We are dismayed that the president would deny the Iraqi people and its government the basic sovereign right to control their own natural resources. President Bush apparently believes that as commander in chief he is entitled to seize Iraq’s oil fields and control Iraqi oil if he should deem it necessary to protect U.S. national security,” said Jim Fine.

Outrage fatigue? Get over it Are you sick of being sick? Suffering way too much Bush-induced nausea? Well, tough: I know how it is. You’ve had it up to here. There are only so many stories about blood and death and pain you can take, only so many times you can hear about random shootings  Read more »

Control Room – Iraq’s new crisis: Moms, dads abandoning kids – CNN.com: BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — The head of Iraq’s main humanitarian group said an 18-year-old approached him with a baby suffering from leukemia. The desperate mother said she’d do "anything" for treatment for her child — and then offered herself up for sex. Said  Read more »

Ten days ago, a blogger who goes by the BlogCatalog.com member name of ConservativePost began a discussion thread titled Can Voting For Liberals Get You Killed?   Early in the thread, I participated in the discussion and now I wish I had not.  We all end up in debates or arguments where we walk away and  Read more »

Tonight, October 4th, 2007 the first episode of Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader aired with the new class.  The first contestant of the new series was an eighteen year old high school valedictorian named Katie Barossa (sp).  She was noted to be the youngest contestant to ever appear on the show on which  Read more »