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Beck Delivers Rousing Keynote Address at CPAC

Roland, the Gunslinger — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:41:00 -0500

Why Obama is Wrong about Net Neutrality and His Scheme Must Be Defeated

Roland, the Gunslinger — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:33:00 -0500

As noted in the video (above), produced by The Heartland Institute, government isn’t in the business of preserving freedom, but of exercising power to regulate industries and control people. And this is an important thing to keep in mind — especially since President Obama recently reiterated his commitment to have government enforce a net neutrality regime on your Internet.

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Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995

Roland, the Gunslinger — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:12:00 -0500

Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.

And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.

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The Conservative 100: Most Popular Conservative Sites

Roland, the Gunslinger — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:25:00 -0500

The Top 100 Politically Popular Conservative list contains all sites of interest to conservatives or with a conservative point of view. Several Libertarian sites are also included, such as Reason and Freedom’s Phoenix.

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Leaked climate change emails scientist 'hid' data flaws

Roland, the Gunslinger — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:07:00 -0500

Phil Jones, the beleaguered British climate scientist at the centre of the leaked emails controversy, is facing fresh claims that he sought to hide problems in key temperature data on which some of his work was based.

A Guardian investigation of thousands of emails and documents apparently hacked from the University of East Anglia's climatic research unit has found evidence that a series of measurements from Chinese weather stations were seriously flawed and that documents relating to them could not be produced

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Glenn Beck - The Revolutionary Holocaust (Must See!)

Roland, the Gunslinger — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:15:00 -0500

WARNING: May not be suitable for younger viewers!! This program contains historical images that may be disturbing. Viewer discretion is strongly advised.

Obama has suspicious number of letter-writing fans named 'Ellie Light'

Roland, the Gunslinger — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:47:00 -0500

Ellie Light sure gets around. In recent weeks, Light has published virtually identical “Letters to the Editor” in support of President Barack Obama in more than a dozen newspapers.Every letter claimed a different residence for Light that happened to be in the newspaper’s circulation area. “It’s time for Americans to realize that governing is hard work, and that a president can’t just wave a magic wand and fix everything,”

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In epic upset, GOP's Brown wins Mass. Senate race; Dems blame Coakley for loss, not their policies

Roland, the Gunslinger — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:20:00 -0500

In an epic upset in liberal Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown rode a wave of voter anger to win the U.S. Senate seat held by the late Edward M. Kennedy for nearly half a century, leaving President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in doubt and marring the end of his first year in office.

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Dems threaten "nuclear option" on health care debacle

Roland, the Gunslinger — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:05:00 -0500

Bloomberg reports that Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, stated that despite the special election in Massachusetts, the Dems have been preparing to use a process called "reconciliation" to pass their wildly unpopular "health care reform" bill, literally changing the rule requiring a 60 vote requirement to pass the legislation to only requiring a simple 51 vote majority.

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RELATED: In a direct affront to the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution, Obama promises that unions will be EXEMPTED from the planned new tax on so-called "cadillac" healthcare plans.

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World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown

Roland, the Gunslinger — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:54:00 -0500

A WARNING that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it.

Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a benchmark report that was claimed to incorporate the latest and most detailed research into the impact of global warming. A central claim was the world's glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035.

In the past few days the scientists behind the warning have admitted that it was based on a news story in the New Scientist, a popular science journal, published eight years before the IPCC's 2007 report

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IRS Commissioner: Tax code too complex, doesn't file his own taxes

Roland, the Gunslinger — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:25:00 -0500

IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman does not file his own taxes in part because he believes the tax code is complex.

During an interview on C-SPAN's "Newsmakers" program that aired on Sunday, Shulman said he uses a tax preparer for his own returns.

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MRC: Fox News Nails '60 Minutes:' CBS Show Spent Ten Minutes on Palin, Skipped Reid's 'Negro' Remark

Roland, the Gunslinger — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:36:00 -0500

Fox News correspondent Eric Shawn on Monday hit 60 Minutes for spending ten minutes out of a 13 minute segment highlighting negative dirt on Sarah Palin. At the same time, the news magazine ignored racially charged remarks made by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Shawn analyzed Anderson Cooper’s January 10 interview with the authors of Game Change, observing, "...Most of the CBS story was critical of Sarah Palin."

