Guest Editorials
BY LAWRENCE J. MCQUILLAN, PHD | JULY 13, 2011
The truth about energy profits
America's largest oil and natural gas companies recently reported quarterly earnings, and as expected, profits were up. But the caricature of fat-cat energy executives lining their pockets at the expense of the everyman doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
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BY SHELDON RICHMAN | JULY 13, 2011
Obama's war is peace
President Obama demonstrates his utter contempt for the American people — and the law — when he says the War Powers Resolution does not apply to his intervention in Libya because, as the White House put it, “U.S. operations do not involve sustained fighting or active exchanges of fire with hostile forces, nor do they involve U.S. ground troops.”
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