Residents get 6 votes each in suburban NY election - Yahoo! News

Wow, how do you elect more Hispanics to office – why it’s easy, allow Hispanic residents to vote 6 times in the election.  Why didn’t I think of that?

 

Residents get 6 votes each in suburban NY election - Yahoo! News

By JIM FITZGERALD, Associated Press Writer Jim Fitzgerald, Associated Press Writer – Tue Jun 15, 4:15 am ET

PORT CHESTER, N.Y. – Arthur Furano voted early — five days before Election Day. And he voted often, flipping the lever six times for his favorite candidate.

Furano cast multiple votes on the instructions of a federal judge and the U.S. Department of Justice as part of a new election system crafted to help boost Hispanic representation.

Voters in Port Chester, 25 miles northeast of New York City, are electing village trustees for the first time since the federal government alleged in 2006 that the existing election system was unfair.

Although the village of about 30,000 residents is nearly half Hispanic, no Latino had ever been elected to any of the six trustee seats, which until now were chosen in a conventional at-large election. Most voters were white, and white candidates always won.

Federal Judge Stephen Robinson said that violated the Voting Rights Act, and he approved a remedy suggested by village officials: a system called cumulative voting, in which residents get six votes each to apportion as they wish among the candidates. He rejected a government proposal to break the village into six districts, including one that took in heavily Hispanic areas.

FuturePundit: Chris Nelder: Replace Offshore Oil With Wind?

When it comes to wind power replacing our use of offshore oil, one little thing continues to get in the way . . . . . facts.

 

FuturePundit: Chris Nelder: Replace Offshore Oil With Wind?

Chris Nelder looks at what it would take to replace US offshore Gulf of Mexico oil with a comparable amount of energy from wind power.

Federal offshore Gulf of Mexico has been our last great hope for domestic oil production against a four-decade declining trend. Offshore oil now accounts for 1.7 million barrels per day (mbpd), or over 30%, of our domestic production of 5.5 mbpd.What would it take to substitute wind for offshore oil? At 5.8 MBtu heat value in a barrel of oil and 3412 BTU in a kWh, 1.7 mbpd is equivalent to 2.9 billion kWh per day, or 1,059 billion kWh a year. By comparison, total 2008 wind generation was 14.23 billion kWh in Texas, and 5.42 billion kWh in California.

Therefore, to replace our offshore oil with wind, you’d need 195 Californias, or 74 Texases of wind, and probably 20 years to build it.

Iowa City woman ordained as a bishop - The Daily Iowan

I support the idea the of ordained women Priests, but this is not the way to go about changing the Vatican’s mind.

 

Iowa City woman ordained as a bishop - The Daily Iowan

BY CATHRYN SLOANE | JUNE 14, 2010 7:30 AM

Mary Kay Kusner was raised as a quite traditional Roman Catholic.

On Sunday, she was ordained as a priest — a role for women that is anything but traditional in the Catholic Church.

Kusner’s ordination was made possible by the Roman Catholic Womenpriests organization, a group loyal to the church in its teachings and rituals but denounced by the church for its belief that women, too, can be priests.

“We’re growing very quickly, and the people are accepting us,” Roman Catholic Woman Bishop, Bridget Mary Meehan said.

Bruce Krasting: Social Security At Mid-Year

Social Security goes negative – 5 years early. 

 

Bruce Krasting: Social Security At Mid-Year

There is enough published information from the SSTF to make some observations for the first six months of 2010. The data on FICA/SECA tax receipts and benefit payments: (all amounts in $billions)

The Other National Debt - Kevin Williamson - National Review Online

I blogged about this back in September.  It is simply an impossible burden for our children.

 

The Other National Debt - Kevin Williamson - National Review Online

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About that $14 trillion national debt: Get ready to tack some zeroes onto it. Taken alone, the amount of debt issued by the federal government — that $14 trillion figure that shows up on the national ledger — is a terrifying, awesome, hellacious number: Fourteen trillion seconds ago, Greenland was covered by lush and verdant forests, and the Neanderthals had not yet been outwitted and driven into extinction by Homo sapiens sapiens, because we did not yet exist. Big number, 14 trillion, and yet it doesn’t even begin to cover the real indebtedness of American governments at the federal, state, and local levels, because governments don’t count up their liabilities the same way businesses do

YouTube - Congressman Assaults Student on Washington Sidewalk

If you were a Congressman walking down the street and were approached by a couple of students – in suits and with camera – what would you do??  Why smack them around a bit – of course.

 

Pajamas Media » Renewable Energy: There Ain’t No Free Lunch

I always enjoy looking deeper.  I love details, perhaps that’s why I became an engineer.  “Green Energy” has been one of my pet peves since the use of Star War characters to promote the first earthday.  (yes, I’m that much of a geek)  This is an excellent article pointing out something our parents taught us in simple language:  “There’s no such thing as a free lunch!” – or free energy.

 

Pajamas Media » Renewable Energy: There Ain’t No Free Lunch

The public's notion of "green energy" — energy production with no pollution and no environmental impact — is a fairy tale, pushed by a legacy media that doesn't understand the underlying issues but knows which side it's on.

June 14, 2010

- by Chris J Kobus

Catch words these days for the favored form of energy include “green,” “clean,” “renewable,” and “sustainable” — among others. Yet nobody can quite quantify what exactly “green” means.

Examples pointed to by proponents include wind and solar, with a few pointing to hydroelectric power, biomass, and fuel cells. But those examples, and the logic behind them, fail the very definition of renewable (or clean, green, or sustainable for that matter). As the logic goes, there will always be wind, and the sun will always shine (I’ll ignore for now that wind, just like hydro power and biomass, is just another form of solar). That logic, however, is short sighted and inaccurate, because to harness that raw energy and convert it to a more useful form, we have to manufacture the means to do so, and that in and of itself is not renewable.

Pajamas Media » China’s Military Threatens America: ‘We Will Hurt You’

I have long been puzzled by the assumptions on the part of our government regarding the future intentions of China.  It has always been clear to me that their primary intent was to rule as much of the globe as possible.  Their military stance during my 21 years in the military and in the 22 years of my retirement has done nothing to change my mind.

What did concern me the most was our government’s looking at them as a friend, a possible ally or as something other than a communist country who uses its military freely to control its populace and influence its neighbors.

Perhaps we are catching on.

 

Pajamas Media » China’s Military Threatens America: ‘We Will Hurt You’

The Pentagon finally takes the hint from China’s openly hostile flag officers.

June 14, 2010

- by Gordon G. Chang

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“Every nation has a right to defend itself and to spend as it sees fit for that purpose, but a gap as wide as what seems to be forming between China’s stated intent and its military programs leaves me more than curious about the end result,” said Admiral Mike Mullen this Wednesday. “Indeed, I have moved from being curious to being genuinely concerned.”

Pajamas Media » A Remarkable Lie, from Your Taxpayer-Funded NOAA

Shoddy science from the government agency being used to promote the Cap and Trade bill and assure to the American people that man made global warming is a reality.  Our tax dollars at work. 

