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Army Officer Kills Al-Qaeda Operative, Imprisoned After Prosecutors Ignore Own Expert Witness

December 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments

By Bob McCarty and Carrie Fatigante An e-mail Dr. Herbert Leon MacDonell sent to Capts. Meghan Poirier, Jason Elbert and Erwin Roberts — Army prosecutors all — just after 4 o’clock in the afternoon Feb. 27, 2009, should have warranted their attention for several reasons, but they opted to treat the information it contained in [...]

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EPA Endangerment Ruling Threatens All Americans

December 7th, 2009 · No Comments

By issuing an endangerment finding on CO2 today, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson effectively placed an economy-wide tax on energy use.  How can this be?  Because 85 percent of the U.S. economy runs on fossil fuels that emit carbon dioxide, according to a Heritage Foundation post today. Among those issuing immediate responses to the EPA actions [...]

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Will EPA List of Most-Wanted Eco-Fugitives Soon Include Gore, Jones, Mann, Hansen and Others?

December 7th, 2009 · No Comments

Several of the people shown in the graphic below have been captured or surrendered since Dec. 10, 2008, when the newly-created EPA list of its “most-wanted list of environmental fugitives” became the subject of a Dec. 11 post on this blog. Much to my surprise and chagrin, the agency’s current list of fugitives — which [...]

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Obama Admits to Having Once Used Fake ID

December 7th, 2009 · No Comments

In  the video clip below, President Barack Obama is shown making several quips about Mel Brooks, 83, the Jewish actor-director-comedian honored during the 32nd Kennedy Center Honors last night. Two and a half minutes into the clip, the president describes how a fake ID helped him overcome being too young to gain admission to a [...]

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‘Irritable Bowl Syndrome’ Under Control in 2009

December 7th, 2009 · No Comments

“Irritable Bowl Syndrome,” the affliction first identified among fans of the Texas Longhorns football team in December 2008, seems to be under control in 2009.  They are, after all, set to take on the top-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide in the BCS National Championship Game Jan. 7 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. You might recall [...]

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Famous Winston Churchill Quote Revisited

December 7th, 2009 · No Comments

In a post almost one year ago, I published the cartoon above containing the famous quote below: “We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” — Winston Churchill I repost it today for [...]

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Lead Climate Scientist Has ‘Gone Underground’

December 7th, 2009 · No Comments

Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit at the UK’s East Anglia University, epicenter of the so-called “ClimateGate” scandal, has “literally gone underground,” according to the CNN report below, amidst a flood of request from media outlets seeking to hear his side of the story when it comes to allegations of “cooking the books” [...]

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