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• These Chicago Liberals Love the Bushes Now

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  Now that they have our current CIC for comparison purposes, these Hillary supporters admit that they "were wrong about the Bushes. . . and are deeply, deeply sorry for any jokes we told about them in the past, any bad..." [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 8:53pm EST
  by Carol Cooper

• When is a Public Place Not a Public Place?

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  When Speaker Pelosi's staff says so. Most people assume that the public can normally enter public places, particularly when they are the venue for public announcements. Not for Speaker Pelosi's announcement today, however. You had to be invited. [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 12:53pm EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• Blast from the Past

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  Here's a cartoon from 1948 that turns out to be timely today. [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 10:20am EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• Cap and Tax ad

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  New cap and trade advertisement: [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 9:22am EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• Let's Have an Honest Debate

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  To have an honest debate about health care, you need to start with the truth. The public option's not about choice and competition, it's about government controlled health care -- the opposite of choice and competition. Watch this video to... [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 10:24am EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• How's this for Scary?

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  While some ponder what to wear for Halloween, here's something really scary: Update: What about Lord Monckton's assertion that "In the next few weeks, unless you stop it, your president will sign your freedom, your democracy and your prosperity away..." [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 11:27am EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• Watching PBS tonight

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  We watched Ken Burns' "The National Parks" tonight. Interesting. Did you know that capitalism funded the national parks? We learned that John D. Rockefeller Jr. contributed millions to purchase the land bought for Smokey Mountains National park. You know, money...' [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2009, 11:30pm EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• Need for Freedom

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  We need freedom. Without it, we suffer. How else can you explain why people are willing to risk their lives for freedom? Unbelievably, the resistance persists in Iran, despite the iron fist of the government. From twitter: Nobody I know... [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 10:01pm EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• Harmony

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  Reading Dr. Zero's on-the-money post, The Death of the Individual, brought to mind the sickening Toyota Prius commercials that use humans as landscape. The commercials display the pretty picture of "harmony between man, nature and machine," complete with a snappy... [...]
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  Posted: September 01, 2009, 10:41am EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• Not Presidential

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  Wee-wee'd? Going in the wrong direction on this.' [...]
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  Posted: August 22, 2009, 11:26am EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• Oops

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  I didn't go to huffingtonpost.com on purpose, I just clicked on a link and was told that I had to prove my worth if I wanted to "join" those at this hallowed website: You're welcome to join us. Assuming you... [...]
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  Posted: July 26, 2009, 2:02am EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• Surprise: Tremendous Strides in Energy Efficiency

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  The Obama administration may be having a tough time coming up with good news,but that's just because it doesn't want to give credit to anyone but the president. Using data from the Energy Information Administration, Dr. Mark J. Perry illustrates...' [...]
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  Posted: July 18, 2009, 10:19am EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• Scientists Prove What Everybody Already Knew (Again)

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  Guess What. Children Take a Toll on Marital Bliss: "Couples who do not have children also show diminished marital quality over time," says Scott Stanley, research professor of psychology at DU. "However, having a baby accelerates the deterioration, especially seen..." [...]
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  Posted: July 15, 2009, 11:36pm EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• Giving New Meaning to "Wildlife Area"

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  I hear about the need for more open space and wildlife habitat all the time. Just the other night we attended the Vermillion River Corridor meeting for our area. The proposal for funding this project represented one of its goals... [...]
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  Posted: June 25, 2009, 1:51pm EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• Giving New Meaning to "Wildlife Area"

  I hear about the need for more open space and wildlife habitat all the time. Just the other night we attended the Vermillion River Corridor meeting for our area. The proposal for funding this project represented one of its goals... [...]
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  Posted: June 25, 2009, 1:51pm EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• Creating Victims

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  In its never-ending search for victims to write about, the Star Tribune is trying to whip up sympathy for homeowners whose eminent domain award goes to their lender to pay down their mortgage. It reports: In an unusual twist brought... [...]
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  Posted: June 19, 2009, 10:00am EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• Birds Thrive in Urban Sprawl

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  Surprise. Moderately settled suburban subdivisions, a/k/a "sprawl" was found to increase biodiversity for birds. And the most birds were not found around tightly clustered homes in the middle of open space or forested land. Instead, University of Washington Professor John... [...]
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  Posted: June 17, 2009, 6:28pm EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• Do the Math First

