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Why Must Liberals Resort to Violence?

January 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Another Democrat.  Another smackdown. Why must liberals resort to violence?  Are they out of ideas? The video below shows a member of liberal Democrat Martha Coakley’s entourage appearing to assault John McCormack, a Weekly Standard reporter, after he attempted to ask the candidate a question about why healthcare industry lobbyists were supporting her campaign. This [...]

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State of the Energy Industry Confab Held in D.C.

January 13th, 2010 · No Comments

“U.S. and global energy policy remains in the forefront of public debate, and I expect will remain there well into this decade,” said Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute.  “Unfortunately, too often lost in the sloganeering is the reality of what it will take to provide the nation with affordable, reliable energy and [...]

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States’ Unfunded Pension Obligations Top $360B

January 13th, 2010 · 2 Comments

State employee pension systems are facing severe shortfalls, and these growing liabilities threaten to drive many states deeper into the red, according to a new 50-state study released today by the American Legislative Exchange Council, the nation’s largest individual membership association of state legislators. In “State Pension Funds Fall Off a Cliff,” Drs. Barry Poulson [...]

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Rolling Stone Names Senator Inhofe ‘Climate Killer’

January 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Congratulations to Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) for making Rolling Stone‘s list of “Climate Killers” — that is, the group of “17 polluters and deniers who are derailing efforts to curb global warming.” Of course, he didn’t make the list as a “polluter.”  Instead, he made it for helping expose the fraud and cooked-books science behind [...]

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Most Americans Believe Wealth Beyond Their Reach

January 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment

How’s all of that “hope and change” working out for you?  Not too well, according to the just-released results of a new nationwide poll conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International and released by Bankrate Inc. today.  The poll results show that the majority of Americans think wealth is beyond their reach and that it [...]

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Physicians Say Government ‘Never Will’ Understand

January 13th, 2010 · 5 Comments

More than 40 percent of physicians participating in a single-question online poll said they feel the U.S. government “never will” understand how declining reimbursement rates from Medicare negatively affect the care patients receive from their physicians. According to a news release issued today by SERMO, the nation’s largest physician-only online community: (1) Physicians fear reimbursements [...]

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Disney Told to Include Ex-Gays in Policies

January 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment

The Security and Exchange Commission has directed the Walt Disney Company to accept a shareholder resolution requesting the inclusion of ex-gays in Disney’s sexual orientation policies and corporate diversity programs. Disney had opposed the ex-gay resolution and asked the SEC for permission to exclude it from stockholder consideration. “Like many corporations, Disney implements mandatory diversity [...]

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