I was off-line for three days and had well over 500 e-mails this morning, no time to open even half. Sorry. Posts will be spotty as I’m in a transition phase. ~Bob
The Progressive Legacy. By Robert A. Hall
In case you missed it, with the child/squirrel typo fixed, thanks to readers. Some comments from readers: “My good sir, the world would be a much better place with you as President.” –JJ. “If it means fewer progressives, maybe we should support more abortions?” –TH. “Friends and Relatives, While this article may appear long for an email, it is one of the most concise and best articles describing Liberal (Progressive) theory thinking and actions. If the first theoretical part is too remote for you, skip it and look at the "Detailed Legacy half way down the article." –ME. “This is so good. Thank you for taking the time and making the effort to produce it. It must take such patience. I am admittedly not so well informed as you are, but as near as I can tell, in my humble opinion, you have captured the essential nature of the problem.” –R. “A most excellent read. I believe that Bob has captured the mind of the liberal progressive very well, too well perhaps. “ –WD.
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/092613-672687-obama-signs-more-climate-change-deals-while-rest-of-the-world-backs-off.htmExcerpt: Let's look at temperature. In 1990, the IPCC issued an estimate that a doubling of pre-industrial levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would lead to a rise in the Earth's temperature of 9 degrees Fahrenheit. In 2001, the IPCC had to change that prediction to just over 6 degrees. In 2007, we saw that same number drop to approximately 5.4 degrees. Now, according to early reports, the IPCC's latest estimate is only 2.4 degrees. (This latter prediction, by the way, is in line with what a number of climate skeptics have been saying for years.) Even the IPCC admits that this is hardly the calamity predicted just a few years earlier.
Guest Post: Another Chamberlain Moment
Four Numbers Say Wind and Solar Can’t Save Climate. By Robert Bryce
Excerpt: As the discussion unfolds, I would urge everyone to keep four numbers in mind: 32, 1, 30 and 1/2. These are the numbers that explain why any transition away from our existing energy systems will be protracted and costly. Let’s take them in sequence.
Let’s Privatize the Welfare State. By John Goodman
Excerpt: Have you ever given money to the food stamp program? Do you know anyone who has? Actually, some people do occasionally make gifts to federal entitlement programs. But gifts to the entire federal government were a paltry $241 million in 2010, the last year for which statistics are available. By contrast, Americans donated almost $300 billion last year to private sector charities in addition to volunteer time valued at $158 billion.
The money we spend on food stamps (technically called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) almost all comes from coercive taxation, rather than charitable contributions. For example, the United Way Dallas
IG Report: IRS Failed to Track $67 Million for Obamacare
Excerpt: The Internal Revenue Service failed to track some $67 million in indirect costs of implementing the 2010 health-care overhaul, according to a new inspector general report.
Tony Blair’s Daughter Mugged by Armed Gunman in Gun-Free UK
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/tony-blairs-daughter-mugged-by-armed-gunman-in-gun-free-uk/
Excerpt: If you listen to Piers Morgan, the UK UK , as in Chicago or New York
Greenspan: Failure to Solve Deficit Problem Could Spark Financial Crisis"Unconstrained deficit spending" represents the United States' No. 1 domestic economic problem, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan writes in a new book, Politico reports.
Excerpt: Greenspan says Washington Del
Obama Has Al Qaeda On The Run: All Over Christians
Excerpt: “Today, al Qaeda is on the run.” President Barack Obama, Oct. 11, 2012(Was this before or after allowing the murders in Benghazi
Obama's flawed thinking on full display at UN. By Cal Thomas
Excerpt: His claim that "The world is more stable than it was five years ago" is demonstrably false. In Iraq , Afghanistan , Syria , Kenya , Congo
According to Themner, Lotta and Peter Wallensteen, in "Armed Conflict, 1946-2011," Journal of Peace Research, there were fewer than 20 armed conflicts in 1946. Today there are more than 30.
CAIR’s Islamophobia Meltdown. By Daniel Greenfield
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/cairs-islamophobia-meltdown/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2adc6171a3-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-2adc6171a3-156414477
Excerpt: While the CAIR report attempted to stigmatize terrorism research by reporting on the straightforward funding of organizations and individuals such as Robert Spencer; the Johnson report showed that CAIR, described by the Justice Department as an unindicted co-conspirator in financing terrorism, had engaged in convoluted methods to conceal its financing sources while laundering money from abroad.
