An article in today's Calvert Street Communist Party Newsletter sheds some serious light on the trend toward the "straight vegetable oil" fuel options.  It turns out that using vegetable oil in your diesel engine is illegal on both the State and Federal levels.

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Barack Obama would love to claim to mantel of the Kennedys, and his endorsement by the Senator from Chivas Regal notwithstanding, he can never do so.

Say what you want to about Jack and Bobby Kennedy (and I have lots to say), but they both loved their country.  They had a deep passionate love affair with America.  They both realized and recognized the threats that confronted her, and were willing to do whatever it took to protect her.  Both had aspirations and dreams of what America could do in the future, because of the journey it had taken in the past.

Barack Obama cannot say any of this.  Any of it.

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Lt. Col. Chessani, USMC, had the charges against him for manslaughter dismissed today after the JAG Judge, Col Steven Folsom, found that the investigation into the shootings at Haditha was prejudiced by undue command influence.

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Barack Obama has promised "change".  I am all for change.  But not his version.  Especially when it comes to his proposal on the Social Security Tax.

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With the essential ending of Congressional business for 2008, we can look back over the last two years of Democrat leadership and see how its gone.

My quick take:  Mental Midgetry.

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The best news out of the collapse of Warner-Lieberman this week in the US Senate is that we will still have a railroad industry.  The impact on railroads was largely overlooked in the debate, but the fact is that if Warner-Lieberman had passed, three of the nation's four largest railroads would have collapsed.

And that would have been bad, very bad.

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With oil jumping $11 in one day to close just above $138.40 a barrel, Americans are wondering "What the hell?" as gasoline surges well beyond the cost of a gallon of milk.  I have long believed that the cost of a gallon of milk was the bellweather for when gas would reach an unnacceptable price.

But what do we do about it?

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No matter who wins in November – either Senator John McCain or Senator Barack Obama – liberty and freedom will be at peril in this nation. While these two senators have very divergent views on the War Against Islamic Fascism and foreign affairs in general, their domestic views display very little sunlight between them.

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Pat Buchanan has a new book out in which he calls World War II an unecessary war, and questions how we fought it.

The great historian Victor Davis Hanson puts him on his ass with a classic roundhouse.

I have only one thing to add to Hanson's beating:  Buchanan is a Nixonite bastard of the highest order.

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