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Monday, August 31, 2009

Sen. Reid to Nev. Newspaper: I Hope You Go Out of Business
   Politics piece by Offsite (8/31/09)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has infuriated the publisher of Nevada’s largest-circulation newspaper with a “boorish” and “asinine” remark about the paper’s future.

Athletic Quandary - Is She or Isn’t He??
   Science piece by Rev. Miles (8/31/09)

Oakley, California 8/31/09. In the midst of a world in chaos, with unrest, economic disaster, wars and rumors of war, along with Obama’s Health-scare Plan that would kill off senior citizens and older war veterans, it is good to finally see the news media concentrate on the real issues of life that need attention.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

10-4 Good Buddy We Got A Convoy
   ObamaNation piece by Malcolm T. Hedges (8/30/09)

History yes, reality Yes!  Big Brother is monitoring you and me, Internet, Cell and Land Line…

Expression Engine Is A Real KA CMS Package
   Internet piece by Editor (8/30/09)

The MoveOff family of Information Outlets(eZines/WebZines) uses pMachine Pro and Expression Engine for publishing.

Golf and Investing: Optimism, Focus, and Education
   Economics piece by Guest: Steve Selengut (8/30/09)

You knew it the moment it left the club, that spark at contact when you catch it just right. You look up. It’s just reaching the top of its climb—- and heading down right at the pin, a pin positioned left of center on the elevated green, much too close to the water.

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Presidents In My Lifetime
   Government piece by Malcolm T. Hedges (8/29/09)

My first remembrances of politics and Presidents was around the time of the JFK -vs- Nixon election.  I was in High School and TV had just started coming into its own.

Use Tax Cuts to Reform Healthcare
   Health Care piece by Offsite (8/29/09)

The media has paid scant attention to alternatives such as Republican Rep. Tom Price’s plan, which he calls the “Empowering Patients First Act.”

Fat-Fighting Drug Reverses Diabetes and Lowers Cholesterol
   Health piece by Offsite (8/29/09)

Researchers searching for a cure for obesity said on Thursday they have developed a drug that not only makes mice lose weight, but reverses diabetes and lowers their cholesterol, too.

Rally Stops Before Dow 10,000
   Economics piece by Offsite (8/29/09)

Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s Mad Money, says the stock market rally will peter out before the Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks 10,000.

FCC Diversity Chief: GOP Hurts Civil Rights
   Information Police piece by Offsite (8/29/09)

Mark Lloyd, chief diversity officer at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), still believes what he wrote years ago: “Communications policy is of central importance to all Americans … it touches on our fundamental rights … communications policy is a civil rights issue.“

The Rodney Dangerfields of the war
   War piece by Offsite (8/29/09)

BAGRAM, Afghanistan – It is amazing how a change of geography can alter perception. In the weeks leading up to this, my 16th Fox News deployment to cover the fight against radical Islamic terror, the news was full of attacks on civilian contractors. The target: those who have been providing support for U.S. military and intelligence operations since Sept. 11.

The insanity of the right
   EdukShun piece by Offsite (8/29/09)

Most likely you’ve heard Einstein’s definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Nowhere is this more obvious today than with political and religious conservatives, the so-called right. What do I mean? Next month the right will send millions of their own children to public schools that are literally controlled by the left - meaning that it is only the liberals’ “values,“ “morals” and curriculum that are taught in our government schools.

The defining issue of our time
   Progressivism piece by Offsite (8/29/09)

Everyone agrees that the nation needs health-care reform. If this is true, why can’t one side or the other actually win the battle for congressional votes and reform the health-care system?

Federal Reserve Board fights to keep its secrets
   Big Brother piece by Offsite (8/29/09)

The Federal Reserve Board, despite being ordered to disclose to whom it awarded roughly $2 trillion in discount “stimulus” loans, is fighting to keep the information under wraps as a protected “trade secret.“

‘Where Are You Doctor?  Where Are You Nurse?‘
   Health Care piece by Thomas D. Segel (8/29/09)

Harlingen, Texas, August 28, 2009:  When ABC and NBC Television refused to accept the League of American Voters ad critical of the Obama healthcare plan, the two broadcast giants not only provided solid proof they endorse the Administration’s radical agenda, they also brought into the light a question most healthcare providers have been asking themselves. Where do we find all the doctors we will need?  Taking it one step further, where do we get all the nurses we will need?  These are very serious questions to ask, considering there is already both a doctor and nursing shortage in the United States.

