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Heritage releases budget with deeper cuts for seniors
When Medicare and other entitlement plans collapse in fiscal ruin—see my book above—the people who vote Democrat will be saying, “Why didn’t someone see this coming and do something?” ~Bob. Excerpt: The conservative Heritage Foundation released a budget plan Tuesday that balances the federal budget far sooner than the House 2012 budget resolution, in part by cutting benefits for current seniors. As a conservative vision, the Heritage plan sets down a marker that has little chance of enactment. The GOP budget passed by the House has smaller cuts than Heritage's plan and only comes into balance by 2040, but that has not stopped President Obama and Democrats from lambasting it. The budget replaces the income tax with a flat tax and caps non-defense discretionary spending at 2 percent of GDP, down from about 4 percent today.
What Do We Make Today Other Than Bureaucracy?
Excerpt: Impose the world's highest corporate income tax rate, and we can expect the result will be too few corporations and too much government. "The United States America 's corporate income tax rate trails that of only Japan
Former special counsel Bloch sues Rove, Davis and others for $202 million
Why would anyone of ability agree to take the risk of serving in a top government post? ~Bob. Excerpt: Some might have thought the endless legal battles between former Office of Special Counsel chief Scott Bloch and officials in the George W. Bush administration ended when he was finally sentenced in March to one month in prison for contempt of Congress. Not by a long — very long — shot. Bloch, who was appointed by President Bush to head an agency that protects government whistleblowers and enforces the law against political activity in government agencies, has filed a 63-page, $202 million lawsuit against top Bush adviser Karl Rove, former Virginia congressman Tom Davis and dozens of others for allegedly trying to thwart his office’s efforts. When they failed, he claims, they launched a bogus criminal investigation to drive him out of his job.
Excerpt: I believe we could spend our entire national income on health care. Not by frittering money away, but by spending it on goods and services that even in small ways could improve the odds of better health. (Examples below.) I find that most people in health policy agree with that assessment, but rarely do they see its logical (and I would say obvious) implication. If we spent all our income on health, we would have nothing to eat, nothing to wear, no place to sleep. There would be only health care. Since that’s clearly an undesirable state of affairs, it must be good for people to refrain from obtaining all the useful care that money will buy. Further, such restraint needs to be exercised quite often. What brings this to mind is a new RAND study finding that people with Health Savings Account plans consume less care than people with conventional insurance and have lower health care costs. The people who were studied cut back on such “useful care” as mammograms, screenings for cervical and colorectal cancer and even childhood vaccinations. Some critics pounced on this result and claimed that consumer-directed care is bad for patients. The critics are, of course, very wrong.
In Massachusetts
Why Romney is not high on my list for 2012. That and his BS about wishing he could have served in Vietnam Massachusetts
U.S. Companies Pay Income Taxes Twice on Foreign Profits
A nice incentive to move completely out of the US United States U.S. U.S. firm earns $100 in profits in England U.S. U.S.
Son says bin Laden sea burial demeans family: report
He got a better deal than those he murdered on 9/11 and in other terror attacks. In my view, should have fed him to the hogs. Alive. ~Bob. Excerpt: A statement purporting to come from a son of Osama bin Laden denounced the al Qaeda leader's killing as "criminal" and said his burial at sea had humiliated the family, an online monitoring service said.
My Father's Death was Criminal and I may Sue the U.S.: Osama Bin Laden's Son Omar Slams Al-Qaeda Leader's Killing
Huh. Mental illness runs in the family it appears. ~Bob. Excerpt: Omar Bin Laden, 30, who is married to a British woman 25 years his elder, has been based in the Gulf in recent years. He and his wife - formerly known as Jane Felix-Browne, but who now goes by the name Zaina Bin Laden - did not respond to emailed and telephoned requests for comment. In April it was announced that a former British pole dancer has become pregnant with the couple's baby through IVF. However, Louise Pollard, who is now a PA living in London
Scroll Down for VIDEO: Pakistan to Let Chinese Plunder Secret U.S.
Our ally. You can’t have the chopper, but please send another billion bucks. ~Bob. Excerpt: The Chinese military could soon get its hands on the wreckage of a secret U.S. U.S.
