No Blood for Oil: Tom Friedman says that oil wealth gives the Persian Gulf dictatorships a "pool of money that they can use to monopolize all the instruments of coercion" and that the "most important thing we can do [to liberalize the societies of Iran, Iraq and their neighbors] is gradually, but steadily, bring down the price of oil — through conservation and alternative energies." He's absolutely right about this. But in the meantime, we still need to eliminate Saddam and also internationalize the Saudi oil fields

California Gov. Gray Davis is effectively selling pieces of the state's coastline to large campaign donors. We have come to expect nothing less from our corrupt governor, this is just one more example among many