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For the third Saturday in a row, when readers logged on to my blog at http://www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com/, they got a "blog removed" message with no explanation. Each time I logged on to Blogspot and posted a query and the blog returned in a few hours. They say they have a system for auto removing Spam blogs, but mine has zero advertising, except my books, I kill Spam posts, and it has been up since 2008. I don't know if it is a blogspot glitch, like the way they sometimes change scheduled posts to drafts, or an attack. It is costing me readers--weekly page views dropped in that time from over 4k to about 3k. If you get that message, please try again later. I have filed an appeal—didn’t realize it was necessary, as it had come back. We shall see.
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The president's new plan will create as many jobs as his last plan - at only half the price!
I’m putting this digest together ahead of the President’s latest jobs speech—which I’ll skip—but I doubt he’ll tout Solyndra in it. ~Bob
FBI searches shuttered Solyndra offices, plant in California
Excerpt: Federal agents executed a surprise search warrant early Thursday morning at the California
Do Dems Still Trust Alarmist Climate Predictions?
Excerpt: I also share the skepticism voiced by a number of scientists -- yes, scientists -- who reject global warming orthodoxy in defiance of a political/academic machine that enforces submission to one view. Those who do not agree with alarmist predictions on climate change do so at their careers' peril. As then-Delaware state climatologist David Legates told me in 2007, he would tell students who were not true believers of global warming, "If you don't have tenure at a major research university, keep your mouth shut."
Civility for Me, But Not for Thee
Excerpt: President Obama delivered his loviest speech as president in Tucson , Ariz. Tucson Detroit
NY Times: Postal Service May Have to Shut Down This Winter
Employees too many union members to fail. Yet. ~Bob. Excerpt: The U.S. Postal Service may have to shut down this winter unless Congress steps in with emergency action to shore up its finances, according to The New York Times. “Our situation is extremely serious,” Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe told the Times in an interview. “If Congress doesn’t act, we will default.” The agency is so cash-starved that it will not be able to make a $5.5 billion payment due this month, according to the Times.
The Golden State
Excerpt: The recent announcement that California 's unemployment again nudged up to 12 percent—second worst in the nation behind its evil twin, Nevada Golden State California Los Angeles and the Bay Area now rival those of such cities as Detroit
Obama jobs plan could cost $300 billion, include tax cuts, new spending
Excerpt: President Obama is preparing to roll out a jobs program Thursday that could cost as much as $300 billion in infrastructure investments and tax cuts, but which aides said will include ways to pay for the programs that the White House hopes will win bipartisan support from skeptical Republicans. Obama, whose approval ratings are at record lows, will present his proposals before a joint session of Congress at 7 p.m. ET Thursday in an address that could mark a critical moment in his presidency. Obama aims to restore public confidence in his administration’s ability to boost the economy and prevent another recession, even as Republican rivals point to a Labor Department report that showed no new jobs created last month as evidence that his policies aren’t working.
Excerpt: I see that the president, in a spirit of bipartisan compromise, is proposing this time round to toss a mere third of a trillion dollars into the Potomac and watch it float out to sea, all in the interests of what the Associated Press calls “jump-starting” jobs. David Espo and Jim Kuhnhenn are using “jump-start” metaphorically. In fact, I would be interested to know whether Barack Obama has ever in his life jump-started anything in a non-metaphorical sense. Or whether Messrs Espo and Kuhnhenn have. In my (ahem) new book, I have a little section on how so much of our language has decayed from the practical to the metaphorical — a somewhat predictable by-product of an age which values six-and-a-half years of a leisurely Bachelor’s in Whatever Studies over the ability actually to do anything.
