My Way News - Sen. McCain offers $300 million prize for new auto battery

John McCain continues to display a stunning lack of understanding of how the free market works.  Let me help him out.

Senator McCain, the real prize for any person/company who develops the battery you suggest will be a global market for anyone wishing to purchase a long distance electric car.  In the event that market truly exists, $300 million will be an insultingly paltry amount.  The market place will provide a reward hundreds of times larger.

My Way News - Sen. McCain offers $300 million prize for new auto battery

Sen. McCain offers $300 million prize for new auto battery

Jun 23, 9:18 AM (ET)
By GLEN JOHNSON

PHOENIX (AP) - John McCain hopes to solve the country's energy crisis with cold hard cash.

The presumed Republican nominee is proposing a $300 million government prize to whoever can develop an automobile battery that far surpasses existing technology. The bounty would equate to $1 for every man, woman and child in the country, "a small price to pay for helping to break the back of our oil dependency," McCain said in remarks prepared for delivery Monday at Fresno State University in California.

American Murder Mystery

Unintended consequences of an ever-changing governmental anti-poverty program.  Why am I not suprised.

American Murder Mystery

About six months ago, they decided to put a hunch to the test. Janikowski merged his computer map of crime patterns with Betts’s map of Section8 rentals. Where Janikowski saw a bunny rabbit, Betts saw a sideways horseshoe (“He has a better imagination,” she said). Otherwise, the match was near-perfect. On the merged map, dense violent-crime areas are shaded dark blue, and Section8 addresses are represented by little red dots. All of the dark-blue areas are covered in little red dots, like bursts of gunfire. The rest of the city has almost no dots.

We'll Rue Having Judges on the Battlefield - WSJ.com

The insanity of the SCOTUS continues. 

We'll Rue Having Judges on the Battlefield - WSJ.com

The situation is entirely different when the nation faces an external threat. In fighting an enemy, there is no reason for the judicial branch to "check" the political branches. The idea of our judiciary protecting the "rights" of the Nazis or the Viet Cong from executive overreaching is every bit as absurd as it sounds. But had Boumediene been decided in 1940, more than 400,000 Axis troops held in more than 500 military facilities in this country during World War II would have had a right to challenge their detention in federal court.

State denies cancer treatment, offers suicide instead

The future under state run and provided universal health care.

State denies cancer treatment, offers suicide instead

State denies cancer treatment, offers suicide instead 'To say, we'll pay for you to die, but not pay for you to live, it's cruel'

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Posted: June 19, 2008
11:15 pm Eastern
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

State officials have offered a lung cancer patient the option of having the Oregon Health Plan, set up in 1994 to ration health care, pay for an assisted suicide but not for the chemotherapy prescribed by her physician.

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Reporting for Duty -- Not

Why is it that the MSM is only interested in the job our soldiers are doing when they are dying and not when they are creating success?

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Reporting for Duty -- Not

Reporting for Duty -- Not

By Debra Saunders

Iraq isn't the big story this month. Gas prices are. In May, the Associated Press reported, U.S. military deaths plunged to the lowest monthly level in four years and civilian casualties were down sharply, too. Gasoline also hit $4 a gallon. And you don't see as many "No war for oil" bumper stickers as you used to.

Flooding puts Cedar Rapids, much of Iowa under water

Flooding puts Cedar Rapids, much of Iowa under water

Flooding puts Cedar Rapids, much of Iowa under water

BY LARRY McSHANE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Saturday, June 14th 2008, 4:00 AM

Olson/Getty

Downtown Cedar Rapis, Iowa, looks more like Venice as floodwaters engulf the state's second-largest city.

Ohio judge: State must change lethal injection law - USATODAY.com

Why is it that leftist Judges can so easily picture a murderer like Che and the Democrat nominee Obama as people worthy of equal wall space in their offices??

Ohio judge: State must change lethal injection law - USATODAY.com

Flood evacuations ordered along Iowa's Cedar River - Yahoo! News

Wow!  We made national news!  How about that.

Flood evacuations ordered along Iowa's Cedar River - Yahoo! News

 

In Vinton, electricity was cut Wednesday morning when rising water affected the city's municipal power plant, said Steve Meyer, the assistant emergency operations center manager. He said a 15-block area near the river had already been evacuated.

FT.com / In depth - McCain vows to restrain big business

Yep John, you're doing everything you can to get my vote . . . . .

The Republicans have no idea how bad they are going to get hammered this Fall, no idea at all.