Excerpt: On May 16, according to the state-owned Fars News Agency, Iran is going to send what they call an aid flotilla from the southern port city of Bushehr Bahrain Iran state that the flotilla will be carrying the martyrdom forces destined to be the start of a new confrontation with the kingdom in Bahrain
Not Again! ANOTHER passenger tackled and arrested after trying to open Delta airplane door mid-flight
Hope they didn’t violate his rights, or the ACLU will be on them. ~Bob. Excerpt: If this is a new trend, it's one that a very jittery America Orlando , Florida , to Boston
The Real Jihad: Dry Runs and Probes: Those culturally enriched air travellers are at it again, this time on a flight coming into San Francisco
Excerpt: Federal agents are investigating Almurisi’s background. He was carrying a Yemeni passport and a California
'Maybe he was looking for the bathroom': Family defends Yemeni passenger who stormed cockpit, shouting 'Allahu Akbar' as plane came in to land at San Francisco
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1385083/Rageit-Almurisi-Family-defends-Yemeni-man-stormed-cockpit-San-Francisco-flight.html?ITO=1490
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1385083/Rageit-Almurisi-Family-defends-Yemeni-man-stormed-cockpit-San-Francisco-flight.html?ITO=1490
I mean, who hasn’t shouted “Allah Akbar” when pounding on the bathroom door on a plane? ~Bob. Excerpt: The Yemeni man who was wrestled to the floor after pounding on the cockpit door of a plane approaching San Francisco
The left has contributed to this belief by trying to treat the war they are fighting against civilization as a police matter. ~Bob. Excerpt: President Obama deserves credit for killing bin Laden, but his administration’s pitiful and virtually non-existent legal defense of the mission is inexcusable and has given activists the opportunity to argue that the mission was unlawful. But there is no serious question that the killing of bin Laden was lawful. And that’s true under any of the several scenarios given out by the White House. Yet activists have been able to cloud the issue because most people today have not served in the military and thus have no experience with military rules of engagement. Their most ready frame of reference is criminal or human-rights law. In their minds, if a police officer shoots an unarmed man, the police officer has committed a crime. But that analogy is grossly misleading. In fact, it’s plain wrong, as this operation was conducted under the laws of war.
Republicans Unveil YouCut II, now with real legislative power
Excerpt: Republicans will unveil Wednesday YouCut, the sequel, their newly-improved crowd-sourced spending cuts program that allows Americans to vote online for which bloated bureaucracy ought to get the ax. Now, the stakes are real. The “winning” government program each week will more than likely actually get a House vote to cut its funding, sending the proposal over to the Senate, where Republicans hope public participation will spur action there.
Senate Dems Split With Obama On Tranferring Tax Credit Revenue From Oil Companies To Alternative Energy
Excerpt: Democrats agree that it’s time to end tax credits and write-offs for the most profitable oil companies, but when it comes to spending the billions that would be added to government coffers if the bill passes, Congress is ignoring President Obama’s call to use the extra money to subsidize alternative energy. New Jersey Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez, a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, unveiled legislation Tuesday that would end tax breaks for the five largest oil companies — ExxonMobil, Shell, ConocoPhillips, Chevron Texaco, and BP — and funnel the resulting revenue toward deficit reduction.
Illegal Immigration Is No Laughing Matter
Excerpt: The White House correspondents’ dinner might have been two weeks ago, but President Barack Obama continued his comedy routine yesterday in El Paso , Texas
Newt Gingrich's route: Leave no state behind
Excerpt: For Newt Gingrich, who will announce his candidacy Wednesday, the road to the Republican nomination runs through Iowa New Hampshire , South Carolina , Nevada and Florida
Jihad’s Child Suicide Bombers
Pure evil. ~Bob. Excerpt: Despite the Taliban’s denial that it uses children as human explosives, its spring offensive began with a suicide bombing by a 12-year-old boy. The attack is just one more sign that the militant group and its terrorist allies are increasing their efforts to recruit, train and utilize child suicide bombers. The young terrorist’s suicide blast, which killed four Afghan civilians and wounded twelve in the Afghan province of Paktika, was roundly condemned by Afghan President Hamid Karzai as “inhumane and against all Islamic principles.” Yet, it was one of two such suicide attacks carried out by child bombers in eastern Afghanistan Pakistan
The Islamic Infiltration, Part 1: Inside Our Government, Armed With Our Secrets
Why We All Can't Get Along
Excerpt: If you think I'm being unfair to liberals, let me remind you that when Obama's predecessor was in office, not a day went by when the MSM didn't let us know how many American soldiers were dying in Bush's wars. Garry Trudeau even devoted Sunday editions of Doonesbury to listing the names of the fallen. Anyone find it odd that now that Obama is in charge, you don't get a daily, weekly or even monthly, update of numbers and names? Well, just for the record, nearly 1,500 American warriors have died in Afghanistan
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"Without education we are in the horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously." --English writer G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
Ultimate bug repellant may help fight malaria and other insect borne diseases
Excerpt: Imagine an insect repellant that not only is thousands of times more effective than DEET – the active ingredient in most commercial mosquito repellants – but also works against all types of insects, including flies, moths and ants. That possibility has been created by the discovery of a new class of insect repellant made in the laboratory of Vanderbilt Professor of Biological Sciences and Pharmacology Laurence Zwiebel and reported this week in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In preliminary tests with mosquitoes, the researchers found the new class of repellant, called Vanderbilt University Allosteric Agonist or VUAA1, to be thousands of times more effective than DEET. The compound works by affecting insects’ sense of smell through a newly discovered molecular channel. (If this turns out to be useful commercially, these researchers may have saved MILLIONS of lives and earned themselves a place in the records next to both Jonas Salk and J. P. Morgan. And, they’ll deserve every bit of it. Ron P. great news, given the millions of black, brown and yellow kids who died because we banned DDT. ~Bob.)
