Three Ways to Lower Gas Prices
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Newt Gingrich, the leader that should be running for President, opines on what can be done to have immediate impact on gas prices and the overall US Energy policy.

Alaska Governor demands Congress to let State drill for oil
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Alaska Republican Gov. Sarah Palin urges Congress to allow drilling for oil on the Outer Continental Shelf and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northern Alaska, an area she calls "the most promising unexplored petroleum province in North America." Palin says in her letter she does not guarantee a price drop with drilling in ANWR but argues increasing domestic oil supply would "help reduce price volatility" and "send a strong message to oil speculators."

Washington’s Unpopular War on Energy
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Most Americans have little faith in the federal government to represent their interests. Who can blame them, when their fears are constantly affirmed by Washington’s shenanigans? According to polls, presidential and congressional approval ratings are hovering around an all time low. Just 17 percent of American voters believe the federal government represents the will of the people. With energy prices already skyrocketing, federal lawmakers wreaked more havoc by trying to pass heavy-handed regulatory legislation known simply as “cap and trade.” The legislation would impose stringent emission limits on energy and manufacturing industries. At the same time, many environmentalists admit that the legislation would have little to no impact on climate change. However, the bill would greatly increase hidden taxes and costs on consumers. The poor and middle class would be hardest hit.

Opening America's Waters to Energy Production
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Washington, D.C., must do something about the increasing price of gasoline, now topping $4.00 per gallon. One important step would be to tap our own supplies of oil. Yet for decades, overlapping congressional and presidential restrictions on drilling for energy in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) have stood in the way of lower prices for oil and natural gas. The President took a positive step yesterday by urging Congress to rescind the ban on drilling in American-controlled waters. (Senator John McCain also injected the OCS drilling debate into the presidential race recently by coming out in support of offshore energy production.) In addition, the President should rescind the executive moratorium on exploration. These are serious solutions to high-energy prices that would allow domestic energy supplies to grow.

Who’s to Blame for High Gas Prices?
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91% of House Republicans have historically voted to increase the production of American-made oil and gas. 86% of House Democrats have historically voted against increasing the production of American-made oil and gas. Those are the facts.

Watch Liberals Talk Energy Policy
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See how ABC tilts left on Energy Policy but they always seem to come back to what American’s are doing about it. That is, people and businesses are responded to the increase prices not government.

Imposing fiscal discipline
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Total spending must be less than total revenue. First, we must reduce discretionary spending, eliminate waste, challenge traditional inefficiencies and take on fraud. We also were ready to tell stubborn bureaucracies they had to achieve more with less, just like the private sector had been doing for years. Second, we must think boldly of fundamental entitlement reform, such as Welfare and Medicare reform. Finally, we must distinguish between short-term budget fixes and changes that would lead to our goal of a sustainable balanced budget. Instead of trying to raise taxes to increase revenue, we were convinced that cutting the right taxes would ultimately lead to more investment, more economic growth and, ultimately, higher tax revenues. Unfortunately, this budget discipline has unraveled in Congress, leading to today's deficits. However, any Congress that is serious about returning to balance the budget can still apply these same principles to today's budget realities.

Supply Side Economics Works
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In the countries that introduced more supply-side-oriented policies, the highest tax rate on personal income decreased, on average, from 36 percent to 30 percent; and the top rate on corporate taxes declined, on average, from 30 percent to 22 percent. In the other countries that were less willing to lower taxes, the top rate on personal taxes declined from 49 percent to 45 percent, and the top corporate tax rate decreased from 36 percent to 29 percent. ??In other words, in the first group of countries the top rates on personal and corporate taxes on average fell, respectively, by 17 percent and 27 percent. In the second group, personal and corporate top tax rates only decreased on average by 9 percent and 20 percent, respectively. Thus top rates on personal income were cut by twice as much and corporate top rates were cut by almost 50 percent more in the supply-side-oriented countries than in the other group.

Housing Bailout Bad Public Policy
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The Senate is scheduled to vote on the housing bailout bill that has been circulating on Capitol Hill for so long its title today is simply “a bill to provide needed housing reform and for other purposes.” When a bill’s title includes the phrase “and for other purposes,” you know the American taxpayer is about to get a raw deal. This bill is such terrible public policy in so many different ways that it’s hard to pick which one is the worst.

Your Money: Head Start program turns into Headache
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A House Appropriations subcommittee has proposed $7.1 billion in funding for the Head Start program for Fiscal Year 2009, even though the program has made over $400 million in improper payments since 2005, according to government audits.

Will Estonia Liberate the United States?
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Estonia's embrace of free enterprise, private property, and low taxes were built upon the Reagan-Thatcher vision of the 1980s. The supreme irony, of course, is that, while Estonia (and other Central and Eastern European countries) are taking Reaganism even farther than Reagan could, the U.S. now seems headed down the road of collectivism and higher taxes. As Central European countries are slashing tax rates, Barack Obama promises to raise the U.S. marginal income tax rate and to nearly double the capital gains tax. While the former communist countries are discovering the virtues of privatization, Democrats in the U.S. (and some Republicans too) are seeking a more expansive role for the state.

Consumers pay more for meat, dairy after Midwest floods send corn prices soaring
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Raging Midwest floodwaters that swallowed crops and sent corn and soybean prices soaring are about to give consumers more grief at the grocery store. In the latest bout of food inflation, beef, pork, poultry and even eggs, cheese and milk are expected to get more expensive as livestock owners go out of business or are forced to slaughter more cattle, hogs, turkeys and chickens to cope with rocketing costs for corn-based animal feed.

