The Saudi's have said they will turn a blind eye to Israeli jets flying over it's nation on their way to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities. Joe Biden seemed to say that his boss thinks Israel has the right to do just that, clearly a much stronger signal of support for an Israeli attack than has been seen before.
Might this all be a prelude to tougher talks with Iran? Or might this be the go signal for Israel to send in the bombs. I fully suspect that the meetings in Russia this week are in part an effort to secure Russian promises not to intervene should Israel attack.
Russia has the 6th largest Jewish population in the world, behind Israel, USA, France, Canada and the UK.
Get ready. Israel is about to bomb Iran and the world will become a much more dangerous place almost immediately.
The honeymoon is over, campaign promises for job creation remain unfulfilled, Biden has admitted that the administration "misread" how bad the economy was and California, under the Obama economics, has or will issue over $3 billion in IOU's this month alone. That means, if you are doing business with the state, you won't get paid. Instead you will get a slip of paper.
Well try paying your employees with a slip of paper, or try paying the costs of operating your business with a piece of paper. As bad as it seems for the government of California, the trickle down effect of that crash will be devastating.
Now Bloomberg is predicting that the poor econmomic conditions in California are bad news for Obama.
California has engaged in an orgy of spending, but, compared with our federal government, its legislators should feel chaste. The California deficit this year is now north of $26 billion. The U.S. federal deficit will be, according to the latest numbers, almost 70 times larger.
Bleak Picture
The federal picture is so bleak because the Obama administration is the most fiscally irresponsible in the history of the U.S. I would imagine that he would be the intergalactic champion as well, if we could gather the data on deficits on other worlds. Obama has taken George W. Bush’s inattention to deficits and elevated it to an art form.
And hows all that "Hope" and "Change" going for you liberals out there? GEEZ!
When Cynthia McKinney first splattered onto the national scene she accused President Bush of having advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks. Then she was remembered for having said Al Gore didn't have enough of a "negro tolerance level".
She was defeated as a Congresswoman from Georgia after her anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian/Arab sentiments became widely known. Her father blamed it all on "J_E_W_S"
After being elected again in 2004 she once again splattered onto the national scene when she was stopped by security after walking around a metal detector at the Longworth House Office Building. The security officers said she was not wearing the lapel pin of Members of Congress which permit them to avoid the detector. She hit the security officer.
In May of this year she was a featured speaker at the University of California at Irvine during the Muslim Student Union's program on "Israel: The Politics of Genocide".
Now, according to FoxNews, she sits in an Israeli jail:
For the first seven years of our marriage my wife and I were young students, barely making it week to week. We were healthy, as are most young people, and since we had no money we stayed home alot, which meant we didn't engage in many dangerous pursuits. The last thing we even thought about buying was health insurance. We just couldn't afford it.
Now that doesn't mean that we didn't go to the doctor from time to time. In fact, once I needed a root canal. I told the doctor that I had no money but would gladly make payments. He is a friend to this day and I paid him weekly until his bill was satisfied.
Under the plans being considered by Congress, if any similarly situated young people, or even wealthy people, chose not to carry health insurance, they might face stiff fines. Might they eventually face jail time too?
The encroachment of government regulation into our lives has been slow, but damned steady. When will the people of this nation say enough is too much?
In a revamped health care system envisioned by senators, people would be required to carry health insurance just like motorists must get auto coverage now. The government would provide subsidies for the poor and many middle-class families, but those who still refuse to sign up would face fines of more than $1,000.
The details were unveiled Thursday in a health care overhaul bill supported by key Senate Democrats looking to fulfill President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.
In a statement, Obama welcomed the legislation, saying it "reflects many of the principles I've laid out, such as reforms that will prohibit insurance companies from refusing coverage for people with pre-existing conditions and the concept of insurance exchanges where individuals can find affordable coverage if they lose their jobs, move or get sick."
At their heart, all the bills would require insurance companies to sell coverage to any applicant, without charging higher premiums for pre-existing medical conditions. The poor and some middle-class families would qualify for government subsidies to help with the cost of coverage. The government's costs would be covered by a combination of higher taxes and cuts in projected Medicare and Medicaid spending.
Oh, and those "cuts in projected Medicare and Medicaid spending"? We ALL know what that means right?
YOU GONNA DIE SUCKA!
