Urgent! Still time to Change the House Vote for H.R. 2454 Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives allow for a member to change their vote up to 5 days following the formal vote taking (who knew?). This means that if 4 of the 8 turncoat Republicans that voted "aye" for the disastrous Cap and Trade bill switch their vote by Wednesday the bill will stand in defeat! You need to contact these eight, known as the "Cap and Tr8tors" and urge them to vote "nay". They are no longer in Washington so you must use their local office contact information. You need NOT be one of their constituents to voice your concern about their vote! Click HERE for contact information.

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Week ending 28 June 2009
E-mail: EPA Suppressed Report Skeptical of Global Warming Less than two weeks before the agency formally submitted its pro-regulation recommendation to the White House, an EPA center director quashed a 98-page report that warned against making hasty "decisions based on a scientific hypothesis that does not appear to explain most of the available data."	E-mail chain (7-pg. PDF)
The Climate Change Climate Change The number of skeptics is swelling everywhere Kimberley A. Strassel Australian Steve Fielding recently asked the Obama administration to reassure him on the science of man-made global warming and it could not. If you haven't heard of this politician, it's because he's a member of the Australian Senate. As the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to pass a climate-change bill, the Australian Parliament is preparing to kill its own country's carbon-emissions scheme. Why?	Princeton's Will Happer's open letter to the APS
Tilting at Green Windmills George Will The Spanish professor is puzzled. Why, Gabriel Calzada wonders, is the U.S. president recommending that America emulate the Spanish model for creating "green jobs" in "alternative energy" even though Spain's unemployment rate is 18.1 percent – more than double the European Union average – partly because of spending on such jobs?
Angry Docs Say Proposed Government-Run Health Care Plan Will Drive Physicians out of Medicine “Unfortunately what’s coming is a government takeover of medicine,” Dr. David McKalip said. “The goal is to ration care. Whenever the government takes over medicine, they always ration care. When you bring this up to the proponents, they always say that ‘Rationing happens anyway, we just want the government to do it.’ They never deny that there will be rationing.”
We Don’t Need Obama’s Big-Bang Health-Care Plan Larry Kudlow According to a recent ABC News/USA Today/Kaiser Family Foundation survey, 89 percent of Americans are satisfied with their health care. That could mean up to 250 million people are happy. So why is it that we need Obama’s big-bang health-care overhaul in the first place?
6 States Want to Nullify Obamacare with Opt Out Law Arizona started the ball rolling by introducing the Health Care Freedom Act, a voting initiative that will be put before voters on the 2010 ballot. If accepted by the majority of the voters, Arizona will be able to opt out of any federal healthcare laws passed by Washington. Indiana, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota and Wyoming are considering similar measures.
Democrat Senate Looks to Trim Tax Break for Personal Medical Costs Most likely to be affected by a change to the deduction are households with income between $50,000 and $200,000, according to 2009 estimates from the Tax Policy Center. People in that income group claimed 73.1% of the benefit of all the medical and dental expense deductions, according to the data.
The Record of the UK's Single-Payer Health-Care is Checkered, With Startling Deficits and Horror Stories about Bad Patient Care “In Britain, the reality is that life-and-death decisions are driven by electoral politics rather than clinical need,”Dr. Karol Sikora wrote. “Diseases with less vocal lobby groups, such as strokes and mental health, get neglected at the expense of those that can shout louder. That is a principle that could soon be exported to America.”
Who's Funding the Obamacare Campaign? Michelle Malkin If you believe the White House, there are 30 million Americans who support a government health care takeover. But if you look at the funding behind the Obamacare campaign, it's the same few leftist billionaires, union bosses and partisan community organizers pushing the socialized medicine agenda. Let's connect the dots.
The End of Transparency (Before It Ever Began) Jonathan Adler One argument for modifying (abandoning) the "Sunlight before Signing" policy is that the public no longer has any meaningful opportunity to influence prospective laws once legislation has passed Congress. Yet this is only true if the White House does not intend to be responsive to public concerns.
