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Is Obama's BP Shakedown an Impeachable Offense?

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The president has no legal authority to create the escrow fund and no authority to compel BP to contribute to it.

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The Reason for Constitutional Rights

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It is useful to recall the very reason for having constitutional rights: Those rights are intended to protect unpopular people

Why do we even have a Constitution if it is only to protect the friends of powerful political groups? Why do we have elections if politicians who grossly fail in their jobs can shove accountability onto the shoulders of those who did not violate the law? We have a Constitution only to limit government. That means, particularly, protecting the politically unpopular...

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Moratorium on gulf oil drilling could increase risks rather than make process safer

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A six-month deep-water drilling moratorium imposed to protect the Gulf of Mexico may raise the risk of oil spills, some members of a U.S. Department of the Interior safety-advisory group warn. The moratorium is also raising concerns that the gulf's $124 billion offshore oil industry will suffer as 33 deep-water projects are on hold.

The delay could imperil as many as 38,000 jobs related to the proj ects as rigs leave for work in other parts of the world, the National Ocean Industries Association, a trade group, estimates....

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Obama is Kicking Louisiana’s Ass

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President Obama announced on national television recently that he was looking for an ass to kick. [Class.]

Well, it seems he found one, the State of Louisiana. During his address this week to the nation from the Oval Office, the President made clear that he will not offer real help to the struggling people of Louisiana and the Gulf Coast.

In his speech, he presented no specific action plans and instead relied on lame platitudes.

Incredibly, the President told Lafourche Parish President Charlotte Randolph that his plan for those losing their jobs is to “put them on unemployment”...

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Jindal steps up battle against Obama's deepwater drilling ban

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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) has spent weeks throwing political punches at the Obama administration’s six-month freeze on deepwater oil-and-gas drilling, alleging it will wreak havoc on the region’s already battered economy. Now, Jindal is battling the moratorium in the courtroom, too.

Jindal and state Attorney General Buddy Caldwell on Sunday filed a legal brief in support of a Louisiana-based offshore services company that’s asking a federal judge to lift the ban. The ban is “effectively turning an environmental disaster into an economic catastrophe for the state,”...

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GOP senators introduce bill to suspend Jones Act

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In response to Obama's refusal to waive the Jones Act, three GOP senators introduced legislation Friday to ease the passage of foreign ships in the Gulf of Mexico to help with the oil spill cleanup. The bill, sponsored by Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) and George LeMieux (R-Fla.), would remove an obstacle for foreign vessels to travel between U.S. ports to provide needed assistance. The Jones Act, a protectionist law passed in 1920, restricts the movement of foreign ships without a waiver...

[So then who is standing in the way? {hint: 'never let a crisis go to waste'}]

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Cap-And-Trick

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Energy Policy: President Obama says the oil disaster proves the need to get off fossil fuels. But before we save the planet, let's save the Gulf and stop exploiting crises to deny America the energy it needs.

Saving the planet is nice, but just how do we plug the hole again? With an abundance of hand gestures, the president didn't really say...

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Obama Is Wrong; Alternative Energy is Not an Alternative

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Obama is using the oil spill in the Gulf as an emotional lever to push his cap and trade policy. The spill is a disaster, but exploiting it is truly despicable. It is made far worse when the alternative energies solutions don’t work. Increased costs will damage the economy and negatively impact the people he claims to represent.

We’re in this predicament because of exploitation by politicians and environmental groups who deliberately ignore scientific evidence and corruption in climate science...

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Firms paid to shut down wind farms when the wind is blowing

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Britain's biggest wind farm companies are to be paid not to produce electricity when the wind is blowing. Energy firms will receive thousands of pounds a day per wind farm to turn off their turbines... Critics of wind farms have seized on the revelation as evidence of the unsuitability of turbines to meet the UK's energy needs in the future.

The 'intermittent' nature of wind makes such farms unreliable providers of electricity...

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Missing Defense

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National Security: There seems to be only one thing White House arms negotiators want more than a reduction in U.S. nuclear weapons — a reduction in U.S. missile defenses to protect us from such weapons.

The Washington Times' Bill Gertz reports that U.S. diplomats are secretly negotiating with Russia to link nuclear arms reduction to limits on our anti-missile defenses...

