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?

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.

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.

One of the silliest arguments of the facist left in this country is that there is absolutely no way religious freaks and fundamentalists like Al Qaeda would ever partner with a very secular (and equally facist) Saddam Hussein.

Only one problem with that argument:  it's patently false.

Ace of Spades HQ has a great post up about how stupid Nancy D'Alesandro Pelosi really is.  It seems all that time spent at the Institute of Notre Dame in Baltimore was a complete and utter waste.

It seems that Lil' Nancy is SO UNWILLING to give credit to the members of the uniformed services of the US Military -- let alone their Commander-in-Chief -- that she believes that Iran deserves the credit for the turnaround in Iraq.

From the May 28th edition of the Financial Times, we learned that the Department of Homeland Security has finally gone completely batty:

The west needs a more comprehensive strategy to counter al-Qaeda propaganda and the US should stop using the term “war on terror”, according to a top intelligence official.

Charles Allen, the senior intelligence official at the Department of Homeland Security, says the phrase is counter-productive because it creates “animus” in Islamic countries.

“[It] has nothing to do with political correctness,” Mr Allen said in an interview. “It is interpreted in the Muslim world as a war on Islam and we don’t need this.”...

Does Barack "Gaffeman" Obama actually employ a speechwriter for his campaign?  One must wonder, after his latest gaffe.  Speaking to a group of Democrat dignitaries in New Mexico, he began:

On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.

It's a cute sentiment.  The only problem is that on Memorial Day we remember and salute our honored dead, keeping the promise that they shall not have died in vain.

Foreign Policy magazine has a list of the worst places in the world to be a terrorist.  Missing from the list -- despite the protestations of John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama -- is Guantanamo Bay.

Sort of makes you wonder.

If you think gas prices are too high, then you better not drink Starbuck's Coffee or any Anheuser Bush Beer.

Starbucks Venti:  $23/gallon.

Budweiser:  $11/gallon.

Just something to think about when you are downing your favorite liquid.