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I’m confused. I missed the part where the UC regents have access to a magic wand they can wave to produce $500 million out of thin air.
The whole freaking state of California is broke. No wait. “Broke” implies you just have no money. [...]
When windbags like Rush Limabugh call this economic climate “Obama’s economy,” a reminder that George W. Bush was able to avoid accepting responsibility for the declining economic forecast during the initial months of his first term because the declining economy [...]
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Clearly Grayson has this story cold. Equally as clearly, Barney Frank is a liar who never supported a true audit the Fed proposal in the first place.
Sen. Dodd of Connecticut is another slithering weasel who loudly and publicly pretends to champion financial reform but when the votes come, backs [...]
Via The Hill, John Conyers hammers Obama’s weak stance in the healthcare battle in a radio interview:
“I’m getting tired of saving Obama’s can in the White House,” Conyers said on the liberal Bill Press radio show. “He only won by five votes in the House, and this bill [...]
With the collapse of tourism in Hawaii, relatives on the Big Island tell us they and many others increasingly are growing their own food, as well as fishing and hunting (like for wild pig.) There are few jobs there now since tourism dropped off sharply [...]
A Lawrence Berkeley National Labs spin-out has developed the new technology, which is dramatically cheaper than existing waste heat conversions.
The U.S. consumes around 100 quads (100 quadrillion BTUs) of energy a year and 55 to 60 quads get dissipated as waste heat
[...]“The best known investor in Web 1.0, involved in the founding of Amazon, Netscape, and Google,” John Doerr and his firm, Kleiner Perkins, have raised a billion dollars to be channeled into greentech.
“Greentech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st century,” said Doerr.
Unlike investment banksters, venture capitalists [...]
The New York Times shows what side of the class war they are on by explaining that US workers really are just so overpaid, something Fenian Rising finds obnoxious. So do I.
[...]Beans, Rice and Gold has been following this story since it started.
British scientists suspect that swine flu virus has mutated in Ukraine. Some doctors say that flu in the country has shown unprecedented symptoms, creating the effect of burnt lungs, the Daily Mail reports.
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From their home page
“Democratic Green Socialist is a bi-monthly online magazine for socialism, independence, the environment and peace. ‘For those who think outside the box.’”
“Socialism Yes – Egon, No” – Banner at the Alexandraplatz demonstration, 1989, (Egon Krenz had succeeded Erich Honecker as the last leader [...]
The Army is researching hybrid and fuel cells for vehicles as well as better battery systems. They understand that energy security means creating your own energy.
The Army is well aware of its potential for pulling the entire civilian market into a more sustainable future in which oil and other [...]
A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows Republican Meg Whitman in a dead heat with Democrat Jerry Brown in the race for governor, a big swing from less than two months ago when Rasmussen showed Brown 9 percentage points ahead and this Field Poll showed him 20 points ahead.
The [...]
The national-defense syllogism of President Barack H. Obama is pristine in its consistency:
The war against the Iran/al-Qaeda axis is over! It ended on January 20th, 2009, when the One We Have Been Yearning For was finally inaugurated.It was just one more of those failed policies from the previous administration. The [...]
America's Roman Catholic bishops aren't completely obsessed by abortion and gay marriage. My former colleague Ann Rodgers, one of the best religion reporters around, reports in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that bishops have been battling over whether to approve a retro English translation of the Mass with more traditional (and, [...]
Good news today from the backstage maneuverings on the Senate Democrats' healthcare reform bill. As The New Republic reported, Democratic leaders have agreed to give more flexibility to millions of Americans who get their health insurance today through their workplace.
First, a little [...]
Maybe those climatologists who had predicted ever-increasing temperatures wouldn’t be puzzled by the failure of global temperatures to keep rising had they not relied on doctored data. When someone hacked into “a major global-warming advocacy center in the UK [and had] the data published on line“, we [...]
Belichick was right to go for it. I like to think I try not to make the mistake of going passive in risky situations, but on reflection, I can think of as many times when I did this as when I did not.
I like applications of statistics to football. [...]
The Sacramento Bee ran this op-ed from Assemblymember Alyson Huber on Wednesday.
