[Robert Hartford, a local member of CAUTION, submitted this paper to PunditHouse. Some intriguing points. Enjoy.] © 2010 by Robert Hartford (Presented at: The Atlas Society / Free Minds 2010 Summer Seminar, July 3) Reprint/ posting permission granted provided this work is published in its entirety. Introduction Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United [...]
The so-called Summer of Recovery continues to depress. The latest figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show the national unemployment rate increased to 9.6% for August, up from July’s 9.5%, while the economy shed another 54,000 jobs. Nonfarm payroll employment changed little (-54,000) in August, and the unemployment rate was about unchanged at 9.6 [...]
Um, about that whole climate change thing and how mankind is doomed to early extinction? Nevermind. Sorry about the confusion; totally our bad. This from the UK Express: THE world’s leading climate change body has been accused of losing credibility after a damning report into its research practices. A high-level inquiry into the Intergovernmental Panel [...]
RINO, that is. Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski last night conceded that state’s Republican Party primary election to Tea Party-backed, Sarah Palin-endorsed challenger Joe Miller, who moves on to face Democrat Scott McAdams in November’s general election. The Anchorage Daily News runs down how it unfolded last night in the Land of the Midnight Sun: “We [...]
In an effort to weed out the corruption that has plagued it for years, the Mexican government has fired nearly one-tenth of its federal police force – about 3,200 crooked cops – this year, according to this report from The L.A. Times: The cleanup is to take place nationwide and began with the federal police, [...]
In the days leading up to and on the morning of the “Restoring Honor” rally it was ring-around the liberal networks as every left-leaning news outlet from CBS to MSNBC attempted to paint Glenn Beck’s gathering as, “controversial and political”. On Friday, ABC ran a headline that read, “Glenn Beck’s Non Political Rally Turns [...]
Not exactly breaking news here, but you’d never know it from the MSM’s downplay of what should’ve been an across-the-board, above-the-fold lead story. The Obama Administration has scuttled plans to prosecute terrorist Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who allegedly masterminded the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, killing 17 sailors and leaving dozens more [...]
Smile and say Ingsoc. A U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that it is perfectly acceptable for agents of the government to covertly invade your personal property, trample over your privacy rights and secretly track every move you make, without even bothering to obtain a warrant. Seriously. Adam Cohen from TIME magazine lays out the [...]
Americans love the short, quick solution. (Except when it involves them, that is) We have one possible solution that would take about six words to write in a piece of legislation. It would be one simple answer to our enormous budget deficits that has never been offered, considered or asked to be scored by the [...]
The odds, and big-time money, were against J.D. Hayworth pulling out a win in Arizona’s Republican primary, but the 27-point clobbering he took from John “I was a maverick for amnesty before I wasn’t a maverick against it” McCain came as a surprise. The fact that McCain blew through upwards of $21 million and sold [...]
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