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Bush pressures Congress to lift offshore drilling ban. Good for him. Force Democrats to vote against it. Or for it. Obama says this won't lower the price. Obama's an idiot. On the one hand, he says speculation is a problem, but on the other, he says drilling won't have an effect. Just lifting the ban will bring down the price of oil significantly. He also says it isn't a long term solution. Of course it is. This will lower the price of oil for the next 40 years.

China and Japan reach a deal to drill for oil in the China Sea. We're the only country stupid enough to leave our resources buried in the ground where they're no good to anybody.

Afghan and NATO forces expel Taliban from outskirts of Kandahar.

I wish I had a nickel for every time liberals claimed they had "proof" of torture at Guantanamo.

The press made a big deal about Gore transforming his mansion to be more green. (They didn't make a big deal that it hadn't been green before.) But facts are facts, and Gore's mansion now uses 10% more energy than before. The world according to Gore is that poor people have to suffer and use less energy, but he can keep spewing CO2 into the atmosphere at 20 times the rate of a normal American. Gore hasn't bothered to cut his energy use in a decade. Actions speak louder than words, and this guy doesn't even believe his own bull.

Good for McCain for calling for 45 new nuclear power plants. This article shows that arctic ice cover is almost identical to the average for the last 35 years. The difference is negligible. If he was to show this graph for each year of the last 35, this wouldn't even make you blink an eye. But the author makes it sound like a crisis. What a bunch of crap.

Muslim women in headscarves removed from photo-op with Obama. Obama campaign apologizes, but the situation illustrates Obama's quandary. If he gets his picture taken with a bunch of Muslims, it could work against him.

Cindy McCain calls out Michelle Obama over her "never been proud of America" comment, directly taking on Mrs. Obama's manufactured image makeover. How funny. Cat fight!

Tiger Woods to have season ending knee surgery after his spectacular win at the US. Open. It turns out besides his recent recovery from cartilage surgery, he was fighting a bad ligament and a stress fracture. A guy on sports talk Monday called Tiger the greatest athlete of our lifetimes, and he's probably right. What separates Tiger from the rest of the golfers is that he is an athlete in a non-athletic sport. Retief Goosen showed what a jerk he is when he claimed Tiger was faking it.

The Celtics were definitely the better team, defeating the Lakers in 6. Of the best teams in the west, San Antonio knocked out New Orleans in the second round, and San Antonio never recovered their energy from that series to beat the 3rd best team in the west.

Phoenix lander hasn't found water yet.

Reason recognizes that the Americans die younger than people from other countries because we're fatter.

The Firefox download day seems to have been a success, but I didn't install mine. Installing the initial release is usually bad practice, and it seems like there are some vulnerabilities. I'll wait a few days.