Huffington: McCain’s public financing flip-flop

Not only has John McCain flip-flopped on important policy issues, he’s flip-flopped on the one issue that he’s called out Barack Obama on: public financing.
In today’s Huffington Post column, Arianna Huffington looks at McCain’s abandonment of the public financing during the end of the Republican Primary in order to use his $56 million war chest [...]

CNN: Oil companies not drilling in already leased offshore fields

While the debate about whether ending the federal ban on offshore oil drilling rages on, CNNMoney did this nice little bit of reporting:
Of the 90 million offshore acres the industry has leases to, mostly in the Gulf of Mexico, it is estimated that upwards of 70 million are not producing oil, according to both Democrats [...]

Go Obama: The DREAM Act and McCain’s Biggest Flip-Flop

Arthur Mkoyan, a 17-year-old Fresno teen, came to the United States with his parents when they fled the Soviet Union 15 years ago. They sought asylum in the United States. It was never granted an. Two weeks ago, Mkyoan, a 4.0 Fresno high school valedictiorian was scheduled to be deported. He was an illegal immigrant [...]

Friedman: W is “Addict-in-Chief”

The brilliant Thomas Friedman wrote this today in The New York Times:
Actually, it’s more sophisticated than that: Get Saudi Arabia, our chief oil pusher, to up our dosage for a little while and bring down the oil price just enough so the renewable energy alternatives can’t totally take off. Then try to strong arm Congress [...]

RepublicLies: “Drilling will lower gas prices”

Earlier this week John McCain made a speech in which he called for ending the 27-year-old federal ban on offshore oil drilling. McCain said lifting the ban would allow for the production for more oil and would thus reduce gas prices.
Before looking at what McCain said, let it be known that the Republican candidate had, [...]

Political Realities: “Soft on terrorism”

Yesterday, Barack Obama said he would support Bush’s spying bill, which, as he knew it would, angered Democrats on the left and will lead to the McCain campaign and the Republicans and other Obama critics to accuse him of “doing and saying anything to become president.”
I’ve been watching politics long enough, and have seen enough [...]

Interesting Idea: Convert the entire US car fleet to electric

Found this post while surfing Current.com:
Instead of sending $400 billion each year to countries such as Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, we could spend it on electric car production in the U.S., Mexico, and China. At current oil prices, it wouldn’t cost us a dime extra to stop importing and burning oil for passenger cars.
The numbers [...]

Lie: Obama the Hypocrite

Yesterday, Barack Obama became the first general election presidential candidate to opt out of the public financing system. In doing so, he walked away from $84 million of public money. However, by raising his own money he’ll have much more freedom to place ads in nearly every state, not just those that are highly competitive.
But [...]

This blog’s purpose

In the upcoming months, there will be tons of bullshit coming out of John McCain’s campaign, out of The White House, and out of the 527 groups and the Republican National Committee. The goals of these groups won’t be to inform the electorate what John McCain will do in office. These groups will aim to [...]