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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?

DDT: The Silent Killer…Only When It Was Gone
  Junk Science piece by Kevin Roeten (11/20/09)

Because mosquitoes were almost nonexistent with the use of DDT in places like Africa, elimination of DDT brought mosquitoes back - in force. The 1972 ban of DDT in the U.S. did not help matters at all. Now, many less effective and more costly methods are used - netting, other chemicals, you name it. But from the “Malaria Clock” listed in the following paragraphs, one gets an idea of exactly how many deaths have occured, especially from malaria.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Still No Justice For Officer Daniel Faulkner
   Crime piece by Dave Gibson (1/8/09)

Last month marked the 27th anniversary of the murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner. While the voice of Officer Faulkner has been silent for a quarter of a century, his killer is very much alive and his voice is heard quite often. The former Black Panther named Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook) gives numerous interviews, delivers college commencement speeches, and even has a street named in in his honor. Despite his conviction and subsequent death sentence, Abu-Jamal continues to thumb his nose at the justice system, while enjoying the adulation of foreign leaders as well as Hollywood celebrities.

‘ Muslim Rocket Mayhem: Egypt’s Sweet Face?‘
   Middle East piece by Grant Swank (1/8/09)

Everybody is scrambling to put peace in place in the Middle East mess.

‘ Inquisition or Scientific Investigation?‘
   GreeenIsm piece by Thomas E. Brewton (1/8/09)

Is it in the spirit of scientific research to ostracize and to punish anyone who brings new and contradictory evidence to the table?

The Global Warming Crescendo Has Passed
   Global Warming piece by Christopher Adamo (1/8/09)

As the cold of winter settles in on the northern hemisphere, all of the hysteria of “global warming,” or its less specific alternative “climate change,” rings increasingly hollow to the general public. Weather patterns of the past decade indicate that the planet has been in an undeniable cooling trend since prior to the new millennium. So the panicked prophesies of cataclysmic upturns in the earth’s average temperature simply do not carry the emotional impact that they once held.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

The State Of The ObamaNation
   ObamaNation piece by Editor (1/7/09)

The various factions of the ObamaNation are working like busy little termites quietly working to squash freedom of information and disarm us serfs.

Lettuce Wave A Fond Adieu To The Nanny State And Embrace Socialist Universal Poverty
   ObamaNation piece by Malcolm T. Hedges (1/7/09)

The Demercrat Progressive Socialist engineered and nurtured Recession will soon become an endless Depression.  Our “standard of living” will soon become a “standard of existing” as the whacko “Green” agenda embraced by the ObamaNation effectively squashes what remains of economic viability.

EnviroViews: An Ordinary Investor Looks at the Coming Decade
   GreeenIsm piece by Guest: Dennis T. Avery (1/7/09)

CHURCHVILLE, VA - It’s a new year, and we must look beyond the mess of subprime mortgages and unfunded auto pensions - toward the markets where American citizens have to invest their private capital for the next decade. 

Cleric demands death for Israelis
   Islam piece by Offsite (1/7/09)

An Egyptian cleric has made a television appearance to demand death for Israelis who are attacking positions in the Gaza strip from which members of the Hamas terrorist organization are launching rockets into Israel.

Obama’s Revolutionary “Vision”
   ObamaNation piece by Cliff Kincaid (1/7/09)

On the Fox News program “Hannity & Colmes” in December, analyst Dick Morris made the absolutely critical point that President Bush has taken the country so far to the left, in terms of his socialist-style Wall Street bailout program and his integration of the U.S. economy into a new emerging international financial order, that anything Barack Obama does in this area seems almost mainstream. This is because what we were expecting from Obama we are now getting from Bush. So Obama doesn’t look so radical anymore.

Judicial Watch Petitions California Supreme Court to Review Laguna Beach Day Labor Site Lawsuit
   Judicial Activism piece by Press Release: Jill Farrell (1/7/09)

(Washington, DC)—Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed a petition with the California Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling in a Judicial Watch taxpayer lawsuit against the City of Laguna Beach, California, related to the Laguna Day Worker Center, a taxpayer funded day labor site that assists illegal aliens in finding employment.  Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit on behalf of Laguna Beach taxpayers Eileen Garcia and George Riviere, who seek to prevent any further expenditures of taxpayer funds for the site (Garcia, et al., v. City of Laguna Beach, et al.).

‘Recession - What to Do?‘
   Economics piece by FreeCongressFoundation: E. Ralph Hostetter (1/7/09)

The recession is here. Some say it arrived in August of 2007. All admit that it is causing job losses by the tens of thousands weekly. Suggestions range from public works projects, particularly highway bridges, to other areas of the Nation’s infrastructure.

‘Is It Time to Raise Gasoline Taxes?‘
   Economics piece by Offsite (1/7/09)

When we blogged about gasoline taxes on July 21, 2008, the sharp rise in gasoline prices to over $4 a gallon reduced the gasoline consumption that contributes to global warming, local pollution, auto accidents, congestion, and other externalities from driving. I suggested that if it were desirable to use gas taxes to reduce gasoline consumption, a better time would be when gasoline prices were much lower.

The Reign of the Mediacracy
   MSM piece by Offsite (1/7/09)

Newsmen and broadcasters commonly refer to their reports as “stories,“ a giveaway term that should alert us to the nature of their presentations. Each item tends to read or sound or look like another installment in an ongoing soap opera or melodramatic fiction in which actual events are treated as material to be arranged into a favoured narrative. The key is simplification to accord with an editorial bias meant not to inform but to influence the news audience and to facilitate a process of ideologically-oriented political consumption.

