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THE GOP COMPASS MUST POINT IN ONE DIRECTION: OBAMA'S DEFEAT PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 23, February 4, 2012
THE LOONEY TUNES VERSION OF THE GOP CAMPAIGN
By Alan Caruba
I have begun to think of the Republican presidential campaign as a series of Looney Tunes cartoons being replayed again and again. They are filled with a combination
of laughs and the fantastical, self-defeating violence of Wily Coyote trying to catch the Roadrunner.
As the primary season moves along, I sometimes think that far too many Republicans have temporarily lost their minds. Three years of Barack Hussein Obama will do
that to you.
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EPA'S FLAWED RULES MUST BE CHALLENGED & REVERSED PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 22, February 3, 2012
AGENDA-DRIVEN "SCIENCE" AT THE EPA:
Newly Proposed Air Pollution Rules Impose
Exhorbitant Costs For Illusory Health Benefits
By Dr. Willie Soon & Paul K. Driessen
It has become increasingly obvious that EPA’s real goal is to assert its authority over ever-increasing segments of our economy; reinterpret medical and scientific
studies to fit its regulatory agenda; and replace as many coal-fired power plants as possible with costly, unreliable renewable energy systems.
American voters, elected officials, and courts need to challenge these radical, unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats, demand an end to EPA’s distortion of science
and reality – and reverse these flawed rules.
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EGYPT'S MILITARY REGIME BLAMING ITS OWN VIOLENT ACTS ON THE U.S.A. PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 21, February 2, 2012
U.S.A. ACCUSED OF RUNNING OVER EGYPTIANS
By Raymond Ibrahim
There is absolutely no truth to reports that U.S. Embassy employees or diplomats in Egypt were involved in hit-and-run incidents using U.S. diplomatic vehicles,
injuring or killing protestors in January, 2011, in Cairo. There is also no truth to statements alleging that the keys inside U.S. diplomatic vehicles are coded and
can only be used by U.S. Embassy employees. On January 28, 2011, a number of U.S. Embassy vehicles were stolen. After these vehicles were stolen,
there were reports of the vehicles being used in violent and criminal acts.
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NO COMPELLING SCIENTIFIC ARGUMENT FOR REDUCTION OF ATMOSPHERIC CO2 PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 20, January 30, 2012
SIGNING GLOBAL WARMING'S CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
By Alan Caruba
It has taken a very long time for most of the public to come to the conclusion that they have been the object of an elaborate hoax. America polls demonstrate that
global warming is at the very bottom of their concerns these days. In time, wind and solar power, electric cars, biofuels, and other environmentalist delusions will
join that list.
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THE EROSION OF AMERICA'S COMMON VALUES SINCE SINCE NOVEMBER, 1963 PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 19, January 29, 2012
THE NEW AMERICAN ELITE
By Alan Caruba
We have been the product of the cultural capital bequeathed to us by the system the Founders laid down -- a system that says people must be free to live life as
they see fit and to be responsible for the consequences of their actions; that it is not the government’s job to protect people from themselves; that it is not the
government’s job to stage-manage how people interact with one another. Discard the system that created the cultural capital, and the qualities we have loved
about Americans will go away.”
The system, of course, is free-market capitalism, deregulation, and lower marginal income tax rates -- all within the context of the U.S. Constitution. It is under
attack by the President of the United States and a cohort of civil service and industrial unions, along with Liberal members of Congress.
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A NEW BIOTECH DISCOVERY ENABLES FUEL ALCOHOL TO BE MADE FROM SEAWEED PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 18, Jan. 29, 2012
WILL SEAWEED BE THE BIOFUEL SOLUTION?
By Dennis T. Avery
Researchers may have broken the biofuel barrier. A new biotech discovery enables ethanol to be made from a common variety of brown seaweed. This would
by-pass the biggest problem with corn ethanol and biodiesel — the world’s shortage of cropland. The new ethanol process uses the familiar E coli bacterium
working on kombu, a variety of edible brown kelp, which is common in the world’s seas and oceans. It has been grown and harvested commercially by such
countries as China, Japan, and Korea for hundreds of years. If you like sushi, it is the brown wrapping on your favorites.
The new process can turn a mixture of kombu and water, with the E. coli added, into a solution of about 5 percent ethanol in two days. Distill the ethanol from
the water; put the water back into the ocean and “Voila”! Better yet, this happens at low temperatures, between 25 and 30 degrees Celsius. Thus the ethanol
can be produced without the use of additional costly energy — a big advantage over the current efforts to produce cost-effective ethanol from algae.
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THE DOE HAS NO TRACK RECORD OF POSITIVE ACCOMPLISHMENT PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 17, January 27, 2012
DO WE NEED THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION?
By Dr. Charles Murray
The case for the U.S. Department of Education could rest on one or more of three legs: its constitutional appropriateness, the existence of serious problems in
education that could be solved only at the federal level, and/or its track record since it came into being.
