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We used to arrest people for selling snake oil. Now we elect them.
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
We're not buying it, O
Gibbs: If Senate Bill Passes House It Will Go to the President’s Desk
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The other day I exposed the fact that Harry Reid switched the language in the House-passed H.R. 3590 Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009 and inserted the Senate version of the healthcare bill via a manager’s amendment in order to meet the requirement that all legislation raising taxes must originate in the House.
For further confirmation, here is the audio of that exchange.
No talk of reconciliation here, because reconciliation is not needed at all.
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Pelosi: Dems close on health care agreement
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Democrats claimed momentum Wednesday in their drive to enact the sweeping health care legislation sought by President Barack Obama, citing near agreement on crucial issues.
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Final 'reform' push: twisting arms
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President Obama's attempts to ram health- care reform through are starting to resemble a really eventful episode of "The Sopranos." Whether or not you believe former Rep. Eric Massa's bizarre accusations of locker-room confrontations and conspiracies to drive him from office, there is no doubt that the Obama administration and its congressional allies are willing to use every trick in the book to get this bill passed...
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They're still trying...
[and they've the memory of gerbils...]
"OPPOSE OBAMACARE"
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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What Bias? Re: MSNBC: Stupak Abortion Stance a Plea for '15 Minutes of Fame'
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Hayes, filling in for Rachel Maddow on MSNBC's March 9 broadcast of "The Rachel Maddow Show," didn't seem impressed with Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich. Stupak, who has a documented history of having a pro-life position on abortion long before so-called health care reform was even a possibility, has been taking heat from left-wingers in this political battle. But according to MSNBC, it's just for "15 minutes of fame" ...
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Pennsylvania Woman Charged With Recruiting Violent Jihadist Fighters
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A Pennsylvania woman known to authorities as "JihadJane" has been charged in federal court with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, making false statements to a government official and attempted identity theft.
[GW OF T]
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'Jihad Jane' indictment shows terror's evolution
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PHILADELPHIA - The self-described "Jihad Jane" who thought her blond hair and blue eyes would let her blend in as she sought to kill an artist in Sweden is a case of an American woman aiding terrorism and shows the evolution of the global threat, authorities say.
[GWOfT: "Gwroft", Global War OF Terror, being waged against us.]
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Seven Muslims arrested over plot to kill Swedish cartoonist
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Seven Muslims were arrested in the Irish Republic today over an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog, police said. Al Qaida put a 100,000-dollar bounty on the head of cartoonist Lars Vilks after a newspaper published his cartoon. The four men and three women were detained after an investigation involving European security agencies and the United States' CIA and FBI...
[GWOfT is a battle of information, with it we'll win - without...]
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Muhammad cartoon republished
The controversial drawing by Swedish artist Lars Vilks was printed in Stockholm papers Dagens Nyheter and Expressen and the Malmo daily Sydsvenska Dagbladet...
[Past time: sounds like a distasteful comic, but had our spineless press done this the first time around this issue would have been nipped in the bud.]
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Ballots beat bombs Iraqis Vote for Democracy
Threats, bombs and at least 36 dead didn't stop Iraqis from voting on Sunday. Formal results won't come for a few days. We'll learn how many votes, authentic and fraudulent, went to each of the big five parties and fringe elements. But the news looks good, so far.
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[I went to Pleasanton's Iraq polling place (Fairgrounds) where I picked up these flyers -
... the place had several hundred folks there when I was with a constant stream in and out. It was also a much more social affair than I suspect most of us are used to with several large groups around talking politics.
It was frankly gratifying to see a tangible benefit to the great cost our nation has paid to go beyond removing Sadam and toward establishing a seed of democracy in the region...]
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War in Iraq Low on Obama’s Agenda; Compliant Media Move On, Too
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“the last time a White House reporter asked about the Iraq war was June 26,” while ABC, CBS and NBC aired just 80 minutes of coverage in all of 2009."
The near-media blackout means that the success of President Bush’s “surge” policy in 2007 — a policy opposed by President Obama and Vice President Biden when both were presidential candidates and ridiculed by the networks as a "Lost Cause" — has gone virtually unreported in the past year.
This week’s Newsweek [yes, Newsweek] is an exception, with a big Iraq War cover story declaring “Victory at Last”...
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Free trade vital to our economy
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For two decades, the word “trade” has been a dividing force in Congress. Its supporters, like me, see trade as a boon to our economy. As the free leader of the world, the U.S. is also one of the largest trading nations, supporting millions of American workers and millions of American jobs.
