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Monday, January 5
Pelosi Erases Gingrich's Long-Standing Fairness Rules
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 05 Jan 2009 11:15 PM EST
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to re-write House rules today to ensure that the Republican minority is unable to have any influence on legislation. Pelosi’s proposals are so draconian, and will so polarize the Capitol, that any thought President-elect Obama has of bipartisan cooperation will be rendered impossible before he even takes office.
Pelosi’s rule changes -- which may be voted on today -- will reverse the fairness rules that were written around Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America.”
(I guess this is what the Democrats mean by "bipartisanship." -Roland)
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The Pelosi Doctrine: What’s good for her is good for the U.S.
President-elect Barack Obama meets today with Democratic congressional leaders to discuss their forthcoming economic stimulus package. On Wednesday a Democrats-only committee hearing will convene to push for congressional action before Obama’s January 20 inauguration. Thus advances a sham economic stimulus bill via a sham legislative process. Regardless whether the final version spends $750 billion or some figure north of $1 trillion, the measure will be an economic sham.
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Freedom of Choice Act: Losing Hyde Amendment Could Drastically Increase Abortions
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 05 Jan 2009 12:56 PM EST
The Hyde Amendment, originally enacted in 1976, is a pro-life limitation amendment in the annual appropriations bill that restricts the direct federal funding of abortion through Medicaid.
Without the Hyde Amendment, women eligible for Medicaid would have their abortions paid for by the Federal Government – in other words, OUR tax dollars. If abortions are free to the individual, you can bet on abortion rates increasing.
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Funny Business in Minnesota (In Which Every Dubious Ruling Seems to Benefit Al Franken)
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 05 Jan 2009 11:00 AM EST
Strange things keep happening in Minnesota, where the disputed recount in the Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken may be nearing a dubious outcome. Thanks to the machinations of Democratic Secretary of State Mark Ritchie and a meek state Canvassing Board, Mr. Franken may emerge as an illegitimate victor.
Mr. Franken started the recount 215 votes behind Senator Coleman, but he now claims a 225-vote lead and suddenly the man who was insisting on "counting every vote" wants to shut the process down. He's getting help from Mr. Ritchie and his four fellow Canvassing Board members, who have delivered inconsistent rulings and are ignoring glaring problems with the tallies.
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Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 05 Jan 2009 10:41 AM EST
Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent months, global sea ice levels now equal those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew to a close.
Ice levels had been tracking lower throughout much of 2008, but rapidly recovered in the last quarter. In fact, the rate of increase from September onward is the fastest rate of change on record, either upwards or downwards.
H/t to our pal, Steve!
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Prez-elect to establish 600,000 new Democrat voters...err...new government employees
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 05 Jan 2009 09:13 AM EST
States want in on the looting of America, too, as governors push $1 trillion "stimulus package"
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 05 Jan 2009 09:08 AM EST
As the nation braces for Democrats to take unbridled control of the federal government, some lessons about how big a mistake that really is are already coming to light. Just as no non-union manufacturer is asking for a government bailout, only Democrat run states are begging for federal funds to avoid the inevitable bankruptcy of the states they have run into the ground.
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NRO: Life in the Clown-Car Fast Lane
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 05 Jan 2009 08:56 AM EST
Can you believe it? Barack Hussein Obama II hasn’t even been inaugurated yet and he’s already been interviewed by federal prosecutors in the ongoing Blago mess; he’s seen Bill Richardson immolate himself rather than stand the federal grand-jury scrutiny that would have come with his appointment as Commerce Secretary; his boy Rahm Emanuel is both en pointe, having resigned the House seat that was previously warmed by Hot Rod and Dan Rostenkowski, and, apparently, on Patrick Fitzgerald’s tapes too; and he’s facing the prospect of the Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, standing like a homunculus George Wallace in the schoolhouse door, ready to deny entrance to a black man when Roland “We Are the Senator” Burris tries to take Bambi’s hardly-even-used seat tomorrow.
And here we Democrats thought the Clinton administration could never be topped!
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Asteroid or comet strike? Child's play. Try space dust.
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 05 Jan 2009 08:46 AM EST
If this were some 1950s sci-fi thriller, the Doomsday Cloud would loom dark and ominous in the evening sky. Each night more stars would wink out along its edges. The cloud would sweep past Jupiter, swallowing it whole, and race on toward Earth. There would be an inky darkness at noon. And so on.
No, nothing is going to blot out the sun. But recent observations and numerical simulations suggest that eventually—in a few millennia, maybe—the solar system may plow into a cloud of gas and dust a thousand times denser than the space we travel through now. This interstellar fog could reduce the sun’s sphere of influence until most of the outer planets are sitting naked in space. Dust and gas will penetrate as far as Earth’s orbit and may begin eating away at the oxygen in our upper atmosphere. The solar wind, now greatly compressed, will no longer provide adequate protection from the high-speed electrons and ions ripping through space. These cosmic rays will tear into the atmosphere, to the detriment of the delicate molecules of life.
This will be one bad cloud.
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Rick Warren Is No Billy Graham
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 05 Jan 2009 08:32 AM EST
Last August I wrote a column critical of Rick Warren's decision to host a presidential candidate forum at his Saddleback Church. My reasoning then was that America's crisis is moral ambiguity.
I argued that Pastor Warren would only contribute to this ambiguity by hosting candidates with opposing views on issues such as abortion and homosexuality and presenting himself as a neutral moderator.
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