The Trade Deficit Issue: Oil

John Engler in today’s WSJ:

It is amazing how some presidential candidates are blaming the North American Free Trade Agreement for U.S. job losses. They seem to believe that a substantial part of the three million manufacturing jobs lost since

Uh-oh. CNN has a small problem, this morning. The NZ Herald… not CNN, of course… is reporting:

One of CNN’s star journalists is allegedly embroiled in a bizarre tale of ‘drugs ‘n’ debauchery’.

Richard Quest, a CNN anchor and

BAGHDAD —FOX- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on Sunday, hours after the radical leader threatened to declare war unless U.S. and Iraqi forces end a military crackdown on his followers.

Rice, in

The democrat race boils down to the this.  Mrs Clinton is a habitual liar, and Barack Obama(BO) is a lie.  You have to wonder what some of the voters are smoking in Pennsylvania, David Lightman, McClatchy Newspapers:

NANTICOKE, Pa.

[Mrs. Clinton] has always been a policy wonk, a functionary attuned to bureaucratic process, but she has never shown executive ability, which makes her quest for the presidency problematic. Hillary’s disastrous botching of national healthcare reform in 1993 (a project

Karl at Protein Wisdom:

With the Iraqi Army defeating Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army in Basra, the L.A. Times has moved on to tell its readers how terrible things might get in Najaf.  Buried in the middle of the piece,

Over at OTB, James has noted that TV watching just isn’t the same. He notes an AdAge article:

Just because your favorite dramas and comedies are back on the air after the writers strike doesn’t mean you’re necessarily watching them.

The Democratic candidates – Obama has the edge, he’s a rock star. He’s galvanized the youth vote of this country, but I have yet to see what he has done to take the highest office in the land. He is

Decided today to try to start making some changes to the colors… not so much re-arranging the room as painting it, just to freshen things up a bit. I was going for a brighter, sunnier feel. Maybe it’s springtime seeping

Limbaugh likes to say on his radio program, that he IS balance for the liberal press. And in many ways, he’s quite right. So an interesting angle on this shows up today in an article by John Harris and Jim

As Dan Rather might say: when your donkey breaks wind, you can’t stick the wind back in the ass.    It sure appears that the phone call which prompted the Texas Departmnet of Public safety raid on as the FLDS compound

John Hawkins over at Right Wing News has an interesting interview up with Will Breazeale, who is an Iraqi vet running for Congress.  In the interview, Breazeale tells an interesting story regarding Harry Reid and Barbara Boxer;

“I was a

Is Barack Obama giving a stump speech, or just engaging in self-parody?  Watch the video, and you decide:

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BO’s promise of “real” economic progress is an empty one. Obama simply does not understand economics. Barack Obama is economically ignorant, 

I am not a lawyer, and I do not play one on television, but it seems like to me that a statement like this could be a cause for action, Ezra Levant:

Don’t eat at McDonald’s on South West

Lucianne Goldberg once wrote to the effect that Maureen Dowd has really good about writing about the chick stuff.   To expand, MoDo can write.   Her problem is that she all too often writes about what she does not understand.    When