No such thing as shovel ready: the supply side of the recovery act
Excerpt: As is often the case when economic models are transferred from the blackboard to actual public policy, there was a gap between theory and practice: looking back, it appears that shovel-ready projects were few and far between.4 As President Obama conceded in an October 2010 New York Times interview, ―There’s no such thing as shovel-ready projects. Our interviews provide a thorough, reality-based vindication of the president’s statement. Based on the information acquired in the interviews, the most vociferous boosters of fiscal stimulus should discount their benefits calculations by a significant factor. Keynesian economists claim that government spending in a recession can have a large multiplier effect, where a dollar of government spending quickly increases the size of the overall economy by a dollar or more: the government hires unemployed workers, who then ―multiply the effect when they shop for consumer goods. In the alternative neoclassical model of the economy, when the government hires workers, it hires them away from other private-sector firms, so government spending creates zero additional employment. Of course, both of these views are caricatures, simplifications; the question for policy makers is which simplification best matches the facts. And based on our interviews, the neoclassical simplification fits the facts better than the Keynesian one. This is not to say that ARRA-funded projects created no value nor that ARRA projects failed to create any temporary jobs. We do not conclude whether the stimulus ―worked or ―failed. Over the next few months, we will analyze all 50 hours of interviews and present a longer, more detailed study. But at this point, we can just make a preliminary conclusion: ramping up is hard to do.
Why the Stimulus Failed ---New research on what actually happened to a trillion dollars.
Excerpt: Even zero jobs growth in August doesn't seem to have disrupted President Obama's faith in the economic policies of his first three years, so one theme we'll be listening for in tonight's speech is how he explains the current moment. Why did his first jobs plan—the $825 billion stimulus—so quickly result in the need for another jobs plan? For readers who want to know, an important account is offered in a pair of new Mercatus Center
The Dirty Secret behind Clean Jobs
Excerpt: Politicians have shifted their focus from the threats posed by global warming to creating green jobs. Under the guise of creating a "clean energy" market, political leaders can claim they are "investing" in the economy, creating new jobs and saving the planet, say Nick Sibilla, a research assistant, and Todd Wynn, vice president, at the Cascade Policy Institute. This rebranded version of the climate change strategy into a jobs creation approach is flawed for several reasons. The term "green jobs" is a vague and vacuous concept. Indeed, in some states, employers define what jobs are "green" in self-reporting surveys without any independent verification. The push to subsidize green jobs is based on faulty economics. The green economy is much more capital intensive than other sectors of the economy; the same amount of capital that creates one job in the clean sector would create more jobs in the industry or the economy in general. Additionally, more workers employed means higher labor costs, which translates to higher prices for energy consumers, higher prices for products made from energy, and taxpayer dollars being siphoned out from potentially more efficient private sector production into inefficient green industries. Meanwhile, efficiency delivers lower costs, which in turn advances Americans' standard of living. Assumptions for job growth are inaccurate or downright false. Some of this growth in green job creation might not even be new jobs. For example, some of the green jobs recently created in Oregon
Daniel Rubin: After 9/11, feeling a stranger back in States
Excerpt: What I remember most is running. It was just after 3 p.m., German time, and I was tearing through the exhibition hall at the Frankfurt auto show, unable to find a TV. The initial report was sketchy. A reporter friend from USA Today had texted me about a small plane crashing into the World Trade Center Afghanistan North Africa , chasing shadows. Two days after the 9/11 attacks, the news broke that the lead suicide pilot, Mohamed Atta, had been living two hours away, in Hamburg
Brainwashing U: Colleges’ sick ‘orientation’ game
Excerpt: Parents sending children off to college for the first time, beware: Their “freshman orientation” is all too likely to include being herded through a “tunnel of oppression” to learn about the evils of “white privilege,” being lectured about how they’re part of a “rape culture” or being forced to discuss their sexual identities with complete strangers -- before they even meet their first professor. That’s right: For all we hear about faculty ideological or political bias, campus administrators are often worse when it comes to brainwashing students. What many university administrators would like to do: The “ideal” freshman orientation might resemble this experiment from the film “Final Destination 5.” Consider the shocking account from a student trained to be a dorm supervisor -- a resident adviser, or RA -- at DePauw University in Indiana
Light up your lottery tickets, pass the Hopium
Excerpt: The man might not know how to stimulate an economy — or buy real estate without asking Tony Rezko — but he sure can read a teleprompter. Even Obama's Republican enemies know there's no one as smooth as he. So what will be in his political speech? I figure the president from Chicago — with all those City Hall types crouching around him — will revert to a tried-but-true, big-city Democratic machine political solution: Print oodles of federal money and throw it at powerful interest groups. And which groups? The bridge contractors and asphalt kings and the road builders, the heavy equipment renters of bulldozers and the no-necks who buy and sell concrete for America
Last Chance to Repair the Breach
Excerpt: This is Obama’s last chance to alter the economic debate with congressional Republicans. This is his State of the Union speech, given five months ahead of schedule by a White House justifiably panicked by polling data that indicates Obama’s credibility on job creation has cratered—and with it his attachment to key reelection constituencies. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows 73 percent of respondents believe the country is on the “wrong track,” the highest number in Obama’s presidency. That number is within striking distance of the 78 percent registered in mid-October 2008, when the country was reeling from the financial meltdown and Obama was on the cusp of winning the presidency. The poll’s wrong-track number has jumped 23 points since May, a sign of a potentially irreversible mood shift. What’s more, the poll shows Obama has hit new lows on the economy. Thirty-seven percent approve of his performance, while 59 percent disapprove. A Washington Post/ABC News poll found similar sentiments. But answers to one question buried in that poll might be the most telling: 47 percent said Obama’s new economic program would have “no effect.” If that wasn’t bad enough, twice as many believe his plan would make matters worse than believe it will make them better—34 percent to 17 percent. (Two important points: first, Major Garrett is no one’s idea of a conservative; second, if the MSM turns against him, Obama is toast regardless of who the Republican nominee is. Ron P.)
