Diesel fuel averages £1.32 per litre in the UK or $10.11 per gallon. Since truck stop pumps dispense fuel at a rate of 120 litres a minute, 1,000 litres on average per tank means $2,600+ per. A huge percentage of the increase is in the form of taxes and thus truckers want Whitehall to do […]

In America’s heartland, anything that paints Barack Obama as (place your fear mongering adjective here) passes as “God’s honest truth” even when proven a lie. MSNBC reported yesterday, “Gerri Kish, (is) 66-year-old (and) born in Hawaii, read both of Obama’s autobiographies. She has close friends, she said, who still refuse to believe her when she […]

NBC did the “safe” thing ending speculation and preserving their Meet the Press £60 million dollar political franchise by dusting off 68-year old former Nightly News anchor, now special correspondent Tom Brokaw to fill-in for Tim Russert through the 2008 general election in November. He joins the other Washington senior statesman Bob Schieffer, 71 at […]

Click here to watch several of the many tributes from Friday evening from friends, colleagues and competitors to Tim Russert. 
Keith Olbermann Tribute

Tom Brokaw

Chris Matthews, Hardball

Andrea Mitchell, NBC News

The New York Times’ Frank Rich

Bob Schieffer, CBS, Face the Nation

Chuck Todd

John Edwards, Presidential candidate

General Colin Powell

Kelly O’Neil, NBC News Washington Bureau

A recent BBC news story discussed Barack Obama’s 5-million member strong e-mail list and its potential for everything from fund-raising to pushing through a legislative agenda.
The US FEC (Federal Election Commission) has been stymied in its attempts to track and register his contributions because 1.5 million people have contributed more than $200 million dollar, at an […]

For Our EU Friends Who May Never Have Seen This

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as […]

Can we come out now and go back to our lives? No? Barack has won but Hillary has not conceded? Aaaaargh! I feel like I did living in LA during the OJ Simpson trial. Will the government offer any counselling or addiction relief therapy to political junkies who will have scant little to do between […]

The new magic number of 2,118 delegates to nominate is here and now that Michigan and Florida have been seated via compromise, it appears we have a nominee, even though we have a fractured party. So I spent this past weekend thinking about a new business and T-shirt ideas for this coming week announcing the […]

Amazing what a big publisher’s advance brings. When one starts to imagine the big lecture bucks available on the rubber chicken circuit, it’s no wonder stories change and blend. When the Republican antichrist Bill Clinton earned over $100 million he had to be thinking, “hey, I can do that with the dirt I have gathered.” […]

“Put those deck chairs here,” one can imaging President George Bush saying to his Press Secretary this week as this S.S. Titanic of an administration lists steeper and begins to sinks below the water line to its complete demise in 241 days. A fundraiser tonight scheduled in Phoenix where George Bush was to stand beside […]