 

Pajamas Media » A Remarkable Lie, from Your Taxpayer-Funded NOAA

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, facing the reality that their temperature readings are hopelessly inaccurate, claims that ... accuracy doesn't matter. Wow.

June 12, 2010

- by Art Horn

The following remarkable statement now appears on the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) site:

For detecting climate change, the concern is not the absolute temperature — whether a station is reading warmer or cooler than a nearby station placed on grass — but how that temperature changes over time.

The root of the problem? NOAA’s network for measuring temperature in the United States has become corrupted by artificial heat sources and other issues. These problems introduce warm biases into the temperature measurements that are then used by the government and others to support manmade global warming. So as a reaction to criticism about these problems … NOAA now claims that the accuracy of the measured temperature no longer matters!

Administration: 51% Of Companies’ Health Plans Won’t Pass Muster

Massive change coming to corporate health insurance plans – plans that 85% of Americans were happy with prior to the passage of Obamacare.  It appears that the biggest change coming is that the American worker will loose their healthcare plan.  Change you can believe in!

 

Administration: 51% Of Companies’ Health Plans Won’t Pass Muster

By Sean Higgins and David Hogberg

Fri., June 11, 2010 5:05 PM ET

Tags: Health Care - ObamaCare - Obama

Internal White House documents reveal that 51% of employers may have to relinquish their current health care coverage by 2013 due to ObamaCare. That numbers soars to 66% for small-business employers.

The documents — product of a joint project of the Labor Department, the Health and Human Services Department and the IRS — examine the effects new regulations would have on existing, or “grandfathered,” employer-based health care plans.

Brazil sees silver lining in BP spill: more rigs | Reuters

One way to make sure drilling stops off-shore is to run off the companies that have the technology to do the drilling.  Hope and Change, hope and change.  So once those jobs are gone, what companies will generate the cash to pay the welfare checks??

 

Brazil sees silver lining in BP spill: more rigs | Reuters

 

Fri Jun 11, 2010 1:53pm EDT

 * Brazil may pick up rigs idled on moratorium

 * Could help the country's offshore campaign

 * Deep water rigs in tight supply around the world

 By Brian Ellsworth and Joshua Schneyer

 RIO DE JANEIRO, June 11 (Reuters) - Brazil could benefit

from the BP Gulf of Mexico spill as a U.S. moratorium on
offshore drilling boosts available rigs for the country's deep
water oil exploration program.

 Even as an ecological catastrophe makes the future of U.S.
offshore drilling less certain, Brazil is plowing ahead with a
$220 billion five-year plan to tap oil fields even deeper than
BP's (BP.L) ill-fated Gulf well, which is still leaking crude.

 With an estimated 35 rigs idled in the Gulf of Mexico,
Brazil is already receiving inquiries from companies looking to
move their rigs here, where vast discoveries in recent years
may soon turn the country into a major crude exporter.

American Thinker: A Shrink Asks: What's Wrong with Obama?

The best, most comprehensive evaluation of the Bin “O” I have read to date!

 

American Thinker: A Shrink Asks: What's Wrong with Obama?

By Robin of Berkeley

So what is the matter with Obama? Conservatives have been asking this question for some time. I've written a number of articles trying to solve the mystery.  

Even some liberals are starting to wonder. James Carville railed about Obama's blasé attitude after the catastrophic oil spill. The New York Times' Maureen Dowd revamped Obama's "Yes We Can" motto into "Will We Ever?"

The liberal women of the TV show "The View" have expressed sympathy for Michelle Obama's living with a man so out of touch. Peggy Noonan, hardly a vehement Obama foe,  recently pronounced him disconnected. 

Obama's odd mannerisms intrigue a psychotherapist like me. He also presents a serious diagnostic challenge. 

White House Parties as Gulf Suffers--John Gibson - NYPOST.com

A leader you can party with!  I am fascinated by the apparent fact that the Big “O” is so far above the fray of everyday leadership that he doesn’t even seem to see his disconnect from the American people.

 

President party boy

The wrong kind of leadership

By JOHN GIBSON

Last Updated: 4:15 AM, June 10, 2010

Posted: 11:42 PM, June 9, 2010

Last week's jobs report tanked the stock market; the president took weeks to assert control of the oil spill that threatens doom on the Gulf Coast -- but at the White House the Gatsby-like parties roll on as if happy days were here again.

Just yesterday, President Obama held another fun-filled White House event, a picnic for Congress members, complete with hot dogs, cold beverages and a fire pit.

All told, during the last seven weeks of spewing oil and rampant unemployment, he has frolicked and danced through three major White House music parties:

Steffy: U.S. and BP slow to accept Dutch expertise | Business: Loren Steffy | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

How does Big “O” square his comments that they are doing all they can while rejecting the assistance of an industry expert?  Hope and Change.

 

Steffy: U.S. and BP slow to accept Dutch expertise | Business: Loren Steffy | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

By LOREN STEFFY Copyright 2010 Houston Chronicle

June 8, 2010, 10:13PM

Three days after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, the Dutch government offered to help.

It was willing to provide ships outfitted with oil-skimming booms, and it proposed a plan for building sand barriers to protect sensitive marshlands.

The response from the Obama administration and BP, which are coordinating the cleanup: “The embassy got a nice letter from the administration that said, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,'” said Geert Visser, consul general for the Netherlands in Houston.

3 Forgotten Fears of a Reignited Korean War - Popularmechanics.com

Dark thoughts of how a new Korean War would unfold.  Doesn’t the Big “O” give you a nice warm and secure feeling in your tummy?  Surly the NoKos wouldn’t dare to start anything with such a man in office - - - right?

3 Forgotten Fears of a Reignited Korean War - Popularmechanics.com

As tensions continue to escalate between North and South Korea, we look at the worst-case scenarios that could result from an all-out war between the two.

By Joe Pappalardo

South Korean soldiers take a position during a drill at a guard post near the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas in Yanggu, 130 km northeast of Seoul, on May 24, 2010.

(Photo by Yonhap/AFP/Getty Images)

Tensions in the Korean Peninsula are at their worst point in decades after a North Korean submarine ambushed a South Korean warship, killing scores of sailors. Although North Korea has made violent provocation a cornerstone of its foreign and domestic policy for years, there is always the chance that this kind of brinksmanship will spark a major war.

Iran Red Crescent to send two aid ships to Gaza

Iranian aid to Gaza, what could possible go wrong????  I’m sure, with the big “O”’s close relationship with the Iranian leadership, a gentle word will make the reconsider – right??

 

Iran Red Crescent to send two aid ships to Gaza

June 7, 2010 - 3:44PM

Hazmat or Basic Tags available. Prices as low as 40 cents each.

The Iranian Red Crescent has decided to send two aid ships to Gaza this week and has called for volunteers to act as relief workers and accompany the vessels, the state IRNA news agency reported.

Iranian Red Crescent director Abdolrauf Adibzadeh told IRNA late on Sunday that the decision to send the ships was taken after a meeting with the foreign ministry.