Increased trade is good for America. In the past decade, U.S. exports have nearly doubled to $2 trillion a year...
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They Call It 'Trade'
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Commerce: For an administration that touts "export-led growth," it's a bad sign to see huge markets in Europe and Brazil pulling up the drawbridges over the one-sided U.S. policy.
"Trade" means imports, too. Brazil announced Tuesday that it would slap $830 million in tariffs on 102 U.S. products, ranging from cars to potatoes to medical gear. The deal was based on a 2005 World Trade Organization ruling against U.S. cotton subsidies. The U.S. had five years to get rid of them.
Fact is, open markets mean buying and selling — exports and imports alike. Far from being a curse, as special interests like Big Labor claim, imports help the economy by reducing raw material costs for U.S. manufacturers so they can hire more, cut costs and raise consumer purchasing power.
It's ridiculous to expect other nations to open their markets if the U.S. keeps finding creative new ways to shut its own. It takes two to trade, and the Obama administration must learn this or forget about its export-led strategy for growth...
[Again and again, the welfare of our country suborned to the selfish agendas of organized labor.]
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Guess Who's Coming to Your House
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It's all supposed to be voluntary, those "home visits" that are tucked into the mammoth Obamacare bill. All voluntary, they say, but once you "volunteer" to have the oh-so-helpful folks from Social Services come in to help with your newborns, or with a number of other specified issues, will you ever be able to get rid of them?
The bill provides for federal funding and supervision for this vast expansion of government intrusion into family life. This is the Nanny State on steroids. Is your family being "targeted" for such home visitations? Let's see if you fit into one of these very broad categories:
- Families where Mom is not yet 21. (No mention here whether she is married or not.)
- Families where someone is a tobacco user. [?] (Does this include the White House? Watch out, Sasha and Malia! Does Grandpa, whom you love and have taken in, enjoy his after-dinner pipe?)
- Families where children have low student achievement, developmental delays, or disabilities.
As if that list were not wide-ranging enough, here's the net that can encompass tens of millions:
- Families with individuals who are serving or formerly served in the armed forces, including such families that have members of the armed forces who have had multiple deployments outside the United States.
So while Johnny gets his gun, the government steps in to "help" his family at home.
Do you spank your children? You should know that HHS bureaucrats think you are an abuser.
Ronald Reagan used to say the most frightening words in the English language were these: I'm from the government, and I'm here to help... [snip]One thing is clear: For life and liberty, we must defeat ObamaCare. Call your U.S. senators and representatives now (202.224.3121). Tell them to vote NO on Obamacare.
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Census PSA PROMOTES more government as a reason to participate
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Can the advertising gurus and the census bureau really be so detached that they think we want more government regulation?
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The Keynesian Stimulus Dogma
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Blindness to history.
The Keynesians' faith in deficit spending as the key to economic recovery represents a triumph of hope over experience.
Exhibit A: The massive deficit spending of Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s didn't stop the Great Depression. In fact, despite FDR spending more money in his first five years in office than all 31 prior presidents combined, his Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau stated in 1939 that "[w]e are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. ... I say after eight [sic] years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started ... And an enormous debt to boot!"
Exhibit B: The massive deficit spending of Japan's government over the past two decades has led to protracted economic sluggishness. Japan still limps along, but now the nation suffers from the largest debt-to-GDP ratio of the developed world at almost 200%.
Exhibit C: Last year's so-called stimulus plan has produced the same results as FDR's stimulus-stagnant employment and mushrooming debt.
The Keynesian economists have a huge blind spot when it comes to history. That is because they tend to view economic history as divided into two eras: the years since the Keynesian revelation (Dec., 1935, when the master, John Maynard Keynes, enlightened the world with his General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, and pre-1935 when all was supposedly darkness. They seem oblivious to the historical fact that, before Hoover and Roosevelt, Uncle Sam didn't ramp up spending during recessions /depressions, and those downturns were of shorter duration.
The most instructive example is the Depression of 1920-21, which featured the most rapid fall in production, employment and GDP in our history. Rather than trying to stimulate the economy, Presidents Harding and Coolidge slashed government spending in half. Markets made the necessary adjustments, the depression lasted for approximately a year, and employment and production made rapid, robust recoveries.