After it was reported by the blog POLITICO that the Washington Post had sent out a flier looking to sell access to high ranking Obama officials for $25,000, the paper has now canceled those plans.
Good for Politico. It's about time the "New Media" got credit for being the watchdog of the "Old Media".
Who ordered, directed and/or approved the dismissal of John Forgy from his state position as general counsel to the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission? So far no one is saying, but his aunt, State Senator Alice Forgy Kerr thinks he lost his job as "retaliation" for her vote against race track casinos.
In a report by Jack Brammer at the Lexington Herald Leader he says Senator Kerr thinks that it stinks.
Some in Frankfort would do well to remember the wildfire controversy during the Fletcher administration regarding the firing of Mike Duncan, an inspector with the Transportation Cabinet's Office of Inspector General.
At one time, not so long ago, loud shrieks of "political discrimination" could be heard rising from the offices of democrats in Frankfort. So far the only shrieks in and around Frankfort are coming from bottle rockets being fired by kids.
Martin Garrison was asleep on his brother’s couch when, according to police, five people intent on burglary pulled up outside. Two armed suspects invaded the home while their accomplices waited in the car. “I thought it was all a bad dream,” Roger Garrison said. “I didn’t know what their intentions were. It was scary.” When one of the burglars pointed a weapon at Martin, he drew a .25-caliber handgun from under the couch and shot one of the burglars three times. The wounded burglar died on the scene. Police were led to the dead man’s accomplices when they answered incoming calls to his cell phone. “My brother is still real upset about it,” Roger explained. “Robberies are something you hear about, but you never want to go through one.” (Star-Banner, Ocala, FL, 07/23/08)
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David Adams, a respected voice of conservatism in Kentucky, has announced that he is suspending his involvement with the widely regarded political blog, "Kentucky Progress" to take a position as a consultant with the Rand Paul exploratory committee.
The Washington Post, desperate for revenue, has resorted to stripping off its clothes and crawling around naked on the floor for dollars. In a recent flier the paper has announced that for a price it will arrange a private dinner for highly placed individuals with an interest in the "health care" debate to be joined by Obama officials.
The astonishing offer is detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he feels it’s a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its “health care reporting and editorial staff."
The offer — which essentially turns a news organization into a facilitator for private lobbyist-official encounters — is a new sign of the lengths to which news organizations will go to find revenue at a time when most newspapers are struggling for survival.
And it's a turn of the times that a lobbyist is scolding The Washington Post for its ethical practices.[Politico]
Ahhh, the fresh, clean trustworthy journalism of an unbiased media. (not)
This Reuters report on Yahoo this morning:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers cut 467,000 jobs in June, far more than expected, while the unemployment rate rose to 9.5 percent, the government said on Thursday in a report that showed a labor market continuing to struggle with a deep recession.
The June job losses
were more than 100,000 greater than the 363,000 consensus of Wall
Street economists polled by Reuters and broke a four-month trend of
moderation in job losses.
The jobless rate of 9.5 percent compared with 9.4 percent in May and was the highest since a matching unemployment rate in August 1983.
Was this the kind of "change" your were "hoping" for?
EDITORIAL
I just saw a TV commercial pushing the message that "It's Time" for everyone to have "health care". It displayed the politically correct assemblage of racial and age diversity as one "ordinary" citizen after another told their tales of woe.
A working class white guy had lost his job, and now his family didn't have "health care". An older woman said that her husband had heart trouble and they couldn't afford treatment. A black woman said that the cost of her "health care" had doubled and "who can afford that".
Let's be honest, what they are talking about is "health insurance" not "health care". The choice of words is important. Surely those who support the socialist notion of a government run health maintenance organization (G-HMO) have run these terms through a focus group and learned that by inserting the word "care" in place of "insurance" that personal sympathies run more in favor of their game plan.
And second, we need to be honest about why the costs of health insurance have gone up so much. The answer is very simple, new and improving technologies have emerged to treat and cure human health issues as a result of the open market place incentive to make a profit on these technologies. Patients want the benefits of these things and as a result doctors and hospitals buy them.
You can get from home to work on horse back and a horse only costs a few hundred dollars. Or you can drive there and back in a Mercedes which costs a lot more. If you want the best medical treatment in the world, you must accept the fact that it will cost more. The best medical treatment in the world is available only in America.
