A Real ‘gas Tax Holiday’… Does Anyone Really have the Guts for It?

A while ago, and once again, earlier today, I pointed out a salient fact that nobody seems to notice:

According to CNN Money, Exxon total “profits” if you don’t count exploration costs, were $40BUSD, in 2007. Their taxes, however,

Some of you may have noted elements of the blog that were missing around 7pm to 730pm eastern tonight.

I had a software update blow up on me, and I had to revert to tape. We never went down outright,

• Oh, sure, Billy, I’ve gone out and given more than I thought I had, while doing a show. Even occasionally, a radio show. And you know, it’s not a physical thing, as much as it is a tension and mental

Look out for the idiot behind me

From the UK Express:

CHUNKS of flesh from a murder victim were found simmering in a stewing pot at the home of the first Mr Gay UK, Anthony Morley, it emerged yesterday.

Chef Morley, 35, has been charged with murdering

Noted a resturant review over the weekend in the New York Times… and wouldn’t have said much at all, except that it got so bad with it’s left-leaning, that even left leaner, Ezra Klein can’t stand it anymore.  Yes,

Listen as BO states that when a person loses his job, ho loses hiis sense of dignity, video:

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BO professes to be a Christian.  Yet no Christian would believe that his dignity somehow depended on his job.  However Karl

Bluto, last night:

Newsweek, via anonymous sources, explains why Oprah left Obama’s church in this article, Something Wasn’t Wright:

According to two sources, Winfrey was never comfortable with the tone of Wright’s more incendiary sermons, which she knew

One of the things I’ve always liked about WordPress is the ability to post-date posts. In other words, I can post stuff and tell the system not to release the post until later… even days later. Obviously, this can solve

This week, McQ passes along the amazing story of MSG Brendan O’Connor, putting together bits of the story from several sources. As always, worth a read.

Project Hero, is a worthy attempt on McQ’s part to remind us

I debated saying anything about this when I heard. Joyner, apparently, got to it first:

Sad and surreal: Earlier this week, Hillary Clinton told an Indiana crowd, “I hope that everybody will go to the [Kentucky] derby on Saturday and

If Obama is as his wife says he is — impatient and angry — then he is far younger than his 46 years would indicate. And that presents a problem for the nation. Youth has many things to offer. Sound

The Telegraph:

Michelle Obama lifted the lid on the irritation felt by the leading Democrat candidate for the White House at the way anti-American outbursts by his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, have dogged his campaign.

He is said to be itching

At a family birthday party yesterday, I made a tongue in cheek reference to Mrs. Clinton as “The Smartest Woman in the World.”  My quip earned a disapproving glare from the honoree.

Sheer stupity is not the only explanation for

McQ:

Many are taking the following quote of John McCain as an indication that one of the primary motivations for Iraq was oil.

MMmmpppffh.

If oil was the reason we went to war, then we might consider the Iraq war