As the presidential election draws closer, the rhetoric heats up and gets stupider.

The bottom line is that no one, least of all me, wants four dollar a gallon gasoline. As a temporary solution, we have to allow continental shelf exploration and Anwar drilling. Solar panels aren't going to fix our dependence on foreign oil. Windmills aren't going to fix our dependence on foreign oil. CFL bulbs aren't either. If anything, the green nut jobs are asking you to take your life into your own hands by using the CFLs. Why? Look at the packaging. They're loaded with mercury. Toxic mercury. Funny thing, they don't mention that.

Now on to the other phony arguments. Drilling in Anwar is bad for the environment and will hurt the caribou. There's been a petroleum pipeline in Alaska for over thirty years. There hasn't been a single incident that has caused environmental issues. Furthermore, there are methodologies that permit environmentally safe drilling now.

I am by no means suggesting we should just drill here in the US and ignore the problem. What I am saying is that this is a viable temporary solution that would allow time for alternative energy sources to be developed without bankrupting Joe and Josephine Sixpack.

The political left has struck again. Justice Anthony Kennedy gleefully read portions of the five justice majority that essentially gives full U.S. Constitutional rights to people who at one time were shooting at your husbands, wives, sons and daughters or plotting to fly airplanes into buildings.

For starters, this is a huge slap in the face to soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are still in country fighting. It should be noted that there is past case precedence for prisoners of war NOT having constitutional protection. Do a Google search for Johnson v. Eisentrager (339 U.S. 763). The court ruled that U.S. courts had no jurisdiction over German war criminals who were being held in U.S. managed prisons that were not on sovereign U.S. territory. Yes, this was basically thrown out in 2004 by Rasul v. Bush, but you should look at the difference in how the courts were stacked at the time.

The leftist courts better ask for more funding for parking lots. They'll be inundated with appeals and writs of habeas corpus (or habeus corpus). I propose that we just close the Supreme Court and turn the building into a Hooters. Then they won't have to privatize the Senate Dining Room due to the sub par quality of food. This will also give the Senators something to do in the off hours.

There will also be some serious modifications to the decision making process on the battlefield. Do you capture an enemy or take him out? There is a possibility he'll be back on the battlefield because our ignoramus Supreme Court thinks they have constitutional rights. Bye bye Osama.

(Sigh) I watched the end of an era last night. Hillary Clinton packed it in. Where does that leave all of us, the disenfranchised masses?

In my less than humble opinion, we're screwed. Lets look at our choices. Barrack Hussein Obama? Right. Military hating, left wing liberal. No thank you. John McCain? A guy who is almost as liberal as Obama? Nope.

So what do we do? There is only one option. Stand behind McCain and get people elected in your state to the senate and house who'll keep him in check.