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Saturday, November 21, 2009

The Global Carbon Footprint Scam
  GreeenIsm piece by Alan Caruba (11/21/09)

I never cease to marvel at the environmental alarmists who create one “crisis” after another using wretchedly bad “science” to support their scams. On Tuesday, November 24, the Global Footprint Network is going to “release new data on the Ecological Footprint of 100 nations and humanity as a whole, and the current ledgers are sobering.“

Friday, November 20, 2009

We Don’t Like to Stock That, It Sells Too Well
  Socialism piece by Guest: Michael R. Shannon (11/20/09)

I imagine the Postmaster General grinds his teeth when he thinks about how much easier his life would be, if he had a monopoly like the “public” schools. If customers were forced to buy the equivalent postage before they were allowed to ship FEDEX or UPS his competition worries would be over.

D.C. sued for blocking vote on marriage
  Police State piece by Offsite (11/20/09)

A lawsuit has been filed in Washington, D.C., challenging a decision by the city’s Board of Elections and Ethics not to allow citizens to vote on the definition of marriage, as had been proposed by an initiative.

‘Hacked e-mails reveal global-warming fraud?‘
  Global Warming piece by Offsite (11/20/09)

Top climate scientists discuss hiding contrary data, marginalizing dissenters - Officials at a key global warming research center in the United Kingdom have authenticated a series of e-mails and other documents apparently taken from their computer system by a hacker, but they cannot explain what scientists in internal exchanges meant by references to a “trick” that would “hide the decline” of global temperatures nor by instructions to delete contrary data.

Civilian Trials Provide Soapboxes for Terrorists
  Terrorism piece by J. D. Longstreet (11/20/09)

So now we are going to try the terrorists in civilian federal trials in New York City, just blocks away from the site of the former World Trade Center Twin Towers, where 3,000 innocents were murdered. Can you possible see how this move by the Obama Regime makes the US appear weak, indecisive, and just plain DUMB to our enemies?

Thursday, March 5, 2009

States’ Sovereignty Granted by the US Constitution
   Big Brother piece by J. D. Longstreet (3/5/09)

Every so often an issue comes along that continues to nag at me until it precipitates some sort of action.  The “State Sovereignty Movement” has done that.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

A Pro-Growth Flat Tax
   Economics piece by FreeCongressFoundation: E. Ralph Hostetter (3/4/09)

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requires all income to be recorded and reported. All taxes on personal income from nannies to CEOs must be collected and reported on a quarterly basis and remitted to the IRS. This includes taxes on the self-employed.

Inhofe: Democrats Push Stealth ‘Fairness Doctrine’
   Demercrats piece by Offsite (3/4/09)

Sen. James Inhofe warns that Democrats are seeking to make an “end run” around a recent Senate action outlawing the so-called Fairness Doctrine in an effort to stifle conservative talk radio.

The Supreme Court’s 1-2 punch
   Law piece by Offsite (3/4/09)

Dwight Eisenhower reportedly admitted that he made two big mistakes as president: his two appointments to the Supreme Court, Earl Warren and William Brennan. One day, it might be said that George W. Bush got two things right as president: his two appointments to the Supreme Court, John Roberts and Sam Alito.

Sweden’s government health care
   Health piece by Offsite (3/4/09)

Government health care advocates used to sing the praises of Britain’s National Health Service, or NHS. That’s until its poor delivery of health care services became known. A recent study by David Green and Laura Casper, “Delay, Denial and Dilution,“ written for the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs, concludes that the NHS health care services are just about the worst in the developed world.

Elementary blots out ‘In God We Trust’
   EdukShun piece by Offsite (3/4/09)

An elementary school in Tennessee, after successfully rebuffing an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit over religious expression on campus, has nonetheless ordered the words “God Bless the USA” and “In God We Trust” covered up on student-made posters in the hallway.

Congressman: Audit the Fed’s books
   Government piece by Offsite (3/4/09)

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, who is seeking to abolish the Federal Reserve, has stepped up his attack, introducing an interim plan that would require the private agency to open all of its books for examination.

