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Friday, June 4, 2010
In a Welfare State, How Much Is ‘Enough’?
Kagan’s Thesis Endorsed Judicial Activism
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In her thesis, written during her tenure at Oxford University, she believes that the judiciary must be a mechanism of social change...
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TIME TO JUNK THE CORPORATE TAX
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Reducing or eliminating the negative effects of the corporate tax on investment would increase real gross domestic product and future wages significantly, says Michael J. Boskin, a professor of economics at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution... [snip]
President Obama has put tax reform on the agenda, but surprisingly little attention is being paid to fixing the most growth-inhibiting, anticompetitive tax of all: the corporate income tax. Reducing or eliminating the corporate tax would curtail numerous wasteful tax distortions, boost growth in both the short and long run, increase America's global competitiveness, and raise future wages.
The U.S. has the second-highest corporate income tax rate of any advanced economy (39% including state taxes, 50% higher than the OECD average). Many major competitors, Germany and Canada among them, have reduced their corporate tax rate, rendering American companies less competitive ...
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German car sales crash by one third after subsidies end
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Berlin - New car registrations in Germany crashed by one third in May in annual terms, data Thursday showed. The tally of 249,700 new cars was 35 per cent below new-car sales a year ago, the federal vehicle licensing office in the city of Flensburg said. Germany offered buyers government subsidies last year. This year the May tally was 3,000 less than an earlier estimate by Germany's motor manufacturers' association VDA.
[Perspective: Germany is Europe's largest economy. CA is currently buying approx. 2M new cars a year, and has gone as high as 17M in 2004 (nearly 10% of the global new car market).]
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Congress Ponders How to Push Electric Vehicles
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[They refuse to learn {or just don't care what damage they do}: this is a very bad idea that will end badly - will someone please send these idiots the above piece re: Germany's experience subsidizing cars?]
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What is Behind Liberalism’s Obesity Obsession?
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Now that government can claim that everyone’s individual health is no longer just an issue for them...
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Chesapeake principal won't let mom pick up daughter
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The mother scheduled a Wednesday morning doctor's appointment for her daughter. Come Wednesday morning, the fourth-grader was taking a Standards of Learning exam. The mother came to pick up her daughter. The principal said no. Rae Martin said she received the forms that asked her to not schedule doctor's appointments during SOL testing. But those were sent home shortly before testing was supposed to start, she said.
Meanwhile, her daughter Alexis' check-up had been scheduled for months...
[These public employees have forgotten who they work for. We need universal-unencumbered vouchers.]
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Illegal student gets jury trial on traffic charges
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[So now illegal aliens are afforded access to our legal system? Exactly what 'privileges' does US citizenship bestow anymore? ]
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Obama: End depedence on fossil fuels
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[Not, possible. So what is the President of the United States doing saying it? Giving such insane notions credibility through his bully pulpit is very nearly as damaging to this nation, give oil being it's functional life's blood, as his embarrassing assertion that he seriously believes for a second that the world could ever be free of nukes.
Again, Not, possible - shouldn't we be concerned at his demonstrated delusions?]
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Five ways Obama may tax you to pay for the government's 'reinvention of journalism'
Bureaucrats at the Federal Trade Commission have just released a new "staff study" containing a host of recommendations on how the federal government can put itself at the center of the "reinvention of journalism" campaign now gathering momentum on the Left. Translated, "reinvention of journalism" is codespeak for "Repeal the First Amendment's prohibition on Congress doing anything to abridge the freedom of the independent press to find and report all of the facts about what politicians, bureaucrats and their allies in the private sector are doing, are planning on doing, did in the past, or are thinking about doing in the future...
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US newspaper circulation drops another 8.74 percent
Circulation figures for US newspapers released Monday provided another dose of bad news for an industry that has seen a wave of bankruptcies, closures and cutbacks in newsrooms across the country.
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Historically Unaccountable Old Media Complains of Unaccountable New Media
The latest such journalist, Newsweek's Howard Fineman, is concerned that "nobody is cross-examining" the "position papers" that supposedly comprise a critical mass of new media journalism.
Of course without new media, Fineman's position papers would be virtually immune from meaningful cross examination.
His position is common among the media's old guard: accountability for thee, but not for me...
