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Saturday, July 31, 2010

Peter Schweizer, Makers and Takers - The ReAL Review
   Society piece by Offsite (7/31/10)

Peter Schweizer, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, delineates the thesis of his fine study in his title:  Makers and Takers:  Why Conservatives Work Harder, Feel Happier, Have Closer Families, Take Fewer Drugs, Give More Generously, Value Honesty More, Are Less Materialistic and Envious, Whine Less . . . and Even Hug Their Children More than Liberals (New York:  Doubleday, c. 2008).  This contravenes the liberal mantra, articulated by the popular radio personality Garrison Keillor, who declared:  “Republicans are swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, aggressive dorks’“ (p. 8).

Climate proposals threaten pursuit of happiness and justice
   ClimateGate piece by Guest: Paul Driessen (7/31/10)

New study documents harmful effects of “cap-and-trade” and “endangerment” schemes - Environmental justice demands that the United States address global warming, the gravest threat facing minority Americans, insist the EPA, Congressional Black Caucus and White House. Are they serious?

‘Will Washington’s Failures Lead To Second American Revolution?‘
   Government piece by Offsite (7/31/10)

The Internet is a large-scale version of the “Committees of Correspondence” that led to the first American Revolution - and with Washington’s failings now so obvious and awful, it may lead to another.

Windmills Literally Blowing in the Wind
   Energy piece by Kevin Roeten (7/31/10)

Many say “What can possibly be wrong with windmills to generate electrical power?“ But it doesn’t seem to be a thinking solution to perceived energy problems for the US. A few suggestions for the non-thinker: 1) What is the actual cost? 2) How much land or water will actually be needed?, 3) What has been the result of previous windmills built? And the coup-de-gras, 4) How much of US energy concerns can it displace?

Friday, July 30, 2010

D.C.‘s Race Quota Job Boom
   Employment/Jobs piece by Offsite (7/30/10)

While millions of jobless Americans struggle in the rough-edged recession, Washington employment is booming, driven partly by new racial and gender quotas.

‘Obama pal filing rash of media lawsuits?‘
   Progressivism piece by Offsite (7/30/10)

A company working on behalf of a Las Vegas newspaper has filed a spate of copyright-infringement lawsuits against as many as 80 individuals and publications since March, and now bloggers reveal the CEO may have crossed paths with Barack and Michelle Obama during their stints at a Chicago law firm.

EPA Refusal to Reconsider Harmful Energy Regulations Draws Fire
   EPA piece by Press Release: Christine Hall (7/30/10)

Washington, D.C., July 30, 2010 – The EPA Thursday rejected petitions to reconsider the agency’s move to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as a “public endangerment” under the Clean Air Act.  CEI and others had petitioned EPA last year to reconsider its finding, especially in light of the ClimateGate scandal, which exposed communications from top global warming scientists on how they hid or muddled certain data.

Calling All Patriot Business Owners
   Business piece by Guest: Chuck Baldwin (7/30/10)

Faithful readers of this column are very familiar with my call to locate a modern-day “Black Regiment.“ The Black Regiment was a moniker affixed to those patriot preachers of colonial America who thundered forth the message of liberty and freedom, and without whose leadership our War for Independence would never have been waged–or won.

‘American Jeopardy: What is Fascism?‘
   Fascism piece by Offsite (7/30/10)

Over the years, words lose meaning and often take on new forms that in no way represent their original usage.  This can be observed in the now taboo word “fascism.“  Fascism is now most closely associated with the system of government that effected the slaughter of over 6 million Jews and other political prisoners.  But at its core, fascism is really no more than a system where government, through agreements with the private sector, controls virtually all property and income indirectly.

‘Chuck Todd: Embarrassed By JournoList or Not?‘
   TheFringeMedia piece by Warner Todd Huston (7/30/10)

Today two stories have recently appeared reporting NBC Political Director Chuck Todd’s reaction to the revelations of the JournoList, that website were avowed left-wing journalists congregated to talk about their profession and plot to foster a left-wing agenda in their work in the media.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Obama sells out Arizona - Sells himself on The View
   ObamaNation piece by Rev Bresciani (7/29/10)

America is fast becoming the land of the free and the home of absurdities. Clinton era U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton sided with Obama’s view that Arizona’s new SB 1070 immigration law is “misguided” in a ruling that temporarily blocks elements of Arizona’s immigration reforms.

ACORN Whistleblower Anita MonCrief’s New Venture: EmergingCorruption
   New Media piece by Warner Todd Huston (7/29/10)

ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief, the brave young woman whose conscience wouldn’t allow her to cover to ACORN’s criminal activity while she was in its employ, has started a new venture. A website dedicated to rooting out government corruption called EmergingCorruption-dot-com(1) was launched last weekend headed by Anita and a cadre of writers and researchers (myself being one of them)

The “Change” You Can Believe
   Taxes piece by Thomas D. Segel (7/29/10)

Harlingen, Texas, July 29, 2010:  I still remember his words.  The President of the United States looked us all in the eye and through the directness of television promised…“I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase.  Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes”.

