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• Steny’s Singing From a Worn Out Hymnal

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  My first reaction to Steny Hoyer’s whining presentation was that he should whine from a different hymnal because this speech was from a discredited hymnal: “One of our two great parties is now an organization committed to an unprecedented level of lockstep opposition to the president,” said Hoyer. “A ...
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• Mark Steyn discusses pastor Stephen Boissoin’s victory against the HRCs

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 474
  Story on the Corner . (H/T ECM, Blazing Cat Fur ) Excerpt: A couple of years back, the Reverend Stephen Boissoin committed the crime of writing a letter to a local newspaper objecting to various aspects of “the homosexual agenda”. The Alberta “Human Rights” Tribunal convicted him of this crime and ...
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• Smoke Screen: How Bush Insiders Distorted – And Still Influence – America’s Debate Over Climate Change

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 617
  Melanie Sloan : World leaders, scientists and activists have gathered in Copenhagen this week to discuss global efforts to address the challenges posed by climate change. Hopes are high that these decision-makers will leave the conference with concrete ideas that will encourage substantive debate back in their ...
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• Revolution 21 -- Part VI

  
  Libertarian Blog — Authority: 138
  The New Deal revealed how fickle the American people can be in times of emergencies. The ease with which socialistic schemes were implemented shows how suscepible the nation is to statism, although, after all these years, a recent awakening has now caused people to begin questioning what we stand for as a nation ...
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• Will Groupthink Kill Us?

  
  California Conservative — Authority: 428
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• Will Groupthink Kill Us?

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  I gave this post a provocative title so I’d get your attention. This isn’t a dissertation on death panels. Rather, it’s a look at the consequences of upcoming federal restrictions on health care. Thanks to Nat Hentoff’s article , we now know that the system being proposed has amajor flaw in it. Hentoff ...
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• EPA Poised to Declare CO2 a Public Danger

  
  The Liberty Tree Lantern — Authority: 132
  By IAN TALLEY WALL STREET JOURNAL   WASHINGTON–The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will early next week, possibly as soon as Monday, officially declare carbon dioxide a public danger, a trigger that could mean regulation for emitters across the economy, according to several people close to the matter. ...
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• Sestak feels chill from protesters

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Clutching signs, banners and flags, a group of 15 stood along Baltimore Pike near Route 252 Saturday afternoon despite a chilly mix of snow and rain to oppose governmental intrusion and spending. It all began in balmier times as Debbie Hughes of Media started a two-person campaign in front of the Media office of U.S. ...
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• Copenhagen Compromised

  
  California Conservative — Authority: 428
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• Copenhagen Compromised

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  George Will’s column on climate change is the best explanation of what went wrong with the science supposedly supporting climate change. Here’s a blast that’s certain to leave a mark: The Financial Times’ peculiar response to the CRU materials is: The scientific case for alarm about global warming “is ...
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• Forget the Bonding Bill, Fix the Economy

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  DFL leadership is salivating thinking about passing a $1,000,000,000 bonding bill when they should be prioritizing fixing Minnesota’s economy: House Speaker and 2010 gubernatorial candidate Margaret Anderson Kelliher, DFL-Minneapolis, said during one of the flurry of press conferences following Wednesday’s ...
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• The Woman With a Bullseye On Her Back

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  Saturday afternoon, I attended Michele Bachmann’s Christmas party in St. Cloud. There she revealed what I already knew: that Speaker Pelosi has painted a big bullseye on Michele’s back. I think that’s because Speaker Pelosi hates Michele’s principled opposition to Speaker Pelosi’s radical agenda. ...
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• Ahhhnold channels Al Gore

  
  Kenneth G. Davenport — Authority: 421
  Arnold Schwarzenegger is (thankfully) will be finishing up his disastrous stint as governor of California in 2010...and we can only hope that the 11 months between now and the next election will go as quickly as possible. Arnold has been a populist leader in the worst sense of the word, with a finger continuously in ...
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• Transcript of Climate Policy Briefing Hosted by Oil Industry and Newsweek Magazine

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 617
  I’ve written several times now about Tuesday’s climate policy briefing hosted by Newsweek magazine and the American Petroleum Institute. Here is the full transcript of the event: 23527903-Newsweek-Dialogue-Series-Climate-and-Energy-Policy-Moving-12-1-09 –
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• Two Must Read Items on the SwiftHack Smear Campaign

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 617
  Over at RealClimate, Amory Lovins comments, What I get from the Stolen-Emails Controversy . At the Wonk Room, Brad Johnson gives a history lesson: The Republican Definition Of ‘Fascism’: Defending Climate Science From Exxon-Mobil Corruption Please read both.
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• Pogemiller Still Short On Solutions

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  Larry Pogemiller has thrown more than a couple hissy fits over Gov. Pawlenty’s economic policies. In all the time that I’ve been watching, I’ve yet to hear him articulate a plan on what a Pogemiller economic plan would look like, though I suspect that it’d start with raising taxes and spending more money on ...
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• Senator Byrd: Coal Must Embrace the Future

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 617
  Brad Johnson : The West Virginia coal industry has become a virulent opponent of President Barack Obama’s reform agenda, while the state’s political leaders cheered. In June, West Virginia declared coal the state rock . In September, the coal industry sponsored a rock concert and rally to demonize ...
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• Greenpeace Executive Director Phil Radford Sends Letter to Schumer re: Newsweek/Api Policy Forum

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 617
  This story keeps getting better and better. Greenpeace seems to have evidence that all of this was in violation of Senate rules. Their Executive Director Phil Radford has fired off a letter to Senator Schumer to this effect. Here is the letter: Letter from Phil Radford to Senator Schumer-1 – Here is ...
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• Newsweek Hosts Policy Forum with Top Oil Lobbyist: The Fallout

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 617
  I told you the other day about Tuesday’s policy forum hosted by Newsweek magazine and the American Petroleum Institute. At the time, Howard Fineman defended his magazine’s role in providing a forum for communication between powerful special interests and members of Congress: Rep. Ed Markey, the chief ...
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• Aaron Ament’s Selective Outrage

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  Prior to this post, most people probably haven’t heard about Aaron Ament. I certainly hadn’t heard of him prior to this. Ament is one of the founders of Stand Up America PAC. According to this article , Stand Up America PAC has targeted Michele Bachmann, Joe Wilson, Eric Cantor, Jean Schmidt and John ...
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