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[Not to be outdone by its liberal competition.]
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The ACORN crime syndicate is not going away anytime soon, but it’s going to look different. ACORN will probably run out of money and fold by year’s end
but a dozen ACORN state chapters reincorporated to seem like new, independent organizations will spring up in the next week to carry on ACORN’s business,
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[And differing opinions on the definition of liberty have nothing to do with it whatsoever - move along ... ]
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[Understandable on their part - insanity on ours.]
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President Obama’s decision to appoint an envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has focused renewed attention on the Saudi-based body, and what role a U.S. envoy should play.
The OIC describes itself as “the second largest intergovernmental organization in membership after the United Nations, with 57 member and five observer countries, and … the voice of 1.5 billion Muslims in the world affairs.” Its 56 member states are scattered across the Middle East, Africa and Asia, along with one in Europe (Albania) and two in South America (Guyana and Suriname). The 57th is “Palestine,” which is not a sovereign country.
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The nation's industrial umpire has ruled that a long-term employee who was legitimately sacked for repeated safety breaches must be reinstated and paid compensation because of his poor education and poor job prospects. In the latest ruling to concern business, Fair Work Australia found the worker had engaged in "relatively serious misconduct", but ruled the sacking void due to his length of service and the fact he was a poorly educated middle-aged family man,
[I.e., a victim. The inevitable result of a society based on the equality of outcomes.]
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Flights in and out of Greece were grounded and schools and most public services shut down as the country's unions staged a general strike on Wednesday. Police fired tear gas in clashes with demonstrators in central Athens who hurled rocks and plastic bottles near parliament, but the violence remained fairly limited.
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Commerce: Toyota's leaders are in for nasty star-chamber hearings in Congress, with politicians grandstanding and regulators pointing fingers. It's no way to treat a big employer that contributes so much to our economy. When Toyota first came to the U.S. in the 1950s and took out TV ads in the 1960s, the Japan-based company was ridiculed. How could its dinky little cars compete with the mighty Big Three automakers for the American market?
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It seems to me, however, that the company is doing everything it should as quickly as possible to make things right...
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A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 23% of Americans agree that senior government officials are criticizing Toyota to help GM. Thirty-eight percent (38%) disagree. But nearly four-out-of-10 (39%) aren’t sure.
Fifty-one percent (51%) of adults, however, believe that the government as the majority owner of GM has a conflict-of-interest when it comes to regulating competing automakers. Twenty-five percent (25%) don’t think the government has a conflict-of-interest, but 24% more are undecided.
Fifty percent (50%) also say it is at least somewhat likely that the government will pass laws and regulations giving GM an unfair advantage over other car companies. That number includes 27% who say it is very likely.
[Misdirection (hiding behind a grain of truth, the best way): the real unforgivable sin committed by Toyota is that it's a non-union shop - and that's intolerable to Congress' owners...]
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What did top Democrats think of this process previously? See below…
[Long list of harsh attacks on the idea/process - but I guess that was then...]
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It took less than two weeks for lawmakers to vote to break new rules requiring that new spending be offset elsewhere in the budget, waiving the requirement just minutes before a strong bipartisan majority passed a $15 billion job-creation bill in the Senate on Wednesday.
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Rob Kulat, a spokesman for the Federal Rail Administration, said today that the money can't be reallocated.
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An independent inquiry said on Tuesday it had found ''shocking'' standards of care at a National Health Service (NHS) hospital trust in the Midlands, including patients being left unwashed for up to a month. The inquiry's chair Robert Francis said many patients treated by the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust had ''suffered horrific experiences that will haunt them and their loved ones for the rest of their lives''...
[Again and again - not the individual horror stories, all systems have them (including ours) - but studies of effectiveness in the macro invariably draw the same picture again and again: government involvement destroys systems.]
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According to an ABC News report, though, almost $2 billion in “stimulus” funding has been spent so far on wind power, and yet 80% of that money has gone to foreign-owned companies. “Most of the jobs are going overseas,”
In fact, there’s a good chance that the government employees hired to promote “Green Jobs” outnumber the actual permanent “Green Jobs” created.
However you do the math, these positions are obviously a mere drop in the bucket compared to U.S. job losses in the wind manufacturing segment of the energy economy alone, to say nothing of the millions of lost jobs nationwide.
Worse still, the lunacy isn’t stopping. We are continuing to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into this failed framework, which uses American sweat to create permanent positions (and profit) for foreign companies.
Frankly, it’s time for Obama to come clean on the “Green Jobs” scam – and to explain why his so-called “transparent and accountable” administration didn’t catch it sooner.