Now don't go jumping to the wrong conclusion and equate my analogy with the argument that good medical treatment should only be available to those who can afford it. That's not the point, because that's not the case. The point is that the more sophisticated and technologically advanced methods of solving a problem will necessarily cost more. In fact, the high cost of "health insurance" is directly related to the fact that the best medical treatment in the world is available for free to every American.
The government mandates that hospitals cannot turn away a patient who cannot pay. In other cases the poorest among us already get free medical treatment through medicare, medicaid, medical cards and similar government programs. Government employees, retirees and military personnel get free medical treatment through government programs too. And it is precisely because of the way those government mandated or supported programs are run that the cost of health insurance is so high for everybody else.
When a hospital makes available the most technologically advanced medical treatment in the world and is required to give it away free of charge to those who cannot pay for it, guess who ends up paying for those people? The rest of us.
When the government tells a doctor or a hospital that even though the price of providing a service in the open market is $300 but they will only pay $100 for those covered under a public program, guess who ends up paying the rest?
When the poorest in the country get thousands of dollars a month in medical care absolutely free, guess who is picking up that bill?
The real problem is that the government has decided that through one program after another that millions of Americans must receive free or reduced cost medical treatment in an environment where the open market place has inspired the development of the best medical technologies in the world. The whole issue then is not "medical care" it's "medical costs" to everybody who has been suffering higher prices for insurance due to the current forms of government "meddling".
Talk of "free government health insurance" for everybody is simply a lie. You can't really believe that anything is really free can you? You know somebody will always have to pay for it. The question is who? Should those who work pay for those who don't? We went through a period just a few years ago where we witnessed the success of welfare reform. Government run HMO's would be the largest expansion of welfare in our history.
Take Kentucky for example. The availability of affordable health insurance in Kentucky nearly disappeared a few years ago when a democratic administration insisted upon requiring all health insurance companies to provide coverage to anyone who applied despite pre-existing conditions. Suddenly, for the payment of a few months premiums, people with long standing diseases were in a position to make these companies pay out millions upon millions of dollars for treating pre-existing illnesses. This drove many companies out of the Commonwealth, and drove up the price of insurance for the rest of us with the ones that remained.
The cost to the government of insuring everyone will be staggering. To bring down the cost to the rest of us, it would be much cheaper to re-think the scope of the program. Here are a few suggestions.
If the Government would just increase the amount of it's reimbursements now being paid under government programs medical providers would not have to pass along the difference to the rest of us, and the government would not have to insure everybody.
Instead of giving hospitals an unfunded mandate to provide free care to those who cannot afford it, the government could jump in and pay for the free care mandated for those who have no insurance and who do not participate under a government sponsored program. This too is a much smaller group than insuring "everyone".
If the federal government gave every American a dollar for dollar tax credit for any money paid for medical insurance and out of pocket medical payments at the very least they would save the administrative costs of collecting the tax dollars first and then doing the same thing with them.
And finally the federal government could increase the tax breaks given to employers who provide medical insurance to employees free of charge and increase the tax benefits given to insurance companies for the amounts they pay in claims. This would immediately put more earned income into circulation, help the economy, avoid creating another bloated federal bureacracy and speed the payment of claims thus reducing costs to medical providers in the area of claims processing and collections.
The heartfelt commercials crying that people need free "medical care" are emotional appeals packed with lies. It's time to be honest about the matter.
During a White House press briefing CBS reporter Chip Reid and veteran Helen Thomas take Robert Gibbs to his knees over the Obama White House attempts to "control the press".
If you haven't seen this video you need to. Take a look:
In a later interview Thomas had this to say to CNSNEWS.com:
For more see StopTheACLU.com
Following up on the post yesterday about Obama's 'evil eye', and my earlier post about him looking down his nose at people, I ran across this interesting article written by Professor Rahe who holds the Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in the Western Heritage at Hillsdale College. He is the author, most recently, of Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect, published this past April 16, the 150th anniversary of Tocqueville's death.
Here is some of what he had to say from Powerlilne Blog:
Far-fetched thoough these fears might seem, I suspect that these Israelis are not being hypersensitive. Barack Obama has a history of belittling his adversaries in just such a fashion. In April 2008, he was caught on tape during a debate with Hillary Clinton, rubbing his hand across the right side of his face and extending his middle finger in an obscene gesture that many in the audience could see it but she could not, and when this provoked laughter on the part of his supporters he responded with a knowing smile.
