The problem with this idea is that the margin in Ohio was so large that it practically precluded the possibility of fraud making the difference. The initial margin was 118,443 votes, which was more than 220 times the difference between Bush and Gore in Florida. If every state -- that was won by even half that many votes -- became controversial, it's hard to see how we could ever make it through another election without months of charges and counter-charges to go along with never-ending legal challenges.

Moreover, as Michael O'Grady, the legal counsel to the Ohio Democratic Party once said, given the size of Bush's win, in order to believe the election in Ohio was stolen, you'd have to think, "that the entire Republican Party is conspiratorial and the entire Democratic Party is as dumb as rocks."

Since at least the first half of that statement is completely untrue, Ohio obviously wasn't stolen.

Oil companies gouge consumers to make outsized profits: Unsurprisingly, given the outrageously high cost of gas and the Left's penchant for pointing the fickle finger of blame at big corporations, we've heard a lot about how big oil is gouging consumers.

However, when you take a look at the actual numbers in California, for example, you find that the "Distribution Costs, Marketing Costs and Profits" for the oil companies make up only 8 cents per gallon of gas.

That doesn't sound like gouging, does it? But if you believe it does, what would you say about the 70 cents per gallon in taxes that's paid by California consumers? Additionally, as Karl Rove has pointed out,

(Oil companies) make about 8.3 cents in gross profit per dollar of sales....Electronics make 14.5 cents per dollar and computer equipment makers take in 13.7 cents per dollar, according to the Census Bureau. Microsoft's margin is 27.5 cents per dollar of sales.

Sure, these oil companies are huge and therefore, even an 8.3% profit adds up to billions of dollars, but when you look at the relatively small percentage that they're putting in their pockets as compared to the humongous share that the government is raking in, it's pretty clear that it's the government, not the oil companies, that is gouging consumers.