TEACHERS' UNIONS VS. PROGRESS -- AGAIN

Why does the New York state legislature oppose using data in any way that would identify ineffective teachers?

Ever wonder how effective your child's teacher is? Officials in Albany would rather you didn't know. At least that's the lesson one has to take from their refusal to allow data systems to match students to teachers, though doing so would help the state compete for a pot of perhaps hundreds of millions of federal dollars.

Unions' political interests stand in the way of improving our schools and easing New York taxpayers' burdens, says Marcus A. Winters, a Senior Fellow with the Manhattan Institute.

States must develop data sets that track the individual performance of students over time and match those students to their teachers. Unfortunately, New York has deliberately refused to take that step.

Worse, along with its refusal to improve its data system, the state has kept cities from adopting reforms:

When New York City hinted that it would use its own data system to evaluate teachers based on student test scores, the state legislature passed a law banning the practice...

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POLL: Americans Souring on Democrats

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Support for the Democratic Party is slumping amid a wave of public discontent, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. The findings underscore how dramatically the political landscape has changed during the Obama administration's first year. In January, voters were optimistic about the future, the new president enjoyed soaring approval ratings, and congressional leaders were set to swiftly pass his ambitious agenda. In December's survey, for the first time

The findings underscored how dramatically the political landscape has changed during the Obama administration's first year. In January, despite the recession and financial crisis, voters expressed optimism about the future, the new president enjoyed soaring approval ratings, and congressional leaders promised to swiftly pass his ambitious agenda.

In December's survey, for the first time, less than half of Americans approved of the job President Barack Obama was doing, marking a steeper first-year fall for this president than his recent predecessors...

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More House Dems leaving

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We may be seeing the first evidence that many moderate Democrats are tired of fighting the leftist urges of their own party.

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Tea Party Movement Tops Established Parties in NBC/WSJ Poll Despite Biased Question, Skewed Sample

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Geoffrey Dickens documented the furor of MSNBC's Chris Mathews over the results of an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll (PDF).

Specifically, Mathews was irked that the Tea Party Movement (TPM) was viewed quite a bit more favorably than the two major political parties by those polled (VP=Very Positive; SP=Somewhat Positive; N=Neutral; SN=Somewhat Negative; VN=Very Negative; DK=No Opinion):

• Tea Party Movement: VP-20%; SP-21%; N-21%; SN-10%; VN-13%; DK-15%
• Democratic Party: VP-10%; SP-25%; N-19%; SN-19%; VN-26%; DK-1%
• Republican Party: VP-5%; SP-23%; N-27%; SN-24%; VN-19%; DK-2%

Mathews dismissed the TPM's convincing advantage over the established parties, especially in higher strong positives and lower strong negatives, as being the result of a biased poll question working in the Tea Partiers' favor. I don't think so. In fact, I think the result occurred even though the question is loaded against the TPM.

Here is the full text of the Tea Party poll question...

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Stump pulling and website development.

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Climategate: was Russia’s warming also 'man-made'?

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The Russian business daily Kommersant reports new evidence that Climategate scientists fudged data to exaggerate warming: Climategate has already affected Russia.

On Tuesday, the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) issued a report claiming that the Hadley Center for Climate Change based at the headquarters of the British Meteorological Office in Exeter (Devon, England)

had tampered with Russian-climate data...

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ClimateGate Just Got Much, Much Bigger

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Over at ICECAP.us Meteorologist Joe D’Aleo has posted an item on a “Russian Bombshell” highly relevant to the ClimateGate scandal. The Russian media first posted the story and now some Brits are loving it. The long and the short of it is best summarized by the Telegraph’s James Dellingpole:

“What the Russians are suggesting here, in other words, is that the entire global temperature record used by the IPCC to inform world government policy is a crock.”

That is, we have yet further evidence that the data is being cooked to make the long-running claim of an increase in global temperatures, and now to diminish the apparent cooling of said temps. As the gang at EU referendum tout, “it is in Soviet Union that the CRU, NOAA, NASA show the greatest warming.”