Romney and the Rebirth of the Republican Party
   Politics piece by Bruce Walker (3/4/09)

The rebirth of the Republican Party and the revitalization of the conservative message might just start with Mitt Romney becoming Governor Romney again.  Republicans lack much ability to stop the Obama agenda at the national level.  Even with real gains in both houses of Congress, Republicans have no real shot at controlling Congress after the 2010 mid-term elections.

Stupid Is As Stupid Does
   Police State piece by Geoff Metcalf (3/4/09)

“You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.“ —President Lyndon B. Johnson

We Know What’s Best For You
   Socialism piece by Thomas E. Brewton (3/4/09)

Democrat-Socialists are prepared to force everyone to do what their academic planners think will be best for the new one-world government.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

The Same Constitutional Prohibitions and the Same Politics of Nonconformity
   Congress piece by FreeCongressFoundation: Marion Edwyn Harrison (3/3/09)

The District of Columbia as a Fake State - Some proposals in Congress have a recurring lifespan, patent political and clearly unconstitutional though the proposals may be.  Doubtless foremost in this unhealthy category is legislation to create for Washington, District of [Columbia or Confusion?] a voting Representative in Congress, just as though it were a State of the Union and the Constitution were to be ignored.

AMD No Longer A Chip ‘Manufacturer’
   Economics piece by Offsite (3/3/09)

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE:AMD) has wrapped up its deal to spin off its manufacturing operations as a separate company and appointed chairman Hector Ruiz as chairman of the new entity. AMD tapped board member Bruce Claflin to replace Ruiz as AMD’s new chairman.

Space rock gives Earth a close shave
   Science piece by Offsite (3/3/09)

(AFP) - An asteroid of a similar size to a rock that exploded above Siberia in 1908 with the force of a thousand atomic bombs whizzed close past Earth on Monday, astronomers said on Tuesday.

This is way bigger than Rush
   Progressivism piece by Offsite (3/3/09)

The Democrats, along with those on the right who seem more worried about incurring the disdain of the wrongheaded left than of their fellow patriots, are feverishly promoting their Saul Alinsky-inspired scheme to demonize and divide their most effective political opponents.

‘Is there really only 1 human race?‘
   Society piece by Offsite (3/3/09)

One of the most frequently cited facts of life is that there is only one race, the human race. It is said to counteract racism. And it is said to show how much all people have in common - our “common humanity.“

Since When is Promoting Conservatism ‘Ugly?‘
   Republicrats piece by Offsite (3/3/09)

The grassroots base around the country has been ignited by a brief, but powerful comment.  The comment, made by Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele was directed at conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh.  It turns out that Steele felt it was necessary to denounce Limbaugh and establish his own manhood in front of a CNN audience.

‘Who Is John Galt?‘
   Society piece by Thomas Lindaman (3/3/09)

Perhaps one of the great literary questions ever written is the title of this piece. For years, it has become almost a code or a password for those familiar with Atlas Shrugged to exchange as a lament for current economic or societal conditions.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Terrorist Sentenced to 20 Years for Conspiracy to Bomb Targets in US and Europe
   Terrorism piece by Jim Kouri (3/2/09)

Christopher Paul, a/k/a Abdul Malek, a/k/a Paul Kenyatta Laws, a 44-year-old U.S. citizen born in Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday for conspiring with others to use a weapon of mass destruction, namely explosive devices, against targets in Europe and the United States, according to a report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police’s Terrorism Committee.

‘Will Specter vote with Dems on card check?‘
   Republicrats piece by Offsite (3/2/09)

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP)—Twenty-nine years into his U.S. Senate career, Arlen Specter cast what he calls his most difficult vote—a “yes” on the $787 billion economic stimulus bill that made him the only Republican facing re-election in 2010 to support it.