FT.com / In depth - McCain vows to restrain big business

McCain vows to restrain big business

By Andrew Ward in Washington

Published: June 10 2008 21:52 | Last updated: June 10 2008 21:52

John McCain on Tuesday promised a clampdown on corporate malpractice if elected president and vowed to give shareholders a veto over executive pay.

The Republican presidential candidate said government had become beholden to big business and too forgiving of corporate abuses.

“For too long, government has been the voice of big business,” he told a small-business conference in Washington. “Even when very large businesses violate their trust, they seem to be held to a different standard – getting away with conduct that would leave any small-business owner broke.”

Officials say areas will see water levels above 1993 records | DesMoinesRegister.com | The Des Moines Register

This is our life today.  Our small town of Vinton is simply overrun with water, no electricity, no phone service.  And, more rain as I post with torrential rains predicted for the next to the weekend.  Going to be a long couple of days.

Officials say areas will see water levels above 1993 records | DesMoinesRegister.com | The Des Moines Register

Officials say areas will see water levels above 1993 records

By WILLIAM PETROSKI and MOLLY HOTTLE • bpetroski@dmreg.com • June 11, 2008

The swelling Iowa and Cedar rivers delivered disasters across northeast Iowa.
Evacuations, water damage, closed highways and submerged downtowns dominated the day on Tuesday in cities such as Waterloo, Cedar Falls, Cedar Rapids, Coralville and Iowa City.
The rivers streamed into smaller towns of Decorah, Elkader, Nashua, New Hartford, Palo, Washburn and Waverly, causing more damage and frustration.
Water began to come over the Coralville Reservoir spillway around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, said Kate Soska, a park ranger at Coralville Lake.

Newsmax.com - Iran Says West Fails to Stop Nuclear Advances

Is Obama even listening???

Newsmax.com - Iran Says West Fails to Stop Nuclear Advances

Iran Says West Fails to Stop Nuclear Advances

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 8:37 AM

Western pressure has failed to stop Iran's nuclear program from advancing, its president said on Wednesday, a day after the United States and the European Union warned of more sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad voiced defiance just a few days before EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana is expected to travel to Tehran to offer economic and other benefits to Iran if it gives up sensitive atomic work.

The American Spectator

If we elect Obama we will finally saved??  Does he remember LBJ?

The American Spectator

 

Political Hay
LBJ’s List and the Conservative Challenge
By Jeffrey Lord
Published 6/10/2008 12:08:31 AM

Somewhere, Lyndon B. Johnson is insulted.
Claiming victory in the race for the Democrats' nomination, Senator Barack Obama said this:
"Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal..."
Excuse me? You mean all those LBJ Great Society programs didn't provide care for the sick, secure good jobs for the jobless and take care of the environment?

Newsmax.com - Senate Democrats Want Trillions in New Taxes

Tax cuts, we don't need no stinking tax cuts!!

Newsmax.com - Senate Democrats Want Trillions in New Taxes

Senate Democrats Want Trillions in New Taxes

Monday, June 9, 2008 8:30 AM
By: Newsmax Staff

The spending plan approved by the Senate last week fails to extend President Bush’s tax cuts — and could lead to the largest tax increase in U.S. history.

“Make no mistake: This tax hike is gargantuan,” the Investor’s Business Daily states in an editorial.

“Simply by not making Bush’s tax cuts permanent, taxes will rise by a minimum of $2.8 trillion between now and 2018.”

The politics of oil shale - Jun. 6, 2008

Tired of gasoline prices???  Thank a Democrat!

The politics of oil shale - Jun. 6, 2008

The politics of oil shale

Fortune talks to Sens. Orrin Hatch and Wayne Allard about the roadblocks to oil shale production.

By Jon Birger, senior writer

NEW YORK (Fortune) -- You'd think this would be oil shale's moment.

You'd think with gas prices topping $4 and consumers crying uncle, Congress would be moving fast to spur development of a domestic oil resource so vast - 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil shale in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming alone - it could eventually rival the oil fields of Saudi Arabia.

You'd think politicians would be tripping over themselves to arrange photo-ops with Harold Vinegar (whom I profiled in Fortune last November), the brilliant, Brooklyn-born chief scientist at Royal Dutch Shell whose research cracked the code on how to efficiently and cleanly convert oil shale - a rock-like fossil fuel known to geologists as kerogen - into light crude oil.

You'd think all of this, but you'd be wrong.

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan - Pakistan to ask EU to amend laws on freedom of expression

Submit or else.  Yep, the Religion of Peace.