"One ship will carry donations made by the people and the other will carry relief workers. The ships will be sent to Gaza by end of this week," Adibzadeh said.

Three deepwater drilling rigs to be moved from sites south of Cameron Parish | NOLA.com

Hope and Change, hope and change!

Three deepwater drilling rigs to be moved from sites south of Cameron Parish | NOLA.com

By David Hammer, The Times-Picayune

June 07, 2010, 10:30PM

The Associated PressThe Deepwater Horizon drilling rig was photographed April 22, engulfed in flames after the explosion that killed 11 workers on April 20.

As Louisiana's maritime industry continues to reel from President Barack Obama's deepwater drilling moratorium, a leading oil production company has announced it's looking to move some of its fleet to foreign waters.
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. announced that it is shutting down three exploratory drilling rigs in the deepwater Gulf, all off the Louisiana coast, and assured shareholders that it would move its operations "from the Gulf to other areas of our global portfolio" so it could meet annual production goals.

Prepare NOW: They "Get It" - The Market Ticker ®

There’s a market correction coming.  It’s not going to be pretty!!!!!

 

Prepare NOW: They "Get It"

Anyone who doesn't believe that "they" (the powers that be) "get it" at this point needs to remove their head from their ass:

G-20 central bankers and finance ministers agreed in a joint statement today that “within their capacity, countries will expand domestic sources of growth.” At the same time, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet told reporters that Europe’s best contribution to the global rebound is to achieve fiscal sustainability.

Those two are polar opposites.  You just heard Trichet admit that what everyone wants they cannot have.

Opposing Views: Firearms Industry Offers Rebuttal to Anti-Gun Columnist Susan Estrich

A few facts about all those guns that seem to find their way from the US to Mexico – the facts clearly show they are a fraction of the amount claimed by the left.

 

Opposing Views: Firearms Industry Offers Rebuttal to Anti-Gun Columnist Susan Estrich

Opinion by National Shooting Sports Foundation

In her column last week (“The responsibility is ours,” May 25, 2010), Susan Estrich claimed that crime in Mexico was attributable to “American assault rifles bought at gun stores on the border” and that “Eighty percent of the 75,000 assault weapons seized by Mexican authorities were traced back to the United States.” To set the record straight, NSSF President Steve Sanetti submitted his own op-ed piece for publication.

In her op-ed last week (“The responsibility is ours,” May 25, 2010), Susan Estrich claimed that crime in Mexico was attributable to “American assault rifles, bought at gun stores on the border” and that “Eighty percent of the 75,000 assault weapons seized by Mexican authorities were traced back to the United States.” Let’s clear this up right now.

Emigration Up, Birth Rate Down: Graying Germany Contemplates Demographic Time Bomb - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

Perhaps if they had read Mark Steyn’s book “America Alone” when it was published a few years back.  Europe is lost, the writing has been on the wall for over a decade.

Emigration Up, Birth Rate Down: Graying Germany Contemplates Demographic Time Bomb - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News – International

German pensioners: The country's population is aging.

Germany is already facing a demographic nightmare as birth rates fall despite a slew of family-friendly policies. Now, new statistics show that more people are leaving the country than immigrating -- adding to concerns about the country's shrinking population.

Germans fretting about the country's looming demographic problems are unlikely to have been cheered by recent news on birth rates and emigration. With its graying population, the country's cradle-to-grave welfare system could become unaffordable due to a dearth of working-age people to keep the system going. And the country seems to be failing to either attract enough immigrants or produce babies fast enough to dispel fears of future demographic disaster.

Possible Chemical Weapons attack in Afghanistan??

This would be a significant change in tactics on the part of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.  Praying there is some other explanation.

Breaking: Taliban Using Chemical Weapons Against US Troops? 4-5 Troops Reportedly Fall Ill

Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, May 29, 2010, 6:48 PM

Five US troops serving in Afghanistan recently fell ill after a suspected chemical weapons attack. Four or five members fell ill after the attack. One soldier is very sick. They are having trouble breathing.
I am waiting for more information. I should have an update by morning.

Forged by Adversity: Remembering MA2 Michael Monsoor - U.S. News - Catholic Online

I fear that we, as a nation, forget these men.  Our enemies kill themselves to kill others.  Our soldiers sacrifice themselves to save others.  It is the true difference between an evil man and a good man.

 

Forged by Adversity: Remembering MA2 Michael Monsoor - U.S. News - Catholic Online

 

By Mrs. Judy McCloskey

5/31/2010

Catholics in the Military (www.catholicmil.org/)

Petty Officer Second Class Mosoor is just one of the many brave men and women - and families - we remember on Memorial Day. 'By his undaunted courage, fighting spirit, and unwavering devotion to duty in the face of certain death, Petty Officer Monsoor gallantly gave his life for his country.'

Obama’s Oil Spill Dilemma | RedState

A great piece from an operations manager point of view.  Well worth the read!

 

Obama’s Oil Spill Dilemma

Posted by Vladimir (Profile)

Saturday, May 29th at 3:33PM EDT

27 Comments

For the last fifteen years, I’ve been the operations manager for a small Gulf of Mexico oil and gas company. I’ve had more than a few sleepless nights in that time, whether it be worrying about a problem well, a reported accident or an impending hurricane. Since Barack Obama has assumed full accountability for the outcome of the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, I offer this advice as one who understands the nature, if not the scope, of the challenge facing him.

With all due respect, sir, rookies make rookie mistakes.

American Thinker Blog: Obama's new national security strategy a recipe for disaster

I wonder if President Obama has ever sat in the quiet of a room and pondered just what nation he would like to take our place as world leader?  Would it be China?  Or Russia?  Or India?  How about Iran or Saudi Arabia?  His lack of depth and his inability to reason out reactions to his actions will lead the world down some dark and dangerous paths. 

 

American Thinker Blog: Obama's new national security strategy a recipe for disaster

Jerry Philipson

President Obama's recently unveiled National Security Strategy is a recipe for disaster, not only for the United States but for the free world as well. It diminishes rather than enhances our security and is an abdication of America's role as leader and protector of free nations and champion of western civilization.

EDITORIAL: The U.N. gun grabber - Washington Times

Perhaps the UN could start by expelling Iran, Libya, Cuba, China – they would have more credibility.

 

EDITORIAL: The U.N. gun grabber - Washington Times

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

6:51 p.m., Thursday, May 27, 2010

American gun owners might not feel besieged, but they should. This week, the Obama administration announced its support for the United Nations Small Arms Treaty. This international agreement poses real risks for freedom both in the United States and around the world by making it more difficult - if not outright illegal - for law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms.

RIGZONE - Analysis: Could U.S. Lose 200 Rigs by the End of Summer?

Hope and Change.  Surely a 15% reduction in drilling rigs won’t have any effect on our economy, right??  Making the oil companies the bad guys will do nothing for a US recovery.  Perhaps more attention should be paid to why BP felt forced to recover oil 23,000 feet below the surface.

 

RIGZONE - Analysis: Could U.S. Lose 200 Rigs by the End of Summer?

