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  • The Senate: A Refuge for Cowards

    February 26, 2010

    • Bill Maher recently told Larry King that the Senate is where "legislation goes to die." Well, not this time. Wednesday night, after all the cameras were gone and  the Senate was filled just with senators, a voice vote was taken sans debate and a resolution passed that extends provisions of the USA Patriot Act, which were scheduled to sunset on Sunday, for another year. The Democrats ...
  • Climategate: Todd Stern of the US State Department pushes forward on AGW agenda

    February 19, 2010

    • Todd Stern, a climate negotiator during Bill Clinton’s presidency and more recently a fellow at the Center for American Progress, will assume the role of special envoy for climate change at the State Department. “We have no shortage of evidence that our world is facing a climate crisis,” said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the appointment of special envoy ceremony, who went on to ...
  • Barack Obama's second year - More 153 & 411 moments

    January 21, 2010

    • "Obama has cut the remembering-what-we-don't-like-about-Democrats stage of this process down from two to four years to about 10 months. Folks, I'm convinced that if we all work really hard, we can get it down to three months." - Ann Coulter, from "That Old Obama Magic Is Back" 1-20-2010 - Image Credit: Organizing For America Barack Obama's second year - More 153 & 411 ...
  • A speedbump down the ruination road of Carter's Second Term

    January 20, 2010

    •   All the leftist talking heads are saying double down on health care after Scott Brown won Massachusetts.  We now know that many moderate Democrats aren’t going to listen to that advice and are considering picking up their chips before they lose it all. It’s time for the Democrats to choose if they are going to listen to pundits or the people. Congressmen in the fly over states ...
  • Obama to three-peat in defeat - Trip to Massachusetts, Sunday

    January 16, 2010

    • State Senator Scott Brown has led the fight in Massachusetts against asteful government spending and higher taxes. He is a free-market dvocate who believes our strength as a nation flows from its people. e believes in a culture of family, patriotism and freedom. At his eptember 12 announcement of candidacy for the U.S. Senate, Senator rown articulated a core set of beliefs that guide his ...
  • Too Soon to Fail?

    January 14, 2010

    • There's been a lot of talk about banks being "too big to fail" lately. And, as the one year anniversary of Obama's inauguration approaches, there's been lots of controversy about what he has, and has not, accomplished. Many would prefer to focus on the bad news, and fairly. After all, health care reform that was promised during the 2008 campaign should it pass would itself require reform. As ...
  • Obama Administration diverts CIA resources to AGW Scientists

    January 9, 2010

    • Obama Administration diverts CIA resources to AGW Scientists Acting CIA Director, Leon Panetta, has directed the CIA to share data collection assets, time, and classified information with about 60 select scientists. The National Reconnaissance Office, which operates the nation’s fleet of spy satellites, is providing much of the data. Former Vice President Al Gore is credited ...
  • A New Decade, and Time for a Peace Budget

    January 1, 2010

    • I've never been one for New Year's resolutions maybe because they usually end on New Year's Eve, but last night under the electric blue moon it occurred to me that a nation can have resolutions, too. So, for this new year, America's resolution might be to take some of the egregious money now spent on making war, and mark it for peaceful enterprises instead. When you consider that, just last ...
  • Media Watch: Welcome to 2010 ... NOT the beginning of a new decade

    January 1, 2010

    • JournalisN'T ... Photo taken at a Tea Party Patriots gathering - Organized by the Pasadena Patriots, Tea Party Patriots from all over Southern California on Tuesday afternoon December 29th, celebrated an incredibly successful 2009 and gathered to get ready for the exciting 2010 year ahead. We gathered at Riley's Farm in Oak Glen at 3p for fireside fellowship, hot cider, and Holiday cheer. The ...
  • Decriminalize Political Speech

    December 27, 2009

    • In February, the Supreme Court will hear on appeal what many consider to be among the most important cases that speaks to the constitutionality of political speech in recent times, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project. And, in light of the failed attempt to blow up a Northwest jetliner heading from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas day, it will be a test of the strength of the Bill of Rights, ...