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Targeting The Big Spill

Look at the Op-Ed columns in print and online. Listen to the noise coming from talk-radio. Watch intently the garbage beamed into your television sets. Take all of the above in, then ask yourself, what are the important and newsworthy issues with regards to The Big Spill? Oh some journalists have asked B.P. engineers and others what happened, and other journalists have dug deep enough to find out which politicians have taken money from B.P. (all of them, apparently). We have heard from Haley Barbour that the spill is nothing and we need to drill more. We have heard from Sarah Palin that the spill is something, we need tougher regulations, and we need to drill more.

Regulations, Responsibility, and Reality

We the people sit in a difficult place and time. Largely unable to come together in productive discussions on issues that define our nation, we have taken to fighting over the carcass of government; like two starving Lions ripping at the flesh of an animal from opposite sides. Republicans blindly fighting regulations and Democrats blindly… (read more)