Obama Plays Hardball with Watchdogs Robert Stacy McCain At stake in the TARP case – as in the cases of the IGs at Amtrak, AmeriCorps and the ITC – is whether the inspectors generals will remain vigilant watchdogs on behalf of taxpayers or become compliant lapdogs, allowing Obama's political appointees to do as they wish without fear of independent scrutiny.
Harry Reid Won't Commit to Giving Public a Week to Read Health-Care Bill Before Senate Votes on It Reid was asked the following question: "When the stimulus came up earlier this year members and citizens had less than two days to review the final bill before it was voted on. Will you commit to give Americans at least a week to review the full conference version of the health-care bill before it's voted on?"
An Endangered America Alan Caruba We are being governed by fear as one "crisis" or another is announced and we are being governed by too many men and women in Congress who have heedlessly plunged the nation into unimaginable debt and propose to burden present and future generations with destructive taxation.
Obama's Curiously Close Labor Friendship They led the most powerful forces in healthcare – the trade groups representing doctors, insurance companies, hospitals and drug makers. Any one of them could stall, if not derail, President Obama's hopes of overhauling the U.S. healthcare system. Instead, they stood with Obama before TV cameras at the White House and pledged their cooperation.
Inspector General Fired by Obama Wants Congressional Hearing The ousted inspector general who reported that his office found misuse of AmeriCorps funds granted to a charity run by a political ally of President Barack Obama sees an assault on the institution of government watchdogs, noting that besides himself, the inspectors general in both the Treasury Department and the International Trade Commission (ITC) have faced reported hurdles in doing their jobs.
Financial Disclosure Reveals First Muslim Congressman had trip Funded by American branch of Muslim Brotherhood Scott Johnson Members of Congress recently filed their annual disclosure forms, listing travel payments and reimbursements by private entities.  Rep. Keith Ellison's form put to rest any lingering question about who paid for his two-week trip to Saudi Arabia, listing the Muslim American Society Minnesota as the benefactor responsible for his hajj trip from November 29-December 14, 2008.
Which Side Really Inspires Violence... The Right or Left? Selwyn Duke Now we come to the crux of the matter: If rightist rhetoric can inspire others to violence just like the leftist variety, what determines culpability? Well, we must ask the only relevant question about that rhetoric: Is it the Truth?
Sarkozy says burqas are 'not welcome' in France President Nicolas Sarkozy lashed out Monday at the practice of wearing the Muslim burqa, insisting the full-body religious gown is a sign of the "debasement" of women and that it won't be welcome in France. The French leader expressed support for a recent call by dozens of legislators to create a parliamentary commission to study a small but growing trend of wearing the full-body garment in France.
Obama Administration Sides With Saudis, Seeks To Deny 9/11 Families Their Day In Court Paul Mirengoff The Obama-Holder Justice Department's seeks to protect not just the Saudi government, but also the Saudi princes. As to the princes, DOJ relies not on sovereign immunity but rather on its view that the evidence against them is insufficient. But, according to Yerushalmi, the Second Circuit pointed to abundant evidence to show that these princes knowingly funded al-Qaeda's terrorism via Muslim charities.
Conyers Pleads Guilty In Bribery Case Monica Conyers, the wife of powerful U.S. Rep. John Conyers, left the courtroom on personal bond without commenting. In a few short weeks, Conyers, who was the council's president pro tem, went from one of Detroit's most politically powerful and mercurial women to an admitted felon in a pay-to-play scheme for a $1.2-billion-plus sludge treatment contract.
In case you missed it... California Dems Cut Tax Exemptions For Kids California parents beware: Those little tax deductions running around the house are now worth less (in a strictly financial sense, of course). To help balance its budget, California has reduced the state tax credit for dependents.
