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Entries from May 2009

Senator Labels Agency Memo ‘Smoking Gun’

May 12th, 2009 · No Comments

Sen. John Barrasso‘s grilling of EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson during a meeting today of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works ranks as one of the best examples I’ve seen in a long time of an elected official showing he won’t be hoodwinked by alarmists like Jackson on the subject of debunking global warming, [...]

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Coca-Cola Introduces New Cans for BBQ Season

May 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Coca-Cola® is introducing a set of new can designs (shown below) just in time for summer barbecue season. It appears, however, that no new Ramadan Coke can design is in the works. Hat tip:  Adrants

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Travel Site Offers Top 10 Summer Road-Trip Destinations for Those Who Can Afford the Gas

May 12th, 2009 · 5 Comments

Hotwire.com used a news release today to announce its list of Top 10 summer road-trip destinations for those who can afford the gas: 1.  San Diego: This sun-soaked city in beautiful Southern California boasts some of the best beaches and includes the world-famous San Diego Zoo.  [BMW adds: And it offers visitors opportunities to see [...]

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Florida Firm Cites BMW Posts in News Release

May 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Officials at the National Institute for Truth Verification issued the following news release today, four days after I published the second post in a two-part series about the U.S. military’s use of portable lie detectors in combat: Two-Part Investigative Series: Military ‘Turf War’ Places Americans at Increased Risk In a recently-published two-part investigative series, a [...]

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Blogger Finds ACORN Info for Glenn Beck

May 11th, 2009 · 11 Comments

On his television show today, Glenn Beck mentioned that neither his show’s researchers nor the Fox News Channel’s researchers could find information about Citizens Consulting, Inc., a New Orleans-based group many describe as “accounting central” for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, the controversial community organizing and voter registration group best known by [...]

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President Obama Launches Health Care Push

May 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment

President Barack Obama is meeting today with a group of what the White House calls “health care reform stakeholders.” Those attending represent insurers, hospitals, physicians, medical device companies, pharmaceutical companies and, of course, labor union representatives and will, no doubt, take into consideration everything listed on the president’s “full fact sheet” about the issue of [...]

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Obama Budget Risks Nation’s Energy Security

May 11th, 2009 · 2 Comments

President Barack Obama’s 2010 budget proposal makes it appear he’s ready, willing and able to bury Americans in new taxes, place the nation’s energy security in peril and put  six-million American jobs at risk. In a statement Friday regarding his proposed 2010 budget for the nation, the president had this to say about energy: Specifically, [...]

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