Rigzone Staff

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Friday, May 28, 2010

The Philadelphia Oil Service Sector index, commonly known by its ticker OSX, is based on the stock market movements of 15 oil service company components. The current members of the OSX are Baker Hughes, Cameron, Global Industries, Halliburton, Lufkin Industries, Nabors, Noble Corporation, National Oilwell Varco, Oceaneering, Rowan Companies, Transocean, Smith International, Schlumberger, Tidewater, and Weatherford. By overlaying the OSX with the Baker Hughes US Rig Count; one can make the argument that some correlation between the two may exist.

Peggy Noonan: He Was Supposed to Be Competent - WSJ.com

Who, in their right mind, looked at Obama as a candidate, looked at his private and public experience, truly listened to his speeches and – by any stretch of imagination – saw a competent man??  This nation knew, in their heart of hearts, that he was a joke.  They voted for “hope and change” only to discover that age old truth – there is no hope.  The man can either do the job or not.

 

Peggy Noonan: He Was Supposed to Be Competent - WSJ.com

The spill is a disaster for the president and his political philosophy.

I don't see how the president's position and popularity can survive the oil spill. This is his third political disaster in his first 18 months in office. And they were all, as they say, unforced errors, meaning they were shaped by the president's political judgment and instincts.

There was the tearing and unnecessary war over his health-care proposal and its cost. There was his day-to-day indifference to the views and hopes of the majority of voters regarding illegal immigration. And now the past almost 40 days of dodging and dithering in the face of an environmental calamity. I don't see how you politically survive this.

NJ Teacher who complained to Gov. Chris Christie she deserved $83k actually makes $86k | Washington Examiner

Damn th Internet!!!  Damn those people who look for facts rather that bullshit!  Damn them, damn them all the the NJ teachers union!!!

 

NJ Teacher who complained to Gov. Chris Christie she deserved $83k actually makes $86k | Washington Examiner

By: Mark Hemingway
Commentary Staff Writer
05/26/10 3:48 PM EDT

Yesterday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie had a little dust-up with teacher Rita Wilson. Upset over Christie’s education budget, Wilson complained that she wasn’t paid enough and got sharp rebuke from the governor:

But borough teacher Rita Wilson, a Kearny resident, argued that if she were paid $3 an hour for the 30 children in her class, she’d be earning $83,000, and she makes nothing near that.

Link with video available here.

Census workers can enter your apartment in your absence | The Barr Code

I’m from the government, open the damn door!

Census workers can enter your apartment in your absence | The Barr Code

 

6:00 am May 26, 2010, by Bob Barr

Thousands of census workers, including many temporary employees, are fanning out across America to gather information on the citizenry.  This is a process that takes place not only every decade in order to complete the constitutionally-mandated census; but also as part of the continuing “American Community Survey” conducted by the Census Bureau on a regular basis year in and year out.

What many Americans don’t realize, is that census workers — from the head of the Bureau and the Secretary of Commerce (its parent agency) down to the lowliest and newest Census employee — are empowered under federal law to actually demand access to any apartment or any other type of home or room that is rented out, in order to count persons in the abode and for “the collection of statistics.”  If the landlord of such apartment or other  leased premises refuses to grant the government worker access to your living quarters, whether you are present or not, the landlord can be fined $500.00.

About ImmigrationsHumanCost

There is a human cost to illegals coming into this country. 

 

About ImmigrationsHumanCost

ImmigrationsHumanCost is dedicated to putting a human face on the havoc that open borders has brought. The press is full of stories about the struggling immigrant (often here illegally) who has come "in search of a better life." The media fail to note that this same foreigner will achieve his better life at the cost of some American who makes less money in a flooded labor market or will directly lose his job to an immigrant willing to work for peanuts. Where is the sympathetic article about an unemployed American roofer who has been displaced by a Mexican doing the job for $8 an hour?

When unions turn to thuggary.

This story has been out there for over a week.  I have yet to see it mentioned in the MSM.  Fourteen busses, filled with 500 SEIU thugs park in a residential area, trample all over a BoA employee’s yard and terrify his 14 year old son who is home alone.  Oh, and they were escorted by DC police and watched by local Maryland police. (can we say union cooperation??)  Is this the America Obama is leading us to?? 

A thug too far, part 5

Flynn concludes with an explanation of the inherent interest of this story: "it is the small story that illuminates the overall narrative. Let's dispense with all the semantics and timelines and legalese. Last week, 500 union thugs descended on a private home and terrorized a teenage boy. They violated someone's most personal space, their home. And they attacked their most precious gift, their child. The police in two jurisdictions knew about this. They did nothing."

Dan Danner: ObamaCare vs. Small Business - WSJ.com

I would like to think the Big O was just ignorant.  Sadly, it is becoming clear he is simply anti-business, both large and small. 

 

Dan Danner: ObamaCare vs. Small Business - WSJ.com

Why the National Federation of Independent Business supports the constitutional challenge to the health-insurance mandate.

By DAN DANNER

For decades small business owners have been telling anyone who would listen that they need health-care reforms that lower costs. But President Obama and his allies in Congress pushed through a law that will dramatically raise health-care costs and increase the overall cost of doing business. What's more, the federal mandate requiring that nearly all U.S. residents carry health insurance by 2014 seriously threatens our basic constitutional rights and individual freedoms.

Analysis: Detroit, The Triumph of Progressive Public Policy [Mackinac Center]

I just love the term “progressive”.  Heart wrenching poverty, that’s progress alright.  So how did Detroit make that journey??  Not a surprise really.

 

Analysis: Detroit, The Triumph of Progressive Public Policy [Mackinac Center]

By Jarrett Skorup | May 25, 2010

(Editor's note: This article originally appeared at www.mackinac.org on July 6, 2009.)

Imagine a city where all the major economic planks of the statist or "progressive" platform have been enacted:

• A "living wage" ordinance, far above the federal minimum wage, for all public employees and private contractors.
• A school system that spends significantly more per pupil than the national average.
• A powerful school employee union that militantly defends the exceptional pay, benefits and job security it has won for its members.
• A powerful government employee union that does the same for its members.
• A tax system that aggressively redistributes income from businesses and the wealthy to the poor and to government bureaucracies.

Would this be a shining city on a hill, exciting the admiration of all? We don't have to guess, because there is such a city right here in our state: Detroit

Private pay shrinks to historic lows as gov't payouts rise - USATODAY.com

Do you think anyone in Washington truly knows where the government’s spending money comes from??

 

Private pay shrinks to historic lows as gov't payouts rise - USATODAY.com

By Mark Wilson, Getty Images

PAY SCALE

By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY

Paychecks from private business shrank to their smallest share of personal income in U.S. history during the first quarter of this year, a USA TODAY analysis of government data finds. At the same time, government-provided benefits — from Social Security, unemployment insurance, food stamps and other programs — rose to a record high during the first three months of 2010.

