Boortz reports that EMTs and other first responders check cell phones for a contacted named ICE (In Case of Emergency), and call that number. I've never heard of that before, but if it's true, it's a good idea.
James Hansen's former boss at NASA is a global warming skeptic and calls Hansen an embarrassment to NASA. He says Hansen broke NASA's policy by promoting man-made global warming because scientists don't know enough to make that claim. He says NASA didn't do enough to muzzel him. I want to know why NASA didn't fire him. This guy was his boss. It sounds like he didn't do enough.
Iraq holding provincial elections this weekend. Every American should be celebrating the accomplishments of the Iraqis with the help of our troops.
Mises scholar lampoons Cato for its newspaper ad featuring the signatures of over 200 economists who oppose Obama's stimulus boondoggle, but he sure doesn't offer a better alternative. More people will read Cato's ad than this post. Cato also talked about this ad and the stimulus boondoggle on Boortz today, and probably other talk radio shows. Talk radio is not dying.
Mises shoots down the notion that Asia created our financial problems by saving and lending too much while consuming too little. As if saving is a vice. The aristocrats will go to any length to cover up their culpability for creating this crisis.
Obama signs law making it easier for women to sue over wage discrimination. Government has no business getting involved in the compensation agreed upon by employer and employee. If both are satisfied with the compensation, then the employee begins work. If either one is unsatisfied, the employee doesn't get the job, quits, or gets fired. It doesn't matter what any other employee is making. All that matter is both parties agree.
Judge refuses Obama's request to delay war crimes trial of Guantanamo detainee. Good for him. We operate under the rule of law, not the rule of Obama. We have far too few victories for the rule of law in America these days. On the flip side, it seems to me the commander in chief can always order them to be halted, right?
The legal process for these prisoners has been widely criticised because the US military acts as jailer, judge and jury.
HOw is that a criticism? That's how military tribunals have always been.
Government at all levels takes up about 36 percent of GDP, and economists have shown that optimal government should take up less than 25 percent of GDP.
I have an alternative plan for economic stimulus - cut government spending in half and cut taxes accordingly. This year's budget is over $3.1 trillion. Add in TARP, and you reach $4 trillion. If the US government cut spending and taxes in half right now, that would be a direct infusion of $2 trillion into our economy. And unlike ineffective government stimulus, that stimulus would be highly effective because it would be ongoing and the money would be in the hands of the people, not the politicians. A $2 trillion stimulus every year would dramatically raise the standard of living in America, pull Americans out of poverty, and make welfare obsolete. That's why government will never let it happen.
Blagojevich ties himself to Rahm Emanuel. Makes sense to me. They're all corrupt. Illinois Senate convicts Blago and removes him from office and bars him from holding elected office in Illinois ever again.
Rush Limbaugh wants to make Obama pay for trying to paint him as extremist, and it's going to work. Obama is a radical, and his radicalism is already on parade on terrorism and domestic policy, while Rush proposes a bipartisan stimulus bill in a WSJ op-ed. Rush's idea comes off as funny, but only because we know the radical Democrats won't accept it - it would expose them as frauds. It's actually a genuine compromise that would be welcomed by the people. Obama screwed up when he attacked Rush personally and elevated him to an even larger audience.
It only stands to reason that after Alan Greenspan destroyed the dollar, plunging us into world-wide recession, that Russia's Putin and China's Wen blast the US. We deserve that. We empower such incompetent aristocrats, they make totalitarians like Putin and Wen look good by comparision.
Shell posts first loss in 10 years. I doubt anybody is crying for the oil companies.
Obama's hubris knows no bounds. Obama hopes a letter he's writing to Iran will solve our problems with Iran. That'll fix everything. The Mullahs are laughing all the way to the bomb.
Aparently leftists, and the enemies of capitalism like Bush, Obama, Greenspan, Bernanke, Paulson, and Geithner, don't realize that overhauling capitalism is an oxymoron.
Reason explains how politicians define the debate, labeling as radicals anybody who falls outside their boundaries. But their analogy between Obama's stimulus boondoggle and the debate before the Iraq war fails because the Bush never controlled the press like Obama controls the press. The press is invested in Obama's policies. They were never invested in Bush's. Yet even the press thought Saddam Hussein had WMD. They thought that because we all know Saddam had used WMD. If a person shoots at somebody, it's a pretty assumption that they have a gun. But there is no evidence that Keysenian stimulus works. Every time it's been tried, it's failed. It a failure from both a theoretical point of view and from experience.
Stanford University team uses quantum interference pattern to spell out SU at record information density of 35 bits per electron.
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