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Saturday, August 13, 2011

Palestine - Duping The United Nations
   Middle East piece by David Singer (8/13/11)

Dr Ghassan Khatib, the Special Envoy of the unelected and unconstitutional Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, last week addressed the Capital Jewish Forum in the Victorian Parliament House. He was introduced by Mr Izzat Abdulhadi, Palestinian Authority Head of Delegation to Australia.

Kill the moderators
   Political Debates piece by Gary Krasner (8/13/11)

All of these moderators are horrible.  The dumb-downed cable news and network news organizations should not host them.

Welcome to the New Weimar Republic: The Involatile Laws Of Economics
   Economics piece by J.J. Jackson (8/13/11)

Liberals like to think the laws of economics are like the laws of physics.  In physics, particles behave differently on the subatomic level than they do in the macroscopic realm.  This is because as one gets smaller and smaller, different forces become dominant and take control of how particles interact with one another thus leading to sometimes counterintuitive solutions.  This is why there is an entire field of physics, called quantum mechanics, to deal with this special situation.

Friday, August 12, 2011

One man’s museum is another man’s menace
   Nanny State piece by Guest: Michael R. Shannon (8/12/11)

When is the last time you saw a McDonalds’ commercial ridiculing fat people? Costco checkers questioning the intelligence of bulk buyers? Or the staff at Ralph Lauren lecturing the clothes–conscious on the contents of their closet?

Western Unrest and the Failure of Social Engineering
   Progressivism piece by Offsite (8/12/11)

While the world mainstream media is focused on the unrest that has plagued Great Britain, they are delinquent in reporting on societal unrest elsewhere in the Western world. In Chile, tens of thousands of students staged violent protests, demanding changes in government-funded public education. In Philadelphia, a rash of “flash mob” incidents has forced that city’s mayor to impose curfews for teenagers in several neighborhoods. And in Milwaukee, authorities are investigating a string of mob-like actions involving large groups of predominantly black teenagers near the Wisconsin State Fair, leading one City Alderman to attributing the violence as a sign of “deteriorating African American culture in our city.“

Thursday, August 11, 2011

History Doesn’t Repeat it Rhymes Again
   History piece by Robert R. Owens (8/11/11)

When I was studying to become a Historian I ran afoul of the professors tasked with helping me arrive at my destination.  When you study for advanced degrees in History you are required to choose an area of specialization and if you are particularly ambitious you might choose two separate areas.  Being an over achiever who has always been blessed with an inquiring mind I choose four and proceeded to complete the necessary class work for all of them.  Near the end of my career as a professional History student the professor in charge of the program told me I had to pick one field that would be my over arching area of study.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Living Love
   Life piece by Guest: Leah Shearer (8/9/11)

I slowly unfolded the wax paper wrapped around my cheeseburger and stared at the three-dollar meal I had just bought. I looked at the leather seats of the booth, the fake plants that decorated the restaurant, and the flashy advertisements splattered on the walls. I felt relieved to be back in these surroundings, and that bothered me. I had just stepped off the plane an hour ago. I had just returned from a different world, but it was so easy to slide into the commercial flow of life.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Our Colossal Ignorance on Global Warming
   Global Warming piece by Dennis T. Avery (8/7/11)

CHURCHVILLE, VA - “It’s not just that man-made emissions don’t control the climate, they don’t even control global CO2 levels.“

Saturday, August 6, 2011

American resources - for American jobs, revenue and prosperity
   GreeenIsm piece by Paul Driessen (8/6/11)

A vital part of the solution to our economic and employment crisis is right under our feet - A frequent refrain during budget and debt ceiling debates is that we need revenue enhancement: higher tax rates, reduced deductions, eliminated credits. But doing this, especially amid today’s massively expanding regulations, will kill more jobs and further reduce government revenues.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

GOP Leadership Never Took Deficit Reduction Seriously
   National Debt piece by Christopher Adamo (8/4/11)

Now that the debt ceiling deal passed in Congress and was quickly signed by Barack Obama, key players from both major parties will no doubt want immediately to change the subject. In an inconvenient epilogue to all of the demagoguery from the left and empty promises from the right, even a cursory examination of the actual measure that was spawned will reveal it to be nothing more than “business as usual” from Washington.

