Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf isn’t even pretending anymore to be anything but a dictator. After declaring emergency rule, he launched a countrywide crackdown on political opposition, the media and the courts, the Washington Post reported. And instead of spending our $7 billion in military aid to pursue al-Qaida militants, Musharraf has used most of it on heavy arms and aircraft that are more likely to be used against India, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee
Supporters of coal-fired power plants justifiably complained about how an Oklahoma natural gas company secretly funded anti-coal TV and newspaper advertisements. But then what did they do? Secretly fund anti-natural gas ads, of course. Their full-page newspaper advertisement, which appeared today in The Eagle, the Kansas City Star and the Hutchinson News, makes the crazy suggestion that Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is serving the interests of Vladimir Putin, Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by making the state more dependent on natural gas as a fuel source.
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