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In October, a study by the Maguire Energy Institute at Southern Methodist University concluded that the reduction of shallow water oil drilling permits that followed the BP oil spill would cost 40,000 jobs in the region...
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Friday, December 3, 2010
Oil Drilling Moratorium is an Act of Treason
Palestinians Say They Are No Longer Bound By The Oslo Accords
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... Not only does the 'Palestinian Authority' get its powers from Oslo, but Oslo is the sole basis of the 'Palestinian' claim to the Arab occupied land in Judea and Samaria.
It's why the Israelis did something no other country in the Middle East was willing to do... give the Palestinians some land to call their own.
The 'moderate' Fayyad's statements simply formalize what Yasser Arafat's former political commissar in Jerusalem, Feisal Husseini openly admitted years ago - that Oslo was simply a Trojan horse designed to deceive Israel.
Since the 'Palestinians' are no longer bound by Oslo, neither is Israel and Netanyahu should make that crystal clear immediately.
Since there's no longer a legal or practical basis for them, Israel should immediately break off the futile negotiations with the 'Palestinians and annex the Israeli controlled areas of Judea and Samaria, while moving the 'Palestinian' non-Israeli citizens to the 'Palestinian' occupied areas...
[But 'world opinion' will demand that Israel continue to abide by the accords even if their 'partner in piece' doesn't...]
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Muslims warn of anarchy if Christian mother pardoned
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Pakistani Muslims have threatened anarchy if the Government pardons a Christian mother sentenced to death for blasphemy, calling hundreds of protesters onto the streets. Hundreds of Muslims marched in the eastern city of Lahore after the most influential Sunni Muslim alliance in Pakistan urged the Government not to grant mother-of-five Aasia Bibi clemency...
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Facebook girl held for burning Koran
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A schoolgril said to have been filmed burning the Koran has been arrested on suspicion of inciting religious hatred. The 15-year-old was nicked after a video of her alleged act - watched by other pupils on school premises - was posted on Facebook...
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CNN Senior Editor of Mideast Affairs Mourns Loss of 'Hezbollah Giant'
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They're a militant Shiite Muslim organization defined by the U.S. government as a terrorist group, but don't tell that to CNN senior editor of Middle Eastern affairs, Octavia Nasr...
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Illegals Are Breaking the Bank
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A Mexican-based financial company is forecasting $22 billion in remittances for 2010 making it Mexico’s second highest revenue maker behind crude oil....
Not only are we not recirculating billions of U.S. dollars earned in our country back into our own economy, we are also dolling out tens of billions taxpayer-funded social services to millions who don’t contribute to the system.
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Oakland immigrant ID cards to work as debit cards
[So naturally, in California...]
Oakland is poised to join a handful of cities in creating a municipal identification card that is touted primarily as a way for illegal aliens to prove their identity. But unlike programs in other locales, Oakland's plan will be the first in the nation to create an alternative banking system for them...
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Thursday, December 2, 2010
Dictators, Democracies and WikiLeaks
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Why are diplomatic cables secret at all?
It's a fair question to ask as we assess the WikiLeaks disclosures and the damage they may do. Overall, there are very few surprises in these cables. Anyone who regularly get their news from the new media should know that governments around the world consistently lie in public...
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Leakers and Losers
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The Wikileaks fiasco reveals many things about many people, and despite the mainstream media's attempt to equate it to a "diplomatic 9/11," much of it appears to be far less than that. At this point in time, is anyone really surprised that so many people in high places are as venal, self-interested, conniving and incompetent?
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Hot mic picks up discussion on Senate floor: ‘It’s all rigged’
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A hot mic left on during a Senate vote Tuesday morning on the Food Safety Act caught a Democratic senator complaining that the process of setting the agenda during the lame-duck session is “rigged.”
“It’s all rigged. The whole conversation is rigged,”said Colorado Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet. “The fact that we don’t get to a discussion before the break about what we’re going to do in the lame duck. It’s just rigged.” The remark was picked up live on C-SPAN 2...