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O'Krugman's Keynesian Blarney
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Economics: The columnist who worries about Washington not spending enough also blames the financial crisis on "free-market fundamentalism" and "letting bankers do what they want."
When did Uncle Sam do that?
In his new book "The Great Money Binge," legendary newspaper editor George Melloan calls attention to New York Times writer Paul Krugman's "novel theory that the New Deal had failed to pull the country out of the Depression during the 1930s because government had not spent enough!"
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What Ideology? Re: Reaganomics Didn't Work, His 'Personality' Saved Economy
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The economics of personality? The concept defies logic not to mention the laws of finance and accounting, but according to Newsweek's Eleanor Clift it wasn't the combination of President Ronald Reagan's attack on inflation and his low tax rates on individuals and businesses - but his personality that rescued the economy from the malaise of the early 1980s.
On the "The McLaughlin Group" March 7, Clift declared that Reaganomics was a failure...
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After Climate-Gate, U.N. Submits to Independent Review
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Report Says California Global Warming Law Will Cause Job Losses
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A report released Monday says that California's new global warming law will increase unemployment in the Golden State.
The announcement was in stark contrast to continual claims by the Left and their media minions that proposed cap and trade legislation at the federal level will result in an explosion in green jobs.
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Climate-What? As UN Climate Chief Quits, AP Throws Pity Party; PJM's Rosett Applies Reality Check
[Meanwhile, in our professional media...]
Here are three key passages from the official announcement at the UN's web site:
The top United Nations climate change official said today that he has made the “difficult decision” to step down from his position, citing his desire to pursue new opportunities to advance progress on the issue in both the private sector and academia.
.... Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement that he was informed by Mr. de Boer of his decision two days ago and respected his decision, but “with regret.”
“Developing countries need to move as quickly as possible toward a future of low-emissions growth and prosperity,” he stressed, noting that millions of people in Africa and around the world are suffering from climate change’s effects.
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Thomas Sowell: Artificial stupidity
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A woman with a petition went among the crowds attending a state fair, asking people to sign her petition demanding the banning of dihydroxymonoxide. She said it was in our lakes and streams, and now it was in our sweat and urine and tears.
She collected hundreds of signatures to ban dihydroxymonoxide — a fancy chemical name for water.
A couple of comedians were behind this ploy. But there is nothing funny about its implications. It is one of the grim and dangerous signs of our times.
This little episode revealed how conditioned we have become, responding like Pavlov's dog when we hear a certain sound— in this case, the sound of some politically correct crusade.
People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid. Much of the stupidity we see today is induced by our educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities.
In a high-tech age that has seen the creation of artificial intelligence by computers, we are also seeing the creation of artificial stupidity by people who call themselves educators... [snip]
Will Rogers once said that it was not ignorance that was so bad but "all the things we know that ain't so."
But our classroom indoctrinators are getting students to think that they know after hearing only one side of an issue.
That's artificial stupidity.
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Texas-Sized Lesson: The New Tone Era Is Over
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To think so was to be rather tone-deaf. Any strategy based on the assumption that people just could not get along -- and ignores the possibility of legitimate and deep ideological divides -- misses the point.
By definition, the new tone more or less meant not debating your opponents very vigorously before compromising with them on almost everything.
It's the message of Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. It is a conservative message of less government, less taxation, less regulation, and more freedom. It is a message about soundly defeating anyone who would stand in the way of that message, and not of "working with them."
... it is deliciously ironic that her own beloved Texans, along with Palin, were the ones to deliver that message. The new tone, which came home to roost with Obama's election in November of 2008, is now officially dead. KBH had better heed the message, as should any Republican who wants to be on the right side of history in 2010...
[2nd point: according to the MSM, Palin's death to anyone she touches - but she's 3-1 re: major endorsements...
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Drudge By Numbers: Gov't Spends $71,433 Surfing Drudge Reports in First 9 Days
- 149,967 Hits to Drudge from senate.gov since March 1 = 16,663 hits per day
- 244,347 Hits to Drudge from house.gov = 27,150 hits per day
At that pace, the Congress and White House will spend roughly $2.8 Million in tax payer dollars to surf The Drudge Report in all of 2010...
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Pelosi on health care: 'We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it...'
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This comes from Speaker Pelosi's speech today before the Legislative Conference for National Association of Counties:
“You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don’t know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention—it’s about diet, not diabetes. It’s going to be very, very exciting.
“But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy."