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Obama's Push for Copenhagen Deal

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President Obama's mission to save the planet from global warming could end up trampling on the U.S. Constitution.

When Obama arrives in Copenhagen Friday, he is hoping to cut a deal on a new global-warming agreement. Even though the conference is not likely to produce a legally binding deal, if the president signs an international climate treaty pledging reductions in carbon emissions, he will violate the Constitution...

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US Deal In Copenhagen Wrong For Our Country

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All across this nation, families and businesses are struggling to make ends meet. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs and many more worry that they will be next. But Americans are meeting these times with courage and by putting first things first, at least everywhere but the White House.

It is astonishing that in the midst of the worst recession in 26 years, this administration and Democrat leaders continue to advance job-killing proposals like the national energy tax and will carry that message to the global warming convention in Copenhagen.

Rather than making a priority of creating jobs, the president plans to attend negotiations at the United Nation’s convention on climate change in Denmark. This decision is wrong on several levels. The administration’s participation in the Copenhagen negotiations raises a number of concerns that the president should address before catching his flight.

A primary concern is the impact a global cap and tax system will have on our economy.

In June, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would mandate carbon emission reductions amounting to a national energy tax. While there is still a lot of uncertainty about how much the average American household will pay if this national energy tax becomes law, perhaps the best estimate came from President Obama himself.

In 2008, then-Senator Obama said,

“Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”

He went on to say that the costs will be passed on to consumers...

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Third of projects fail to win credits

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Copenhagen - Almost 30 per cent of projects under the United Nations’ carbon trading system failing to deliver any credits, according to a new report...

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Copenhagen climate conference: ministers plan new summit

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Copenhagen - World leaders could put off major decisions on global warming for another six months time amid a warning from Gordon Brown that at the Copenhagen climate conference is threatened wirth ''deadlock''...

[We can hope.]

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MSNBC: 'Miserable' Culture 'Pleasures Itself' Over Argument there Isn't Climate Change

[Meanwhile, in our professional media...]

On his Dec. 11 broadcast, the same guy who got a thrill up his leg over President Barack Obama and made an awkward pass at CNBC host Erin Burnett on live television, used a bizarre portrayal to describe those who don't ascribe to the theory that man is causing the globe's temperature to increase (emphasis added).

"Well, what do you think when you read these miserable people in The Wall Street Journal op-ed pages? And I -- I picked The Wall Street Journal. I don't get it. There's some kind of culture out there that sits around and talks to itself, and pleases -- pleasures itself, I should say, over the argument that there isn't any climate change."

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Poll: Public sours on Obama's overhaul plan

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Washington - As Democrats struggle to pass a health care overhaul bill by Christmas, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Tuesday found support for the reform plan has sunk to its lowest level since April 2009. Just 32 percent of respondents said that President Barack Obama's health care overhaul proposal is a good idea, with 47 percent responding that the plan is a bad idea.

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Oops! Turns out Obama's cost-cutting health plan won't save a dime; cheaper to do nothing

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It's probably just coincidental that bad numbers about President Obama's much-coveted healthcare legislation came out late last week when few people were paying attention.

Analysts in the Obama administration's Health and Human Services Department reported Friday that the nation's $2.5-trillion annual healthcare tab will not shrink at all under the Democrats' legislative blueprint as being pushed by happy Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader in the Senate.

Instead, they said, the nation's medical costs will actually grow faster under the new bill than they would if that chatty crowd of Washington spenders did absolutely nothing...

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POLL: 40% Support Health Care Plan, 56% Oppose It

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Perhaps more significantly, 46% now Strongly Oppose the plan, compared to 19% who Strongly Favor it.

Overall support for the health care plan fell to 38%, its lowest point ever, just before Thanksgiving. This is the fourth straight week with support at 41% or less. With the exception of a few days following nationally televised presidential appeals for the legislation, the number of voters opposed to the plan has always exceeded the number who favor it.

