Is BP Chief Executive Anthony Hayward inviting the White House to ratchet up constraints on the oil industry in the United States or does he feel that communicating hopelessness about the Transocean Deepwater Horizon accident is the best strategy for garnering presidential sympathy and favors?   BP has a sorry history when it comes to standing [...]...

SIDESWIPE - Washington Post commentator Jim Hoagland needs to attend a Tea Party rally.  He has no idea what the popular movement is about.  In his column on Sunday 6 June he makes a comparison between Tea Party activists, who democratically and peacefully oppose big government, with the “far right” in South Africa in the late [...]...