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Pence: Honesty Is Key
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U.S. Rep. Mike Pence made it clear that the problems facing the country transcend government and business.
The nation cannot be restored with public policy alone, he said, adding that “public virtue” also will be necessary...“To renew American exceptionalism, we have to recognize one more thing, we have to recognize that our present crisis is not merely economic and political but moral in nature,”
"At the root of these recent times should be the realization that people in positions of authority from Washington to Wall Street have walked away from the timeless truths of honesty and integrity”
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Baroness Ashton's new foreign ministry will finally turn America against the EU
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...in Brussels, the Europhiles believe that this will move the balance of power from the nation states to them. The European Parliament has passed a motion declaring that, in future, “Europe will be an important political force”. Even more absurdly, Elmar Brok, a German MEP, declared that: “It must be clear that this [Baroness Ashton] is the only one responsible for operational foreign policy.”
I can’t see that going down too well with William Hague – nor with the Americans.
Can you really image the White House wanting to ring Baroness Ashton, a former treasurer, to ask for help in a missile strike?
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Bolton: Military strike only way to stop Iran nukes
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“Both our friends and our adversaries alike have assessed this as a very weak administration, uncomfortable with asserting American interests or defending them, particularly through the use of force internationally. This assessment has led us to this point."
[Again and again, weakness encourages aggression.]
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George Soros And Food Safety
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Why would the Senate take up precious time in the lame duck session considering a food safety bill?
This power grab of the nation's food supply may end up benefiting a certain Hungarian billionaire.
Just as ObamaCare wasn't really about health care reform but about government power, S510 is not really about food safety but about government control of agriculture and the nation's food producers...
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George Soros' New Plan for Globalism and Crony Capitalism
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When George Soros invests $50 million to 'revolutionize' the way Americans think about a certain issue, it would normally be deemed newsworthy. Not so with the formation of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) - the MSM is dutifully keeping its public profile low.
Despite its name, its philosophy is nearly a century old.
The group blames the economic crisis on free market capitalism and promotes a return to the theories of John Maynard Keynes to “apply the same Keynesian courage and innovation” to ending the worldwide recession...
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Hands Off Our Net
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The Federal Communications Commission plans to impose "net neutrality" without any legislative or legal authority, in effect silencing a conduit for the truth that keeps us free.
The Internet is once again under attack, not from hackers intent on spilling secrets or causing mischief, but by an administration intent on controlling the free flow of information that it views as a threat to its expanding power.
Note the announcement's emphasis on "lawful Internet traffic" and a "level playing field."
This is government-speak for controlling what gets said and who gets to say it.
The Internet is already open to all, but in the marketplace of ideas, as in other areas of endeavor, some ideas win out over others. The FCC wants to decide what and whose ideas get heard...
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Analysis: 90 private-sector workers support salary of just 1 state worker
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It takes up to 90 private sector workers to support the salary of one state worker making the same amount of money, according to a new analysis. The nonpartisan state Office of Legislative Services, in response to a question posed by the Assembly Republican office, says it takes between 67.5 and 90 private-sector workers to support the salary of one state worker...
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ABC Trumpets ‘Tax Us More’ Liberal Democratic Quartet
."In fact, many of the richest Americans like Buffett, Bill and Melinda Gates and Ted Turner say that they should pay higher tax.”
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'Patriotic Millionaires’ support raising taxes but won’t voluntarily pay more to the gov’t
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Three of the “Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength,” a group of 90 plus millionaires who signed a letter to President Obama asking him to allow the tax cuts on people with an income of $1 million or more each year to expire, say that despite their call to raise taxes, they will not pay the government more than they are required to, nor will they cut the government a personal check...
[Liberal 'philanthropy ': forcing others to act as you think they should.]