I wonder if…….a utopian questionnaire!
Excerpt: recently saw the movie “Seven Days in Utopia” and the word utopia has clung to my psyche ever since. I thought of the decline of America Montana United States America America
Solving Problems
Excerpt: No one can deny that we have a large number of problems facing this country. The difficulty arises in how to solve these problems. The left believes that more government action with regulations and spending are the answer. The right believes that a smaller government and reduced regulations are the answer. What is missing in all of this is “what are the root causes of the problems?” The typical response to a problem is to look at what particular regulation was not followed or what event occurred and there was no regulation or rule to cover it. Stupidity and incompetence are not brought into the mix. Look at the law suit that cost McDonalds a huge amount of money. A stupid person placed a hot cup of coffee between her legs and it spilled. She sued and won. Now all cups have a warning about coffee being hot. DUH! Take a little bit of time and look at the warnings on normal regularly used items. They are humorous, but they are also causing all of us money because of the cost to the businesses. In order to solve a problem one must go to the root cause of that problem and then implement a solution and develop a procedure to insure that the problem remains fixed. I live in Florida
Military Instructed to Cheer Obama at Navy Yard Speech
The Ripples of 9/11: A decade of surprises in the war on terror
Excerpt: It has been a decade since 3,000 Americans were murdered on September 11, 2001. Much of what followed in the subsequent ten years was unexpected, while what was expected did not happen. On October 7, just 26 days after the attacks, the United States went after both al-Qaida and its Taliban sponsors when it invaded Afghanistan Iraq Iraq
Those Post-9/11 -isms and -ologies: A Look Back at a Decade
Hanson at his best! Ron P. Excerpt: The word “appeasement” has had a volatile history. In the 1930s it meant purported sobriety and circumspection in preferring reasonable concessions to an aggressor in lieu of risking destructive war. Appeasement grew in response to the horrors of World War I and the theory that relatively minor differences had eventually led to nightmares like the Somme and Verdun
Five Ways to Create New Jobs in America
Excerpt: Two years ago, President Barack Obama was bold in his optimism for job growth in America America
Military retirement: 83-percent never make it
Excerpt: This column explains why the current military retirement system is an incredibly good deal for the U.S.
