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Proposes Allowing Wind Farm to Kill Endangered/Protected Golden Eagles It is a first-of-its-kind permit that would allow the developer of a central Oregon wind-power project to legally kill golden eagles, a regulatory move being closely watched by conservationists. A draft environmental assessment would allow West Butte Wind Power LLC to kill as many as three protected golden eagles over five years if the company fulfills its conservation commitments. [Q: If the numbers are exceeded, will the wind mills come down??]  How I Woke Up To the Untruths of Barack Obama Christopher Booker As a rising young Chicago politician in 1995, no one campaigned more actively than Mr Obama for an amendment to the U.S. Community Reinvestment Act, legally requiring banks to lend huge sums to millions of poor, mainly black Americans, guaranteed by the two giant mortgage associations, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. |
With all the
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propelled Barack Obama to
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| Obama Personally Approved Fudging Budget Numbers The president once prided himself on honesty but later shifted his stance and approved the use of budget gimmickry. When his aides suggested that he should abandon the honest approach on estimated spending on disaster aid, for example, the president signed off. Obama also approved of fanciful budget numbers on his signature health care legislation. |
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| Gallup: The State of the Union? Profoundly Unhappy As President Barack Obama prepares his annual address to Congress, Americans are broadly dissatisfied with the state of the nation in several specific issue areas, with satisfaction down sharply in some cases since January 2008. | |
| The Truly Dismal State of the Union Joseph Curl There is one person – one American among the 300 million of us – who is not to blame for the state of the union. Everyone else, each of you, in some small or large way, bears some share of the blame, but not this guy. Not one little bit. This guy is Barack Obama. He is not the least bit to blame for the dismal state of the U.S. economy. |
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| 11 Stunning Revelations from Larry
Summers's Secret Economics Memo to Barack Obama James Pethokoukis 1. The stimulus was about implementing the Obama agenda. The short-run economic imperative was to identify as many campaign promises or high priority items that would spend out quickly and be inherently temporary. … The stimulus package is a key tool for advancing clean energy goals and fulfilling a number of campaign commitments. More... |
Summer's 57-page memo (pdf) |
| Democrats' Three Years of No Budget is All About Deception Investor's Business Daily The last time the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate passed a budget was April 29, 2009 – 1,000 days ago. It's no mystery why: They don't want taxpayers to know about the trillions they're wasting. A published budget would be an election-year death warrant for Senate Democrats. |
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| Conceded: UK Met Office Now States
Global Warming is Over; There has been No Warming for the Past 15 Years Based on readings from more than 30,000 measuring stations, the data was issued last week without fanfare by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit. It confirms that the rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997.  Most Authoritative Map-maker Admits Greenland Ice Melt Error; Falsely Claimed "concrete evidence" of the Effects of Global Warming There was considerable alarm when the word's most authoritative atlas printed a map which showed that Greenland was rapidly turning green. However, experts from around the globe pointed out that the cataclysmic chart had no scientific support and was contradicted by all of the most recent satellite images. |
The hoax is over, in the UK at least. |
| GOP wants Sen. Baucus to go Rogue
on Keystone XL Pipeline Republicans are pressing Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) to buck his leadership and use his authority in the payroll tax conference to green-light the Keystone oil sands pipeline. Baucus has told business leaders in Montana that winning authorization for the transnational pipeline is one of his highest priorities for 2012. |
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 George Soros May Be Huge Benefactor from White House's Natural Gas Proposal The proposal would offer incentives for companies to buy and use trucks powered by natural gas. Obama announced the effort at a UPS facility in Las Vegas that received stimulus funding to buy natural gas vehicles and build a fueling station for them. | |
| Biden-Focused Electric-Car Firm Got $118M Stimulus, Now Files for Bankruptcy Ener1 – a company that manufactures batteries for electric cars, and that received $118.5 million in federal stimulus money, and that Vice President Joe Biden visited last year the day after President Obama's State of the Union Address – announced today that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. 3 in 1 Week! Add the name Amonix, Inc. to those of Evergreen Energy and Ener1, all 'Green Energy' Beneficiaries now in Financial Hardship Just seven months after California-based solar power company Amonix Inc. opened its largest manufacturing plant, in North Las Vegas, the company's contractor has laid off nearly two-thirds of its workforce. Employees were confused and disappointed when they heard the news and were directed by human resources to look for other local jobs in retail. New Obama 'Green' Loan of $230M Will Create a Whopping 103 Jobs Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced his second bio-fuels loan guarantee in a week, revealing that the Agriculture Department (USDA) is slated to loan an Oregon biorefinery $232.5 million for a project expected to create 65 jobs and support 38 others. |
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| What Really Happened in the Gingrich Ethics Case? Byron York Given all the attention to the ethics matter, it's worth asking what actually happened back in 1995, 1996, and 1997. The Gingrich case was extraordinarily complex, intensely partisan, and driven in no small way by a personal vendetta on the part of one of Gingrich's former political opponents. |
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| Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker: The Most Important Non-Presidential Election of the Decade Stephen Moore The stakes here "go well beyond who will be governor of Wisconsin," Mr. Walker explains. The recall's ultimate objective is to intimidate any official across the country who's thinking of crossing swords with the empire of teachers and other public-employee unions. "This is about killing reform initiatives in every state in the country," says Mr. Walker. |
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| Reuters' Abysmal Hit Piece on Marco
Rubio Contains Major Errors, Continues Their Reputation for Biased Reporting Matt K. Lewis  Reuters
is out with a tough story on Sen. Marco Rubio today, arguing that, the
senator "has had significant financial problems that could keep him
from passing any vetting process as a potential vice presidential
choice…" Unfortunately, it appears many of the facts are either wrong
or exaggerated. By my count, there were at least 7 errors or
exaggerations. |
Reuters Busted on Rubio Hit Piece |
| Does Iowa Electoral Fraud Scam Lead To White House? Investor's Business Daily In 2006, the hardest of the hardcore Democratic operatives founded a "527" political group called the "Secretary of State Project." The aim was to elect "progressive" secretaries of state in swing or battleground states so that when elections were tight, the decisive official in the secretary of state's chair would presumably rule in Democrats' favor. |
The Zachary Edwards Story Little Covered by MSM |
| Latest Document Dump Shows Holder
was Informed of Fast & Furious Connection to Brian Terry’s
Murder On Day Border Agent Died "What we’ve discovered in our investigations is a pattern of cover-up [and] delay. Ultimately Congress was given false information and now we’ve had people both resign and take the Fifth as we try to get to the basic elements of why and how was Congress lied to," House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa said. |
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| Burqa Ban Comes To the Netherlands.
