Jon told you about the “Enron Loophole,” a provision created by the Gas & Oil Party (GOP) for the company in 2000 to allow manipulation of energy prices in the industry’s favor.
A movement to close the loophole is gaining support from both parties. There is even a web site called CloseLoophole.org where you can [...]

The way Republicans tell it, the minute we start drilling off the coasts of California, Florida and elsewhere, the price of gas will go down. In fact, it would take five years after the ban on offshore drilling was lifted for oil production to start, and, if it were lifted right now, in 22 years [...]

It’s fun to learn new words, kiddies. Let’s have some fun today!
biddable: an adjective describing one who is meekly ready to accept and follow instructions; docile and obedient
Let’s use our new word in a sentence, just so we’ll be sure we know it.
“John McCain has been accused by many over the years as having been [...]

Your assignment, Pensito Reviewers, is to take a quick bathroom break, grab the beverage of your choice, and then settle in and read “Loving John McCain” by Eric Alterman and George Zornick in its entirety.
Until you do, you won’t understand the media’s treatment of McCain, and the damage this love affair could do to our [...]

“I don’t exactly approve of a lot of the things [Barack Obama] stands for and I’m not sure we know enough about him … He’s got some bad connections, and he may be terrorist connected for all I can tell. It sounds kind of like he may be.”
Who said this? Was it a) Tom DeLay, [...]

If the Florida governor’s election were held today, then judging by the state’s editorial writers, the winner would not be Charlie Crist.
Daytona News-Journal:
Miami Herald: “Gov. Charlie Crist’s stunning reversal of his position on drilling for oil and gas off the Florida coastline is all about politics and political ambition”
It should go down as one of [...]

Updating Trish’s story from Thursday, “The Hot Item at the Texas Republican Convention,” the Texas Republican Party has moved to distance itself from a vendor who sold buttons at the party’s state convention that bore a racist message about Barack Obama: “If Obama is president … will we still call it The White [...]

Maybe it’s all part of his ongoing effort to appear more macho — you know, “Oil Rigger Charlie” — but Florida Governor Charlie Crist’s about-face on drilling for oil off Florida’s coasts took most of us by surprise this week. See, it was just a year ago that Crist called his first climate control summit [...]

I live about 100 yards from West Hollywood City Hall so when the first marriage licenses were issued to gay people there on Tuesday, it was a big day for news helicopters overhead. I, of course, watched the festivities as reported by CNN’s Thelma Gutierrez, via satellite feed to Atlanta, routed back to me 3,000 [...]

So much for the gnashing of teeth and rending of clothing from the Christian right about John McCain earlier this year:
Message from McCain to Christian Nationalists: “I’m just not that into you.”
A Washington Post-ABC News poll released this week found McCain collecting about 68 percent of the white evangelical vote, compared to Barack Obama’s 22 [...]