Month: April 2005

CIBC, a Canadian investment bank, has published last week a research note (pdf, 6 pages) which provides extremely strong arguments to support the opinion that oil prices will keep on rising. The jist of it: oil supply is simply...

The Republicans want everything their way and will go to any length to get it. I can remember as a kid when playing ‘made up games’ someone always made up new rules. The game rules always changed depending who...

Cross posted: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/4/18/0219/67943 http://penndit.blogspot.com Ralph Reed’s Zeal for Lobbying Has Shaken His Christian Base Reed is running for Lt. Gov. in Georgia.  His connections to...

Cross posted: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/4/17/85543/4862 and http://www.mydd.com/story/2005/4/17/92429/3588 and http://penndit.blogspot.com We know who Tom DeLay is.  We know he’s an asshole, and we know that...

[Cross posted at Daily Kos] A World Bank report released today gives us the horrifying news that 11 million children under 5 die each year in poor & under-developed countries from easily treated diseases. This is appalling....