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Study: lower carbon emissions linked to recession
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Carbon dioxide dioxides, claimed to be the chief cause of global warming in political circles, decreased from 2008 to 2009, largely because of the global economic slowdown, says a study released Sunday.
"There is a close link between the world's gross domestic product and emissions of carbon dioxide,"says study lead author Pierre Friedlingstein of the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, according to a story in USA TODAY...
[Of course, energy use is activity - control it and you control all activity...]
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The Climate Cash Cow
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SCAMS: A high-ranking member of the U.N.'s Panel on Climate Change admits the group's primary goal is the redistribution of wealth and not environmental protection or saving the Earth.
It's also the motivating force behind what is left of the climate change movement after the devastating Climate-gate and IPCC scandals that saw the deliberate manipulation of scientific data to spur the world into taking draconian regulatory action.
Left for dead, global warm-mongers are busy planning their next move...
[As in another name change, this time to "Climate Disruption" - also know a weather. You think a hundred-Trillion dollars will be given up without a fight?]
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At least eight deaths in snow and extreme cold across Europe
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Eight people have frozen to death in Poland since Monday, police in Warsaw said... The winter began with a vengeance this week in Europe, with sub- zero temperatures reported in most countries...
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Some Water Sanity For Central California
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Next time a concept like, say "death panels" from the federal government seems far-fetched, consider the ordeal California's Central Valley has endured for the past two years.
Based on a prior judicial ruling, some of the most prized and productive agricultural land in the country was turned into a wasteland after its water was shut off....
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Legal Center: Obamacare Devastates Companies
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“It is really having a detrimental impact on small business owners. They are suffering from even higher premium increases than in the past two decades. And a lot of them are having trouble even keeping the coverage they have, which we were all promised.”Source
A Simple Way to Improve Medicare
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If doctors were set free from Medicare price controls, the Medicare administrators would be better able to reduce Medicare's contribution to provider reimbursement without fear of a physician exodus from the system...
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Will We Be Fooled Again?
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America's 'leaders' are trying to make us believe that the greatest threat to this country is a man by the name of Julian Assange.
Our government officials tell us that Assange's act somehow poses a threat to our national security by undermining America's foreign policy.
The regime will try to deflect attention from itself by directing the anger of the American people at a little Australian programmer.
They will claim that Julian Assange represents a mortal peril and that he must stopped and perhaps even killed. Do not fall for this. Such claims are absurd and preposterous.
Let's not get suckered here. Rather than being angry at the straw man set up by the administration, let's turn our sight to the real culprits - the so-called leaders and politicians who are liars, schemers, crooks, egomaniacs, and incompetents.
The ruling elites will try to play on our patriotic feelings in order to save their skins. Contrary to what you will hear from them, WikiLeaks' disclosures are not a threat to America. But they are an immense threat to those running America while lying to us on a daily basis.
It's important that we not be fooled this time around...
[I.e., we're now to believe that x-rays that expose cancer are what's bad, and not the disease they illuminate.]
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NYT Drops ClimateGate-era 'Ethics' Qualms, Publishes Scores of WikiLeaks Docs
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The New York Times has taken an admirable stand on the potentially-criminal release of diplomatic cables by the online "whistleblowers" at WikiLeaks. Said one Times reporter: "
The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won't be posted here."
Oh, wait. That wasn't in reference to the WikiLeaks documents. That was the Times's former environmental blogger Andy Revkin discussing the so-called ClimateGate emails.
The Times has, in fact, posted a number of American diplomatic documents obtained illegally by WikiLeaks, and containing massive amounts of sensitive diplomatic communications.And so we get another glimpse of the amazing depths of the Gray Lady's hypocrisy...
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Debt crisis escalates in Europe; fears grow about Spain
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... The draining confidence in Western Europe's weakest economies threatened to upend bond markets, destabilize the euro and drag out the global economic recovery if it is not quickly contained...