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[Meanwhile...]
This should provide some ammo for industry groups pushing the White House to allow wider drilling: A new report says U.S. oil-and-gas drilling bans will increase consumer energy costs and decrease cumulative U.S. GDP by $2.36 trillion over the next two decades -
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A bill that would give native Hawaiians the same right as Native Americans is halfway through the congressional process but opponents say the legislation is divisive and would turn over valuable land and resources out of U.S. hands.
In an overwhelming win, the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization bill, also known as the Akaka bill for four-term Sen. Daniel Akaka, passed the House Tuesday, which establishes separate sovereignty for a sub-set of Hawaii's population...
[Resulting in differing laws applied to neighbors based on their race. There is no faster way to dismantle a nation.]
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CNN Perpetuates Dangerous Tuskegee Myth
All Educators Fired at Underperforming RI School
A Rhode Island school district has voted to fire all the teachers at an underperforming school. The Central Falls School Committee voted Tuesday evening to fire every educator at Central Falls High School at the end of the school year. It's the only school in the tiny, impoverished city north of Providence.
Only about half its students graduate, and only 7 percent of 11th-graders were proficient in math in 2009.
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Despite the fact that Stack's suicidal diatribe made no mention of the tea party, the Colorado Independent reported,
"There will be more attacks. Stack was not right or left. He may or may not have been a Tea Partier."
"The Austin Texas Bombing Is A HUGE Image Blow To The 'Tea Party.'"
"See the making of the tea party movement."
"I am struck by how his alienation is similar to that we're hearing from the extreme elements of the Tea Party movement."
"I mean, this is what editors are for, to prevent this kind of impugning of a movement that represents millions of people with genuine grievances about the direction their government is taking, and some nut who is irritated with the IRS because he has to pay his taxes and doesn't think he should."
"I think it's just the whole notion of a few people in politics, and I'll include some of the media, that everything is about political process rather than about people. Here you've got a terrible tragedy involving so many people, and the first thought is: 'How do I use this to forward my own agenda and to try to attack someone else's?'
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Newsweek recently issued a Liberal's "A Conspiracy Manifesto of the vast Rightwing Extremist's Conspiracy Theories" article... only instead of calling the piece a "manifesto" author David Graham called it "debunking fringe beliefs." Apparently manifesto was a little too communist sounding.
The elaborations on each debunking (in bold) as written in Newsweek won't be articulated below but parts of the "refutations" are (normal font). Here are the Flying Spaghetti Monsters that Mr. Graham battles and his coup de grâce, in part, to each.
The full article can be read here. [snip]
If I didn't know any better I'd swear that Newsweek had David Graham write this who had Obama write it who had Ayers write it who had Alinsky write it.
Now if I believed that - I'd be on the list. No thanks.
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Following his meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and local Jewish community leaders on Monday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu went out to eat with his wife Sara at a Moscow restaurant and coincidentally ran into Greek Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs George Papandreou. (Snip) In an apparent to prod the Greeks toward action on the Iranian issue Netanyahu said that a nuclear would eventually lead to the Nuclearization of Turkey, Greece’s long-time nemesis...
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North Korea vowed Friday to bolster its nuclear force unless the United States dropped its hostile policy and removed nuclear threats to the North, adding that its nuclear program could not be traded for economic aid.
[Again and again: In the absence of American leadership, despots will fill the void.]
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Iran raised the extent of its defiance of the world when it began enriching uranium to a level approaching 20 percent. In the West, there is wide agreement that this step is bringing Iran closer to having a nuclear bomb. (Snip) The end of the year, the deadline that Obama set for evaluating diplomatic progress on Iran, also came and went. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that nothing has been accomplished, and it has been clear that the essential next step will involve imposing sanctions.
[But a regime change from within could.]
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Amid Israel's earnest calls for fresh Iran sanctions, Russian foreign ministry said Friday that no talk was right now in progress for more punitive measures against Teheran.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said on Friday that the six major powers were not discussing any new sanctions against Iran at the moment.
"No work is in progress at the UN Security Council in New York today to prepare a possible sanctions-based resolution on Iran," Nesterenko said but didn't "fully rule out the possibility of starting this work."
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The report, however, called on Tehran to further discuss and cooperate on the issue of the alleged studies...
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The Internet attacks that may end up driving Google Inc. out of China originated from two prominent schools in the country, according to a story published late Thursday.
The New York Times reported security investigators have traced the hacking to computers at Shanghai Jiaotong University and Lanxiang Vocational School in China. The newspaper attributed the information to unnamed people involved in the investigation.