Finally. Abigail R. Esman More than seven years after an Islamic extremist murdered Dutch filmmaker and commentator Theo van Gogh on the streets of Amsterdam and more than ten years after former Parliamentarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali warned of the oppression and radicalization taking place among Dutch Muslim women, Holland has, at last, banned the burqa. It becomes the third country in Europe to institute such a ban. |
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| Boko Haram Vows to Fight Until
Nigeria Establishes Sharia Law The Islamist group Boko Haram, which has killed almost 1,000 people in Nigeria, will continue its campaign of violence until the country is ruled by sharia law, a senior member has told the Guardian. The interview comes a week after Boko Haram claimed responsibility for Nigeria's single deadliest terrorist attack, which killed 186 people in the northern city of Kano. |
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| The Islamic Paradise of the Needle and Powder Daniel Greenfield Countries that don't have oil export drugs. Countries that do have oil, export drugs anyway. Terrorist groups with their secret cells, forged documents and covert funding sources make perfect drug smuggling networks until it is impossible to tell whether they are Islamic terrorists who smuggle drugs to fund their operations or drug smugglers who kill people to religiously justify their drug smuggling. |
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| The New American Elite Alan Caruba “Fairness” as many point out, is just another word for “class warfare.” It has always been the siren call of communism. Efforts in America and in Europe to create “fairness” in the form of our “entitlement” programs and the extensive European socialism have reached a point where they threaten to collapse our own and the economies of many European nations. | |
 In Addition to "Fairness", Obama
CampaignPlays the Dead Kennedy Card From: Caroline Kennedy (info@barackobama.com) Subject: My uncle Teddy Date: January 28, 2012 1:46:38 PM EST |
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| Jesse Jackson Says Gov. Brewer
‘Gave President Obama the Finger’ Mike Bates Naturally, Jackson’s blunder will be ignored by the mainstream media. He’s always given a pass. But the very next time “the black view” is needed on a story, he’ll be front and center and ready for his close-up. |
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 The Donkey WhispererRoger Williams is running for Congress in Texas, and he's one of the good guys. He's also got a sense of humor. But Democrats probably won't like him. (1-1/2 minute video) |
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| The Crime of the Century Destroying America by Denying Access to Energy Alan Caruba It is common sense that a nation that cannot produce sufficient electricity to turn on its lights and power its manufacturing sector will be destroyed if current Obama administration regulations and actions continue. Our vital transportation sector and all others that utilize petroleum-based products will suffer, too. |
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| A Lose, Lose, Lose,
Lose, Lose Proposition Victor Davis Hanson As he did with his probably illegal "recess" appointments, President Obama picked a politically advantageous time to cancel the Keystone pipeline project – while the media is obsessed with the South Carolina primary, Newt Gingrich's second wife, and Mitt Romney's investments. Yet it is hard to remember a presidential decision that had as many negatives as this one. |
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| CBS Exposes 'the New Solyndras' –
Broke or Nearly so; 11 More Green Energy Firms Got Billions of Tax Dollars According to a CBS News investigation, the controversial government loan to now-bankrupt Solyndra wasn't an isolated incident. CBS This Morning reporter Sharyl Attkisson explained, "We identified 11 green energy companies beside Solyndra that, together, got billions of tax dollars then declared bankruptcy or are suffering other serious financial issues." |
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| The Worst Economic Recovery Since
the Great Depression Peter Ferrara The record of President Obama's first three years in office is in, and nothing that happens now can go back and change that. What that record shows is that President Obama, with his throwback, old-fashioned, 1970s Keynesian economics, has put America through the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression. |
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| Not Just a Democrat Dirty Trick,
But a Crime John Hinderaker A few years ago, as part of its strategy of facilitating voter fraud as a means of winning close elections, the Democratic Party undertook a campaign to secure as many Secretary of State offices in swing states as possible. From those perches, the Democrats would be in a position to oversee elections and enforce (or decline to enforce) election laws. |
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| FAIL: Convicted of Voter Fraud, New York Dems Make Attempt to Tar Republicans as Well "In fact, after the Democrats were caught in 2009 the records at the Board of Elections were searched. More cases of fraud were found dating back to 2007 or 2008, all attributed to Democrat candidates and operatives. Nothing from any GOP members." |
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| Obama Admin. Coordinates Lawsuits
with ACORN's Project Vote Washington Examiner Documents obtained recently by Judicial Watch via the FOIA suggest that President Obama – who was employed by Project Vote as a community organizer early in his career – and Attorney General Eric Holder have no qualms about working closely with present and former ACORN and Project Vote operatives on voter registration drives aimed at people on public assistance. |
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| Canada Pledges to Sell Oil to Asia
After Obama Rejects Keystone XL The "decision by the Obama administration underlines the importance of diversifying and expanding our markets, including the growing Asian market," Oliver told reporters in Ottawa. Currently, 99 percent of Canada's crude exports go to the U.S., a figure that Harper wants to reduce in his bid to make Canada a "superpower" in global energy markets. |
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Obama over Keystone XL Rejection Obama's Keystone Pipeline Rejection Is Hard To Accept Washington Post Editorial Wrong Decision on Keystone XL Pipeline Houston Chronicle Editorial Rejecting the Keystone Pipeline is an Act of Insanity Robert J. Samuelson – Washington Post |
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| Keystone XL Pipeline: GOP wants
Sec. Hillary Clinton to Testify Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton formally sent a request to Clinton to come and testify at a hearing as early as next Wednesday, the day after President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress. |
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| Gov. Brown Asks for $7B More
Spending for Schools; 40 Years of Massive Spending Has Produced NOTHING Andrew J. Coulson Despite the grim economy, Gov. Jerry Brown is asking Californians to approve a $7 billion tax hike. Without it, he recently wrote, the state "will have no choice but to make deeper and more damaging cuts to schools." Taxpayers are thus left to weigh the potential benefits of spending an extra $7 billion, largely on public schools, against the damage that higher taxes do to employment and economic growth. |
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| Progressive Democrats Propose 'Reasonable Profits Board' to Regulate Profits The Democrats, worried about higher gas prices, want to set up a board that would apply a "windfall profit tax" as high as 100 percent on the sale of oil and gas, according to their legislation. The bill provides no specific guidance for how the board would determine what constitutes a reasonable profit. |
What is CPC? Who is CPC? |
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| Federal Attorney to Plead the 5th
Amendment In Fast & Furious Oversight Committee Hearing The chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona is refusing to testify before Congress regarding Operation Fast and Furious, the federal gun-running scandal that sent U.S. weapons to Mexico. Patrick J. Cunningham informed the House Oversight Committee late Thursday through his attorney that he will use the Fifth Amendment protection. |
