TIME FOR A REAL CHANGE: REPEAL THE CORPORATE INCOME TAX

The government often taxes an entrepreneur's profits twice, once at the business level and then again when the profits are distributed to individuals. This double taxation not only dampens the incentive to invest, but also obscures who actually bears the burden of these taxes. Because a corporation is made up of a group of individuals but is not actually an individual, corporate taxes are really taxes on the stakeholders in the corporation.

Repealing the corporate income tax alone, which would cost approximately $300 billion in annual tax revenue, would produce by 2012:

• 2 million more jobs than the baseline scenario.
• $280 billion more in real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product (GDP).
• $4,000 more in real disposable income for a fam ily of four.
• $707 billion more in household net wealth—the base of economic strength and stability.

According to a recent Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) working paper, of the three taxes (income, corporate, and consumption), corporate taxes are most harmful to economic growth. Other countries are aware of this and have steadily reduced their corporate tax rates. The United States has been the exception.

If Congress repealed the corporate income tax, investments would flow into the country. Multi national and international companies would be encouraged to operate in the United States, bringing jobs and new technology to meet today's economic challenges.

Eliminating the corporate tax would also encourage owners to hire and train people and to invest in their workforces because a more competitive tax structure would give corporations a greater incentive to domicile in the United States.

[Don't like 'off shoring'? This is the answer, and would lead to massive 'on-shoring'.]

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Al Gore vs. 7 Climate Scientists

The dissenters against Anthropogenic (man-made) Global Warming (AGW) have long desired an open and honest debate with Al Gore. But Mr. Gore has never consented.

Here’s the next best thing: a video presentation of edited arguments from 7 renown climate scientists that demolish the rationalizations presented in Gore's movie “An Inconvenient Truth."

It’s good for us to remember that, as I have written before, the whole AGW climate warming theory is hinged on one argument, namely that CO2 causes global warming.

All the politics of AGW including carbon-footprinting, taxation, etc, follow from that one claim. But the supposition on which global warming advocates base their dogma is indisputably wrong, as again documented here.

[I.e., the facts on the 'killer question' alarmists avoid like the plague, and how I know that AWG is a scam: cause cannot trail effect - if you're unaware of what I mean, this 10-minute clip will tell you all you really need know - MUST SEE > ]

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THE TAX CODE PUNISHES EFFICIENT ENERGY SOURCES

The U.S. tax code is heavily weighted in favor of renewable power sources over conventional sources such as coal and oil, Tufts University economics professor Gilbert Metcalf reports in a new study released by the Manhattan Institute.

Under current law, solar thermal and wind capital are subsidized to the greatest extent, with effective subsidy rates of 245 and 164 percent, respectively. While renewable power sources receive substantial subsidies, more efficient conventional power sources are heavily punished by the tax code. [snip]

These numbers paint a clear picture: Renewable energy receives substantial federal subsidies while generating very small amounts of energy and usable electricity. In 2007, less than 1 percent of U.S. electricity was generated by wind energy, while coal contributed over half the nation's electricity that year.

"The tax code is biased toward politically correct energies at the expense of the energies consumers want most -- oil, natural gas, and coal," ... "To this extent, tax policy is anti-consumer."

Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, agrees federal policy punishes the most efficient energy sources.

"In a time of economic crisis, it is reprehensible that politicians continue to throw good money after bad and foist high-cost, low-output energy sources on consumers,"

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Democrats on brink of clamping down on oil and gas drilling

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After nearly two years of drafting and debate, rules imposing new environmental restrictions on gas and oil exploration in Colorado passed their last key test in the state Legislature with preliminary approval Tuesday by the Senate on a party-line vote.

Sen. Bill Cadman, R-Colorado Springs, described the rules as "draconian."

"This bill means no business," said Sen. Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud.

"It means we're shutting down the oil and gas business."

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Twelve NHS trusts face inquiry after report on hospital where up to 1,200 patients died needlessly

Twelve NHS trusts are being investigated following a damning report which today slammed 'appalling' care at a hospital. Hundreds of patients may have died after bosses at Staffordshire General focused on Government targets rather than safety, the Healthcare Commission said.
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POLITICIZING CARE: OREGON CHANGES ITS PRIORITIES

After comment from interested parties [special interest groups, political and business], the state's health program for low-income people has re-ranked treatment for various diseases and conditions, currently from 1 to 680, in order of 'priority'.

The health care dollars available determine which priorities are met. As program costs have grown, the list of covered procedures has become shorter. Surprisingly, between 2002 and 2009 there was a fairly radical reordering of priorities.

A great many life-saving procedures that ranked high in 2002, such as treatment for Type 1 diabetes, have been relegated to a much lower position in 2009, while procedures that are only tangentially related to life and death have climbed to the top:

• Bariatric surgery for people with Type II diabetes and a 35 or greater Body Mass Index (BMI) number is ranked 33rd.
• This means that the rationing board thinks that stomach surgery to control obesity is more important than surgery to repair injured internal organs (88), a closed hip fracture (89), or a hernia showing symptoms of obstruction or strangulation (176).
• Abortions rank 41st, indicating that the state considers using public money for abortions more important than treating an ectopic pregnancy (43), gonococcal infections and other sexually transmitted diseases (56), or an infection or hemorrhage resulting from a miscarriage (68).

In 2002, when treatments through 566 were funded, there was far more emphasis on actual medical care and measurable interventions that save lives and improve individual functioning.

Various interest groups have spent the last seven years reordering the political* priorities embodied in the list.

[Everything government does becomes politicized. Smoke? Too bad. Ride a motorcycle? That's a problem. Eat too much - or maybe just too much red meat...? Skydive? Ski? ... You're not getting too old are you?...

We don't want government run health care.]

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WaPo to Domestic Violence Victims: You Can't, Shouldn't Arm Yourselves with Guns

The legislation is most likely DOA in the Maryland House of Delegates -- where a similar bill was shot down in an 86-51 vote -- but the Washington Post is so frightened by a state Senate committee vote approving a measure to make it easier for domestic abuse victims to buy a gun that it thought it important to preach about how "Arming abuse victims is the wrong way to curb domestic violence."

