"A barrel of oil is trading around $90 and not showing any signs of falling back to $50 or $60 anytime soon. Profits are up. And all should be well and good in oil country. That rationale couldn’t be more wrong." -- Andrew Mickey

This is a good article, but it also is a little discouraging. With all of these factors against us, I'm not sure how we can take our country back.

The gyrations of the U.S. economy are likely to send even some of the country's millionaires spinning away from robust luxury goods consumption. The most likely to cut back, luxury marketing experts forecast, are the nine million or so single-digit millionaire households, while those with somewhat lower net worths — say, half a million

Every day, more of the world’s oil comes from a secretive gang of countries that couldn’t care less about your gasoline bill. Here’s how consumers can fight back.

Lord, what a crooked thing that Condi is! She really is a measure of how low this country has sunk under the "leadership" of our little moron president. And while crooked little Condi sits in our Congress and lies her head off, Li'l Georgie is back at the White House staring at the wall - his mind a complete and total blank.