Follow The Money!

Guess who spends the most money in politics to influence (read “bribe”) the legislative process?
Big Oil? (Not even close!)
Wal-Mart? (You are getting colder!)
O.K. – I’ll tell you.
The National Education Association. $56,349,269 total, state and federal!
Second Place goes to PECHANGA BAND OF LUISENO MISSION INDIANS with a total state and federal of $43,960,451.
In fact second place [...]

Suspicion Confirmed

Time Magazine published information that a British Court has confirmed that which we have always suspected: To some, Climate Change is a religion.
“But should a fervent belief in the need to fight climate change be given the same legal protection as an actual religion? A London judge said yes, ruling this week that environmentalism should [...]

Sloppy Science, or Sloppy Scientists?

One of the scientific rules is that claims need to be checkable and replicable – and now we find out why the Climate-Gate e-mails were so stout in their conspiracy to thwart the Freedom of Information requests for the seminal data on Global Warming.
It had been destroyed!
Right now there is no charge that the data [...]

Iran Thumbs Its Nose — Again

 Economic sanctions are a bit late, and most would hurt the population where there is plenty of opposition to the Mullahs.
If they had been tightened months ago…but getting international cooperation is slow. (General Rule of Thumb: Any plan that relies on international cooperation is always doomed to failure. )
A major portion of Iran’s refined gasoline [...]

Climate-Gate

Times of London On-Line:
“SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.
It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.
The UEA’s [...]

The NY Times Gets It Right

The New York Times editorial today on Middle East diplomacy can be summed up in a single paragraph from it:
“Mr. Obama’s own credibility is so diminished (his approval rating in Israel is 4 percent) that serious negotiations may be farther off than ever.”
The NYT concludes that the Obama Middle East policy has “unraveled.”
Those Obamabot who [...]

Obama Backed The Wrong Horse

The State Department has egg on its face — it backed the wrong horse in Honduras.
It backed a leftist President who tried to abrogate the Honduran Constitution, and the Honduran Supreme Court ordered the Army to depose him — so he went into exile but with public US State Department support for his return.
Then the [...]

Voting Rights

The “One man, One vote” is as disastrous to  human liberty in the U.S. as it is in the U.N. with their “One Nation, One Vote.” At least the UN had to good sense to make two houses, and give the powerful nations the ability to thwart the propensity to redistribute every dime from the [...]

An Efficient Governemt Agency? Yep!

We have come a long way from Washington’s men having to wrap their feet in burlap because they did not have shoes for forced marches to position themselves to fight the Hessians. The Hessians had superior equipment and training. (They could fire four precise volleys a minute, compared to the “Rebels” ragged two!)
Today we have [...]

The Stupak Amendment

As I understand it, the Stupak Amendment only bans private plans that accept public subsidy from participating in abortion funding.
I favor a woman’s right to abort right up to the time when a cognitive brain wave indicates there is a human (as we understand “human”) living inside her.
That is not a legislative determined time, but [...]