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Thursday, June 3, 2010
Five Videos: What the MSM is Loathe to Show Us
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What really happened off the coast of Gaza.
[Watch this one {below}]
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The Lessons of Hanin Zuabi’s Big Lie
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Yesterday’s press conference by Hanin Zuabi, an Israeli Arab Knesset member who was on the Gaza-bound Mavi Marmara when Israeli commandos boarded it on Monday, should be studied by every journalist or human-rights activist who ever believed a Palestinian atrocity tale. Here is Haaretz’s report of it:
According to Zuabi, when the flotilla was 130 miles from shore, 14 naval ships approached and opened fire without warning. Only journalists, nurses and a doctor were on deck; none of them carried weapons. All the other passengers were either in their rooms or fled there as soon as the shooting began. …
Over and over, she insisted that the passengers engaged in no violence, that the soldiers had come with intent to kill and intimidate, that it was all planned in advance.
When reporters confronted her with the video footage released by the army and the soldiers’ testimony, and with the fact that several soldiers were wounded, Zuabi first evaded the questions, then finally insisted, “This is what I saw.”
This is a classic example of the Big Lie: even faced with incontrovertible evidence of her story’s falsity — the video footage of those peace-loving “journalists” and “nurses” attacking the soldiers, the seven hospitalized commandos — Zuabi stuck to it.
And without this evidence, most of the world would surely have believed her...
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IDF: Hamas stops flotilla aid delivered by Israel
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CBS Finds ‘Even [Israel’s] Friends Question’ Blockade of Gaza, IGNORES Regular Aid Shipments Through Israel
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While the broadcast networks ABC, CBS and NBC have all failed to remind viewers that Israel allows regular aid shipments into Gaza over land from its side of the border, on Tuesday’s CBS Evening News correspondent Richard Roth highlighted complaints about the effect of the blockade on Gaza residents, used a soundbite of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to argue that "even [Israel’s] friends question the effect," and even noted that Egypt was opening its border with Gaza for humanitarian aid – all while still not informing viewers that the Israelis regularly screen aid shipments and allow them into Gaza.
RICHARD ROTH: The U.N. says 70 percent of its million and a half people live on less than a dollar a day. Smuggling through tunnels to Egypt provides much of what Gazans need but at prices not many can afford. Israel says the aim of the blockade is to control terrorism, but even its friends question the effect.
HILLARY CLINTON, SECRETARY OF STATE: The situation in Gaza is unsustainable and unacceptable.
ROTH: Wary of sharing blame, Egypt's now opened its own border with Gaza – for humanitarian reasons, said Cairo – but probably not for long.
On the same day’s The Early Show, CBS anchor Betty Nguyen also noted Egypt’s actions: "This morning, Egypt has temporarily opened its border with Gaza to let in aid shipments after Israel's raid that killed nine people on a humanitarian flotilla."
Similarly, during the war in Gaza from late December 2008 to January 2009, CBS was the network most likely to air complaints about the blockade’s effect on the people of Gaza, and the least likely to report that humanitarian aid was being transported into the Gaza Strip.
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'Signals of weakness'
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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said Tuesday that President Barack Obama has encouraged Israel’s enemies by sending “signals of weakness” in the U.S. commitment to its ally.
“We have to ask if the Obama administration remains committed to the state of Israel and the right of Israel to exist and defend herself,” ... “The Obama administration, through its word and its actions, has been sending the world mixed signals - at best.”
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How Wars Begin
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Throughout their seventeen months in office, the President and his senior subordinates have been at pains to "engage" the Muslim "world." As we've consistently seen, 'engagement' with the Muslim 'world' only means increased aggression by its violent minority.
Assuming such an outcome is neither the intention of the President and his team, nor desired by them, American course corrections must be urgently taken...
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Napolitano asks terror SPONSOR for help
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... attendees at the Abu Dhabi meeting included officials from Syria, which is listed on the State Department’s website as “one of the countries determined by the Secretary of State to have repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism.”
Two questions: Does Napolitano expect government officials who can’t – or won’t – keep terrorists out of their own countries to somehow keep them out of ours?
And should we be sharing technical and intelligence information about terrorists with a country like Syria, which our own State Department has determined actively supports them?
