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Call me Bush Moby Dick is an eerily prophetic allegory of 21st-century America. It should be named as the nation's epic novel
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Congress should follow. No book more deeply and revealingly explains the spasm of madness through which the United States has passed in recent years than Moby Dick.

It's not about parties - it's about policies.

Every one seems to be up in arms over Palin's speech and how it was so "insulting" - to use their term. I agree she got some digs in on Obama - but none that I felt were not provoked.

GAO: Where is Iraq's Oil Money?
Source: washingtonindependent.com

With Iraq's infrastructure in shambles after five years of war, you'd think its oil-revenues would be spent on building roads and bridges or developing clean drinking water systems. Unfortunately, according to a scathing new U.S.

Fury as oil giants rake in £3.3($6.5) million an hour
Source: Scotsman.com News

OIL giants BP and Shell yesterday revealed they had made more than £7 billion in three months – to the fury of motorists facing inflated prices at the pumps.The record profits come as oil prices are at an unprecedented high and the country is struggling with a fuel shortage pr …

Pump prices lift Shell and BP to record £7.2bn
Source: The Times

BP and Royal Dutch Shell have reported massive increases in profits for the first three months of this year on the back of rocketing petrol prices, which are expected to hit £5 a gallon today.

Big Bad Oil

Gas is now well over $3 a gallon and over $100 a barrel and neither show signs of going back below those marks anytime soon. The high price of oil seems to be affecting everything these days from food to politics and everything in between.

More Than A "Black Voting Block" Issue -- What's Really Happening In Darfur
Source: awesome.goodmagazine.com

If you don't have the patience to read about it at length this is the page for you. Darfur's genocide explained in 9 comic panels. Take a few minutes to brush up on the worst on-going genocide in the world today.

What do Oil Companies Make on a gallon of Gas?
Source: conocophillips.com

A multitude of factors can affect an individual oil company's profit on gasoline sales. However, data from the U.S.

At OpEdNews: A Bush World War Looming
Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive

A Bu@!$%#e World War Looming! Politics – THE BU@!$%#ES ARE SECRETLY PLANNING WWIII AND DESPITE THEIR USUAL AND MUCH CHANGING EXCUSES, THIS IS OVER OIL, MIDDLE-EAST CONTROL, AND DIRECTED BY TREASONOUS OUTSOURCING CORPORATIONS.

Bolivar falls as Chavez boosts spending
Source: The Globe and Mail

Hugo Chavez's spending spree has turned the Venezuelan bolivar into the world's worst-performing currency.

Hillary Clinton Proposes to Nationalize Exxon's Profits
Source: Total Drivel

This is why you can't trust Democrats in Congress. They are socialists at heart and want to seize private profits. Her line on seizing a company's profits received applause at the Democratic National Committee Winter Convention. This is almost Hugo Chavez like in its intention.

Family clues to Iraq's missing oil billions
Source: Guardian Unlimited

American and Iraqi government investigators tracing hundreds of millions of pounds missing from Saddam Hussein's illicit fortune are hoping to question members of the former dictator's close family.

Oil firms may avoid $7 billion in public royalties
Source: Inside Bay Area Most Viewed

"It's one of the greatest train robberies in the history of the world," said Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., who has fought royalty concessions on oil and gas for more than a decade.

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