According to a March 24 Post editorial, abused women are just too emotionally unstable to exercise their Second Amendment rights and probably

"have seen one Jodie Foster film too many"

if they think a gun can even the odds against a violent abuser.

[There's a reason they're called 'equalizers', and no one is harmed more by gun restriction laws than are women.]

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Black Activist Jailed and Tortured Near Florida

Rude and shaggy punk rockers who sneer at their president as "a fraud and an a**hole!", who diss their national icons as "pr*cks" and "murderers!" have recently been arrested for attempting to visit a black civil rights activist who is being tortured in prison for quoting Martin Luther King in public.

"Wait a minute?!" you say. "Should'nt all hip people be outraged by this?..How come I haven't heard about this in Rolling Stone Magazine, MTV, VH1, Time, Newsweek, Entertainment Weekly, People, Vanity Fair, OK, InTouch, InStyle, ABC, CBS, CNN etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.??

It's very simple. The insulted "president" is named Fidel Castro, the dissed national icon is named Che Guevara, and the black civil rights activist was jailed and tortured for campaigning for civil rights in Cuba for Cubans.

Need I say more?

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Name That Party: 3 Dems in FBI Probe, Party Affiliation Omitted/Buried

The Associated Press posted a story on the FBI's probe of questionable campaign donations to Senator Patty Murray and Representative Norm Dicks of Washington state. The possibly worrisome donations were from PMA Group, a lobbying firm founded by an aide of Representative John Murtha of Pennsylvania.

With all these politician's names being thrown around in the AP report, though, it is curious that not a one of them were ever identified as Democrats. Not once.

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Barbour signs law to ban red-light cameras in Mississippi

Jackson — Officials in several Mississippi cities are scrambling to re-evaluate contracts with private companies after Gov. Haley Barbour signed a new law banning the use of automatic cameras that snap pictures of vehicles running red lights. The new law says the two cities that already have the cameras, Jackson and Columbus, must take them down by Oct. 1. Other cities and counties are banned from starting to use them.

[It's not about safety, it's about revenue.]

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'Are we a banana republic?'

I'm stupefied to find that some people are defending the constitutionality of the discriminatory, confiscatory and retroactive tax on people who receive bonus income from companies that got TARP money. I would have considered it a bright line rule that the government can't identify a class of unpopular people and impose a special tax on them. [unless, of course, you smoke]

What's next? A 100% income tax on registered Republicans, retroactive to last year? If Pelosi's bill passes muster, why not? [snip]

A banana republic features governments that arbitrarily change the law to suit their interests or the interests of their cronies. Peter Robinson of NRO added this to John's missive:

As it happens, just a couple of weeks ago I found myself having this very conversation with a Cuban and a Colombian. Both were close and longtime observers of Latin American politics and experts, therefore, on banana republicdom. They insisted—just insisted—that Barack Obama was moving us in that direction, and fast.

I had a much harder time refuting their argument than I'd have liked.

The fact is, the Democrats are doing things in Congress and the White House that are far beyond what Bush and the Republicans ever even contemplated.

But setting up a "tyranny of the majority" is easy when no one calls you out for it.

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57% Support 90% Tax on AIG Post-Bailout Bonuses

Fifty-seven percent (57%) of U.S. voters favor imposing a 90% tax on bonuses paid by American International Group (AIG) and other firms that receive government bailout money, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

Thirty-five percent (35%) oppose such a tax, which already has been approved by the House and is now under discussion in the Senate.

Three-out-of-four Americans (76%) want the executives involved to give the bonuses back. Sixty-eight percent (68%) have come to believe that most bailout money is going to those who caused the economic crisis to begin with.

Seventy-three percent (73%) of voters say Congress and President Obama should have acted to prevent the AIG bonuses before the company received its bailout money. Only 10% disagree,and 17% are not sure.

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We've legalized theft in America

I have been looking through a new study, released by an organization called the Property Rights Alliance, called the International Property Rights Index. The study examines 115 nations worldwide and examines the correspondence between prosperity in a country and how secure private property is there.

It shows a practically perfect correlation. The more secure private property is in a given country, the more prosperous it is. Countries rated in the top 25 percent in secure and safe private property have on average nine times more income per person than those in the bottom 25 percent.

It's one of those things that makes so much sense that you wonder why you have to do a study to show it. The easier it is to steal in any given country the less likely the economy will function well there.

Yet, basic truths such as this are becoming increasingly lost in our country and this is what should be driving our outrage. That we now live in a country where our private property is no longer safe and the very government that supposedly exists to protect it has become the thief we have to worry about.

President Obama went on Jay Leno's popular Tonight Show and talked about the current crisis. Listening to him, there seems little doubt that everything started on Wall Street.

"The problem is ... people were able to take huge, excessive risks with other people's money."

But, Mr. President, half the mortgages in this country are owned or guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- which were and are backed up with the money of us taxpayers. An easy flowing mortgage credit market built by politicians, by setting us taxpayers up to guarantee it all, which is what we wound up doing, is what started this whole thing... [snip]

Or we can re-direct our attention from symptoms to causes.

We can recall that the founders of our country intended the role of government to protect our lives and property, not violate them. And that in times when we have respected that proper use of government, our country has prospered.

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Poll: Nearly half place most of blame for bonuses on AIG anagement; one in five point at Congress

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There's a lot of blame to go around when it comes to the $165 million in bonuses paid to executives at AIG, the insurance giant that has gotten $170 billion in federal aid.

A new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows that Americans hold AIG management itself most responsible.

[Propaganda works.]

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Poland hopes U.S. will not let it down on shield

- Poland said on Sunday it hoped the new U.S. administration would not abandon plans to station a missile defence system on its territory.

President Barack Obama's administration is reviewing U.S. security policy, including the missile shield plan. This has prompted speculation he might shelve a project that has angered Moscow, with which Washington wants to mend ties.