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| Why are Barack Obama's Critics So
Smart? Nile Gardiner In response to [Andrew] Sullivan's provocative article, "Why are Obama's critics so dumb?", which has stirred up a good deal of debate in America, here are five reasons why President Obama's conservative critics are significantly smarter in their approach and thinking than his failing Left-wing administration in Washington: |
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| Turkey Intercepts Material for
Missiles, WMD on Iranian Trucks Material for manufacturing missiles and chemical weapons has been discovered by the Turkish authorities on Iranian trucks heading to Turkey, Turkish media reported on Friday. The governor of Kilis province in Turkey said the trucks were confiscated at the Oncupinar border crossing into Syria after police received information about their cargo. |
Psst... Don't tell Ron Paul |
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| Muslim Threatens Jihad, Shuts Down College Talk On Sharia Law Creeping Sharia This week I was due to give a talk to students at Queen Mary College, London on sharia law and human rights. Rather fittingly – and as if to prove my point – my human rights were quashed by a person demonstrating one of the effects of sharia law; the threat of violence for criticising religion. |
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| Guilty: North Carolina Jihadists
Who Targeted Marine Corps Wives and Children In Federal Court in New Bern, NC today, three would-be Islamist terrorists were found guilty of a slew of terrorism-related charges in a planned attack on unsuspecting wives and children of Marine Corps personnel residing on the sprawling Marine base in Quantico, Virginia. |
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| New York Fracking Advocates say
Local Bans are 'Kiss of Death' New York would lose any chance of reaping the economic benefits of the shale-gas boom if local governments are allowed to ban drilling through zoning laws, advocates say. The state sits on the northern edge of the Marcellus Shale, which may hold enough natural gas to supply the U.S. for two decades, according to Terry Engelder, a geosciences professor at Pennsylvania State University. Added Natural Gas Drives Electricity Rates Down 50% A shale-driven glut of natural gas has cut electricity prices for the U.S. power industry by 50 percent and reduced investment in costlier sources of energy. Wind power and nuclear power plans have been shelved or canceled. Newfound Natural Gas Reserves Creates Quandary, Tensions Debate is brewing over whether to keep the nation's glut of natural gas at home for cheap energy or export it at five times the price, possibly creating jobs and boosting the domestic economy. Businesses that purchase natural gas for industrial and residential use have rallied against proposals to liquefy and export the fossil fuel to Asian and European nations willing to pay much higher prices. |
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| Obama is Ignoring His Own Jobs
Council's Recommendations Phil Kerpen Despite the panel being stacked with cronies and rent-seekers, its recommendations were mostly sensible. The council recommended aggressively pushing to develop U.S. energy resources, streamlining federal regulations and reforming the corporate tax code to reduce the rate and spur international competitiveness. |
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| Solyndra So Bad There are No Takers
Even At Auction Prices "Solyndra will be withdrawing its sale motion without prejudice and is moving forward with the court-approved auctions of its core assets." The auction was intended to keep the company operating and potentially resurrect the jobs lost by some of Solyndra's former employees. The piecemeal sale of the company's assets will begin with the first round starting on Feb. 22. |
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| The Worst White House Aide Valerie Jarrett's perfect record . . . for giving bad advice. Matthew Continetti Many have wondered – and the Washington Post asked last year – "What, exactly, does Valerie Jarrett do?" No one has a clear answer. Whatever she does, the U.S. taxpayer pays her $172,200 a year to do it. |
Malkin on VJ 27 July 2009 |
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| Lying Liars and Their Lies Romney 'Shoe shine' Photos Actually a Security Check On Thursday's NBC Today, correspondent Peter Alexander promoted a photo of Mitt Romney that supposedly "shows Governor Romney on a tarmac, his feet kicked up, getting polished in front of a corporate jet." In reality, as National Public Radio reported on Friday, the picture in question actually shows Romney being wanded by an airport security official before boarding a charter flight. |
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| Black Leaders to S. Carolina Gov:
You're A Minority, Too Civil rights leaders bothered by South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's stance on issues like requiring voters to show their IDs at the polls are reminding the governor that she is a minority, too. "She couldn't vote before 1965, just as I couldn't," said the Rev. Jesse Jackson. |
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| Vanity Fair
Captured Seething (and Race-Based) Hatred of Juan Williams Inside NPR Tim Graham "The thing nobody will say...is that Juan was here because he was black," complained one, as the story painted a picture of Williams as a shiftless bum who coasted on his race and didn't care to educate himself about the issues. Other blacks were catty. "Juan, gettin' ugly," e-mailed Farai Chideya. |
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| Adopting Pro-Sharia Textbooks in
U.S. Schools In August 2011, a Marietta, Ga. 7th grade teacher gave a three-page homework lesson from InspirEd Educators Inc. of Roswell, Ga. to students to help them discuss pros and cons of school uniforms. "Women in the West do not have the protection of the Sharia as we do," declared a letter from a Saudi wife named Ahlima. She's glad that Saudi women "have the Sharia. |
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| Nearly 1 Million Workers
Vanished Under Obama John Merline In the 30 months since the recession officially ended, nearly 1 million people have dropped out of the labor force – they aren't working, and they aren't looking – according to data from Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the past two months, the labor force shrank by 170,000. This is virtually unprecedented in past economic recoveries. |
Disappearing workers chart |
| Keystone XL Pipeline and
Jobs – Put Up or Shut Up Investor's Business Daily The day after the president announces he would reward businesses that bring jobs into the U.S., the Chamber of Commerce asks: What about the pipeline from Canada that would bring both jobs and energy? The irony was mind-boggling when President Obama addressed a group of business leaders at the White House last Wednesday on his plans to reward "insourcing." |
Map – existing pipelines in U.S.A. |
| More Than 100 Groups Urge POTUS to
“Act Swiftly” on Job-Creating Keystone XL Pipeline Nearly three weeks have passed since the president signed legislation requiring him to act on Keystone XL within 60 days. While the White House is “increasingly driven by politics,” the Keystone extension is supported by both parties and will help create tens of thousands of new jobs. In fact, “this shovel-ready project will provide 20,000 jobs in construction and manufacturing in the next two years, and add tens of thousands of additional jobs throughout the economy,” wrote the group. |
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| Poll: Americans, 2-1, Fear Obama's
Reelection When it comes to how Americans view President Obama going into the new year, there appears to be very little spirit of Auld Lang Syne. Instead, according to the new Washington Whispers poll, many voters aren't forgetting what they dislike about Obama and want him out office. |
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| Friday Document Dump: Obama
Administration Aware of Solyndra Layoffs Before Employees Notified Ed Morrissey Something smells very badly. It’s clear that the Obama administration at some level used taxpayer funds as leverage to manipulate a private enterprise for purely electoral benefit to the President, and it seems clear that the direction to do this came from the White House. |
