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WASHINGTON — A new report that reviewed 200 years of economic data from 44 nations has reached an ominous conclusion for the world's largest economy: Almost without exception, countries that are as highly indebted as the United States is today grow at sub-par rates.
The report, "Growth in a Time of Debt," was written by two respected academic researchers who recently published a thick book on eight centuries of economic crises.
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"But if you run the numbers on the deficits we have in Medicare, the deficits we have in Social Security, the operating deficits which are over a trillion dollars a year now, and how you undo those is unclear," Allison continued. "We have a dysfunctional foreign policy. We have a real big demographic problem because of the retirement of the baby boomers and that's going to reduce productivity, the big demographic problem. And we have a failed K-12 education system."
"In 25 years, the United States will be a third-world country if we don't change direction," Allison said. "And ironically, we need to go exactly opposite of the way we're going. We need to return to the ideas that made America great - life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, each individual's right to their own life."
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As a result of [Jan 7]'s unemployment insurance claims report , the Associated Press has assured us that the economy is reaching the light at the end of the tunnel, and a growing economy is patiently awaiting
The four-week moving average of unemployment claims is down to 450,250, a 2.2% decrease from the previous week's revised average. According to the AP, this calls for a celebration because apparently economists have stated that an average of 425,000 is a sign of the Holy Grail the nation has been yearning for; a healthy labor market.
However, I don't recall economists increasing the sought after figure by approximately 30.8%. The threshold for a healthy labor market, in terms of jobless claims, has widely been reported for months as 325,000, in fact even the AP itself reported this number back in September.
Now, for at least the past month, it has claimed that number has magically grown by 100,000?
[A: the usual.]
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He has consistently failed to disclose that he has had a sole-source contract with the Department of Health and Human Services since June 19, 2009 to consult on the “President’s health reform proposal.”
He is one source for the claim that the excise tax will result in raises for workers (though his underlying study is in-apt to the excise tax question). He is the basis for the argument that the Senate bill reduces families’ risk–even if it remains totally unaffordable. Even Politico stenographer Mike Allen points to Gruber’s 'research'.
But none of the references to Gruber I’ve seen have revealed that Gruber has a $297,600 contract with HHS [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] to produce,
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When exactly did California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger discover that ObamaCare was nothing more than a “ripoff”?
Despite that the fact that the states would get stuck with huge increases in Medicaid had been apparent since the first drafts of the bill in Congress in the summer, Schwarzenegger only had his Road to Damascus moment when Ben Nelson cut a better deal with Harry Reid in the Senate bill than either of his two useless Senate Democrats, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein.
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In yet another display of arrogance mixed with utter contempt for the public, the Democrats have decided that the only sensible way to craft a health care bill is to do it beyond the "prying eyes" of ordinary Americans... [snip]
We know at least one thing, you arrogant, elitist hacks: we'll be paying the multi-trillion dollar tab for this steaming pile of socialist sludge... [snip]
Are you listening, MSM?
You mindlessly back Democrats for two election cycles and now you ask how dare they break their promises? C-Span and CBS News are upset? Keith Olbermann is angry? Where were all of you when the least investigated presidential candidate in history kept the entire period of his college, graduate and law school years off limits? How did you manage to miss YouTube video after YouTube video of Obama clearly outlining his radical leftist intentions? Why did you purposefully minimize his relationships with a racist, black liberation preacher and an American terrorist?
Welcome to the underside of the bus, newsies. Welcome to the exact same place your irresponsibility put the American public, the majority of whom have begun to figure out that they elected a pig in a poke—and got one.
No one punished under congressional ethics rules
Washington — Nearly three years after Congress approved sweeping ethics rules to "drain the swamp," as incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi put it, no member of Congress has been punished for wrongdoing. In that time, allegations of sexual misconduct and financial impropriety have been lodged against lawmakers. The most serious rebuke in the past year: a "letter of qualified admonition" to Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill....
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Confirmed: Palin to keynote first national tea-party convention
Now it can be told: She is.
