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Saturday, July 11
IBD: Truth In Lending
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 11 Jul 2009 08:38 PM EDT
Behind The Meltdown: Many Americans are unaware of the causes of the greatest economic calamity of our lifetime. A new congressional report details how government politicized housing, wrecking the economy.
Rep. Darrell Issa of California, ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has released a report that every American should read.
The analysis details how powerful Democrats in Congress insisted that government-subsidized housing be geared to serve the purposes of social justice at the expense of sound lending.
Here are some highlights of Issa's blow-by-blow account:
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Gore: U.S. Climate Bill Will Help Bring About 'Global Governance'
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 11 Jul 2009 07:12 PM EDT
“I bring you good news from the U.S., “Gore said on July 7, 2009 in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by UK Times.
“Just two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed the Waxman-Markey climate bill,” Gore said, noting it was “very much a step in the right direction.” President Obama has pushed for the passage of the bill in the Senate and attended a G8 summit this week where he agreed to attempt to keep the Earth's temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees C.
Gore touted the Congressional climate bill, claiming it “will dramatically increase the prospects for success” in combating what he sees as the “crisis” of man-made global warming.
“But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global governance and global agreements.
(Now there's a phrase that just makes you feel all warm and fuzzy. Global governance. Concentrating more and more power in to the hands of fewer and fewer. On a global scale. Sounds almost...biblical...does it not? - Roland)
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Two-thirds of State Attorneys General Support Second Amendment Incorporation
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 11 Jul 2009 07:27 AM EDT
Two-thirds of the nation's attorneys general have filed a "friend of the court" brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case of NRA v. Chicago and hold that the Second Amendment applies to state and local governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This bi-partisan group of 33 attorneys general, agrees with the NRA's position that the Second Amendment protects a fundamental individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms in the home for self-defense, disagreeing with the decision recently issued by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
"The historical record clearly shows that the Second Amendment was intended to apply to every American in every state in the country," said NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox. "As the Supreme Court said clearly in last year's landmark Heller decision, the Second Amendment protects an individual right that 'belongs to all Americans'. Two-thirds of America's state attorneys general agree."
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The Bankrupt Party Of Porkulus
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 11 Jul 2009 07:18 AM EDT
Call it Spawn of Spendulus. Return of the Porkulus Beast. White House economic adviser Laura D'Andrea Tyson told an international economic conference: "We should be planning on a contingency basis for a second round of stimulus." Team Obama flack Robert Gibbs says the president isn't "ruling anything out, but at the same time he's not ruling anything in." Despite the inconvenient fact that less than 10 percent of the initial stimulus has been spent (or misspent), congressional Democrats remain "open" to the idea of digging a deeper fiscal hole for your children and grandchildren.
(Have you Democrats no sense of decency...at long last? - Roland)
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Our Pettifogging FEC: 'Hillary: The Movie' is the Court's chance to finally fix the FEC
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 11 Jul 2009 07:13 AM EDT
The Supreme Court sent a lovely shudder through campaign-finance scolds this month when it agreed to hear arguments in a case that could overturn election donation limits. It's about time, as the Justices will appreciate if they look at the follies at today's Federal Election Commission.
The High Court agreed to hold over until the fall any decision in a case involving "Hillary: The Movie." The FEC claimed the 90-minute 2008 anti-Clinton documentary violated campaign spending limits, which looks like a clear example of limiting political speech. The Justices invited new arguments on some of their more benighted precedents, including 2003's McConnell v. FEC, which carved a hole in the First Amendment.
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Sotomayor Enters Confirmation Process with Miers-Like Numbers
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 11 Jul 2009 07:06 AM EDT
Sonia Sotomayor will begin her confirmation hearings next week with some of the highest levels of public opposition of any Supreme Court nominee in the last two decades, according to a new poll by the CNN and the Opinion Research Corporation.
In fact, only one nominee had a higher level of opposition: Harriet Miers, who was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2005. Miers later withdrew her nomination under questions about her qualifications from both the political left and right.
(Are you listening, GOP senators? - Roland)
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Justice Ginsburg Says She Originally Thought Roe v. Wade Was Designed to Limit 'Populations That We Don’t Want to Have Too Many Of'
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 11 Jul 2009 07:01 AM EDT
In an interview to be published in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she thought the landmark Roe v. Wade decision on abortion was predicated on the Supreme Court majority's desire to diminish “populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”
(Wha-? - Roland)
(H/t: Semra)
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Forgetting Sarah Palin
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 11 Jul 2009 06:56 AM EDT
Sarah Palin has deeply disappointed her enemies. People who hate her guts feel she's really let them down by resigning.
She's like the ex-girlfriend they're SO over, never want to see again, have already forgotten about -- really, it's O-ver -- but they just can't stop talking about her...
...It certainly won't be held against Palin by people who don't already loathe her. (On the other hand, her approval ratings among people who think she's worse than Hitler are down to 48 percent.)
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Dude, she's 16...
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 11 Jul 2009 04:47 AM EDT
The Brazilian representative, the carioca (from Rio de Janeiro) Mayara Tavares, a 16-year-old beauty on its way to meet Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, caught the eyes of a discreet Nicolas Sarkozy and a much less discreet Barack Obama, the presidents of France and the United States respectively.
The picture showing Obama's covetous gaze at the girl's derriere has become very popular in the Internet. The site Drudge Report made fun of the scene with the headline: "Second Stimulus Package."
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Poll: 86 Percent of U.S. Wants Abortion Restrictions
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 11 Jul 2009 04:30 AM EDT
The American people continue to move to the pro-life perspective on abortion according to the latest Moral Compass survey by
the Knights of Columbus and Marist Poll.
The poll mirrored findings of other recent surveys, showing that more Americans identify as pro-life than as pro-choice, and that the vast majority of Americans favor restricting abortion.
Among the key findings:
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