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Your Representative and Senators are about to be back in Washington. Some ducked the unpleasantness of having to meet with constituents to discuss ObamaCare, but ABC's John Stossel put it out there for all to see and hear. Go to this page and look for "John Stossel on ObamaCare."
Could it be that Paul Krugman got one right? He says of Congressional testimony on U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman's cap-and-trade nonsense, "I couldn't help thinking I was watching a form of treason — treason against the planet." Well, he didn't quite get it right. Krugman's treasonous ones are "deniers," that nasty, growing crowd of us whose observations of the real world (contrasted with possibly rigged computer programs) make us increasingly skeptical as to the coming AlGorian Apocalypse of global warming. This, from Krugman, is as close to Chicken Little as we've seen anywhere.
Spalding once got into the ski business, licensed a superb Italian ski and gave it the model name SIDERAL. Wags made that into an acronym for "Spalding Is Doing Everything Right At Last." The same might be said today of the General Motors Corporation. Instead of resigning two months ago, Rick Waggoner should have lined up the support of his apparently gutless directors and told President Obama he was staying on and taking his company straight where some important Obama supporters, union bosses, don't want it: bankruptcy court. Now that's finally happening.
Tom Tancredo takes on Keith Olbermann's MSNBC sidekick David Shuster on Hardball. It's all about Judge Sonia Sotomayer and – tsk, tsk – that nasty word that everyone except Caucasians can throw around (and practice) shamelessly, "racism." See it here.
Among Memorial Day message ideas for the president: President Obama could best honor those Americans who have given their lives for liberty by insisting that their histories be restored to a prominent place in the educations of American youth. (Through omission and revision, those designing what passes for teaching in American government schools have assured that most students have just about no clue. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.")
"The real cause of unhappiness with the Republicans was ... [their] not acting as conservatives. ... If the Republicans think they can outbid the Democrats for the support of feminists, gays, and growing numbers of minorities, then they will only add embarrassment and permanent failure ..." Read all that Victor Davis Hanson has to say about this here.
We have commented before (here for example) on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Even after eight years of mainly leftist drum-beating about President Bush's intellectual limits, Mrs. Pelosi makes him look like as if he might be Mensa material. Read "Nancy Pelosi: Damaged Beyond Repair" here.
The Rocky Mountain Foundation has added a webpage on Journalism and the Media. The first entry includes a link to Bill O'Reilly and a shocking story about one of our least favorite crocodile feeders, the once-venerable General Electric Company and its tranparently biased subsidiaries NBC and MSNBC. Check it out here.
The General Assembly, Colorado's legislature, has mercifully adjourned. Before we embarked on a summary, scorecard, or whatever, along came Ross Kaminsky, aka "Rossputin," with one carried today at Human Events.com. Read it here.
"Academic freedom: Full license to espouse liberal thought to unformed minds." Debra J. Saunders of Creators Syndicate has more wisdom in this vein. Read it here.
"I must follow the people for I am their leader.” We thought of that bit of feigned, or real, modesty attributed to various of history's notables when listening to the drum-beating in the Nation's Capital as to the ills of carbon "footprints" and guns in the hands of citizens. The "leaders" aren't following the people. Michael Barone has written eloquently. Read it here.
RMF has registered interest (click here) in the purpose of tax revenues allocated to education: Are they to educate children or to provide government employment? TABOR was sabotaged by Amendment 23 (click here for more discussion of that), thereby assuring 1) fiscal chaos for Colorado and 2) plenty more money for government schools whose performance is in dire need of meaningful competition. Read here what Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York City says about school choice.
Re: swine flu (oops, we mean H1N1 virus). It was bad enough that pigs (apparently innocent) have been maligned, but this virus and reactions to it seem to contain enough offense to keep the thought-and-speech police busy nearly everywhere. Here's an amusing commentary at Human Events.com.
Luddites on the loose: The global warming scare may well be the eugenics of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. Energy Secretary Steven Chu won a Nobel in physics, but his speaking about global warming is right out of Al Gore's ridiculous movie. And it gets even worse. The Obama administration is being filled with authorities having clearly anti-science records. Read here Henry J. Miller's comments about bad science sinking the recovery.
Appeasement: the crocodile we've talked about (see for example here and here) is Big Enviro, the juggenaut comprising non-government outfits like the Environmental Defense Fund and their cronies running the federal government's Environmental Protection Agency and state agencies like anti-business Gov. Bill "New Energy Economy" Ritter's in Colorado. EDF is gleefully promoting an EPA report claiming de minimis cost to cap carbon "pollution." "Too good to be true," says columnist Robert Samuelson. An understatement. Read Samuelson's column here.
"The reality, of course, is that it doesn't matter how much sun or wind there is as long as the government provides huge subsidies at the expense of the taxpayer and of the economy's future prospects ... [leaving the United States] in the unenviable position of being the only major economic power led by a president dogmatically wedded to yesterday's make-believe universe of green energy that has already been debunked by reality in the rest of the world." Read an eye-popping account of worldwide nuclear energy growth here.
Are we all right-wing extremists? Your federal government has prepared ominous advice on the subject for "federal, state, local, and tribal counterterrorism and law enforcement officials." Want to know if you're one? Read the unclassified version here.
With their boorishly un-American conduct, faculty and students at the University of North Carolina even earned condemnation from the usually pro-loony-left ACLU! Read it here.
The headline: "Energy sector key to recovery." According to head cheerleader Bill Ritter, Jr., "Colorado will emerge ... stronger than ever" because "We've become a national and worldwide leader with our New Energy Economy." That's the one that steadily imposes increasing burdens on the state's traditional energy sector and requires Colorado ratepayers to subsidize "renewable" energy sources cherished by the environmental movement - Big Enviro. Read the rest of this propaganda here.
"... [President Obama’s] gonna talk bipartisanship to the American people, but ... until the Republican grassroots pushes their people over, if that ever happens, we’re not gonna get change ..."
