Big Oil And Big Buns

Shocking news, with global oil price at all time highs, Big Oil produced a big profit, John Porretto, AP Business Writer 

Reuters – A view of the Exxon Mobil refinery in Baytown, Texas September 15, 2008. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters) HOUSTON –

Word from the Boston Pheonix, this morning:

This morning, Massachusetts State Senator Dianne Wilkerson was arrested on charges of attempted extortion and wire fraud after an 18-month investigation by the FBI. The FBI alleges that Wilkerson took bribes from

This has to be one of the dumber moves by the USSC I’ve ever seen… and trust me they’ve screwed up enough in my lifetime to make that count for something…

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed with Democratic Ohio Secretary

The Washington Times is now reporting:

Democratic vice-presidential candidate Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. has paid more than $2 million in campaign cash to his family members, their businesses and employers over the years, a practice that watchdogs criticize as

Interesting news from The Darke Blog:

A 3-judge panel of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals recently vacated a temporary restraining order which would effectively make Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner follow the law – and do her job

This is getting interesting:

Rep. Tim Mahoney paid $121,000 to a former mistress who worked on his staff and sued him after he threatened her job when she tried to end the relationship, former and current staff aides told ABC

Bill Shannon at Fox writes this morning:

WASHINGTON — Unqualified home buyers were not the only ones who benefitted from Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank’s efforts to deregulate Fannie Mae throughout the 1990s.

So did Frank’s partner, a Fannie Mae executive

CNN investigative reporter: “But the relationship between Obama and Ayers went much deeper, ran much longer, and was much more political than Obama said.”

OK. I’ve now seen it all. CNN exposes the lies of a Democrat. They even interviewed

Bruce McQuain does an admirable job of explaining my estimation on the sub-prime meltdown quoting a 1999 article in the New Work Times:

The lede:

In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income

The AP unwittingly has stumbled over one of the ways the Demoats are using to gain power in November: Fostering the Felon vote.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Undaunted by the heat, James Bailey spent his late-summer afternoons walking Virginia’s bleakest

But it’s not like the GOP, John McCain, in particular, wasn’t trying to do the people’s business. They were stonewalled by Democrats.

Again….

Hume:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has paid nearly $100,000 from her Political Action Committee to her husband’s real estate and investment firm over the past decade — a practice that she wanted to ban as recently last year. The

The WSJ, this morning:

Top U.S. policy makers emerged from hours of tense negotiations with a clear message just after midnight Sunday morning: A deal to bailout U.S. financial markets has been agreed on and all that remains to be

This one, courtesy of McGehee.

I say again, why on earth is anyone… anyone… voting Democrat?