Would Dept. of Homeland Security classify the Tennessee Constitution a Terrorist Document? Article I, Section I is often cited by liberty lovers because it says "the people...have an unalienable and indefeasible right to alter, reform, or abolish the government in such manner as they may think proper."
"One heartbeat away" Biden Strikes Again VP Joe Biden speaking at a Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender (LGBT) fundraiser praised Tim Kaine as the "great governor of New Jersey". One problem, Tim Kaine's not the governor of New Jersey, Jon Corzine is. Kaine is governor of Virginia and chairman of the DNC. Biden did all this with the aid of a teleprompter.

Week ending 7 June 2009
America Under Allah Paul Williams Islam has permeated nearly every aspect of American life, and the full extent of the permeation remains an X factor. But this much has come to light. In 1990, less than 600 mosques existed in the home of the free and the land of the brave. By 2000, that number had climbed to 1,400.
Pushback on Chrysler – Dems Express 'Growing Concern' House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer and Reps. Chris Van Hollen and Daniel Maffei have circulated this letter today to Obama expressing “growing concern” with the closures of GM and Chrysler dealerships across the country. The lawmakers say they’re asking for a “compelling justification as to how closing healthy dealerships will make the automakers more financially sound. The lawmakers are asking for lawmakers to sign this letter by 5p.m. today.	Read comments on this story here
Obama's Big Spending Program Looks to Put Economy in a Funk The Federal Reserve announced a $1.2 trillion plan three months ago designed to push down mortgage rates and breathe life into the housing market. But this and other big government spending programs are turning out to have the opposite effect.
Fruits of Enhanced Interrogations Revealed to House Members Tom Maguire “Republicans leak vague generalities about a classified briefing on the efficacy of the enhanced interrogation program and Dems burst into tears. . . . I understand the political importance to the Dems of keeping the results of the 2002/2003 era enhanced interrogations secret; the actual national security significance eludes me, since the techniques have been well publicized by Obama.”
May Posterity Forget You Were Our Countrymen Lance Fairchok Either you believe in your principles or you do not. If not, you might as well go the way of the wretched Arlen Specter. You fight honorably, but you fight to win, because the alternative is a failed America. There is not much time, 2010 is our last chance.
What Obama Taught Me Ralph Peters I thought I knew a little bit about the Middle East. Boy, was I wrong. Last week, President Obama set me straight. Our president's breakthrough message to the Muslim world was that America overthrew democratic regimes, slavery was our history's central feature, and we invaded people on a whim – but we're sorry now.
The Obama Recession Randall Hoven I think it is time to call it "The Obama Recession." The figures should speak for themselves. Not only are the actual unemployment numbers worse than predicted with the Recovery Plan, they are worse than predicted had there been no stimulus at all! Does it get any clearer than this?  The "stimulus" was a failure at best, and at worst, a hoax in the first place.
Government Takeover of GM 'Just Short of Socialism' Free-market economists and policy experts were highly critical of the government taking over majority ownership of General Motors, but stopped short of calling the move "socialism." "I am much more concerned about what we might call 'state capitalism,' " said author and syndicated columnist Amity Shlaes.
Senator on GM: You Bought It, You Own It Sen. Lamar Alexander (R), Tennessee: I'm introducing legislation, along with some other senators, that say, within a year, give the stock to any American who paid taxes on April 15. So, you would end up with a few shares of GM stock, and the government would stop meddling.
Stimulus 'Buy American' Plan Backfiring The plan was included by President Barack Obama's administration in the nearly 800-billion-dollar US stimulus package adopted earlier this year that required projects funded with stimulus money to use only US-made steel, iron and manufactured goods.