“The most significant detail in the data is that 63% of senior citizens oppose the plan, including 52% who strongly oppose it,”

Democrats, whose legislators control both the House and Senate, continue to be the big supporters of the health care plan. Seventy-one percent (71%) of those in the president’s party favor it. Eighty-one percent (81%) of Republicans and 69% of voters not affiliated with either party oppose the plan.

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AP Article Cites $60 Billion Per Year In Medicare Fraud

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Such is the case with a report on the arrest of dozens of Medicare ripoff artists in various US cities. While the details of the arrests are indeed important, the final three paragraphs of AP writer Kelli Kennedy's report are the real jaw-droppers, especially in the context of the president's and Congress's dogged determination to set a statist takeover of the entire health care system into motion before the end of this year...

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POLL: 62% Oppose Single-Payer Health Care System

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Only 27% of voters nationwide favor a single-payer health care system where the federal government provides coverage for everyone.

Most Democrats (54%) favor this type of system, though 37% are opposed. Most Republicans (87%) and voters not affiliated with either party (64%) are opposed to the idea.

There is little difference in opinion between those voters who currently have health insurance and those who do not.

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Five Dem Senators say health care bill violates Obama no taxes pledge

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Last night, Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, asked his fellow senators to help enforce a promise President Obama made during the campaign: No tax increases on families earning less than $250,000 and individuals earning less than $200,000. He didn't get much help from the president's own party.

Crapo filed a motion to send the Senate's health care legislation back to committee until the bill could be said to comply with that promise. The motion was defeated.

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POLL: Voters Favor Tort Reform by Two-to-One Margin

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Fifty-seven percent (57%) of voters nationwide favor limiting the amount of money a jury can award a plaintiff in a medical malpractice lawsuit. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 29% disagree and 14% are not sure.

Forty-seven percent (47%) believe that restricting jury awards for medical malpractice lawsuits will significantly reduce the cost of health care in the United States. Twenty-eight percent (28%) disagree, and 25% are not sure.

Other popular reform items include allowing people to purchase policies across state lines. Two-out-of three Americans believe that free market competition is better than government regulation when it comes to controlling costs.

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The ObamaCare Leviathan

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As the Democrats inexorably slog toward the finish line, lugging and wrenching their malformed health care bill, the most passionate debate has been on contentious issues like abortion, the public option, and Medicare cuts.

Yet the overriding danger of the Senate bill and its House counterpart is the massive government bureaucracies that will emerge as the legislation takes effect...

[I.e., all the debates about numbers and scoring and names for programs are all smoke: if they pass ANYTHING it will inexorably lead to full government/socialized health care in time, and achieve their goal of obtaining a mechanism to ensure a permanent liberal majority.

Its never had anything to do with health 'care'.]

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POLL: 47% Trust Private Sector More Than Government To Keep Health Care Costs Down, Quality Up

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A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 33% of adults think the federal government would do a better job of reducing costs and maintaining quality of care. Twenty percent (20%) are undecided.

Seventy-two percent (72%) of Republicans and 52% of adults not affiliated with either major political party say the private sector has the best chance of achieving these goals.

Most Democrats (58%) disagree and have more confidence in the government.

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Socialism by any other name...

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Time is ticking for Democrats to claim some kind of victory on health care legislation, as polls show a public increasingly disillusioned with what is being passed off as "reform."

So now Democrats are trying to rename the public option in the hope no one will notice.

In fact, their new "compromise" is, if anything, a compromise with the furthest-left Democrats who wanted the even more unpopular single-payer system...

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THE POINT:

Despite all the above polls signaling that the majority of Americans do not want any of the current 'reform' plans, the Democrats are intent on passing it regardless, knowing that any political 'damage' it may cause is acceptable in the short term given the long term leverage acquiring control over 1/6th of our economy will give them.

Again, if ANYTHING passes, we - and worse, our children, lose.

I.e., now folks. Now.