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EU'S BELIEF IN GLOBAL WARMING IS A COSTLY MISTAKE
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At Cancun, 'Climate Change Experts' Call for End to Developed World Economic Growth for 'The Next 20 Years'
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This would be really funny if it weren't for the fact that so many supposedly informed people, including our president and those who surround him, may actually buy into ideas being proposed at the United Nations-sponsored Cancun climate conference, and will relish the means by which they could be put into place...
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POLL: 48% Oppose U.N. Involvement in Offshore Drilling Debate
. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds, in fact, that nearly half (48%) of Adults oppose involvement by the United Nations in future decisions about offshore drilling. Thirty-seven percent (37%) think U.N. involvement is a good idea, but another 16% aren’t sure...
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The EPA's Anti-Prosperity Agenda
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On Labor Day, President Obama pledged to
“keep fighting every single day, every single hour, every single minute to turn this economy around and put people back to work.”If job creation is such an overarching priority, the president might take a closer look at the recent barrage of job-suffocating actions from his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The president might also look at Texas, where job creation and environmental improvement have occurred simultaneously and at a pace far above the national average...
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Voters Fear Too Much Government 'Help' For Economy
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Despite continuing concerns about the economy, most voters still worry that the federal government will do too much in trying to turn things around...
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Dean: Government Should Pick Guests on Fox & MSNBC Because Ignorant Americans Don’t Know What’s Going On
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Yes, he really said that...
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NYT: Tea Party is Wrong - Americans Want Higher Taxes and More Spending
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There are times when one has to think the Manhattan building that is the home of the New York Times doesn't have any windows, doesn't have any television sets, and doesn't have any doors that allow employees to venture out and actually see what's happening in America beyond the walls of 620 Eighth Avenue...
[But its musings are dutifully reported by over 600 TV stations with direct newsfeeds from it.]
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Turning the Department of Justice into the Department of Agendas
One of the signal and fundamental principles of a successful democracy is the rule of law. No one is exempt, it is applied fairly and it refuses the intrusion of politics or selective application of the law.
That’s the way it is supposed to be.
Unfortunately that’s not the way it is, at least for the moment....
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Why Won’t the Media Cover the Black Panther Scandal?
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Bartle Bull, a former civil rights lawyer and publisher of the leftist The Village Voice, a paper in which I have been published, said it’s
''the most blatant form of voter intimidation I’ve ever seen.''
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Should Bob Schieffer Have Asked Eric Holder About The DOJ/Black Panther Case?
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But he didn’t ask Holder about the Black Panther/DOJ case...
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Dems Say Debate in U.S. Congress to Go Beyond Bush Tax Cuts
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Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, the senate’s No. 2 Democrat, said negotiations over extending the Bush-era tax cuts also will include prolonging their spending programs and other tax credits...
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Lost decade: The new threat to the U.S. economy
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The risk of a double-dip recession is getting a lot of attention, but even that grim prediction could prove a little too optimistic. Disappointing job reports, weakness in housing and consumer spending and problems in world financial markets have raised concerns about the U.S. economy stalling out later this year.
Now some economists are starting to talk about an even worse fate: a prolonged period of very weak growth, a so-called "lost decade"...
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How to avoid Japan's economic mistakes
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Japan's economic eclipse shows the limited power of economic stimulus and the exaggerated threat of modest deflation. There is no substitute for vigorous private-sector job creation and investment, and that's been missing in Japan.
This is a lesson we should heed...
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Spending millions on signs advertising spending on Obama's economic recovery programs
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
ACORN Executive Pleads No Contest To Election Fraud Conspiracy
ACORN executive Amy Busefink has pleaded "no contest" to conspiracy to commit voter registration fraud in Nevada, the Las Vegas Review-Journal is reporting. Sentencing is set for Jan. 10. Busefink ran the 2010 national voter drive for ACORN's notorious subsidiary, Project Vote, which was President Obama's employer in 1992. ACORN, which filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Election Day to escape its debts, is also charged with multiple counts of the same crime in Nevada...