The National Security Agency and other specialists in digital forensics have been trying to identify the source of the attacks against Google and the other companies for weeks. The inquiry led to computers at the two schools, with some evidence suggesting the attacks may have started 10 months ago, the Times reported.
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"Mr. Obama also recently pointed to his work on the Illinois pension issue as a model for what he would do as president..." The New York Times, 2007.
"Nineteen states were rated as meriting serious concerns. Illinois-the worst-performing state-was one of eight to earn zero points toward its pension grade... The state's pension plans are underfunded (at 54 percent), have high unfunded liabilities (340 percent of covered payroll) and have insufficient contributions (less than 60 percent of the actuarially required contribution was paid in 2008)." The Trillion Dollar Gap, a report by the Pew Center on the States on state pensions and retiree benefits.
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So how did Uncle Sam manage to present a lower total of "outlays" compared to last year? Well, I can identify the line items, but won't pretend to understand what they are:
Unless their role has changed to that of government stenographer, the "Essential Global News Network" known as the Associated Press owes it to us to find out what these things are, instead of allowing the government to present them as regular "outlays" and make it appear as if there is some kind of real control over federal spending. 
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In his State of the Union speech, President Obama tried to offer a mea culpa of sorts for the unraveling of his health care bill. Calling health care "a complex issue," the president said, "I take my share of the blame for not explaining it more clearly to the American people."
Mr. President, you are correct. We Americans don't understand.
However, our lack of understanding is not because we're incapable of deciphering complex issues. Rather, we don't understand how Obamacare itself is supposed to make our health care system any better.
Here is a short list of what we specifically don't understand:
How will our health care system improve by giving a $300-million payoff to Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu in Louisiana in exchange for her vote?
What is positive about exempting Nebraska from having to pay future Medicare costs but making other states foot the bill?
Why are labor unions singled out from all other Americans and given an eight-year pass on paying taxes, while non-union workers have to pick up the tab?
Why should taxpayers be forced to pay for elective abortions?
How does putting the federal government between Americans and their doctors improve anyone's health?
How does a closed-door legislative process help us understand the complexities of Obamacare?
Mr. President, what we don't understand is why a bill that is so good and necessary requires secrecy, bribes, and lies to ensure its passage. Why do you feel the need to hide the bill from us? Why do your biggest supporters need their palms greased before they come on board with your plan? Why do you tell us one thing about the cost of your bill, only for us to find out later that you understated the actual cost by over 300 percent?Subject: txt hcare -
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The greatest danger to our wealth, our liberties, our values, and our safety today comes from the deconstruction of truth. We live in a world driven by information. Almost all real wealth today is based upon information and knowledge. Almost all real power today is based upon mass communication, education, and entertainment. Even military power relies upon data and intelligence, not brute force... [snip]
We have a president who is almost solely the creature of a partisan pseudo-science which views truth as an odd waste product. Has Obama ever seriously searched for truth? His lifelong chums are a gaggle of pseudo-thinkers and strong-arm operatives who float through college into jobs unconnected with honor. He reads us his soul off a teleprompter whose digitized letters conform to polling data.
The terrifying numbers which his surreal spending has created mean nothing to Obama. The threats to our nation are real to him only as it affects his polling numbers. His indifference to truth is the greatest danger he presents the world.
Truth is our highest virtue.
Too many millions of us simply do not believe that is true. As long as concern for honesty, dedication to what is real, and intellectual integrity flounder, all the tricks toys, and tickets of knowledge and technology will simply be little curses in our lives...
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NYT Lauds Obama Lobbyist Regulations, Ignores Numerous Lobbyists in Top Admin Posts
For much of the liberal media, President Obama operates in a vacuum. In their minds, if he says he will do something, he will most likely do it, even if he has a blatant record of not following through on similar promises.
Take Obama's lobbyist rhetoric, for instance. When the President claimed the White House has "excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs" he was telling the truth, sort of. He did not mean, and his staff has confirmed this, that they've excluded all lobbyists from the process, as, you know, a reasonable person would gather. He just meant that some lobbyists that applied for jobs in his administration didn't get them.
As it turns out, there are over 40 former lobbyists working in the White House or some branch of the executive (see chart below the fold).
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Conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart called out the mainstream media Saturday saying, "The gig is up. We figured you out. You're not on our team. You're not on the American team."
He marvelously continued, "Your Alinsky tactics to try and destroy Hannah [Giles], James [O'Keefe], and me: Bring it on"
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Michele Bachmann brings 'miss me yet' billboard to CPAC
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