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  Hennepin County commissioner Jeff Johnson did the math on the solar panels recently installed on the county’s Public Works building in Medina. He heard that the panels were a terrific cost savings measure for the county taxpayers because they would... [...]
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  Posted: June 06, 2009, 7:36pm EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• Some Hit Hard by the Economy Have a Home to Return to

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  startribune.com leads with an article describing how some "Latinos in the prime of their work life are returning home because their dreams have collapsed along with the economy." And here I thought that the economic hardships besetting us were being... [...]
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  Posted: May 29, 2009, 11:55pm EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• Soap Price Mystery Solved?

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  I'd been wondering recently why the price of laundry detergent had gone through the roof. My musings took place mostly in the detergent aisle of the grocery store, and I didn't take it any further than that. But the sticker... [...]
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  Posted: May 21, 2009, 10:07am EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• Gotta Love This Guy

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  Steven Crowder. He's funny.' [...]
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  Posted: May 18, 2009, 10:32am EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• Thug Government

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  When our president, sworn to uphold the constitution, behaves like a common thug, bullying and threatening private parties to a dispute to give up their rights under the law under threat of being destroyed, then I think we have as... [...]
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  Posted: May 04, 2009, 3:58pm EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• Twin Cities Astroturf

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  I spent the day at the Environmental Law Institute today. I learned a lot there. What stands out most clearly was what I heard in the late afternoon in a breakout session covering environmental reviews under federal and state law.... [...]
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  Posted: April 23, 2009, 10:26pm EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• Unintended Consequences in China

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  When you defy natural laws, you get unintended consequences. Governmental officials like to think that they are omnipotent, that they can decree new laws and thereby coerce their subjects to submit to their will. They may tell you that they... [...]
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  Posted: April 11, 2009, 11:11pm EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• And on the Bright Side

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  Positive news from Mark Perry: [...]
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  Posted: March 27, 2009, 10:36am EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• More Opacity after Promises of Transparency

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  A lot of people would like to know what's going on here. Ed Morrissey at hotair.com asks what's going on with the administrations negotiations over the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). A Russian report says that this treaty will result in... [...]
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  Posted: March 27, 2009, 9:43am EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• Here's Some Good News

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  In these days when we are constantly inundated with bad news and many of us are convinced that the destruction of our country is at hand, I read some good news today. We have a constitutional right to give the... [...]
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  Posted: March 26, 2009, 10:04pm EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• Americans' "Insatiable Appetite" for Illegal Drugs Responsible for Mexican Deaths

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  At least that's what Hillary Clinton says: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that an "insatiable" appetite in the United States for illegal drugs was to blame for much of the violence plaguing Mexico. "We are. How..." [...]
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  Posted: March 25, 2009, 3:43pm EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• Gun Control Fails to Prevent Police Deaths

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  California, the home of gun control laws nobody understands, where honest people are unwittingly turned into criminals and forced to surrender guns that were legal when they bought them, shows again that gun control doesn't prevent criminals from shooting people.Cross...' [...]
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  Posted: March 22, 2009, 11:50am EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• Transparent Fraud

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  From latimes.com: We are not making this up: Barack Obama was elected commander in chief promising to run the most transparent presidential administration in American history. This achievement and the overall promise of his historic administration caused the National Newspaper... [...]
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  Posted: March 21, 2009, 1:34pm EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• What Else did Ike Predict?

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  Wattsupwiththat.com enlightens us: "…that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.” Click the link and you can listen to the whole farewell address. Cross posted at www.steamvalveblog.com" [...]
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  Posted: February 22, 2009, 9:41pm EST
  by Carol Cooper

• Freedom vs. Tyranny

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  Many things lately have been causing me to wonder whether this is the same country I grew up in. The most recent occurred at our town hall, where two township officials discussed whether the township should take away building rights... [...]
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  Posted: February 20, 2009, 9:26pm EST
  by Carol Cooper

• European Greens: Back to the Drawing Board

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  Turns out that wind and solar energy hasn't done anything to reduce CO2 emissions. This is what happens when you follow the leader and the leader was just looking to get some attention by being the first one to do...' [...]
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  Posted: February 15, 2009, 10:52pm EST
  by Carol Cooper