Pajamas Media » He Didn’t Just Lie About Arizona: Calderon Fibbed About Assault Weapons, Too

This has been an old tale for some time.  The mis-stated “facts” have been use by the antigun lobbyists for a number of years to promote tighter gun controls while simply lying about the facts.  Why would we expect the President of Mexico to behave any differently – hell even our President chooses lies over facts about this issue.

Pajamas Media » He Didn’t Just Lie About Arizona: Calderon Fibbed About Assault Weapons, Too

His claim that 80% of the guns seized in Mexico came from the U.S. is widely debunked nonsense.

May 24, 2010

- by Bob Owens

In a very rare event, the president of Mexico addressed a joint session of the United States Congress last Thursday. Unfortunately, Felipe Calderon abused the opportunity by lying to the assembled representatives, senators, and government officials for the express benefit of his faltering country.

Twice.

Massachusetts Mess Previews ObamaCare Woes--Sally Pipes - NYPOST.com

A look into the healthcare crystal ball.  Higher premiums, limits on care, fewer insurance companies, fewer doctors.   And, with 63% of the folks in the US wanting it repealed, it appears everyone understands this disaster except the Big “O” and the democrats in Congress.

 

Massachusetts Mess Previews ObamaCare Woes--Sally Pipes - NYPOST.com

 

By SALLY PIPES

Last Updated: 12:54 AM, May 25, 2010

Posted: 12:26 AM, May 25, 2010

The future of US medicine under ObamaCare is already on display in Massachusetts. The top four health insurers there just posted first-quarter losses of more than $150 million. Most of them blamed the state's decision to keep premiums at last year's levels for individual and small-business policies, when they'd proposed double-digit hikes to match the soaring costs they've seen under the state's universal-coverage law.

The companies have gone to court to challenge the state's action -- it apparently had no basis for its ruling beyond the political needs of Gov. Deval Patrick. If they win, Bay State health premiums will continue their rapid rise; if they lose, they'll eventually have to stop doing business in Massachusetts -- and the state will be that much closer to a "single payer" system of socialized medicine.

Deepwater Well Construction 101 | RedState

For those looking for data and detail, an excellent article on the Deepwater Horizon accident.

 

Deepwater Well Construction 101

Posted by Vladimir (Profile)

Saturday, May 22nd at 6:35PM EDT

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By any measure, the construction of a deepwater well involves “Extreme Engineering”. And like other applications of technology at the frontier of knowledge, proper operating practices are often a response to failure, and examination of lessons learned.

The Deepwater Horizon disaster represents the first time deepwater drillers have experienced multiple failures of the redundant systems that are designed to keep a well from flowing uncontrollably. In hindsight, it may well be determined that some combination of questionable design choices, human error and equipment malfunction conspired to cause the blowout and spill. No one (that I’m aware of) has suggested that BP was operating outside of its permitted authority.

Public Pensions Headed for Disaster - Business - The Atlantic

Again, things like this should be so obvious.  Just as it’s a bad idea for the many states to “borrow” from the Fed to pay unemployment benefits.  It’s like the money just magically appears.  Or that, eventually, the financial system doesn’t have to correct itself. 

 

Public Pensions Headed for Disaster - Business - The Atlantic

May 21 2010, 2:25 PM ET |

The New York Times has a practically libertarian-sounding article on public pensions, and the strain they are putting on the state and local governments.  Public employees rack up overtime in their last year of work, with the active encouragement of their supervisors and even local politicians, then they retire with inflated pensions that can be greater than their base salary.

It’s the Sun, stupid | Full Comment | National Post

No, really???   The Sun???   Who would have guessed!!

 

It’s the Sun, stupid | Full Comment | National Post

By Lawrence Solomon May 21, 2010 – 7:17 pm

Solar scientists are finally overcoming their fears and going public about the Sun-climate connection

Four years ago, when I first started profiling scientists who were global warming skeptics, I soon learned two things: Solar scientists were overwhelmingly skeptical that humans caused climate change and, overwhelmingly, they were reluctant to go public with their views. Often, they refused to be quoted at all, saying they feared for their funding, or they feared other recriminations from climate scientists in the doomsayer camp. When the skeptics agreed to be quoted at all, they often hedged their statements, to give themselves wiggle room if accused of being a global warming denier. Scant few were outspoken about their skepticism.

No longer.

Pajamas Media » Leaked Spanish Report: Obama’s Model ‘Green Economy’ a Disaster (PJM Exclusive)

Wind energy is a failure, color me shocked!   Hello, Senator Harken, hello????????

Pajamas Media » Leaked Spanish Report: Obama’s Model ‘Green Economy’ a Disaster (PJM Exclusive)

Following PJM's exclusive story on a leaked Spanish government report, a newspaper in Spain confirms that the country's "green economy" policies — the model for the Obama administration's "green jobs" efforts — have been a disaster: expensive, ineffective, and unworkable. (An English translation of the Spanish article is provided in this post.)

May 21, 2010

- by Christopher Horner

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As predicted was inevitable, today the Spanish newspaper La Gaceta runs with a full-page article fessing up to the truth about Spain’s “green jobs” boondoggle, which happens to be the one naively cited by President Obama no less than eight times as his model for the United States. It is now out there as a bust, a costly disaster that has come undone in Spain to the point that even the Socialists admit it, with the media now in full pursuit.

Massachusetts Insurers Post Big Losses - Business - The Atlantic

Let’s see . . . forced to cover more people, no limits on jumping into or out of an insurance program,  forced restrictions of insurance costs to the consumer:  What could possible go wrong???

 

Massachusetts Insurers Post Big Losses - Business - The Atlantic

May 17 2010, 7:27 PM ET

When MassCare passed, it was supposed to lower the average cost of health care by getting relatively cheap young people into the system, and ending the inefficiencies of caring for the uninsured.  Unfortunately, it hasn't quite worked out that way.  The bill for the uninsured only dropped by about 40%; the young, cheap people turned out to almost all need subsidies, and worse, some of them figured out how to game the system by buying insurance, getting a bunch of expensive procedures, and then dropping the insurance again.  There was a brief improvement in insurance prices for the individual market, because Massachusetts, with its community rating and guaranteed issue, had had a pretty sizable problem with adverse selection.  But after a few years, insurance costs were still marching briskly upward, rates were among the highest in the country, and the system was putting heavy pressure on a budget that was already strained to the limit by the recession.

Texas doctors fleeing Medicare in droves | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Why should this shock anyone.  Of all the providers that are available in the US, the US Government has the worst payment record with the highest fraud rate.  What are doctors supposed to do??

 

Texas doctors fleeing Medicare in droves | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

By TODD ACKERMAN
HOUSTON CHRONICLE

May 17, 2010, 11:02PM

Houston retiree Kathy Sweeney has trouble finding specialists who take new Medicare patients and is worried about the possibility she one day could lose her regular doctor.

 

Texas doctors are opting out of Medicare at alarming rates, frustrated by reimbursement cuts they say make participation in government-funded care of seniors unaffordable.

Two years after a survey found nearly half of Texas doctors weren't taking some new Medicare patients, new data shows 100 to 200 a year are now ending all involvement with the program. Before 2007, the number of doctors opting out averaged less than a handful a year.

