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Saturday, November 7, 2009

Prepare for the Worst
  Economics piece by Offsite (11/7/09)

The immense government bailout to boost the economy will result in a repeat of the Great Depression, says Ron Paul, Republican congressman of Texas and one-time candidate for president.

Ford Taurus Production Halted for One Week
  Unions piece by Offsite (11/7/09)

DETROIT—A labor dispute at an auto parts supplier in India has forced Ford Motor Co to shut production of its new Taurus full-size sedan one week due to a transmission component shortage, a spokesman said on Friday.

Stopping the next amnesty is not enough
  Immigration piece by Offsite (11/7/09)

If you think a congressional amnesty for 15 million illegal aliens is a bad idea, think about a stealth amnesty for 50 million. That’s what we’ve got now even without any new legislation from the 111th Congress.

Junk-science huckster
  Global Warming piece by Offsite (11/7/09)

House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming Chairman Ed Markey, D-Mass., was outraged that a renegade freelance lobbyist had sent a dozen phony letters to members of Congress, urging them to vote against cap-and-trade legislation.

Responding to modern Marxism
  The Republic piece by Offsite (11/7/09)

The first unmistakable tremors were recorded on April 15. The earth shook again throughout the month of August, when politicians returned home to face their constituents. Those brave souls who dared to hold a town hall meeting were met with enthusiastic questions about cap-and-trade, about the stimulus, about health care and about what appears to be a mad rush to socialism.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

How Healthcare Will Tax Middle Class, Poor
   Taxes piece by Offsite (10/27/09)

Despite President Obama’s promise to refrain from raising any taxes on families earning less than $250,000 a year, the healthcare bill being considered by the Senate does just that.

No more excuses for state of our schools
   EdukShun piece by GoldwaterInstitute: Matthew Ladner (10/27/09)

This summer, Goldwater Institute Senior Fellow Dan Lips and I published an article in the journal Education Next explaining why a student’s race, ethnicity or family income are not accurate predictors of their future academic success. We were very pleased when the Chancellor of New York City Schools, Joel Klein wrote a letter in response to the article.

Turkey: An Ally No More
   Middle East piece by Daniel Pipes (10/27/09)

“There is no doubt he is our friend,“ Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, says of Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, even as he accuses Israel’s foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman of threatening to use nuclear weapons against Gaza. These outrageous assertions point to the profound change of orientation by Turkey’s government, for six decades the West’s closest Muslim ally, since Erdogan’s AK party came to power in 2002.

Ex-Treasury official: Dump dollar
   Dollar piece by Offsite (10/27/09)

A former assistant secretary of the Treasury for international affairs is warning dollar deficits might no longer be funded by foreign nations, including China.

Monday, October 26, 2009

Real Democrats And Real Republicans Can Win Big In 2010
   Elections piece by Malcolm T. Hedges (10/26/09)

Demercrats and Republicrats will have a tough road to hoe.

‘Are You Ready to Subsidize Reporters?‘
   Newspapers piece by Offsite (10/26/09)

Have you ever stumbled on an oxymoron so stunning that it takes your breath away? Try coupling this with a case of chutzpah so revealing that the lack of shame on the part of those involved serves as prima fasci evidence that their elite cultural isolation has rendered them incapable of critical thinking.

Why Does Obama Hate the Poor? Part Two
   Demercrats piece by Warner Todd Huston (10/26/09)

On August 13 I posted a piece wherein I facetiously asked “Why does Obama hate the poor?“(1) Then I pointed out that the cash for clunkers program was likely to cause the price of used cars to skyrocket in the near future. I also asserted that the reason this will be so is because Obama’s clunkers program was set to destroy hundreds of thousands of otherwise perfectly functional cars all of which would have ended up on the used car market were it not for Obama’s interventionism.

Amelia is Lost in the Clouds
   Entertainment piece by Aaron Goldstein (10/26/09)

Hilary Swank has no peer when it comes to portraying doomed women.  It has resulted in her winning two Academy Awards for Best Actress – one for playing the late Brandon Teena in Boys Don’t Cry and one for playing female boxer Maggie Fitzgerald in Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby.  No actress is better suited to play Amelia Earhart.

American Idea
   The Republic piece by Offsite (10/26/09)

Americans are harder workers, more philanthropic, individualistic, self-reliant, anti-government than people in most other countries. We’ve turned what was an 18th-century Third World nation into the freest and most prosperous nation in mankind’s entire history. Throughout our history, United States has been a magnet for immigrants around the world. What accounts for what some have called American exceptionalism?

Investment Portfolio Protection Strategy
   Economics piece by Guest: Steve Selengut (10/26/09)

A participant in the morning Working Capital Model (WCM) investment workshop observed: I’ve noticed that my account balances are returning to their (June 2007) levels. People are talking down the economy and the dollar. Is there any preemptive action I need to take?

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Get ready, America: Great Depression 2.0
   Economics piece by Offsite (10/25/09)

Drawing striking comparisons between the Japanese economy in 1988 and the American economy today, a new book by an author who predicted the current crisis warns it’s going to get much worse before it gets better.

Progressive Police State 101
   Police State piece by Malcolm T. Hedges (10/25/09)

The Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act adds yet another politically correct protected victim group: homosexuals and “transgendered”.(1

Educating teachers, schools on Constitution
   The Republic piece by Offsite (10/25/09)

The Rutherford Institute has launched its annual campaign to educate educators and the public on the U.S. Constitution.

