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Krauthammer: Pending Climate Change Legislation a 'Dead Parrot'

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:57:48 +0000

After the U.S. House of Representatives passed cap-and-trade legislation earlier this year by a thin seven-vote margin earlier this year , the possibility that it could become law seemed like it was a real one. But after the dust settled some, the White House shifted its focused to ...

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Possible Conspiracy To Falsify Temperature Data Uncovered

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:40:06 +0000

E-mail messages between high-ranking scientists appear to indicate a conspiracy by some of the world's leading global warming alarmists to falsify temperatures in order to exaggerate global averages. Those involved allegedly include: James Hansen, Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space ...

Dr. Melissa Clouthier found this 7 days ago on newsbusters.org

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Seven Big Lies about the Stimulus -- By: Stephen Spruiell

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:46:02 +0000

There have been dozens of news reports exposing tens of thousands of stimulus jobs as frauds -- David Freddoso and Mark Hemingway of the Washington Examiner put the number of phony jobs at about 75,000. They found more than 100 separate incidents, but these incidents can be grouped into seven ...

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Blink and Miss Another 13,000 Jobs NOT Created or Saved -- By: Stephen Spruiell

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:54:00 +0000

I have a couple of pieces on the stimulus up today. I'm writing as fast as I can, but with new reports coming out every day debunking the claims of jobs "created or saved," it's hard to keep up . In its report to the federal government last month, the Department of Corrections and ...

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Welcome to the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy -- By: Stephen Spruiell

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:53:13 +0000

I n May 2008, Chicago Public Radio teamed up with National Public Radio (NPR) to produce an episode of the show This American Life called “ The Giant Pool of Money .” The episode garnered widespread praise and won several awards for explaining the subprime-mortgage crisis with clarity and ...

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Saved, Created, or Fake? -- By: Stephen Spruiell

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:46:02 +0000

E d Pound sounded like a man besieged. For weeks, newspapers across the country had been finding exaggerations and errors in stimulus recipients’ estimates of how many jobs their government checks had created or saved. The latest blow to the administration’s credibility was a report that dozens ...

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Colbert On "Letterman": Obama Is The Meryl Streep Of Presidents (VIDEO)

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:30:06 +0000

Stephen Colbert sat down with David Letterman last night and reminisced about his trip to Iraq . He recounted for Dave his visit to the White House where the president taped a segment for Stephen to show the troops. Turns out the president is an unnervingly talented actor who made Colbert feel ...

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Politics Blog : Rep. Jackie Speier tells Colbert she is not gay-married

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:34:38 +0000

Rep. Jackie Speier took one of the biggest risks of her political career recently -- she agreed to appear on "The Colbert Report" --- and the segment aired last night. How dangerous can this be? When Rep. Linda T. Sanchez (D-Lakewood) appeared on the show a while back, Colbert coaxed her into ...

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$10,000 Per Car -- By: Stephen Spruiell

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:57:03 +0000

In other GM news, that's how much U.S. taxpayers will end up spending on the auto bailouts, according to a new study authored by professor Thomas D. Hopkins in conjunction with the National Taxpayers Union: To better appreciate the scale of the bailout, it is instructive to divide the ...

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Is There a Merit Badge for Strikebreaking? -- By: Stephen Spruiell

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:23:31 +0000

Via Memeorandum , SEIU doesn't tolerate scabs : In pursuit of an Eagle Scout badge, Kevin Anderson , 17, has toiled for more than 200 hours hours over several weeks to clear a walking path in an east Allentown park. Little did the do-gooder know that his altruistic act would put him in the ...

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"The Bureaucrat in the Exam Room" -- By: Stephen Spruiell

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:46:33 +0000

That's how Tennessee Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn characterized the preventative-care sections of the Democrats' health-care bill: BLACKBURN: And, George, this is exactly how it happens. If you go to page 1,296 of the House bill, the engrossed copy, and you began to read in title three ...

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Dude, Where's My Jobs Created or Saved? -- By: Stephen Spruiell

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:00:24 +0000

Bad day for Recovery.gov. First, Earl Devaney, the chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, had to inform Rep. Darrell Issa that "the board can’t vouch for the numbers submitted by recipients of stimulus funding." Now, Ed Pound, director of communications for ...

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