"REJECT ALL CURRENT HEALTH CARE PROPOSALS"


YOUR Senator: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
YOUR Congressman: https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml

or: Speed Message them with your personal distribution list...

and as always, pass it on...

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Message to Copenhagen

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Our Constitution Begins, "We the People..."

These are the opening lines of a message to the American delegates in Copenhagen and the rest of the world sent on behalf of the American people by American Solutions. They are meant as a reminder to both Obama Administration officials and international climate activists that under our constitutional system, the American people, not government bureaucrats, are sovereign.


And if you have any doubt that the delegates at Copenhagen need to hear this message, take a look at this:

This is a reference guide being handed out by one of the non-governmental organizations at Copenhagen to keep track of all the proposals to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation. It's purposefully modeled after the Chinese mass murderer Mao Tse-Tung's "Little Red Book of Communism."

Can the profoundly undemocratic nature of this conference be any clearer?



Radical Environmentalism Is "The New Socialism"

Charles Krauthammer calls the shake down occurring in Copenhagen and the EPA's domestic power grab "the new socialism"

"Following the death of the old socialism with the Soviet empire, the cultural elites went straight from the memorial service for socialism to the altar of the environment. The objective is the same: highly centralized power given to the best and the brightest, the new class of experts and technocrats. This time, however, the alleged justification is saving the planet."

Substituting the Advice and Consent of the Senate with the Bureaucratic Power of the EPA

When he travels to Copenhagen this week, President Obama is reportedly going to pledge to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent by 2020.

The Obama Administration's various threats to act unilaterally - both in Copenhagen and at home via the EPA - to achieve this goal occur against the backdrop of this inescapable fact: The Senate, reflecting the will of the American people, refuses to pass the administration's job killing cap and trade legislation.

The result is that the administration is preparing to bypass the Senate with its announcement last week that the EPA will regulate carbon dioxide as a dangerous pollutant .

This would be a breathtakingly anti-democratic and unconstitutional arrogation of power on the part of the President.



And if the question is, "Will the new socialism succeed?" the answer is, "Not if the American people have anything to do with it." Today, the 236th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, American Solutions is issuing a rallying cry to the American people.

Our message is that no imperial presidency, no totalitarian bureaucracy, and no global international elite can or will usurp the power of We the People.

The full text of our ad, which will appear in the daily newspaper of the Copenhagen conference tomorrow:

MESSAGE FROM AMERICA
TO THE AMERICAN DELEGATES IN COPENHAGEN
AND THE REST OF THE WORLD

In America, We Have a Constitution.
It Begins: "We the People"

Our Constitution Requires International Agreements to
Be Agreed Upon By our Senate

Our President Does Not Have Support in our Senate for
Binding Carbon Emissions Limits

Our Environmental Protection Agency Recently Asserted It Has the
Power to Impose Carbon Emissions Limits

Such Action would be Tantamount to our Executive Branch Taxing the American People without
Approval from the Elected Representatives in our Legislative Branch

That's Called "Taxation without Representation" and
We Will Not Stand for it

The American Revolution and a Famous Tea Party in
Boston in 1773 Was About Rejecting Taxation without Representation

We Reject Taxation without Representation even if it
is attempted by our President through an international "political" agreement like the Copenhagen 15

Through Our Election Process, our Presidents, Representatives, and Administrators Are
Accountable to the American People

Unlike Other Countries, We Do Not Have a Democracy Deficit

In America, Mesdames and Messieurs, We the People Govern

You can view a picture of the ad here .

Learn more at www.AmericanSolutions.com.

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[The character is Michael Mann, creator {in every sense of the word} of the now infamous hockey-stick global warming graph, and 'star' of M4GW's "Hide The Decline" video I posted in November...]

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Gore Refuses ClimateGate Questions, UN Official Disconnects Mic [again]

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United Nations security officials have once again prevented a journalist from asking attendees at the climate change conference in Copenhagen questions about the growing ClimateGate scandal.