Success! Adult stem cells overcome spinal-cord injuries
   Medicine piece by Offsite (10/25/09)

A new report from researchers in Portugal and at Wayne State University documents use of adult stem cells to treat spinal-cord injury patients, none of whom had use of their legs prior to treatment. Dr. David Prentice with Family Research Council summarizes the positive results from the treatments.

Government-school ‘edjikation’
   EdukShun piece by Offsite (10/25/09)

A few months ago, a homeschooling friend called in tears. The curriculum she’d purchased for her three children was patently unsuited to her 16-year-old daughter, Jane. Jane was rebelling for the first time.

Hate-crimes law: Another attack on free speech
   Progressivism piece by Offsite (10/25/09)

The Senate has now passed the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act to add homosexuals and “transgendered” to the list of the officially designated victim groups. The House already approved the bill, and President Obama plans on signing it.

The First Step Into A Thousand Years Of Darkness
   The Republic piece by J. D. Longstreet (10/25/09)

This is a sad time in world history.  The “Shining City on a Hill,“ so often referred to by Ronald Reagan, has fallen.

Scratch Another GOP Candidate off the List for 2012
   Republicrats piece by Doug Patton (10/25/09)

Newt Gingrich has often shown himself to be one of the great political and social visionaries of our time. A historian with a PhD and the ability to author a couple of books a year (he’s written nineteen so far), the former Speaker of the House was first elected to Congress in 1978, in the middle of the hapless Jimmy Carter administration and from Carter’s home state of Georgia. It was an indication of things to come.

I Am An Idiot Because ...
   Progressivism piece by J.J. Jackson (10/25/09)

Ok, I am going to have some fun this week.  To accomplish this fun I am going to list for you, my readers, many of the reasons liberals think that I am an idiot.  The way this is going to work is simple.  I am just going to go through my email from the last week and pick out correspondence from liberals telling me that I am an idiot for [insert reason here].  Only when someone used the actual term “idiot” to describe me will their comment be included in this list but, due to time and space limitations, not all such utterances will be included.  In the end, I think we will have a good picture of what the left sees as qualifying one as being an idiot.

A final word on the Obama Nobel
   Elitists piece by John David Powell (10/25/09)

Now that the ruckus has subsided over the Nobel Prize for Peace to Barack Obama, the time has come to examine an issue largely overlook in recent years. Here is the question:  Does the prize hold any relevance, or is it nothing more than a popularity contest judged by a handful of Norwegians with a distorted world vision?

In America it Still Seems to be “Tommy this, and Tommy that”
   Veterans piece by Thomas D. Segel (10/25/09)

Harlingen, Texas, October 24, 2009: “You talk of better food for us, an’ schools, an’ fires, an’ all:  We’ll wait for extra rations if you treat us rational.  Don’t mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face.  The Widow’s Uniform is not the soldier-man’s disgrace.  For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ Chuck him out, the brute!

Taking Away Your Choice
   Socialism piece by Alan Caruba (10/25/09)

I am always amazed at the variety of choice that exists in my local supermarket. There are other supermarkets in the area, but the one I frequent most has lower prices on most items and almost anything you want to purchase allows one to select among several brands available.

Bill Gates Bets a Billion on Ag Research
   Food piece by Guest: Dennis T. Avery (10/25/09)

CHURCHVILLE, VA - “Environmentalists are standing in the way of feeding humanity through their opposition to biotechnology, farm chemicals and nitrogen fertilizer” - straight talk from billionaire Bill Gates at the World Food Prize Symposium in Des Moines October 15th

Saturday, October 24, 2009

The Auto Bailout - An Interesting Read
   Economics piece by Malcolm T. Hedges (10/24/09)

Obviously to be taken with a grain of salt but still worth a review.

Insider reveals secrets of North America plot
   NAU/SPP piece by Offsite (10/24/09)

NEW YORK - The integration of the United States with Canada and Mexico, long deemed by many as little more than a fanciful “conspiracy theory,“ was actually an idea promoted by the Council on Foreign Relations and sold to President Bush as a means of increasing commerce and business interests throughout North America, according to a top Canadian businessman.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Report: Windows 7 Update Progress
   Computers piece by Editor (10/23/09)

One laptop of 2 upgraded from Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Home Premium.

Recession Impact Will Linger for Years
   Economics piece by Offsite (10/23/09)

The impact of the “Great Recession” of 2008-2009 will linger for years, as consumers have been traumatized by the unexpected downturn, says economist Daniel Yergin.

Environmental Facts the Greens Will Never Mention
   GreeenIsm piece by Tom DeWeese (10/23/09)

ITEM: Compact fluorescent light bulbs, mandated to replace the century-old reliable incandescent bulb (at four times the cost) contain poisonous liquid mercury over 300 times the EPA’s standard accepted safety level. In addition, days after a bulb has been broken, vacuuming or simply crawling across the carpeted floor where the bulb was broken can cause mercury vapor levels to shoot back upwards of 100 times the accepted level of safety.

W.H. Tells Hill Policy ‘Czars’ Won’t Testify
   Shadow Government piece by Offsite (10/23/09)

The White House has told Congress it will reject calls for many of President Obama’s policy czars to testify before Congress - a decision senators said goes against the president’s promises of transparency and openness and treads on Congress’ constitutional mandate to investigate the administration’s actions.

West Antarctic ice loss overestimated by NASA sats
   Global Warming piece by Offsite (10/23/09)

Scientists using a network of ground sensors emplaced in Antarctica say that NASA satellites have overestimated the amount of ice that is melting and running off into the ocean from the polar continent.