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Tsunami Info Center Web Site Fails on Day of Big Quake Despite Tens of Millions in Federal Funds

March 11th, 2011 · 4 Comments

Like millions of people around the world, I awoke hungry for details of the 8.9 megaquake that struck Japan just after 2:30 p.m. local time Friday.  When I landed at the web site for the International Tsunami Information Center, a center in Honolulu that was allocated $28 million for fiscal year 2011 and $29 million [...]

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Journalist Banned from Climate Change Conference

November 29th, 2010 · 6 Comments

It appears that drug cartel-related kidnappings and murders are not the only crimes taking place in Mexico these days.  According to a message received this morning, Phelim McAleer has been denied press accreditation for the Cancun Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico. Only days before the international conference opening today, the United Nations refused access [...]

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Are Communists Succeeding in Takeover of USA?

September 29th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Described as “an excerpt from “The Naked Communist” by Cleon Skousen,” the “1963 Communist Rules” consists of 45 tactics and objectives related to a gradual communist takeover of the United States.  They were entered into the Congressional Record Jan. 10, 1963, by U.S. Rep. Albert S. Herlong Jr., a Floridian who served in Congress from [...]

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Israeli Delegation Skips Obama’s UN Speech

September 23rd, 2010 · 3 Comments

The Israeli delegation to the United Nations opted out of listening to President Barack Obama deliver a pro-Palestinians speech at the United Nations this morning.  Perhaps better than anyone, they understand that the 44th president of the United States has, despite sometimes-flowery words to the contrary, little regard for the State of Israel, one of [...]

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Inhofe Threatens ‘ClimateGate’ Investigation (Update)

November 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment

UPDATE #2 11/24/09 at 4:58 p.m. Central — In the video below, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) appears on Fox News Channel to announce he has sent out letters to officials with a number of government agencies as well as to scientists.  Those letters instruct those people to retain documents related to their research regarding climate [...]

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Uncle Jay Explains the News: Sept. 27, 2009

September 28th, 2009 · No Comments

In this week’s episode of Uncle Jay Explains the News, we learn something about the news word of the week, “DIVULGE” and about how mixing politics with entertainment can produce “very scary” results.  And there’s more. Uncle Jay begins by looking at President Barack Obama’s decision to divulge news about “something very disturbing about Iran.”  [...]

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CEI Makes Waves in Climate Change Debate

September 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I receive a lot of e-mails every week.  They come from individuals and groups, including nonprofit organizations in the nation’s capitol.  One of the best e-mails I received this week came from Charles Huang at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and has to do with one of my pet-peeve subjects, climate change (a.k.a., GLOBULL WARMING).  It [...]

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