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and individual liberty
"There is but
one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." --George Washington
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President Barack Obama has revived debate about the number of jobs that would be created by the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas. The 1,700-mile pipeline would carry oil from tar sands in Alberta to refineries in the Houston area, passing through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. During a jobs speech Tuesday in Tennessee, Obama downplayed the pipeline’s effect on jobs, calling it a “blip” compared with the overall economy. He also made that point in an interview with The New York Times last week. The president correctly characterized the project’s overall effect on U.S. employment but underestimated the number of jobs it would create. The $7 billion pipeline has become a contentious issue. Project supporters, including unions and lawmakers from both parties, tout the jobs it would create and demand its approval, while environmentalists urge the president to reject it, saying it would carry dirty, carbon-intensive oil. "Republicans have said that this would be a big jobs generator. There is no evidence that that's true," Obama said in The New York Times interview. "And my hope would be that any reporter who is looking at the facts would take the time to confirm that the most realistic estimates are this might create maybe 2,000 jobs during the construction of the pipeline — which might take a year or two — and then after that we're talking about somewhere between 50 and 100 (chuckles) jobs in an economy of 150 million working people. ... That is a blip relative to the need."
The State Department report goes further. It estimates
that the project could help create — directly and indirectly — as many as
42,000 jobs, including jobs for suppliers and subcontractors that provide
equipment and materials, as well as lodging, food services and other jobs
related to construction. The figure includes part-time jobs.
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Insane: Bankrupt Detroit is Still Spending $444 Million
on Hockey Arena
Detroit has declared bankruptcy, but that is not
stopping this Democratic city of insolvency from building a new stadium. What
is it about being bankrupt that the Motor City does not understand?
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Liberals Use The Word "Choice" To Make Murder
Sound Cool!
Life is one long sequence of innumerable choices,
linked together by the results of those choices. With every decision we make,
we are denying dozens of other possible options. Generally, that’s not a
problem. Our daily choices don’t usually have negative repercussions. The word
“choice” has become such a common part of our vernacular that we don’t even
notice when it is being used against us. Of course I’m talking about “choice”
in terms of politics, more specifically, abortion. The
Left has used the word “choice” to describe abortion for quite some time now:
“a woman’s choice,” “reproductive choice.” What Liberals will not do is describe what “choice” is. The choice they are
speaking of is the choice between having
a baby, and not having a baby.
The means by which you do not
have a baby is abortion. Abortion is the termination/execution of an infant in
the womb. Choice!
According to Town Hall:
“MSNBC host Thomas Roberts, in a recent segment
regarding North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory’s decision to sign pro-life
legislation into law, lambasted the bill as restricting women’s access to
‘choice providers,’ AKA abortion clinics.”
This is the exact quote from Roberts:
“So there is only one that currently meets that benchmark which means
that this is going to be the only clinic in the state for women in North
Carolina for seeking out choice…How do you respond to that with such a dramatic
closure of access to choice providers for women?”
Words are extremely important because they are our
most effective way to convey meaning, to describe the world around us and to
describe what we believe to be the truth. The scary part about words is that they can be twisted to disguise
something ugly and disgusting as something mundane and possibly even beautiful.
Think about it: “reproductive choice” is the same thing as “abortion,” but it
sounds so much better, almost nice.
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GOP Rep: Obama WH Is Hiding Benghazi Survivors AND
CHANGING THEIR NAMES by Jim Hoft
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) was on with Greta Van
Susteren Thursday to discuss the Obama scandals. This came after Jake Tapper
at CNN broke the news that there were “dozens” of CIA operatives on the ground
in Benghazi on 9-11 when the consulate came under attack and the agency is
going to great lengths to make sure whatever it was doing, remains a secret. Gowdy told Greta the Obama Administration is
hiding the survivors, dispersing them around the country, AND changing their
names.
“Including changing names, creating aliases.
Stop and think what things are most calculated to get at the truth? Talk to
people with first-hand knowledge. What creates the appearance and perhaps the
reality of a cover-up? Not letting us talk with people who have the most amount
of information, dispersing them around the country and changing their names.”
And,
at the same time Obama is hiding the survivors around the country he’s calling
Benghazi a ‘phony’ scandal.
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Obamacare Full Frontal: Of 953,000 Jobs Created In 2013,
77%, Or 731,000 Are Part-Time by Tyler Durden
When the payroll report
was released last month, the world finally noticed what we had been saying for nearly
three years: that the US was slowly
being converted to a part-time worker society. This slow
conversion accelerated drastically in the last few months, and especially in June, when part time jobs
exploded higher by 360K while full time jobs dropped by 240K. In July we are sad to report that
America's conversation to a part-time worker society is not
"tapering": according to the Household Survey, of the 266K jobs created (note this number
differs from the establishment survey), only 35% of jobs, or 92K, were full
time. The rest were... not.
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Charlie Rangel: Tea Party Is ‘Same Group’ Of ‘White
Crackers’ Who Fought Civil Rights
In an interview with the
Daily Beast published Friday, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) suggested Tea Partiers
are the "same group" who fought for segregation during the Civil
Rights movement.
“It is the same group we
faced in the South with those white crackers and the dogs and the police. They
didn’t care about how they looked," Rangel said. Because of this,
Rangel said the Tea Party could be defeated using the same tactics employed
against Jim Crow. "It was
just fierce indifference to human life that caused America to say enough is
enough. ‘I don’t want to see it and I am not a part of it.’ What the hell! If
you have to bomb little kids and send dogs out against human beings, give me a
break,” said Rangel.
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