New nutrition rules may be no party for students
The cake, cookies and candy at the school parties you might remember will become a no-no if the state approves new nutrition guidelines. Parent organizers would have to pick just one sweet treat per party and will be encouraged to order anything else from a menu of healthy snacks from their district's food services department. "I'm frustrated to hear that (the state) felt like they'd have to do that," said Michelle Sierk of Hempfield, president of the parent-teacher organization at West Point Elementary near Greensburg. The group already encourages parents to find creative ways to limit sugary snacks...
George W. Bush: waterboarding saved London from attacks
George W. Bush has claimed that information extracted from terrorist suspects by “waterboarding” saved British lives by preventing attacks on Heathrow and Canary Wharf. In an exclusive interview with The Times, the former US President offered a vigorous defence of the coercive interrogation technique: “Three people were waterboarded and I believe that decision saved lives.” He denied that waterboarding, which simulates drowning, amounted to torture. Asked if he authorised the use of waterboarding to get information from the captured al-Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he was unequivocal: “Damn right!”
Big, evil industries funded…which party?
Now that election 2010 is over, let’s go back over to OpenSecrets and look at which evil corporations stole our democracy and bought Congress for the Republicans — the RepubliCorp! First suspect: the military-industrial complex! * Defense Contractors: 55% Democrat, 44% Republican ($18 million) Oh, really? Oh. Well, even if Wall Street as a whole preferred Democrats, it must have been the real bad guys, those risky Hedge funds and exotic investors… Hedge Funds: 53% Democrat, 46% Republican ($6.8 million total) Venture Capital: 64% Democrat, 40% Republican ($6.4 million)...
McConnell fights GOP earmark ban
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is maneuvering behind the scenes to defeat a conservative plan aimed at restricting earmarks, setting up a high-stakes showdown that pits the GOP leader and his “Old Bull” allies against Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and a new breed of conservative senators. In a series of one-on-one conversations with incoming and sitting senators, McConnell is encouraging his colleagues to keep an open mind and not to automatically side with DeMint, whose plan calls on Senate Republicans to unilaterally give up earmarks in the 112th Congress...
Michele Bachmann loses a Tea Party vote for GOP post
A libertarian icon who helped inspire the Tea Party movement won't be supporting Rep. Michele Bachmann's bid to be in the House Republican leadership.Rep. Ron Paul, father of newly elected Kentucky senator Rand Paul, is backing Rep. Jeb Hensarling for chairman of the House Republican Conference, the party's No. 4 leadership post. The senior Paul and Hensarling are both Texans. Bachmann, from Minnesota, founded the Tea Party Caucus in Congress.
How Do California and the Titanic Differ?
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What's the difference between California voters and the passengers
on the Titanic?
The passengers on the Titanic didn't vote to hit the iceberg.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Over half of all new jobs created in the last year were created in Texas
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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 214,000 net new jobs were created in the United States from August 2009 to August 2010. Texas created 119,000 jobs during the same period. If every state in the country had performed as well, we’d have created about 1.5 million jobs nationally during the past year, and maybe “stimulus” wouldn’t be such a dirty word.
What does Austin know that Washington doesn’t? At its simplest: Don’t overtax and -spend, keep regulations to a minimum, avoid letting unions and trial lawyers run riot, and display an enormous neon sign saying, “Open for Business.”
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How to Turn a Recession into a Depression
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Destroy business confidence, cozy up to socialists abroad, send deficits through the ceiling ― that should do it. It is hard for a president to turn a recession into a long-term downturn in the United States, given the inherent resiliency of private enterprise and America’s open and free markets.
But if you were to try, you might do something like the following...
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Assassins In Arizona?
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Border: If there's one word we shouldn't want to add to the U.S. lexicon, it's sicario, the Spanish word for contract killer. But with lawmen warning of sicarios now in Arizona, we may soon know that word — and worse. With little to worry about in crossing the unguarded U.S. border, it was only a matter of time before cartel smugglers began fighting over the lucrative spoils themselves.
