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• Is the UK economy about to collapse?

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 445
  A piece in The Telegraph has knocked my Christmas cheer for six. Reality is back as I read that: "The cost of borrowing for the British Government has surged to within a whisker of Italian levels as global markets issue their punishing verdict on the Government’s spending plans. The yield on 10-year gilts spiked ...
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• A former alarmist sees the light

  
  The right-wing liberal — Authority: 504
  Best couple of lines from Bradley Fikes in the NC Times (h/t WUWT ): A few years ago, I accepted global warming theory with few doubts. I wrote several columns for this paper condemning what I thought were unfair attacks by skeptics and defending the climate scientists. Boy, was I naive. Read the rest. ...
  4 days ago

• My how I hate this Labour government

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 445
  The Labour governments war on the UK people continues apace. Back in October legislation was introduced that prevents acquitted defendants from recouping the full legal costs of defending themselves. Now these innocent people can only claim back legal aid rates, which can be as little as a third of the true cost. ...
  5 days ago

• Liberals Sabotage Minority DC School Kids

  
  OrthodoxNet.com Blog — Authority: 476
  Joy Tiz | by Joy Tiz | Dec. 21, 2009Finally finding one government program they could do without, liberals passed the omnibus spending bill which included express language killing the successful Washington, DC school vouchers program. Proposed by former President Bush in 2003, the DC Opportunity Scholarship (OSP) ...
  6 days ago

• Democrats Kill Successful DC Voucher Progam

  
  OrthodoxNet.com Blog — Authority: 476
  American Thinker | by Aaron Gee | Dec. 21, 2009The Democrats have consistently cultivated a public image as the party of the little guy, the party that stands up against big interests and protects the rights of minorities. You would think that a program that helps minority students, lowers costs, and increases funds ...
  6 days ago

• For safety or revenue?

  
  Commonsense & Wonder — Authority: 151
  Analysis: Short Yellows Boost Revenue for Texas Cities Just wait till this mindset hits the new "were here to help" Obamacare...
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• Now, about that EPA finding . . .

  
  The right-wing liberal — Authority: 504
  The end of the Copenhagen nonsense will bring more attention to Washington, in particular the EPA finding that carbon dioxide is a pollutant.  Many Democrats are hoping the EPA finding will pressure Congress into passing cap-and-tax, while others see the potential for the EPA running the show and seeing that as the ...
  1 week ago

• From Copenhagen to Nopenhagen

  
  The right-wing liberal — Authority: 504
  The good news is the alarmists are furious ( Washington Post ).  The bad news is the president has a pretense of an “agreement” ( WaPo ) to browbeat Congress or justify EPA regulation. The politics of this have shifted slightly in the alarmists favor here, but not nearly enough to be of any significance once ...
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• Becoming a third world country

  
  Commonsense & Wonder — Authority: 151
  Free enterprise, not. Its certainly more an attempt to soak the productive by command and control tactics. Keeping politicians in control of the economy. Is Mr. Diaz a follower of Chavez? Kingsbridge Commissar Mayor Mike yesterday vetoed that City Council measure killing a proposal to develop the Kingsbridge ...
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• The kind of efficiency Obamacare is counting on

  
  Commonsense & Wonder — Authority: 151
  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/19/world/europe/19poland.html?_r=1&ref=global-home $2M for swindle busters By JANON FISHER Honesty pays. Two whistleblowing New Yorkers -- one of whom was canned for speaking out -- will take home nearly $2 million as a reward for exposing tens of millions of dollars in Medicare ...
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• Throw These Crooked Bastards in Prison

  
  An American Lion — Authority: 446
  This American Lion is watching out for YOU! I realize that crooks are just crooks, and they’re going to lie, cheat and steal no matter what. It shouldn’t matter if they’re ripping off the government, if they’re ripping off the little sisters of the poor, or if they’re pretending to be disabled Veterans in ...
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• Скройте снижение, Часть 2

  
  The right-wing liberal — Authority: 504
  Andrei Illiaranov, founder of Moscow’s Institute for Economic Analysis, senior fellow at the CATO Institute  (h/t Planet Gore ), and former economic adviser to Vladimir Putin, comments on the IEA climate data study (emphasis added): The IEA report shows that Russian meteorological-station data in the last 130 ...
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• Are you as tired as I am of "unexpected" in economic headlines?

  
  Commonsense & Wonder — Authority: 151
  Unemployment claims rise unexpectedly This happens so regularly now that the only thing not unexpected is the use of the word unexpected. Doesnt unexpected mean that the prognosticators were wrong? And, why would you continuously rely on these people in the first place when theyre so consistently wrong? Could it ...
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• Can Climategate cure Jim Webb of Foot-in-Mouth disease?

  
  The right-wing liberal — Authority: 504
  No scandal has proven so powerful as to heal a politician, but as this letter for Speaker Howell implies, Jim Webb (of all people) might very well have been able to put his infamous foot-and-mouth disease behind him. Webb’s letter is not seen here, but Howell refers to it thusly: I am writing in ...
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• скройте снижение

  
  The right-wing liberal — Authority: 504
  Acccording to this translation website , the above is Russian for “hide the decline,” and according to Kommersant (cited by RiaNovosti  and then SDA and WUWT ), that’s exactly what was done to Russian temperature data (emphasis added): Climategate has already affected Russia. On Tuesday, the ...
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• Will Climategate kill MSM?

  
  The right-wing liberal — Authority: 504
  Gerald Warner ( Telegraph , UK) seems to think so (although it should be noted that, like here, MSM does not include the papers willing to acknowledge their viewpoints – such as the Telegraph and most of the British tabloid press such as the Daily Express  - h/t Andrew Bolt ), and the reaction from the ...
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• The Morning After Starts to Dawn on Congress

  
  Tammy Bruce — Authority: 568
  A post by Pat After a whirlwind year churning out legislation thousands of scribbled crossed-out pasted-on pages deep, pillaging the treasury for trillions of dollars like barbaric hoardes, putting one-sixth of the economy through a meat grinder, and forfeiting our children’s inheritence to the Chinese because the ...
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• This is your government on no-bid contracts

  
  The Liberty Papers — Authority: 471
  Alabama’s premium political blog reports the following: “The Department of Finance, Executive Budget Office has released a power point presentation on the same subject.” The topic of the report may be interesting, but that’s not why I’m posting these links.  If you open up the Power Point ...
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• Whoops! Gore gets caught in another tall tale

  
  The right-wing liberal — Authority: 504
  This time, his source on the “melting ice caps” cuts his legs out from under him ( Times of London via WUWT ): Mr Gore told the conference: “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer ...
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• So Whats Still In the Senate Healthcare Bill

  
  Commonsense & Wonder — Authority: 151
  Commentary quotes a GOP leadership aide on what constitutes the Senate Healthcare Bill now that the medicare expansion has fallen apart: “$500 billion in Medicare cuts, $400 billion in tax increases, raises premiums, raises costs, onerous regulations, individual mandates, employer mandate, and expensive ...
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