Later, after accepting his party's nomination, he did precisely the same thing during a debate with John McCain; and, after Sarah Palin remarked at the Republican National Convention that the only difference between a pit bull and a soccer mom was lipstick, he observed at a rally that a pig with lipstick is still a pig. Again, many in the audience caught the dig and they, too, were rewarded with a knowing smile.
Obama is, in fact, a master of the insulting gesture.
If we are to comprehend what is going on, we must pay close attention not only to what Obama says but to what he conveys in other ways. His tone is nearly always moderate but what he hints at and what he intimates by way of body language often convey the opposite. Witness his warm embrace of Hugo Chavez. Behind the thin veneer of politeness, there is, I suspect, something ugly lurking. In the first of the autobiographies that he claims to have written, Barack Obama frequently speaks of himself as being in the grips of rage. We would do well to take him at his word. If we are to stop him from doing great damage to this country and to our friends and allies, we must take every opportunity that comes our way to unmask the man.
President Obama does not have to announce whose side he is on. He can convey by gestures that he is inclined to help America's enemies and to harm our friends, and he has done so repeatedly with consummate skill. For a considerable time, our fellow citizens may remain oblivious to what is going on. Abroad, however, where the politically alert are closely attentive to the attitudes of America's presidents, people already know.
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Powerline
This from Rasmussen Reports:
Americans have mixed feelings about the historic climate change bill that passed the House on Friday, but 42% say it will hurt the U.S. economy.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 19% believe the climate change bill passed by the House on Friday will help the economy. Fifteen percent (15%) say it will have no impact, and 24% are not sure.
A majority of both Republicans (56%) and adults not affiliated with either major political party (52%) think the bill will hurt the economy. Among Democrats, however, 30% say it will help the economy, 23% that it will hurt and 21% say it will have no impact.
Forty-seven percent (47%) of investors say the bill is bad for the economy, compared to 37% of non-investors.
The divide on the question between populist or Mainstream America and the Political Class is a wide one. Fifty percent (50%) of Mainstream Americans say the climate control measure will hurt the economy, but two-thirds of the Political Class (67%) say it will help.
Want to sell your home? Maybe not now, but sometime in the future? Well thanks to the Cap and Trade bill passed by Congress get ready to spend thousands of dollars on a "retro-fit" to make it more green, or you won't be allowed to do so.
And now with Al Franken's help, the liberal democrats in the Senate have the 60 votes they need to push this kind of madness through and onto Obama's desk.
Was this the kind of change you were hoping for?
The Lexington Herald Leader today has revealed that the lawyer fees to defend crooked county officials, like convicted and disgraced Owen County Judge Executive Billy O'Banion, are paid by taxpayer funded insurance.
Perhaps it's time the citizens of Kentucky expressed to their county officials how they feel about this revelation that the insurance provided by the Kentucky Association of County Officials pays for lawyers to defend against criminal conduct while in office.
A strong democrat said to me the other day, "I think the mood of the country is libertarian, and unless our guys move that way, we are going to lose seats next year."
While that observation might be true as we move deeper into the 2010 election cycle and at the same time begin the national discussion of 2012 presidential politics, one thing is coming into clearer focus by the day: old style politics is dead.
The far left has never enjoyed such a high water mark of opportunity as was solidified today when Al Franken became the 60th United States Senator under the leadership of Harry Reid, who works in partnership with Nancy Pelosi to advance at breathtaking speed the liberalization of America under the leadership of what was once the most liberal Senator in America, and who is now the most liberal President in American history, Barack Hussein Obama.
But what is true about the statement made by my democratic friend, applies equally well to the republicans. The old George Bush, Mitch McConnell style of republican politics is dead.
Only those who move closer to that one single principle so enthusiastically embraced by all Americans of every ethnic, religious, and political background, will stand a chance of winning an election in the next go around. Oh, and in case you were wondering, that one principle is liberty.
Forget money. Forget tax issues, forget family values. When it comes time for all of us to pull together the one direction we can all agree to go is that direction which will give us the right to live the life that God has given us as we see fit.
Not a single one of us wants any other person to tell us how we must live our lives. And though the issues of the day might make it seem like controversy over our life styles will divide us, that is an illusion which can only serve to divide us if we continue to follow those who desire to divide us so they can claim some of us as their own.
When Al Franken is seated in the United States Senate, Mitch McConnell and his brand of politics will be rendered a relic. But so too will be the politics of Franken, Obama, Reid and Pelosi.