Last May 13, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warned Arizona authorities that it had intelligence that 15 trained sicarios from Mexico's Sinaloa cartel were heading to Arizona...
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Germany holds inflamed debate on Islam and migration
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HAMBURG - Germany's inflamed public debate about Islam and integration risks serious overheating as politicians compete to make ever tougher statements criticising Muslims immigrants they accuse of refusing to fit in here. The escalating row, sparked off when a Bundesbank board member slammed Muslims as dim-witted welfare spongers, has mixed some social problems and some Muslim customs into a vision of Islam as a looming menace to German society. When President Christian Wulff tried to build bridges by saying Islam was now part of German society, critics retorted the country was based on "Judeo-Christian values"...
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Britain Faces Very Serious Threat From Terrorism,
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Home Secretary Theresa May said the U.K. faces a “very serious” threat from international terrorism, with an attack “highly likely,” as the government issues a report on its security priorities. Prime Minister David Cameron will identify the biggest dangers the U.K. faces today in the first part of the Strategic Defense and Security Review. The second section, published tomorrow, will set out how the nation will defend itself from attack, while also outlining cuts to defense spending of between 7 percent and 8 percent...
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The (Distorted) View
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“Why is it inappropriate when 70 families died?” an outraged and incoherent Whoopi Goldberg questioned Bill O’Reilly on “The View” about the Ground Zero mosque, referring to 70 Muslims who died during the 9/11 attacks.
“Because Muslims killed us on 9/11, that’s why!” the cable-news kingpin matter-of-factly responded. “No!” Goldberg interjected. “Oh, My God! That is such bulls---!”Goldberg and her co-host Joy Behar stormed off set in huffy protest.
Had O’Reilly overlooked a closet Presbyterian among the hijackers?
If nine years ago, roughly one month after 9/11, you announced that Muslims would soon seek to construct a mosque upon the site where their coreligionists murdered nearly 3,000 Americans, people would have called you “crazy.” If you had added that in the future merely mentioning the religion of our attackers would spark public censure, they would have put you in a straitjacket. Strangely, on the island of Manhattan in 2010, controversy pounced upon Bill O’Reilly’s mainstream view rather than Jay Behar and Whoopi Goldberg’s out-of-touch outrage...
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Glaring double standard in tolerance for anti-Muslim bigotry
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In theory, it could be a fun game to try to detect the double standard in this pattern of facts, except that it's so obvious and glaring that no effort is required to see it: The Washington Post, July 8, 2010: Octavia Nasr has been fired. CNN fired the editor responsible for Middle Eastern coverage after she posted a note on Twitter expressing admiration for a late Lebanese cleric considered an inspiration for the Hezbollah militant movement...
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Obama gives us Marxism 101
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Chilling as it may be to hear the President of the United States of America resorting to the lexicon of Star Wars to gin up the crowds in Ohio, there is an upside. Obama’s “The empire is striking back” speech yesterday is Marxism Dialectic 101—right there on YouTube as indisputable proof to teach your children...
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Sneering MSNBC Slams GOP Candidates as 'American Freak Show'
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Sometimes the bias can't get any clearer: A MSNBC graphic on Monday mocked GOP senatorial candidates with the headline, "American Freak Show: Angle, Paul, O'Donnell: New Faces in Politics." American Freak Show is also the title of guest Willie Geist's new book on politics, but all the apparent "freaks" discussed in the piece were Republicans...
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The Closing of the Muslim Mind
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Professionally, I was working in the “war of ideas” area both at the Voice of America and then at the Defense Department. One cannot fight a war of ideas unless one understands the ideas one is at war with. Our 9/11 attackers justified themselves in terms of their Muslim faith. Therefore, I was ineluctably led into a deep study of Islamic theology and into an examination of what constitutes justice in Islam...
