Bob McCarty Writes

Sen. Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, today released the oversight report, “2008: Worst Waste of the Year.”
The look back on 2008 features absurd federal spending from beltway bureaucrats and elected officials.
“As we look back on federal spending for 2008, American taxpayers will laugh, and then cry [...]

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I typed the words, “energy independence,” in a Google News Search and found articles about algae, wind and other renewable sources of energy being touted as solutions to the current crisis that has Americans paying record-high prices for fuel. While I agree that some renewable sources of energy — corn ethanol excluded — hold [...]

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A newspaper in Plymouth, Mass., reports this disturbing news related to record-high gas prices:

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ATTENTION: California residents!
On Feb. 26, I reported the price of gasoline would reach $4 per gallon by spring. Less than 10 days later, that prediction has come true, according to a report by a California television station:
The Americo gas station in Gorda, Calif., is selling premium unleaded gas for $5.39 a gallon and, [...]

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Gasoline prices are rising! According to a report by NBC affiliate KSBW in Sacramento, consumers in Gorda, Calif., a community south of Big Sur, are paying $5 per gallon at the pump today. Elsewhere throughout the state, prices have reached $4 per gallon at gas stations in many locations. As a result [...]

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