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan - Pakistan to ask EU to amend laws on freedom of expression

Pakistan to ask EU to amend laws on freedom of expression

By Tahir Niaz
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will ask the European Union countries to amend laws regarding freedom of expression in order to prevent offensive incidents such as the printing of blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) and the production of an anti-Islam film by a Dutch legislator, sources in the Interior Ministry told Daily Times on Saturday.
They said that a six-member high-level delegation comprising officials from the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Law would leave Islamabad on Sunday (today) for the EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium and explain to the EU leadership the backlash against the blasphemous campaign in the name of freedom of expression.
The delegation, headed by an additional secretary of the Interior Ministry, will meet the leaders of the EU countries in a bid to convince them that the recent attack on the Danish Embassy in Pakistan could be a reaction against the blasphemous campaign, sources said.

lgf: At the Official Obama Site: 57 Flavors of Crazy

These are the people who support Obama are are represented on his website.  Is this the change America really wants??

lgf: At the Official Obama Site: 57 Flavors of Crazy

At the Official Obama Site: 57 Flavors of Crazy

Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 6:24:20 pm PST

Some more “interesting” blogs at the official Barack Obama campaign web site:

Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY

Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | Mishal Al-Johar’s Blog: How Barack Obama Learned to Love Israel

Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | Socialists for Obama: An open letter to our next president Barack Obama

Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | Marxists/Socialists/Communists for Obama

Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | ZIONISM IS THE MAIN CAUSE OF ANTISEMITISM

Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | The People of Palestine Need a Bill of Rights too ...: The Israel Lobby: Bad for The World

Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | Joe Ruwe’s Blog: Haiku for Dick Cheney

Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | Why does Sen. Obama have to deny his culture to be popular in the U.S.?: Aren’t the Nation of Islam Followers American too?

Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | miracle blog: Louis Farrakhan, Barack Obama and America

Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | Abdur-Rahim Kashif’s Blog: Vice President Keith Ellison

Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | Wilma’s Blog: Hillary is not a monster; She is a powerful Illuminist Witch!

Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | Peace Class K-12

Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | Maulayna Bilal’s Blog: Why shouldn’t Iran have nuclear weapons?

Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | Ripples of Hope - In Memory of RFK: Whom Among Whitey Will Vote for Obama?

Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | Akido Busandi’s Blog: May God Have Mercy on Apostates

John McCain, Prisoner of War: A First-Person Account - US News and World Report

Take some time, read this.  This is the meaning of torture.  This is the meaning of prisoner abuse.  This is what our enemies do.

John McCain, Prisoner of War: A First-Person Account - US News and World Report

John McCain, Prisoner of War: A First-Person Account

By John S. McCain III, Lieut. Commander, U.S. Navy

By John S. McCain

Posted January 28, 2008

John McCain spent 5½ years in captivity as a POW in North Vietnam. His first-person account of that harrowing ordeal was published in U.S. News in May 1973. Shot down in his Skyhawk dive bomber on Oct. 26, 1967, Navy flier McCain was taken prisoner with fractures in his right leg and both arms. He received minimal care and was kept in wretched conditions that he describes vividly in the U.S. News special report:

Lt. Cmdr. John S. McCain III after his release from captivity in Vietnam.

(Thomas J. O'Halloran for USN&WR/Courtesy Library of Congress)

 

John McCain lies in a hospital bed in Hanoi, North Vietnam, after being taken prisoner of war.

(Francois Chalais)

This story originally appeared in the May 14, 1973, issue of U.S.News & World Report. It was posted online on January 28, 2008.

Obama the naive - Los Angeles Times

Bolton takes Obama to the woodshed.

Obama the naive - Los Angeles Times

Obama the naive

His views on world affairs ignore history and imperil the U.S. and our allies.

By John R. Bolton

Barack Obama's willingness to meet with the leaders of rogue states such as Iran and North Korea "without preconditions" is a naive and dangerous approach to dealing with the hard men who run pariah states. It will be an important and legitimate issue for policy debate during the remainder of the presidential campaign.
Consider his facile observations about President Kennedy's first meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in Vienna in 1961. Obama saw it as a meeting that helped win the Cold War, when in fact it was an embarrassment for the American side. The inexperienced Kennedy performed so poorly that Khrushchev may well have been encouraged to position Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962, thus precipitating one of the Cold War's most dangerous crises.

IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- Obama's Plan To Disarm The U.S.

Obama's plan to destroy our ability to defend ourselves and put us at the mercy of our enemies.

IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- Obama's Plan To Disarm The U.S.

Obama's Plan To Disarm The U.S.

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, June 06, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Defense Policy: In the middle of a war on two fronts, Barack Obama plans to gut the military. He also wants to dismantle our nuclear arsenal. And he wants to keep you in the dark about it.