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said Poland had taken "something of a political risk" in signing an agreement with the Bush administration to host the system.

NATO member Poland has said it expects the shield project, designed to counter possible threats from what Washington calls rogue states such as Iran, to go ahead eventually after the review and hopes to complete technical talks next month.

Under the deal agreed last year, Poland would host 10 ground-based interceptors, and in return Washington promised to station a Patriot missile battery on Polish territory for a period before the end of 2009.

[Reneging on a non-NATO member would be dishonorable - but on a fellow member?]

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FLASHBACK > No Offense :

On December 3, every last one of them signed a statement saying that missile defenses in Poland and the Czech Republic would make a "substantial contribution" to keeping them alive, roughly speaking.

Why in the world is Obama dithering?

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Robbing the Pentagon to Pay Foggy Bottom

The administration’s plan to get us to European levels of defense spending by 2016 comes at the same time as reports that the Chinese government stated that its official defense budget will jump by 14.9 percent this year (who knows how high the actual amounts are) and an announcement by Russian President Medvedev that Russia will undertake a “large-scale rearming” by 2011 given that “there are a range of regions where there remains serious potential for conflicts.”

There are a multitude of reasons that cutting defense at this juncture is a bad idea.

The systems reportedly on the chopping block include a new Navy destroyer, the Air Force’s F-22, Army ground-combat vehicles, and possibly aircraft carriers, all integral elements of our ability to project power and defend our allies. Missile defense, now out of favor because it is unpopular in Moscow, is expected to take a significant hit as well.

But beyond the programs and systems, the administration’s budget offers insight into its mentality about national security. Listen to some Democratic budget experts and you hear phrases like a “return to normalcy” used to describe the administration’s plans for defense spending.

In this “normal” world, there is no mention of 9/11, or of the fact that countries such as Russia and China still threaten our allies and our interests...

['get us to European levels of defense spending' ? Europe cannot defend itself. Highly Recommended > ]

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Obama Diverting Money From Armed Pilots Program

In an editorial on Tuesday, The Washington Times noted that the administration recently diverted some $2 million from the pilot training program. Instead, the money will be used to hired more supervisors to conduct field inspections of pilots, the Times reported.

The move will make air travel more vulnerable to terrorist attacks, something that should outrage travelers, said the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said.

“This looks like completely unnecessary harassment of the pilots,”

the newspaper opined. CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb agreed that the Obama administration is

“risking public safety, as the newspaper put it, 'in the name of an anti-gun ideology.'"

According to the Air Line Pilots Association, the government – since April 2003 -- has trained thousands of volunteer airline pilots as federal flight deck officers to protect passenger and cargo aircraft flying throughout the United States.

“The FFDO program has evolved from a small program that armed airline pilots to protect the flight deck into a substantial, cost-effective security institution,”

Gottlieb noted that some politicians and bureaucrats have never liked the armed pilot program:

"These anti-gun, anti-self-defense bureaucrats seem more interested in their own power, and protecting their little empires, than they are in protecting the public. And now Obama is catering to their anti-gun bigotry."

The pilots’ union repeatedly has urged Congress to adequately fund the program, and its priorities for 2009 include bolstering the program.

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How Will Media Report Chavez Calling Obama 'A Poor Ignoramus'?

Barack Obama is hailed by sycophantic media members as one of the brightest men to ever be President, and was supposed to improve America's standing around the world.

Yet, on Sunday, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez called Obama

"a poor ignoramus" who "should read and study a little to understand reality."

Given how impressed news members are with our new President, and how they regularly disparaged the intellectual capacity of George W. Bush, it is going to be very interesting to see how Chavez's comments get covered in the coming days.

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U.N. panel says world should ditch dollar

A U.N. panel will next week recommend that the world ditch the dollar as its reserve currency in favor of a shared basket of currencies, a member of the panel said on Wednesday, adding to pressure on the dollar.

Currency specialist Avinash Persaud, a member of the panel of experts, told a Reuters Funds Summit in Luxembourg that the proposal was to create something like the old Ecu, or European currency unit, that was a hard-traded, weighted basket.

Some analysts said news of the U.N. panel's recommendation extended dollar losses because it fed into concerns about the future of the greenback as the main global reserve currency, raising the chances of central bank sales of dollar holdings.

"Speculation that major central banks would begin rebalancing their FX reserves has risen since the intensification of the dollar's slide between 2002 and mid-2008,"

Russia is also planning to propose the creation of a new reserve currency, to be issued by international financial institutions, at the April G20 meeting, according to the text of its proposals published on Monday.

It has significantly reduced the dollar's share in its own reserves in recent years.

[I.e., we cannot just print money, which is what our spending frenzy is requiring, and expect the rest of the world to simply eat the devaluation which follows.]

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Thank God America Isn't Like Europe -- Yet

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The stuff of life -- the elemental events surrounding birth, death, raising children, fulfilling one's personal potential, dealing with adversity, intimate relationships -- occurs within just four institutions: family, community, vocation and faith.

Seen in this light, the goal of social policy is to ensure that those institutions are robust and vital. The European model doesn't do that. It enfeebles every single one of them.

Drive through rural Sweden, as I did a few years ago. In every town was a beautiful Lutheran church, freshly painted, on meticulously tended grounds, all subsidized by the Swedish government. And the churches are empty. Including on Sundays.

The nations of Scandinavia and Western Europe pride themselves on their "child-friendly" policies, providing generous child allowances, free day-care centers and long maternity leaves. Those same countries have fertility rates far below replacement and plunging marriage rates.

They are countries where jobs are most carefully protected by government regulation and mandated benefits are most lavish. And with only a few exceptions, they are countries where work is most often seen as a necessary evil, and where the proportions of people who say they love their jobs are the lowest.

Call it the Europe Syndrome, which goes something like this: Human beings are a collection of chemicals that activate and, after a period of time, deactivate. The purpose of life is to while away the intervening time as pleasantly as possible.

