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| Feels Like a Depression to Me Alan Caruba The United States is not in "a summer of recovery" and is not likely to see any recovery if taxes increase. Massive "reform" of Medicare will drive up insurance and healthcare costs. Massive infusions of taxpayer money to keep states afloat to pay for Medicaid and other mandated costs are temporary at best. |
With all the
clamor over the government taking over or, further controlling the
nation's
health care industry, let us not forget the primary issue that
propelled Barack Obama to
the presidency — the financial crisis of 2008.
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| GZM Imam: Make Israel 'Another Arab State' As Ground Zero-area mosque Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf heads home a few days early from his State Department-sponsored trip to the Mideast, the Wall Street Journal quotes from two letters he wrote to the NY Times in the 1970s in which he is less-than-committed to preserving the Jewish State of Israel. | |
| Tony Blair: Radical Islam is World's Greatest Threat; Radical Islamists are "regressive, wicked and backward-looking" The former British leader – who now acts as the Middle East envoy for the international Quartet – said that Iran was one of the biggest state sponsors of radical Islam, and it was necessary to prevent it by any means from developing a nuclear weapon. | |
| Trial Delayed for NY Muslim Charged with Beheading Wife The trial of a western New York man accused of beheading his wife and leaving her body at the Muslim-oriented television station they owned has been delayed until January. Jury selection had been scheduled to start next week but is now set for Jan. 10. |
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| Unexpectedly Private Sector Drops 10,000 Jobs Private-sector jobs dropped by 10,000 nationwide in August, the latest sign the economy continues to struggle. Large companies with at least 500 employees added 1,000 jobs last month, but midsize businesses cut 5,000 jobs and small companies eliminated 6,000 workers, according to Automatic Data Processing Inc. |
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| Mexican Drug Cartels Now Control Parts of Arizona Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, whose county lies at the center of major drug and alien smuggling routes to Phoenix and cities east and west, attests to the violence. He said his deputies are outmanned and outgunned by drug traffickers in the rough-hewn desert stretches of his own county. |
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| AZ Gets 30 Nat'l Guard and 15 "Warning Signs" Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said requests by Arizona law enforcement personnel and Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) for 3,000 National Guard troops along the state's border with Mexico have been answered so far with 1 percent of that number deployed there this week. |
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| New FOIA Obtained Evidence Undermines Feds' Case Against Arizona and Maricopa County's Sheriff Joe Arpaio Byron York ICE investigators also interviewed top federal officials involved in illegal immigrant cases in Arizona. They found an "excellent" working relationship between the sheriff's office and the feds. ICE talked as well to federal prosecutors in Phoenix, who described the cases brought by Maricopa County as "high quality." | |
| Hopey-Changey Smacks Black Workers the Worst When the unemployment rate rose last month, the pain wasn't spread evenly. Black workers still have a far higher unemployment rate than other groups measured by the Labor Department. And the gap appears to be widening. In August it hit 16.3 percent after being 15.6 in July. | |
| While Members Suffer, Unions Waste Millions on Political Campaigns Timothy H. Lee – Center for Individual Freedom Today's labor movement claims to hold its individual members' welfare paramount. So what message do its leaders send when they opt to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on political campaigns while members continue to suffer very difficult economic times? |
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| A Black Man Goes to Glenn Beck's Rally Jerome Hudson I laughed and said "Ma'am, Al Sharpton is a pretender. He is going to tell you to pretend that the color of your skin matters. He is going to ask you to ignore the now overwhelming proof that 50 years after the Civil Rights movement, blacks are now destroying each other faster than the KKK could have dreamed." |
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| George Soros Launches Frontal Assault Against Tea Party Kurt Nimmo Teapartytracker.org will be sponsored by the NAACP, Think Progress, New Left Media and Media Matters for America. Think Progress is a George Soros operation connected to John Podesta’s Center for American Progress. Podesta is Clinton’s former chief of staff. Media Matters for America is the brainchild of a MoveOn consultant and Podesta’s Center for American Progress. | |
| Sec. Duncan's Invitation Just the Start of the Problem Neal McCluskey So U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan invited every Education Department employee to attend Rev. Al Sharpton's Glenn Beck counter-rally. As David Boaz explained in the Examiner, it was a "highly inappropriate" thing to do, pushing people who are supposed to serve all Americans to support one side of a "political debate." But that's just the most obvious problem with Duncan's weekend doings. |
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| ‘Anguish’: U.S. Grapples with Bedbugs as EPA Limits Options The problem has gotten so bad that the Environmental Protection Agency warned this month against the indoor use of chemicals meant for the outside. The agency also warned of an increase in pest control companies and others making “unrealistic promises of effectiveness or low cost.” |
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| Is the EPA to blame for the Bed Bug 'epidemic'? Jonathan Strong Hide your kids, hide your wife, and hide your husband. Bed bugs are biting everybody out there – in recent weeks invading the headquarters of CNN, Elle magazine and a popular movie theater in Times Square. While worst in the Northeast and especially New York City, blood-sucking bed bugs are making a remarkably rapid resurgence worldwide. |