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PBS: Far More Christian Terrorists Than Muslim Ones, Tea Party Comparable to Jihad
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Tavis Smiley has apparently been asleep for the last ten years. That, at least, is the only logical explanation for his claim that Christains engage in terrorism far more often than Muslims. He also thinks the Tea Party is a comparably dangerous force to radical Islam.
"There are so many more examples of Christians who do that," Smiley claimed, referring to terrorism, "than you could ever give me examples of Muslims who have done that inside this country where you live and work."
He was discussing terrorism with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born writer and former member of the Dutch Parliament.
Ali claims it is her mission to "inform the West about the danger of Islam," but Smiley was more concerned with the danger posed by Tea Party protesters, who "are being recently arrested for making threats against elected officials, for calling people 'nigger' as they walk into Capitol Hill, for spitting on people." None of those claims are true, but then again the segment was replete with falsehoods (Full video and transcript below the fold - h/t Greg Hengler).
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The Warrior Code vs. The Da Vinci Code
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Luckily, the West knows how to respond to such shows of aggressiveness. For instance, in the last few years “tag” and similar games have been banned from numerous school playgrounds in the U.K. and the U.S. on the grounds that they are “hazardous” and “inappropriate.”
So there, take that, you little jihadist!
As it did in the seventh century, Islam is taking on the appearance of an unstoppable masculine force. But in the West the masculine spirit looks more like a ghost. In The Suicide of Reason, Lee Harris puts the matter in stark biological terms: “While we in the West are drugging our alpha boys with Ritalin, the Muslims are doing everything in their power to encourage their alpha boys to be tough, aggressive, and ruthless.”
Sounds like Harris is talking war, but in reality his book is more about cultural conflict than armed conflict. [snip]
It’s also telling that in Europe, where Christianity exerts much less influence, the submissiveness is more pronounced. So feminization and its attendant emasculation are not problems that are specific to Christianity.
Nevertheless, because it’s a large part of American culture, the health of Christianity ought to be of concern to all. Our culture derives much of its strength from its Christian faith, but a Christianity without a strong masculine presence won’t be able to keep young men from defecting to the religion of guns n’ poses.
There are a lot of young men in our world who are uncertain whether to follow the sign of the crescent moon or the sign of the cross, but it’s a good bet not many of them will be interested in following the “yield” sign which some contemporary Christians have taken as their emblem.
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FTC to “reinvent” journalism
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The nation needs a strong, independent press, the FTC argues, and so they want to find ways for government to “reinvent” journalism. If that sounds vaguely Orwellian to you, the actual language in the Federal Trade Commission’s discussion-points memo should have hairs standing on the backs of necks across the nation. It shows a wildly laughable rationale for government intervention that would prop up the failing newspaper model in a manner that would put the entire industry at the mercy of the federal bureaucracy it’s supposed to keep in check.
This FTC study is rated R for anyone who thinks the federal government, the object of copious news coverage itself, has no business deciding which sectors of the private media business survive and thrive through its support, subsidies and encouragement with things like tax incentives.
Yet that’s what this Obama administration paper is suggesting as another of the ex-community organizer’s galactic reform plans.
This is not a document meant to salvage an independent press. It’s a road map for government control over the news.
[Wake up America: tyranny is being installed one {rapid} step at a time.]
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Hey FTC, FCC: As Long As We’re On the Subject of ‘Hate Speech…’
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Various lefty organizations have petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to start monitoring “hate speech” on radio and on the internet [but not TV]. According to this story, the groups include: [the usual - snip]
Adopting the Rahm Emanuel principle of never letting a good crisis go to waste, the Obama administration is clearly using the travails of the dinosaur media as an opportunity to “save” it — by destroying press freedom and putting those pesky blogs and websites like this one out of business.You can bet they’ll have have plenty of useful idiots in the MSM and in academe on their side in this endeavor.
But hey, as long as we’re on the subject of hate speech and the legacy media, what about this oldie-but goodie — from the left, naturally:
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CANADA RECONSIDERING HEALTH CARE MODEL IN FACE OF SOARING COSTS
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Poll: Obamacare Schedule fails to sway public
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The White House has, for weeks now, rolled out popular health reform benefits well ahead of schedule, items like coverage for young adult children and tax credits for small business, hoping these early deliverables would shore up public support. But a new poll, released this morning by the Kaiser Family Foundation, suggests the accelerated implementation schedule has failed to sway a skeptical public — or even keep health reform’s most ardent supporters on board.