If that's the purpose of life, then work is not a vocation, but something that interferes with the higher good of leisure. If that's the purpose of life, why have a child, when children are so much trouble? If that's the purpose of life, why spend it worrying about neighbors? If that's the purpose of life, what could possibly be the attraction of a religion that says otherwise?

[I.e., Europe, as a union and a people, is retiring. You know, that time in life when you get your just rewards and do for you. That's great for individuals - but it does beg the question when speaking of societies: what follows retirement?

Highly Recommended > ]

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54% Say Allies Should Follow America's Lead

More U.S. voters than ever (54%) think the nation’s allies should do what the United States wants them to do.

Only 14% think America should do what its allies want when it comes to foreign policy, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

Twenty-six percent (26%) think neither side has the answer.

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Your 'duh' moment for today

The headline says it all:

New deficit estimates much worse than W. House predicted

How much worse?

President Barack Obama's budget would generate deficits averaging almost $1 trillion a year over the next decade, according to the latest congressional estimates, significantly worse than predicted by the White House just last month.

The Congressional Budget Office figures, obtained by The Associated Press Friday, predict Obama's budget will produce $9.3 trillion worth of red ink over 2010-2019. Worst of all, CBO says the deficit under Obama's policies would never go below 4 percent of the size of the economy, figures that economists agree are unsustainable.

By the end of the decade, the deficit would exceed 5 percent of gross domestic product, a dangerously high level.

"Unsustainable" deficits means that we are going to have to do something drastic like raise everyone's taxes beyond belief while gutting our military and reducing discretionary spending to as close to zero as we can get. And this will have to be done in an economy that is being ruined by the president's actions.

It won't [just] be our children or grandchildren who will be living in the wreckage of a ruined economy. It will be us and it will happen much quicker than we are being told.

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Obama links budget to environment

President Barack Obama's aides say the administration will work with Congress on his budget proposal, but energy independence is not subject to wheeling and dealing. Obama planned to make the case Monday for a budget proposal that invests billions in research designed to reduce climate change and guarantees loans for companies that develop clean energy technologies.

[I.e., all the things that don't work, at the expense of abandoning all the things that do.]

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Lord Monckton Spring Cleans Global Warming Hysteria

Following a wonderfully droll refresher on archaic royal manners, Monckton shredded Al Gore’s “consensus” claims and offered Liddy a history lesson in previous – and significantly warmer -- warming periods. And then explained how a combination of “very powerful naked vested interests” drives the warming alarmist misinformation campaign.

Here’s his formula: Combine media “world to end” sensationalist marketing ploys with “rent-seeking” scientists and the political left’s need to appear to be relevant and concerned. Add teachers wanting to appeal to the idealism of students – for them the Al Gore message of apocalyptic imminent doom is magnetically attractive -- and U.N world government wannabes and -- voila!

Monckton repeated verbatim the magnificent 428-word cap-and-trade dragon beheading sentence he befuddled the clowns in the House Ways and Means subcommittee with earlier this month, and that alone is well worth your listening time. And, as always, his Lordship was as charming and entertaining as he was enlightening. Hear the entire segment here.

Thomas Lifson adds: Give yourself a treat and listen. It is obvious why Al Gore is scared to death of debating Lord Monckton. He is eloquent, witty, and effortlessly eloquent. Gore is ponderous at best, and would sound like a dummy paired with him.

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British Minister calls for 50% reduction in population

The "sustainable development" crew is at it again. This time, it's a British Minister who will recommend at a population conference this week that the United Kingdom reduce its population from 60 million to 30 million in order to build a "sustainable society:"

This is beyond insidious. In order to achieve a 50% reduction in population, Great Britain would have to mandate family size and even take control of family planning completely, making the decisions regarding which parents will be able to have children and which won't. And there is absolutely no scientific evidence whatsoever that reducing the population of a developed country will impact climate change one iota. They are just making stuff up as they go along.

And people wonder why many of us point to the real agenda of global warming fanatics as a reason to oppose them.

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Offshore Oil Drilling Ban Will Be Restored ‘By Any Means Necessary,’ Democratic Congressman Says

The ban on offshore oil drilling that expired last September will be restored by “any means necessary,” Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.), who serves on both the House Committee on Natural Resources and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, told CNSNews.com on Friday.

Inslee, who participated in a conference entitled "Planning for a Secure Energy Future” sponsored by the Washington Post, also recommended a ban on future drilling in the arctic, where he says there is a “gold rush” for oil by [every nation but the U.S.].

But Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), who serves on the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and also attended the conference, told CNSNews.com that offshore oil drilling should provide an integral part of American energy and recommended the Interior Department begin distributing offshore oil drilling leases.

“We have to have natural gas,” ... “We have to have U.S. oil production. There may be as much as 75 percent of our proven reserves that are on federal lands or in the ocean combined. It’s a huge opportunity for this country to become energy independent.”

Walden added that he thinks the process of offshore oil drilling could also provide an excellent stimulus to the U.S. economy.

[Which are you for? If continued inslavement to OPEC, you're in good hands, the Dems are in charge. But if you'd rather we used our own oil, you'll need speak up: silence will be interpreted as consent.]

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College scholarship for illegals only

CALIFORNIA

The San Mateo Community College District, on the San Francisco Peninsula, has sent a mass email announcing a scholarship for "undocumented" students of "Chicano / Latino descent" only.

CORE (Chicano Organizing & Research in Education) is pleased to announce its first annual "Que Llueva Café" scholarship. Applicants must be undocumented, Chicano/Latino, high school students entering college this fall. The postmark deadline is April 10, 2009. [snip]

Here is the full text of an ungrammatical email sent yesterday, proudly announcing the boon solely for those who do not follow the immigration laws of our country. Oddly enough, they see nothing wrong with requiring their own documentation.

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Kids Are Being Taught That Carbon Kills Polar Bears

CALIFORNIA

California’s KQED has a story about elementary school children being taught that manmade “Mr. Carbon” is giving the Earth a global warming “fever” and killing “lovable” polar bears. Of course, the San Francisco-based PBS station thinks that’s just swell.

