Now, various rival rebel factions and corrupt bits of the Russian armed forces are slugging it out for a slice of the oil money while indulging in gun-running and other rackets.

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Actually, democrats have long abandoned any gun control agenda and the NRA is second only to big oil in lobbying power.

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But the true perpetrator of higher oil prices, the Federal Reserve, stands right in front of us, the smoking gun its easy money policies.

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How about a WD-40 grease gun, or paraffin lube stick for windows, or lithium spray grease or two-stroke oil for your chain saw?

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Not only does he part company with conservatives on these and other issues climate change, drilling for oil in the Alaskan hinterland, federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research, international criminal courts, gun-show background checks he invariably adopts the rhetoric of the left and stridently leads the opposition.

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The debt ceiling should not be something that is used as a gun against the heads of the American people to extract tax breaks for corporate jet owners, or oil and gas companies that are making billions of dollars because the price of gasoline has gone up so high.

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Don Spencer, a truck driver for an oil field supply company, hustled to the statehouse after work to hear the panel discuss amending the constitution to make gun possession easier.

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