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Our Honored Dead
Fri 05/24/2013
By Alan Caruba ~ In the town I called home for more than sixty years, among my earliest memories was joining my Father to attend the annual Memorial Day ceremonies. There was always a march to the appropriately named Memorial Park. It included veterans, scout troops, police and fire contingents, and the high school band. […]
The Obama Crony In Charge Of Your Medical Records
Fri 05/24/2013
By Michelle Malkin ~ Who is Judy Faulkner? Chances are, you don’t know her – but her politically connected, taxpayer-subsidized electronic medical records company may very well know you. Top Obama donor and billionaire Faulkner is founder and CEO of Epic Systems, which will soon store almost half of all Americans’ health information. If the crony […]
Congressional Budget Office Looks At A Carbon Tax
Fri 05/24/2013
By David Kreutzer, Ph.D. ~ The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released its report on the impact of a carbon tax. (Disclaimer: I provided comments to the CBO on a draft of the report, earlier this year.) The economic parts were pretty sensible and conclude that (be sure you are sitting down)—there are no free […]
More Climate Alarmism From Australia’s ABC TV’s Lateline
Fri 05/24/2013
By Andrew Bolt ~ The ABC mentioned in the title is the Australian National Broadcaster, the ABC, (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) It has no relationship whatsoever with the ABC Network in the U.S. The program is Lateline, the late night Current Affairs program. Last night the program featured an interview with the American Global Warming commentator […]
Heroism, Humility and Leadership
Thu 05/23/2013
The Janitor and the Medal of Honor By Mark Alexander “Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which […]
Who’s Who?
Thu 05/23/2013
A Dry Bones Cartoon ~ Just in case you were wondering who is who! Read More by Yaakov Kirschen at Dry Bones . http://drybonesblog.blogspot.com/
Ford To Quit Australia. Government Subsidies Wasted
Thu 05/23/2013
By Andrew Bolt ~ Ford Australia has a proud history. The opened their original factory in Geelong in 1925, mainly assembling both American Fords and also English Fords. In 1960, to compete with the major Australian car, the Holden, Ford Australia introduced the Falcon, a re-engineered version of the American Falcon, made to suit Australian […]
Mother Nature’s Message To Mankind
Wed 05/22/2013
By Alan Caruba ~ After a tornado tore through Moore, Oklahoma in 1999, people returned and rebuilt their homes and other structures destroyed by it. Many of the homes, instead of including a basement, were rebuilt on concrete slabs that offer no protection when high winds tear them loose. The elementary school was believed to […]
A Bumper Crop Of Food Stamps
Wed 05/22/2013
By Amy Payne ~ Tweet this Where do food stamps come from? They come from taxpayers—certainly not from family farms. Yet the “farm” bill, a recurring subsidy-fest in Congress, is actually 80 percent food stamps and other government nutrition programs. The food stamps sweeten the farm deal for lawmakers, who admit that the combination works […]
Oklahoma Tornado Strikes And Climate Change Vultures Gather
Wed 05/22/2013
By Andrew Bolt ~ This is despicable, that while rescue operations are still going on, some people are using this tragedy to push their Climate Change/Global Warming agenda…..TonyfromOz. Rescuers are still digging children out of a collapsed school, but warmists are already trying to turn the Oklohama disaster into a poster for the climate change/global […]
Silencing Free Speech On College Campuses
Tue 05/21/2013
By Alan Caruba ~ “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the people peacefully to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” The enemies of these freedoms, as expressed in the […]
NewsBusted – 13-141 – Video
Tue 05/21/2013
Topics in today’s show: – Even though Obamacare is not fully implemented, Democrats are asking for it to be bailed out. – California Congresswoman Janice Hahn says that Obamacare will help save marriages. – New York City is considering allowing non citizens to vote in elections. – A new study shows that owning a pet […]
BBC Admits To A “Standstill” In Global Warming. Bad Luck For Fish
Tue 05/21/2013
By Andrew Bolt ~ The BBC concedes what The Age still can’t: Since 1998, there has been an unexplained “standstill” in the heating of the Earth’s atmosphere. UPDATE More unexpected news. Global warming could actually mean fish breed better, says a new paper in Global Change Biology: Increased CO2 stimulates reproduction in a coral reef […]
The Morally Straight Boy Scouts Of America
Mon 05/20/2013
By Alan Caruba ~ One of the goals of Communism is to “Present Homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as “normal, natural, and healthy”. It comes as no surprise that, during a CBS interview in February, President Obama supported having the Boy Scouts of America open its membership to gays and, presumably, those who lead scout troops […]
They Did it!
Mon 05/20/2013
A Dry Bones Cartoon ~ Yup! They opened the Gates of Hell. Read More by Yaakov Kirschen at Dry Bones . http://drybonesblog.blogspot.com/
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- American Minute for May 24thWilliam Lloyd Garrison published the Boston anti-slavery paper "Liberator" and founded the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833. Suffering hundreds of death threats for his politically incorrect stand on the value of human life, William Lloyd Garrison died MAY 24, 1879. He wrote: "I desire to thank God, that he enables me to disregard 't […]
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