Cool The Earth, the group behind this blatant indoctrination program, is the brainchild of two Marin County parents who say they were inspired by watching Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. That’s probably all you need to know, but bear with me – it gets better.

According to their website, “Cool The Earth is a ready-to-run program that educates K-8 students and their families. Here’s how they describe the program’s kick-off assembly:

The Cool the Earth program launches with an all-school assembly in which an original, play is performed by teachers, parents and students. Characters such as Koda the polar bear, Earth and Mother Nature act out scenarios about how human activities are contributing to raising levels of carbon dioxide and giving the earth a global warming “fever.”

It’s broken record time again, folks. As global temperatures continue to cool, alarmists are picking up both the tempo and intensity of their disinformation campaign. And public schools are a high value target. Please monitor the “science” being fed to your kids in school. And be prepared to remove any green mush that finds itself between their ears. Sit your kids down to watch and discuss the fabulous video AT’s Gregory Young features today.

And should your 7-year-old return home from school one day, upset that your “carbon footprint” is killing poor Koda the polar bear, explain to the little tyke that what he or she saw in school wasn’t real, but only make-believe.

Just like manmade global warming itself.

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Judge Orders FDA to Reconsider Limits on Morning-After Pill for Minors

A federal court today ordered the Food and Drug Administration to reconsider the agency's controversial decision limiting non-prescription access to the morning-after pill Plan B to women age 18 and older.

U.S. District Judge Edward R. Korman ordered the FDA to make Plan B available to women age 17 and older within 30 days and to reconsider whether to make the drug available to women of all ages without a prescription.

[Excuse me, but did the FDA break a law in exercising the authority given it by United States Code? No? Then who the heck is this (or any) judge to arbitrarily 'order' it what to do?

We've a serious problem with our run-away judiciary - it needs be reigned in.]

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We've a serious problem with our run-away judiciary - it needs be reigned in.]

San Francisco Democrat In House Seeks Lower Taxes -- By Claiming Maryland Residency

The Washington Post's Miranda Spivack downplayed all the irony in her report Friday on a top House Democrat on the tax-law-writing Ways and Means Committee trying to lower his taxes in Maryland by claiming the state as his residence – even as he represents a district in San Francisco. The congressman is long-time liberal Pete Stark.

Stark's homestead exemption was first reported yesterday by Bloomberg News. The congressman is the second-ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee and chairs its health subcommittee, which writes tax legislation.

Stark said yesterday that he expected Maryland to reject his application for a homestead exemption. "From what I hear from everybody, it will be denied and my taxes will go up," he said. He said he expects his $12,500 annual property tax bill to increase by about $3,000.

Will this story be reported in San Francisco and New York? Neither of these liberals are in much danger of being unseated, but it should be highly embarrassing for them to call themselves residents of Maryland just for a tax break.

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Biden bashes Obama?

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“Axelrod really wanted me to do this on teleprompter -- but I told him I’m much better when I wing it. … I know these evenings run long, so I’m going to be brief. Talk about the audacity of hope. … President Obama does send his greetings, though. He can’t be here tonight -- because he’s busy getting ready for Easter. (Whisper) He thinks it’s about him. …"

[Prepare for 24/7 media blitz.]

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NYT Columnist: People Only Want Info That Confirms Prejudices

"[T]here’s pretty good evidence that we generally don’t truly want good information — but rather information that confirms our prejudices. We may believe intellectually in the clash of opinions, but in practice we like to embed ourselves in the reassuring womb of an echo chamber."

I hardly ever agree with anything New York Times columnist Nicolas Kristof writes, but his piece on Wednesday was astoundingly provocative and an absolute must-read.

His basic premise is that with the demise of print media and our reliance on the Internet as an information source, we Americans are mostly surrounding ourselves with folks that think like us and, therefore, aren't really being challenged to defend our views on the important issues of the day.

Before casting this aside as so much liberal elite twaddle, consider the following:

One 12-nation study found Americans the least likely to discuss politics with people of different views, and this was particularly true of the well educated. High school dropouts had the most diverse group of discussion-mates, while college graduates managed to shelter themselves from uncomfortable perspectives.

The result is polarization and intolerance. Cass Sunstein, a Harvard law professor now working for President Obama, has conducted research showing that when liberals or conservatives discuss issues such as affirmative action or climate change with like-minded people, their views quickly become more homogeneous and more extreme than before the discussion.

For example, some liberals in one study initially worried that action on climate change might hurt the poor, while some conservatives were sympathetic to affirmative action. But after discussing the issue with like-minded people for only 15 minutes, liberals became more liberal and conservatives more conservative. [snip]

Interesting. Does that mean the information superhighway is actually narrowing our horizons rather than broadening them?

Before dismissing this notion offhand, ask yourself how many liberal websites you surfed today, and how many people you have in your inner circle that don't share your political point of view.

So do yourself a favor: go find a liberal [or conservative, or 'other'] to argue with! [ahem: debate]

[Shortish and quite good, and gratifying to see. Those of you who know me have likely heard my {self aggrandizing} speech re: my 'discipline' to read a number of left-blogs every day (kos, huff, media matters etc. - I've even posted from the latter).

Point is; this is the dark side of the new media. As empowering as being able to select our own 'news' is, we're also self-filtering - with the exact effects described above, so...

I re (re-re) offer free advice: try to spend half your news browsing time reading those articles that don't sound agreeable or 'right' per the title. It's surprisingly tough (dumbness can be painful) - but what exactly are we learning by reading only what we already agree with?

Highly Recommend (from the New York Times, mind) > ]

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What Obama Hath Wrought (Updated: ACORN connection)

Populist rage fueled by the President himself has now entered an area not seen in American politics for generations:

The Connecticut Working Families Party this weekend has organized a bus tour that will make stops at the security-patrolled homes of AIG execs who are fearing for their lives.