“This new data shows the Medicare system is beginning to implode,” said Dr. Susan Bailey, president of the Texas Medical Association. “If Congress doesn't fix Medicare soon, there'll be more and more doctors dropping out and Congress' promise to provide medical care to seniors will be broken.”

Scott Gottlieb: No, You Can't Keep Your Health Plan - WSJ.com

Again, the devil is always in the details.

 

Scott Gottlieb: No, You Can't Keep Your Health Plan - WSJ.com

Insurers and doctors are already consolidating their businesses in the wake of ObamaCare's passage.

By SCOTT GOTTLIEB

President Obama guaranteed Americans that after health reform became law they could keep their insurance plans and their doctors. It's clear that this promise cannot be kept. Insurers and physicians are already reshaping their businesses as a result of Mr. Obama's plan.

My great grand children will grow up in a world where Europe is Islamic.

So what will this mean to the world?  Will the Muslims be “moderate” or Jihadists?  Will we be forced to fight a war of survival with a Jihadists Europe?   Most folks that I have chatted with about this issue seem to write it off as alarmists crap.  I have been looking at this since Mark Stein wrote “America Alone”.  It’s a sobering trend that needs the attention of those who value our traditional western way of life.

Power Line - Mantz on a mission

So what’s it like to die??  A dead man finds his purpose for living.

Mantz on a mission

May 16, 2010 Posted by Scott at 8:38 AM

Watching Fox News this morning, I caught an interview with Army Captain Joshua Mantz (in the photo at left with Secretary Gates). Captain Mantz was patrolling in Bagdhad with the First Infantry Division on April 21, 2007, when he was hit by an armor-piercing bullet that hit and killed Staff Sergeant Marlon Harper. Part of the same bullet that killed Sergeant Harper then exited, hit Captain Mantz and severed Mantz's femoral artery. Captain Mantz bled out and went into a flatline condition for 15 minutes.

Abortion Coverage in President Obama's Health Care Reform Bill | The Heritage Foundation

Yes Virginia, Obama does provide federal funds for abortion in the new healthcare bill.

 

Abortion Coverage in President Obama's Health Care Reform Bill | The Heritage Foundation

Published on March 4, 2010 by Chuck Donovan

President Obama has put forward another variant of health care reform whose foundation is H.R. 3590. Nearly a year after the President launched the health reform process with a White House summit, public opinion has moved even more strongly in the direction of keeping longstanding prohibitions on federal financing of abortion and plans that cover abortion. Despite this fact, H.R. 3590 includes multiple provisions that facilitate abortion funding, including new grants to federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) that contain no restriction on abortion payments whatsoever.

Scientists issue a global cooling alert!!

Mmmm . . . . . errrrrrr . . . . . . . ahhhhhhhh . . . . . a global cooling alert???

 

Food and Ethanol Shortages Imminent as Earth Enters New Cold Climate Era

Monday, May 10, 2010

11:30 AM

The Space and Science Research Center (SSRC), the leading independent research organization in the United States on the subject of the next climate change, issues today the following warning of imminent crop damage expected to produce food and ethanol shortages for the US and Canada:

Over the next 30 months, global temperatures are expected to make another dramatic drop even greater than that seen during the 2007-2008 period. As the Earth’s current El Nino dissipates, the planet will return to the long term temperature decline brought on by the Sun’s historic reduction in output, the on-going “solar hibernation.”

We Are Out of Money - Reason Magazine

Something so simple to understand and yet it is just totally ignored by our President and Congress.

 

We Are Out of Money

American governance won’t begin to inch forward until the political class faces basic facts.

Matt Welch from the June 2010 issue

Listen to Audio Version (MP3)

American conservatives, particularly the fiscal variety, tend to hold up the European Union as a model of irresponsible, big-spending economic policy. But consider this: According to E.U. rules, member countries cannot maintain budget deficits above 3 percent of gross domestic product; nor can their total debt rise above 60 percent of GDP. As Veronique de Rugy points out in this issue, the U.S. budget deficit in 2009 was three times the E.U.’s limit, and total debt will zoom past the 60 percent threshold sometime this year. Washington makes Paris look frugal.

In March the federal government created the most expensive new entitlement in four decades, even as the bond rating company Moody’s Investors Service warned that debt levels could soon precipitate a downgrade in U.S. Treasury bonds. The main opposition party fought the bill by decrying “cuts” to Medicare, and it has kept itself at arm’s length from one of the few politicians talking seriously about long-term reform.

The Climategate Chronicle: How the Science of Global Warming Was Compromised - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

The kind of work you wish a US mainstream media paper would do.

The Climategate Chronicle: How the Science of Global Warming Was Compromised - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

By Axel Bojanowski

To what extent is climate change actually occuring? Late last year, climate researchers were accused of exaggerating study results. SPIEGEL ONLINE has since analyzed the hacked "Climategate" e-mails and provided insights into one of the most unprecedented spats in recent scientific history.

Landscapers find workers choosing jobless pay | detnews.com | The Detroit News

Imagine that, a person would rather sit on their ass and get paid rather that work and get paid.  color me shocked!

 

Landscapers find workers choosing jobless pay | detnews.com | The Detroit News

Jaclyn Trop / The Detroit News

In a state with the nation's highest jobless rate, landscaping companies are finding some job applicants are rejecting work offers so they can continue collecting unemployment benefits.

It is unclear whether this trend is affecting other seasonal industries. But the fact that some seasonal landscaping workers choose to stay home and collect a check from the state, rather than work outside for a full week and spend money for gas, taxes and other expenses, raises questions about whether extended unemployment benefits give the jobless an incentive to avoid work.

Mojave Cross torn down by vandals

What the left can’t accept, they simply destroy.  Violence is an old friend to them.  As is showing disrespect to the veterans of our country.  Yet another example.

Mojave Cross torn down by vandals | Local News | PE.com | Southern California News | News for Inland Southern California

09:13 AM PDT on Tuesday, May 11, 2010

The 76-year-old Mojave Cross war memorial in San Bernardino County's High Desert has been torn down by vandals, just days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the religious symbol could remain -- at least temporarily -- on public land.

Sometime Sunday night, the cross was taken down from its perch atop Sunrise Rock in the Mojave National Preserve, according to Liberty Institute, a group that represented veterans groups and caretakers of the cross in the recent Supreme Court Case.

Stunning 2006 Barney Frank VIDEO Surfaces: Banks Forced to Report Too Much - HUMAN EVENTS

Barney in his own words.  Priceless

 

Stunning 2006 Barney Frank VIDEO Surfaces: Banks Forced to Report Too Much - HUMAN EVENTS

by  Connie Hair

05/07/2010

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) speaking at a forum on national housing policy on December 11, 2006.  Three weeks after making this speech at the Treasury Department, Frank became Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.

Barney Frank – a danger to our economy.

Bary Franks is the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.  He is a danger to our economy.

Confirmed: Barney Frank Played Major Role in Financial Collapse & Is Still Pushing His Dangerous Agenda on America

Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, May 8, 2010, 11:16 AM

Morgen Richmond from Verum Serum broke this story earlier this week at Big Government.
It’s worth repeating.