S.C. Supremes Rule Gov. MUST Take Stimulus Funds Nick Gillespie One argument against Sanford's attempts was that the money would really help struggling schools (have you ever met a school that wasn't struggling?) in heavily minority areas, that his refusal to request stimulus dollars was really a way of punishing black voters who don't vote for him anyway. [Be sure to check the embedded links]
Dems Get their Lumps in the House; IMF Bailout Funding, Gitmo Major Issues Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) said.  “I have led a group of House Republicans urging Democratic leadership to remove this $108 billion foreign bailout paid for by U.S. taxpayers.  As we have done time after time, Republicans are eager to support our troops; but we will not stand by and let Democrats wrap pork barrel spending and a global bailout in the American flag.”
The Left Takes its Lumps in Europe (somewhat) The economic recession should have meant easy votes for Europe's left-wing movements, longtime critics of unchecked capitalism. Yet as Europe goes to the polls, left-leaning parties across the continent are looking likely to falter.
U.N. Red and U.S. “Progressives” Plan Socialist World Government While meaningless United Nations hand-wringing over the North Korean nuclear weapons program garners the headlines, the world body is moving ahead with a global conference to lay the groundwork for world government financed by global taxes.	Very, very alarming
Obama's EPA Administrator Renews Pledge for 'Environmental Justice' Lisa P. Jackson, the woman chosen by President Barack Obama to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), told attendees at a conference on environmental justice that minorities and low-income people are the victims of pollution by U.S. companies and businesses.
Newsweek’s Evan Thomas: Obama Is ‘Sort of God’ Newsweek editor Evan Thomas brought adulation over President Obama’s Cairo speech to a whole new level on Friday, declaring on MSNBC: "I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God."
The Power of Eco-Nightmares Daniel Greenfield Like Marxism, environmentalism views unregulated human productivity as a venial sin. And is determined to place it under very tight regulation. With Marxism’s main thrust of worker rights losing steam in the mid-20th century as Western workers became some of the most prosperous people in the world, environmentalism slowly began to take its place.
Weather Malarkey Alan Caruba When one considers that during the course of a single day and night, the temperature anywhere can vary widely, the notion that anyone can determine the nation's or entire Earth's average temperature based on such [temperature monitoring] stations around the world is literally impossible.
Where's the Beef? Burger King franchise cites cockroaches and Oz in defense of 'global warming is baloney' signs The Guardian's Leo Hickman grills the Burger King franchise that put up signs saying global warming is 'baloney'. Earlier this week we were, ahem, relishing the story about how some Burger King restaurants in Tennessee had been displaying signs saying "global warming is baloney".
'Zero to Five:' A scam to help teachers union Washington Examiner Next to universal health care, President Obama’s top domestic goal is government financed pre-school for all three- and four-year-olds, regardless of family income. Obama promised his supporters at the National Education Association that he will spend billions on his “Zero to Five” early childhood education initiative.
AFL-CIO Official Conceals Pro-Castro Views, Cuban Visit Karen Nussbaum, the executive director of Working America, the community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, was apparently stunned by the fact that someone had uncovered an aspect of her background that has been carefully omitted from her official biography. She refused to answer the reporter and walked away.
Official Document says Black Panther was "representing the Democratic Party" Only voters, election board workers, and watchers may enter a polling location. The New Black Panther Party isn't an officially recognized political party in Philadelphia, so they couldn't appoint him. So who gave this guy a credential?
The Obama Flip-Flops You Don't Know Since winning the election, President Barack Obama has famously flip-flopped on many of the major issues that he championed on the campaign trail. But did you know he's also flip-flopped on a myriad of less publicized issues?
GE's Jeffrey Immelt in War Over GE-NBC Coverage of Obama Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood It's a very dangerous situation when any huge multinational corporation wages war against media companies. Especially when that huge multinational corporation is General Electric, which itself owns a media company, NBC Universal, and it's using all its power and influence and money to try to harm another media company.
Indiana Jones Feels Pain of Supporting Obama Ed Morrissey Harrison Ford was maybe the best thing about Star Wars (all six films) and terrific in the Indiana Jones films. Today, though, I’ll cast him as Captain Louis Renault in Casablanca for his shock, shock! that a redistributionist Democratic Party might tax his industry into default.