‘Legislature and Governor caught in a trap?‘
   Government piece by GoldwaterInstitute: Matthew Ladner (3/2/09)

In one episode of Fox’s under-appreciated early 1990s western comedy “The Adventures of Briscoe County Jr.“ the heroes teamed up with a sheriff to pursue a group of bad guys into a local mine. The bad guys gave the good guys the slip, and then closed entrance to the mine with dynamite. The sheriff, who just happened to look and dress like a 1972-version of Elvis Presley, declared in a Tupelo drawl, “We’re caught in a trap! Can’t walk out!“

We will win this war. . .
   Government piece by Guest: Carolyn Hileman (3/2/09)

Several thousand people protested in Greenville, 300 people in Michigan, 600 in Nashville, Sand Diego another 600, in Atlanta 200 people stood in the driving rain to protest, St Louis arch 1500, in Kansas about 200 people stood in 28 degree weather to protest and that is just the ones I could find information about. What were they protesting? They were protesting being forced to pay someone else’s way when they are having enough trouble paying their own. They were protesting a stimulus package shoved down the throats of the tax paying Americans and the fact that when the people called and emailed them daily; telling them no, they said yes and we will have to pay for this the rest of our lives and then our kids will pay and their kids will pay and the people are sick of it and we are ready to revolt. The LA times reported, you got to love this that there were tea parties across the nation but few showed up, tell me that is not propaganda, tell those people who stood in below freezing temperatures and driving rain that just a few showed up.

More on Where Our Schools go Wrong
   EdukShun piece by Warner Todd Huston (3/2/09)

U.S. colleges are demanding. That’s right they are sternly demanding. You see, they are all upset that the Japanese government is not promoting study abroad for its citizens and they are demanding that the Japanese government get more of its citizens to pony up the cash for a U.S. college degree and if the people won’t do it, why these U.S. colleges demand that the government do it in their stead.

Global Investors’ Bill Of Rights May Prevent Economic Deja Vu
   Economics piece by Guest: Steve Selengut (3/2/09)

The purpose of IBOR is to protect financial markets and to create self-sufficient investors who produce economic growth instead of government deficits. IBOR standards create transparent financial markets, regulate speculation, and protect retirement portfolios.

UN Treaty Says Children’s Rights Outweigh Parental Rights
   United Nations piece by J. D. Longstreet (3/2/09)

This treaty would ban spanking, home schooling, and even church attendance ... if the kids reject them! - What we are writing about here is… the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. This horrific UN treaty has been around for a good 20 years now and 193 countries have signed on to it. Only two countries have not signed it. The US and Somalia! (Go figure!)

Physicist Compares Global Warming Craze to Aztec Human Sacrifices
   Global Warming piece by Guest: Dennis T. Avery (3/2/09)

A leading “climate skeptic” met with the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment on February 25.th Dr. William Happer holds an endowed chair in physics at Princeton, served as the senior scientist at the Department of Energy - and was reportedly fired by then-Vice President Al Gore for disagreeing with Gore’s belief in man-made global warming.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

‘Editorial: Where Will The Elites Hide?‘
   Elitists piece by Editor (3/1/09)

As the Republic is destroyed, the engineers need to find a place to hunker down.  Many of them have estates and plantations so they will hire private militias and security firms to protect them from the screaming hordes.  However the juniors will be hard pressed to protect themselves from the general anarchy coming soon to most all neighborhoods.

The Stench Coming From D.C. Is Being Noticed
   Government piece by Malcolm T. Hedges (3/1/09)

Dead Fish and Rotting Pork are starting to annoy the American Street.  The “Tea Parties” are expanding as real Americans are seriously getting tired of the D.C. elite mindless power plays.

The Meaningless CPAC Straw Poll
   Republicrats piece by Adam Graham (3/1/09)

At the CPAC straw poll, Mitt Romney won for the third straight with 20% of the vote, Governor Bobby Jindal finished second with 14%, Sarah Palin and Ron Paul were tied for third with 13%, Newt Gingrich got 10%, and Mike Huckabee got 7%. So big Romney victory?

Before Stimulating New Jobs, First Do No Harm
   National Security piece by Chuck Muth (3/1/09)

National defense is not and should not be a “jobs program.“  OK, with that out of the way, let’s talk about 95,000 national defense jobs.

The High Price of Climate Lies
   Global Warming piece by Alan Caruba (3/1/09)

The global warming hoax didn’t happen over night. It is generally dated from an appearance before Congress by Dr. James E. Hansen in 1988 predicting a dramatic rise in the Earth’s temperature based on the increase of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. At that time, Dr. Hansen, Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, warned that steps had to be taken quickly to reduce CO2 emissions.