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Monday, July 12, 2010
How Obama Used an Army of Thugs to Steal the 2008 Democratic Party Nomination
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Think those billy club armed New Black Panther thugs in Philadelphia were the first time Obama used Stalinist tactics to intimidate voters and disenfranchise the American people?
Think again.
In testimony this week before Congress, former Justice Department Official J. Christian Anderson revealed that not only were similar claims “pervasive”, but Obama activists committed the “same” crimes during the 2008 Democratic primary to help then Sen. Obama defeat Democratic heir apparent Hillary Clinton...
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The black klan
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J. Christian Adams, a former Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney, is blowing his we-the-people whistle on DOJ after it dropped all charges against the members of the New Black Panther Klan who were blatantly and irrefutably guilty of voter intimidation in Philadelphia in 2008.
The egregious, craven tactics of the New Black Panther Party Klan were caught on video. One of the racist punks is carrying a pipe or stick of some type with the clear intent of intimidating voters attempting to enter the Philadelphia voting location.
Dumb power, baby...
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Why isn't the media covering the paramilitary aspect of the Black Panther case?
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Why, in all the media coverage of the Black Panther voting intimidation case, is no one, and I mean absolutely no one, addressing the paramilitary aspect of this issue, where jackbooted, thugs wearing leather jackets and badge-adorned, black berets, obviously intend to communicate through their uniform appearances a menacing solidarity of purpose?
Does not the wearing of those uniforms imply the ominous and looming presence of a more widespread and more frightening paramilitary organization to the voters of that precinct?
And why is no one even asking this question?
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MSM Misses Rhode Island Parallel to Ariz. Immigration Law for Nearly Three Months
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Preconceived notions are dangerous things in journalism. They cause one to assume facts that aren't in evidence, leading to false or incomplete results.
A classic example has played out in the nearly three months since Arizona passed its "1070 law." Among other things, it mandates that law enforcement officials verify citizenship status in situations involving police contact if they have a reasonable suspicion that someone is not in the country legally.
It seems that virtually everyone covering the story has been assuming that Arizona's law is the first of its kind. Well, maybe as a "law" it is. But in Rhode Island, of all places, Boston Globe reporter Maria Sacchetti finally noticed on July 6 (HT Hot Air) that police have been doing what Arizona will start doing on July 29 since 2008 as a result of a gubernatorial executive order:
R.I. troopers embrace firm immigration role
In contrast to Mass., they report all who are present illegally...
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POLL: 56% Oppose Justice Department Challenge of Arizona Law; 61% Favor Similar Law In Their State
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A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 28% of voters agree that the Justice Department should challenge the state law. Fifty-six percent (56%) disagree and another 16% are not sure.
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America In Retreat
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It is well known that George W. Bush left office with low approval ratings and with sighs of relief from many foreign leaders. In contrast, Barack Obama rode a wave of popularity into the White House and the chancelleries of much of the world. But now, eighteen months into the Obama presidency, have Obama's self-consciously multilateralist policies engendered popularity abroad?
By and large, no. America's enemies gloat at their gains, but like America no more. America's friends languish in diffident anxiety, though they like America no less.
Put simply, Obama's policy pleases America's foes and unsettles America's friends...
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US should better define, counter Islamic extremism
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The Obama administration's recent move to drop references to Islamic radicalism is drawing fire in a new report warning the decision ignores the role religion can play in motivating terrorists.
Several prominent counterterror experts are challenging the administration's shift in its recently unveiled National Security Strategy, saying the terror threat should be defined in order to fight it.
The question of how to frame the conflict against al-Qaida and other terrorists poses a knotty problem. The U.S. is trying to mend fences with Muslim communities [?] while toughening its strikes against militant groups...
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Farewell to Space
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"perhaps foremost, find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage more dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science...and math and engineering."
