36 Years Of Data Prove ‘Drill Baby Drill’ Won’t Work

Via Associated Press- A statistical analysis of 36 years of monthly, inflation-adjusted gasoline prices and U.S. domestic oil production by The Associated Press shows no statistical correlation between how much oil comes out of U.S. wells and the price at the pump. If more domestic oil drilling worked as politicians say, you’d now be paying about $2 a gallon for gasoline. Instead, you’re paying the...

Tea Party Folds – Will Not Not Endorse Romney

I wondered how this would turn out.  A few months ago, I stated that Mitt Romney would be the GOP nominee.  Although there’s still a 10%-15% chance of that not happening, the fact that both Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are still in the primary race splitting the ultraconservative religious vote is allowing Romney to squeeze out victories in big states like Illinois. I then wondered what the ultra-right...

Rick Santorum Has A Pastor Problem

When you’re the candidate of religious extremists, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise  when one of them opens their mouth and says something incredibly boneheaded. At a Baton Rouge revival yesterday, the Republican presidential candidate was introduced and blessed by the fire-breathing pastor Dennis Terry. To a cheering crowd, Terry shouted that ours is a “Christian nation,” that “we...

Iran’s Supreme Leader | Nuclear Weapons Are A Sin

If you listen to all the politicians and pundits, you’d think that Iran is bent on destroying the world once they have a nuclear weapon in their possession.  Aside from the ridiculousness of this suggestion, that a nation would guarantee its own destruction in a fit of sociopathic madness, it would do everyone well to revisit what Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei has been saying for the last seven...

The @TeaPartyNation Supports $7 A Gallon Gasoline

There’s a catch, though. In a recent blog on TeaPartyNation, noted Islamophobe, Homophobe, and, well, let’s be honest, White Supremacist Rich Swier wrote these words: I for one am willing to pay $7 or more per gallon for gasoline so long as the regime in Iran is toppled. Yup.  He, and the numerous commenters on that page, will support high gas prices as long as the US goes to war, on the behalf of...