Democrat Barney Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, sent a letter this week to the White House urging the President to reject the attempt by Republicans to include GSE (Fannie Mae-Freddie Mac) reform in any financial reform bill. Frank argued that had already been reformed and did not need to be included in the Senate’s financial reform bill. Frank told democratic senators, “As Fannie and Freddie operate today, going forward, there is no loss.”

4 ways Congress caused the financial crisis | Analysis & Opinion |

So what does it look like when a victim of congressional bloviating refuses to take it laying down?  Glassman shows the way.  Read this article and then read the original memo at the link.

4 ways Congress caused the financial crisis | Analysis & Opinion |

May 5, 2010 11:08 EDT

2008 financial crisis | financial regulatory reform

That bankers disdain their new Washington overlords is no surprise. To many of them, Congress is plagued by “unnerving ignorance” and a refusal to admit its own role in the financial crisis. At least that is how a controversial JPMorgan report puts it. Impolitic perhaps, but not inaccurate.

It’s one thing to discuss such grumbles in the executive suite. It’s another to explicitly lay them out in a widely disseminated research report, accompanied by data and a full-color chart for emphasis — in the midst of the delicate financial reform debate in the U.S. Senate, to boot. But that’s what JPMorgan’s James Glassman did in a May 3 economic note.

Chaves Hussein Obama

Mmmm – about those 401Ks.   Looks like Chavez Hussein Obama is smackin’ his lips just a bit.

Obama Administration Makes Plans to Gobble Up 401(k)s

Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 6:03 AM

The Obama Administration is making plans to take over the nation’s 401(k)s in order to bail out their union backers and their bankrupted pension plans.
Connie Hair at Human Events reported:

In February, the White House released its “Annual Report on the Middle Class” containing new regulations favored by Big Labor including a bailout of critically underfunded union pension plans through “retirement security” options.

The radical solution most favored by Big Labor is the seizure of private 401(k) plans for government disbursement — which lets them off the hook for their collapsing retirement scheme. And, of course, the Obama administration is eager to accommodate their buddies.

President Obama: GOP Opposition to Stimulus 'Helped to Create the Tea-Baggers' - Political Punch

Hope and Change, Hope and Change.

 

President Obama: GOP Opposition to Stimulus 'Helped to Create the Tea-Baggers' - Political Punch

May 04, 2010 9:07 AM

Three days after he decried the lack of civility in American politics, President Obama is quoted in a new book about his presidency referring to the Tea Party movement using a derogatory term with sexual connotations.

In Jonathan Alter’s “The Promise: President Obama, Year One,” President Obama is quoted in an interview saying that the unanimous vote of House Republicans vote against the stimulus bills “set the tenor for the whole year ... That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans.”

Members of Congress Bet Against Stocks in Year of Financial Crisis - WSJ.com

Something about the “Fox in the hen house” or “the pot calling the kettle black” comes to mind.

 

Members of Congress Bet Against Stocks in Year of Financial Crisis - WSJ.com

Some members of Congress made risky bets with their own money that U.S. stocks or bonds would fall during the financial crisis, a Wall Street Journal analysis of congressional disclosures shows.

Senators have criticized Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for profiting from the housing collapse. And Congress is considering legislation to curb Wall Street risk-taking, including the use of financial instruments known as derivatives and of leverage, or methods that amplify returns.

Did Bush warn of the impending financial crisis – yep – over and over and over and over and. . . . . . .

You would think the Democrats would learn about the long memory of the Internet.  Much to my amusement, the don’t. 

Pelosi Caught In Major Lie- Says Bush Didn’t Warn Congress About Financial Crisis… Records Show He Warned Congress 17 Times in 2008 Alone

Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, May 3, 2010, 2:04 PM

Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a news conference last week and told reporters this:

During her weekly press conference on April 15, a reporter asked Pelosi a seemingly innocuous question about taxes. Pelosi prefaced her response with a fairly standard litany: explaining the dire state of the U.S. economy inherited by President Obama and setting the blame at the foot of the Bush administration. But she also added this: “When [then-Senator Obama] accepted the nomination in Colorado, the [Bush] Administration had kept from the public the idea that, in a matter of weeks, the financial community would be in crisis, and we would need to pass the TARP legislation.”

The state-run media is trying to make something of this claim today.

But, what Speaker Pelosi failed to mention was that President Bush warned the Democratic Congress 17 times in 2008 alone about the systemic consequences of financial turmoil at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and also put forward thoughtful plans to reduce the risk that either Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac would encounter such difficulties.

What's going on beneath the sea? A graphic explanation of the fight to shut off the oil leak | NOLA.com

A good visual of the problems in capping the leaking well in the Gulf.

 

What's going on beneath the sea? A graphic explanation of the fight to shut off the oil leak | NOLA.com

By Times-Picayune Staff

April 30, 2010, 7:42PM

Even as experts scramble to come up with a way of keeping the oil from the Deepwater Horizon well from continuing to flow freely into the Gulf of Mexico,
BP concedes that a relief well will eventually have to be drilled in order to successfully shut down the existing leaking well. The graphic below explains what's happening on the ocean floor, and how the relief well will work.

A Few Comments About Q1 GDP...

The economy in geek-speak.  Not as rosy as the Big “O” is trying to paint it.

A Few Comments About Q1 GDP...

Calculated Risk | Apr. 30, 2010, 9:05 PM

The two leading sectors, residential investment (RI) and personal consumption expenditures (PCE), moved in different directions in Q1:

PCE increased at a 3.6% annualized growth rate compared to 1.6% in Q4. PCE was driven by a decline in the savings rate to 3.1% (from 3.9%) and transfer payments (I'll have more on this).

RI declined 10.9% in Q1, compared to an increase of 3.8% in Q4.

Exactly who ‘makes enough money’ in Obama’s eyes? | Kyle Wingfield

5 Million for the Big “O"s’” book eh.  Heck, I’d be happy to sell my whole company for that.  What an incredibly ignorant ass.

 

Exactly who ‘makes enough money’ in Obama’s eyes? | Kyle Wingfield

7:00 pm April 30, 2010, by Kyle Wingfield

“I do think,” you may have heard President Barack Obama say about a group of Americans last week, “at a certain point you’ve made enough money.”

WSIL TV • Family Denied Medical Treatment Because of State's Debt

The dirty little secret is that this is happening at the federal level as well.  the slowest paying “insurance” is that provided by Medicare.  Nearly 1/3 of all doctors refuse to accept Medicare patients.  Wonder how well things will work once Obamacare is in full swing.

 

WSIL TV • Family Denied Medical Treatment Because of State's Debt

 

WILLIAMSON-- A Carterville mom says she was denied medical care for her children because the state isn't paying its bills.
As the Illinois budget crisis drags on, it's impacting more and more people.
Now, some doctors in southern Illinois are limiting services for patients employed by the state or is asking those patients to pay up front.

