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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, February 26, 2009

Weatherman denounces Gore, global warming
   Global Warming piece by Offsite (2/26/09)

A San Diego weather forecaster will be a featured speaker at the 2009 International Climate Change Conference in New York City.

Hate Speech At San Francisco State University
   EdukShun piece by Offsite (2/26/09)

The fragile ceasefire between Hamas and Israel in the recent Gaza incursion may have brought a tentative peace to that region, but on campuses in California—the veritable ground zero of anti-Israel sentiment in the academy—the debate over the 60-year conflict has gained a new, and more insidious, momentum as student demonstrations, protests, and denunciations of racist Zionism, a “brutal occupation,“ and “genocide” of Arabs were heard on campuses worldwide.

The Cal Ripken president
   Government piece by Offsite (2/26/09)

...In fourth grade, the earliest grade for which international comparisons are available, American students outperform most other countries in reading, math and science. Fourth-graders score in the 92nd percentile in science, the 58th percentile in math and the 70th percentile in reading, where they beat 26 of 35 countries, including Germany, France and Italy.

Ayers Under Fire
   Progressivism piece by Offsite (2/26/09)

The Support Bill Ayers petition has now garnered signatures from thousands of academics and other citizens in support for former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers, but Ayer’s reputation in academia may not be so rosy after his time in this year’s election spotlight.

The Green Energy Fantasy
   Energy piece by Offsite (2/26/09)

Will a green energy industry be an engine of economic growth? Many want us to think so, including our new president. Apparently a booming green economy with millions of new jobs is just around the corner. All we need is the right mix of government “incentives.“

Hey America, Knock Off The Pity Party
   Economics piece by Thomas D. Segel (2/26/09)

Harlingen, Texas, February 23, 2009:  There is a lot of hand wringing and moaning going on across the American landscape.  The political prevaricators proclaim we are facing such dire times and such agony that it is almost the end of days.  Pardon me, but what a bunch of crap!

Invasion USA: Congressman Calls for Hearing on Border Violence
   National Security piece by Jim Kouri (2/26/09)

Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Lamar Smith (R-Texas) today called on House Democrats to hold a hearing on the surge in drug-related violence on the U.S.-Mexico border.  The violence is attributed to Mexican drug cartels, fighting turf battles and competing to control the U.S. drug trade markets.

So. Fla. Sun-Sentinel: Slams Hysterics Over Gun Banning While Advocating Gun Banning
   Progressivism piece by Warner Todd Huston (2/26/09)

Seriously, do the kindly folks at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel’s editorial board even know what the definition of the word logic is? In theirs headlined, “Hysteria fuels sales of guns and ammo(1),“ the Sun-Sentinel takes Floridians to task for being so stupid as to be afraid of Obama’s gun banning plans, claiming that Obama “didn’t do it.“ But, even after telling readers no one wants to ban guns, the piece ends with the Sun-Sentinel editorial board advocating for the banning of guns! So the message is, no one wants a gun ban but we should ban guns? This is the sort of logical disconnect that fuels the very “hysteria” that the paper is claiming to want to dispel.

Rosanna Pulido:  Illinois Congressional Candidate of Substance
   Elections piece by Sher Zieve (2/26/09)

In a state not known for its traditional American values, a strong 5th District conservative candidate has come forth and is taking no prisoners.  Her name is Rosanna Pulido.  I first met Rosanna, native Chicagoan and the founder and current director of the Illinois Minuteman Project, in 2006.  This prompted my interview with her and subsequent article “More Illegals in Illinois than California.”  Since then, Rosanna has been extremely busy.  She is also one of the original Minutemen who served at the Historic Arizona/Mexico Border Watch in 2005 as well as the Illinois Spokesperson for “You Don’t Speak For Me” - American Hispanics speaking out against illegal immigration. 

Ending Politically Tainted Intelligence Gathering and Analysis
   National Security piece by Jim Kouri (2/26/09)

Closely tied to the question of how best to set intelligence requirements are the larger questions of how to improve analysis by the intelligence community and how to increase its impact.