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| EPA Actions Should Be Subject to
Judicial Review Ilya Shapiro and Timothy Sandefur Michael and Chantelle Sackett bought some Idaho land and began placing gravel fill on the site to prepare for laying a foundation for their dream home. Then they got something from the EPA: a "Compliance Order," declaring that they were in violation of the Clean Water Act, because their land had been deemed a "wetland" subject to federal jurisdiction. |
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| Thank the Tea Party for the End of
the Ethanol Tax Credit “When asked specifically which they would be more likely to support, a candidate who supports ethanol subsidies because they are important to the Iowa economy, or a candidate who opposes them because they want to get spending under control, caucus goers prefer the candidate who opposes ethanol subsidies by a margin of 56 percent to 31 percent.” |
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| Obama's New Chief of Staff: Former
Hedge Fund Exec. at Citigroup, Made Millions Off Mortgage Defaults From 2006-2008, Jack Lew was chief operating officer of Citibank's alternative investments division. And it was his division that made billions of dollars betting "U.S. homeowners would not be able to make their mortgage payments." In announcing Lew today Obama did not mention Lew's past of making billions of dollars for Citibank just a few years ago. |
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| 38,000 Farmers Sue Jon Corzine Over
Missing Millions "This is a suit by the real victims of MF Global," said plaintiff's attorney Mark Baker of the law firm Anderson, Baker & Swanson. "The missing funds were not investments in MF Global, or loans to MF Global, but rather the customer's own money as collateral to guaranty their contracts. They were not to be used by others." |
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| Axelrod Defends Jeremiah Wright, Says He Was Victim of Selective Editing Joel B. Pollak The claim that Wright's sermons were selectively edited by Obama's political opponents contradicts what is known about Wright's preaching and the radical, racialist creed of the Trinity United Church of Christ, to which Obama belonged for two decades and to which he contributed a large amount of money. |
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| Most Immigration Officers Surveyed
Believe Obama Policy Favors 'Promoting Immigration' Over 'National Security' A majority of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officers under the Obama administration believe that their agency's policy favors the promotion of immigration over national security, according to a 2011 survey conducted by the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general. |
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| Obama Weakens the Military Alan Caruba President Obama’s claim that “the tide of war is receding” is likely to rank with British PM Neville Chamberlains claim of “peace in our time” after a visit with Hitler. It is wishful thinking or worse. It is the deliberate effort to ignore the dangers in the world. |
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| The Class Warfare Toxin Nita Ghei Wall Street might no longer be “occupied,” but the toxin of class warfare that fueled the movement continues to spread. According to a new Pew Research Center survey, about two-thirds of Americans believe strong conflicts exist between the rich and the poor. |
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| White House So Eager to Blame
Everything on the GOP It Confuses House with Senate Over Recess Appointments The White House seemed confused over which chamber it is dealing with when it comes to the controversial recess appointments President Obama made last week. Twice on Thursday – in a Twitter message and again in the daily press briefing – officials pointed to the GOP controlled House being out of session. Can a Nonexistent Congress Issue $1.2 Trillion in Debt? Daniel Horowitz Here's the question: If Congress is in recess and cannot fulfill its responsibility to advice and consent, as the President has suggested, how can Obama fulfill his obligation of submitting a certification to Congress? The Budge Control Act requires the following of Obama: |
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| GALLUP: Conservatives Remain the
Largest Ideological Group in U.S. Political ideology in the U.S. held steady in 2011, with 40% of Americans continuing to describe their views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal. This marks the third straight year that conservatives have outnumbered moderates, after more than a decade in which moderates mainly tied or outnumbered conservatives. |
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| What Really Happened In Gaffney, S.
Carolina? John Hinderaker The Left is carrying out a coordinated attack on Mitt Romney's business career. One sees exactly the same allegations, often phrased identically, whether you look at the Daily Kos, the AP, Slate or Think Progress, or listen to Newt Gingrich or Rick Perry. The centerpiece of the Left's attack has been Bain's involvement with two companies that merged to become Holson Burnes Group, Inc. |
What Is Private Equity All About, Anyway? |
| War Against Chlorine Claims More
Victims – Deadly Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak Blamed on Non-Chlorinated
Water Wash Steve Milloy "FDA officials emphasized to Committee staff that the new processing equipment and the decision to use a packing and washing technique involving non-chlorinated water were two probable causes of the outbreak. Both of these significant changes were implemented at the packing facility in 2011." –House Energy and Commerce Report |
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| Top 10 Obama Revelations Human Events New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor’s new book, The Obamas, is chock-full of revelations about the First Couple. To save you the time of reading (and the cost of buying) Kantor’s account, we have compiled the Top 10 Obama Revelations that are contained in the book. |
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 Does Michelle Obama secretly hope
her husband will be kicked out of the White House? Toby Harnden Most political wives would give their right arm to be chatelaine of America's most famous building. But Michelle was far from enamored with the prospect of moving to the White House. In fact, she was considering living in Chicago with their daughters Sasha and Malia for six months, commuting to Washington for occasional official duties. |
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| Book Depicts Cranky Obama On
Baghdad Visit Obama "didn't want to take pictures with any more soldiers" Michael Hastings' new book, The Operators, jabs at what could be a vulnerable spot for the Obama Administration, the president's relationship with the troops. The book describes a visit to Baghdad: "These are people over here who've been fighting the war, or working every day for the war effort, and he didn't want to take f***ing pictures with them?" |
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| Stop Online Piracy Act and
PROTECT-IP: A Line-By-Line Analysis of the Bills We Must Kill Bill Reader The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a.k.a. H.R. 3261, is an extremely polarizing proposal to change the way that U.S. copyright enforcement works on the web. The supposed goal of SOPA and its sister bill in the Senate, PROTECT IP, is to help protect U.S. copyrights from foreign trespass. Yet the bills could grant powers well beyond those goals to both copyright holders and to the U.S. government. |
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| Love4Utah – A conservative
political star rises in … Utah William A. Jacobson If you haven't heard of Ludmya "Mia" B. Love before, you will be hearing a lot more about her. Mia has the potential to be the next big thing in conservative politics. Mia is the American-born daughter of Haitian immigrants, mother of three children, served on the PTA, city council and now is Mayor of Sarotoga Springs, Utah. |
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| Winegate: Red Wine Health
