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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid promised that by the end of last week he would show Republicans his proposal to deal with "this speculation thing" that he calls the root cause of $4-a-gallon gasoline. It would attempt "to end speculation on the oil markets." By week's end, Republicans had seen nothing of Reid's plan because of internal Democratic disagreement on details. Plus, Democratic leaders were focused Monday on denouncing President Bush's lifting of the executive ban on offshore oil drilling. Still, plenty of other Democratic legislative proposals floated around Capitol Hill, claiming to resolve the nation's gasoline woes by regulating...

"YOU LEFT THE FIELD OF IDEAS to people like me to be corrupted, while you went off to make money, " said Ellsworth Toohey to his former boss Gale Wynand in Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. The Toohey character represents the liberal intelligentsia. Wynand represents the country club Republican. This one statement by a fictional character articulates the present social, political, and cultural state of America, where the liberal intelligentsia has corrupted the field of ideas. They have accomplished this so thoroughly that they have nearly rewritten history and science to conform to their doctrine. It was only last week that...