Excerpt: Is there any other poster outselling this one? Is the Vast Majority of Peaceful Muslims Who Abhor Bin Laden and Abominate Al-Qaeda buying up Gandhi posters at this clip? Or maybe Justin Bieber posters?
Seven suspected Islamists arrested in Paris
Gee, I thought the killing of OBL meant the war on terror was over? ~Bob. Excerpt: FRENCH police captured seven suspected Islamist militants in raids in Paris and its suburbs, officials said on Tuesday, as France Algeria France
History weeps at the partition of India and Pakistan
Excerpt: When you get into discussions about the Middle East with certain people, you start hearing that the great mistake was the partition of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel India and Pakistan Pakistan under the leadership of the secular lawyer Muhammad Ali Jinnah would turn out to be an acceptable counterbalance to an India Pakistan
Do you know how many times Chuck Schumer voted against raising the national debt ceiling?
Excerpt: If you answered "four times" to the question posed in the headline above, you are either spending way too much time in the Congressional Record, or you have superb research and recall skills! Let's just assume it's the latter. Anyway, the right answer is indeed four times, at least. For the record, here's the four occasions, as documented by congressional records.
Obama administration boasting about border security
Excerpt: President Obama traveled to El Paso , Tex. , Tuesday to give a speech on immigration, even though virtually no one in Washington
Renewables and efficiency cannot fix the energy and climate crises (part 2)
Excerpt: Some critical demand, however, never goes away – the power required to run hospitals, police stations, street lights, water and sewerage pumping stations, refrigerators and cold storage, transport (if we are to use electric vehicles), and so on. If the power is lost to these services, even for a short while, chaos ensues, and the societal backlash after a few such events is huge. On the other side of the energy coin, there are times when huge power demands arise, such as when everyone gets home from work to cook their meals and watch television, or when we collectively turn on our air conditioners during a heatwave. If the energy to meet this peak demand cannot be found, the result can be anything from a lot of grumpy people through to collapse of the grid as rolling blackouts occur. (…) The reality is that any of these solutions are grossly uneconomic, and even if we were willing and able to pay for them, the result would be an unacceptably unreliable energy supply system. Truly massive amounts of energy would need to be stored to keep a city or country going through long stretches of cloudy winter days (yes, these even occur in the desert) or calm nights with little wind and no sun, yet energy storage (batteries, chemical conversion to hydrogen or ammonia, pumped hydropower, compressed air), even on a small scale, is currently very expensive. A mix of different contributions (solar, wind, wave, geothermal) would help, but then we’d need to pay for each of these systems, built to a level that they could compensate for the failure of another. What’s more, in order to deliver all of our regular power demand whilst also charging up the energy stores, we would have to ‘overbuild’ our system many times, adding to the already prohibitive costs. As a result, an overbuilt system of wind and solar would, at times, be delivering 5 to 20 times our power demand (leading to problems of ‘dumping’ the excess energy that can’t be used or stored quickly enough or in sufficient quantity), and at other times, it would deliver virtually none of it. (...) The cost to avoid 1 tonne of carbon dioxide would be >$800 with wind power compared with $22 with nuclear power. (Important! This is the site that we used to get most of our now-validated information on the Fukushima Washington
Citizen Cain
Excerpt: Now is the time to test whether the Tea Party means business because, judging by last week's Republican presidential debate, the Tea Party candidate for president in 2012 is self-evident. Herman Cain is the ideal Tea Party candidate. Herman Cain is the ideal citizen candidate among the eminently forgettable posse of professional politicians. Cain has and utilizes, as he did last week in Greenville , South Carolina , the one asset that will unite constitutional conservatives: he is a plain-speaking Gadsden
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