‘No Experience in new CIA Chief Somehow Shows Obama’s ‘Clean Break from Bush Administration’?‘
   ObamaNation piece by Warner Todd Huston (1/7/09)

To paraphrase Forrest Gump, Inexperienced is as inexperienced does. At least that is what comes to my mind when hearing that Barack Obama has picked the inoffensive, completely inexperienced and unqualified Leon Panetta to be the new director of the CIA. Really. Leon Panetta? The onetime director of the Office of Management and Budget Panetta, that Leon Panetta? This old Clinton partisan has absolutely no experience whatsoever with intelligence gathering or the administration of the same. None. Zip. Nadda.

‘Was this economic crisis planned?‘
   Politics piece by Offsite (1/7/09)

Barack Obama’s White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, told business leaders assembled by the Wall Street Journal in November that the economic crisis facing the country is “an opportunity to do things you could not do before.“

Obama’s ICE candidate pleads for agents’ pardon
   Immigration piece by Offsite (1/7/09)

Upon hearing that he was one of Barack Obama’s candidates to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement, one federal investigative official’s first act was to write an urgent letter to President George W. Bush - insisting that he pardon former Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean.

ACLU to churches: Not on school grounds, you don’t
   Progressivism piece by Offsite (1/7/09)

The American Civil Liberties Union, on behalf of an offended parent, is suing an elementary school district for allowing its students to attend a non-taxpayer-funded religious education program that meets on campus.

Kissinger: Obama primed to create ‘New World Order’
   NewWorldOrder piece by Offsite (1/7/09)

According to Henry Kissinger, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former secretary of state under President Nixon, conflicts across the globe and an international respect for Barack Obama have created the perfect setting for establishment of “a New World Order.“

‘Does Obama Wish to Cripple the CIA with Panetta?‘
   ObamaNation piece by Jim Kouri (1/7/09)

On Tuesday, former Clinton Administration adviser Dick Morris told Fox News Channel that President-Elect Barack Obama’s motive for the nomination of Leon Panetta to the important post of Director of Central Intelligence is to tear that agency apart.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Congress’ plan would let AG ‘ban guns at will’
   ObamaNation piece by Offsite (1/6/09)

A perfect storm is developing for Second Amendment opponents that could allow President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for attorney general - Eric Holder - to “ban guns at will” despite the 2008 affirmation from the U.S. Supreme Court that U.S. citizens have a right to bear arms.

Conservatives Fear Vilsack Appointment as Agriculture Secretary
   GreeenIsm piece by Jim Kouri (1/6/09)

Many conservatives and watchdog groups are expressing concern—even outrage—over the nomination of former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack’s nomination by President-Elect Barack Obama to the cabinet position of Secretary of Agriculture, long considered a low-key but powerful government position.

Top 10 Most Unbelievable Things of 2008 - Or Maybe of all Time
   Society piece by Rev Bresciani (1/6/09)

Some of the most popular TV shows today are top ten lists. Everything from the top ten most deadly snakes to the top ten worst disasters is being aired. Here is a top ten list of what could be considered the hardest things to believe from the year 2008. That there are only ten is also hard to believe when in reality there are literally hundreds.

‘Resident-Elect Obama Sets NEW Tone in Washington?‘
   ObamaNation piece by JB Williams (1/6/09)

Blagojevich Arrested – Richardson Resigns - Burris Rejected – Stuart Smally Steals Seat - Because Barack Obama is constitutionally unqualified to become president of the United States under Article II - Section I of the US Constitution, he is set to become the First (government housing) Resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in US history.

Obama’s Limited Intelligence
   ObamaNation piece by Aaron Goldstein (1/6/09)

Barack Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA Director?

Keynes’s Wrong-Turn Hypothesis
   Economics piece by Thomas E. Brewton (1/6/09)

As Keynes observed, people often unknowingly are the prisoners of erroneous doctrine propounded by long dead theoreticians, in this case doctrine of Keynes himself.

As Expected da Demercrats Is Running Wild Like Kids In A Candy Shop. . .
   ObamaNation piece by Malcolm T. Hedges (1/6/09)

Between Comrade Commissar-Select Obama, Comrade Pelosi and Comrade Reid the political carnival in D.C. is expanding exponentially as each day passes.

Ex-eBay CEO Whitman Eyeing California Governor Spot
   Politics piece by Offsite (1/6/09)

Former eBay Inc Chief Executive Meg Whitman has resigned from three corporate boards for personal reasons, a turn-of-the-year move that would free her to run for governor of California.

Phone Exec Says Pa. Democrat Listed $50M in Demands
   Politics piece by Offsite (1/6/09)

PHILADELPHIA—(AP) The former president of Verizon Pennsylvania testified Monday that a powerful state lawmaker gave him a list of demands worth $50 million during negotiations over phone-industry deregulation.

Feinstein Furious Over Panetta Pick
   ObamaNation piece by Offsite (1/6/09)

Sen. Diane Feinstein is reportedly fuming that Barack Obama picked Leon Panetta as his new CIA Director and never consulted with her.

Russia Cuts Off Gas Supplies to European Countries
   Europe piece by Offsite (1/6/09)

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - Six countries reported a complete shutoff of Russian gas shipped via Ukraine on Tuesday, in a sharp escalation of a struggle over energy that threatens Europe as winter sets in.