Americans are precisely worried they will find out, the hard way, "what is in it," after it's been passed. Whence "the controversy."
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Liberals Say: America Has Too Much Democracy
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The Washington Post’s Richard Cohen explains why President Obama hasn’t been able to ram his health care overhaul through Congress: democracy.
The baleful fact is that the country suffers from a surfeit of democracy — a gazillion interest groups, a gazillion blogs, a gazillion talk shows and all of them insisting on transparency so a gazillion eyes peer over the shoulders of politicians. The black but necessary art of politics shies from the sun. Little gets done. Backrooms have been turned into rec rooms and meetings are seminars. We are doomed. Worse, we are bored.Why, the nerve of all those Americans! Actually demanding to know the details of a process that is creating a bill that will radically impact their lives.
Cohen isn’t an isolated example. Thomas Friedman has repeatedly gushed about China’s “reasonably enlightened” authoritarian rulers and how they are so much more effective than America’s democracy.
If conservatives disparaged democracy like Cohen and Friedman, they’d be raked over the coals, and rightly so.
But liberals against democracy have a long history. Hmm. Maybe someone should write a book about that.
Update: Noted philosopher Sean Penn says journalists who call Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez a dictator should be jailed.
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Ungovernable Savages
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Saying that Washington is broken is so yesterday.
Like denim, this sentiment will never go all the way out of style, and periodically it will rise to the height of fashion, but those on the cutting edge have moved on for now. It's not Washington that's broken -- it's the American people!
Bill Maher has been calling Americans stupid since last summer. Evan Thomas writes in Newsweek that Americans are typically irresponsible, fat, over-sexed, and think they are smarter than they really are. Thomas Friedman continuously laments in the New York Times that the American people are neither as enlightened nor as disciplined as the Chinese.
All of which becomes most clear on the topic of health care reform: the average American clearly does not understand the magnitude of the crisis. In the most recent Rasmussen poll, 76% rate their own health coverage as good or excellent. A vast majority of Americans fail to appreciate what their wise leaders are trying to do for them... [snip]
With the chains of tyranny fresh and heavy on their minds, the founding fathers designed a system that makes it hard for our elected officials to make sweeping intrusions into our lives. Sometimes -- especially when times are tough and passions are inflamed -- this style of government gets noisy, messy, and frustratingly ponderous, just as the founding fathers intended it to be.
We are not ungovernable savages, and we don't have weak stomachs.
It's the sausage, stupid.
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Tom Brokaw Sniffs: Public is 'Very Confused' About Obamacare
[Meanwhile, in the professional media...]
NBC's Tom Brokaw, in searching for a reason as to why Obamacare faced so much opposition, on Thursday's Today show, determined it was because the people can't quite grasp it, as he sniffed: "The public is very confused." The former NBC Nightly News anchor, on to promote his CNBC documentary about the Baby Boom generation, also told Today co-anchor Matt Lauer that the GOP was fighting the current version of the health care bill for merely "political" and not principled reasons and depicted the uninsured as victims to the now powerful tea party... [audio available here]
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NY Times Accuses Israelis Of Anti-Obama 'Racism' And 'Prejudice'
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Are Israeli Jews much more bigoted than their American co-religionists? An astounding 77% of American Jews voted for Barack Obama. But according to Ethan Bronner [with a little "help" from Chris Matthews], anti-black "racism" and anti-Arab "prejudice" are significant factors accounting for PBO's unpopularity in Israel.
Bronner, Jersusalem Bureau Chief of the New York Times, floated his theory to Matthews [in Israel this week] on this afternoon's Hardball. Asked by Matthews to rate American politicians from most to least popular in Israel, Bronner ranked them: Bill Clinton, Hillary clinton, Joe Biden, with PBO bringing up the rear. There's no disputing that the president is wildly unpopular in Israel: recent polls there have him down in single digits.
But Israeli "prejudice" and "racism" as significant explanatory factors? Here was the exchange:
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General Eisenhower Warned Us
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It is a matter of history that when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower,found the victims of the death camps he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.
He did this because he said in words to this effect:
'Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened'
This week, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offends' the Muslim population which claims it never occurred.
It is not removed as yet.. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it. Now, more than ever, with Iran , among others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth',it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.
How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center 'NEVER HAPPENED'...
Never Forget.
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Iran's Ahmadinejad calls Sept 11 'big fabrication'
['Asked and answered']
Ahmadinejad, who often rails against the West and Israel, made the comment in a meeting with Intelligence Ministry personnel.