This time, the person on the receiving end of the apparently forbidden queries was Nobel Laureate Al Gore.

Much as when Ireland's Phelim McAleer tried to ask Stanford professor Stephen Schneider questions Thursday about the controversial e-mail messages obtained from the British Climatic Research Unit last month, McAleer was similarly rebuffed by Gore and his entourage Monday.

Not only did the former Vice President completely refuse to answer questions about his blatant misrepresentations of the age of the most recent e-mail message obtained from Britain's CRU, a U.N. security official actually disconnected McAleer's microphone to make sure any answers would be unrecorded (video embedded below the fold, h/t Climate Depot):

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WH 'Command and Control' EPA Threat Confirms C of C Head's Prediction, Gets Almost No Establishment Media Coverage

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Has anyone else noticed how chilling it has been during the past few days? Not chilly (though it's been that too). Chilling.

On Monday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared, in the Associated Press's words, that "greenhouse gas emissions are a danger and must be regulated."

The AP, in the item just linked, and many other news outlets carried U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas J. Donahue's warning that regulations based on EPA's declaration could lead to

"a top-down command-and-control regime that will choke off growth by adding new mandates to virtually every major construction and renovation project."

Two days later, in an item carried at FoxNews.com that says it was the result of contributions by Fox's Major Garrett and the AP, a White House official confirmed the legitimacy of Donahue's stated fear (bolds are mine):

"The Obama administration is warning Congress that if it doesn't move to regulate greenhouse gases, the Environmental Protection Agency will take a "command-and-control" role over the process in a way that could hurt business."

It seems to me that an administration threatening "command and control," with its echoes of authoritarian regimes throughout history -- an approach that an opponent predicted would occur, and which has now been promised -- might be, well, I don't know, news at establishment media outlets other than Fox.

But, with rare exceptions, it's not.


Oh, and I almost forgot to note that an APB has gone out on the far left for any and all information that might discredit the Chamber's Donahue.

It's going to take more than adding another sweater to do something about this government-driven, media-complicit chill.

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We are in big trouble

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Our country is in big trouble ... huge trouble. It is time that Americans took a hard look at our values, our conception of justice, and our standards for truth. This piece is intended as a first step in that direction.

The story of Tiger Woods and his (now admitted) "infidelity" is everywhere. The Woods' story has piqued the prurient interests of America and the world. The story has dominated the mainstream media for days while the injustice being committed against our Navy Seals and the revelation of the computer code from the CRU (exposing the biggest hoax in the history of the world) have gotten scant attention... [snip]

The mainstream media has downplayed the significance of the CRU documents. The headline of a recent AP story proclaims that the science from the CRU was not faked. Really? As (among others) Marc Sheppard, Lord Monckton, and I have proven the CRU findings most certainly were doctored. The raw date was manipulated to "prove" that the world is exponentially warming. There is no doubt about this.

And still, the mainstream media has not challenged Al Gore on the blatant absurdity of his claim that the documents were at least ten years old and have no real impact on the AGW debate. CNN did ask him to recite his new poem on the impending doom of mother earth. See that video here. (But not if you have recently eaten a meal. You could lose it.)

John 8:32 states the following:

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

The corollary of this brilliant piece of scripture should also be written. It would go something like this:

If you ignore the lies, the lies will imprison you.

Wake up America. The time for the truth to set us free is growing very, very short

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EPA CAUSES COAL COMPANY TO LAY OFF NEARLY 500 MINERS

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A Pittsburgh-based coal company, CONSOL Energy, will lay off nearly 500 of its West Virginia workers next year. CONSOL Energy's political problems are not unique to the mining industry, which has suffered under the Obama Administration:

• The Environmental Protection Agency is already holding 79 surface mining permits in West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee.
• The EPA says these permits could violate the Clean Water Act and warrant "enhanced" review.
• The agency went even further in October, announcing plans to revoke a permit for the Spruce No. 1 Mine in West Virginia.

