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Wednesday, November 19
ENPR: Obama Administration Looking More Like Clinton Third Term
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 19 Nov 2008 05:49 PM EST
Outlook
1. The defeat of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) brings the Democrats closer to 60 seats and spares Republicans the unseemly task of expelling the convicted senator from their conference.
2. Obama continues to tap the Clinton Administration for his own administration, dashing the hopes many liberals had voiced in the spring that the Democrats would no longer be the Clinton Party.
3. Republicans remain dispirited, and amid all the talk of "renewing" the party or "returning to our roots," House and Senate Republicans appear to be settling in as a comfortable minority without much change from the last two years.
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Evil Concealed By Money
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 19 Nov 2008 04:50 PM EST
Evil acts can be given an aura of moral legitimacy by noble-sounding socialistic expressions such as spreading the wealth, income redistribution or caring for the less fortunate
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Because anyday is a Good Day to remind ourselves why we hate Big Media... Don Henley's Dirty Laundry
by
Riley Jones
on Wed 19 Nov 2008 01:09 PM EST
Freeman Dyson Debunks Dire Forecasts on Global Warming and Other Tenets
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 19 Nov 2008 12:06 PM EST
In the absence of audience interruptions, Mr. Dyson had an argument anyway with the scores of people (like Al Gore) who weren’t present to defend their belief in the dire consequences of global warming. (“There’s no accounting for human folly,” Mr. Dyson said when asked about Mr. Gore’s Nobel Prize.) Saying that on a recent trip he and his wife found Greenlanders to be delighted with their warmer climate and increased tourism, Mr. Dyson suggested that representing “local warming by a global average is misleading.” In his comments at both the Nassau Club and Labyrinth, he decried the use of computer modeling to make “tremendously dogmatic” predictions about worldwide trends, without acknowledging the “messy, muddy real world” and the non-climatic effects of increased carbon dioxide. “There is no substitute for widely-conducted field operations over a long time,” he told the Nassau Club audience, citing the “enormous gaps in knowledge and sparseness of observation” that characterize the work of global warming experts.
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Murtha seeks immunity from suit
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 19 Nov 2008 11:56 AM EST
A Marine who sued U.S. Rep. John Murtha for defamation urged a federal appeals court Tuesday to order the Johnstown Democrat to testify under oath in the case. An attorney for Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich told the court that he needs Murtha’s deposition to determine how often the congressman made the claim that Marines in Iraq engaged in “cold-blooded murder and war crimes” in the slayings of civilians in Haditha
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Newsbusted for Tuesday, November 18, 2008
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 19 Nov 2008 11:31 AM EST
Mika: SUV Owners 'Greedy'
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 19 Nov 2008 11:26 AM EST
Oy. Mika Brzezinski was on quite a roll this morning. On the one hand, free-marketers would find much to agree with in Mika's arguments. As noted here yesterday, whereas Joe Scarborough has been vigorously advocating a federal rescue of Detroit, Brzezinski favors bankruptcy over bailout. But Mika couldn't help muddling her message, delivering a jeremiad against Detroit for producing larger vehicles and Americans for buying them, actually condemning the latter as "greedy."
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Critics falsely charge Zogby and Ziegler of "push polling" and racism in 'Media Malpractice' video
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 19 Nov 2008 11:17 AM EST
Documentary maker John Ziegler appears on the B-Cast Zone to defend polling and sampling used to prove his point that Obama voters were poorly informed by the rabidly pro-Obama mainstream media.
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Romney: Let Detroit Go Bankrupt
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 19 Nov 2008 10:24 AM EST
IF General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won’t go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed.
Without that bailout, Detroit will need to drastically restructure itself. With it, the automakers will stay the course — the suicidal course of declining market shares, insurmountable labor and retiree burdens, technology atrophy, product inferiority and never-ending job losses. Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.
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A Sea of Unwanted Imports
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 19 Nov 2008 10:21 AM EST
Gleaming new Mercedes cars roll one by one out of a huge container ship here and onto a pier. Ordinarily the cars would be loaded on trucks within hours, destined for dealerships around the country. But these are not ordinary times.
For now, the port itself is the destination. Unwelcome by dealers and buyers, thousands of cars worth tens of millions of dollars are being warehoused on increasingly crowded port property.
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McCain campaign removed from absentee ballot case
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 19 Nov 2008 12:38 AM EST
The U.S. Justice Department has replaced John McCain's presidential campaign as the plaintiff in a lawsuit demanding that Virginia election officials count late absentee ballots from military personnel serving outside the state. U.S. District Judge Richard L. Williams ruled Monday that the Republican ticket lacked standing to sue and approved the Justice Department's motion to intervene
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