"I know there's a lot of anger and a lot of rage about what's happened. We're not looking to foment rage unnecessarily, but what we want to do is give folks an opportunity to see what kinds of lifestyle billions of dollars in credit-default swaps can buy."

Right, they're not fomenting rage, they're just encouraging it. So if you happen to record someone's address so you can return in the dead of night, it's not like Working Families told you to!

This is the kind of thing that led to guillotines in France. Having a President who can direct populist rage against any target he chooses is so dangerous I am amazed there hasn't been more written about this.

UPDATE:
P.W. Dunn emails:
The connection is not merely theoretical. Sweetness and Light points out that ACORN is a co-founder of the Connecticut Working Families Party. This is thuggish behavior by Obama's organization.

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Why Are Democrats Faking on AIG Bonuses?

Several talk show hosts (like Laura Ingraham) were exposing the faked Democratic ignorance of the AIG bonuses just like Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass did on Sunday:

"What they're trying to drown out with all their screaming is that the Democrats knew all about the $165 million to the AIG suits. And the Obama White House knew all about it too."

Kass wrote the AIG bonuses present a real problem for the party of Hate the Rich:

But all this false congressional outrage and shrieking and fingerpointing should be understood for what it really is: Political buttocks-covering by Democrats who are worried about the 2010 elections, and afraid of losing their greatest symbolic weapon: The Evil Rich Guy.

Kass poked at the Washington reporters with the "tingles up their legs" to stop being enthralled and start being appalled at the Democratic charade...

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Deficit to hit $9.3 trillion in next decade

Staggering numbers released Friday show President Obama's new budget will nearly double the cumulative deficit over the next decade to $9.3 trillion, damaging the president's ambitious plans to overhaul health care and boost spending on alternative energy. As a result of a worsening economy and new spending, the fiscal 2009 deficit will reach $1.8 trillion - four times the record set last year and $400 billion more than projected two months ago...
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Obama: Budget priorities won't change
President Obama said Saturday he will publicly push his key budget priorities in the coming week as Congress considers his $3.6 trillion proposal for 2010, acknowledging the numbers may change but saying he will insist that it invests in alternative energy, education, health care reform and deficit reduction... [??]
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A Working President?

Yesterday, with teleprompter at the ready, our illustrious leader spoke (I should say read) a special message to the people of Iran, espousing his understanding of their culture and promising a renewed compassion by the American people.

Perhaps tomorrow he can squeeze a moment between bowling and riding around on Air Force One-to actually attempt to fill one of the 17 vacant positions in the Treasury Department?

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US Looking for Reciprocal Iranian Gesture After Obama Message

The State Department said Friday U.S. officials are looking for a reciprocal gesture from Iran after President Barack Obama's conciliatory holiday message to the Iranian people and government Thursday. Mr. Obama said in a broadcast for the Iranian new year holiday Nowruz that the United States wants "honest engagement" with Tehran based on mutual respect.

State Department officials say the broadcast overture by the President is only one of several gestures planned by the administration ...

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Iran's supreme leader dismisses Obama overtures
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's supreme leader rebuffed President Barack Obama's latest outreach on Saturday, saying Tehran was still waiting to see concrete changes in U.S. policy.

"They chant the slogan of change but no change is seen in practice. We haven't seen any change,"

Khamenei said in a speech before a crowd of tens of thousands in the northeastern holy city of Mashhad.

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Walid Phares on Obama's Iran message

Some thoughts from an Iran expert who has a track record of being right in the past. He is a man who should be listened to by the Obama Administration - but won't be. Here are some of his thoughts given to Russian and Lebanese TV stations in the wake of President Obama's message to Iran:

Washington wants to engage Iran on the ground of stopping the military nuclear program and ceasing support to Hezbollah and Hamas, while Tehran considers these matters as a no-go area of concession.

This statement by Obama may be an opportunity for the Iranian decision-makers to consider a u-turn on strategic matters, but the fact is that the regime feels it has the upper hand everywhere in the Middle East.

Why would they make concessions if their perception is that the US is already withdrawing from Iraq, is requesting their help in Afghanistan and is not committed to support democracy in Iran?

Dr. Phares believes there's a real chance that this overture will actually harden the position of the Iranian regime unless Ahmadinejad loses the presidential election this summer.

We don't see much from Obama with regard to shoring up our alliances with our friends nor do we see any recognition of the fact that our sped up withdrawal from Iraq may leave that country wide open to Iranian meddling.

In fact, there is little hope the current administration will do anything meaningful to counter growing Iranian strength and the subsequent threat they represent to our interests.

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Left out of the President's Iran message

President Obama's message to Iran is being praised by the media for its forward looking approach to relations with Iran. Unfortunately, at least one Iranian blogger did not have the inspiring opportunity to hear it:

A young Iranian blogger jailed in Tehran's notorious Evin prison for insulting supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has died, his lawyer told AFP on Thursday. Mohammad Ali Dadkhah said that although there is not yet an official report about the death on Wednesday of Omid Mir Sayafi, "officials in the prison said that he committed suicide."

And what horrible crime did the 25 year old commit to be imprisoned under conditions worse than say, Guantanamo?

The blogger, aged around 25, was sentenced in February to 30 months in jail for insulting Khamenei and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic. Iran has launched a crackdown on bloggers and Internet users deemed to be hostile to the authorities and their Islamic values.

Busy condemning Israel for defending itself against rockets continuing to fall on Israeli schools, hospitals and other civilian sites and the U.S. for detaining prisoners in Guantanamo under conditions infinitely better than in Iran, none of the various 'human rights organizations' have made any comments about the Iranian blogger's death or this Iranian crackdown.

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Russian planes fly over U.S. naval ships

Washington - Two Russian planes flew within 500 feet of U.S. Navy ships participating in military drills with South Korea, military officials said. After trying unsuccessfully to contact the pilots, U.S. fighter jets met up with the Russian planes and flew with them until they left the area.

Russian Ilyushin IL-38 maritime patrol aircraft flew over the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis while it was in international waters in the Sea of Japan.

