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But in his first posting on Pith in the Wind, newly nesconced editor Pete Kotz, looks to give Garrigan a run for her money:

The inflation news released today is not good news. We had a 1.1% increase in the CPI in just the past month, according to a report released today by the US Department of Labor. This is the kind of double digit annual inflation that many of us have been worried about.

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  Great column on immigration.

Clark Stooksbury finds it curious that aprogressive would reject the work of a man who shares many of their values just because he shows reverence for tradition:

There is a new Tshirt company called 200 Nipples. They sell short run, original design, numbered tshirts. For each design 100 shirts are available. After those 100 are sold the design is retired.

Dominick T. Armentano, professor emeritus in economics at the University of Hartford, says that the price of oil will drop to $80 per barrel. But he doesn't say when.

John Stossel has written an excellent column that ends with the statement “It would be nice if McCain would finally learn some economics.”
Stossel points out several statements John McCain has made against oil companies who, gasp, make profits, and also speculators, the new “bad guy” on the block.
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Barack Obama, further illustrating his economic incompentance, is advocating more government intrusion into the oil industry. It has been proven that the best way to solve the energy crsis is not more government, but less.

The Democratic National Committee today launched a new website that highlights the dismal records and misleading rhetoric of John McCain’s top three economic advisors.