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| Shoppers 'panic buying' Old 75W Bulbs Before EU Ban Comes Into Force Last year 100W incandescent light bulbs were outlawed, triggering the first wave of stockpiling by worried consumers who do not like the more expensive energy saving alternatives. Now it will be an offence to import or manufacture 75W bulbs, although shops can continue to sell the model until stocks run out. |
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| Report: HUD Wastes $1 Billion a Year on Energy "By failing to take full advantage of existing energy efficiency programs, the federal government wastes taxpayers' money, needlessly spends scarce housing funding on energy and utility bills, and plunges poor families deeper into poverty," said Charlie Harak, a NCLC senior attorney and author of the report. |
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| How Clean and Green are Electric Vehicles? It All Depends… All electric vehicles (EVs) cause carbon emissions, unless all of the electric generation used to charge the batteries comes from non-fossil based sources such as wind, solar, hydro etc. For the foreseeable future we expect utilities to have an evolving resource portfolio. Maybe we’ll see 20 – 30 percent non-fossil generation mix by 2050. |
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| Who is responsible for Warmabomber's violent agenda? Glenn Harlan Reynolds In contemporary America, no respectable person would advocate, say, the involuntary sterilization of blacks or Jews. Why, then, should it be any more respectable to advocate the involuntary sterilization of everyone? Or even of those who cause “social deterioration?” |
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| Scientist's Firing After 36 Years Fuels 'PC' Debate at UCLA A longtime professor at UCLA, told that he would not be rehired because his "research is not aligned with the academic mission" of his department, says he's being fired after 36 years at the prestigious school because his scientific beliefs are "politically incorrect." But UCLA says Dr. James Enstrom's politics have nothing to do with its decision. |
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| Back To School - The Higher Education Bubble Walter Russell Mead Glenn Reynolds has been blogging up a storm over what he calls the 'bubble' in higher education. The bubble analogy is dead-on for some parts of the educational world. In an age of outsourcing and technological change, a law degree (even from a 'name' school) is no longer going to be the kind of ticket to affluence that it once was. |
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| Grading the Teachers: Value-Added Analysis The L. A. Times has produced an analysis of how effective the Unified School District teachers have been at improving their students' performance on standardized tests. The Times has decided to make the ratings available because they bear on the performance of public employees who provide an important service, and in the belief that parents and the public have a right to the information. |
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| Name-Calling “Islamophobia”: the Latest Charge to try to Stifle Legitimate Debate Andrew Klavan One of the cleverest tricks of the cultural Left is demonizing perfectly reasonable actions and opinions by giving them sinister names. It is the logical go-to technique for those whose ideas have failed in every practical application but who nonetheless still dominate the media by which ideas are spread. |
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| The Terror Imams and Their Mosques
& Schools Michael Ledeen Many scholars of Islam yearn for an Islamic “Reformation” that would modernize the faith and enable Muslims to participate more fully in the modern world. Perhaps we can help. Yes, they can say whatever they wish. And we can tell them what we think about it. It’s called free speech and vigorous debate. |
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| A Referendum On The Economy The Denver Post calls for the end of Keynesian theory New figures that show our nation's economy back on life support ought to be a game-changer for our elected officials and anyone seeking office. Economic growth was revised down to a piddling 1.6 percent in the second quarter, the Commerce Department reported Friday. It's a significant drop from the 3.7 percent growth in the first quarter. |
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| Little-Known Fact: Obama's Failed Stimulus Program Cost More Than the Iraq War Mark Tapscott Just some handy facts to recall during coming weeks as Obama and his congressional Democratic buddies get more desperate to put the blame for their spending policies on Bush and the war in Iraq. |
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| AP
Fact Check: What Joe Biden Didn't Mention About the Stimulus The weatherization program the vice president highlighted in his visit to New Hampshire Thursday is widely considered among the least organized spending projects under the $814 billion economic stimulus law and has regularly been targeted for criticism of its slow progress by auditors and outsiders. Biden didn't hint much at its troubles. |
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| John Boehner's Pro-Growth Message: Is A Mighty Stock Rally Next? Larry Kudlow It sounds like the new Republican Party intends to end the ongoing war against private-capital investment, entrepreneurial rewards, free-market incentives, and private business that is plaguing the economy and sapping the strength of the recovery. |
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| Democrats Stalled Our Economic
Engine AJ Strata Before the health care bill was passed, before the depth of the Democrats' economic failure was fully appreciated, the country was trimming down the rolls of the long term unemployed. That changed in the early spring of this year. And late this summer those rolls started to expand again – at a staggering rate. |
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| These days, it's best to expect the
'unexpected' Howie Carr The national economy is in the tank – unexpectedly. At least it's "unexpected" by the mainstream media, and professional economists. After all these months, these pampered pukes remain flummoxed by how clueless their hero Barack Obama has shown himself to be on economic (and other) issues. |
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| Iraq: The War That Broke Us — Not Randall Hoven The Iraq War ends this month. The last combat brigade left August 19. Operation Iraqi Freedom, which began in 2003, will end August 31. September 1 marks the beginning of Operation New Dawn. Now that it's over, what did the Iraq War cost? Here are examples of what some people had been saying about Iraq War costs. |