Beginning of the End: Say Goodbye to Newspapers
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For newspapers, the news has swiftly gone from bad to worse. This year is taking shape as their worst on record, with a double-digit drop in advertising revenue, raising serious questions about the survival of some papers and the solvency of their parent companies.

United Airlines to require minimum stays
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United Airlines said it will start requiring minimum stays for nearly all domestic flights beginning in October. It is also raising its cheapest fares by as much as $90 one-way. Starting Oct. 6, most United fares will require a one- to three-night or weekend-night minimum stay, The new rules, which apply to nearly every ticket, are bound to be unpopular with business travelers who prefer to catch a flight out early in the morning so they can make it back home in time for dinner.

Cardinal Rigali: One Must Believe What the Church Teaches to Receive Communion
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Cardinal Justin Rigali, the Archbishop of Philadelphia is in Quebec City for the International Eucharistic Congress - a week-long event focusing on the Catholic belief that Christ Himself is present in Holy Communion. Cardinal Rigali, who is also the President of the Pro-Life Committee of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, discussed with LifeSiteNews.com the issue of worthiness to receive Communion in the context of Catholics who support abortion and same-sex "marriage", contrary to Church teaching.

Planned Parenthood Spends 700K Against Parental Notice on Abortion
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As it has done in past years, Planned Parenthood abortion businesses in California are willing to shell out some of their abortion profits to make sure they can leave parents in the dark about teen abortions. They are, once again, spending heavily to defeat a parental notification measure.

Ohio Law Allowing Women to See Ultrasound Before Abortion Goes Into Effect
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A new Ohio law saying abortion practitioners must give the woman an opportunity to view the active ultrasound image of the unborn child went into effect on Friday. The measure is another effort to give women information on fetal development they don't normally receive before an abortion.

Unintended Consequences of Illegal Immigration – Abortion Malpractice
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The owner of a clinic has been charged with posing as a doctor to perform abortions, some of them unsuccessful or resulting in severe complications and hospitalization, "This defendant preyed on women in the Hispanic community," district attorney Bonnie M. Dumanis said in a statement. "By passing herself as a doctor, she put these women's lives in serious danger."

KY abortionist charged with fraud and ‘gross negligence’
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A Kentucky abortionist has had his medical license suspended and is now under scrutiny for allegedly running a gruesome abortion clinic in Lexington where he committed Medicare fraud and put patients at risk in unsanitary, painful and possibly illegal abortions.

Bishop confronts New York governor for undercutting democratic process on gay 'marriage'
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Bishop William Murphy has criticized New York Governor David A. Paterson for ignoring the democratic process in order to recognize same-sex “marriages” in the state and for acting contrary of the common good of the state.

Obama Mocks Presidential Seal
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Democrat Barack Hussein Obama debuted a new seal sporting iconography used in the U.S. presidential seal, the blue background, the eagle clutching arrows on left and olive branch on right, but with symbolic differences. Instead of the Latin 'E pluribus unum' (Out of many, one), Obama's says 'Vero possumus', rough Latin for 'Yes, we can.' Instead of 'Seal of the President of the United States', Obama's Web site address is listed.

Obama says Republicans will use race to stoke fear
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In the 1850’s the Republican Party was initiated in a direct response to end the slavery question. Now in an amazing statement Democratic presidential contender Barack Hussein Obama said on Friday he expects Republicans to highlight the fact that he is black as part of an effort to make voters afraid of him. Could it be instead that he is one of the most liberal senators in the history of the US?

Obama: America is 'no longer Christian'
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“We're no longer a Christian nation. At least not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, and a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers," said Barack Hussein Obama. "Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and started being used to drive us apart. It got hijacked. Part of it's because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, who've been all too eager to exploit what divides us," he said.

Mexican Smugglers Make U.S. Lands Unsafe
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Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has said that drug traffickers sneaking into the United States from Mexico through U.S. lands administered by his department have made some of those lands unsafe for American families. "Times have changed along our international border with Mexico," Kempthorne said. "Our employees, residents and visitors face daily dangers. In many locations families can no longer live or recreate without fear of coming across drug smugglers. Residents of Indian communities are especially hard hit by rampant illegal activity and unsafe living conditions."

State denies cancer treatment, offers suicide instead
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State officials have offered a lung cancer patient the option of having the Oregon Health Plan, set up in 1994 to ration health care, pay for an assisted suicide, but not for the chemotherapy prescribed by her physician.

Man Loses 80 Pounds on McDonald’s Diet
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A Virginia man lost about 80 pounds in six months by eating nearly every meal at McDonald's. Not Big Macs, french fries or chocolate shakes. The diet was made up mostly on salads, wraps and apple dippers without the caramel sauce.

Security fears over food and fuel crisis
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Western countries have upgraded the food and fuel crisis into a national security concern as they fear record high energy and agriculture commodity costs are destabilizing key developing regions of the world.

Comedian George Carlin Dies
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George Carlin, the frenzied performer whose routine “Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television” led to a key Supreme Court ruling on obscenity, has died.

Left Handed/Right Handed makes Pro-Debut faces Switch Hitter!
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Incredible. The first Pro Switch Pitcher perplexes the umpires against a Switch Hitter.