Some quick links

Sometimes I'm just too tired after work to get things going. Here's some quick links:

Some experts now say high oil prices are a simple case of supply and demand, and prices could stay high for up to two years:

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) says it wants the prices of crude oil to remain somewhere between $25-$28 per barrel. But oil for delivery in September is selling for close to $45 per barrel these days. So why aren't the producers pumping more oil to bring the prices down? The answer, more and more analysts believe, is that they cannot.

The Bush Administration blew an undercover operation under pressure to prove the latest terror warnings were justified. Bush's clearly puts his reelection campaign before national security.

"If it's true that the Americans have unintentionally revealed the identity of another nation's intelligence agent, who appears to be working in the good of all of us, that is not only a fundamental intelligence flaw. It's also a monumental foreign relations blunder," security expert Paul Beaver, a former publisher of Jane's Defense Weekly, told Reuters.

Juan Cole has more.


The GOP will continue to force people in New Mexico to sign a pledge endorsing Bush/Cheney before attending campaign events.

The Center For American Progress corrects George Schultz.

Charles Krauthammer is indirectly rebuffed by John Zogby. The argument over post convention bounce continues. The American Research Group however, does show a bounce in New Hampshire and Florida.