The Obama Presidency by the Numbers
Excerpt: The president constantly reminds us that he was dealt a difficult hand. But the evidence is overwhelming that he played it poorly. When it comes to the economy, presidents, like quarterbacks, often get more credit or blame than they deserve. They inherit problems and policies that affect the economy well into their presidencies and beyond. Reagan inherited Carter's stagflation, George H.W. Bush twin financial crises (savings & loan and Third World debt), and their fixes certainly benefitted the Clinton
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Disoriented: The state of too many Western leaders ten years after 9/11/01
Excerpt: "What went wrong?" That was the title of Bernard Lewis' landmark book on Islam's thousand years of global dominance followed by the decline of the caliphate between the 17th century, when Muslim armies were halted at the Gates of Vienna, and the early 20th century when the Ottoman Empire collapsed. This fall from grace left deep scars -- grievances expressed most lethally on Sept. 11, 2001, soon after Professor Lewis' book was completed. Ten years later, the question we might be asking: What has gone wrong with us? The atrocities of 9/11 were said to be a new Pearl Harbor that would once again "awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." Instead, many if not most of our political leaders fight fitfully and without conviction, uncertain about both the nature and the gravity of the threat. One example: Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller, the former head of MI5, Britain
New Pew Poll Undercuts Left’s “Islamophobia” Card
Excerpt: The Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its groupies on the Left, such as the Center for American Progress (CAP), the ACLU, and the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender, have spun out a series of patently absurd conspiracy theories employing the “Islamophobia” canard, which are designed to intimidate critics of Islamic extremism into silence. The latest example of this vitriolic attack campaign is a CAP report titled “Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America.” However, the more these groups pursue this misguided agenda, the more they expose their ignorance with respect to both reality and the actual interests of the Muslim community. This is illustrated by the results of Pew Research Center
The Arab Spring and Christian Persecution
Excerpt: While the Western media and governments have been preoccupied with the so called “Arab Spring,” little if any attention has been paid to the increased persecution of Christians in the Muslim Middle East. Throughout the region, Christians have been targeted by Muslim mobs killing innocent bystanders, burning churches, and destroying Christian properties. Interviewed by The National on June 19, 2011, Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury declared that the Arab Spring is posing a threat to Christian minorities throughout the Middle East. He added that “extremists were filling vacuums left by ousting of autocratic regimes,” and “leading to Copts being targeted in Egypt Syria Iraq Bethlehem
Lessons That Last a Lifetime
Excerpt: Those concerned with peace, beyond lip-service, would have somehow learned about the recent report from the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center that details how Palestinian children spent this summer, as summers past. Tens of thousands of young Palestinian children attended Hamas run “summer camps” where the lessons of martyrdom – like those in their school textbooks and the messages heard everywhere in their towns and on television – were reaffirmed. Likewise, the precepts of the PLO Covenant and the Hamas Charter were reiterated. The camps, for all intents and purposes, are incubators for future generations of Jihadis. And so the question that begs to be asked is how can these children – heirs to any peace agreement that may be signed – who have been raised to hate and are dedicated to killing themselves and others, implement any peace agreement when they have been prepared for anything but peace.
The Democrats’ Voting Agenda Revealed
Excerpt: In essence, the left likes voter fraud, and they have ever since JFK was elected by a bunch of dead folks from Chicago California Palm Beach County during the 2000 election, 60 people voted both in Florida and in New York Texas
Jihad on the Children
Excerpt: Kauda is a town in central Sudan ’s Nuba Mountains Sudan Khartoum ’s extermination campaign began June 5, 2011, after its candidate for Nuba Mountains Sudan ’s civil war and current head of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-North (SPLA-North), the force defending the Nuba from Khartoum Sudan Sudan ’s armed forces and Islamic militias to “just sweep away the rubbish” in the Nuba Mountains
The Mullahs’ Apocalypse Now
Excerpt: A report released by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has cited “increasing concerns” that Iran Iran
Jane Fonda’s ‘Biggest Regret’
Excerpt: A new biography of Jane Fonda by Patricia Bosworth reveals a lifelong lament by the famous actress: “My biggest regret” Fonda is quoted as saying during a “feminist consciousness-raising session,” according to the book’s account, “is I never got to f*** Che Guevara.” In case you read Frontpage, Ms. Fonda, here’s some consolation: “I used to call him El Gallo (the rooster),” recalled Carlos Figueroa, who was Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s adolescent friend in Alta Gracia, Argentina America including New York
Muslim parents of 'honour killing victim' schoolgirl, 17, charged with her murder EIGHT years after she vanished
Excerpt: The parents of suspected honour killing victim Shafilea Ahmed have been charged with their daughter’s murder – eight years after she disappeared. Shafilea, 17, went missing from her home in September 2003 after complaining that her parents were trying to force her into an arranged marriage. A massive hunt was launched for the bright A-level student who had dreamed of becoming a lawyer. Her decomposed body was found in February 2004, hidden near a river in the Lake District . A coroner ruled that the Muslim teenager had been the victim of a ‘vile murder’. (From Bob: Multiculturalists say we should incorporate Shari’a religious law into our law. Here’s Jihad Watch on the subject of honor killings: It is no accident or coincidence that Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. A manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by Al-Azhar University
Dr Asri: Restriction of Islam could provoke apostasy
Excerpt: Influential Muslim scholar Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin today accused religious authorities of using a colonial system to restrict Islam, saying this could further provoke apostasy. … “I gave a sermon saying Islamic justice is not just for Muslims but also for Jews or even those at odds with Islam itself. I was relating it to how we should hear both sides in the case of Jais’s investigations into the church,” he said, referring to the religious authorities probe into alleged proselytisation last month. (So anyone, even non-Muslims, should be tried under Islamic religious law for crimes like insulting Islam. ~Bob.)