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Buy Socialism Now, Pay for It Later
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One of the more stunning bits of insanity to come out of 2008 is that during an economic crisis caused by “Buy Now, Pay Later” fiscal planning, a candidate whose entire economic philosophy was built on “Buy Now, Pay Later” was voted in. The difference is that Obama’s “Buy Now, Pay Later” plans weren’t there for capitalism, but to fund socialism. And now with the national debt tripled, and his approval rating lower than a skunk’s at an aromatherapy session, he’s pushing out ObamaCare’s “benefits” ahead of schedule.
Still Buy Now, Pay Later...
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Italy becomes latest to release austerity measures
While some economists may applaud Italy's proposed 24 billion-euro austerity package for preventing a Greece-level debt crisis, the cutbacks could take a toll on Prime Minister Berlusconi's already declining popularity. (Snip) If approved by parliament, the measure would help the government trim its budget deficit from 5.3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) to 2.7 by 2012. European Union regulations require member states to keep budget deficits within 3 percent of GDP, although many countries have broken the rules since the economic and financial crises. Italy's need for austerity measures is not as extreme as those of Greece, Spain or Portugal...
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National Debt Soars Past $13 Trillion
The U.S. national debt has passed the $13 trillion mark, according to USDebtClock.org, an independent website that tracks the real-time growth of U.S. revenues and spending. The Treasury Department has yet to update its official national debt-tracking website: TreasuryDirect.gov lists the national debt, as of Monday, May 24, as nearly $12.99 trillion. The Treasury Department did not immediately return a request from ABC News for comment. (Snip) ''As early as today, we'll reach a dubious milestone in America: a $13 trillion national debt -- the first time in history we've crossed this frightening threshold.
This extenders bill would add another $130 billion on top of that. ... This is fiscal recklessness...
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Despite Soaring National Debt, Congress Goes on Spending Spree
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As the national debt clock ticked past the ignominious $13 trillion mark overnight, Congress pressed to pass a host of supplemental spending bills to, among other things, fund the continuing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, ramp up security on the U.S.-Mexico border and prevent teacher layoffs.
Taken together, the Democratic-led U.S. Congress is trying to find a way to pass about $300 billion more in unfunded spending before Memorial Day – a spending spree that rivals anything drunken sailors have been accused of...
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CNN Money's Plan to Save Social Security: Raise Taxes, No Mention of Reduced Spending
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Jeanne Sahadi at CNNMoney.com has finally realized Social Security needs urgent reform - and by reform, she means going after the wealthy, of course.
But Sahadi wasn't worried. In fact, she began her piece by saying "it should be a snap" to rescue the program from bankruptcy.
After blissfully assuring readers that Social Security will be fine for another 27 years, Sahadi offered three easy-peasy steps that could be enacted over time to make the program solvent.
Sadly, all three ideas were predictable:
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Michelle Obama’s obesity report: Tax pop and candy, subsidize fruits and veggies
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Michelle Obama’s 124 page Childhood Obesity Report is complete for the ‘Let’s Move! campaign’ and it is now online for review. Most families will not disagree with the ‘findings’ of the report but the extent that common-sense recommendations are detailed in ‘government-speak’ is laughable. A simple piece of advise such as “Turn off the TV and go out and play” turns into this: “An association between television viewing and risk of being overweight in preschool children, independent of socio-demographic factors. Specifically, for each additional
[Michelle did a report? And her qualifications for doing so are...?]
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Sorry, sweetie: Candy tax kicks in Tuesday
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Have a sweet tooth? Your dentist may tell you to cut back on candy, but your legislator might say please don't.
Knock back a few beers on a hot summer day? As long as you're not driving, swill away. Your state needs you.
Taxes on candy, gum, bottled water and beer are expected to bring in a combined $122 million over the next year to help deal with a $2.8 billion state budget gap.
Smokers and soda-sippers also are being tapped: A $1-per-pack boost in the cigarette tax kicked in May 1, and a tax on carbonated beverages starts July 1. Together, those two are expected to bring in $135 million by the end of June 2011.
Those taxes and more — nearly $800 million in all — are being added to keep government spending levels where they are despite a recession occurring in the private sector...
