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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Pop Quiz

29-Jul-08

Quick: What country is the chief supplier of foreign oil to the United States? Hint: the answer is not Mexico.

Early this month, Valero Energy in Texas got the unwelcome news that Mexico would be cutting supplies to one of the company’s Gulf Coast refineries by up to 15 percent. Mexico’s state-owned oil enterprise is one [...]

Ninety-Nine Days

28-Jul-08

There are ninety-nine days until Election Day. The never-ending campaign will soon be over.
Over these next ninety-nine days this country will be faced with a difficult choice. It’s important to remember that we need to be united at the end of this process.
Here’s a speech that no politician will ever make, yet it is perfectly [...]

A new religion?

27-Jul-08

Watching the Reagan clip at the Berlin Wall reminded me how Democrats said he had really lost it — that he was being idealistic and romantic, and there was no chance in hell of that wall coming down. It was just words, and that’s all Reagan was: a clever act. It also reminded me how [...]

This is the moment

24-Jul-08

There is a very clear choice before us.

The World is Getting Bigger Again

19-Jul-08

The Republic of the Marshall Islands became an independent nation in 1986. Located roughly halfway between Hawaii and Australia, these 29 atolls and five single islands total about 181 square kilometers of land area and have a population of 63,174.
The government has declared a state of economic emergency. President Litokwa Tomeing said that the country [...]