<\/p>\n
News of the Week for May. 5th<\/sup>, 2013<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bravo, Gov. Brewer: New Arizona Law Requires Guns \u2018Bought Back\u2019 by Cities & Counties to Be Sold Again, Bans Destruction of Buyback Guns<\/a> High Capacity Magazine PSA<\/a><\/p>\n Docs Show Napolitano Thanked Missouri Governor For Breaking State Law<\/a> Status check on various gunmakers\u2019 flights from various states.<\/a> NRA\u2019s new liberty culture war not like the old culture war<\/a> Negative Feedbacks: What They Are, and Why They Are Important<\/a> Climate Craziness of the Week: Climate Change turns women into hookers?<\/a> Russian Scientists say period of global cooling ahead due to changes in the sun<\/a> The meteoric rise in Texas oil output continues and is one of the most remarkable energy success stories in US history<\/a> The U.S. Has Much, Much More Gas and Oil Than We Thought<\/a> CO2 sequestration research stumbles onto something useful: a big lithium strike in Wyoming<\/a> The tragedy of climatism: Resource misuse on a global scale<\/a> San Jose State University Meteorology decides burning books they don\u2019t agree with is better than reading them<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Botched ObamaCare rollout tops Democratic fears for 2014 election<\/a> <\/p>\n BOMBSHELL: Saudi Arabia warned the United States IN WRITING about Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2012, and rejected his application for an entry visa to visit Mecca in 2011<\/a> THREATS AGAINST BENGHAZI WHISTLEBLOWERS ALLEGED<\/a> Iran source: President Ahmadinejad arrested<\/a> Tsarnaev family received $100G in benefits<\/a> Chaffetz Suggests Some Whistleblowers \u2018Will Be Appearing\u2019 at Benghazi Hearing Next Week<\/a> Saudis\u2019 Boston warning<\/a> Additional Arrests In Boston Marathon Bombing<\/a> Syrian military site hit by fresh Israeli strike early Sunday<\/a> <\/p>\n Looters Target Homes Under Repair After Superstorm Sandy<\/a> 6 Months After Sandy: Many Recovered, Thousands Still Homeless<\/a> No One Wants to Buy Student Loan-backed Securities<\/a> Gov. Cuomo tells associates he would skip 2016 presidential race if Hillary Clinton runs<\/a> Top GOP Donors Launch Push for Gay Marriage: \u2018The Right Thing for the Country But Also Good Politics\u2019<\/a> Rand Paul, Hillary Clinton atop New Hampshire 2016 poll<\/a> “Protect Pregnant Women, Not Criminals\u2019”<\/a> Senator Durbin Defends Rallying with Communists and Anarchists<\/a><\/p>\n Swinging Colorado Back<\/a> Larry Flynt Endorses Mark Sanford \u2014 Because it Wasn\u2019t all Weird Enough<\/a> Irony: Daughter of Brutal Dictator to Receive Gay Rights Award in Philadelphia<\/a> Cruz 2016<\/a> Baby’s Head Found Inside Patient of Michigan Abortionist<\/a> Census Report Shocker<\/a> Threat to divest city funds from a Koch-owned LA Times likely unconstitutional<\/a> Local NBC Reporter Hilariously Denies Soviet Flags Present At May Day Rally: \u2018What Do They Represent?\u2019<\/a> Planned Parenthood Educational Material for Children<\/a> New Lawsuits Shine a Light on Pregnancy Discrimination<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Spain Is Beyond Doomed: The 2 Scariest Unemployment Charts Ever<\/a> Colorado lawmakers discussing marijuana-legalization repeal effort<\/a> EU sees deeper euro zone recession in 2013, slower deficit cuts<\/a> Las Vegas Housing: 8% of Single Family Homes Vacant, Yet New Construction Permits Up 50%<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 35% of Mexican adults would migrate to the United States<\/a><\/p>\n Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Job Ad – “Any Race Except Caucasian”<\/a> CBC is hiring!<\/a> Two Chinese kindergarten students die after rival school poisons yogurt<\/a> China Crosses ‘Line Of Actual Control’ With Stealth Invasion Of India<\/a> Rolling fistfight erupts in Venezuelan parliament over disputed election<\/a> How Japan\u2019s \u201cStealth Constitution\u201d Destroys Civil Rights and Sets the Stage for Dictatorship<\/a> Egypt’s Ticking Population Bomb<\/a> Local elections: Nigel Farage hails UKIP’s ‘remarkable’ results<\/a> Brighton Council adopts new ‘MX’ title for its transgender population<\/a> The old order is dying. We are living in the age of Farage<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Desegregation, before Brown<\/a> Billionaire Tom Steyer — the ‘Liberal Analogue of the Koch Brothers’ — Is the Latest Bloomberg or Buffett<\/a> Class warfare for Republicans<\/a> GOP Finally Engages Mommy Blogs<\/a> The Real Problems With Psychiatry<\/a> How the Koch Boys Could Save American Higher Education<\/a> Nicholas Jackson, Ghastly Little Fascist <\/a> The Triumph of Suburbia<\/a> NBC – “Charity is Bad” <\/a> ‘Hate Crime’ Hoaxes<\/a> Winning Hispanic vote would not be enough for GOP<\/a> \u201cRINO\u201d vs. \u201cModerate Republican\u201d<\/a> Hello, She Lied<\/a> Democracy\u2019s Death-by-Welfare<\/a> Waking the dragon \u2014 How Feinstein fiddled while America burned<\/a>\n
