The pursuit of Constitutionally grounded governance, freedom
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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"If ye love
wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated
contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms.
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon
you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!" --Samuel Adams, speech
to the State House in Philadelphia, 1776
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Now is the Time to Start Governing and Stop Politicking
Now
that Congress and the president have narrowly dodged the latest crisis, we must
demand an end to the political gamesmanship and a return to governing.
The agreement to end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling is not to be considered a victory for anyone. The 16-day government shutdown cost the economy $24 billion and will slow economic growth, according to an analysis by Standard & Poor’s. That equates to real people who saw their paychecks cut and their businesses hurt.
The deal reached Wednesday would finance the government only through Jan. 15 and lift the debt ceiling through Feb. 7. So we are merely headed toward another crisis in a matter of weeks unless Congress and the president get serious about negotiating a long-term budget deal.
The agreement to end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling is not to be considered a victory for anyone. The 16-day government shutdown cost the economy $24 billion and will slow economic growth, according to an analysis by Standard & Poor’s. That equates to real people who saw their paychecks cut and their businesses hurt.
The deal reached Wednesday would finance the government only through Jan. 15 and lift the debt ceiling through Feb. 7. So we are merely headed toward another crisis in a matter of weeks unless Congress and the president get serious about negotiating a long-term budget deal.
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Closer examination of the design and
implementation of the ObamaCare enrollment website reveals a long list of
mistakes that could have been avoided, but instead were compounded by
politically motivated decisions made by the Obama administration. And problems
likely won't be resolved for months.
Late in the design phase of the
exchanges, the Department of Health and Human Services removed fundamental
elements of the site that would have allowed consumers to actually see the cost
of insurance so as to reduce "rate shock." It had become apparent
even to the true believers that ObamaCare wasn't affordable or flexible in its
options. The truth would have led to reduced
enrollment, so HHS opted to reject transparency for the sake of political expediency
-- and they still got low enrollment. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius still
refuses to reveal the true number of enrollees, which private sources estimate
is a paltry 20% of the government's target for October.
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Eureka! Tea partiers know science - Tal Kopan - POLITICO.com
A finding in a study on the relationship between science
literacy and political ideology surprised the Yale professor behind it: Tea
party members know more science than non-tea partiers.
Yale law professor Dan Kahan posted on his blog this week that
he analyzed the responses of more than 2,000 American adults recruited for
another study and found that, on average, people who leaned liberal were more
science literate than those who leaned conservative.
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If you really want to change
America, America’s schools must be changed and the way they are funded. Whoever
controls the schools controls what’s taught. America’s education system is designed to further the
interests of government.
Public education is government
education. Government education is popular because the majority of people get it
at a discount. People with few or no children are taxed at the same
rate as people with multiple children. Why should my wife and I be forced to
pay for my neighbor’s children? Please don’t tell me it’s a civic duty.
If families had to pay for what it
really costs to educate their children, they would not choose the inferior
government school system. If they must pay a higher price, they will choose a
superior product.
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by Gary DeMar
A group of
25
professors at the University of Iowa has posted a letter laying down the
first commandment of scientific inquiry about Darwinism: “Thou Shalt Not Doubt
Darwin.” They responded to an opinion piece in
the Iowa Now online newsletter
that was critical of the claim that there is a war between religion and science
and that religion doesn’t have anything to say about science, specifically on
the question of the origin of life.
Ned Bowden is an associate professor
of chemistry in the University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He wrote:
“In our
era of punditry, it seems that only the loudest, most extreme, and most
intransigent voices are heard. It’s not enough simply to have an opinion; you
must shout down anyone expressing a different view to demonstrate the
‘right-ness’ of your own.” Bowden went on to write that there are “holes in the
theory of evolution that are big enough to drive a semi-truck through.”
Of course there are. The biggest holes
being how evolutionists:
(1) account for the original “stuff” of the cosmos,
(2) the
spontaneous generation of life from non-life (a biological impossibility), and
(3) the
directional information (DNA) necessary to animate that life. These are some
pretty big holes.
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DOJ Forces College Menu Change: Food Allergy
is a Disability
In one of the more outrageous moves by the Justice Department’s bloated civil rights division, a private college was strong armed into a legal settlement in which it agreed that food allergies are a disability under federal law.
The story got little coverage as the Department of Justice (DOJ) quietly persuaded the Massachusetts College, Lesley University, to change its campus menu and serve certain foods to accommodate students with allergies. The preposterous case was brought to Judicial Watch’s attention by Robert Popper, who at the time was a Deputy Chief at the DOJ’s Voting Section. Popper, an esteemed attorney, currently helps lead JW’s Election Integrity Project.
In one of the more outrageous moves by the Justice Department’s bloated civil rights division, a private college was strong armed into a legal settlement in which it agreed that food allergies are a disability under federal law.