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| America's Hidden Debt – Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac Joe Tauke So how much money will ultimately be needed to make Fannie and Freddie whole? That depends on how much their assets are actually worth. In June, the New York Times reported that the enterprises were taking an average loss of over 40% every time they sold a property. |
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| Perfect Timing: Construction Costs
Set to Skyrocket in California as Democrat Eco-Nuts' New 'CALGreen'
Standards Kick In Doug Ross To monitor compliance, CALGreen requires that builders fill out worksheets (23 pages of forms and templates), pay for inspections, verify business partners' conformance, and a whole bunch of other fun tasks wholly unrelated to, uhm, construction. |
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| DC's 'truth, honor' Rally Tests
Glenn Beck's Power Glenn Beck, the man behind Saturday's rally at the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech, has built an empire around his own voice that grew exponentially with his move to Fox News Channel and President Barack Obama's election to the White House. |
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| Russ Carnahan Confirms TEA Party
Had No Connection with Firebomb Story Rep. Russ Carnahan confirmed that former staffer Chris Powers was the individual who “firebombed” his campaign office, not tea party activists as some in the local media had reported. |
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| Our
Schools, Dumb and Dumber Alan Caruba As the nation's children return to elementary and secondary schools, it is increasingly essential that their parents and communities coast to coast realize how poorly served they are and how their learning environment is increasingly tainted by a socialist agenda. |
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| 14th Amendment – Never Meant for
Illegals Gerald Walpin As the Supreme Court held in the Slaughterhouse Cases shortly after the adoption of that amendment, the main purpose "was to establish the citizenship of the negro," who, while recently freed in the Civil War, "were still not only not citizens, but were incapable of becoming so by anything short of an amendment to the Constitution." |
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| The Role of Information in American
"Islamophobia" Paul Mirengoff We have learned that the radical ideology behind 9/11 is not quite as alien as we thought. Some portion of the American Muslim community – presumably small, but we don't know how small – is drawn to it. Moreover, what looks like a considerable portion of those who hold themselves out as leaders of American Muslims refuse to disassociate themselves from terrorist groups. |
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| Islamophobiaphobia Roger L. Simon So now you can call me Islamophobiaphobic. But I am not the only one. My suspicion is that we are many. How do you know us? Well, not just because we break out in a rash when touching the editorial page of the New York Times or get migraine headaches in the presence of Christiane Amanpour. There are subtler indications. |
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| FBI: Hate Crimes Against Muslims
Rare In 2008, 105 hate crime "incidents" against Muslims were reported nationwide. There were 10 times more incidents recorded as anti-Jewish during the same year, the most recent for which figures are available. |
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| Progressives Against Progress Fred Siegel If one were to pick a point at which liberalism’s extraordinary reversal began, it might be the celebration of the first Earth Day, in April 1970... The event brought together disparate conservationist, anti-nuclear, and back-to-the-land groups into what became the church of environmentalism, complete with warnings of hellfire and damnation. |
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| Medical Care Facts and Fables Thomas Sowell There is so much political spin, and so many numbers games being played, when it comes to medical care, that we have to go back to square one and the simplest common sense, in order to get some rational idea of what government-run medical care means. |
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| The No-Go Mojo Man Carol A. Taber A couple of weeks ago, Sarah Palin suggested that President Obama lacked the requisite "cojones" to stand up for border security. She should have waited. If she had, she would have seen that President Obama's lack of cojones extends far beyond border security – it extends to our national security more broadly. |
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| Do You Know Your Geography in
Israel? Thirteen eye opening scenes from inside the tiny nation of Israel. This is imperative to understanding the living conditions of those caught up in the Jewish-Palestinian conflict and the struggle for a decent place to live. |
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| EPA Rejects Lead Ammo Ban Petition; Quick Decision Surprises Many, Pleases Gun Owners The swift rejection of the petition that had literally just been posted for public comment came as a surprise to organizations on both sides of the issue. The EPA had planned to accept public comment for a 60 day period and make a decision regarding the petition on November 1st. |
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| Harry Reid Delays Food Safety Bill; Diane Feinstein Adds 'Killer' Amendment The Senate's yearlong failure to pass a food safety overhaul has hampered the ability to quickly recall the 600 million eggs connected to a salmonella outbreak. The House approved its version of the food safety bill in July 2009 – that was more than 60 recalls of Food and Drug Administration regulated products ago, according to a report by the Make Our Food Safe Coalition. |
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| The Utility Industry: Stodgy and
stuffy maybe, but malevolent? Give it a rest! Paul Mauldin As far as rates go, consider that the average U.S. rate is around 10 cents per kilowatt-hour. That's about a third of the cost of electricity in Germany, considered the world leader in renewable resources, and about a quarter the cost of Danish or Italian service. |
