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… It Keeps Going, And Going, And Going …

The downward pressure on the price of oil continues, although not as strong as the past few trading days.  At the end of the day, it was $117 (down $.22 from yesterday).  Oh, and the Dow was up 40 points. Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich showed up today at the Capital to show...

Internet Explorer Users: Sorry About The Outage

To those of you who are Internet Explorer users, I apologize for the fact that you were unable to get to The Conservative Reader during the past 12 hours.  I’m not 100% sure of the cause of the problem, but it has something to do with a tool called...

Why Do Oil Prices Continue To Drop?

Just when you thought you couldn’t afford to go on summer vacation, just when you thought the ONLY answer to rising gasoline prices was a “gas tax holiday”, just as various states are complaining they don’t have enough tax money collected to...

Swamp Stomper Alert: Housing Bill Heads to White House

Well, it took almost 3 months, but Congress finally passed the bill today, on older version of which was  passed by the House in May, after some considerable back and forth between the Senate and the House.  The bill is HR 3221 (pdf), titled: “Housing and...

Fireproof

This morning I got a chance to see some clips from a new movie that will be in theaters on September 26, 2008.  It’s called “Fireproof”.  Here’s a synopsis from the web site: At work, inside burning buildings, Capt. Caleb Holt lives by the old...

2008 Floods: A Small Epilog

Traveling across eastern Iowa and Illinois this past week we got a look at some of the areas that were affected by the flooding.  I-80 looks good… the section that had been flooded looks normal… I didn’t realize what it was until I had driven over...
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