Nightly Ramble:Oil Prices And Taxes,Blog Outage Planned, More

• McQ has an examination of the money situation and Big Oil. Nice…. and worthy, but it doesn’t tell the rest of the taxation story. Note the comments. Sounds like I should be tapping that source from API that wrote me

The Ass of the Day is John Dingell, Fox News:

A Michigan congressman wants to put a 50-cent tax on every gallon of gasoline to try to cut back on Americans’ consumption.

Polls show that a majority of Americans support

WASHINGTON – FOX- The Senate rejected calls from both parties’ presidential candidates to take an election-year break from pork-barrel spending as a Democratic-run Congress passed budget plans that would torpedo hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts won by

Passed along by a reader. I’m sure this one’s been making the rounds. I’m equally sure the leftsts will claim it’s been ‘debunked’, but it hasn’t. This stuff is going to come up, no matter who the Democrats nominate. Forewarned

• Rumor control: McCain doesn’t have cancer. The Times, of course is making lots of noise about not being given McCain’s medical records, yet. The funny part of the story is, they’re still waiting for the health records of Bill Clinton,

• Well, over the weekend we got up to two feet of snow in places, mostly west of here. There’s a foot and a half in my front yard, and in my driveway.  We shovel it out, but since the yard

You will doubtless recall Hillary’s “Daisy” ad, where she raises the question about who is going to answer that 3am phone call.  Obama released a response ad last week, too.

But in a rare bit of honesty, the New

Let’s take a moment to look at the Democrat response to the President’s weekly radio address… where Energy is the issue.

Good morning. This is Congressman Joe Donnelly of Indiana’s Second Congressional District. Today it is my pleasure to talk

• Honorable Mention in the OTB Caption Contest.
• No, folks… Now is not the time for The Cuban embargo to be removed. Not until Fidel Casto‘s POLICIES are. This is not about one man, however infamous. This is about the

James Joyner:

Between RealClearPolitics and Memeorandum, there must be a dozen articles this morning wondering if Barack Obama’s nomination is now a foregone conclusion, how Hillary Clinton managed to blow what seemed a sure thing, and how long Obama

Someone at Fox posted these yesterday, so I’ll pass them along.

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First off, even absent any other source material, it sounds to me like the place is packed with McCain supporters. But add

• Tax the rich? Tax fairness? Yeah, right.
  

  just one corporation (Exxon Mobil) pays as much in taxes ($27 billion) annually as the entire bottom 50% of individual taxpayers, which is 65,000,000 people!

  Now, next time you wonder why gas at

The media paints the myth of some sort of glorious political Camelot otherwise called the Kennedy Administration.   Those old enough to have survived it, or willing to read some history are more apt to associate Kennedy with the Bay of

The McCain animus apparently transcends ideology. He has admitted his mistakes on immigration, and would not raise taxes, while his ACU ratings are good, and his ADA/ACLU scores are lousy – nearly the exact opposite of those of Obama and

• Yes,I know, I didn’t comment last night as regards the Superbowl. I’m just as glad New York won. Not that I’ve ever been a Giants fan, but the last few seasons I’ve been less of a Pats fan, particularly since