Mann hires attorneys to halt FOIA document production
Excerpt: From the there’s “nothing to see here and my lawyer says so too” department, we have news that Dr. Michael Mann really doesn’t want those UVA emails to get sunlight. (…) Specifically over the weekend ATI’s Environmental Law Center received service from two Pennsylvania Environmental Law Center
Uranium munching microbes
Excerpt: Details of the process, which can be improved and patented, are published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The implications could eventually benefit sites forever changed by nuclear contamination, said Gemma Reguera, MSU microbiologist. “Geobacter bacteria are tiny micro-organisms that can play a major role in cleaning up polluted sites around the world,” said Reguera, who is an MSU AgBioResearch scientist. “Uranium contamination can be produced at any step in the production of nuclear fuel, and this process safely prevents its mobility and the hazard for exposure.” The ability of Geobacter to immobilize uranium has been well documented. However, identifying the Geobacters’ conductive pili or nanowires as doing the yeoman’s share of the work is a new revelation. Nanowires, hair-like appendages found on the outside of Geobacters, are the managers of electrical activity during a cleanup. (…) Their effectiveness was proven during a cleanup in a uranium mill tailings site in Rifle, Colo. Researchers injected acetate into contaminated groundwater. Since this is Geobacters’ preferred food, it stimulated the growth of the Geobacter community already in the soil, which in turn, worked to remove the uranium, Reguera said. (Amazing! Nuclear electricity may have just gotten even safer. Miraculously, they did it without using computer models and actually tested the theory in the real world before announcing it. Too bad they aren't doing climate research. Ron P. Maybe we’ll be able to use them to clear the area where DC or NYC stood after Iran
Woman wants county to cover $1K hospital bill for cavity search
Excerpt: A Las Cruces Memorial Medical Center on July 1, according to a tort claim notice Las Cruces
Excerpt: Magellan Surveys has just released a poll in the special election in New York Queens . Historically Democratic, it registered the biggest shift toward George W. Bush between 2000 and 2004 of any congressional district in the nation, going from 67%-30% for Al Gore in 2000 to 56%-44% for John Kerry in 2004.
Excerpt: Obama in new polls by the Washington Post-ABC News and the Wall Street Journal-NBC News. The number of Americans who say the country is on the wrong track has risen to its highest level since just before Obama took office -- into what one commentator calls the "incumbent death zone." His job approval rating is down. The number of people who disapprove of his handling of the economy is rocketing upward. And then there is this question, asked by the Post-ABC: Do you think Obama's economic program is making the economy better, making it worse, or having no real effect? Just 17 percent say the president's program is making the economy better, while 34 percent say Obama's program is making the economy worse and 47 percent say it is having no real effect. Combine those last two numbers, and 81 percent say the Obama economic program is not working -- a devastating number in a country in which economic concerns top all other issues in voters' minds.
18 Killed in Communal Violence in Nigeria
Didn’t get the memo. ~Bob. Excerpt: Eighteen people were killed in communal violence in flash point Central Nigerian city of Jos NATO , US America
A White House 'Gunrunner'?