Friday, August 28, 2009

The Peoples Republik Of Kalifornia Spirals Toward Collapse
   Progressivism piece by Malcolm T. Hedges (8/28/09)

Most of the situation is self-imposed and considered to be a local issue, but actually is very serious on a national scale.

Economic Impact of the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act H.R. 2454
   Global Warming piece by Offsite (8/28/09)

Potential implications of the “cap-and-trade” scam…

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Editorial: Progressive Socialist Worship Of Progressive Socialists
   Progressivism piece by Editor (8/27/09)

Today and tomorrow we are and will be saturated with TV coverage of elites, skaters and slugs paying homage to Senator Kennedy.

Too Early to Raise Rates
   Economics piece by Offsite (8/27/09)

The U.S. economy is in the early stages of a recovery but it is premature to start considering raising interest rates, a top Federal Reserve policymaker said on Wednesday.

Bernanke Victim of Identity Theft Ring
   Crime piece by Offsite (8/27/09)

Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke was one of hundreds of victims of an identity fraud ring that stole over 2.1 million dollars from individuals and financial institutions, Newsweek magazine reported on Wednesday.

Answer for a Missile-Free World
   War piece by Kevin Roeten (8/27/09)

It is a fact that any nuclear detonation would result in many non-combatant deaths. It could be used as a deterrent threat against civilian populations rather than a known military target. All destruction and lingering radiation violates any representation of a “just war”. The answer is so simple that few have realized it gives it gives everything one should want. Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien [OSV | Our Sunday Visitor August 23, 2009 | No nukes](1)  likely knows.

White House Sued Over Free Speech
   Big Brother piece by Offsite (8/27/09)

The Office of the President and other White House officials are defendants in a free speech lawsuit filed by a prominent physician group, and a non-profit advocate for inner-city poor.

My H1N1 Story Government Run Health Scare
   Health Care piece by JB Williams (8/27/09)

For months the Obama administration has been working to scare the hell out of every American concerning a “world wide pandemic” of the H1N1 “swine flu” virus. This week, Obama health officials are out in number warning that the virus will infect 50% of Americans over the coming weeks, and that at least 90,000 Americans will die, double the number of normal flu season fatalities.

Real U.S. Unemployment Rate at 16%
   Economics piece by Offsite (8/27/09)

AFP - The real U.S. unemployment rate is 16 percent if persons who have dropped out of the labor pool and those working less than they would like are counted, a Federal Reserve official said Wednesday.

‘You Have A Treaty Of Peace With Whom?‘
   National Security piece by Gerald A. Honigman (8/27/09)

Imagine for a moment that tunnels were being dug under the Canadian-American border which were being used to import weapons that were then used to target American cities and murder and maim American civilians.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

How to Argue with a (Guilty) Liberal
   MustRead piece by Carey Roberts (8/26/09)

Like a demanding and ill-mannered child, liberals are used to getting their way. Whenever they lapse into the losing side of an argument, they reflexively resort to name-calling and mud-slinging. Epithets like “neo-Nazi,” “crypto-fascist,” and “imperialist stooge” buzz like mosquitoes hovering over a Potomac swamp.

Editorial: The Obama Machine Is Maybe 3,000 + 30,000 + 300,000 = 333,000
   ObamaNation piece by Editor (8/26/09)

That machine is trying to seize control of some 300,000,000+ American people.  It can be done, but not without a lot of push back from the intended victims.

The Ted Kennedy Behind The MSM Facade
   Senate piece by Malcolm T. Hedges (8/26/09)

Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy was a political “Jekyll and Hyde”...  In the eyes of the Progressive MSM and Progressives he was a “grand and glorious” addition to the Senate.  To the vast majority of the American people he was viewed as a very dangerous political radical.

Great Recession is Over
   Economics piece by Offsite (8/26/09)

Richard W. Fisher, president and chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, says The Great Recession is finally over and the economy is in recovery.

The 2nd American Revolution
   Socialism piece by Offsite (8/26/09)

Startlingly - and wholly involuntarily - President Obama is teaching us that, as Thomas Jefferson often said, “The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberty.“ The growing resistance to the president’s goal of state-controlled health care is moving more of us to act on our constitutional power to protect our quintessential individual liberty – to decide for ourselves how long we are going to stay on this Earth.