The governor has been traversing the state touting his water deal, calling it a historic achievement. Rather than making history by crafting a comprehensive solution to our water crisis that everyone can agree on, this water deal promises [...]
With his “stimulus” boondoggle going bust and unemployment at its highest rate in a quarter-century, in California at its highest rate since Barbara Boxer was in Kindergarten, the president is at his wits end; he doesn’t know what to do.
So, he’s holding a jobs summit at the White House and [...]
Here are the favorable/unfavorable ratings:
Favorable / Unfavorable
Barbara Boxer: 51 / 41 +10
Chuck DeVore: 31 / 25 +6
Carly Fiorina: 40 / 29 +11
California GOP U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina on the Kudlow Report (November 18, 2009)
But, the but is a big one. Carly Fiorina polls [...]
So I was in an elevator full of men who were wearing the team colors of the Cleveland Browns. They grumbled aloud and boldly that there wouldn't ever be any Baltimore Ravens fans anywhere near. I thought better of making a joke.
My reading of Ferguson is on a brief hiatus,' [...]
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I was forwarded a document for a recent California Federation of Republican Women's Southern Division meeting.
It is apparent that Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman are on completely different tracks.
In the wake of the discovery that Whitman is an elitist NIMBY and' [...]
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I was forwarded a document for a recent California Federation of Republican Women's Southern Division meeting.
It is apparent that Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman are on completely different tracks.
In the wake of the discovery that Whitman is an elitist NIMBY and' [...]
Source Document
I was forwarded a document for a recent California Federation of Republican Women's Southern Division meeting.
It is apparent that Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman are on completely different tracks.
In the wake of the discovery that Whitman is an elitist NIMBY and' [...]
This is the question a lot of people are asking. Progressives are wondering what happened to the Barack Obama who ran for President as an enthusiastic supporter of single-payer health care. Yes, I said it, single-payer, the idea that health care should be publicly funded and privately delivered to everyone. [...]
Still, not all signs are negative. The state gained 25,700 jobs in October, reversing a trend that's seen California lose 687,700 [...]
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Hey, if the "better" ideas of the right mean something and are to communicate something, the first thing that needs to be done is the carpet bombing to a wet spot on the tarmac of "Townhall.com." Check this crapulous [...]
So says meteorologist Mojib Latif of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in the northern German city of Kiel. He is also one of Germany’s best-known climatologists. The facts have begun to overtake the fiction (NBC’s shrill Green Week was undeterred, however).
Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are [...]
President Barack Obama got a big reaction from the troops at Osan Air Base in South Korea, saying that their work has helped transform millions of lives in the region.
** OBAMA DROPS BELOW 50% APPROVAL. The new Gallup daily tracking poll has President Barack Obama dropping below [...]
Fair and balanced.But, the but is a big one. Carly Fiorina polls better than Chuck DeVore but continues to trail the incumbent Democrat Senator Boxer.
[...] City eyes state lawsuit to save money - Placer Herald
A new lawsuit is giving the city of Rocklin more confidence that it will be able to hold on to redevelopment money the state planned to raid with this summer’s budget compromise.
Police ring in new automated [...]
Many in the no-longer-so-loyal opposition to the Obama juggernaut of taking the wrecking ball to the Republic fret about how to slow or stop it. Here's the news: You can't.
There are now so many programs and initiatives in play on so many levels that just keeping' [...]
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who many Republicans have been pushing to run for governor in 2010, is instead leaning more toward a run for U.S. Senate
Because Rudy is a leader and America needs his brand of conservatism in the era of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. [...]
Tax increases are coming and [...]
Generally we use the "Matrimonial Madness" category for discussions of same-sex marriage; but not this time. Today, in a bolt from the blue (staters), the Senate Democrats have snuck a ringer into Majority Leader Harry "Pinky" Reid's (D-NV, 70%) version of ObamaCare... they created a new tax with a nasty [...]
There are those who get upset just from looking in another person's direction. The mere mention of the other guy's name, the sight of his hair is enough to send them into a tailspin and launch them into convulsions.
And so it goes with the Palestinians and the Israelis. [...]
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