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Liberal watchdog groups give Obama administration an "A" for openness on healthcare reform

Roland, the Gunslinger — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:32:00 -0500

They must be watching a different administration than the rest of us are watching. Far from negotiating in open and inviting "everyone to the table", most of it has been negotiated, and continues to be hammered out, behind closed doors with a very limited number of voices permitted to speak. The GOP isn't invited to participate, let alone the American people. Where are the televised C-SPAN proceedings? This is what Obama meant by "openness"?

Bizarre Baucus Behavior on Senate Floor Ignored by MSM

Roland, the Gunslinger — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:03:00 -0500

How can one explain this incredibly bizarre performance by Max Baucus on the Senate floor? Was Baucus so intoxicated by the sound of his own voice that he went off the deep end? Or perhaps he was so drunk with power over shaping the Senate health care bill that it explains his strange rant. In any event, if a conservative such as Jim DeMint or Jeff Sessions had acted this way in the Senate, the mainstream media would have featured the video over and over and over again. Instead, since this was Democrat Max Baucus, this video was almost completely ignored by the MSM.

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Percy Sutton dies; His Obama revelation omitted from obituaries

Roland, the Gunslinger — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:53:00 -0500

Excerpt: However, one of Sutton's most notable moments is absent from the media hagiographies I have seen: he stated on television that he knew that an Islamic supremacist, Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, and advisor to a wealthy Saudi, had paid for Barack Obama's education at Harvard Law School.

Exactly how young Barack Obama, a man of slender means, managed to pay for a Harvard Law degree has long been a mystery, and the President has not been forthcoming about any details of his elite education.

See for yourself, Sutton's remarkable statement, which has been considgned to the Memory Hole, by the major media. Not even a reference to a "controversial contention" or other such euphemism. It simply never happened as far as the media are concerned.

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The climate change scam: A concise summary

Roland, the Gunslinger — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:54:00 -0500

In the wake of Climategate, common sense deniers like to say that there is lots of other evidence for global warming, in addition to that which has been debunked by the East Anglia whistleblower. Actually, however, the scientific evidence for AGW is remarkably weak. At Icecap, Lee Gerhard, geologist and reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, sums up the key scientific evidence with admirable brevity:

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The Senate Postmortem

Roland, the Gunslinger — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:25:00 -0500

In the post-dawn hours on Thursday the Senate passed ObamaCare 60 to 39, in the first vote on Christmas Eve since 1895 and after the longest consecutive session in Congress since World War I. We are thus heading toward the first U.S. entitlement program dragged across the finish line on a straight partisan majority, a bill that even its most fervent supporters admit is "flawed" but better than nothing. It is far worse than nothing.

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Steyn: Why climate change is hot hot hot

Roland, the Gunslinger — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:12:00 -0500

According to the CIA’s analysis, “detrimental global climatic change” threatens “the stability of most nations.” And, alas, for a global phenomenon, Canada will be hardest hit. The entire Dominion from the Arctic to the 49th parallel will be under 150 feet of ice. Oh, wait. That was the last “scientific consensus” on “climate change,” early seventies version, as reflected in a CIA report from August 1974

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Change Nobody Believes In: A bill so reckless that it has to be rammed through on a partisan vote on Christmas eve

Roland, the Gunslinger — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:18:00 -0500

And tidings of comfort and joy from Harry Reid too. The Senate Majority Leader has decided that the last few days before Christmas are the opportune moment for a narrow majority of Democrats to stuff ObamaCare through the Senate to meet an arbitrary White House deadline. Barring some extraordinary reversal, it now seems as if they have the 60 votes they need to jump off this cliff, with one-seventh of the economy in tow.

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Health Care Nullification: Things have just gotten underway

Roland, the Gunslinger — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:59:00 -0500

“The several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government.”
–Thomas Jefferson

For the past few days, I’ve received loads of emails urging me to get active regarding the healthcare vote – most of which had a subject line similar to: “Last Chance to Stop National Healthcare!”

Well, if you believe the only way to protect your rights is by begging federal politicians to do what you want, then these emails are certainly right. The vote went as expected, and so will the next

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Thank You, Captain Obvious: Ed Schultz Admits MSNBC Serves as Mouthpiece for White House

Roland, the Gunslinger — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:25:00 -0500

Never let it be said that radio libtalker and MSNBC action hero Ed Schultz isn't capable of occasional candor.