[This is dangerously irresponsible behavior: any degradation in a Carrier Group's defcon status, which Russia has no way of knowing, calls for repulsion of any such intrusion long before it's within range of doing harm.]

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Andean countries, EU to continue FTA dialogue

LIMA, -- Peruvian, Colombian and Ecuadorian officials will hold meetings with their counterparts from the European Union (EU) next week for a Free Trade Agreement, Peruvian authorities said on Friday.

[Everyone but US - thanks unions.]

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Congress's Union-Driven Refusal To OK The Colombia Free Trade Pact Is Shameful
Yesterday I argued that the Obama administration has been disrespecting the leaders of Brazil and Mexico. For much more on what is going on in Latin America, please read Mario Loyola's article in National Review. He highlights the growing ties between Iran and Russia with the leaders of Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua and the dangers they pose. All the more reason that the United States should cooperate with the constructive leaders of Brazil and Mexico, the two most populous countries in Latin America.

And why it is shameful that Congress, at the behest of labor unions, refuses to ratify the free trade agreement with Colombia, the third-most-populous country in Latin America and one under attack from the authoritarian demagogue Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Let's show a little respect for our friends and neighbors..

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Capping & Trading on Obama's $250,000 Lie

While the 95% promise leaves room for endless semantic swordplay, this one, originally declared by candidate Obama last September, does not:

"I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

And yet it was just days after dancing at his inaugural ball that President Obama waltzed around that pledge by signing a $33 billion State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) expansion bill. For in order to pay for his campaign promise, which broadened health insurance subsidies for children and qualifying adults in “lower-[not just 'low'] income” families, he increased the federal excise tax on tobacco by a massive 156 percent.

Despite the fact that no one will be harmed more by the regressive 61.6 cents per pack hike than the “lower-income” families Obama has always promised to protect.

[First they came for the smokers...]

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WHICH STATE SHOULD OBAMA EMULATE?

What do Delaware and California have in common? Not much: One is very small, one very large, but more important they have over time followed very different economic policies.

Many years ago Delaware's economic policies were much like California's today:

• It had the highest personal income tax rate (19.8 percent), the second-highest unemployment rate, and the lowest credit rating.
• Government spending rose at triple the rate of inflation for four years and the state budget had five deficits in seven years.
• Two governors of different political parties had presided over this decline and so the state found itself sliding down the slippery slope toward depression.

The next administration took a different economic course (that administration was du Pont's; he was elected governor in 1976):

• Spending was held nearly flat for eight consecutive years, the budget was balanced every year and income tax rates were cut almost in half -- from 19.8 percent to 10.3 percent in the top bracket.
• The next governor made further cuts, down to the current 5.95 percent for the top tax bracket.
• The result was real economic progress; jobs increased substantially, income tax revenues increased by 200 percent over the next 20 years and there were no budget deficits in any of those years.

The other side of the coin is modern California, which now has the country's highest income tax rate and lowest credit rating, has raised state spending about 7 percent a year for four years (twice the inflation rate of 3.5 percent) and has been prone to running deficits in many years.

So which of these states' economic policies, Delaware's back then or California's now, has been the model for the new Obama government? That's easy: The federal government has been enacting policies similar to those of shaky California, not successful Delaware...

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Human sacrifices to global warming god

Back in 1500, we learn from a Princeton professor, the Aztecs figured the climate debate was over, and that if you wanted rain and sunshine and other such blessings, it was simple enough what you had to do -- sacrifice 20,000 lives a year to the right gods.

In the year 2009, it's an equally sure thing in the minds of some that carbon in the atmosphere is going to fry us unless we put the welfare of millions on the line, and here is the latest on President Obama's plan -- it could cost industry almost $2 trillion over an eight-year period.

That hefty sum to be paid out to a cap-and-trade carbon tax would snatch money from the pockets of consumers far more than rising oil prices did, hinder economic growth and in still other ways generate human misery, and all in the name of what?

Computer models that have yet to get anything right, that's what.

"Over the past 10 years there has been no global warming, and in fact a slight cooling," ... "This is not at all what was predicted by the IPCC models,"

physicist William Happer recently told a Senate committee, referring to the computer conclusions of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. [snip]

But what if these skeptics are wrong? If there is a possibility of error, some argue, we should err on the side of safety -- we should have those carbon taxes -- and that might be true if a carbon tax was not itself a powerful peril with the potential to cause the death of millions in the 3rd world.

This will be inexcusable given that it's now clear to anyone willing to look with open eyes that we are putting global-warming garbage into computers, getting garbage out of them and that some are then treating that garbage like a god...

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White House Admits Cap-And-Trade Tax Costs Triple Their Official Estimate

I’ve already explained here on the Forum how the cap-and-trade energy tax works, and would be the biggest tax increase in the history of the country.

Now, amazingly, the White House is telling something closer to the truth about this tax hike, admitting that the official budget estimate of $646 billion, already a mighty steep price to pay, is far, far lower than the real cost...

If Furman is right that the real tax hike would be two or three times the official budget estimate—and it’s likely still a lowball—that would mean the actual tax hike would run well into the trillions, roughly between $1.3 trillion and $1.9 trillion between fiscal years 2012 and 2019 by Furman’s own estimate.

Remember that these staggering costs of $1.3 to $1.9 trillion are for just the first 8 years of a 40 year program that gets much more expensive over time.

This would be the final knock-out blow for a wobbly U.S. economy, and we can only hope that as people learn the facts they’ll oppose it strongly enough to force Congress and the White House back to the drawing board..

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Uncle Sam, MD? Not so fast.

Last Thursday, the nation’s preeminent business organization released a study showing that the high costs of the American healthcare system puts American businesses at a significant disadvantage.

This study shows that healthcare reform is integral to the country’s economic recovery. President Barack Obama understands this, and has vowed to pass comprehensive reform legislation by the end of the year. Unfortunately, administration officials have indicated that their proposals will likely be raising taxes to finance a massive expansion of the public healthcare system.

But the American people resoundingly disapprove of this approach.

