The true debate here is not about oil spills, but the economy. The idea that the earth is warming is by no means proven. Radicals like Al Gore would have us believe that we are in the midst of a huge crisis. He should be pillaried as the fraud he is. As the price of food and energy go up, the hard won advances made against poverty are withering away. I believe that if this trend is not reversed, it will result in the deaths by starvation of up to half a billion people. Most of these will be Africans and Asians. Maybe this is what these enviromentallists want. Thats why I call global-warming alarmism the "new eugenics", and Al Gore a "purveyor of misery". Technology will advance beyond fossil fuels(sooner rather than later, I hope). The stone age didn't end because we ran out of rocks.

Every time I see the words "catastrophic climate change", I want to throw up. Does Romm and others with this global view want us to go back to living in caves? This kind of propaganda is reckless and irresponsible. There has been no increase in severe weather. There were more hurricanes in the 1940s than any other time since.

while the Antarctic penilsula is warming, the interior has been cooling and gaining ice. This interior cooling trend reverses a warming trend that had been occuring over the last 6000 years.

Many weather and temperature stations that were out in the countryside 40 years ago are now surrounded by cities, thereby indicating a higher temperature than they would otherwise.

Glaciers in Iceland were melting during the first half of the twentieth century; they grew during the second half the century, because the temperature is cooler.

While the levels of CO2 increased steadily during the entire twentieth century, the Earth actually cooled between 1940 and 1970.

While all the major developing countries are working like crazy to increase thier domestic oil production, the cleanest and most productive nation in the world seems intent on depriving itself.

one last thought: What's wrong with the USA using one fourth of the energy in the world? We feed one- fourth of the world!

There is something sinister about those who who would put this country in jepardy by depriving it of the energy it needs.

Serious "military historians" may not agree with McCain's theory of how we could have "won" the war in Viet Nam, but General Giap, the commander of the North Vietnamese forces during the war certainly did. In his memiors he wrote that the situation of the North was desparate right after the Tet offensive and said that a few more days of heavy bombing would have made them sign anything. He also claimed that the American war effort was defeated at home by "america's own people".

Having said that, Canason is absolutely correct when he says that the war was unnecesary and disasterous.Ho Chi Mihn faught alongside the British and Americans for four years against the Japanese. He was both disgusted and betrayed when Truman, contrary to U.S. policy elswhere, gave the French the go ahead to try to reclaim thier colonies. Ho Chi Min was nationalist first before anything.

Our military generally kicked ass before, during, and after Tet. Politically, it was a tale of betrayal of everybody involved, both in Viet Nam and in the U.S. military.