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• Obama Rap Song: Tax and Spend

  
  The Tax Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 434
  I am not a tea partier, but their video about the modus operandi of the Obama administration is spot on.Bookmark & Share:
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• A Misallocation of Taxpayer Capital

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 759
  Even as debate and votes are launched this week on health care reform bills that will hurt “our capacity to innovate” and “develop new therapies” , the Obama Administration moved yesterday to make federal funds available for controversial experimentation that has thus far failed to generate any human ...
  19 hours ago

• The latest Climategate news

  
  Virginia Virtucon — Authority: 535
  First up: Gore’s claim of ManBearPig melting the Kilimanjaro ice is debunked ( Pajamas Media ): Professor Sinninghe Damste’s research, as discussed on the site of the Dutch Organization of Scientific Research (DOSR) — a governmental body — shows that the icecap of Kilimanjaro was not the result of cold ...
  20 hours ago

• Justifiable spending?

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 581
  From the NY Post : State judges are using taxpayer money to buy everything from spa trips to self-portraits to electronics, The Post has learned. On Nov. 1, New York Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman doubled the expense allowances for his judges to $10,000 a year each. But the special compensation -- which now costs ...
  1 day ago

• Carbon-credit fraud in Denmark passes $1.5 billion

  
  Virginia Virtucon — Authority: 535
  Just on time for Copenhagen to host the Climategate-denier summit, the Copenhagen Post reveals a massive fraud operation in Denmark’s CO2 quota market (h/t SDA ): Denmark is the centre of a comprehensive tax scam involving CO2 quotas, in which the cheats exploit a so-called ‘VAT carrousel’, reports Ekstra ...
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• “Load of hot air underpinned by fraud”

  
  Virginia Virtucon — Authority: 535
  Those were the words professor Ian Pilmer used to describe “climate change” ( Daily Express , UK, via Andrew Bolt ). I am now certain this is beyond any effort the alarmists make to control it, because it is now nearly beyong my capacity to keep track of it.  The only reason exhaustion was prevented from ...
  2 days ago

• Climategate spreads further (and a stunning IPCC snafu)

  
  Virginia Virtucon — Authority: 535
  As the men at the center of Climategate come under investigation, mathematician Douglas Keenan has come forth to address a long-running concern of the global warming alarmists’ claims – the “urban heat island” effect ( Pajamas Media ): In 2007, I published a peer-reviewed paper alleging that some important ...
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• Australian Senate shoots down the Great Green tax

  
  Virginia Virtucon — Authority: 535
  The Australian version of cap-and-trade is toast ( Andrew Bolt ): How close was that bullet? A mad new tax is voted down, thanks only to Tony Abbott’s one-vote win over Malcolm Turnbull yesterday: KEVIN Rudd has lost his bid to deliver an emissions trading scheme in Australia before talks in Copenhagen but ...
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• ClimateGate central figure steps down from East Anglia CRU

  
  Virginia Virtucon — Authority: 535
  Professor Phil Jones – arguably the central figure in ClimateGate – is stepping down from his position as head of the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University pending an investigation into what was revealed by the still anonymous whistleblower roughly two weeks ago ( Fox News ). Despite MSM’s attempt to ...
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• So . . . what does it all mean?

  
  Virginia Virtucon — Authority: 535
  The Pedant-General has what is by far the best analysis of what Climategate has shown us ( Devil’s Kitchen ).  Cross-posted to the right-wing liberal
  3 days ago

• Eminent domain in Albany

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 581
  From Althouse : New York spent $2 billion to demolish 98 acres of 19th century buildings, displacing 9,000 human beings, in order to build a sickeningly ugly collection of government buildings. Is there a worse architectural crime in the history of the world? Im sure there must be, but... ... it destroyed a ...
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• No more jobs for Nats’ old mates

  
  The Standard — Authority: 612
  Apart from keeping Don Brash well stocked with corned beef in his dotage, what exactly are we getting out of the Government’s half million dollar 2025 Taskforce? The Brash Report is a joke. It reads like nothing so much as a collective ramblings of half a dozen geriatics who haven’t had a new idea in 20 years. ...
  3 days ago

• USNews: Health Reform: What’s in It for You? (Other than higher taxes, longer lines, and a more painful death.)

  
  Daily Danet — Authority: 436
  USNews: Health Reform: What’s in It for You? (Other than higher taxes, longer lines, and a more painful death.)
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• It’s getting harder to keep up with this

  
  Virginia Virtucon — Authority: 535
  The scientific and academic communities (the real ones, not the political hothouses) are coming to grips with the reality of Climategate. Eduardo Zorita – hardly a skeptic on “global warming” – has called for his tainted fellows to be banned from future input, knowing full well the consequences of his ...
  4 days ago

• Latest Climategate update

  
  Virginia Virtucon — Authority: 535
  Well now, it appears Climategate has circled the world, and is now showing up on multiple fronts. In London, some are wondering why the BBC sat on the “emails” (and the computer codes, and the Harry-Read-Me file) for over a month ( Daily Mail , UK). Speaking of the Harry-Read-Me file (about which I’ll ...
  4 days ago

• Health Scare Bill Update

  
  Lex Lowther — Authority: 119
  What do the Koran, the Jewish Bible, War & Peace and  the Holy Bible have in common? Answer: None of these books have as many pages as the Health Care Bill that’s being rushed for passage by Congress. The bill currently has just over 2000 pages at last count.  None of the books listed have a Trillion ...
  5 days ago

• ClimateGate HQ admits to throwing away data

  
  Virginia Virtucon — Authority: 535
  This is absolutely mind-blowing ( The Sunday Times of London ): SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to ...
  5 days ago

• City puts parking meters in dumb place

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 581
  From the Forum West : A group of Middle Village residents living on streets off Eliot Avenue are frustrated over the city’s recent decision to install parking meters in an area they previously relied on as a safe, reliable option for parking. According to residents of 75th Street, the city Department of ...
  6 days ago

• Stimulus: $60 Million in HUD Funds for 5 Las Vegas Houses

  
  Blogs For Victory — Authority: 558
  Geesh : The Sun recently found that the three local governments receiving most of the money sent to the valley to buy, fix and resell foreclosed houses had been able to close deals on only five houses to date even though the program is nearly halfway into its 18-month time frame. The U.S. Housing and Urban ...
  6 days ago

• The Illinois Township: A Layer of Govt That is Pure Waste

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 570
  -By Warner Todd Huston This week ABC 7’s Chuck Goudie aired a report made in conjunction with the Better Government Association that explored the efficacy of the Illinois Township and what they discovered is just more waste and ripoffs of the Illinois taxpayer. Townships were originally created for two main ...
  1 week ago

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