<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nYesterday, Gov. Jan Brewer signed a bill into law requiring cities and counties with gun-buyback programs to sell the weapons. They are prohibited from destroying the buyback guns, as many of them were doing. The bill had cleared the state Senate earlier in April by an 18-12 vote, and the state House approved it last month.<\/p>\n
\nMissouri Governor Jay Nixon repeatedly denied knowing anything about Missouri illegally sharing its citizens private CCW information with the federal government, even after his own head of Missouri Highway Patrol contradicted him in a public hearing. Now we\u2019ve learned that Nixon not only knew about the violation of Missouri law, but he was thanked in a letter by Janet Napolitano<\/p>\n
\nLet\u2019s look at the practical results of gun control, shall we? Three states have recently signed into law some hefty gun control laws; what were the results?<\/p>\n
\nThe NRA seems to be broadening the issue of gun control into a broader culture war issue. But it doesn\u2019t seem to be the old religious\/moral culture war, it\u2019s more a liberty culture war.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nCarbon dioxide does influence the Earth\u2019s climate, but it is just one variable among a great many, and its impact is small. Scientists agree that if you double the CO2 in the atmosphere, it will cause an increase in the Earth\u2019s temperature of around one degree Celsius. Nearly all scientists also agree that an increase of that magnitude would be good, not bad, for humans.<\/p>\n
\nReally? I guess this explains Mary Magdalene during the Roman Warm Period.<\/p>\n
\nRussia\u2019s Pulkovo Observatory: \u201cwe could be in for a cooling period that lasts 200-250 years\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe Energy Information Administration released new US crude oil production data today for the month of February by state, and one of the highlights of the monthly update is that oil output in America\u2019s No. 1 oil-producing state \u2013 Texas \u2013 continues its phenomenal, meteoric rise. Here are some details of oil output in \u201cSaudi Texas\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe United States has double the amount of oil and three times the amount of natural gas than previously thought, stored deep under the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana, according to new data the Obama administration released Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\nMost lithium (the lightest metal) is now mined in the Andes (image above), but it looks like the U.S. has more than a little of it too: [T]he Rock Springs Uplift\u2019s 18 million tons of potential lithium reserves is equivalent to roughly 720 years of current global lithium production.<\/p>\n
\nLast week, 13 members of the House of Representatives introduced a resolution \u201crecognizing the disparate impact of climate change on women.\u201d The resolution implied that man-made climate change was responsible for impacts on global women, stating \u201cfood insecure women with limited socioeconomic resources may be vulnerable to situations such as sex work, transactional sex, and early marriage that put them at risk for HIV, STIs, unplanned pregnancy, and poor reproductive health.\u201d The resolution, however, ignores the real tragedy, which is the misguided policies to combat climate change.<\/p>\n
\nFrom the Fahrenheit 451 department comes this indictment of California\u2019s higher education\u2019s \u201ctolerance\u201d for opposing views. When I first got the tip on this, I thought to myself \u201cnobody can be this stupid to photograph themselves doing this\u201d but, here they are, right from the San Jose State University Meteorology Department web page<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nAnxious Democrats fear a botched implementation of ObamaCare could dash their hopes of controlling the House and Senate for President Obama\u2019s last two years in office.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nSaudis developed intelligence separately from Russia, which also warned the U.S. about the accused Boston bomber
\nA letter to the Department of Homeland Security named Tsarnaev and three Pakistanis as potential jihadis worthy of U.S. investigation
\nRed flags from Saudi Arabia included Tsarnaev’s name and information about a planned explosive attack on a major U.S. city