Excerpt: Operation Gunwalker, the rogue ATF operation to arm Mexico Latin America , and two other officials, were in on ATF memos from the Gunwalker operation called "Fast and Furious." That blows apart White House claims that it had no idea the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was encouraging frontmen for Mexico 's cartels to buy weapons from U.S. U.S. guns were sold in Gunwalker but simply disappeared — until they turned up at massacres in Mexico
Obama Health Care Challenges Dismissed By Federal Court
How dare the subjects question a decree of Barack I. Virginia Cincinnati upheld the law, while an appeals court in Atlanta
Fattest Woman on Earth: I Blame It On My Genes
Excerpt: After reaching 700 pounds, Pauline Potter has officially entered the record books as the world's heaviest woman. But the 47-year-old from Sacramento , California California California
Rapper's Song Offensive to Troops
the troops are in good company—rappers often degrade women and cops. Soulja Boy couldn’t make it in the Libyan Rebel Army. ~Bob. Excerpt: The rapper's name -- Soulja Boy -- was one thing. But a song that flat out dissed the troops? Not being taken to kindly by real Soldiers. In an anti-war song called "Let's be Real" that went viral this weekend, Soulja Boy had this to say: "And f--k all the Army troops. Fighting for what? Bitch be your own man.” Offended Soldiers have had plenty to say back in rap songs of their own, and Soulja Boy sent out a mea culpa to the troops.
More Tales from the Collegiate Loony-Bin
Excerpt: I’ve recently started recovering from forty years among pseudo-academic weirdos in the collegiate loony bin. One persistent aspect of modern college life is its obvious loathing for anything that smacks of Christianity. This includes whiting out Christian symbols and references to Christian holidays from the academic landscape. In the fall of 2006, a bronze cross was carted out of Wren Chapel at William and Mary lest it cause offense to unidentified spectators. Faculty members I’ve had the misfortune of knowing usually vibrate with excitement at such displays of sensitivity, and whenever the possibility exists for replacing “Christmas greetings” with “Have a blessed Kwanzaa,” “Peace to you on Ramadan,” or an inspirational listing of white racist sins, academics will run to make this happen. Staff members once changed a “Yule Bowl Party” to a “Season’s Greeting Festival,” arguing that “Yule” references were an affront to non-Westerners. Perhaps an itinerant Hindu would wander into the gathering and go bonkers at the mention of something once associated with Christianity. (Sounds just like Los Angeles City College
The Slandering of the American Conservative Movement Has Begun
Begun? It’s been the standard tactic since the “daisy Girl” ad. ~Bob. Excerpt: Krugman’s article is a good example of what’s wrong with this hogwash reporting. It is true that Rick Perry called evolution “just a theory”, but who cares? He’s running to be President of the United States Timbuktu US
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No Way Out
No Way Out
Excerpt: The first volume of Spengler’s The Decline of the West appeared in 1918, just as Big Bertha was raining shells on Paris Germany Weimar Republic Bismarck and Wilhelmine Germany
With weasel words and squirming, Bojangles Holder does the non-denial denial tap-dance.
Excerpt: Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday sought to distance himself and other senior Justice Department officials from a botched operation to track guns smuggled to Mexican drug cartels, saying they were not involved. The Obama administration has been under scrutiny after revelations that as many as 2,000 guns were sold to suspected gun traffickers, not properly tracked and ended up at crime scenes in the United States and Mexico Arizona
Myth and Reality After 9/11
Excerpt: Why did radical Islamic terrorists kill almost 3,000 Americans a decade ago?
Few still believe the old myth that prior U.S. foreign policy or support for Israel U.S. throughout the 1990s had saved Islamic peoples from Bosnia and Kosovo to Somalia and Kuwait Russia and China U.S. troops stationed in Saudi Arabia
The Five Biggest Reasons Republicans Keep Losing the Propaganda War
There are some great points in this piece. Ron P. Excerpt: It never ceases to confound me, dear readers, how on earth Republicans keep losing America
Ten Years Later
Excerpt: September 11, September 11, for me it’s all about friend and family. Above all the others, the friend is — was — Barbara Olson, who was murdered by al-Qaeda on the airplane that crashed into the Pentagon. A really great woman, the life force in flesh and blood, how I miss her. The family was totally transformed by September 11. Not that the terror attack opened anybody’s eyes; those eyes were already wide open. We had had plenty of death threats, and had taken them seriously. But September 11 convinced our children, all three, that their generation would be judged on how it reacted, and they all resolved to go to war. They could not look in the mirror unless they saw a warrior. And so Simone, without ever asking what we thought, signed up for (civilian) service in Iraq
Anarchy in Washington State
Union thugs commit wanton destruction of vehicles used in interstate commerce, kidnap and hold security personnel hostage. Where is the FBO and US Port of Longview
The Coming Chaos
Excerpt: America
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