What Is This World Coming To?

The price of oil at the barrelhead plummeted for three straight days following the Bush administration’s lifting of a 1989 presidential order declaring a ban on off-shore drilling.

A three-day drop in oil futures is no guarantee that the recent streak has permanently ended, but it does expose the liberal lie that it would take ten to twenty years for drilling to have any effect on the price of oil.

The mere THREAT of drilling was enough to cause a twenty-percent drop in the price of crude oil futures — something the liberals in Congress knew would happen all along. But they opposed it anyway — because they knew it would help the Bush adminstration’s image.

Better you should use your grocery money to buy gas for work than that. Nonetheless, they feel your pain. Honest.

by John Hawkins

Once you’ve watched liberals long enough to understand how they think — scratch that, how they feel — they become extraordinarily predictable.

To begin with, the liberal agenda is, in many respects, the same as it was in the thirties. Whether you call it communism, fascism, socialism, liberalism, or progressivism, the only real difference is how much they believe they can get away with, the way they sell it to people, and the latest trendy name for what they believe.

So, once the liberals pick a policy from their stale program to push, the next step is to get it implemented. This is where liberals have problems because whether a policy makes sense, is practical, or actually improves people’s lives is of secondary importance to them. What is important to liberals is whether supporting or opposing that policy makes them feel good about themselves. Read the rest of this entry »