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A lifetime of self reliance and accepting personal responsibility
The more our governments and their deficits grow, the more I think of my late mother-in-law.
A trained bookkeeper and armchair economist, she had ideas that could save the country some real money today. She came to America at 13, speaking only Yiddish. When she died some 70 years later, her Yiddish was still perfect. But so was her English.
That's because in the 1920s, teachers and parents did not know about diversity training and political correctness. So they placed her in classes with much younger English-speaking kids...
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Why the Texas Textbook Debate Matters
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Is America a “constitutional republic” or a “democratic” one? Is Country & Western more of a significant cultural movement than Hip Hop? Is there such a thing as “separation of church and state”?
These are but a few of the hundreds of questions the 15 elected members of the Texas State Board of Education [SBOE] have been agonizing over for nearly a year as they struggled to reach an agreement and adopt the Lone Star State’s standards for social studies.
The vote is in, and the social studies standards were finally adopted last week following a marathon debate that was often contentious and racially charged. [Guess who brought race into it.]
“We are adding balance,” to a liberal bias, says Dr. Don McLeroy, a practicing dentist and Republican from Bryan.
“They can just pretend this is a white America and Hispanics don’t exist,” said Democrat Mary Helen Berlang.
[You decide.]
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Have the AP or Denver Post Actually Read the New Texas Curriculum?
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In two articles over the last two weeks, the AP has written the following (sometimes more than once) about the new Texas curriculum:
A far-right faction of the Texas State Board of Education gained a giant step forward Friday in injecting conservative ideals into social studies, history and economics lessons that will be taught to millions of students for the next decade. (Emphasis added. Nothing like setting the tone up front.)
A far-right faction of the Texas State Board of Education gained a giant step forward Friday in injecting conservative ideals into social studies, history and economics lessons that will be taught to millions of students for the next decade.
(Emphasis added. Nothing like setting the tone up front.)
Reading the actual curriculum documents (elementary school, middle school, high school, and economics), here's what they actually say about these issues:
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Obama: I intend to find the votes on climate 'in the coming months'
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President Barack Obama will vow Wednesday to personally corral Senate votes for a sweeping climate change and energy bill in the coming months. His comments are sure to hearten environmentalists, who have been pressing for the White House to exert more political pressure on lawmakers this year.
“The votes may not be there right now, but I intend to get this done,”
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Sarah Palin Implicates Environmentalists For BP Oil Spill on Facebook
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If "extreme environmentalists" were not successful in prohibiting land based oil drilling in the United States, then companies like BP would not have to resort to looking for oil in the deep oceans.
It's an argument that's catching on as the layers of restrictions which have driven U.S. oil development have become better known....
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Gregory Asks Obama's Energy Adviser: Should We Start Drilling in ANWR?
[Credit where due - and from Gregory ?! - this is a sign...]
After a lengthy discussion about what went wrong in the Gulf to cause the current crisis, Gregory asked his guest,"Is the problem that we're drilling in water that's just too deep?"
He continued, "Should you even rethink your own approach to the environment to say,'Maybe in the Arctic Wildlife Reserve [Refuge], we ought to be drilling there. We ought to be going into shallower waters so that this can be done more safely?'"
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Obesity Ills Are A 'Myth'
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ACCEPTED medical wisdom that overweight people are more susceptible to diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure is a myth, a new report suggests. Even people who are obese suffer no adverse health effects until they turn 40. The research flies in the face of Government attempts to combat the so-called “obesity timebomb”, which it has been claimed will lead to a generation of youngsters dying before their parents...
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Democrats Want To Run Against Carly
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Carly Fiorina (aka Cara Carleton Sneed) sat on the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum, which has observer status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
But congressional support for global governance will not wane on Carly’s watch. Agenda 21 and “sustainable development” are the new buzz words for “global socialism” through global governance and Carly sits on the Foundation Board at the mother ship.
This is by no means new for Fiorina though. Her affiliation with global activists dates back many years and includes some of our nation’s most nefarious characters... [snip]
Is there any public figure with a real backbone out there? Are there any real conservative candidates who aren’t just parroting Tea Party talking points for a few votes?
A: Yes;
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Capitalism is good for kids
He pointed out that free markets clearly bring greater prosperity than socialism. And more prosperity translates into higher health standards. After all, it costs money for the things the study said contributed to the decline....
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