Franken represents critical mass, the virtually unbeatable numerical formula which effectively denies any of us ordinary Americans the checks and balances in our government institutions to which we have become accustomed.
Oh no doubt democrats will celebrate their "super majority", and likewise republicans will grind their teeth, but just in time for the fourth of July Franken will be, I predict, the straw that broke the camel's back.
Jut in time for fireworks it will dawn on America that the cause of Liberty is greater than the game of politics. And in the days to come, before the end of summer, I predict that a sense of the run away nature of government will awaken in the hearts of men and women all across this nation a renewed interest in calling every elected official to account. No longer will smooth talk, smooth skin, or cozy relationships with mega-millionaires inspire fawning loyalty.
Only those who offer themselves up to public service, whom the people of the country intuitively know can be trusted to expand liberty, defend against our enemies and who possess a servant's heart will stand any chance of being elected.
The comment of my democratic friend heralded a turning point in the course of American politics: The day of the Charlatan will soon end.
According to the KyPost, as the woman in this video was being questioned by police she kept tucking a baby squirrel into her cleavage. Take a look:
In response to the Supreme Court's decision which overturned an appellate court ruling which had given a thumbs up to affirmative action in the New Haven firefighter's case (Ricci vs. DeStefano), and in tacit support of Judge Sonya Sotomayor, who had participated in that decision, Jesse Jackson has written a piece for the Chicago Sun Times.
Read his words for yourself and then tell me, is he being racist?
The actual drug found in Tylenol is acetaminophen. It's use is the leading cause of liver failure in the United States, according to a recent report, which says that this drug sends over 56,000 people to the emergency room annually.
Concerns include the overdosage which some people cause in themselves by taking acetaminophen along with other over the counter cold remedies which may also include the drug.
Please see the entire report below if you or your family use this medicine.
A banner headline on The Drudge Report says that many in the press are now beginning to notice what they are calling Obama's "Evil Eye".
BEWARE THE OBAMA 'EVIL EYE'
Tue Jun 30 2009 07:43:56 ET
As the summer begins, White House watchers have spotted a new look by President Obama: The Evil Eye!
Staffers have joked about the menacing glance, which comes when the
president meets with world leaders who are not aligned with his
progressive view.
White House photographers have captured the "evil eye" in
recent weeks, during sessions with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and
Colombia's Alvaro Uribev.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi got hit with the commander's malocchio last week in the Oval office.
And at least one White House reporter has been on the receiving end of the daggers during a press conference.
Developing...
Drudge put up this set of photos as an example:
Finally the rest of the world is catching on. I told you about this a long time ago in a post right here on BluegrassBulletin.com.
The United States Supreme Court has agreed to take another look at the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform legislation with arguments scheduled for September 9th.
A reversal of their prior decision upholding the law could have a dramatic impact on the 2010 elections particularly if the Court throws out current prohibitions on corporate funding of campaign commercials.
FOR FULL STORY SEE: POLITICO
Many people have been watching as revolt around the world has brought bloodshed to the streets of foreign countries. The revolts have all, so far at least, been efforts by citizens seeking democracy to thwart efforts by their duly elected presidents to seize power from the people and hold it as a dictator.
That is the case in Iran, that is the case in Honduras. For a better understanding of what is going on in Honduras, here is a short video to explain:
Calling Texas Congressman and former presidential contender Ron Paul, the GOP's "crazy uncle", Little Green Footballs blog is reporting that his "Audit the Fed" legislation is getting some significant support.
He may have faded from the national political scene a year ago, after his dark-horse presidential run came to naught, but Rep. Ron Paul ’s influence is still being felt in campaigns and policy debates across the country. Indeed, the latest legislative priority of the libertarian Texas Republican — auditing the Federal Reserve — has gained support in unlikely quarters.
Paul’s legislation, popularly known as the “Audit the Fed” bill, has drawn 244 cosponsors, ranging from Ohio’s John A. Boehner , the conservative Republican floor leader, to Michigan’s John Conyers Jr. , the liberal Democratic chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Some Democrats have even picked up on Paul’s rhetoric. “It’s time to yank the shroud off the Fed and shine some light on these events,” New York Democrat Edolphus Towns , chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said at a hearing last week about the shotgun marriage between Bank of America and Merrill Lynch last fall to stave off the latter’s collapse.