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| Al Gore's Global-Warming Crusade
Shrinks Matt Patterson "[T]his [cap-and-trade] battle has not been successful and is pretty much over for this year." Mr. Gore blamed everyone and their monkey for the failure of Congress to pass comprehensive climate legislation, including his former colleagues: "The U.S. Senate has failed us," he lamented, "the federal government has failed us." |
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| DSA Marxists Strengthen Grip on
SEIU – Set to Step Up Push for "Immigration Reform" After the recent resignation last week of Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger, SEIU president Mary Kay Henry, announced her intention to nominate Executive Vice President Eliseo Medina to Burger's former post, the second highest in the union, at SEIU's next board meeting in Los Angeles. |
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| Obama, Dems got 88% of 2008
Contributions by ABC, CBS and NBC Network Execs, Writers, Reporters;
Chump Change left for GOP Mark Tapscott Senior executives, on-air personalities, producers, reporters, editors, writers and other self-identifying employees of ABC, CBS and NBC contributed more than $1 million to Democratic candidates and campaign committees in 2008, according to an analysis by The Examiner of data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. |
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| Another Dem Congresswoman Accused
of Ethics Violation The recipients – 4 relatives and 2 aide's children – were ineligible under anti-nepotism rules of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, which provided the money. And all of the awards violated a foundation requirement that scholarship winners live or study in a caucus member's district. |
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| The Stump Speech Hugh Hewitt We have to make a U-Turn, and we have to make that U-Turn on November 2. President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid do not care what you think or how you are suffering. They have a vision, a radical vision, a vision of a remade America in which the government makes all the decisions, takes all the wealth and picks winners and losers. |
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| California May be Broke, Busted,
Bankrupt, Yet L.A. Unveils $578,000,000.00 School, Costliest in the Nation Next month's opening of the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools will be auspicious for a reason other than its both storied and infamous history as the former Ambassador Hotel, where the Democratic presidential contender was assassinated in 1968. With an eye-popping price tag of $578 million, it will mark the inauguration of the nation's most expensive public school ever. |
Hey! It's for the children! |
| Tax Dollars To Build Mosques Washington Times editorial The State Department is sending Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf – the mastermind of the Ground Zero Mosque – on a trip through the Middle East to foster "greater understanding" about Islam and Muslim communities in the United States. However, important questions are being raised about whether this is simply a taxpayer-funded fundraising jaunt to underwrite his reviled project, which is moving ahead in Lower Manhattan. |
Read 22 CFR 205.1 here See Sec. (d) |
| Charge: Taxpayer Money Promoting
Islam Worldwide Erin Roach American taxpayer money is being used to build mosques and otherwise promote Islam, according to a conservative watchdog group, a Washington newspaper and a Middle East commentator. |
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| Ten Theses on Obama's Iftar Speech Scott Johnson Obama carefully read his speech, including this statement. When he got to this passage, he spoke slowly, with some vehemence and condescension. Regarding these remarks, as the late, great William Buckley used to say, a few observations. |
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| Saudi Newspaper Editorializes: Military Strike Against Iran may be Best Solution An editorial in the Saudi daily Al-Madina, published in the wake of announcements in Iran and Russia regarding the imminent activation of the nuclear reactor in Bushehr, took a hard line vis-à-vis the Iranian nuclear program, claiming that the military option may be the best way to deal with it. |
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| Skip the Lectures On Israel's
'risks for peace' George Will In the 62 years since this homeland was founded on one-sixth of 1 percent of the land of what is carelessly and inaccurately called "the Arab world," Israelis have never known an hour of real peace. Patronizing American lectures on the reality of risks and the desirableness of peace, which once were merely fatuous, are now obscene. |
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| Sen. Mitch McConnell, “I take him
at his word” he's Christian. Not Good Enough as MSM Question McConnell's Sincerity "The president says he's a Christian. I take him at his word," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." "I think the faith that most Americans are questioning is the President's faith in the government to generate jobs." |
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| Advance And Be Recognized Richard Fernandez The president, as Franklin Graham says, can only be taken at his word. The problem is that he has sent too many, too conflicted and too complex a signal to be readily understood. He was the blank canvas on which people projected their dreams; and to which they have now projected their fears. |
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| Obama has himself to blame for
Muslim Problem Byron York Since Smitty the barber first asked the question 25 years ago, Barack Obama has been reluctant to discuss his Muslim roots. Except, of course, when he's been eager to discuss his Muslim roots. And roots aside, to the outside observer, Obama sometimes doesn't appear to practice any faith at all. Put it all together, and is it any wonder the public is confused? |
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| Only Cowards Stone People to Death: An Islamic Religious Ritual Phyllis Chesler What does this tell us? First, that barbarians are mainly cowards who do not view themselves as responsible for their actions. Everyone is the murderer and therefore, no one is the murderer. The group both absorbs and atones for any possible guilt or hesitation that even one individual might have felt. |
