Op-Ed

Today we were joined by The Heritage Foundation's David Kreutzer who recently joined William W. Beach and Ben Lieberman in putting together a very detailed analysis the Lieberman-Warner global warming bill and the economic impact it would have on America entitled The Economic Costs of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Change Legislation Here's an overview -- be sure to see the original for excellent charts and graphs.

Cross-Posted in REDSTATE

I received an e-mail from Tommy F.'s parents last night. He and two fellow naval personnel were traveling in China on R&R west of Beijing and he has gone off the radar. Yesterday afternoon, the US Navy contacted his parents who live here in S. Florida & asked if he had contacted them. Up to now, he is still missing and unaccounted for, along with his buddies.

Sorry I've been away for that past couple of days... I wanted to welcome BlackRepub and others that have set up shop here in our little corner of the playground....you're all welcome here! :0)

There are a couple of links I wanted to bring to everyones attention this morning.

First Cal Thomas has a great column this morning called In Defense of "Big Oil" with helpful facts relevant to gas prices, oil profits, and Bush's trip to Saudi Arabia to talk with OPEC.

Hello friends!

For your Tuesday Marxist specials, we have the following-

First off, let's just make sure we all understand the rules of engagement with Obama, m'kay?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/05/the_obama_rules.html

The basic ones are right here. Ignore them at your own peril.

So today, we learned that John McCain does not intend to pander to full blooded conservatives; rather he intends to continue to harness his Maverick, BiPartisan, NewTone image to convince his friends in the media that he's really not one of "those" Republicans. The effect of this of course may be that he does indeed get elected to the White House, but by distancing himself from mainstream Republicans as he intends to do, he is going to kill the GOP's prospects downticket. Where has he strayed off of the reservation this time, you ask? What has he done to warrant an entire blog?

Someone posed the question on RedState today, and I wanted to toss it out for you good folks over here at TMR, what is it that we want from the Republican Party?

At least, that's certainly what it looks like congressional Democrats think of them...

Ah yes, the sweet sounds of an election year. Ain't it all just grand?

Irrelevant Feud or Determinative Uncivil War?

[Originally posted at The HinzSight Report]

The battle between The Clintons and The Obamas for the Democratic Party presidential nomination rages this week on the battlegrounds of the famous feud between The Hatfields (mostly of West Virginia) and McCoys (mostly of Kentucky).

The latter raged for 13 years from 1878-1891 and affected the course of American history not a whit. No one remembers who won it.

Because he spent more than five years in a North Vietnamese Prison, tortured on an almost daily basis, John McCain deserves to be honored by the people of a grateful nation.