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Entries from January 2011

Robert Redford Recognized for Eco-Hypocrisy

January 28th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Sundance Film Festival founder Robert Redford stands accused of eco-hypocrisy for opposing an eco-village near his property while quietly selling $2 million lots in the Sundance Preserve for luxury vacation homes. Filmmakers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer revealed evidence of Redford’s eco-hypocrisy in their new video, Robert Redford Hypocrite (below), as the film festival ends [...]

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Should President Obama Have Same Internet ‘Kill Switch’ Used to Silence Opposition in Egypt?

January 28th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Earlier this week, a U.S. Senate committee approved a wide-ranging cybersecurity bill that some fear will, if it becomes law, give the President Barack Obama the authority to shut down parts of the internet.  In the video below, we see what happens when a government — in this case, Egypt — has the power to [...]

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Big Government Puts Ozarks in the Crosshairs (Update)

January 27th, 2011 · 5 Comments

Farmers, ranchers and other land owners in 13 Missouri counties are up in arms these days, fearful that the federal government will designate their land in the Ozarks of Southern Missouri as the “Ozarks Highlands National Heritage Area.” As members of the Ozarks Property Rights Congress, they’re meeting tonight at the Hayloft Restaurant in Mountain [...]

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Pipeline ‘Matter of Critical National Interest’

January 27th, 2011 · 2 Comments

One can hardly blame leaders of the nation’s oil and natural gas industries for feeling the need to be aggressive when it comes to combating the Obama Administration’s all-out war against fossil fuels exploration.  Today, officials at the American Petroleum Institute called on the U.S. Department of State to approve the Keystone Pipeline Project as [...]

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Potted Plant Detects Planted Bombs and More

January 27th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Now that the Department of Homeland Security has announced that its color-coded terror alert system will end by late April, can I still get away with making a “green thumb” joke about a Colorado State University biologist who has shown that plants can serve as highly specific detectors for explosives?  Sure I can — and [...]

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Tea Party Movement Goes Global (Update)

January 26th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Little did CNBC reporter Rick Santelli know how far his message would carry after he issued a call for a Chicago Tea Party from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Feb. 19, 2009.  After spreading across the United States during the past 23 months, it appears that a grassroots movement, similar to the Tea [...]

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Gov: ‘No Barack Obama birth certificate in Hawaii’ (Update)

January 26th, 2011 · 5 Comments

Nationally-syndicated radio personality/entertainment reporter Mike Evans, a man self-described as a long-time friend of Gov. Neal Abercrombie (D-Hawaii), made the Drudge Report today after he made a shocking claim on Minneapolis’ KQRS-FM radio morning show Jan. 20.  In short, Evans told the show host that Governor Abercrombie told him, “There is no Barack Obama birth [...]

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