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| Obama Knew Gulf Drilling Ban Would
Cost at Least 23,000 Jobs Mark Tapscott Interior Department officials knew beforehand that President Obama's six-month moratorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico would cost more than 23,000 jobs and inflict devastating economic damage throughout the region. Even so, the administration was not deferred from defying a federal judge and doing it anyway. |
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| Politics, Not Science, Drove White House to Release Rosy Gulf Oil Report Bill Lehr, a senior scientist at NOAA and an author of the report, told congressional investigators that data supporting the study is still unavailable and the peer review remains unfinished. Lehr also said the decision to release the report was made by the White House, not the government’s lead science agency for oil spills. |
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| Obama Propaganda Exposed in Issa
House Oversight Report is Only the Beginning Liberty Chick A stinging report was issued yesterday by Darrell Issa, ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The report, titled "Analysis of the First Year of the Obama Administration: Public Relations and Propaganda Initiatives," outlines a host of propaganda activities conducted by the Obama administration at the direct expense of the American taxpayers. |
Oversight Comm. report here (37-pg PDF) |
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I'm Not Hiring — When you add it all up, it costs $74,000 to put $44,000 in Sally's pocket Michael P. Fleischer With unemployment just under 10% and companies sitting on their cash, you would think that sooner or later job growth would take off. I think it's going to be later - much later. Here's why. My company has to write checks for $74,000 so Sally can receive her nominal $59,000 in base pay. |
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| Florida's Human Death Toll Rises
from Mosquito-borne Encephalitis State health officials are warning all Floridians to make sure they’re wearing mosquito repellent before going outside. Four Florida residents have died in the last couple of months from the mosquito-borne disease eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE. |
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| Bed Bugs Found at Times Square
Movie Theater Bed bugs have seen a phenomenal resurgence in New York in recent years. Once uncommon in industrialized nations, the bugs have become such a problem that the City Council created an Advisory Board to figure out how to deal with the critters. |
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| 4 Decapitated Bodies Hung from
Bridge in Mexico The decapitated bodies of four men were hung from a bridge Sunday in this central Mexican city besieged by fighting between two drug lords. The beheaded and mutilated bodies were hung by their feet early Sunday from the bridge in Cuernavaca, a popular weekend getaway for Mexico City residents. |
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| Shootout in Juárez Forces El Paso,
Texas Citizens to Take Cover The violence in Juárez struck close to home when a shootout across the border sparked a response from law enforcement in El Paso. Paisano Drive was shut down from Executive Center Blvd. to Santa Fe St. for about 30 minutes to prevent people and vehicles from being struck by stray bullets, officials said. |
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| Mexico,
Bloody Mexico Alan Caruba Mexico has a slim hold on anything resembling a civil society where the law enforcement authorities can stem the violence or journalists can report it. Support for building a Mexican border fence is up to 68% according to Rasmussen Reports in late July. |
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| Rasmussen: 58% Favor English-Only
Election Ballots The U.S. Justice Department has told a major Ohio county to print bilingual ballots for the November election or it will be sued by the government. But most voters believe that election ballots in this country should be printed only in English. |
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| Mich. Democrat to be Removed for
Fraudulent 'Tea Party' Filing “Democrats on the Board of Commissioners are very concerned about allegations that an employee of the county party may have had a role in fraudulent Tea Party candidate filings. We have been strong advocates for open and transparent county government, and there is no place in our politics where deception can be tolerated.” |
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| Watch Out for Yellowstone Bears —
They're Hungry Yellowstone's grizzlies are going to be particularly hungry this fall, and that means more dangerous meetings with humans in a year that is already the area's deadliest on record. Scientists report that a favorite food of many bears, nuts from whitebark pine cones, is scarce. |
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| America's Slipping Grasp on
Self-Governance Joseph Ashby The court decisions in Arizona and California and irresponsible federal legislation are more than maddening news stories. These events lend stark perspective to America's slipping grasp on the right to self-governance... today, can we really claim America is being ruled by the American people, particularly during the last two years? |
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| Barack
Obama's Kool-aid for America Alan Caruba It is increasingly evident with every passing day that Barack Obama is America's Jim Jones, undermining the U.S. Constitution while urging Americans to drink his Kool-Aid lies. Need a reminder? Here are a few: |
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| Obama's Comments Take Mosque Story
National; Muslims Insensitive – Barack Tone-deaf The president's comments Friday night were widely interpreted as an endorsement of plans to build a mosque a few blocks away from where nearly 3,000 Americans perished at the hands of Islamic terrorists on 9/11 – an interpretation the White House hadn't disputed, up until Obama's comments in Florida. |
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| Mosques and the Islamization of
America Amil Imani America, with a long tradition of protecting religious freedom, still clings to the "hands off" practice of leaving alone any doctrine or practice billed as religion. A thorny problem is in deciding what constitutes a religion and who is to make that call. |
