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• Let’s Hear it For Capitalism and Free Markets!

  
  American Elephants — Authority: 134
  From the Wall Street Journal”s “Notable and Quotable” column.Heather MacDonald writing at secularright.org, Dec. 26:The anti-business mindset . . . is worthy of a pampered adolescent who is searching for a cause with which to display his unique moral sensibility. It is not worthy of an adult who should be able ...
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• Green Jobs? What Green Jobs?

  
  American Elephants — Authority: 134
  At his recent “jobs summit” President Obama once again pushed his plan for 3 million “green jobs”— weatherizing homes across the country.  I keep trying to figure out where all these green jobs are.  Here in the metropolitan Seattle area, we have around 40 companies that advertise their services in ...
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• In Each Ending there is a Beginning

  
  Celestial Lands — Authority: 111
  We have closed another year here at Celestial Lands, and I want to thank all of those who read and send me comments, both in public through the blog and in private through my email. I keep this website because it is important to me… it is a place for my spiritual practice of writing; it is a repository of ideas; it ...
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• Obama golfs in Hawaii as Iran seeks uranium and murders protesters

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 521
  Story here from Fox News . (H/T Hot Air ) Excerpt: At least 15 people were killed during massive anti-government protests in Tehran when opposition supporters clashed with security forces in the streets, Iranian state television reported Monday. The report said 10 people killed during Sunday’s fierce clashes in ...
  6 days ago

• The devil in the details

  
  The Reaction — Authority: 496
  By Carl When you bargain with the devil, sometimes you win. Most times, he wins. You may recall back in 06 when Howard Dean decided to revitalize the party by energizing the machinery in all 50 states , regardless of traditional voting patterns. Everyone thought it was brilliant, because hey, it was ...
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• How PBS uses your tax dollars to distort the evidence for evolution

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 521
  Evolutionists believe that the embryos of different mammals look similar in the earliest stages of development because the mammals share a common ancestor. And they believe that as the embryos develop, they begin to look less similar. This theory was invented by Ernst Haeckel, who believed that”ontogeny ...
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• Few Things are Ever So Bad That They Can’t Be Made Worse by The Interference of Big Government.

  
  American Elephants — Authority: 134
  The President has promised the “most transparent government ever,” both in the words of his mouth and the words on the White House website.  His actions and the actions of his administration belie the words.  Christmas eve — when most Americans’ minds are on other things — the Treasury Department announced ...
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• This Week On “Security Theater”

  
  Boztopia.com — Authority: 109
  . You’ve probably heard about the “Detroit bomber” and his bungled attempt to blow up Flight 253, and the Transportation Security Administration’s draconian crackdown on international flight as a result. Here’re a couple of key things to learn from this: The point of security failure was with TSA ...
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• obama surrenders sovereignty

  
  Attack Machine — Authority: 142
  Andy McCarthy on the latest from our transnational-progressive president. You just can’t make up how brazen this crowd is. One week ago, President Obama quietly signed an executive order that makes an international police force immune from the restraints of American law. Interpol is the shorthand for the ...
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• Signal Quality

  
  CORRUPT.org: Remaking Modern Society — Authority: 488
  Back when I was living in the American Southwest, I knew a man who went into politics. He ran for the local school board, won the election, and gave up in disgust after one term. What turned him off was the decision-making process - he said the most important factor in all the decisions was not making sure the kids ...
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• This ain’t the 1990’s

  
  Where's the Outrage? — Authority: 440
  Eugene at DK has a very popular post that dovetails into what I was talking about here . As we reach the end of the Zeroes, the first decade of the 21st century, it may seem an odd question to ask whether anyone has realized the previous decade, the 1990s, are over. Yet judging by the discussions in recent days ...
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• Why The President’s Inability to Lead Highlights the Value of FDL’s Reachout to “Strange Bedfellows”

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 749
  The times call for a leader of Churchillian or Rooseveltian magnitude; what we have instead is a cautious risk-averse manager. Bold progressives must fill the leadership vacuum in order to restore and support a vibrant US middle class. When he confronted a world-wide economic collapse not of his making last winter, ...
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• Utopian New Left Just Like Old Left

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 734
  How did the European left rationalize communism’s crimes and transform itself into a viable political force after the fall of the Soviet Union? It’s all explained in “Last Exit to Utopia: The Survival of Socialism in a Post-Soviet Era.” First published in 2000, the book by the late French intellectual ...
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• Health Care History For The Holidays

  
  Boztopia.com — Authority: 109
  By now I figure most of you are partying or hanging with your families for Christmas Eve, but for those of you who’re snowed in or just too big a bunch of political junkies to get through the day without a fix, here’re my thoughts on the passage of the health care bill in the Senate. The work is not done. ...
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• Krugman and health care

  
  The Barefoot Bum — Authority: 122
  Paul Krugman considers health care reform "a disappointing, flawed bill — and that it’s also a progressive triumph." Krugman is correct at least that we should pass the bill — its better than nothing, and a smaller-than-expected gain is acceptable in a sense that a smaller-than-expected loss (e.g. the 2006 ...
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• The Responsibilities of Being a Progressive

  
  BlueNC - The people's think tank — Authority: 139
  As the year 2009 draws to a close, and idealism appears to be suffocating under the combined weights of pragmatism and corporate greed, I find myself pondering what might have gone wrong and trying to figure out ways to reverse this sad and alarming situation. This, to me, is the heart and soul of Progressivism. To ...
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• With a Rebel Yell!

  
  The Classic Liberal Blog — Authority: 491
  Im theCL, and I approve of this blog! Be a Rebel! Repeal the 17th Amendment! Nuke the Federal Reserve! The vampire that is the Federal Reserve desperately needs a stake in the heart. The status quo is an unsustainable crock of compost. While I applaud and support the tactical efforts with the ...
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• The Insidiousness of Socialism

  
  The Patriots Pen — Authority: 111
  Every day I read articles and posts on various sites about how evil Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and the rest of congress are.  Many of these are wild rumor, others are simply everyday people who feel they have no other way to express their anger.  You probably remember the images from the town halls this ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bill Killers and Good Enoughers: A quick guide to the online lefts health care debate

  
  techPresident — Authority: 623
  There is, you may have noticed, a fairly raging debate taking place amongst those progressives armed with a computer and a high-speed Internet connection over the future of the health care bill. On the chance that you havent been closely tracking the blow-by-blow, we present to you a quick guide to the players and the ...
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• Kill the Bill: Nine Reasons

  
  Corrente — Authority: 639
  Here are nine reasons the Senate health care reform bill should be killed: 1) The bill gives almost no real help til 2014. In the short term, the bill does nothing about the fatalities, bankruptcies, and foreclosures that come from lack of insurance. Therefore, the very title of the bill -- "The Affordable Health ...
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