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What if "fossil fuels" weren't made of fossils at all? What if the earth naturally made petroleum? What if gasoline was a renewable resource? Imagine the howls from the environmentalist left if there was no such thing as "peak oil." It may be true. Just what the latest Brazil find (dubbed "Sugarloaf Mountain") could mean […]

My PVR recorded last night's Democrat debate, but I won't have time to watch the whole thing until Thursday night at the earliest. It's been much easier, however, to get the highlights from the various blogs. From some of the liveblogging I've managed to read, it seems to have shocked lots of people on the […]

This story is well worth your time. Don't start reading unless you have tissues handy.

First off, for those who didn't know: It doesn't matter what kind of speaker cables, HDMI cables, composite cables or any other audio/visual cables you use -- they're all basically the same. Don't buy into the hype -- for 99 percent of uses you won't be able to tell the $100 cables from the $10 […]

Color me confused. For the second time this presidential primary season, Democrats gathered Sunday night at a forum where they each spent better than 30 minutes talking about their faith. John McCain was invited to take part, but declined. The so-called "Compassion Forum" had both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama giving their testimonies and calling […]

It should come as no surprise that if government perverts the market in such a way as to artificially inflate the cost of food when used as fuel, that less food would actually be used as food. Well, it's come as a surprise to some. Many specialists in food policy consider government mandates for biofuels […]

Kentucky Republican Rep. Geoff Davis needs to think twice about the words he uses. U.S. Rep. Geoff Davis, a Hebron Republican, compared Obama and his message for change similar to a "snake oil salesman" [at a Northern Kentucky Lincoln Day dinner]. He said in his remarks at the GOP dinner that he also recently participated […]

Just got done watching Democrat Rep. James Clyburn, the House majority whip, on CNN's "Situation Room." Host Wolf Blitzer asked Clyburn about move by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to change the rules to effectively table the Colombian free trade agreement. Clyburn said he approved of the move and that the President was wrong to send […]

Boston-area cable TV channel CN8 has an anchor named Barry Nolan. Nolan doesn't much like Fox News talker Bill O'Reilly. CN8’s Barry Nolan says Fox News bigfoot Bill O’Reilly is “a mental case,” and Nolan’s crazy mad that the local Emmy Awards will honor Mr. No Spin Zone at their 31st annual back-slapfest next month. […]

Do politicians -- even ex-politicians -- every really listen or understand the words that are coming out of their mouths. Yesterday on "Fox News Sunday," former Sen. Tom Daschle, the national co-chair of the Barack Obama campaign, had the following to say. This is a man who understands when you go to an emergency room […]