The Obamatons of the mainstream media have failed to report one of the most chilling campaign promises thus far uttered by the presumptive Democrat nominee for president.

He made it before the Iowa caucus to a left-wing pacifist group that seeks to reallocate defense dollars to welfare programs. The lobbying group, Caucus for Priorities, was so impressed by Obama's anti-military offering that it steered its 10,000 devotees his way.

In a 132-word videotaped pledge (still viewable on YouTube), Obama agreed to hollow out the U.S. military by slashing both conventional and nuclear weapons.

The scope of his planned defense cuts, combined with his angry tone, is breathtaking. He sounds as if the military is the enemy, not the bad guys it's fighting.

 

Thomas Sowell on Election 2008 on National Review Online

Yep, I fully agree. As a conservative, McCain makes me shudder. Obama is the most dangerous candidate in my 40 year political memory. The coming four years will certainly test America's true foundation and strength.

Thomas Sowell on Election 2008 on National Review Online

Painfully Inadequate
Election 2008.
By Thomas Sowell

Now that the two parties have finally selected their presidential candidates, it is time for a sober — if not grim — assessment of where we are.
Not since 1972 have we been presented with two such painfully inadequate candidates. When Election Day came that year, I could not bring myself to vote for either George McGovern or Richard Nixon. I stayed home.

JCPA U.S. Policy-Robert Kennedy’s 1948 Reports from Palestine

An early look at the struggle Israel has faced for 60 years.  Written by the late Bobbie Kennedy.

JCPA U.S. Policy-Robert Kennedy’s 1948 Reports from Palestine

 

Robert Kennedy's 1948 Reports from Palestine

Lenny Ben-David

• In April 1948, one month before Israel declared independence, Robert Kennedy, then 22, traveled to Palestine to report on the conflict for the Boston Post. His four dispatches from the scene were published in June 1948. The newspaper closed in 1956, and for decades the reports were virtually forgotten. 

• "Unfortunately for [the Jews, Jerusalem's water] reservoir is situated in the mountains and it and the whole pipeline are controlled by the Arabs. The British would not let them cut the water off until after May 15th but an Arab told me they would not even do it then. First they would poison it."

• The Arab responsible for the blowing up of the Jewish Agency on March 11, 1948, said "that after the explosion, upon reaching the British post which separated the Jewish section from a small neutral zone set up in the middle of Jerusalem, he was questioned by the British officers in charge. He quite freely admitted what he had done and was given immediate passage with the remark, ‘Nice going.'"

• "The Jews informed the British government that 600 Iraqi troops were going to cross into Palestine from Trans-Jordan by the Allenby Bridge on a certain date and requested the British to take appropriate action to prevent this passage. The troops crossed unmolested....I saw several thousand non-Palestinian Arab troops in Palestine, including many of the famed British-trained and equipped Arab legionnaires of King Abdullah [of Trans-Jordan]. There were also soldiers from Syria, Lebanon, Iraq."

• "The Arabs in command believe that eventually victory must be theirs. It is against all law and nature that this Jewish state should exist. They...promise that if it does become a reality it will never have as neighbors anything but hostile countries, which will continue the fight militarily and economically until victory is achieved."

• "The Jews on the other hand believe that in a few more years, if a Jewish state is formed, it will be the only stabilizing factor remaining in the Near and Middle East. The Arab world is made up of many disgruntled factions which would have been at each other's throats long ago if it had not been for the common war against Zionism."

UAH: Global Temperature Dives in May « Watts Up With That?

No net warming in 20 YEARS!!!  Is anyone listening???  No net warming in 20 YEARS!!!

UAH: Global Temperature Dives in May

3 06 2008

Confirming what many of us have already noted from the anecdotal evidence coming in of a much cooler than normal May, such as late spring snows as far south as Arizona, extended skiing in Colorado, and delays in snow cover melting in many parts of the northern hemisphere, the University of Alabama, Huntsville (UAH) published their satellite derived Advanced Microwave Sounder Unit data set of the Lower Troposphere for May 2008.

Why Obama Must Go to Iraq - WSJ.com

It's simpler than Pete argues.  Obama will, if elected, be these soldiers CIC.  He need to look them in the eye and listen to what his soldiers and commanders have to say, THEN make decisions about his future strategy. 

Why Obama Must Go to Iraq - WSJ.com

Why Obama Must Go to Iraq

By PETE HEGSETH
June 5, 2008

Earlier this year, I spent five days in Iraq, walking the same streets in Baghdad where I had served two years earlier as an infantry platoon leader in the 101st Airborne Division.