Researcher Falsified Data [And they want us to believe in Global Warming!?] An extensive misconduct investigation that took three years to complete and produced a 60,000-page report, concludes that a researcher who has come to prominence in recent years for his investigations into the beneficial properties of resveratrol, a compound found in red wine, "is guilty of 145 counts of fabrication and falsification of data". |
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| 'Gay people should get the death
penalty' Five UK Muslims Charged with Homophobic Hate Crimes "The essence of this case will come down to this – an allegation of a hate crime, that these five defendants were part of a small group of men who distributed horrible, threatening literature, with quotations from religious sources and with pictures on them, which were designed to stir up hatred and hostility against homosexual people." |
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| In Massachusetts it's the Crime
Victim that Takes a Hit Michael Graham Instead of thanking Anthony McKay for helping get an armed criminal off the streets, Swampscott [Mass.] officials charged him with a felony. As a Swampscott police spokesman said at the time, "We don't urge anybody to fight back. We want them to call us." |
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| Judicial Activism and
the Rule of Law Jonathan Kinlay A judicial branch that is largely unaccountable and not subject to checks and balances can – and does – routinely issue constitutional rulings that threaten individual liberties, compromise national security, undermine American culture and ignore the consent of the governed. |
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| By His Fruits Ye Shall
Know Him: Obama's Subversive Appointments Jesse Weed Forget the soaring rhetoric, and forget the imbroglios with Congress. Forget the blaming, the admonishing, the extolling, the visionary promises of a greater future for America under Obama's guidance. In fact, forget Obama's mouth – it's his feet that count. The talk he talks is not the walk he walks. |
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| Few Economists Can Call Obama's
Performance 'Good' The AP surveyed 36 top experts on money and markets from across the political spectrum last week. Just half of the 36 rated the President's policies as "fair"; more than a third called them "poor." Only five, 13%, described Obamanomics as "good," and none dared call it "excellent." |
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| Fudging the Numbers: Real Jobless
Rate Is 11.4% with Realistic Labor Force Participation Rate Tyler Durden One does not need to be a rocket scientist to grasp the fudging the BLS has been doing every month for years now in order to bring the unemployment rate lower: the BLS constantly lowers the labor force participation rate as more and more people "drop out" of the labor force for one reason or another. |
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| President Barack Obama's Complete List of Historic Firsts [Updated] Doug Ross |
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| It's the Math, Stupid!: Seven Devastating Facts About 2012 Wynton Hall These are not partisan jabs, manufactured statistics, or ideological swipes. These are mathematical facts. And the presidential candidate who can most clearly and credibly articulate them – and their concomitant solutions – is bound to win. |
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| Report: Kodak May File for
Bankruptcy The ailing photography pioneer's shares fell to a new all-time low after the Wall Street Journal reported that Kodak is preparing for a Chapter 11 filing "in the coming weeks" should it fail to sell a trove of 1,100 digital-imaging patents. Analysts have said the patents could fetch $2 billion to $3 billion, but no takers have emerged since Kodak started shopping them around in July. |
Another loser on Barack's "jobs" council |
| The White House Is Wrong – The Senate Conducted Business During Its 'Recess' Hans von Spakovsky The Senate unquestionably conducted actual business during at least one of its supposedly pro forma sessions. This simple fact makes President Obama's actions even more indefensible. The president's ends don't justify his means. Politics should not trump the principle that we – and particularly the president – operate under the rule of law and the bounds of the Constitution. Cordray and NLRB Appointments Unconstitutional Brian Darling The Senate actually conducted some very important business during one of the "pro-forma" sessions the White House has called a "gimmick": On Dec. 23, it passed the payroll tax extension that caused such a political uproar in Washington. Obama's Recess Appointments: An Impeachable Offense? Investor's Business Daily Some may say these are small-potato government jobs not worth a big confrontation. But if a president can trample the Constitution on these appointments, the door opens for similar abuses of power with Cabinet secretaries and judicial nominations. As [Speaker] Boehner warned, "The precedent that would be set by this cavalier action would have a devastating effect on the checks and balances that are enshrined in our Constitution." |
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| Obama's 2012 slogan: 'Can't work
with others' Debra J. Saunders  President
Obama is running for re-election with an unusual pitch: He can't work
with others. He only gets along with yes-men. "I refuse to take no for
an answer," Obama said Wednesday of his decision to make a "recess"
appointment that placed Richard Cordray as head of a new Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau. |
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| Shut Off of Power Planned for Solar
Materials Company for Non-Payment of $1.9M in Utility Bills Idaho Power plans to cut off electricity on Tuesday to plant in Pocatello, Idaho, that makes material for solar energy, because the factory owes $1.9 million in unpaid utility bills. The dispute is with Honolulu-based Hoku Scientific, Inc., which is backed by Chinese financing and enjoys federal and state incentives. |
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| Calif.: 1,000 MW Solar Project
Doubtful as Parent Files Bankruptcy; Solar Trust Received $2.1 Billion in Federal Loan Guarantees Prospects for the 1,000-megawatt solar plant being built in Blythe look increasingly bleak following the recent bankruptcy filing of German solar developer Solar Millennium. A news release on the company's website said the filing followed its inability to complete the sale of its U.S. solar projects, including two plants planned in Riverside County that are east of the Coachella Valley under Solar Trust of America. |
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| U.S. Taxpayers Lose Another $65M as
Ethanol Plant Folds The Range Fuels fiasco harkens other, failed renewable energy companies that received major taxpayer funding. California solar panel maker Solyndra got $535 million in federal loan guarantees. Beacon Power of Massachusetts, which makes energy-storage equipment, took in $43 million in federal money. Both filed for bankruptcy last year. |
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| Voter ID Prevents Election Fraud Mike Brownfield Unfortunately, despite all the technological advances in our modern democracy, voter fraud still occurs, and yet there is still resistance to one very simple tool that could help eradicate it – voter ID. Some, like The New York Times, say that voting fraud is a myth, that "there is almost no voting fraud in America." |
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| Search Warrant Issued in Vote Fraud
Case Against SEIU Official On Wednesday, Milwaukee Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf issued a search warrant for Florida SEIU organizer Clarence Haynes declaring there is "probable cause that Mr. H [Clarence Haynes] voted without the proper qualifications as an elector when he cast a ballot on April 5, 2011." |
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| Over 1/2 Million Union Workers
Receive Obamacare Wavers Classic Friday Afternoon Document Dump Reveals Documents released in a classic Friday afternoon news dump show that labor unions representing 543,812 workers received waivers from President Barack Obama‘s signature legislation since June 17, 2011. By contrast, private employers with a total of 69,813 employees, many of whom work for small businesses, were granted waivers. |
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| HHS Calls for Health Professionals
