The Truth About Those “Evil Oil Companies”

Tammy Bruce sets the record straight on the record profits earned by ExxonMobil last year. Their profit may have broken a record, but so did the taxes they paid. And who benefits from those profits? The middle-class stock holders, that’s who:

Ironically, many of the people who cheer the Clinton/Obama/Hugo Chavez message of nationalizing companies don’t even realize they’re cheering for the cutoff of checks their parents or grandparents rely on every month; dividend checks from those ‘evil, profit mongering oil companies,’ which in fact are owned by the American people, primarily the middle class and the elderly.

And don’t forget the billions in research and development that the oil companies are spending in an effort to find the energy we all expect to have in abundance, and cheaply.

Someday, after the golden goose is slain, we’ll all wake up and realize how good we had it.

Will Dems Field the “Dream Ticket”?

Why not have Hillary and Obama share the President / Vice-President slots on the Democratic ticket? It would be a winning combination, right?

Maybe so, but it will never happen, according to Michael Medved.

First, what are the chances of a Clinton-Obama ticket? Nope, no way:

For thirty-five years, she’s been constantly upstaged by a charismatic and attractive male whose oratorical and glad-handing gifts vastly exceed her own. She doesn’t want to spend the eight years of her potential presidency similarly upstaged by another guy, notably younger and thinner than she is, with an electrifying magnetism that easily equals her husband’s.

Well, what about reversing the roles: an Obama-Clinton ticket? Not a chance:

As a prominent part of the previous Clinton administration, she witnessed first hand all the indignities and burdens thrust upon Vice President Al Gore—in fact, she administered some of them herself. Why would she want to open herself to the humiliation of waiting around in a powerless, second-string job in case some disaster befell a conspicuously young and vigorous president?

For Democrats, the “Dream Ticket” will happen only in their dreams.

UPDATE: If Obama and Clinton deadlock in the primaries, the Democratic nomination will come down to the votes of the 796 Super Delegates in the August convention. By rule, these delegates are free to vote their conscience — meaning, they will be subjected to every available bribe, dirty trick, and threat to secure their votes. In which case, Hillary will win, hands down. The Dems are already in a tizzy about this. Look at the bickering that’s already started among Massachusetts Democrats about the role of their Super Delegates.

Why Americans Trust the Military

Polls consistently show that Americans, by a wide margin, trust the military more than politicians. That infuriates progressives, who see the military as symbolic of all that’s wrong with America. William J. Astore seeks to help progressives understand why Americans are so fond of the military. He points to two reasons.

First, the military is the most diverse institution in American society. Here, people are truly judged by what they can do, not by phony racial, gender, political, or class divides.  That stands in sharp contrast to, say, academia, where diversity is a hollow motto.

Second, the military is the last bastion of male identity. Here, a young man’s masculinity is encouraged and honored, not denigrated or feminized. Even with the increased efforts to open up the services to more women, the military is still first and foremost a fighting machine, dominated by testosterone.

The fact that progressives stand on the wrong side of both those issues explains why they just don’t get it.

The comment by John Kerry in 2006, to the effect that students who can’t make it in college end up “stuck in Iraq,” struck many Americans as grossly unfair precisely because military service still remains a proud first choice for many young Americans.