• Money

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  Posted: February 14, 2009, 10:44pm EST
  by Carol Cooper

• Appalling Irresponsibility

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  Democratic Senator Predicts None of His Colleagues 'Will Have the Chance' to Read Final Stimulus Bill Before Vote And here I thought that reading bills was an integral part of their job, along with making decisions that are in the... [...]
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  Posted: February 13, 2009, 10:20am EST
  by Carol Cooper

• Future Utopia

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  Wouldn't it be wonderful to live in a world where we had clear solutions to the difficult problems of humanity? And if a way were found to get everyone to agree that those solutions were indeed the best solutions, we...' [...]
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  Posted: February 03, 2009, 9:40am EST
  by Carol Cooper

• Clean Water Alert

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  Posted: January 27, 2009, 10:31pm EST
  by Carol Cooper

• Fish Poop: One Answer to Excess CO2

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  Gee Whiz, ain't nature wonderful? Turns out that fish poop, a usually ignored part of our ecosystem, balances out the ocean's CO2 levels. Who'da thunk it? Cross-posted at Truth v. The Machine' [...]
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  Posted: January 16, 2009, 11:09pm EST
  by Carol Cooper

• Growing Numbers of International Scientists Now Dispute Global Warming Claims

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  Jim Inhofe's blog reports that the number of scientists disputing the UN's man-made global warming claims has increased significantly: UN Blowback: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims POZNAN, Poland - The UN global warming conference... [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2008, 10:50am EST
  by Carol Cooper

• It's only the Constitution

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  You remember, that document that stands between us and tyranny. I've been reading a lot of conservative blogs lately that have been telling me that all of the lawsuits challenging Mr. Obama's right to be president are products of some... [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2008, 12:18am EST
  by Carol Cooper

• Green vs. Green

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  Steven Milloy, the junkscience.com guy, tells us about the little green guy invading the offices of the big green guy, accusing the green goliath of collaborating with the enemy by advocating cap and trade: The activist group Environmental Defense got... [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2008, 10:39pm EST
  by Carol Cooper

• From the Frying Pan into the Fire

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  Think folks are having a hard time with the economy as it is now? Obama is planning to make things much worse with a cap and trade proposal. The Heritage Foundation blog puts it well: In a taped message shown... [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2008, 9:33am EST
  by Carol Cooper

• NASA: We Have No Quality Control Over the Climate Data we Use

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  When last month's temperature data from Russia was flat out wrong (somebody just copied over September's data for October), NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) went ahead and used it as the basis for its conclusion that October, 2008...' [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2008, 11:26am EST
  by Carol Cooper

• Are Some Truths Out of Date?

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  I was at a seminar today. The written materials contained a quote from an old 1880 Minnesota Supreme Court case concerning the homestead exemption, which shields a person's home from his creditors. The court explained the policy behind the exemption... [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2008, 11:57pm EST
  by Carol Cooper

• Victimology 101

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  Fox news reports today that MSNBC was "the victim of a hoax:" MSNBC was the victim of a hoax when it reported that an adviser to John McCain had identified himself as the source of an embarrassing story about former... [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2008, 9:48am EST
  by Carol Cooper

• Gone Too Soon - Michael Crichton

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  One of my all time favorite authors. He wrote so many riveting stories, backed up by solid scientific fact. And he followed the path of the true scientist: the search for truth, unencumbered by conventional wisdom or politically correct thinking.... [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2008, 10:58pm EST
  by Carol Cooper

• Obama Wants National Military Police Force

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  His words: We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've gotta have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well... [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2008, 1:33pm EST
  by Carol Cooper

• Zogby: McCain Now Leads

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  According to Drudge. [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2008, 10:04pm EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• No Criticism Allowed

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  Posted: October 31, 2008, 7:22pm EDT
  by Carol Cooper

• Voter Fraud

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  Here are some videos where Hillary supporters describe the Chicago-style voter fraud that helped Obama get the Democratic nomination. And with the FBI investigating ACORN's role in voter fraud across the nation, we naturally wonder whether this is going on... [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2008, 2:25pm EDT
  by Carol Cooper