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| Mischief in Manhattan – We Muslims
know the Ground Zero Mosque is Meant To Be a Deliberate Provocation Raheel Raza and Tarek Fatah Let's not forget that a mosque is an exclusive place of worship for Muslims and not an inviting community center. As Muslims we are dismayed that our co-religionists have such little consideration for their fellow citizens and wish to rub salt in their wounds and pretend they are applying a balm to sooth the pain. |
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| Coming to Grips with Shariah Frank Gaffney Suddenly, it seems, everyone is talking about Shariah. In particular, growing controversies over proposed mosques at Ground Zero and other sites are becoming powerful "teaching moments" – raising awareness about the repressive theo-political-military-legal doctrine that animates the builders and that their fellow adherents seek to impose on the entire world. |
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| Even some Muslims Now Consider
Teaching Students about Jihad Similar to Training Them as Terrorists Robert Spencer - Jihad Watch Here we are again with the same old cognitive dissonance that we see again and again and again: Western authorities and Islamic spokesmen in America and Europe insist that Islam is peaceful, that jihad is a benign struggle for justice, and that those who claim that jihad is warfare (violent and stealthy) to spread Sharia are ignorant "Islamophobes." |
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| The
First Un-American President Alan Caruba That's what you get when you elect a man named Barack Hussein Obama about whom you know nothing other than the fawning, worshipful puke served up by the liberal media all through the campaign and for most of his first year and a half in office. |
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| Obama's 'Cool' Frank Burke Like many rock songs, the lyrics "Hope and Change" and "We are the ones we've been waiting for" were long on sentiment and short on substance. All of this was greatly magnified by the candidate's youth as opposed to John McCain's age. Barack was cool. In the relatively short time since the election, reality has intruded. |
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| The Assassination of King Coal Don Surber When Democrat Joe Biden said on the campaign trail in 2008: "Guess what? We're not supporting Clean Coal… No coal plants here in America," liberal reporters rushed in to protect Barack Obama. They passed it off as a gaffe. Once Obama took office, Biden’s words were proved to be prophetic. |
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| Most-read ever Examiner
editorial: ‘Time to Admit Obamanomics has Failed’ Mark Tapscott Despite spending well past $1 trillion on New Deal-era economic stimulus programs, President Obama's economic recovery program has indeed failed, miserably. So who does he think he is kidding when he says, as he did Friday, that "we have to keep pushing forward" with his policies because "there are some good trends out there"? |
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| Feds Rethink Policies that
Encourage Home Ownership Here it comes – Paving the Way to END the Mortgage Tax Deduction The administration isn't tipping its hand in advance of a conference next Tuesday on housing finance reform in Washington. But officials insist that big changes are coming to housing finance. |
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| Cut Deficit Without Cutting
Services? Start Here Byron York Whenever a conservative suggests reducing the federal deficit by cutting spending rather than raising taxes, there's always someone to ask: Well, what would you cut? Americans may say they want less government spending, the argument goes, but they don't want anyone to touch their services and subsidies and monthly checks. |
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| Why We Need To Let States Go Broke Dick Morris & Eileen McGann Federal Band-Aids won't cover the fiscal problems of such states as New York, California, Michigan and Connecticut forever. State bankruptcy and fundamental restructuring of state and local finance – and labor relations – is at hand. |
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| The Strange Case of Jerry
"Moonbeam" Brown's Calif. Pension After more than a month of investigation, the [O.C. Register] Watchdog can only say for certain that Brown and a handful of other top officials are eligible for generous benefits under a special pension fund so obscure that few people in government know how it works and many thought it had been eliminated 20 years ago by outraged voters. |
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| The Obvious Message of Jerry
Brown's Pension Roger L. Simon A kerfuffle surrounding a clandestine Jerry Brown pension is generating a lot of Drudge action on this lazy August Friday. Servers at the Watchdog blog of the Orange Country Register that broke the story are bogging down. Keep clicking on it. The report is amusing. In fact, it's a bit more than that. |
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| Medicare Chief's Ties Questioned,
Nonprofit's Donors Not Filed "One of the many significant issues related to your nomination that remains unresolved is the potential for conflicts arising from donors to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the organization you founded and led as Chief Executive Officer," Senator Grassley wrote in a recent letter to Dr. Berwick. |
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| Exposure: More Academic
'Misconduct', This Time at Harvard; Original Study Data comes up 'Missing' [T]he larger problem [is] how far the many other articles from Dr. Hauser’s prolific pen can be trusted. Since the committee has made no charges public, the nature of Dr. Hauser’s errors is unknown and could fall anywhere within a wide range, from minor sins like sloppiness and bad record-keeping to self-deception to outright fabrication of data. |
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| When is Swimming in the Gulf NOT
Swimming in the Gulf? Doug Power A couple of days ago, President Obama said that he’d take a dip in the Gulf of Mexico to prove to America that the water in the Gulf was safe for swimming in the wake of the oil leak. According to the White House website, Obama swam off Alligator Point, which is not in the Gulf, but rather in Saint Andrews Bay. If Glenn Beck said he swam in the Gulf but was actually in the Bay, it would be splashed all over Media Matters by now. |