The administration should toss it aside, and instead focus on implementing bipartisan measures that reform the system from the inside...

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ALLOWING CONSUMERS TO "SHOP AROUND" FOR HEALTH CARE
America's health care system has become one of the most expensive in the world. On a per person basis, the United States spends more on health care than any other country:

• On average, consumers spend less and less out of their own pockets for health care; health insurance and government programs have grown so large they end up footing the bill for almost 90 percent of all health care costs.
• That's a "good" thing to many political leaders, but it has stunted the efficiency of the health care industry.
• When someone else pays, the incentive to "shop around" for the best price, service, quality, etc. simply isn't there.
• When patients do not pay their own bills, they do not act like typical consumers because they care little about the cost of the care they receive.

If consumers were allowed to shop around for medical care, the whole system would look completely different. Hospitals and doctors would be forced to compete against each other. They would have to provide a good price, good service and the best value to attract customers.

Since 1992 health care costs have risen dramatically -- they've grown twice as fast as inflation.

However, cosmetic surgery is the exception. Why?

Because it isn't paid for by government health plans and insurance policies - it's completely optional. Consumers pay out of their own pockets, consequently price competition has had the predictable effect of keeping all prices as low as they can be...

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Anti-war Article Highlights T-shirt With Bush's Brain Spilling Out

Despite being in so much financial trouble it could be facing extinction, the San Francisco Chronicle continues to be one of the most disgraceful newspapers in the country.

In a piece dealing with Saturday's anti-war protest held in the City by the Bay, the authors disgustingly felt the need to share with their readers a truly offensive t-shirt that was for sale at the event (file photo): [couldn't find, even at the source piece - but...]

Bruce Yurgil, a cartoonist from San Rafael, was trying to unload 80 homemade T-shirts showing former President George W. Bush's brain spilling from his head. The T-shirts were marked down half-price, to $10.

Somewhat ironic given the Chronicle's inability to sell advertising space, wouldn't you agree? After all, even the salesman in question understood how difficult it now is to sell Bush Derangement Syndrome:

"It's no fun being a cartoonist these days," ... "The only person I can make fun of any more is Rush Limbaugh." [why?]

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[Did find the following at the source piece:

[Bush in more evil than Bin Laden,

Inverted American flag,

and of course, the ever-popular 'kaffiyah' scarf, made fashionable by a self-professed terrorist by the name of Yasar Arafat.

So proud.]

SF Chron Reports 'Massive' Anti-War Protest, Completely Ignored Larger Tea Party

Back on March 15, Noel Sheppard noted that the San Francisco Chronicle completely ignored the thousands of average Americans that came together in Cincinnati, Ohio to protest Obama's unprecedented take over of the US economy.

The Cincinnati Tea Party truly was massive but is just one of the many dozens of Tea Party protests that have occurred -- and are continuing to occur -- all across the country in the last two months. Still, the SF Chronicle didn't see any reason to cover the rally.

But never fear for the Chronicle does enjoy a good protest, nonetheless. As long as it's of a leftist, anti-war flavor, of course. Witness the Chron's coverage of the "Massive anti-war, anti-Wall Street protest" from this weekend, March 21.

This rally was no bigger (and arguably smaller) than the anti-Obama protests in Cincinnati, yet the Chronicle reserves the word "massive" for the anti-war/anti-Wall Street protest while offering no coverage at all for the one in Cincy.

If size was the key here, as the Chronicle's headline seems to note, then why ignore the likely bigger protest in Ohio only a week ago?

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Hayward begins ticketing for smoking in public

Lighted cigarettes meant lightened purses and wallets for smokers who were caught puffing in public this week, as the city began enforcement of a smoking ban that technically went into effect last summer. The law, passed by the City Council last May, mandates a $50 fine for smoking on sidewalks, streets and other public places...

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Why the White House barred press access to the press awards ceremony

Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs explains why the White House barred the press from a press awards ceremony yesterday:

The National Newspaper Association, despite its innocuous name, is actually an association of far-left publications that includes “Final Call” — the paper published by Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam.

And that explains why Obama doesn’t want the mainstream press at this award ceremony. A reporter might get it in his head to act like a, you know, reporter and actually ask a meaningful question; such as why the President of the United States is accepting an award from an association that allows members who believe white people are devils and Jews are scum.

Perhaps he shouldn't have fretted so much.

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Iraq sees first Western tour group since Saddam fell

BAGHDAD – Iraq has received its first group of Western tourists since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the Tourism and Antiquities Ministry said on Thursday. The group of eight holidaymakers -- five Britons, two Americans and a Canadian -- arrived on March 8 and toured Iraq's landmark historic sites, including the Biblical city of Babylon, fabled home to the Hanging Gardens.

[Keep in mind? I mean, it would be a great way to help support our fledgling ally and I for one would love to see and support what so much American sweat and blood have paid for.]

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CNN Defines 'A Moderate Democrat'

This week CNN's Political Ticker reported "Congresswoman takes post in State Department." The article begins:

California congresswoman Ellen Tauscher is vacating her Bay Area seat to serve under Hillary Clinton at the State Department.

Tauscher, a moderate Democrat and a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said in a message to her constituents that Clinton had asked her to serve as undersecretary of state for arms control and international security.

Let's briefly examine the congressional voting record of the "moderate Democrat" Ellen Tauscher.

According to interest group evaluations compiled by Project Vote Smart, for 2007 the congresswoman received a zero from the American Conservative Union and the National Right to Life Committee, an F from the National Taxpayers Union, an F- from Gun Owners of America, and a 4 [of 100] from Citizens Against Government Waste.

In contrast, she was awarded 100 percent ratings by NARAL Pro-Choice America, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Education Association, and the National Organization for Women. Americans for Democratic Action assigned her a 95 and the AFL-CIO accorded her a 96.

CNN considers such a voting record to be one of a moderate Democrat. Apparently, over at the most trusted name in news, liberals are as rare as a Barack Obama misstep.

[What spin-by-(mis)labeling?]

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