Watching Gov. Sarah Palin’s policy speech on energy right now. It looks as if she’s tacking on her stump speech praise of McCain. She’s reading off the prompter at times and winging it at others. Still not sure what this speech is, what the goal is, who the audience is…. and why this is [...]

By Amy Wilson
Libya will take $7bn of assets out of Swiss banks and stop supplying oil to the country, as an acrimonious dispute that started with the arrest of Colonel Gaddafi’s son escalated.
The north African country said the moves were a protest against the “poor treatement of Libyan diplomats and businessmen by the [...]