Light At The End Of The Tunnel Turned Off!
   Progressivism piece by J. D. Longstreet (2/26/09)

It is a painful time for Americans of my age.  We have the memories of an America, glorious and honorable in her past… a past, which has been forgotten and erased, in many cases, from the history books of America’s students. Above all things our America was honorable. A young American today would be hard pressed to define “honor.“  To define “dishonorable” is much easier.  One has only to turn one’s attention to the actions of the American Congress, ruled by the American Left, for a real-time view of dishonor.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

‘Is Obama’s ‘homeless’ woman really displaced?‘
   Welfare State piece by Offsite (2/25/09)

When President Obama went to Fort Myers, Fla., to emphasize the nation’s need for his economic stimulus plan, he promised to help a pleading homeless woman get back on her feet in a highly publicized exchange - but recent reports now reveal the woman may, in fact, be an owner of multiple properties.

‘What if there is no Man-Made Global Warming? What then?‘
   Global Warming piece by Tom DeWeese (2/25/09)

Here are some questions every American should ask their elected officials - especially those supporting “climate change” legislation: If it is proven that climate change is not man-made, but natural, will you be relieved and excited to know that man is off the hook? Will you now help to remove all of the draconian regulations passed during the global warming hysteria, since it was all wrong headed and harmful to the economy and our way of life?

Cap And Trade Will Shut Down What’s Left Of The Economy
   ObamaNation piece by Malcolm T. Hedges (2/25/09)

As energy costs are artificially inflated, business and jobs will disappear in droves.  Everyone but the Progressive Socialist Elites will be thrown into poverty.

‘Are the States About to Slap the Runaway Fed Down to Constitutional Size?‘
   Big Brother piece by JB Williams (2/25/09)

On February 5, 2009, I released a column titled New Hampshire Leads Next American Revolution! At the time, only a handful of states had introduced legislative efforts to reclaim state sovereignty under the Ninth and Tenth Amendments of the US Constitution.

Oklahoma House passes sovereignty bill
   Big Brother piece by Offsite (2/25/09)

NEW YORK - Oklahoma’s House of Representatives is the first legislative body to pass a state sovereignty resolution this year under the terms of the Tenth Amendment.

‘Socialism ‘killing’ American work ethic?‘
   Socialism piece by Offsite (2/25/09)

A Canadian pro-family activist fears the U.S. “stimulus” package is merely socialism that will lead Americans into poverty.

Costly Shibboleths
   ObamaNation piece by Offsite (2/25/09)

Barack Obama set out a few modest goals in his address to both chambers of Congress last night: cure cancer, reform Social Security and Medicare, destroy al-Qaeda, end our dependence on foreign oil, promise education to every American “from the day they are born” to the day they begin work, and “save our planet from the ravages of climate change.“ The few prescriptions for accomplishing these gargantuan tasks, free from details or pricetags, were plucked from a laundry list of the Left’s favorite economic shibboleths. Large and small, few are in themselves disastrous, but taken together, they will likely forestall or deplete any economic recovery the nation may enjoy.

San Francisco Chronicle May Close
   MSM piece by Offsite (2/25/09)

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO -(Reuters) - San Francisco may lose its main newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, as owner Hearst Corp cuts a “significant” number of jobs and decides whether to shut or sell the money-losing daily.

Welcome to an Era of Excessive Government
   ObamaNation piece by Offsite (2/25/09)

“Neither a borrower nor lender be for loan oft loses both itself and friend and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all, to thine own self be true. And it must follow, as the night the day thou canst not then be false to any man,“ William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3.

Democrats Put Global Warming Rider In Spending Bill
   Global Warming piece by Offsite (2/25/09)

Congressional Democrats have inserted a “dangerous” rider into an appropriations bill that would allow the Department of Interior to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., according to a release from Republicans on the House Committee on Natural Resources.

Eric Holder’s right - in 1 sense
   Racism piece by Offsite (2/25/09)

Attorney General Eric Holder said the United States is “a nation of cowards” when it comes to race relations. In one sense, he is absolutely right. Many whites, from university administrators and professors, schoolteachers to employers and public officials accept behavior from black people that they wouldn’t begin to accept from whites. For example, some of the nation’s most elite universities, such as Vanderbilt, Stanford University and the University of California, have yielded to black student demands for separate graduation ceremonies and separate “celebratory events.“ Universities such as Stanford, Cornell, MIT and Cal Berkeley have, or have had, segregated dorms.

