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Waiving the Jones Act

· Tuesday, June 22, 2010 · 22 comments

Should Obama waive restrictions on international shipping, as Bush did during Katrina? It’s more complicated than you may think.

Caption Contest Winners

· Monday, June 21, 2010 · 3 comments

The Bad Robot Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over.

Gulf Oil Spill Gives Charlie Crist A Major Boost In Florida Senate Race

· Monday, June 21, 2010 · No comments

The Florida Senate race has taken a turn that few people expected thanks to the political impact of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

President Obama Attends Baseball Game, Conservative Blogger Freaks Out

· Saturday, June 19, 2010 · 33 comments

Tony Hayward Gets His Life Back, Goes Yachting

· Saturday, June 19, 2010 · 6 comments

Drilling Moratorium Misguided

· Saturday, June 19, 2010 · 59 comments

Partner In Deepwater Horizon Rig Blames Explosion On BP Recklessness

· Saturday, June 19, 2010 · 7 comments

Oil Industry Insider Says Oil Spill Flow Is Closer To 120,000 Barrels A Day

· Thursday, June 17, 2010 · No comments

Majority Disapproves Of President’s Handling Of Oil Spill Crisis

· Thursday, June 17, 2010 · 1 comment

Republican Congressman Apologizes To BP For White House “Shakedown”

· Thursday, June 17, 2010 · 37 comments

Meanwhile, Across The Pond, The Brits Are Not Amused

· Thursday, June 17, 2010 · 5 comments

BP Agrees To Creation Of $ 20 Billion Escrow Fund

· Wednesday, June 16, 2010 · 15 comments

Oil Spill Estimates Skyrocket Once Again

· Wednesday, June 16, 2010 · 2 comments

Obama Swings And Misses In Oval Office Address

· Tuesday, June 15, 2010 · 26 comments

Obama’s New Oil Spill Plan: An “Oil Recovery Czar”

· Tuesday, June 15, 2010 · 4 comments

What Happens If BP Files Bankruptcy ?

· Sunday, June 13, 2010 · 9 comments

Obama Leads All Potential Republican Rivals In 2012 Poll

· Saturday, June 12, 2010 · 2 comments

The Odd British Response To American Anger At BP

· Saturday, June 12, 2010 · 11 comments

Social Conservative Mitch Daniels Calls For GOP “Truce” On Social Issues, Social Conservatives Revolt

· Friday, June 11, 2010 · 2 comments

Estimate Of Oil Flow In Gulf Doubled

· Friday, June 11, 2010 · 3 comments

Drill, Baby, Drill ? Public Is Saying No, Baby, No

· Thursday, June 10, 2010 · 5 comments

Obama Refused Dutch Oil Cleanup Help?

· Thursday, June 10, 2010 · 33 comments

Public Rates Federal Response To Oil Spill Worse Than Response To Katrina

· Tuesday, June 8, 2010 · 22 comments

Barack Obama: Speaking Loudly, Carrying The Same Old Stick

· Monday, June 7, 2010 · 6 comments

BP’s Public Relations Disaster

· Sunday, June 6, 2010 · 1 comment

It’s a Start (Oil Spill Update)

· Sunday, June 6, 2010 · 1 comment

Alabama Says Stay out of the Water

· Friday, June 4, 2010 · No comments

Oil Spill Day 46: Obama Held Hostage

· Friday, June 4, 2010 · 23 comments

DADT Repeal Far From Certain Despite House Vote

· Wednesday, June 2, 2010 · No comments

British Petroleum Market Value Down 40 Percent Since Start Of Oil Spill Crisis

· Wednesday, June 2, 2010 · 1 comment

Sarah Palin Encourages Bobby Jindal To Violate Federal Law

· Tuesday, June 1, 2010 · 34 comments

Obama Paying A Political Price For The Oil Spill Crisis

· Monday, May 31, 2010 · 17 comments

Nigeria and a Sense of Proportion

· Sunday, May 30, 2010 · 34 comments

“Top Kill” Fails, BP Moves On To Plan C

· Sunday, May 30, 2010 · 7 comments

Is “Top Kill” Failing ?

· Saturday, May 29, 2010 · 4 comments

Potemkin Village Cleanup Crews For Obama’s Visit To The Gulf ?

· Saturday, May 29, 2010 · 1 comment

Safe Bets: Minerals Management Service Edition

· Thursday, May 27, 2010 · No comments

Morning Snark: I Think We Already Knew That

· Thursday, May 27, 2010 · No comments

‘Top Kill’ Working, Plugging Oil Leak

· Thursday, May 27, 2010 · 2 comments

Cult of the Presidency: Oil Spill Edition

· Thursday, May 27, 2010 · 9 comments

OTB Radio – Tonight at 5:30 Eastern

· Wednesday, May 26, 2010 · No comments

Border Policy and the Laws of Supply and Demand

· Wednesday, May 26, 2010 · 21 comments

Obama Militarizes Mexico Border

· Wednesday, May 26, 2010 · 11 comments

The Return Of The White House Party Crashers

· Thursday, May 20, 2010 · No comments

Drug War 101: Drug Control Budget

· Tuesday, May 18, 2010 · 14 comments

Time To Nuke The Gulf Oil Spill ?

· Tuesday, May 18, 2010 · 14 comments

Caption Contest Winners

· Monday, May 17, 2010 · 1 comment

Drug War 101 (With an Emphasis on Coca Cultivation)

· Sunday, May 16, 2010 · 23 comments

Back to the Drug War: The Street Price of Cocaine

· Sunday, May 16, 2010 · 17 comments

Giant Underwater “Oil Plumes” Suggest Gulf Oil Spill Worse Than Feared

· Sunday, May 16, 2010 · 14 comments

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