CEO Nicholas J. DeIuliis said the poor economy compounded by legal challenges by environmental activists forced CONSOL to slash jobs:

• It is challenging enough to operate CONSOL'S coal and gas assets in the current economic downturn without having to contend with a constant stream of activism in rehashing and reinterpreting permit applications that have already been approved or in the inequitable oversight of our operations.
• Customers will grow reluctant to deal with energy producers they perceive are unable to guarantee a reliable supply due to regulatory uncertainty; this inhibits the ability to remain competitive.

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[I.e., the increasing reliance on foreign real* energy on the left continues to grow despite assuming our increased use of coal on the right. But Obama and company want to drive any/all coal production into bankruptcy {his words, not mine}.

What then our 'independence' ?]
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Not So Private Property?: Clean Water Restoration Act Raises Fears of Land Grab

[OR: The next step...]

Upwards of 40 percent of all land in the United States is already under some form of government control or ownership -- 800 million to 900 million acres out of America's total 2.2 billion acres.

The government now appears poised to wield greater control over private property on a number of fronts...

[It's "clean air act", under which we're to be subjected to the regulation of CO2 as a pollutant, all over again.

Will we never learn.]

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Obama’s Assault on Economic Freedom

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Yesterday, President Obama’s two principal economic advisors -- National Economic Council Director Larry Summers and Council of Economic Advisors chair Christina Roemer -- gave us a glimpse into the continued tumult in the White House’s over how to restart America’s economic engines.

Announcing its newest economic intervention, EPA administrator Lisa Jackson threatened Congress that if it didn’t pass the “cap and trade” global warming tax, “... the EPA is going to have to regulate in this area." She said EPA “…is not going to be able to regulate on a market-based way, so it's going to have to regulate in a command-and-control way, which will probably generate even more uncertainty." And infringe even more on economic freedom.

Last week, in his “jobs” speech, Obama said, “There are those who claim we have to choose between paying down our deficits on the one hand, and investing in job creation and economic growth on the other -- but this is a false choice."

He is precisely wrong.

The more the government grabs and spends, the less chance there is that jobs will be created....

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POLL: 76% Prefer Free Market Economy

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Support for a free market economy remains strong despite the extended recession and last fall’s Wall Street meltdown.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 76% of voters now say a free market economy is better than one managed by the government. Only 10% prefer an economy managed by the government.

And those figures are virtually identical to the numbers from a year ago.

Seventy-four percent (74%) of Republicans and a plurality (45%) voters not affiliated with either major party, think there are too many market restrictions.

Fifty-four (54%) of Democratic voters take the opposite view and say there feel there are not enough restrictions on the free market.

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POLL: Plurality Rate Obama’s Economic Performance As Poor

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Forty-five percent (45%) of U.S. voters now give President Obama poor marks for his handling of the economy, the highest level of disapproval this year.

Only once all year have fewer people said the president was doing a good or an excellent job. That came in late September when just 38% offered such positive reviews.

The latest survey was taken Monday and Tuesday nights. On Tuesday, officials from the Federal Reserve Board publicly forecast that the U.S. unemployment rate could remain at these high levels even beyond next year.

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[It's the policies, stupid.]

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Reality Check...

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"I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest." Al Gore

Source: The Wall Street Journal, June 2008.



President Obama's job approval rating his first day in office, January 21, 2009: 65%.

On December 11, 2009: 47%.

Number of those polled who strongly disapproved of Obama his first day in office: 16%.

On December 11, 2009: 39%.

Source: Rasmussen Reports.

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Comic Relief...

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The NY Times Laments Media Bias -- at the Wall Street Journal

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WSJ editor swings back at NYT; Keller responds

Robert Thomson, editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal, responded to David Carr's column today that described how he and deputy Gerard Baker are pushing Washington coverage to the right.

The news column by a Mr David Carr today is yet more evidence that The New York Times is uncomfortable about the rise of an increasingly successful rival while its own circulation and credibility are in retreat...

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