Gov. Jindal, Faust and the devil
   Big Brother piece by Offsite (2/25/09)

During these perilous times we live in, I often find solace by retreating to my classical music background and the literature that sustained the classical masters for hundreds of years. In particular during America’s current economic recession/depression and the recently passed economic stimulus plan of $787 billion ($3.67 trillion in actual spending costs over three years), my mind hearkens back to that magnificent German playwright from the Romantic Era, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), particularly his dramatic epic poem in two volumes, “Faust” (1808, 1833). Goethe’s “Faust” made a deal with the devil (Mephistopheles), which by the end of this epic poem not only cost the good professor Faust his life, but also the lives of those people he loved, including the fated young lover Marguerite.

LBJ’s Great Society on steroids
   ObamaNation piece by Offsite (2/25/09)

Under the subterfuge of helping the economy, Barack Obama’s stimulus plan legislates vast new spending programs to finance liberal policy goals that are unnecessary and undesirable. The flow of taxpayers’ money will be so gargantuan as to make Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society expansion of the welfare state look puny.

CNN Claims Obama The New Ronald Reagan, Reassigns ‘Morning in America’ to The One
   MSM piece by Warner Todd Huston (2/25/09)

Once again CNN goes over the top(1) in its gobsmacked praise of its Obammessiah. This time appropriating Ronald Reagan’s famous “morning in America” theme and assigning it to President Obama as a result of his not-the-state-of-the-union speech last night. In reality, Obama’s speech was more like a “moaning in America” as opposed to that bright new morning that Reagan invoked.

The Coming Battle over Reapportionment and Redistricting
   Politics piece by Bruce Walker (2/25/09)

The decision by Senator Gregg not to become Commerce Secretary is the first round in a vital battle over reapportionment and redistricting.  Title 13 Section 2 provides “The Bureau [of the Census] is an agency within, and under the jurisdiction of, the Department of Commerce.”  President Obama and his Chief of Staff lack the legal authority to move the Bureau of the Census under the direct control of the White House, and an indirect effort to do that - - exactly what the Obama Administration has said that it intends to do - - is a contravention of federal law.  Article I Section 2 of the Constitution makes it clear that Congress, not the President, has the constitutional authority to define the census process.  If President Obama tries to politically manage the census process, he is not only violating federal law but he is also violating the Constitution.

Wistful and Self-Absorbed, Obama Needs to be Interrupted by Pelosi
   ObamaNation piece by Yomin Postelnik (2/25/09)

It’s a sad day when the most regal person on stage at the State of the Union is Nancy Pelosi, but that’s exactly what happened last night.  And despite the media accolades, the fact that Barack Hussein Obama’s first entrance into the US House of Representatives had all the pomp and circumstance of Hugo Chavez at the racetrack was as clear as day.

Slowing down Obama’s Spending Wheel
   Economics piece by Greg Fink (2/25/09)

So, let me see if I got it correct, America is spending far too much money fighting terrorism and stabilizing the Middle East at a tune of $650 billion since 2003; the result, we try to pull out in the next 19 months in order to rescue America’s economic future.

A Lament for Britain
   NewWorldOrder piece by Aaron Goldstein (2/25/09)

Fourteen winters ago, I spent a semester in London as a parliamentary intern in the British House of Commons where I had stints with two Members of Parliament from the Labour Party.  My second placement was with a MP from Glasgow named Jimmy Wray. Jimmy and I got along famously.  I was one of the few people who could understand his thick Scottish burr.  We were a perfect match.

A Conservative Hero Visits the U.S. - What we can learn from Geert Wilders
   Progressivism piece by Rev Bresciani (2/25/09)

Appearing briefly on Fox’s Glenn Beck show Feb 23, 2009, Dutch Freedom Party MP, Geert Wilders said “we should throw out every bit of hate crime legislation that is ever proposed.“ Why would he say this and why should we take him seriously?