Qaeda tells Syria
Excerpt:In Tweihineh, "the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... has forbidden girls in primary education and above from attending school unless they wear fully Islamic clothing including an abaya (gown), gloves and a veil," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Nigeria College
http://news.sky.com/story/1147882/nigeria-college-attacked-at-least-40-killed
Excerpt: At least 40 people have been killed after suspected Islamist gunmen fired on students as they slept at a college in northeast Nigeria
Excerpt: The No 2 officer at the military command in charge of all US nuclear war-fighting forces has been suspended and is under investigation by the naval criminal investigation command for issues related to gambling, officials said on Saturday. The highly unusual action against a high-ranking officer at US
Worse Is the New Normal
Excerpt:… George Orwell, after attending a meeting of impoverished but passive miners, remarked sadly that “there is no turbulence left in England America
Excerpt: It’s an expenditure of only $100,000 – mere pocket change in the vast labyrinth of federal spending – but the funds are for the creation of a manual to teach people how to get more money from the U.S. United States Mexico
‘Netanyahu to tell Obama Iran
Excerpt: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, when he meets Barack Obama on Monday, will present the US president with an intelligence report asserting that Iran has amassed enough enriched uranium to produce a nuclear weapon, according to Britain
New U.S.
Excerpt: Voters in Jackson , Miss. , a mid-sized city in the heart of the Deep South , have picked a Democrat as their mayor. What’s different about this individual is that he is a former leader of the Republic of New Afrika
Ten states where Obamacare wipes out existing health care plans
Excerpt: But as Obamacare’s rollout approaches, we have learned this is not true. Here are the ten states where consumers may like their health care planes, but they won’t be able to keep them.
Excerpt: On September 29 Israel
Excerpt: A wide swath of American society just do not "get" the Tea Party. At first I just thought so many are ignorant. But I've come to believe it's because our national morality has declined so precipitously that they no longer understand anyone who would place principle over popularity or career success…or "being cool". So many moderates and most Democrats choose to demonize the Tea Party while knowing so little about it. They call them racists, while failing to see thousands of Hispanics and Blacks and Asians marching in those Tea Party rallies.
SEIU Members Strike After Obamacare-Caused Job Cut
Excerpt: Service Employees International Union (SEIU) members in Chicago Chicago
NSA employee spied on nine women without detection, internal file shows: Twelve cases of unauthorised surveillance documented in letter from NSA's inspector general to senator Chuck Grassley
It also reveals limited disciplinary action taken against NSA staff found to have abused the system. …Two civilian employees kept their jobs – and, it appears, their security clearance – and escaped with only a written warning after they were found to have conducted unauthorised interceptions. The abuses – technically breaches of the law – did not result in a single prosecution, even though more than half of the cases were referred to the Department of Justice.
McCain hires Syria rebel advocate Elizabeth O’Bagy
Excerpt: Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain hired the Syria analyst in favor of U.S. Elizabeth
Hersh slams US media, says ‘not one word’ of White House bin Laden narrative is true
http://dailycaller.com/
Excerpt: In an interview with The Guardian (U.K.) published Friday, the left-leaning Seymour Hersh, best known for his Pulitzer-winning reporting that exposed the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War, unloaded on the American news media for its underwhelming coverage of the Obama White House. Hersh told The Guardian’s Lisa O’Carroll that the ABC and NBC news bureaus ought to be shut down and 90 percent of the editors fired for sake of fixing journalism
Al Qaeda Opens First Official Twitter Accounthttp://conservativebyte.com/2013/09/al-qaeda-opens-first-official-twitter-account/
Excerpt: Maybe they’ll start posting their next targets! Unreal that Obama can’t get these thugs in check and that they have so little fear that they’ll be this open.
ADOLPH HITLER: The Real Father of Universal Health Care
http://clashdaily.com/2013/09/
Excerpt: Because resources are limited, the concept of Universal Healthcare requires the Government to make decisions on the distribution of healthcare that will determine the survivability of different groups in society. That is, the welfare of the collective and government priorities are placed above that of the rights of any individual.
Excerpt: An Ohio
Docs Flee Jersey (Wouldn't You?) By J. Robert Smith
Excerpt: Via the Drudge Report, we learn that medical docs are fleeing Blue State Jersey faster than "Old Blue Eyes" skedaddled out of Hoboken. This from MY9NJ.com: According to Deborah Briggs, the President and CEO of the Council of Teaching Hospitals, New Jersey
Peggy Noonan: World Wants the Old America
Excerpt: Noonan quotes a former senior U.S.
Moroccans Protest Against Muslim Brotherhood Government. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: But just like Egypt and Tunisia
This year's SAT scores are out, and they are grim. By Julia Ryan
Excerpt: Of the 1.66 million high school students in the class of 2013 who took the SAT, only 43 percent were academically prepared for college-level work, according to this year’s SAT Report on College & Career Readiness. For the fifth year in a row, fewer than half of SAT-takers received scores that qualified them as “college-ready.” (Progressive education. My combined SATS were 1,424, in 1968, but I took it after I’d been in the Corps for four, and skipped a lot in high school. ~Bob)
Walmart Shooter Targeted White Victims. By Tony Lee
Excerpt: Police eventually "seized computers and documents from Faust's home that showed he had a plan for the attack and wanted to shoot a large number of people."
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