\nSaudi foreign minister, national security chief both met with Obama in the oval office in early 2013<\/p>\n
\nAt least four career officials at the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency have retained lawyers, or are in the process of doing so, as they prepare to provide sensitive information about the Benghazi attacks to Congress, Fox News has learned.<\/p>\n
\nTaken to secret location for 7 hours before released<\/p>\n
\nThe Tsarnaev family, including the suspected terrorists and their parents, benefited from more than $100,000 in taxpayer-funded assistance \u2014 a bonanza ranging from cash and food stamps to Section 8 housing from 2002 to 2012, the Herald has learned.<\/p>\n
\nUtah representative Jason Chaffetz suggested that whistleblowers with \u201cpersonal, firsthand knowledge\u201d of the 9\/11 attacks in Benghazi will speak at a congressional hearing next week. Fox News\u2019s Bill Hemmer pressed Chaffetz on whether these individuals would come out publicly for the first time at the recently announced hearing. \u201cI think they will be appearing,\u201d Chaffetz said, \u201csome of them, some of them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTold US last year<\/p>\n
\nReport: Charges Are For Aiding AFTER The Fact<\/p>\n
\nIsraeli official says target was an Iranian missile shipment; IDF declines to comment; rocket expert says Iranian Fatah-110 missiles would be \u2018game-changer\u2019 if they reached Hezbollah<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nSounds like this give shore residents hope that their homes will be repaired and rebuilt by the summer season after Superstorm Sandy ripped through here.<\/p>\n
\nSix months after Sandy ravaged the tri-state area, uprooting thousands of trees, decimating homes and submerging cities, many residents say life has mostly returned to normal, though for some, recovery from the deadly storm remains a painstaking process, and “life as normal” a far-away dream that may never be realized.<\/p>\n
\nWorried by reports of rising defaults, investors turned up their noses at a new $225 million bond issue by Sallie Mae, the federal agency that packages individual student loans into large securities. The loan company canceled the offering after two weeks on the market.<\/p>\n
\nCuomo quietly \u2018concedes\u2019 2016 race<\/p>\n
\nIn the wake of the 2012 election, many Republican strategists have concluded they simply cannot win as long as they seem so \u201cpolarizing.\u201d One of the more contentious issues is gay marriage, with those on the left often accusing Republicans of being intolerant. But now, a national group of prominent GOP donors is pouring new money into lobbying efforts to get Republican lawmakers to vote to make gay marriage legal.<\/p>\n
\nSen. Rand Paul is the frontrunner in a hypothetical New Hampshire GOP primary, though Hillary Clinton would beat him in a general election after scoring a landslide victory in a Democratic primary if she jumped in, a new poll says.<\/p>\n
\nThat\u2019s the message actress Margaret Colin \u2014 you may remember her from Independence Day \u2014 delivers in a new video.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cColorado is no longer politically purple. Nope. These days it\u2019s somewhere between Air Force and Midnight on the blue scale.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nBecause things weren\u2019t weird enough in the special election for South Carolina\u2019s 1st District House seat, what with satirist Stephen Colbert\u2019s sister taking on the world\u2019s foremost Appalachian Trail hiker, now Hustler publisher Larry Flynt has entered the picture.<\/p>\n
\nLaughably, the so-called Equality Forum is giving an award to the daughter and niece of brutal dictator\u2019s who offer zero rights to their own people. Talk about tone deaf. But it\u2019s a gay award or something, and that\u2019s all that matter these days.<\/p>\n
\nThe freshman senator is considering a run for president.<\/p>\n
\nA Michigan abortionist whose clinic was shut down in 2012 faces allegations from a doctor who found a severed infant’s head inside the body of one of his patients.<\/p>\n
\nThe issue of “who’s minding the kids” is now taking back seat to “who is having the kids.” The just-released Census Bureau Report, “Social and Economic Characteristics of Currently Unmarried Women With a Recent Birth, 2011,” (SECCUM) describes for the first time the demographic details of non-marital childbearing — and it is not a pretty picture.<\/p>\n
\nThreats by members of the Los Angeles City Council to use the city\u2019s pension funds to penalize investors if they sell the Los Angeles Times to Charles and David Koch could be illegal and unconstitutional, experts say.<\/p>\n
