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Monday, April 20, 2009

Unions’ actions on charter schools contrast with rhetoric
   Unions piece by GoldwaterInstitute: Jay P. Greene (4/20/09)

On education policy, appeasement is about as ineffective as it is in foreign affairs. Many proponents of school choice, especially Democrats, have tried to appease teachers unions by limiting their support to charter schools while opposing private school vouchers. They hope that by sacrificing vouchers, the unions will spare charter schools from political destruction.

A State Named Palestine Will Bring No Peace To The Middle East!
   Middle East piece by J. D. Longstreet (4/20/09)

The Obama Administration is hell-bent on a “Two-State” answer to the Israeli/“so-called” Palestinian conflict. So was the Bush Administration. Bush was wrong and so is Mr. Obama.

JAG Corps “Keistered” Justice In Foster Case
   Law piece by Jayme Evans (4/20/09)

No military prosecutions in recent history have garnered as much negative publicity for the U.S. Marines as have the cases of the Marines of 3/1 Kilo Company, ambushed in Haditha, Iraq, in November of 2005. But the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of another Marine further reinforces the public perception of something institutionally corrupt about the Navy Judge Advocate General Corps’ application of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Editorial: It’s Obama -vs- The Republic
   ObamaNation piece by Editor (4/19/09)

One President Obama won an election and now thinks he owns the USA, lock stock and barrel.  Interesting concept.

FBI spied on TEA Party Americans
   ObamaNation piece by Offsite (4/19/09)

19 April 2009: Even as average Americans were planning to get out in towns and cities to demonstrate against Big Government and Big Taxes, Federal Bureau of Intelligence Investigation (FBI) surveillance was being unleashed upon them.  In fact, unsuspecting Tax Day TEA Party participants were being closely watched during the demonstration planning stages in a covert operation that began on or about March 23, 2009.

So Far The Republic Has Managed To Exist In Spite Of The Progressives
   Progressivism piece by Malcolm T. Hedges (4/19/09)

The Progressive movement seemed to get started damaging the Republic around 1887(1), in 1912 the Presidents started to join the effort. It’s been a constant battle since then.

‘Where’s the Runaway Warming?‘
   Global Warming piece by Guest: Dennis T. Avery (4/19/09)

The global cooling trend that began early in 2007 continues. America’s official global reading for March, 2009 has been issued by Goddard Space Institute. The month was the coldest of this young century and colder than March of 1990. The satellite records show an even stronger recent cooling trend.

“Clean Energy” is a Dirty Lie
   GreeenIsm piece by Alan Caruba (4/19/09)

What does it take to be a dedicated environmentalist - a Green - these days?

‘Is Cigarette Control Turning Citizens into Criminals?‘
   Progressivism piece by Jim Kouri (4/19/09)

As the price of cigarettes rises—in the New York City metropolitan area they cost nearly $10.00 per pack or about $100.00 for a carton of ten packs—and there are more and more government programs aimed at controlling sale and use, the US and state governments are creating a new and profitable organized crime enterprise.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Desert Clash in West Over Solar Potential, Water
   GreeenIsm piece by Offsite (4/18/09)

OAKLAND, Calif. -(AP)- A westward dash to power electricity-hungry cities by cashing in on the desert’s most abundant resource - sunshine - is clashing with efforts to protect the tiny pupfish and desert tortoise and stinginess over the region’s rarest resource: water.

California Unemployment Rate at Record 11.2 Percent
   Economics piece by Offsite (4/18/09)

SAN FRANCISCO -(Reuters)- California’s unemployment rate rose to a record 11.2 percent in March from a revised 10.6 percent in the prior month and 6.4 percent a year earlier as job losses spread across most of the state’s industry, a state report said Friday.

JPMorgan: Emerging Markets Will Soar
   Economics piece by Offsite (4/18/09)

When it comes to emerging stock markets, which already have jumped 15 percent so far this year, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Death threats target opponents of ‘gay’ promotion
   Anarchy/MobRule piece by Offsite (4/18/09)

At least one pro-family organization that has opposed the pro-homosexual “Day of Silence” is being targeted with hate e-mails and telephone calls, including suggestions that officials go and kill themselves.

Palestine - Pressure Points and Predictions
   Middle East piece by Offsite (4/18/09)

“A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.” - Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Passionate State of Mind, 1954 - US special envoy George Mitchell has turned American foreign policy on its head following his latest visit to the Middle East.

Snappy Comebacks to Leftist Lies about the Tea Parties
   Politics piece by Thomas Lindaman (4/18/09)

As soon as the Tea Parties began, it happened. I’m not referring to the feelings of fellowship or the expression of Americans’ desire to get government off our backs, although those were certainly there in vast quantities.

