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The Bakken Play in the Williston Basin in the Dakotas and Eastern Montana has just been assessed at 4.3 billion bbls. of proven recoverable reserves, the largest recent crude oil play in the continental USA.

This new find & assessment will once again highlight the fact that American political efforts to restrict development of fields offshore & in ANWR is frankly frivolous & stupid. There is a Luddite agenda out there among the ultra-left Democrats & their anti-industrial & anti-internal combustion engine tree huggers.

Travis Childers Claims He's No Magician

Three reasons the Colombia Free Trade Agreement will benefit America:

1) Grow the U.S. economy by opening up a market of 40 million people in Colombia to buy U.S. goods and services.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, spoke at The Heritage Foundation on April 15, 2008, about the state of the U.S. military and its role in the world.

H/T Club for Growth

An eight-year-old Yemeni girl had the following to say after her big day in court.

"I am happy that I am divorced now. I will be able to go back to school," Nojud Mohammed Ali said… - AFP(15 April 2008)

The divorced husband, 28-year-old Faez Ali Thameur, withstood it all like true champion of a man.

…said he married the child "with her consent and that of her parents" but that he did not object to her divorce petition.

"Don't Tell Me Words Don't Matter!"

Will the following Superdelegates still vote for Obama after his "Bitter" remarks about small town USA?

What say you...Tom Udall?
What say you...Mary Landrieu?
What say you...Al Franken?
What say you...Mark Udall?
What say you...Mark Warner?
And
What say you...John Kerry?

From the NYT

SPEAKER PELOSI PUTS AMERICAN JOBS AT RISK BY BLOCKING COLOMBIA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT

WASHINGTON POST: HOUSE DEMOCRATS’ BLOCKING COLOMBIA BILL “PERVERSE”

April 16, 2008 I Permalink

House Democrats are still refusing to vote on the Colombia Free Trade Agreement despite the fact that it would level the playing field for American workers and create jobs in the U.S. In an effort to move this critical agreement that could aid our nation’s sluggish economy, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) wrote a letter (pdf)to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) asking her what it will take to bring the Colombia Free Trade Agreement up for a vote in the House. Reuters reported the story:

In this clip Newt talks about how the legacies of slavery and segregation don't fully explain why things have gone wrong. It is bad government and bad culture, both born in the in the 1960's.