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| The Real Story on the Spanish
Vacation John Hinderaker Next year, President Obama will ask you to make a sacrifice to address the fiscal crisis--he is going to raise your taxes. When that happens, bear in mind that he himself has not been willing to make even a token, symbolic gesture in the direction of economy. |
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| ObamaCare: The sum of All Fears Mary Katharine Ham Throughout the lengthy public debate [on the healthcare bill], President Obama and his surrogates consistently ridiculed and denounced critics of the bill as bad-faith, fear-mongering propaganda merchants. The facts now prove there was plenty to fear in good faith. |
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| Presidential Self-Adulation Hits
New High Andrew B. Wilson This just in from the Obama White House: Good news on the polling front. Even though the president's job approval ratings have plunged into negative territory in every other poll, his score on the all-important PSA Index continues to rise. |
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| U.S. Underemployment Rate 18.4
Percent in July The underemployment rate as measured by Gallup was 18.4 percent in July, up slightly from 18.3 percent in June. The results confirm that there was no real improvement in the U.S. job market last month. The underemployment rate measures both Americans who are unemployed and those working part-time but wanting full-time work. |
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| ICE's Mission Melt: Agents Vote ‘No
Confidence’ in Leadership In an unprecedented move within the Department of Homeland Security, the detention and removal officers and agents responsible for and sworn to enforcing our nation's immigration laws issued an exhaustive, scathing letter simply titled “Vote of No Confidence In ICE Director John Morton and ODPP Assistant Director Phyllis Coven”. |
“unflinching goal of amnesty” |
| Obama's Economic Faux Pas Finally
Recognized Donald Lambro With the economic growth rate sinking to a mediocre 2.4 percent, and major states experiencing jobless rates between 9 percent and 14 percent, it is dawning on voters that the Obama administration doesn't have a clue how to get the economy moving again. |
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| Housing Insanity Megan McArdle If you want to know why us libertarian types are skeptical of the government's ability to prevent housing market bubbles, well, I give you Exhibit 9,824: the government's new $1000 down housing program. No, really. The government has apparently decided, in its infinite wisdom, that what the American economy really needs is more homebuyers with no equity. |
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 “Big Wind” Seeks Taxpayer Assistanceto Remain Viable AWEA and a broad coalition of renewable energy, labor, utility, and environmental organizations are calling on Congress with an urgent appeal to put in place a strong national renewable electricity standard to spur demand for renewable energy, attract manufacturing investment, and save and create jobs. |
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| Financial, Business Groups Call on Obama to
Retain Low Capital Gains and Dividends Taxes A group of some of the country’s largest financial, technology and manufacturing interests warned President Obama on Wednesday that higher taxes on capital gains and dividends would cost thousands of jobs, “stifling the recovery.” |
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| Outrage Grows over Michelle Obama's
Spanish Holiday; British Press Has Cost Exceeding £250,000 ($400,000) “It's the extravagance of Michelle Obama's trip and glitzy destination contrasted with President Obama's demonization of the rich that smacks of hypocrisy and perpetuates a disconnect between the country and its leaders”, said NY Daily News columnist and blogger Andrea Tantaros. [£1=$1.6] |
Would have been nice to spend that cash in the U.S.A. |
| Gulf Widening Between 'Political
Class' and Most Americans Mark Tapscott The Political Class dominates government, the mainstream media, corporate boardrooms, academia, nonprofit activism, and the faculty lounge. Theirs is a world of conceptual analyses, bureaucratic edicts and organization charts, elevated sensibilities, and the conventional wisdoms of political correctness. The rest of us live and work in the real world. |
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| Unaffordable at Any Speed President Obama's Electric Car Subsidies are Snobby and Foolish Charles Lane My problem with the Obama administration's energy policy, or at least with his lavish subsidies for the Volt, Nissan's all-electric Leaf (likely sticker price $33,000), and Tesla's $100,000 all-electric Roadster: Where does the federal government get off spending the average person's tax dollars to help better-off-than-average Americans buy expensive new cars? |
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| Report: 'Green Power' Will Affect
Electric Grid Reliability Significantly Climate change initiatives will require substantial changes to the bulk power system, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation announced in its Reliability Impacts of Climate Change Initiatives (RICCI) Report. |
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| No Mosque R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. It is the only time I can recall the Ruling Class ever being in favor of placing a religious manifestation anywhere. Yet in favoring this mosque, the Ruling Class does put itself squarely in opposition to the Country Class, so it does have a logic to it. |
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| HUMAN EVENTS PETITION TO STOP THE MOSQUE AT GROUND ZERO |
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| Mosque on Fast Track, but Greek
Church Waits; Shame on N.Y. City – Shame on Mayor Bloomberg For the 91st year, members of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox parish in Lower Manhattan gathered on the day in the liturgical calendar that honors the namesake of their church. For the seventh year, they had no church in which to gather. |
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| Bloomberg “Clueless” on Ground Zero
Mosque Patrick J. Buchanan Those firemen, police and rescue workers did not run into those burning buildings to defend constitutional rights, but, acting out of bravery and love, to save their fellow men. And as our God, the one true God, said, “Greater love than this hath no man, than that he lay down his life for his friend.” |
