Oil companies that are in Bolivia will no longer have the freedom to set prices and export volumes. Now, it's the Bolivian government that's going to set them.

With the same company being the buyer and seller, volumes and prices are significantly altered at the expense of the Bolivian government and to the benefit of the company. This is going to change.

We're going to put in place policies for a real recovery.

Alaska's contribution to America's freedom isn't just the oil we provide or the food we harvest from the seas or our location which is the best in the world for our military. It is more than that. It begins with the fact that Alaskans are free-thinkers.

Support for freedom, support for independence from Middle Eastern oil-they're things you can't really argue against.

The fact that oil is remaining above $40 leaves me all the more convinced that core CPI will continue to climb higher, that we're on the verge of having the annual rate break above 2 percent.