WWII Pacific Theater - a set on Flickr

An amazing set of photos take by soldiers of Tinian – well worth the time spent watching the slide show!

 

WWII Pacific Theater - a set on Flickr

American Thinker Blog: The facts on illegal immigration

Want the facts on Illegal immigration – the real numbers and details.  Have a gander at the pdf listed below.

American Thinker Blog: The facts on illegal immigration

Clarice Feldman

As the rhetoric on illegal aliens residing in the U.S. heats up, it would be nice to have some reliable facts with which to work. The Congressional Research Service has put them together for us--the numbers, areas of residence, time of arrival, participation in the work force--all in one tightly written pdf file.

Power Line - Whistling past the death panel

What was that about death panels again??  Meet Dr. Death.

 

Whistling past the death panel

April 29, 2010 Posted by Paul at 10:29 PM

President Obama has selected Dr. Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Berwick is a Harvard professor, a pediatrician, and the CEO of a nonprofit that, according to its website, has a staff of over 100 people. These seem like dubious qualifications to head a massive organization with a budget greater than that of the Department of Defense.

As Jeffrey Anderson explains, however, Dr. Berwick is a perfect pick for Obama. For like Obama, Berwick believes that our health-care system should be run through Washington, and that the bureaucracy should exercise a strong degree of control over questions of life and death.

Costly IRS Mandate Slipped into Health Bill | Cato @ Liberty

Hope and Change, Hope and Change!   I guess Nancy was right, we really did have to pass the bill before we found out what was in it.

 

Costly IRS Mandate Slipped into Health Bill | Cato @ Liberty

Posted by Chris Edwards

Most people know about the individual mandate in the new health care bill, but the bill contained another mandate that could be far more costly.

A few wording changes to the tax code’s section 6041 regarding 1099 reporting were slipped into the 2000-page health legislation. The changes will force millions of businesses to issue hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of additional IRS Form 1099s every year. It appears to be a costly, anti-business nightmare.

Still Government Motors - Forbes.com

What it looks like when a government owned company talks to it’s shareholders the way it talks to voters.

Still Government Motors - Forbes.com

Shikha Dalmia, 04.23.10, 03:40 PM EDT

GM is paying back Uncle Sam to shake him down for more money.

GM CEO Ed Whitacre announced in a Wall Street Journalcolumn Wednesday that his company has paid back its government bailout loan "in full, with interest, years ahead of schedule." He is even running TV ads on all major networks to that effect--a needless expense given that a credulous media is only too happy to parrot his claims for free. Detroit Free Press' Mike Thompson, for example, advises bailout proponents to start "warming up their vocal chords" to jeer their opponents with chants of "I told you so."

But before belting out their victory aria, GM-boosters ought to hear the whole story--not just the fairytale version about Government Motors' grand comeback that Mr. Whitacre is feeding them.

The American Spectator : What Lies Beneath

No, tell me it’s not true!!!  The Big O withheld information that was detrimental to his case for healthcare reform.  Now it’s actually going to RAISE the debt, not lower it???  Color me shocked!!!

 

What Lies Beneath

By The Prowler on 4.26.10 @ 6:09AM

OFFICE POLITICS
The economic report released last week by Health and Human Services, which indicated that President Barack Obama's health care "reform" law would actually increase the cost of health care and impose higher costs on consumers, had been submitted to the office of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius more than a week before the Congressional votes on the bill, according to career HHS sources, who added that Sebelius's staff refused to review the document before the vote was taken.

Iowa Public Radio :: Home

A IPR item on our Benton County Advocates debate tonight.

 

Iowa Public Radio :: Home

Crowded Debate

04/27/10 filed

by Joyce Russell

An unusually crowded field of candidates is vying for the Republican nomination in Iowa�s third congressional district. Seven men are competing to take on incumbent Leonard Boswell in the general election. That�s causing headaches when it comes to holding candidate forums. (3:25)

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Obama’s National Security Advisor and his Jewish merchant joke.

Isn’t it interesting that members of the Obama administration feel so secure telling their racist and anti-Semitic jokes?  And the amount of laughter in the background.  Hope and Change, hope and change.

Jones Cracks Greedy Jew Joke During Speech (Video)

Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, April 26, 2010, 4:52 AM

Obama’s National Security Advisor Gen. James Jones Ret. cracked a greedy Jew joke during a key note speech at a Washington Institute For Near East Policy last week. The administration reportedly deleted all references to the joke afterwards, but fortunately CSPAN cameras were there and apparently caught it.
So did Yid With Lid:

The joke was scrubbed from the official transcript. Yid with Lid reported:

Was the Joke Anti-Semitic? Well, the White House must have thought so. The White House transcript sent to reporters after the event conveniently began a couple of minutes into the speech. The video of the event posted on the Washington Institute Web site started right after the Joke, you can even hear the end of the laughter.  Its interesting that the same President that see racism in the legitimate actions of the Cambridge Police and the State of Arizona, hides the anti-Semitic prose of its National Security Adviser.

Government Releases New Numbers on Obamacare Showing Costs Will Skyrocket

Hummmmm – seems like I heard the Republicans saying exactly what this new study says.

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/04/government-releases-new-numbers-on-obamacare-showing-costs-will-skyrocket/

Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, April 23, 2010, 10:33 PM

The federal government released a new report on the cost of Obamacare and the results are troubling. The report comes from actuaries from Medicare and Medicaid. Medical costs will skyrocket rising $389 billion 10 years. 14 million will lose employer-based coverage. Millions will be left without insurance. And millions more will be may be dumped into the already overwhelmed Medicaid system. 4 million American families will be hit with tax penalties under this new law.

FOXNews.com - Report: Health Overhaul Will Increase Nation's Tab

Shocked!  Shocked I tell you!! 

 

FOXNews.com - Report: Health Overhaul Will Increase Nation's Tab

Associated Press

A report by economic experts at the Health and Human Services Department said the new health care law will expand insurance but won't reduce runaway costs

AP

Mar. 30: President Barack Obama shakes hands after signing the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act in Alexandria, Va.

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law will increase the nation's health care tab instead of bringing costs down, government economic forecasters concluded Thursday in a sobering assessment of the sweeping legislation.

A report by economic experts at the Health and Human Services Department said the health care remake will achieve Obama's aim of expanding health insurance -- adding 34 million Americans to the coverage rolls.

But the analysis also found that the law falls short of the president's twin goal of controlling runaway costs, raising projected spending by about 1 percent over 10 years. That increase could get bigger, however, since the report also warned that Medicare cuts in the law may be unrealistic and unsustainable, forcing lawmakers to roll them back.

GM repays loan to US…actually, not really | Radio Vice Online

Details, it’s always about the details.

 

GM repays loan to US…actually, not really | Radio Vice Online

April 22, 2010 at 3:41 pm by SoundOffSister
 

It was with great fanfare yesterday that General Motors announced that it was repaying some $4.7 billion of $6.7 billion in loans it received from the federal government.  And, with even bigger fanfare, it was announced that this partial repayment was being made some five years earlier than expected.

Too good to be true?  Well, it is.