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“The current Democratic mantra on energy is: ‘We can’t drill our way out of this problem.’ Apparently their plan is to talk our way out of this problem. Democrats are also alleging that the oil companies are sitting on millions of acres of oil but are refusing to drill—presumably because oil company executives hate the American people and perversely don’t want to make money. Manifestly, those acres are being explored for oil or have already come up dry. If the Democrats really wanted oil companies to find more oil, they’d allow oil companies to drill offshore and to drill in ANWR, which we happen to know is bursting with oil. But they don’t. They don’t want drilling. They don’t want more oil. They want humans to ride bicycles and then to die. We deserve it: We were mean to the polar bears. It’s good to know that in the middle of a crisis, the Democrats are still liars. As long as we’re fantasizing about ‘alternative’ energy sources, what we really need is a car that runs on Democrats’ lies.”

—Ann Coulter

A single-digit month.

Looking at the coalition fatalities for the first half of July, 2008 shows something remarkable…something not yet noted by any mainstream news agencies or blogs.

At first glance, the stats show that 6 good Americans gave their lives for our country so far this month in Iraq.

But that number of 6 doesn’t tell the tale.

Looking more closely at the numbers, two of our lost soldiers were due to non-hostile work accidents (e.g. one was electrocuted).

But that doesn’t mean that we’ve lost 4 good men to combat this month…you see…two of those lost to combat were killed at the height of the Surge, way back in May of 2007. They are shown in stats for this month because that’s when their bodies were recovered.

This means that two of our grave losses were from last year, not this month’s combat…and two other losses were due to non-hostile causes.

In other words, for the first half of July, 2008, the U.S. has lost two good men to combat in Iraq.

This is not D-Day 1944. Thousands haven’t been lost on a single Normandy beach in minutes.

We’ve lost two in two weeks to enemy combat.

If the second half of July mimmicks the first, we’ll have a single-digit of combat losses in Iraq this month. - Southack from FreeRepublic.com

ICasualties.com has some good charts and figures when it comes to the Iraq War. If this trend continues I eagerly await the Left (and Andre in particular) trotting out their own “mission accomplished” banner as even they are probably bright enough to see that the insurgency is collapsing in Iraq, the Sunni’s have decided they want to have a say and stake in the coming Iraq, and Al-Qaeda has been both rejected by the population and devastated on the battlefield. The Jihadists unexpectedly decided to make their stand in Iraq (with the compliance and cooperation of the threatened Hussein government) and thousands of fleeing Afghani based Al-Qaeda types as well as like minded others from throughout the Islamic world prepared to carry out a guerrilla war on the soon to invading American forces. Since then they have waged a surprisingly bloody, bushwacking type of war but now there is only one combatant left standing in the desert, and his name is Uncle Sam. This war is winding down, and forestalling any panicky and ill timed mass pullout by a naive Obama White House, the true work of creating a new, stable post-war ally will begin in the Middle East.

We hope to have a friendly nation in which to keep an eye on Iran and Syria, protect the areas petroleum fields, provide stability in the region, protect Israel and make the areas despots a wee bit nervous. If the United States wishes to remain a superpower it needs to be willing to make the hard choices at this time to protect it’s interests in the region. The only other option is to throw our hands up and withdraw behind our ocean barriers and bury our head in the sand as a resurgent Russia and empowered China make a play for world influence, control and strategic advantage.

Democrats have worked hard to ensure that Americans pay as much for gas as Europeans do. After a quarter-century of gas tax hikes, a ban on drilling for oil and a complete destruction of the nuclear power industry in America, I guess liberals can declare: Mission accomplished!

In response to skyrocketing gas prices, liberals say, practically in unison, “We can’t drill our way out of this crisis.”

What does that mean? This is like telling a starving man, “You can’t eat your way out of being hungry!” “You can’t water your way out of drought!” “You can’t sleep your way out of tiredness!” “You can’t drink yourself out of dehydration!”

Seriously, what does it mean? Finding more oil isn’t going to increase the supply of oil?

It is the typical Democratic strategy to babble meaningless slogans, as if they have a plan. Their plan is: the permanent twilight of the human race.

-Ann Coulter

The literal hysteria when it comes to global warming is bringing the nuts out of the woodwork. It’s just amazing to watch, and would be humorous if these people didn’t wield power and prestige. This clown draws a government paycheck. And I’ve been attacked for comparing such tactics to fascism. I should demand yet another apology from my critics.

Put Global Warming Skeptics on Trial

It was reported in the London Guardian that NASA Scientist James Hansen (pictured), in prepared remarks to a House committee, “will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.”

I have a different vision of the future, one in which government bureaucrats like Hansen and radical environmentalists are held accountable for creating a multi-trillion dollar climate crisis in order to get more government funding and grow their own political and cultural influence.

“There is only one way to drive down the rising cost of gasoline for the long term: significantly increase the domestic supply of oil. We are the only nation in the world with access to known oil deposits on our own land or off our shores that essentially refuses to tap those resources. The main stumbling block is a lack of political consensus, which is in especially short supply in an election year. Instead of coming up with real solutions to our growing energy crisis, the Democrats in Congress would rather rail against the oil companies. But oil company executives don’t set the price of oil—and taxing their companies more won’t do anything to lower the cost of gasoline at the pump… It’s time Congress put election-year politics aside and get serious about allowing domestic oil production to solve this crisis.”

 —Linda Chavez

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.” —-C.S. Lewis

If the government gets into the business of regulating and controlling carbon emissions it will be an unparalleled concentration of power far exceeding the New Deal under Roosevelt. The government will be in complete control over what businesses and average citizens consume and produce. It is the gateway excuse to rule, regulate and control your daily life in a fashion that we have never tolerated before but are now expected to meekly accept as we attempt to bailout the bathtub with a teaspoon. Never have Americans been so willing to hand over the most fundamental financial, transportation and quality of life decisions to a central authority on such questionable grounds.

We have been brainwashed that climate change is mainly caused by human activity and that somehow carbon taxes, economic socialism, monitoring lawn mower emissions, criticizing cow flatulence and flailing away at the faceless evil that is “oil” will somehow make a difference on climate changes we are only barely beginning to understand, let alone significantly influence one way or another.

Rather disturbingly, presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama made the following statement while campaigning in Oregon.

“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.” “That’s not leadership,” Obama declared. “That’s not going to happen.”

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