\nWhile covering a May Day rally in Manhattan\u2019s Union Square on Wednesday, NBC New York reporter Ida Siegal was cornered and asked if her network planned to show the communist imagery the protesters were displaying. Hilarity ensued when Siegal immediately became defensive, denying she had seen any communist imagery and asking of the \u201cHammer-and-Sickle\u201d flags: \u201cWhat do they represent?\u201d<\/p>\n
\nSome moonbattery is too tasteless even for the left-wing degenerates comprising the \u201cmainstream\u201d media \u2014 even if it is subsidized with our tax dollars and force-fed to 10-year-olds<\/p>\n
\nStephanie Stewart, an honors student at the Borough of Manhattan Community College on an academic scholarship, was due to deliver her son before the end of the spring semester in 2012. She needed some accommodations because she would not be able to attend every session of her women\u2019s studies class. Stewart figured her professor would be understanding\u2014it was a women\u2019s studies class.<\/p>\n<\/a>Economy
\n& Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nThis is what a permanent underclass looks like.<\/p>\n
\nA proposal that could lead to the repeal of marijuana legalization in Colorado has gained momentum at the state Capitol.<\/p>\n
\nThe euro zone economy will contract by more than expected this year and budget deficits will decline more slowly, the European Commission said on Friday as it set out forecasts for the next two years.<\/p>\n
\nIf there is any market that demonstrates the complete and total misallocation of capital that results from Banana Ben Bernanke\u2019s money printing and artificially low interest rate policy, it the latest phony American housing bubble.<\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\n“The ad calls for audition submissions for a male host between 23-35 years of age and not white for the “Kids’ CBC” programming block. Yahoo’s Matthew Coutts tweeted that the new host is to appear with CBC puppet “Mamma Yamma” and personality Patty Sullivan.”<\/p>\n
\nSo does this also mean \u201cno Irish\u201d need apply?<\/p>\n
\nChinese state media say two girls have died after eating poisoned yogurt placed outside their kindergarten at the direction of the head of a rival school.<\/p>\n
\nWhether this is just a ‘misunderstanding’ or a land-grab to make up for Japan’s Senkaku actions, the Indians are claiming that a platoon of Chinese soldiers have crossed the so-called ‘Line of Actual Control’ in the Indian-held Ladakh region.<\/p>\n
\nBrawl erupts after opposition members are banned from speaking until they accept Nicol\u00e1s Maduro as president<\/p>\n
\nIf there was ever a clear sign that the leadership of Japan is fully aware that the country is about enter a terminal economic catastrophe this is it. Using the cover of currency devaluation and a rising stock market, Japan\u2019s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, is attempting to make it easier to change the country\u2019s constitution so that they can eliminate freedom of speech and set the stage for a military dictatorship.<\/p>\n
\nA rapidly rising population is not inherently a sign of trouble. But Egypt has clearly tumbled into a Malthusian trap. Once a major agricultural exporter, Egypt ranks now as the world’s largest importer of wheat. A surge in world wheat prices after 2006 lead to economic crisis in Egypt, where deeply subsidized bread has become a cherished social entitlement.<\/p>\n
\nUKIP leader Nigel Farage has hailed gains in council elections across England as “remarkable” for the party.<\/p>\n
\n‘Mx’, short for ‘Mixter’, is a gender neutral title
\nCouncil’s policy committee approved plan yesterday
\nMove follows report into services for trans people<\/p>\n
\nIf something can’t go on forever it won’t. This is the bitter lesson the Coalition has learned today, and will again next year at the European elections. Some of us have been predicting this for some time but I think even the most optimistic among us have been surprised by the suddenness of the change. In the space of half a year, Ukip have gone from being the party of the protest vote to the revolutionary force which threatens to transform the British political scene almost beyond recognition.<\/p>\n<\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n
\nBarry Goldwater and the forgotten campaign in Phoenix<\/p>\n
\nThe newest celebrity in the liberal universe is billionaire Tom Steyer. In a story headlined “The Wrath of a Green Billionaire,” Bloomberg Businesweek reporter Joshua Green explained he\u2019s hailed as \u201ca liberal analogue of the conservative Koch brothers, the billionaire owners of Koch Industries, whose lavish support of free-market causes and political ruthlessness loom large in the liberal imagination<\/p>\n