Man-made Global Warming: Convert the Children, Change the World
   GreeenIsm piece by Guest: Paul A. Ibbetson (8/4/11)

If you want to create a movement that will encapsulate a nation over time, the majority of your propaganda resources are best allocated toward changing the hearts and minds of the children, not the adults. This tactic is a viciously well-known and time-tested strategy of dictatorships worldwide. During the rise and reign of Adolf Hitler, no other target of Nazi propaganda took higher priority than Germany’s youth. As early as 1937, 97 percent of all teachers belonged to the National Socialist Teachers’ Union and the “created facts” within the textbooks in Nazi schools were a reflection of the mindset that Nazi Germany wished its children to carry into the future.

‘Can The Pirates Right Their Ship?‘
   Sports piece by Aaron Goldstein (8/4/11)

When the Pittsburgh Pirates hired Clint Hurdle to be their new manager last November, I felt sorry for him. At the time I wrote, “Hurdle has just accepted the worst job in America. It’s a job even Mike Rowe wouldn’t want.” (1)

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Another Islamist Soldier Turns Terrorist in Texas
   Terrorism piece by Daniel Pipes (8/2/11)

U.S. Army Private First Class Nasser Jason Abdo(1), 21, first made the news last August when, arguing(2) that his Islamic faith contradicts serving in the American military, he filed for conscientious objector (C.O.) status. Referring to current American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Abdo asserted that a Muslim “is not allowed to participate in an Islamicly unjust war. Any Muslim who knows his religion ... should not participate in the U.S. military.“ Further, he wrote: “I cannot be a soldier in the US Army and continue to remain true to Islam.“

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Clandestine Cause of Global Warming
   Global Warming piece by Kevin Roeten (7/30/11)

Natural cycles ALWAYS change climate. One of the biggest cycles is the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). It shifts from warm to cold every 20-30 years, or on an inter-decadal time scale. This is directly related to sea surface temperature. The PDO’s temperature variance over more than 100 years can be viewed in the graph below. A common thread to PDO and climate is unmistakable. (Both graphs below are from Wikipedia.)

Friday, July 29, 2011

Hot town – summer in the city
   Society piece by Guest: Michael R. Shannon (7/29/11)

I cheated death last Saturday. I went outside to work in the yard. No doubt, in light of the last week’s crippling heat wave smothering the East Coast, you think my decision foolhardy.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

The Medicare “Wellness” Farce
   Health Care piece by Press Release: Jane M. Orient (7/27/11)

The real news about Medicare should be the Gang of 15, namely the IPAB or Independent Payment Advisory Board. It is charged with putting a lid on Medicare spending, with no judicial or congressional oversight. The only tool it is allowed to use is to not pay for services, or to pay far below cost. Guess what happens when you stop paying people, even doctors? They stop working, and thus stop ordering expensive medicines and tests.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Hitting the Debt Ceiling Is Not the End of the World
   Money piece by David John Marotta (7/26/11)

MAROTTA ON MONEY - The Obama administration has been claiming that failure to raise the debt ceiling would be the end of the world. We are all tired of failed apocalyptic predictions. Perhaps all that will end is politics as usual.

Monday, July 25, 2011

Somali people suffer from Islamist cruelty and famine
   Food piece by Jim Kouri (7/25/11)

‘One of them said how she left her sick child on the road because he was too weak to make the journey to Kenya. Burdened by other small children, she left him to die alone in the desert.‘ - BBC account of Somalia’s famine and terrorism.

Sunday, July 24, 2011

It’s Just a Heat Wave
   ClimateGate piece by Alan Caruba (7/24/11)

The most surprising thing about the current heat wave affecting much of the United States is that no global warming charlatan is claiming that it is the result of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Since the late 1980s, Americans were assailed with the global warming hoax until, in November 2009, the release of emails between the trolls ginning up false “climate models” were exposed.

