPS: 'No. I believe very strongly that

Generating more heat than light: "These are the intentional misstatements of fact that elevate Moore to the apex of American political bigotry. He may be fond of deflecting criticism with the 'It's just my opinion' defense, but that won't wash. Do we excuse the racial or religious bigot just because it is someone's 'opinion' that blacks are inferior or Jews are the devil's spawn?"

boortz.com: HILDABEAST SHOWS HER TRUE COLORS: "And now we have Hillary proudly and arrogantly announcing that the government is going to seize property from individuals for 'the common good.' Don't ignore the message here. You are not a free individual. You exist to serve the state. Hillary is here to show you the way."