It came amid escalating tension in the long-running dispute between Iran and the West over Tehran's nuclear program, with the United States pushing for new UN sanctions against the major oil producer.
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Green Zone: Latest 'Anti-American' Movie
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... a war film in which American troops are the bad guys. There are moments that we're supposed to cheer because our soldiers are getting shot down -- but it's okay because they're evildoers at worst or stooges at best who are trying to kill the one guy in the country who can prevent an insurgency from taking root...
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Venezuela linked to terror groups
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Accusations by Spanish authorities that Venezuela aided an alliance between Basque and Colombian terror groups that plotted joint attacks in Colombia and Spain have revived a debate over Venezuela's possible role as a state sponsor of terrorism. A Feb. 24 indictment issued by Judge Eloy Velasco of Spain's anti-terrorism court specifically cites "Venezuelan governmental cooperation" with 12 members of the Basque separatist group ETA and guerrillas of the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)...
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Snow hits Mediterranean Coast
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Methane Madness
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For decades now, alarmists have claimed that CO2 emissions are warming the earth past the "tipping point" and that only extreme reductions in the use of fossil fuels can avert catastrophe. Yet the earth today is less warm than it was in the middle ages, a period in which it cannot be claimed that human activity was contributing to global warming.
Global temperatures in 2010 are colder than they were in 2000, despite a tripling in the annual growth rate of CO2 emissions in the last decade largely attributable to the mushrooming economies of developing nations such as China and India.
Alarmists have been predicting catastrophe for over thirty years, yet the earth continues in natural cycles of warming and cooling, just as it has for eons...
[I.e., having failed to convince the public that the weak greenhouse gas of CO2 is dooming the planet, they're switching gears to methane - using the same caliber of science as they did previously to 'prove' alarm is justified...
There's too much money on the line to simply admit defeat and quit.]
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IMF Suggests How to Raise Climate Change Funds
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The head of the International Monetary Fund on Monday proposed a plan for the world's governments to pool together to raise money needed to adapt to climate change, a rare step for an organization that normally does not develop environmental policies.
IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the Fund is concerned about the huge amount of funding needed and the effect that will have on the global economy. He added that the proposal may help efforts to reach a binding agreement on climate change later this year.
Strauss-Kahn proposed that countries adopt a quota system similar to the one the Fund uses to raise its own money, which could bring in money faster than proposals to increase carbon taxes or other fundraising methods... [snip]
He said a climate change accord reached last December estimated $100 billion a year will be needed by 2020 to fund the program...
The more than 190 nations will reconvene in Cancun, Mexico, later this year for attempt to reach a anotherbinding agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which sets emissions targets for industrial countries and expires in 2012...
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Obama's student loan monopoly
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Students have been voting with their feet and choosing private loan sources rather than government ones...
[A free market solution? Can't have that...]
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The other reconciliation outrage
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As long as they are jamming healthcare through via reconciliation, the Democrats are about the use the same parliamentary dodge to pass another takeover that could never attract 60 votes in the Senate. They want to nationalize another sector of the economy, taking over student loans. Review and Outlook of the Wall Street Journal reports:
One of these controversial measures rewrites the Higher Education Act to ban private companies from offering federally guaranteed student loans as of this July. Congress has already passed laws in recent years discouraging private lenders from making loans without a federal guarantee. But most college financial-aid departments still want private companies to originate and service the guaranteed loans. That's because the alternative-a public option run by the Department of Education-has been distinguished by its Soviet-style customer service.
The Democratic plan is to make this public option the only option mere days before colleges send out their financial aid packages to incoming students. The House and Senate budget committees issued instructions last year to look for savings in the student-lending program, so the Democrats have prepared in advance their excuse to jam these changes through the reconciliation process.
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan portrays the changes as eliminating subsidies to private companies...
So in the future, the government will become the sole source of education loans...
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Hollywood Values in the Classroom
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Suzy Amis Cameron, spouse of Avatar director James Cameron, has co-founded a new school, Muse Elementary, in greater Los Angeles. Maureen Harrington of the Los Angeles Times interviewed Ms. Cameron for details concerning the school.
We learn that for students at the pre-K through fourth-grade school,
every class begins with "an intention," which can be anything from finishing writing their journal entry to being kind to others or walking with quiet feet inside. Even the littlest kids pick up the intention stone, say their desire for that class and put the stone into a jar of water.