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Shining The Light On Laser Pointer Penalties
   Law piece by Frederick Meekins (7/23/11)

The Federal Aviation Administration has announced plans to impose fines as high as $11,000 upon those caught shining laser pointers into airplane cockpits.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Cut Loose at Fifty: Chapter Two - Getting On With It
   Life piece by Guest: Chris Clancy (7/21/11)

There are good starts, bad starts and great starts. A bad start may be difficult to recover from. A great one usually has to stay great. Therefore, of the three, “good” is probably the best.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

The Next Climate Debate Bombshell
   ClimateGate piece by Dennis T. Avery (7/19/11)

Get ready for the next big bombshell in the man-made warming debate. The world’s most sophisticated particle study laboratory - CERN in Geneva - will soon announce that more cosmic rays do, indeed, create more clouds in earth’s atmosphere. More cosmic rays mean a cooler planet. Thus, the solar source of the earth’s long, moderate 1,500-year climate cycle will finally be explained.

Empower Iranians vs. Tehran
   Middle East piece by Daniel Pipes (7/19/11)

How should Western governments deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran, which Washington(1) labels “the most active state sponsor of terrorism”?

Monday, July 18, 2011

Rescuer of CHCH Editor Presented Hero Award
   Life piece by Rev. Miles (7/18/11)

The CN2 “Hometown Hero Award” was publicly presented to the man who saved the life of Capitol Hill Coffee House Publisher/Editor Chip McLean when a huge tree fell on the car he was driving last month on a South Carolina road during a storm that had just whipped up.

Sunday, July 17, 2011

The Ratification Debate Part Three
   The Republic piece by Robert R. Owens (7/17/11)

Concluding my three part series in celebration of our nation’s 235th Birthday, we will look at arguments advanced by both sides.  Last week we ended with the question, who were the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists and why does it matter to us today?  This week we will learn the answers to the questions.  Who was debating?  What did they have to say?  Who won?  And, why does it matter to us today?

Green Living Through Conservatism
   GreeenIsm piece by Bruce Walker (7/17/11)

There are few areas of policy in which the left is more united than “Green” living.  The risible projections in the Population Bomb, the mendacious researchers of Official Global Warming, the shrewish propagandists whose lies about DDT condemned millions of poor children to awful deaths, the wistful incantations by Obama about how “renewable energy” will make our life bliss – all these, and more, are part of modern leftism.

Saturday, July 16, 2011

‘How Do You Know When Government Has Gotten Too Big?‘
   Government piece by J.J. Jackson (7/16/11)

No, I do not ask the question without knowing the answer.  Government is too big when the lack of government actually prevents people from living their lives.  Our founding fathers wanted government to be there to protect people from encroachments to their lives, liberties and pursuits of happiness.  When government instead turns from protector of these rights to an arbiter of how we must go about enjoying them is when things go all wonky.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

More Boulders in Africa’s Farm Path
   GreeenIsm piece by Dennis T. Avery (7/13/11)

CHURCHVILLE, VA - The African Biofortified Sorghum project centered in South Africa, is striving to breed sorghum with extra lysine, vitamin A, iron, and zinc to help millions of African small farmers meet their families’ nutritional needs. The project is funded by the Bill Gates Foundation, collaborating with Du Pont and Pioneer Hi-Bred Seeds. Unfortunately, the project has been unable to get South African regulatory approval for its field trials. The test planting will now have to be done in the U.S., though African trials would be a better test.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

‘Violence Against Women Act: Do the Rights of Men Matter?‘
   Femi-Nazis piece by Carey Roberts (7/12/11)

It’s been some 17 years since our nation declared war on domestic violence and enacted the Violence Against Women Act. It seemed like a good idea at the time. After all, who could be unmoved by tales of women trapped in lethal relationships, enduring ritual beatings at the hands of an overbearing mate?

Monday, July 11, 2011

VAWA:  An Idea Whose Time Never Should Have Come
   Femi-Nazis piece by Guest: Gordon E. Finley (7/11/11)

Like facing a hurricane, America now faces the reauthorization of a powerful and destructive feminist-made disaster tearing through the lives of children, fathers, families and the nation’s formerly bedrock institution of marriage.  The reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) begins on July 13, 2011.  Now is the time to engage in disaster mitigation to either defund VAWA or to redirect it to serve equally the other half of domestic violence victims – men.