The themes for the government attorneys are suicide, arson, sex, and guns. Lawyers for the Branch Davidians are talking about women, children, missing evidence, and fire trucks.

The blame game started just after the last body bag was zipped up. Four agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and six Branch Davidians were dead.

What does Mumia Abu-Jamal have that David Koresh doesn’t? From Ed Asner to Alice Walker, liberals have flocked to defend Mumia — convicted in 1982 of killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner — criticizing the way police and prosecutors handled his case and demanding a new trial. Luminaries of the left marched, chanted and purchased full-page ads in the New York Times to appeal to state and federal authorities to provide for Mumia, who has been on Pennsylvania’s death row for 18 years.

Face it, George W. Bush is going to be our next president. And you don’t have to be a political genius or a mathematician to understand why. Bush was just re-elected in a landslide.

George W. Bush loves baseball. And why not? After all, baseball has been very good to the governor.

When Robert L. Waltrip’s time comes, he will likely get the same treatment accorded any of his customers at Houston’s Service Corporation International (SCI).

The Overseas Private Investment Corporation has canceled $100 million in political risk insurance for a huge gold mining project in Indonesia that is operated by Freeport-McMoran Copper and Gold Inc.

Long before ratification of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), United States energy producers were finding a fertile market in Mexico.

Vice presidential candidate Al Gore has recommended a tax on carbon-based fuels as a way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, cut air pollution and save energy.

When a Texaco pipeline broke and spilled a million gallons of crude oil, ruining six acres of his grassland and contaminating his groundwater, Rex Pigmon got mad.

(Big Spring, Texas) Cash Schriefer says he knew the bird he was fishing out of the oil waste pit in southern Oklahoma in late January was big. He thought it was a goose at first, says the United States Fish and Wildlife Service special agent.

From the air, the small lakes and lagoons that dot the oil fields of Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico look inviting to migrant birds.