| Jamie Dupree |
Happy Birthday to the United States of America. Hopefully you can have a good time without having politics intrude upon your July Fourth celebration.
It has been a week now since the US Supreme Court made its landmark ruling on the Second Amendment, deciding by a 5-4 majority that a handgun ban in Washington, D.C. was unconstitutional. Since then, the Political Ship of State hasn't changed course, much if at all.
... continue reading Guns and Politics. One of the items that has come up in the debate over energy policy in the Congress is the idea of getting fuel out of rocks in the west of the United States.
... continue reading Is Oil Shale an Energy Answer?. If there were about a thousand people in special colored coats who could be rounded up from trading floors around the world and run out of town on a rail, it would be oil futures market "speculators" who are being blamed for running up the price of oil.
... continue reading Energy Speculators In the Bullseye. For the second time in the last two weeks, John McCain is going out of the country, as he heads today to Colombia and then goes to Mexico on Wednesday to meet with world leaders.
The legal maneuvers over the rights of war on terrorism detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base continue today, as federal circuit court judges in Washington, D.C., grapple with the real-life effects of last month's Supreme Court ruling on the matter.
... continue reading More Maneuvers on Guantanamo Bay. While Congress is out of town this week, President Bush will use the down time to hit two states today and raise some money for the campaigns of Republican candidates in November.
... continue reading Fundraiser In Chief Hits The Road. For those members of Congress who actually stay in their districts over the July 4th break, there will likely be one major issue on the minds of most voters, and that's high oil and gasoline prices.
... continue reading Congress Gets An Earful. This part of the 2008 Presidential race may not get much attention in the months ahead. Or it could be seen as When McCain Defined Obama.
... continue reading In Search of a Campaign Definition. Starting this week, the US will halt deposits of oil into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an effort to boost world supplies and hopefully bring down oil prices.
... continue reading The US Tries to Stem the Oil Tide. 
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