\nThere\u2019s nothing fundamentally unRepublican about class warfare. After all, the party \u2013 led by what was then called Radical Republicans \u2013 waged a very successful war against the old slave-holding aristocracy; there\u2019s nothing to be ashamed of in that conquest. Republicans under Abraham Lincoln also pushed for greater landownership through such things as the Homestead Act, which supplied 160 acres of federal land to aspiring settlers.<\/p>\n
\nSome make fun of the niche, but it\u2019s an influential and driving force in marketing. The GOP has finally figured this out and engaged the mommy blog community, albeit ten-plus years after its explosion.<\/p>\n
\nA psychotherapist contends that the DSM, psychiatry’s “bible” that defines all mental illness, is not scientific but a product of unscrupulous politics and bureaucracy.<\/p>\n
\nCharles and David Koch are reportedly interested in buying the Tribune Company’s eight newspapers, including The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and The Baltimore Sun. According to The New York Times, this is less about making a profit than acquiring a platform to extol the brothers’ laissez-faire ideas. Current estimates put the price tag at about $623 million (privately owned Koch Industries have annual revenues of about $115 billion).<\/p>\n
\nToday\u2019s Ghastly Little Fascist award goes to one Nicholas Jackson, the \u201cdigital director of Pacific Standard.\u201d This afternoon, Jackson, who \u201chas also worked for The Atlantic, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Texas Monthly, Slate, and other publications, both online and in print\u201d \u2014 and thus should presumably know better \u2014 took without irony to his new online home to argue against the free-speech rights of people he doesn\u2019t like.<\/p>\n
\nThe \u201csilver lining\u201d in our five-years-and-running Great Recession, we\u2019re told, is that Americans have finally taken heed of their betters and are finally rejecting the empty allure of suburban space and returning to the urban core.<\/p>\n
\nApparently, to the intellectual vapor-weights at NBC, Government Welfare is good, but private charity is bad. That is the only take-away I can get from this piece about the West, TX fertilizer plant explosion. You see, since Texas is a low tax, low spending, low regulation state, most of the victims of the blast are having to *gasp* rely on relatives, friends, and their community to get back on their feet.<\/p>\n
\nWhy are they so common, especially on campus?<\/p>\n
\nAfter six months of mulling over November’s election results, many Republicans remain convinced that the party’s only path to future victory is to improve the GOP’s appeal to Hispanic voters. But how many Hispanic voters do Republicans need to attract before the party can again win the White House?<\/p>\n
\nIn case you haven\u2019t noticed, there is a battle going on, and I\u2019m not talking about the \u201cwar on\u201d poverty, drugs, illiteracy or terror. The conflict I\u2019m talking about is taking place within the Republican Party. In the wake of Mitt Romney\u2019s disappointing loss to arguably the worst President in U.S. history, \u201cConstitutional Conservatives\u201d, \u201dSocial Conservatives\u201d, \u201cFiscal Conservative\/Social Liberals\u201d, \u201cLibertarians\u201d, \u201cModerates\u201d and \u201cRINO\u2019s\u201d are all beating the hell out of each other\u2026and they\u2019re doing so in public forums, much to the amusement of the Democrats. I want to address the latter two factions for now, but I\u2019ll discuss some o
\nSix months after Sandy ravaged the tri-state area, uprooting thousands of trees, decimating homes and submerging cities, many residents say life has mostly returned to normal, though for some, recovery from the deadly storm remains a painstaking process, and “life as normal” a far-away dream that may never be realized.f the others in future posts.<\/p>\n
\nIn a better world, the horrible travails of the Duke lacrosse team would have led colleges and universities across the country to do more to protect young men from having their reputations destroyed and their lives ruined by false accusations of sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n
\nIs our political regime fated to whither away? Are political regimes fated to decay and die away, as everything in nature is?<\/p>\n
\nAlong with bombs and bombers, guns seem to be all the media wants to talk about these days. Death is sexy to our miscreant media, especially when people are killed on purpose. And when that happens, it\u2019s all the newspapers and news stations will print and broadcast, in turn making these events appear worse than they are in reality.<\/p>\n