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National stage for Tea Party
Nashville will be ground zero for the Tea Party movement next month. Its first convention will be in Music City, with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin presenting the keynote address.
The event's potential to shake up both major political parties should not be underestimated.
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President Obama blamed "the system" for failing to stop al Qaeda's Christmas Day bombing plot. The weakness with that excuse is that Mr. Obama fails to connect the dots between the systemic failure and his administration's year- long record of destroying the morale of the intelligence community... [snip]
There is an old saying in intelligence circles: Big operation, big risk; small operation, small risk; no operation, no risk.
The president's proposed "solution" to the failures of the intelligence system will reinforce a climate of mistrust in which it will be difficult to take the risks necessary to make the system work.
And next time we may not be so lucky...
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The title of a post on Brietbart’s new website Big Journalism is Why Won’t MSM Cover Islam? What Are They Afraid Of? After accidentally viewing the video placed in the center of the article, I know the answer to the question.
I didn’t read any disclaimer like, Warning: Graphic Content. So, I jumped right in and viewed the video used by radical Muslims to train their pre-pubescent boys in the art of beheading.
I stopped watching after the first seconds. I asked myself, how anyone, much less a child, could perform this demonic act. I couldn’t find any words to describe the horrific scene, and I’m sure I will have nightmares about it.
The article addresses the MSM’s tacit approval of radical Islam by their reluctance to report what really goes on in the world of terrorism. Alicia Colon writes:
The video of Daniel Pearl’s beheading could not be shown on the public airwaves but was easily available on the web. Gruesome as it was it cannot compare with this video [my warning: graphic evil] of children 'training' for Jihad beheading a man all the while praising Allah.
“It’s the next generation of mujahideen who are expected to fight and kill infidels to establish global Islamic rule.”
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There are many things on the World Wide Web that are not suitable for public viewing but that should be required viewing for journalists and political figures to alert them to the horrors that exist in some parts of the world. This should not be to incite but rather to rinse away their naïveté in dealing with a hostile culture and our potential enemies.
It is apparent that the mainstream media has no interest in covering stories that shed an unfavorable side of Islam and, frankly, this smacks of cowardice.
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I have been reading David J. Rusin on a website called islamist-watch.org. He reports how “misguided” the Preventing Violent Extremism program has been. Close to a million pounds has been handed out to Islamist organizations that are propagating Muslim supremacy, hatred of non-Muslims, and terrorism.
It beggars belief that politicians and civil servants can be idiotic enough to device a crack-brained scheme of the kind. What naïvety, what self-deception! PVE positively invites trickery and misappropriation of money that non-Muslims are unable to supervise, let alone control.
All those involved are a danger to the public and ought to be summarily fired, yet as far as I can find out, they have not even been identified.
What will it take to bring these people to their senses? David J. Rusin sums up with the unanswerable judgement: “Only one adjective properly describes a government that funds those who seek its destruction: suicidal.”
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The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 59% of adults say factors such as race, ethnicity and overall appearance should be used to determine which boarding passengers to search at airports. Twenty-six percent (26%) say these factors should not be used to determine which passengers to search. Another 15% are not sure.
Interestingly, however, even more Americans (71%) believe such profiling is necessary in today’s environment.
In November, 63% of voters said political correctness prevented the military from responding to warning signs from a Muslim U.S. Army officer, Major Nadal Malik Hasan, that could have prevented the Fort Hood massacre from taking place.
An earlier survey found that a plurality (48%) of adults believe it is the responsibility of American Muslims to speak out against terrorist attacks on the United States.
Forty-nine percent (49%) of Americans think that most of their fellow countrymen have already forgotten the impact of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in which 3,000 died.
[Don't care for the title, as doesn't convey the component aspect of race/ethnicity as evident in the first paragraph, and would prefer the proper focus on 'terrorist' factors - which are known (ask Israel) -- but the bottom line is that our continued liberal delusions (I'm not calling 'em 'correct' in any context) COSTS LIVES - and we should make our decisions with that realization clearly in mind at all times.]