to Study ‘LGBT Cultural Competency Curricula’ The Department of Health and Human Services says it is taking action to better address the health care needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, by encouraging, among other things, health profession training programs to "include LGBT cultural competency curricula." |
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| Meet the Academics Who Are Trying
to Redefine Pedophilia as 'intergenerational intimacy' Anne Hendershott While the anger over the recent sex abuse allegations would suggest that the deviant label will remain for pedophilia, the reality remains that powerful advocates with access to university presses will continue their semantic and ideological campaign to define down this form of deviance. |
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| EPA's
Killer MACT Alan Caruba The EPA thrives on scare-mongering to a public that is science-challenged, but the science remains and the EPA must be challenged to save the nation from the loss of the energy it needs to function. It must be challenged to unleash the huge economic benefits of energy resources-coal, oil, and natural gas-that can reverse our present economic decline. |
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| N.H. Debate: ABC Loses Big Time and
Concentrates on ... What? Marc A. Thiessen We’re at war, the economy is in the tank, Iran is building a nuclear weapon, and ABC was obsessed with … contraception and gay marriage. They spent a good 15-20 minutes on those topics, while failing to ask a single question about Obamacare, the debt, entitlement reform, or other several other pressing issues. |
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| Stephanopoulos Struggles with
Fairness During N.H. Debate Matthew Boyle When The Daily Caller asked for the network’s thoughts on Stephanopoulos’ performance during the debate Saturday night, a spokeswoman for ABC News refused to comment. “ABC has no comment,” spokeswoman Michelle Levi said in an email. |
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| Newt hits Romney: ‘Could we drop a
little bit of the pious baloney?’ Jeff Poor “The fact is you ran in ’94 and lost, and that’s why you were not serving with Rick Santorum. The fact is you had a bad re-election rating. You dropped office. You had been out of state for something like 200 days and preparing to run for president. You didn’t have this interlude of citizenship while you thought about what to do," said Gingrich. |
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| GM Deal Moves Electric Car
Development to China – a 'shakedown'? General Motors agreed in Shanghai today to develop an electric vehicle platform with longtime Chinese partner SAIC. It effectively moves GM's future electric vehicle development to China. Unclear is whether this would also lead to assembly of future EVs for the U.S. market in China. GM Vice Chairman Steve Girsky hinted that the Volt could eventually be built in China.  Congressman & Chevy Dealer Introduces Bill to End EV Tax Credit Republican Congressman Mike Kelly introduced H.R. 3768, legislation that would repeal the $7,500 tax credit for plug-in electric drive vehicles. The odd thing is: Kelly is owner of Kelly Chevrolet-Cadillac in Butler, PA. The not so odd thing is: He knows firsthand whether the car is worth tax payer money or not. Kelly does not think so. GM to Call Back All 8,000 Chevy Volts Sold in 2 Years GM will ask Volt owners to return the cars to dealers for structural modifications, said the person, who did not want to be identified because GM executives plan to announce the repairs later Thursday. The fixes are similar to a recall and involve about 8,000 Volts sold in the U.S. in the past two years. |
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| Obama Steals Power Wayne LaPierre Obama routinely brags about circumventing Congress. "We can't wait for a dysfunctional Congress to do its job. When they won't act, I will. I've told my administration to keep looking every single day for actions we can take without Congress." |
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| Americans Buy Record Numbers of
Guns for Christmas According to the FBI, over 1.5 million background checks on customers were requested by gun dealers to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System in December. Nearly 500,000 of those were in the six days before Christmas. It was the highest number ever in a single month, surpassing the previous record set in November. |
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| Nation Needs Right-To-Carry
Reciprocity Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) and Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL) As elected officials in Congress, we take seriously our oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the liberties and rights afforded to American citizens. This includes the Second Amendment, and we believe the bureaucratic, piecemeal right-to-carry reciprocity system in our nation threatens the ability of law-abiding American citizens to exercise this vital constitutional right. |
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| Mother with a Gun Rich Lowry To say she was on her own would probably exaggerate her sense of connectedness, by herself, tending to her infant, after her husband had died of lung cancer on Christmas Day. This is the stuff of nightmares. But McKinley never lost her cool. |
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| Muslim Brotherhood Assures U.S.
State Department it Won't Break Israel Treaty "We have had other assurances from the party with regard to their commitment not only to universal human rights, but to the international obligations that the Government of Egypt has undertaken," State Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland said in a briefing. Apparently unaware of Taqiyya, the Islamic Principle of Lying for the Sake of Allah. |
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| Soros Investments Back Brazilian
Aircraft for USAF, American Beechcraft Competitor Shut Out Along with 1,400 Jobs Doug Ross  What intrigues me is the Brazilian company Embraer, the likely contract winner, is currently under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Justice Department, for possible violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. |
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| Incredible: Government Vastly
Overstating Immigration Enforcement; Data Withheld by Obama Administration for 2 Years Andrew C. McCarthy According to TRAC, Syracuse's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has overstated the number of immigration law violators apprehended by a 5:1 ratio. And that's the good news. Deportations were overstated by 24:1 and detentions by 34:1. |
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| Abortion Doctor Charged with
Murdering Five ‘viable’ Fetuses Prosecutors in Cecil County, Md. allege that Dr. Steven Brigham delivered lethal injections to five late-term fetuses at his clinic in Voorhees, N.J. and then extracted them in another clinic in Elkton, Md. Authorities allege that Brigham, who runs a chain of abortion centers in five states, approached late-term abortions this way because New Jersey has stricter laws about who may provide outpatient surgeries. |
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| Bill Ayers Apostle Appointed White
House Education Initiative Director Kyle Olson Jose Rico has been named the new director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, a key position that could help close the achievement gap between white and minority students. But if his history is any indication, his influence may do more harm than good. |
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| Liberal Think Tank Slammed for
Anti-Semitism The American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League weighed in last week on the mushrooming anti-Israel scandal surrounding a group of bloggers working for the U.S. think tank Center for American Progress (CAP). CAP, which has an estimated annual budget of $38 million, formulates policy suggestions about the Middle East for the Democratic party and politicians. |
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| The Tolerant Left in Action: Gaystapo Attacks Gay Republicans in Iowa Kevin DeJan The "gay community" yowls so loudly about discrimination as cover for the hate-fueled attacks gays launch on a daily basis against Christians, conservatives, and Republicans; it is a classic and effective strategy because the "gay community" gets to do to others all the things it claims are being done to them and no one in conservative ranks is brave enough to call them out on the hypocrisy. |