Honduras has experienced a revolt against what some are calling its dictator President Mel Zelaya. Of course Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro and Daniel Ortega have called for him to be returned to power. Not surprising.
But uh, oh, so has President Obama who said:
If a man is judged by the company he keeps.........
According to JTA, Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said this in a televised interview in Damascus where he praised Obama's "new language" toward his group:
If Obama has taken the first step in the right direction for Hamas, you can bet your sweet bippy it's the wrong direction for the United States.
Great isn't it that terrorists like what the POTUS is saying about them?
GEEEEEEZ!
KyPolitics, is reporting that a fund-raising event hosted by Cathy Bailey over the weekend, which was supposed to help the State Senate GOP turned ugly. The report says that the crowd was small and in the end, some in attendance even turned on Senate President David Williams for defeating the slots bill.
According to the report Williams told the crowd that he had been "vilified" by the "horse set".
Sounds like somebody is out to get rid of the GOP majority in the Senate next year.
Now I wonder who that might be.
John Cheves is reporting at Bluegrass Politics that two of Governor Beshear's top cabinet officials are now using their positions to lure a major industry to an area where they own property. And in one instance, that of Executive Cabinet Secretary Larry Hayes, his mandatory financial disclosure form "omitted" the fact that he owned the property along with Transportation Secretary Joe Prather.
According to the article, an ethics panel has advised Hayes to "abstain from any state activity that improves the site or otherwise enhances the value of his nearby properties."
But that hasn't stopped them. Hayes is leading the effort to bring a major industry to the Industrial site, despite the ethics ruling. Oh, and about that omission on his financial disclosure form, Beshear's spokesman says it was merely an "oversight".
Looks like somebody is beginning the process of making it pretty clear, Beshear is about to be a one term governor.
Now who might that be.
As democrats in Congress prepared to do anything they could get by with in order to pass the largest tax increase in American history, many are speaking bluntly about the effects of this rush to taxation.
Quoted in Politico, Congressman Geoff Davis (R-Ky 4th) said the bill was the "economic colonization of the heartland" by New York and California.
Talk radio all day has been urging people to call their representatives to voice opposition to the bill.
According to reports, the phone lines to Capitol Hill have been melting all day.
However, despite the efforts of many, democrats are sensing that they will find the votes to pass the bill, according to Politico.
The Inspector General of the Federal Reserve was confronted with the allegation that In eight months the Federal Reserve has lost TRILLIONS of our dollars. Where has it gone, and who is watching over this dam burst? Watch this video. The answer is FRIGHTENINGLY APPALLING!
No one is!!!!!!
Gateway Pundit has taken a very harsh look at the way the Mainstream Media treats infidelity on the part of republicans, versus, how they treat scandals by democrats:
Double standard?
No doubt you will see the American media mourning the death of Pop Star Michael Jackson, actress Farrah Fawcett and maybe even Ed McMahon. But how much mourning is going on over the brutal killings in the streets of Tehran at the hands of the Theocrats running that country?
Melanie Phillips, writing for The Spectator, puts Obama's level of engagement at "pathetic":
"Cap and Trade", or as some are now calling it, "Cap and Tax" is due up for a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives today.
And for us here in Kentucky, never forget, Obama has pledged to take coal off the table as an ideological matter and to use "Cap and Trade" to bankrupt coal. Watch the video to the end.
Michelle Malkin has the phone numbers [HERE] if you are inclined to call and voice your objection.
Back in April I told you about the insane ruling by an initial panel of the California appellate court which approved of a school strip searching a 13 year old girl on suspicion she was in possession of an ibuprofen. The Supreme Court has now ruled 8-1 that this violated her constitutional rights.
I'm a bit disappointed in Justice Thomas' reasoning that "Judges are not qualified to second-guess the best manner for maintaining quiet and order in the school environment". His approach misses the point. The issue was not about the manner by which schools maintain order, it was about the constitutional rights of the child.
Chalk one up for the good guys.
Police say a 26-year-old man was filling a prescription at a pharmacy's drive-through window when two women approached his car. One of the women pulled a gun and tried to pull the trigger. For some reason, the woman's gun would not fire, but the man had a gun of his own—and unlike his assailant's, it was legally possessed and fully functional. He drew his firearm and fired two shots, causing the woman to fall to the ground. The man disarmed his assailant and phoned police, who will charge the woman after her release from the hospital. (Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, AZ, 04/24/09)
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