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In a ruling this week, U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan also said the government failed to establish that 23 statements the detainee made to interrogators at Guantanamo Bay were untainted by the earlier 'coerced' statements made...
[As predicted: we've handed the conduct of a war to the single most unaccountable and liberal (they can't graduate law school if not) of ideologues we have: our judges...
As bad as our other two branches of government are, the harm they can do this nation pales in comparison to the Judiciary as it is no longer checked by the other two and, worse, no longer considers itself accountable to the people.
I.e., it's here we need true, systemic reform...]
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A smoking gun means that bullets have been fired. 
Does Mr. Obama need another 9/11 to wake up from his Hawaiian dream world?
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Defence Minister Ehud Barak delivered his assessment before the Israeli parliament's defence and foreign affairs committee.
It broadly matches assessments from other nations including the US, which estimates that Tehran could produce a nuclear weapon between 2010 and 2015...
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Activists such as Mohammad are the foot soldiers, discreetly reaching out to people in small, tightknit communities that don't enjoy the anonymity of Tehran.
The activists take enormous risks. Five large military bases guard Birjand, regarded as the springboard for Revolutionary Guard anti-drug operations along the eastern border.
But it also has five universities and four colleges, making it a potential opposition stronghold. More than 60% of Iranians are younger than 30, and 70% of college students reportedly opposed Ahmadinejad.
Students spray-painted graffiti on walls. "Death to the dictator!" they scrawled with green markers on phone booths, just as in the capital. Some went to jail. One of Mohammad's friends was sentenced to nine months in prison for distributing leaflets.
In the classrooms, professors lifted students' spirits by discussing the Islamic Republic's missteps, and what sorts of protest actions were effective and which were counterproductive.
One professor spoke to students about the difference between real and superficial freedom...
[The ONLY scenario that doesn't lead to WAR is regime change from within - and it's trying to happen NOW - where the hell is Obama?]
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President Obama's end-of-the-year deadline for the mad mullahs to make a deal on uranium enrichment came and went, but not without incident.
There were three, none good... [snip]
Gibberish aside, the "dual track" is a fiction because sanctions are off the table.
A top Chinese diplomat made that clear, saying last week, "This is not the right time or right moment for sanctions," and more "patience" with Iran is needed.
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While the Obama administration has put its energy into trade wars with China, free trade is marching on without the United States...
- China and Asia's Tigers -- the Association of Southeast Asian Nations -- scrapped 7,000 different tariffs to form a $200 billion open market for about 2 billion consumers, one-third of the world's population.
- Jan. 1 also heralded another ASEAN free-trade pact with mighty India, ending tariffs on 4,000 products staggered through 2016; this deal will expand a $50 billion market for 1.5 billion consumers into something even bigger.
- ASEAN also signed off on free trade with Australia and New Zealand, tacking on another $50 billion market to expand for their 600 million consumers.
- It follows ASEAN's Dec. 1 agreement with Japan, which created a $240 billion market for 670 million.
- In addition, Thailand and South Korea completed the last step of 2007's ASEAN-Korea pact, finalizing expansion of the zone to a $72 billion market for 600 million.
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While there are varying views as to what tomorrow's unemployment report will reveal, it's generally assumed that the number will be too high. But what's not spoken of enough is how the very federal government seen as so eager to put people back to work is blocking the kind of recovery that would make more hiring possible.
To put it very simply, hiring is a cost born by investors and employers. And the problem with the latter in mind is that continued governmental efforts to drive non-market outcomes are reducing the amount of available capital for hires, all the while raising the cost of luring workers from the sidelines.
Somewhat ironically, efforts to prop up the housing market with an eye on jobs are actually making job creation more difficult. To understand why, it has to be remembered that there are no jobs without capital. Simple as that.
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Things go all to hell fast.
Those who enjoy genuine success in life, built upon lots of hard work, understand this. Those who don't get it, keep on slipping and sliding around.
From here, it looks like Obama and the congressional Democrats are steering toward the cliff.
The worry here is, they will take the rest of the nation over the cliff with them and things will truly go all to hell fast...