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| The Roots of Liberalism
and Conservatism Paul Shlichta [...] liberals believe that the common herd needs shepherds to guide it. This is in keeping with the doctrines of evolutism; some of us will be more evolved than the rest and will be the fittest leaders. Therefore, despite constant professions of universal equality, liberalism is essentially elitist and tends, as Djilas pointed out, to produce a class system of its own. |
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| Pew
Poll: Liberal Democrats Twice as Likely to Favor Socialism as Americans in General Based on this survey, 59% of liberal Democrats consider "socialism" a positive compared to just 31% of the population as a whole. Since that 31% includes liberal Democrats as part of the total, the percentage would be even lower if they were removed from consideration. |
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| Throw 'Em All Out...And
Good Riddance! J.R. Dunn Crony capitalism is the most serious current danger to the American community, a threat not simply to government or the economy, but to our very way of life... If it's not explicitly forbidden, then it's allowed. So Congress, both houses, along with the bureaucracies, and the little layers of government all the way down to Yourtown, are populated by relentless loophole miners. |
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| Despite Pressure Obama
Still Clings to MF Global Campaign Funds President Obama is trying to put some distance between himself and the wreckage of bankrupt brokerage MF Global. But not too much distance. After returning more than $70,000 to Jon Corzine, the CEO who led MF Global into bankruptcy, the president's re-election organizations are still hanging onto nearly $150,000 connected to the firm. |
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| Washington Post
– Solyndra Docs: Politics Infused Energy Programs Meant to create jobs and cut reliance on foreign oil, Obama's green-technology program was infused with politics at every level, The Washington Post found in an analysis of thousands of memos, company records and internal e-mails. Political considerations were raised repeatedly by company investors, Energy Department bureaucrats and White House officials. The Solyndra Scandal: Jobs or Clean Energy Seldom at Issue Abby W. Schachter "This administration is one that will fiercely fight to protect jobs even when it's not the popular thing to do," is the WH response. Only trouble is that with Solyndra, as with the Keystone XL pipeline, as with natural gas development, as with the payroll tax holiday, as with EPA regulations of every industry, this kind of claim is so false it is laughable. Obama Administration Scandals – “Infused With Politics At Every Level” Steven Hayward Keep in mind that the White House has been denying that politics played a role in Solyndra and other decisions. The Washington Post has blown the lid sky high off of this lie. Perhaps we should start a betting pool on whether Stephen Chu or Eric Holder will be the first to go from Obama's cabinet. |
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| The Half-Billion Dollar Green Jobs
Debacle The Independent Office of Inspector General Report Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh It is a false statement to say that there is high demand for “green job-related skills.” The OIG audit recommended that “Employment Training Admin. evaluate the Green Jobs program and obtain a current estimate of the funds each grantee will realistically spend given the current job market and the demand for green job-related skills.” |
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| Major FAIL as Entire Line of 2012
Electric Hybrids Recalled Fisker Automotive is recalling all 239 of its 2012 Karma luxury plug-in hybrid cars because of a fire hazard, according to a report filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Prices on the 2012 model start at $103,000, including the destination charge. |
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| Revealed: Media Colluded to Blame
GOP on Payroll Tax Issue; Obama Was Willing to Let the Tax Cut Expire! Yesterday, on MSNBC, left-wing journalists Chris Hayes of The Nation and Ezra Klein of the Washington Post – no strangers to Democrat-media collusion – revealed that they had been part of an off-the-record White House briefing in which it was made clear that President Barack Obama planned all along to let the temporary payroll tax holiday expire, and then blame Republicans. Media Libs Nearly Choke on Full Disclosure MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell and Ed Schultz, two of the most virulent liberals pretending to be journalists, first tear into GOP presidential nominee hopeful Mitt Romney for his work as CEO of Bain Capital and then – only because those pesky lawyers made them do it – they had to reveal the financial ties MSNBC has to Bain Capital through their ownership of The Weather Channel. A "great moments in television" excerpt lasting about 30 seconds.  Media Abet Obama's Aloofness on Tough Issues Richard Benedetto Over the past five months, the Republican presidential candidates participated in 13 debates where they fielded dozens of penetrating questions on every major issue facing the nation, and some not so major. Yet, during all that time, the man they hope to defeat next November has rarely been asked by news reporters about many of these issues. |
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| The Year in Obama Scandals – and
Scandal Deniers Michelle Malkin With 2011 drawing to a close, it is time to account. As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snow blowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal. |
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| — EPA Tyranny — Kansas Utility: New EPA Rules Will Raise Rates Considerably; Short Compliance Deadline May Cause Rolling Blackouts New federal rules to clean up coal-fired power plants are so voluminous that Westar Energy hasn't even read them all yet. But one thing is certain: The cost of improving air quality will find its way to your utility bill in the form of higher prices for electricity. Kentucky Utility: EPA Mercury Rules to Cost it $100 Million "The real impact will be on the O&M" – operations and maintenance – "side of the business," according to Bill Blackburn, Big Rivers Electric Corp's senior vice president of finance and energy services as well as its chief financial officer. Until the costs of operating and maintaining the new pollution controls are known, "We just can't tell what that rate impact will be" to homes and businesses. EPA Mercury Rules for Electricity Generating Units: Imaginary Benefits, Extensive Harm Craig Rucker In Dr. Willie Soon's 85-page critique of EPA's draft rules, U.S. power plants account for only 0.5% of the mercury in U.S. air. Thus, even if EPA's new rules eventually do eliminate 90% of mercury from power plant emission streams, that's still only 90% of 0.5% – ie, almost zero benefit. The rest of the mercury in US air comes from natural and foreign sources, such as forest fires, Chinese power plants and the cremation of human remains. Insidiousness of the I-95 – Washington/New York Oligarchy MF Global Chief Officer is Financial Adviser to EPA It's unclear how Mr. Abelow landed the chairmanship of the EPA financial panel, a position he noted in his biography on the MF Global website, which has since been removed. He has ties to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson through former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine. Each served at different times as the governor's chief of staff. |
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| CFL Bulbs a Known Fire Hazard After
They Stop Working [If Republicans had pushed these CFLs, wouldn't the Dems be howling now?] Compact fluorescent lamps are a fire hazard that could burn down your home, experts have warned. The lamps use electricity to heat an element in the lamp's base that leads the mercury vapor gas in the coils to emit light. But when a CFL can no longer produce light, the electronics in its base will still try to function, sometimes leading to overheating, smoke and fire. |
Official EPA bulb cleanup instructions |
| Shale Gas Puts Some Energy
