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The US media continues to downplay the importance of the killing of Zarqawi by US forces. The headling on NPR's website:Terrorist Zarqawi Is Dead; Iraq's Insurgency Is NotA symbolic strike by U.S. forces may change little about the situation on the ground.I'll bet Zarqawi and his aides found the strike a little more than, "symbolic."

For months, the media have blamed virtually anything but free market forces for the rise in oil and gas prices. NBC’s Lisa Myers attributed these increases to greed on a recent Nightly News report stating almost disgustedly “Exxon earned 9.5 cents on every dollar of gasoline and oil sold, cashing in at every stage of the process.” Imagine the nerve of ExxonMobil actually making a profit. Oh the…