The story got little coverage as the Department of Justice (DOJ) quietly persuaded the Massachusetts College, Lesley University, to change its campus menu and serve certain foods to accommodate students with allergies. The preposterous case was brought to Judicial Watch’s attention by Robert Popper, who at the time was a Deputy Chief at the DOJ’s Voting Section. Popper, an esteemed attorney, currently helps lead JW’s Election Integrity Project.
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The letter came in the mail
yesterday as everyone mocked the Tea Party Republicans for trying to halt
Obamacare. I wish they’d tried harder.
Name-Withheld
Health and Life Insurance Company will offer individual health plans that
comply with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) beginning January 1, 2014.
Since
your current health plan does not meet all the ACA requirements it will
terminate upon its first renewal on or after January 1, 2014. Prior to your
renewal date, we will send you a proposal for health plans that most closely
match your current benefits. These plans will comply with the ACA. Along with
the proposal, we will include information on other individual plans we actively
market. At renewal, you may choose the proposed plan or select any other plan
in our suite of available products.
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"Chaos in the
Brickyard" Revisited A Parody
by Gary
North
Fifty years ago today, the most important letter to the
editor I ever read appeared in Science.
The letter was on the vast quantity of articles in scholarly journals. Nobody
knew what to do with them. The writer called this "chaos in the
brickyard." (Science
142:339, October 18, 1963) Today, the pile of academic bricks is immensely
larger. Nobody knows what to do with them. Government funding of higher
education has caused this. "Publish
or perish" has caused this. And remember: this was written before
on-line publishing.
It began:
"Once upon a time. . . ." Sadly, it is not a fairy tale.
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by Jonathan O’Brien
Cape
Leeuwin is a wild, beautiful and windy place, the most south-westerly point of
mainland Australia. A famous lighthouse stands there, made of a limestone that
glows a brilliant white on sunny days.
Attracted
by the awesome coastal beauty and the impressive lighthouse, visitors are often
just as amazed to also find there an old wooden waterwheel which has been
completely encased in solid limestone.
Natural formations whose ages are not known may lead some to
believe that they have taken thousands or even millions of years to form.
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By Kevin Fobbs
The finger
pointing and savaging of the Tea Party and Texas U.S. Senator Ted Cruz began
weeks ago and it has been unrelenting. Many in the senate had been laying in
wait all through the summer as Senator
Cruz traveled the nation calling attention to Obamacare and its potentially
devastating impact on Americans and their families.
Instead of locking arms in solidarity many of the
Republicans in the mainstream joined the liberal pundits and President Barrack
Obama in undermining the very facts that Cruz and other Tea Party leaders had
been presenting. The Obama
scare machine was in full effect and much of its fuel was supplied by so-called
Republican lawmakers like Senator John McCain and Lindsey Graham. These beltway
insiders were attempting to deal Cruz and the Tea Party a fatal knockout punch
after Cruz’s twenty-one hour senate filibuster.
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On Planned Parenthood's Facebook page for teens, they posted
an article answering the
question: "Is promiscuity a bad thing?" According to Planned Parenthood, "there’s nothing bad or unhealthy about
having a big number of sexual partners."
Grammar critique aside, there actually are several health
risks to having a large number of sexual partners. Some of the major risk
factors for HPV and cervical cancer is multiple sexual partners and having
sex at an early age. Even the Guttmacher Institute, the former research arm of Planned
Parenthood, considered "a person to be at direct risk for STDs if he or
she had had two or more partners during the 12 months preceding the
interview" during one of their research studies.
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Unions versus Workers
Commuters face chaos during Calif.
train strike
OAKLAND, Calif. — Commuters in the San Francisco Bay Area got up before dawn Friday and endured heavy traffic on roadways, as workers for the region’s largest transit system walked off the job for the second time in four months.
OAKLAND, Calif. — Commuters in the San Francisco Bay Area got up before dawn Friday and endured heavy traffic on roadways, as workers for the region’s largest transit system walked off the job for the second time in four months.
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Count
Obama whoppers in debt-deal speech by Garth Kant
An
analysis of President Obama’s speech following his bitter battle with Congress
over the debt deal shows many of the
key facts he cited are seriously at odds with the public record.
The
president made a number of reflections on the ordeal Thursday morning,
including his thoughts on the damage done to the economy, the damage caused by
the prospect of a default, restoring civility to the political dialogue and the
state of Americans’ trust in government.
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Sarah
Palin Warns Obama of Impeachment! By Onan Coca
Isn’t this
why we grassroots conservatives love Governor Sarah Palin so much?
For the
last few months I have been fielding many of your emails to Eagle Rising, and
by far the questions asked most often are: Why isn’t anyone doing anything about (Blank)? Why hasn’t anyone
started impeachment proceedings? How is President Obama getting away with all
of these illegal actions?
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