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| Britain's New Export: Islamist
Carnage Daniel Pipes Britain's largest and longest-running terrorist investigation ended last month with the conviction of three British Muslims. Their 2006 plot involved blowing up trans-Atlantic airliners with the hope of killing up to 10,000 people. That near-disaster offers a pungent reminder of the global danger poised by U.K.-based radical Islam. |
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| Gay Marriage — Is Rosie O'Donnell
Typical? “Marriage” was a Political Message Aimed at G. W. Bush Love? It apparently played no role in what Rosie freely admits was a partisan political stunt. As America invests so much energy in the controversy, isn't it time for more of this sort of candor? |
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| There's
Nothing Gay about Being Gay Alan Caruba I began by saying that the gay and lesbian community will not let me ignore the issue of gay marriage... It seems to me that the issue does little other than to inflame the fears and prejudices of the majority for no good purpose. |
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| Obama Administration Planning Huge
Land Grab in Utah; Draft Document Reveals Changes in Federal Land Management "They have clearly been dragging their feet, and they don't want to let us know what they're trying to do," Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) said. He is especially concerned about portions of the document that recommend using the Antiquities Act, "should the legislative process not prove fruitful." The act gives the president power to designate a national monument with no public or legislative input. |
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 1,200
National Guard Troops Being Deployed to Border Will Not Be Used to Stop
and Detain Illegal Aliens“The two mission sets are criminal analysts and enter-identification team,” National Guard Bureau Director of Communications Jack Harrison told CNSNews.com. “I can tell you that guardsmen will not be doing direct law enforcement on the southwest border.” |
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| Across Texas, 60,000 Babies of
Non-Citizens get U.S. Birthright As Republican members of Congress press for changes to the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, preventing automatic citizenship for babies born to illegal immigrants, opponents insist the debate is not really about babies. Instead, they say it is about politics and votes – not fixing the immigration system. |
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| Coming this Fall — “I Want Your
Money” New Film Lampoons Obama-Pelosi Socialist Agenda Set against the backdrop of today’s headline – 67% of Americans don’t approve of Obama’s economic policies, the film takes a provocative look at our deeply depressed economy using the words and actions of Presidents Reagan and Obama and shows the marked contrast between Reaganomics and Obamanomics. |
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| "D" is for Drive, "R" is for Reverse chrissythehyphenated Obama told the union leaders that they have to remind their members over for the next three months that the Republicans “drove America’s economy into a ditch. And for the last 20 months … we’ve been shoving that car out of the ditch and they’ve been standing” aside without “lifting a finger to help.” |
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| Obama's "Birther" Strategy Has
Backfired William A. Jacobson Far from disproving the claims of "Birthers," the Obama strategy simply drove the issue below the surface. Thus, it is not surprising that yet another poll finds that a significant percentage of the population either does not believe Obama was born in Hawaii, or is uncertain. |
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| More Swamp Draining as
Murtha-Linked Lobbyist Arrested on Corruption Charges After the death of John Murtha, media interest in the corruption probe of a lobbying shop run by one of his former aides dissipated, but investigatory interest continued. Yesterday, the Department of Justice arrested and charged Paul Magliocchetti with eleven counts of corruption and conspiracy, alleging a scheme to get hundreds of thousands of dollars from political contributions and federal contracting. |
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| Is You Farm Too Dusty for the EPA? Bureaucratic Edict May Determine 'Appropriate Levels' for Farm Dust 21 Senators complained in a letter dated July 23 to the EPA stating, "If approved, would establish the most stringent and unparalleled regulation of dust in our nation's history. We respect efforts for a clean and healthy environment, but not at the expense of common sense." |
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| A Webb of Lies Michael C. Moynihan A terrific documentary from the BBC World Service asking the age old question, “why are smart people so consistently fooled by evil regimes?” The first program, predictably titled “Useful Idiots,” recounts the Sovietophilia of some very clever people. |
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| It's Gotten to the Point where you
can Assume Everything The Administration Says Is A Lie! For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they're viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that "scanned images cannot be stored or recorded." |
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| Decades of Chemophobic
Indoctrination – Now, Bedbug Baloney Paul Driessen It is hellish for people who must live with bedbugs and can't afford eradication pros such as those Hilton Hotels or Mayor Bloomberg might hire. But [now] imagine what it's like for some 2 billion people who live 24/7/365 with insects that definitely are responsible for disease: malarial mosquitoes. |
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| Wrongly Declared Dead by Social
Security, Woman's Finances Frozen and She's Left Nearly Broke “Every account I had was frozen, no matter where it was at,” she said. “I was left with just pocket change.” Since then she and her husband Rich have collected hundreds of documents, made endless trips to social security officers, and spent hours on the phone with government workers who finally solved the riddle. |
Mmm, mmm, mmm. I want the gov't to run healthcare. |
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