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NewsBusted for December 18, 2009

Roland, the Gunslinger — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:17:00 -0500

Senate Health Care Bill 'Ugly, Partisan and Dangerous'

Roland, the Gunslinger — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:51:00 -0500

"Senators Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Robert Casey (D-Pa.) gave mere lip service to protect the most innocent among us by placing their stamp of approval on government funding for abortion coverage" in the Democrats' health care bill, a pro-life group said after Senate Democrats advanced their bill in 1 a.m. vote on Monday.

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said the Senate's middle-of-the night, 60-40 vote to cut off debate -- thus allowing eventual passage of the bill -- reflects the "ugly, partisan and dangerous process" that has characterized the proceedings all along:

"This legislation was drafted by a handful of people, supported by only one political party and will negatively affect every single American citizen."

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America Under Barack Obama An Interview with Nat Hentoff

Roland, the Gunslinger — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:25:00 -0500

Nat Hentoff has had a life well spent, one chock full of controversy fueled by his passion for the protection of civil liberties and human rights. Hentoff is known as a civil libertarian, free speech activist, anti-death penalty advocate, pro-lifer and not uncommon critic of the ideological left...I try to avoid hyperbole, but I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had.

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There'll be nowhere to run from the new world government

Roland, the Gunslinger — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:22:00 -0500

The dangerous idea that the democratic accountability of national governments should simply be dispensed with in favour of "global agreements" reached after closed negotiations between world leaders never, so far as I recall, entered into the arena of public discussion. Except in the United States, where it became a very contentious talking point, the US still holding firmly to the 18th-century idea that power should lie with the will of the people...

There is a whiff of totalitarianism about this new theology, in which the risks are described in such cosmic terms that everything else must give way. "Globalism" is another form of the internationalism that has been a core belief of the Left: a commitment to class rather than country seemed an admirable antidote to the "blood and soil" nationalism that gave rise to fascism.

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The Fight Over Fascist ObamaCare Is Only Just Beginning

Roland, the Gunslinger — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:17:00 -0500

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who may be unaware that he is currently enjoying his final term in the U.S. Senate, claims to have the 60 votes he needs to muscle ObamaCare through his chamber. God help us if he does. The current iteration of ObamaCare is classic Mussolini-style Fascism (i.e. corporatism). It forces Americans at gunpoint to purchase health insurance, a requirement never before imposed on the American people.

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Christian Graves Dug Up And Destroyed In Gaza Strip

Roland, the Gunslinger — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:08:00 -0500

Imagine your loved one has died. Cement shipped from Egypt is too expensive. As a Christian family, you are denied the most basic and dignified burial and funeral procession or ceremony. In the Muslim world that surrounds you in the West Bank, you must contend with digging the grave of your own family member, covering that family member with sand and small stones, and hope no one disturbs the unmarked grave. It is the cruel plight of Christians in this part of the world.

As many as 300 million Christians around the world today live under persecution, 80 percent of them in Muslim nations. Christians living under Palestinian rule periodically speak out regarding the persecution they endure, but for the most part keep silent for fear of their Muslim neighbors. The situation is much worse in the Gaza Strip, where less than 3,000 Christians live among 1.3 million Muslims, than it is in the so-called "West Bank."

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I'll Have A Blue Dog Christmas Without You

Roland, the Gunslinger — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:34:00 -0500

I've been saying for a year now, in NR and NRO, that the object for savvy Dems is to get this thing passed in whatever form because, once you do, there's no going back. Kim Strassel in yesterday's Journal gets it:

So why the stubborn insistence on passing health reform? Think big. The liberal wing of the party—the Barney Franks, the David Obeys—are focused beyond November 2010, to the long-term political prize. They want a health-care program that inevitably leads to a value-added tax and a permanent welfare state. Big government then becomes fact, and another Ronald Reagan becomes impossible. See Continental Europe.

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Holiday humor: Little boy steals the show from Tennessee Ernie Ford

Roland, the Gunslinger — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:41:00 -0500

State climatologist John Christy, a critic of global warming, mentioned in leaked 'Climategate' e-mails

Roland, the Gunslinger — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:29:00 -0500

How do global warming proponents handle a problem like Huntsville climatologist and global warming skeptic Dr. John Christy?

Recently leaked e-mails show that question has bedeviled some of the world's leading climate scientists to a point they may have destroyed their own credibility.

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