Thus, we begin to see the precepts of a 1960s hippie commune foisted upon innocent 21st-century children... [snip]
Even though Avatar has grossed more than 2.5 billion dollars since its release, the school must look beyond the founder's means to assist needy toddlers in need of educational salvation. Hence, "the staff does a lot of grant writing."
Are these grants solicited from the bankrupt state of California, or the bankrupt U.S. government?
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CBO Sees Obama Budget Bringing Debt to $20 Trillion By 2020
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The Congressional Budget Office has released its assessment of President Obama's budget, and the results aren't pretty. According the analysis, deficits in the next decade will be worse than what the White House has projected, much higher than they would be if we were to follow current law, and even higher than what CBO had forecast last year.
Between 2011 and 2020, the nation will accumulate $9.8 trillion in deficits as a under the Obama budget, according to the CBO, ending the decade with $20.3 trillion in public debt...
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What Bias? Re: Washington Post Uses CBO to Criticize Obama Tax Cuts, Rather than Spending
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The Washington Post must dislike tax cuts even more than it likes President Barack Obama. On March 6, staff writer Lori Montgomery warned that the national debt would climb by $9.7 trillion under Obama’s budget.
Relying on the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) for data, Montgomery reported that the debt would be "higher than White House forecast" but not because of spending increases by Obama. 
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Police chief says repeat offenders committing bulk of crimes
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"We're arresting and re-arresting these people over and over,"
Evangelous said of offenders who repeatedly break into homes and cars.
"The rest of the system is failing us."
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California has a 70 percent criminal recidivism rate - the highest in the nation
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More inmates to be released early
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POLL: 67% Say Illegal Immigrants Are Major Strain on U.S. Budget
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A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 23% disagree and do not believe illegal immigration is a strain on the budget.
Two-out-of-three (66%) voters say the availability of government money and services draw illegal immigrants to the United States. Nineteen percent (19%) think otherwise and do not believe government money and services are a magnet for illegal immigration. Another 15% are not sure.
These findings help to explain why 68% say gaining control of the border is more important than legalizing the status of undocumented workers already living in the United States. Twenty-six percent (26%) think legalizing illegal immigrants is more important.
The majority support for controlling the borders has been consistent through several years of surveying....
Activists tell Obama to protect illegals
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Immigrant rights groups on Monday demanded that President Obama impose a full moratorium on deportations of illegal immigrants, arguing that his policies have been worse for their cause than those of his Republican predecessor. Saying they've been "betrayed" by and lost patience with Mr. Obama, the advocates suggested that the president could regain their support by leading a fight on Capitol Hill for a bill to legalize illegal immigrants.
Mr. Obama took the first step toward legalization during a meeting Monday at the White House...
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Obama Begins on Immigration 'Reform'
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The Obama administration is moving on crafting a law that would eventually legalize some 10 [to 20] million undocumented foreign workers living in the United States.
President Obama met with the two senators — Democrat Charles E. Schumer and Republican Lindsey Graham — to plot a course for introducing bipartisan immigration legislation this spring.
"The basis of a bill would include a path toward citizenship for the 10 [to 20] million people living in the U.S. illegally,”
the Los Angeles Times reported Friday...
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Judge tosses sanctuary suit in S.F. killings
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The family of a father and two sons who were shot dead on a San Francisco street in 2008 can't hold the city responsible for failing to turn their alleged killer over to immigration authorities after earlier arrests, a judge has ruled.
The city isn't legally to blame for any crimes Edwin Ramos, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, committed after his release for the offenses he committed as a juvenile, Judge Charlotte Woolard of San Francisco Superior Court said Monday...
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U.S. Census Has ‘Policy of Self-Identification’ for Same-Sex Couples
What kind of questions are going to be on the U.S. Census form? Just ten “basic” questions, says the U.S. Census Bureau. And on a question about relationships, same-sex couples may go with personal preference rather than truth.
According to the New Jersey Star-Ledger, the 2010 Census form will allow same-sex couples to labels themselves as “husband or wife,” even if the relationships are not recognized by law...
[Well, how important is the rule of law, really?]
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What Bias? Re: CNN airs Four Pro-Homosexual 'Marriage' Clips, No Opponents
[Well, how important is balanced coverage, really?]
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Poll: Republican resurgence among young adults
[Not sure they deserve it - but better than the socialist wave.]
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