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Jim Scarantino of New Mexico Watchdog was the first to uncover the fact that stim bill money was being listed as spent in non-existent congressional districts.
Now he's uncovered another tasty tidbit; the money is going to fake zip codes...
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The United States ranked 29th in the world in 2006 in life expectancy at age 50, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). That places it more than three years behind the world's leader, Japan, and more than one-and-a-half years behind Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Iceland, Spain and Switzerland.
Despite the WHO study's contention, the low longevity ranking of the United States is not likely a result of a poorly functioning health care system,
But according to researchers with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the WHO's numbers are highly suspect. Its data shows that, on the contrary, the United States functions well compared to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries in terms of death avoidance:
- Mortality reductions from prostate and breast cancers have been exceptionally rapid in the United States relative to a set of peer countries.
- These unusually rapid declines are attributable to wider screening and more aggressive treatment of these diseases.
- Screening for other cancers also appears unusually extensive, and five-year survival rates from all of the major cancers are very favorable.
- Survival rates following heart attack and stroke are also favorable and the proportion of people with elevated blood pressure or cholesterol levels who are receiving medication is well above European standards.
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Last August the cover of Time pictured President Obama in white coat and stethoscope. The story opened: "The U.S. spends more to get less [health care] than just about every other industrialized country." This trope has dominated media coverage of health-care reform. Yet a majority of Americans opposes Congress's health-care bills. Why?
The comparative ranking system that most critics cite comes from the U.N.'s World Health Organization (WHO). The ranking most often quoted is Overall Performance, where the U.S. is rated No. 37. The Overall Performance Index, however, is adjusted to reflect how well WHO officials believe that a country could have done in relation to its resources.
The scale is heavily subjective: The WHO believes that we could have done better because we do not have universal coverage. What apparently does not matter is that our population has universal access because physicians treat indigent patients without charge and accept Medicare and Medicaid payments, which do not even cover overhead expenses.
The WHO does rank the U.S. No. 1 of 191 countries for "responsiveness to the needs and choices of the individual patient."
Isn't responsiveness what health care is all about?
[I.e., another UN paid for political propaganda piece mascarading as a 'study', and another literal example of what makes the organization literally worse than worthless: it does harm, again and again.
But watch: it's the WHO 'report' that'll get MSM air time.]
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Health insurance as we know it (think home/auto/life) will no longer exist...
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Passage of the health-care bill will be, for the administration, a catastrophic victory. If it is voted through in time for the State of the Union Address, as President Obama hopes, half the chamber will rise to their feet and cheer.
They will be cheering their own demise...
[Will they? While weak Dems running again this year likely will, once we're all dependent on them for health 'care' exactly who will be controlling whom?]
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[Better to stop it now - please, again...
"DEFEAT ALL HEALTH CARE 'REFORM' - IT'S NOT BROKEN "
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...
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The Democrats have gotten to the precipice — to borrow President Obama’s word — of victory on health-care reform for one reason above all others: 60 votes.
Their supermajority in the Senate empowered them to muscle through a sprawling mess of a bill by partisan fiat. If the ball had bounced the other way in a close race or two (or if Arlen Specter had felt more loyalty to his party of decades), the Democrats wouldn’t have gotten to 60. Once there, they were willing to resort to any expedient to stay at the magic number. After Ted Kennedy’s death last summer, the Massachusetts legislature rushed to change state election law to allow for an interim replacement in advance of a special election, explicitly to keep the Democrats at 60.
Now, the special election for the seat is less than two weeks away. It represents the only electoral threat to 60 that Democrats will face until November. Republican Scott Brown is mounting a surprisingly strong bid, trailing Massachusetts attorney general Martha Coakley by only 9 points in the latest Rasmussen poll. A state senator, Brown is running an anti-spending, anti-Washington campaign perfectly suited to the political moment.
Should he win, it could make it all but impossible for Harry Reid to get 60 votes for the current version of Obamacare — and he’ll almost certainly need to meet that threshold at least one more time.