Racism or Stupidity
   Racism piece by Offsite (7/29/10)

A black or white person, now dead, who lived during the civil rights struggles of the 1930s, ‘40s or ‘50s, might very well be appalled and disgusted by the kind of black behavior that is accepted today. Yesteryear, it was the Klan or White Citizens Council who showed up at polling places to intimidate black voters. During the 2008 elections, it was the New Black Panthers who showed up at a Philadelphia polling place to intimidate white voters and tell them, “You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker.“ What’s worse is the U.S. Department of Justice has decided to not to prosecute.

‘Fake Michigan Tea Party Acting Spoiler for Republicans?‘
   Progressivism piece by Warner Todd Huston (7/29/10)

Back in May I posted a report(1) on what seemed to be a fake tea party group circulating petitions in the state of Michigan to get themselves recognized as an official political party.

Now we are learning FOIA implications of financial reform act
   Information Police piece by Offsite (7/29/10)

As Nancy Pelosi said, you have to pass the bill to find out what is in the bill.

GAO: Some Drug Traffickers ‘Specialize’ in Smuggling Aliens From Countries With Ties to Terrorism
   National Security piece by Offsite (7/29/10)

CNSNews) - Some Mexican drug-trafficking organizations (DTOs) are involved in smuggling potential terrorists across the southwestern border, according to the Government Accountability Office.

US Needs Deficit Reduction, Not More Fiscal Stimulus
   Depression/Recession piece by Offsite (7/29/10)

Some experts argue the United States needs more fiscal stimulus to sustain the tepid economic recovery. Harvard economist Ken Rogoff isn’t one of them.

The Revolutionary Republcian Platform
   The Republic piece by Bruce Walker (7/29/10)

We must have revolutionary change if we are to preserve America as a land of liberty.  Republicans may have that power to make revolutionary change after the 2012 elections, because, for the first time in history, the configuration of congressional elections in 2012 and 2014 will give the Republican Party the elements needed to pass a revolutionary agenda over the united opposition of Democrats:  a filibuster-proof Senate, a working majority in the House, and a conservative in the White House.

National Health Service: It’s Coming to America
   Health Care piece by Offsite (7/29/10)

PORTSTEWART, Northern Ireland—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told a group of liberal activists meeting in Las Vegas they shouldn’t worry about not getting the single-payer provision in the new health care law. “We’re going to have a public option,“ Reid said. “It’s just a question of when.“

Taxes Do NOT Create Jobs
   Taxes piece by Offsite (7/29/10)

Recovery Rhetoric v. Reality - “Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.“—Thomas Jefferson - Fact: Despite all of the claims by Barack Hussein Obama and his cadre of Socialists about “creating or saving” jobs through their so-called “stimulus plan,“ their taxing revenue out of the private sector (from this and future generations) does NOT “stimulate” private sector job growth—quite the contrary. (Nor is there any expressed authority in our Constitution for such redistribution of wealth—but who pays attention to that venerable old parchment?)

End of Fiscal Stimulus Will Dent Growth
   Depression/Recession piece by Offsite (7/29/10)

The approaching end of the government spending mandated in last year’s $787 billion stimulus package is bad news for the economy, says Goldman Sachs economist Alec Phillips.

One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Education Won’t Work
   EdukShun piece by Offsite (7/29/10)

Every single child in the American public education system is unique. Each student is an individual who learns differently, has diverse academic interests and learns information at different rates.

Muni Bond Payouts Scare Wall Street
   Investments piece by Offsite (7/29/10)

Two years after the financial crisis, Wall Street brokerage firms reportedly are being ordered to pay millions to investors who lost big on what some thought were low-risk municipal-bond fund investments.

Bank reforms to pinch consumer credit
   Fascism piece by Offsite (7/29/10)

Call it the law of unintended consequences. - That’s what many finance experts are saying will be the result of Congress’ latest attempt to micromanage the world of consumer credit through the financial-reform measure President Obama signed into law last week.

America’s New Health Care System Revealed
   ObamaCare piece by Offsite (7/29/10)

Updated Chart Shows Obamacare’s Bewildering Complexity - Washington, DC – Four months after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously declared “We have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it,” a congressional panel has released the first chart illustrating the 2,801 page health care law President Obama signed into law in March.

NEA: Let’s celebrate communism!
   Progressivism piece by Offsite (7/29/10)

The National Education Association is suggesting its teachers and NEA-connected schools celebrate China on the anniversary of the repressive communist regime’s violent founding.

Never Give Up our Electoral College
   Electoral College piece by JB Williams (7/29/10)

America’s Founding Fathers did NOT form a “democracy.“ They formed a “representative republic” and guaranteed every state a “republican form of government” in the US Constitution. Contrary to modern propaganda, a democracy and a representative republic are NOT the same thing.

‘Has the Time Come to Replace the Federal Government?‘
   National Security piece by Sher Zieve (7/29/10)

After Clinton appointed Judge Susan Bolton ruled Wednesday that—for all intents and purposes—Arizona does not have the right to protect itself or its citizens from invading drug cartels and the illegal foreign hordes that are bleeding it dry of its resources, it should have become apparent to even the dimmest that We-the-People no longer exist. We are now living under a tyranny developed, directed, implemented and enforced by the Marxists in power.

The Mailed Fist of the Federal Government Slams Arizona
   States Rights piece by J. D. Longstreet (7/29/10)

States Should Revive the Practice of “Nullification”  - What we saw occur in Arizona this week, with a federal district judge gutting a law passed by the Arizona state legislature and signed into law by the governor of that state is nothing less than spitting in the face of “states rights!“