The visit reinforced for me not only the immense complexity of the war – so often lost in our domestic political debate – but also the importance of taking the time to visit Iraq to talk with the soldiers and Marines serving on the front lines in order to grasp the changing dynamics of a fluid battlefield.

It is for this reason that the failure of Sen. Barack Obama to travel to Iraq over the past two and a half years is worrisome, and a legitimate issue in this presidential election.

Westhawk: The Bakken oil formation and national security

One more time - why aren't we drilling for our own oil resources again???

Westhawk: The Bakken oil formation and national security

The Bakken oil formation and national security

Yesterday, Bloomberg News published a story about some young oil developers and their rush to bring the Bakken oil formation, located in eastern Montana and western North Dakota, into major production.
The Bakken formation has been a minor producer of crude oil for over a half century. What has increased this formation’s potential is the arrival of mature horizontal drilling technology, now combined with water fractionating recovery techniques. These techniques could turn the Bakken formation from an inconsequential dud into perhaps the largest oil field on the planet.
How large? In an unpublished research paper he wrote while working as a geochemist at the U.S. Geological Survey, Mr. Leigh Price (who died in 2000) calculated a mean estimate of recoverable oil from Bakken at a stupendous 413 billion barrels. This compares to Saudi Arabia’s proven reserves of 267 billion barrels.

Does the Democrat Party truly understand what they are about to do?

William Bennett makes a number of excellent observations about the step the Democrat Party is about to take with Senator Obama.  It's historical.

And thus the Democratic party is about to nominate a far left candidate in the tradition of George McGovern, albeit without McGovern’s military and political record.

Economic View - The Problem With the Corporate Tax - NYTimes.com

I about had a heart attack!!  Is this article truly appearing in the NY Times???  That liberal bastion and hater of all things American??  All I can say is "Wow!"

Economic View - The Problem With the Corporate Tax - NYTimes.com

Lost in this hubbub, however, is a bigger idea that Mr. McCain and his economic team have put forward: a cut in the corporate tax rate, to 25 percent from 35 percent. It is perhaps the best simple recipe for promoting long-run growth in American living standards.

Cutting corporate taxes is not the kind of idea that normally pops up in presidential campaigns. After all, voters aren’t corporations. Why promise goodies for those who can’t put you in office?

Police advise Christian preachers to leave Muslin area of Birmingham - Telegraph

The surrender of Britain continues apace.  Threatened with arrest for passing out Christian material in a Muslim area - read those words again just to let it sink in!

Police advise Christian preachers to leave Muslin area of Birmingham - Telegraph

Christian preachers face arrest in Birmingham

By David Harrison

Last Updated: 9:14AM BST 01/06/2008

A police community support officer ordered two Christian preachers to stop handing out gospel leaflets in a predominantly Muslim area of Birmingham.

RII SCHROER

Warned: Arthur Cunningham [left] and Joseph Abraham

The evangelists say they were threatened with arrest for committing a "hate crime" and were told they risked being beaten up if they returned. The incident will fuel fears that "no-go areas" for Christians are emerging in British towns and cities, as the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, claimed in The Sunday Telegraph this year.

Newsmax.com - French Minister: Iran Continues Nuclear Weapons Program

How can this be??  Iran has assured the world its development program is peaceful.  Yet, here is a NON-Bush clearly stating otherwise.  I am waiting for the world community to spring into action!!

Newsmax.com - French Minister: Iran Continues Nuclear Weapons Program

French Minister: Iran Continues Nuclear Weapons Program

 

SINGAPORE - France's defense minister said Sunday that evidence indicated Iran was still pursuing a military nuclear program, and he urged Tehran to prove otherwise by opening its program to greater international scrutiny.

Democrat: "I'm voting for John McCain, are you kidding me?" | Redstate

There may actually be HOPE for CHANGE yet!

Democrat: "I'm voting for John McCain, are you kidding me?" | Redstate

The Iraqi Upturn - washingtonpost.com

Imagine that, we could be  winning??  The shock!  The Shock!

The Iraqi Upturn - washingtonpost.com

The Iraqi Upturn

Don't look now, but the U.S.-backed government and army may be winning the war.

 

THERE'S BEEN a relative lull in news coverage and debate about Iraq in recent weeks -- which is odd, because May could turn out to have been one of the most important months of the war. While Washington's attention has been fixed elsewhere, military analysts have watched with astonishment as the Iraqi government and army have gained control for the first time of the port city of Basra and the sprawling Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, routing the Shiite militias that have ruled them for years and sending key militants scurrying to Iran.