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Entries from June 2009

Rubber Room Movie to Expose NYC’s Dirty Secret

June 30th, 2009 · No Comments

I’ve heard a lot about the so-called “rubber rooms,” places operated by the New York City Public Schools to house teachers — at full pay, mind you — who are alleged to have violated school rules, students and/or the law in general.   After watching the trailer for “The Rubber Room” movie (below), I feel as [...]

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Senator Inhofe Vindicated on Global Warming Scam

June 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments

In my post, Congress Needs Dose of Inconvenient Truth Serum, I noted the scandal over the EPA buried a study challenging the junk science upon which global warming alarmism is based.  In the video below, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) talks with a Fox News host about the unnecessary and damaging climate change legislation based upon [...]

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Uncle Jay Explains the News: July 4th Special

June 29th, 2009 · No Comments

Uncle Jay Explains the News for the first half of 2009 in a July 4th special edition this week. Topics range from Bernie Madoff (i.e., bars and stripes forever) to Latina judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama’s first  nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court (one of his first nominees to have paid all of her [...]

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Writer Offers Thoughts About Celebrities’ Deaths

June 28th, 2009 · No Comments

In the wake of the deaths of four famous people in recent days, my friend Ron English at Salvation Links wrote a pair of posts well worth reading. In the first post, he wrote about the deaths of Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson and noted how the celebrities were famous and how each [...]

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Congress Needs Dose of Inconvenient Truth Serum (Updated)

June 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives passed by a narrow margin earlier this week a piece of legislation known as the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (a.k.a., “Waxman-Markey”). As a result, it’s too late for them to benefit from doses of INCONVENIENT TRUTH SERUM.  When it comes to their counterparts in [...]

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Two Words Behind Push for Cap-and-Trade Bill

June 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment

In a news release late this afternoon, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) used almost 300 words to describe the U.S. House of Representatives’ narrow passage of the Waxman-Markey Climate Change Bill.  An excerpt appears below. “The Waxman-Markey bill is just the latest incarnation of cap-and-trade legislation that will destroy American jobs by pushing them overseas, force [...]

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Healthcare Reform Dangers Highlighted in Video

June 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Foster Friess believes it’s time to put partisanship aside and reverse the course of events that has seen a huge increase in the size and scope of government. In a post today, he shares the “must-see” video below which, among other things, speaks to the problems associated with a lack of unity among Republicans and [...]

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