‘Tax Day Tea Parties – What was THAT?‘
   Government piece by Doug Edelman (4/18/09)

April 15 is a date that has meaning to most everyone.  “Tax Day”.  Or more correctly, the deadline by which Income Tax filing is due each year.

Friday, April 17, 2009

Lettuce Consider College Professors or ‘teachers’
   EdukShun piece by Malcolm T. Hedges (4/17/09)

I was recently informed that colleges have ‘teachers’, dumb me thought they were called Professors.  Political Correctness I guess.

Questions about Couric get filmmaker cuffed
   EdukShun piece by Offsite (4/17/09)

The producer of the film “Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected” was handcuffed and thrown off the campus of the University of Southern California for asking questions outside the hall where network anchor Katie Couric was to receive an award for her role in the presidential campaign.

‘Motivated tea partiers ask, ‘What’s next?‘
   Politics piece by Offsite (4/17/09)

It’s not over yet! 25 upcoming protests scheduled for 16 states - SACRAMENTO - As many as 1 million Americans showed up at nationwide tea parties on Tax Day - and reports are still pouring in - but what’s the next step for the movement?

What Recession? Funds Flow Into 2010 Senate Races
   Elections piece by Offsite (4/17/09)

WASHINGTON -(Reuters) -  The recession shadowing the United States and draining Americans’ savings has hardly dented efforts by Senate candidates to raise cash for the 2010 elections, and Democrats appear ahead early in the game.

Million Taxpayer March
   Politics piece by Offsite (4/17/09)

Let’s use liberal math to calculate attendance at this week’s nationwide Tax Day Tea Party protests. When left-wing activists make crowd estimates, the algorithm is: six figures = one million. An incomplete survey of newspaper accounts and organizer estimates pegged the Tea Party protest population at a minimum of 250,000. We can now, therefore, officially call it the Million Taxpayer March.

E.P.A. to Clear the Way for Regulation of Warming Gases
   GreeenIsm piece by Offsite (4/17/09)

WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday formally declared carbon dioxide and five other heat-trapping gases to be pollutants that threaten public health and welfare, setting in motion a process that for the first time in the United States will regulate the gases blamed for global warming.

Durban II Boycott Swells
   United Nations piece by Offsite (4/17/09)

(CNSNews) – As negotiations come down to the wire ahead of Monday’s opening of the United Nations’ politically charged racism conference in Geneva, several European countries are expected on Friday to announce that they will boycott the event.

Falling Energy Prices Lead to First 12-Month Drop in Consumer Prices since 1950s
   Economics piece by Offsite (4/17/09)

(CNSNews) - Fueled by a 39 percent drop in gasoline prices and a 23 percent decline in overall energy prices, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) fell in March for the 12 month in a row, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

NYTimes Anti-Gun Agenda: Using Discredited Anti-Gun Statistic on Mexican Gun Purchases in U.S.
   Police State piece by Warner Todd Huston (4/17/09)

Once again The New York Times unleashes a not-so-hidden agenda on its reading public. Here the Times is regurgitating the debunked claim(1) that “90%“ of Mexico’s recovered guns used in crime south of the border are from U.S. gun dealers. There is a lot of misdirection in this piece against gun dealers and gun shows, as well. Contradictory claims are made with no proof offered but the say so of The Times.

America’s Tea Parties
   Government piece by Guest: Armand C. Hale (4/17/09)

I had the opportunity of a life time to attend one of the many tea parties that were all over the country on April 15, tax day. For those of you that couldn’t attend, here is my personal observation of one event.

Janet Napolitano Does Not Understand Her Role as Homeland Security Secretary
   National Security piece by Dave Gibson (4/17/09)

Last month, the Senate Homeland Security Committee co-chaired by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) informed Janet Napolitano that an additional $380 million had been requested on the agency’s behalf to boost our efforts in protecting this nation from the Mexican drug violence now spilling-over into the U.S….Napolitano said ‘No Thanks!‘

Mark Fidrych Was a Rare Bird
   Sports piece by Aaron Goldstein (4/17/09)

Scarcely twenty fours ago my heart leapt into my throat when I learned that former major league pitcher Mark “The Bird” Fidrych had died. 

Thursday, April 16, 2009

‘When Will Big Business Stop Supporting Destruction Of The Republic?‘
   Progressivism piece by Editor (4/16/09)

Every day you and I see activities and adverts by “Big Business” endorsing the Marxist Socialist movement(s) in the USA.  Will they wake up before the Republic is toast?

American Progressive Socialist Wannabes Have No Clue About What They Are Working For
   Progressivism piece by Malcolm T. Hedges (4/16/09)

The only people that will gain from destroying the Republic and creating a Marxist Socialist UPSSA are the elitist leadership!