In short, Scott Brown is the man who could pull the brake on this train right before it gets fully out of the station...
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In the wake of the Rasmussen poll showing GOP’s Scott Brown down just 9 points vs. Democrat Martha Coakley (and just 2 points among those saying they’re sure to vote), the Cook Political Report has moved the Massachusetts Senate race from “solidly” Democratic to “likely.”
Cook still believes Brown has an uphill battle to win in the very blue Bay State [it's Kennedy's seat].
But an upset would have major implications, including possibly blocking the health care overhaul...
[More often than not, initiating change means putting your dollars where your mouth is - and our opponents are doing so.
Scott would be in place in time for the Senate's final vote on the health 'care' plans underway, and would deny them their 60th vote for filibuster cloture!
ACLU Says Oregon Woman Has Right to Bike Naked; Local Law Begs to Differ
They call Jen Moss "Ashland's Naked Lady."
Tuesday night's decision to expand the ban brought a threat of legal action from the American Civil Liberties Union, which says it violates the Oregon Constitution's protection of free expression...
[Yet more proof to never say never: in the case of Miss Moss, specifically {pictured!}, I feel the ACLU may actually be in the right.
And they say I'm not open minded.]
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"All the major leaders” of the Taliban opposition in Southern Afghanistan are former Guantanamo prisoners who have been released, U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) said Thursday.
That is among the things the U.S. Naval Reserve Intelligence officer learned on his holiday deployment to Afghanistan, he told an audience at Chicago’s Union League Club Thursday.
"The remaining Guantanamo prisoners are the toughest ones to crack, the most committed to jihad..."
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Eric Holder’s Justice Department rushed to file an indictment Wednesday against Flight 253 terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. The telling document is a monument to lost opportunity.
“Al-Qaeda,” in fact, is a term you will not find in the seven-page charging instrument...
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Charles Krauthammer
On Wednesday, Nigerian would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was indicted by a Michigan grand jury for attempted murder and sundry other criminal charges. The previous day, the State Department announced that his visa had been revoked. The system worked.
Well, it did for Abdulmutallab. What he lost in flying privileges he gained in Miranda rights...
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[And lying to congress about it whle under oath - you know, the usual.]
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[Meanwhile in our professional, watch-dog media...]
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Recently, during a bit of banter on Fox News, my colleague Jonah Goldberg reminded me of something I had all but forgotten. In September, during his address to Congress on health care, President Obama declared:
"I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last."
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More than at any time in recent history, we are experiencing a disconnect between national political leaders and the citizenry whereby the former is literally ignoring the will of the latter.
Particularly galling is the revelation that Senate leaders bought critical votes on the health care bill by dumping hundreds of millions in special benefits into states whose senators had withheld support -- until they got their bribe.
In answer to the public outcry, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid shrugs and says that any senator who "does not seek as much as he can" for his own state isn't doing his job.
It's time to look to the states, where more tools are available to rein in profligate legislators. If similar constitutional restraints were imposed on Congress, many if not all of the recent abuses would be prevented.. [snip]
The three most basic controls that the people have placed in state constitutions do not exist at the federal level. These are balanced budget amendments, line item vetoes, and single-subject requirements...
The election route and the constitutional route are complementary, not alternative. Anyone who wants to reestablish control over the Congress should get active now for the midterm elections of 2010.
[HIGHLY RECOMMENDED > ]
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WASHINGTON — House and Senate Democrats intend to bypass traditional procedures when they negotiate a final compromise on health care legislation, officials said Monday, a move that will exclude Republican lawmakers and reduce their ability to delay or force politically troubling votes in both houses. The unofficial timetable calls for final passage of the measure to remake the nation's health care system ...
[I.e., a 'compromise' between Democrats only.
Evidently we've now a one party system in America.]
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C-Span CEO Brian Lamb told Bill Press on his radio show this morning that C-Span would not be doing anything further to push for coverage of health care negotiations. However, he expressed clear disappointment in the White House's attitude toward transparency in negotiations.
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Gibbs stubbornly refused to answer multiple questions about the broken promises...
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