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Russians pressing Kyrgyzstan to oust U.S. base

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The strategic U.S. air base at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, is once again facing closure as Russia works behind the scenes to influence Kyrgyzstan's interim government...

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NBC Sees Gaza as 'Prison Sentence Imposed by Israel,' Ignores Reports of Food Abundance

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Catching up on an item from last week on the Tuesday, June 8, NBC Nightly News, correspondent Tom Aspell portrayed the residents of Gaza as living through a life prison sentence imposed by Israel:

"Israel's blockade on Gaza isn't just about preventing goods from getting in, it's about preventing 1.5 million Palestinians from getting out. It sentences them to life inside a 140-square-mile prison."

Anchor Brian Williams set up the piece:

"We are back now with a rare look inside a place 1.5 million people call home. The Israelis call it a hotbed of terrorism, but the people who live there say they are prisoners of poverty and misery."

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Israel and the Surrender of the West

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The most interesting voice in all the fallout surrounding the Gaza flotilla incident is that sanctimonious and meddling voice known as "world opinion." At every turn "world opinion," like a school marm, takes offense and condemns Israel for yet another infraction of the world's moral sensibility.

And this voice has achieved an international political legitimacy so that even the silliest condemnation of Israel is an opportunity for self-congratulation...

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France to raise retirement age to 62

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The change is expected to come into place in 2018 as part of an effort to get the country's spiralling public finances under control. The move has been strongly opposed by the opposition Socialist Party and labour unions, but Eric Woerth, the labour minister, said the measure was a "real moral obligation," given France's burgeoning deficit and its aging population, which he said threatens the viability of the money-losing pension system...

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Meet The 8,074 New York Transit Workers Who Earn More Than $100,000

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Another shocking report by SeeThroughNY reveals that 8,074 MTA employees earned $100,000 last year. Fifty MTA employees earned more than $200,000 last year. And salaries are rising.

This is at a time when the New York City and State are struggling with a gaping budget deficit and billions in debt. Meanwhile, the MTA is cutting costs by reducing service and may remove cars to save electricity.

Past reports by the non-profit group include a list of 899 state employees who earn more than Governor David Patterson.

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Gov Jobs Paid $12 More Per Hour

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"I continually get myself in trouble by describing these two factions of employment as 'real jobs' versus 'government jobs', but it is simply the truth. We (the citizens) agree that there should be limited government jobs for the sole purpose of government responsibilities that are described within U.S. and State Constitution. The belief that government jobs are a profession unto themselves, or a ladder climbing career, is wrongheaded."

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AZ Immigration Law Less Stringent Than Federal Law

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Then-Chief Justice Rehnquist who said in that case, the officers did not need reasonable suspicion to ask Menia for her name, date, and place of birth, or immigration status. The cops do not need reasonable suspicion to ask you about immigration status.

Under Arizona law, they do.

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American's Don't Want Justice Department Challenge of Arizona Immigration Law

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The Obama administration has reportedly decided to challenge Arizona’s new immigration law in federal court, but a recent Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56% of U.S. voters oppose such a challenge.

Just 26% believe the Justice Department should challenge the legality of Arizona’s law in court. Eighteen percent (18%) are undecided in the survey conducted May 26 and 27.

Fifty-eight percent (58%) of voters, in fact, favor passage of a law like Arizona’s in their own state.

When asked specifically about the chief provision of the Arizona law, support is even higher. Sixty-nine percent (69%) of voters believe a police officer should be required to check the immigration status of anyone stopped for a traffic violation or violation of some other law if he suspects the person might be an illegal immigrant.

Arizona voters support the state's new immigration law more than ever, with 71% in favor of it.

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The Obamites v. Arizona, &c.

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About a month ago, the United States, in the person of assistant secretary of state Michael Posner, expressed guilt to the People’s Republic of China over Arizona’s new immigration law. Now the secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, has informed Arizona of the administration’s intention to sue the state while speaking to Ecuadorian television. I knew that I wouldn’t like the Obama administration and its policies. I am a Reagan Republican. But I didn’t know the administration would be so disgusting.

Honestly. Whose good opinion would the administration prefer? The U.N.’s or Arizonans’?

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