If too many people see these numbers, Glenn Beck’s joking ideal of “pitchforks and torches” could become a reality. Or what would be more accurately described as, Congress and the media’s worst nightmare coming to life. We’ve all heard the rants, over and over from Reid and Pelosi of how Big Oil is EVIL. We’ve [...]

Thankfully, enough people (including 1 Democrat) managed to come to their senses enough to prevent the dreaded “Windfall Profit Tax” from coming to fruition. Be sure to send a “Thank You” card to Senate Republicans (and D-Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana) for preventing your fuel costs from jumping any faster than they already are.
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Well, at least most of us should expect to see even higher fuel costs. Like us in California, many other states fuel taxes are tied, through amazingly complex formulas which rise as the cost of fuel rises. And with the National Average for fuel now exceeding $4 a gallon, (actually $4.02, but who’s counting right?), [...]

Because we want to continue to hammer the public with trying to make you look like the bad guys in this mess. Because we don’t want anyone to know that it is really us in the House and Senate that are screwing the pants off of the public in this gas-fiasco. We’d rather you took [...]

All this was inspired by the principle–which is quite true in itself–that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of [...]