This comment came in an interview the NASA chief conducted with al-Jazeera while touring the Middle East to mark the first anniversary of Mr. Obama's much-ballyhooed Cairo paean to Muslims...
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Islamic Law Comes to Dearborn
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Is it illegal to preach Christianity to Muslims in America now?
Acts 17 Apologetics, a Christian evangelistic group, was banned from passing out fliers at this year’s Arab Festival in Dearborn, Mich., but they went to the festival anyway and ended up getting arrested.
On Saturday, I got this message from David Wood of Acts 17:
“Muslims threatened to kill Nabeel [Qureshi, an ex-Muslim and David’s colleague] and me if we showed up again at Arab Fest in Dearborn, so we went there yesterday. They didn’t kill us, but the police arrested us and hauled us to jail..."
Nor was what happened to David and Nabeel an isolated incident.
In June 2009, law enforcement again caved to the demands of Islamic supremacists in Dearborn, in breach of rights guaranteed in the Constitution. The Dearborn Police Department told the group Arabic Christian Perspective (ACP) that they could not hand out literature to Muslims at the Arab Festival on public sidewalks, but had to stay on a single corner and not mingle among the people at the festival.
Dearborn has also prohibited the running of our Freedom Defense Initiative religious liberty bus campaign that offers help to Muslims threatened for leaving Islam. For that, I am suing.
Muslims seem to be craving a civil war in the Detroit area. Where is the inter-faith dialogue, the building of bridges, the mutual respect, mutual understanding?
It only goes one way with Islam. These are fancy terms for surrender...
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America's PIGS
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Europe is in turmoil because of the insolvency of the Southern European welfare state. The PIGS—Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain, countries with relatively unproductive economies and relatively generous welfare states—are collapsing, and they are dragging the rest of Europe down with them.
But America has its own PIGS: states like California, Illinois, and New York that are on the leading edge of socialism in our own country, and which are also approaching insolvency and threatening to drag the rest of the nation's economy down with them.
Barack Obama's home state has already reached insolvency. The article below indicates that Illinois has run out of money and simply stopped paying some of its bills—and also that the state is politically paralyzed and unable to take any steps to solve the crisis, because no one in the political establishment is willing to cut government spending.
If the crisis in Southern Europe is a warning of where America is headed, the crisis of America's PIGS is a warning about how bad things already are."Illinois Stops Paying Its Bills, but Can't Stop Digging Hole,"
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POLL: Most Americans Not Willing To Pay Higher Taxes For Public Employees, Entitlement Programs
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The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Adults shows that only 19% would be willing to pay higher taxes to avoid layoffs of state employees. Sixty-nine percent (69%) say they would not be willing to pay more in taxes for this reason...
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MSNBC: America: Pay More Welfare Or Become 'Third-World Country'
[Meanwhile, in our unbiased major media...]
Ed's on a crusade to have unemployment insurance payments extended. Note: unemployment "insurance." So once payments are extended beyond what's provided for, it's no longer insurance: it's welfare.
But that didn't stop Schultz from suggesting that paying more welfare is all that stands between America becoming the next Zimbabwe . . .
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Dutch agency admits mistake in UN climate report
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A leading Dutch environmental agency, taking the blame for one of the glaring errors that undermined the credibility of a seminal U.N. report on climate change, said Monday it has discovered more mistakes and urged the panel to be more careful.
But the review by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency claimed that none of the errors changed the conclusions of the U.N. panel...
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The Climategate Whitewash Continues
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Now a supposedly 'independent' review of the evidence says, in effect, "nothing to see here."
Last week "The Independent Climate Change E-mails Review," commissioned and paid for by the University of East Anglia, exonerated... the University of East Anglia...
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UN's IPCC Tells Scientists To 'Keep A Distance From The Media'
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Such was disseminated in a July 5 letter from IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri which has already garnered some criticism from folks on both sides of the anthropogenic global warming debate.
Even the New York Times' Andrew Revkin expressed disgust with this revelation Saturday:
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