Independence Within Reach for U.S. It may surprise many, but in less than a decade, the U.S. could pass its 1970s peak as an oil and natural gas producer. If that happens – and many analysts think it's possible – the U.S. would edge past Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world's top energy producer. |
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| Federal Judge Blocks California
Low-Carbon Fuels Rule A federal judge moved today to block California from enforcing its first-in-the-nation mandate for cleaner, low-carbon fuels, saying the rules favor biofuels produced in the state. Judge O'Neill's written ruling said the low-carbon fuel rules violated the U.S. Constitution's commerce clause by discriminating against crude oil and biofuels producers located outside California. Congress Ends Corn Ethanol Subsidy Congress adjourned for the year on Friday, failing to extend the tax break that's drawn a wide variety of critics on Capitol Hill. The policies have helped shift millions of tons of corn from feedlots, dinner tables and other products into gas tanks. |
Solution? BioFuel Companies switch to BioChem Companies |
| Obama’s National Security ‘Not Top
10? of 2011 Making the Carter Administration Look Brilliant! Patrick Poole As I was preparing this “Not Top 10? list, I remembered the foreign policy catastrophe that was Jimmy Carter and 1979. But this sampling of Obama’s “Not Top 10? – taken from a list of more than three dozen items – bodes ill for the Obama administration’s actions in 2012. We may long for the heady days of Carter. |
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| Federal Judge Sides with La Raza
Against Arizona Sheriff Arpaio Antonio Bustamante, a civil-rights attorney and director of Los Abogados, Arizona's Hispanic Bar Association, said federal Judge Murray Snow's ruling Friday is "monumentally important" because it confirms that officers are not authorized to pull anyone over if they think they are in the country illegally. |
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| Gingrich is Right Congress Can Contest Constitutional Interpretation with the Judiciary Steven W. Fitschen If you're a political junkie, you've got to love a presidential candidate who lights the fire Newt Gingrich has lit. Or at least you have to love the fire. Impeach judges? Subpoena them? Arrest them? Zany, zany, zany Newt. Or is that correct, correct, correct Newt? |
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| Voter ID Terrifies Democrats Robert Knight The most consequential election in our lifetime is still 10 months away, but it’s clear from the Obama administration’s order halting South Carolina’s new photo ID law that the Democrats already have brought a gun to a knife fight. How else to describe this naked assault on the right of a state to create minimal requirements to curb voter fraud? Holder's Racial Politics Could His Voter ID Challenge Spell the End to Rights Act of '65? Wall Street Journal As African-American men at the most exalted reaches of government, Messrs. Obama and Holder are a testament to how much racial progress the country has made. It's a shame to see them pretending little has changed so they can scare up some votes. |
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| Virginia Attorney General
Intervenes in GOP Primary Ballot Dispute AG Ken Cuccinelli's proposal is expected to state that if the Virginia Board of Elections certifies that a candidate is receiving federal matching funds, or has qualified to receive them, that candidate will upon request be automatically added to the ballot. |
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| U.S. Communist Leader: 'Progressive
Change Is Closer than We Think' Trevor Loudon In a Christmas break message to his party, Communist Party USA vice chair Jarvis Tyner has confirmed the vital importance of the build up to the 2012 elections to "set the stage for a new progressive era and for a socialist transformation." Tyner draws clear right/left battle lines and the communist's commitment to Party 'friend' President Barack Obama and to the Democratic Party cause. |
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| Virginia Elementary School
Indoctrinating Third-Graders With Occupy Sing-Along Weasel Zippers A sing-along pamphlet is being used at the Woodbrook Elementary School in Charlottesville, Virginia: “They Want More Money, They’re the 1%. . . I’m Happy to be Part of the 99%”…Academia indoctrinating college students is bad enough, but to have third-graders sing about class warfare and rail against the one percent is evil and a violation of the trust parents put in them. |
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More and More Women Embracing Gun
Ownership More
women than ever are picking up rifles, shotguns, and handguns. And
target shooting is one of the fastest-growing female sports. Female
participation in target shooting in the U.S. has nearly doubled in the
last decade, growing to nearly five million women since 2001.A Hot Trend: Concealed Carry Licensing Elisabeth Meinecke “The biggest surprise about my customers, usually black males age 35 to 50, is the disconnect between firearms ownership and political affiliation,” Ector tells Townhall. “They are overwhelmingly liberal Democrats who are unaware of the fact that, in general, liberals are anti-gun. With respect to politics, the ‘gun question’ is not relevant or not discussed. |
1 in 4 women carry feminine protection |
| The Case for Gingrich’s Electability Jeffrey H. Anderson Because of the nature of the electoral map this time around, the key to victory won’t be whether Republicans can win in Democratic territory but whether Obama can, once again, win in Republican territory. In that vein, the election will likely come down to whether the Republican nominee can hold three mildly GOP-leaning states: Florida, Ohio, and Virginia. |
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| Planned Parenthood Annual Report: $1B Group Gets 46% from U.S. Taxpayers Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) has released its new annual report and the figures show the abortion business continues to make money despite its status as a nonprofit organization – and it receives almost half of its income from taxpayer dollars. The report indicates PPFA had a total budget of $1.04 billion and an excess of revenue over expenses of 18.5 million dollars – a net profit. |
Two Abortion Doctors Charged with Murder |
| Former Democrat Office Holders Find
Switching to the Republican Party Not An Easy Task in Alabama Artur Davis caused a splash recently by speaking out in favor of a voter ID law. Given that the Democratic Party regards such laws as an attempt to disenfranchise black voters, having an African-American former Democratic congressman espouse that view wasn’t exactly helpful to the party’s cause. |
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| U.S. Releases $40 million to
Palestinian Authority The Associated Press reported Thursday that congressional lawmakers released the funds, which amount to 20 percent of the $187 million in foreign assistance from fiscal year 2011 that was held up by Congress in response to the Palestinians' actions at the United Nations. |
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| Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Vows Not
To Recognize Israel Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood will not recognize Israel "under any circumstance," the party's deputy leader Dr Rashad Bayoumi told Arabic daily al-Hayat in an interview published Sunday. Bayoumi also said that The Muslim Brotherhood would take legal procedures towards cancelling the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel that was signed in 1979. |
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| The Santa Killer Was a Religion of
Peacer Doug Giles Yep, if you belong to that lovely creed, you can snap on Christmas and execute your entire clan or burn down a famous college, and the media won’t say shizzle about your faith or your motivation for mayhem. Sa-weet, eh, mass murderers? |
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| Palestinians Launch Mortars Banned
by International Law from Gaza The mortar attack follows an Israeli air strike on Palestinian terrorists attempting to fire rockets into Israel on Friday. The IDF confirmed that the Israel Air Force killed one in the attack and and injured five. Palestinian sources identified the deceased as Muaman Abu Daf, commander of the al-Qaida-affiliated 'Army of Islam.' |
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