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OBAMA MAY WELL HAVE GROWN WEARY OF BEING U.S. PRESIDENT PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 16, January 25, 2012
DOES OBAMA WANT TO LOSE THE ELECTION? YES!
By Alan Caruba
It seems like a bizarre notion, but does Barack Obama want to lose the presidential election in November, 2012? I think he does!
One is struck by the way Obama has visibly aged in the job. He may well have grown weary being POTUS (President of the United States).
By any rational standard, one would say he wants a second term, but Obama has always operated in a fantasy world, where mere words are supposed to translate
into reality. And he has repeatedly talked about being a one-term President.
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OBAMA & THE DEMOCRATS DEVOTED TO ADVANCING THE LIBERAL AGENDA PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 15, January 25, 2012
THE DETERIORATING "STATE OF THE UNION" PARODY
By Christopher G. Adamo
The annual charade known as the “State of the Union Address” has clearly become the most telling example of everything that ever went awry within the U.S.
federal government over the past few decades. Compared to the constitutional premise on which the State of Union Address is based, the fraudulent and
politically tainted monstrosity presented to the Congress and the American people this week represented a total departure from its originally stated purpose.
Yet, it was typical of the rash of nanny state excesses obsessively advanced by the Obama regime.
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THE NEW POLITICAL REGIME IN EGYPT & HOW IT WAS CREATED PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 14, January 24, 2012
DON'T IGNORE ELECTORAL FRAUD IN EGYPT
By Daniel Pipes & Cynthia Farahat
When Egypt's legislative lower house, the People's Assembly, convened on January 23, 2012, Islamists held 360 out of its 498 seats, or 72 percent. This astounding
figure, however, reflects less the country's public opinion than it does a ploy by the ruling military leadership to remain in power.
In a recent article ("Egypt's Sham Election," December 6, 2011) we argued that, just as Anwar El-Sadat and Hosni Mubarak in the past "tactically empowered Islamists
as a foil to gain Western support, arms, and money," so do Mohamed Tantawi and his Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) "still play this tired old game."
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OBAMA'S "ENERGY POLICY" GUARANTEES ECONOMIC DISASTER PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 13, January 21, 2012
DESTROYING AMERICA BY DENYING ACCESS TO ENERGY
By Alan Caruba
It is the crime of the century that America, home to some of the world’s greatest reserves of coal, natural gas and oil, is being deliberately destroyed by the
Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior as they do everything in their power to restrict access and drive energy producers out
of business.
It is common sense that a nation that cannot produce sufficient electricity to turn on its lights and power its manufacturing sector will be destroyed, if current
Obama administration regulations and actions continue. Our vital transportation sector and all others that utilize petroleum-based products will suffer, too.
While President Obama babbles about millionaires and billionaires, everyone will be impoverished by the loss of jobs and revenue our energy sector produces
now and can produce in the future.
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NATURAL GAS, ELECTRICITY, & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 12, January 20, 2012
TIME TO LAUNCH A NEW ERA IN AFRICA:
Instead of More Foreign Aid, Africa Needs
Self-Initiative & Energy & Economic Development
By Cyril Boynes, Jr.
The modern world runs on electricity. It’s time for Africa to take its rightful place among the healthy and prosperous nations of the world. Africa's growing supplies
of natural gas could help make that happen.
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THE FUTURE OF WIND TURBINES & WIND ENERGY PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 11, January 18, 2012
CHARLES MANSION ENERGY:
It's Time to Apply Endangered Species, Wildlife,
& Economic Laws Fairly & Equitably
By Paul K. Driessen
Put bluntly, wind energy is unsustainable. It kills unconscionable numbers of bats, raptors, and other birds. It requires billions in perpetual subsidies – and
billions more for (mostly) gas-fired backup generators. It impacts millions of acres of scenic, wildlife, and agricultural land – and depends on vast amounts of
raw materials, whose extraction and processing further impairs global land, air, and water quality. Its expensive, unreliable electricity kills two jobs for every
one supposedly created.
A far more rational public policy would cut out the costly, unreliable middleman. It would forget about wind turbines, simply build more gas, coal and nuclear
generators, to generate reliable, affordable, sustainable electricity – and apply the same economic and environmental laws fairly and equitably to all energy
sources.
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ARAB IMMIGRATION INTO ISRAEL -- THREAT TO ISRAELI SECURITY & SURVIVAL PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 10, January 17, 2012
ENDING THE PALESTINIAN "RIGHT OF RETURN"
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
Between 1967 and 1993, just a few hundred Palestinians from the West Bank or Gaza won the right to live in Israel by marrying Israeli Arabs (who constitute nearly
one-fifth of Israel's population) and acquiring Israeli citizenship. Then the Oslo Accords offered a little-noted family-reunification provision that turned this trickle
into a river: 137,000 residents of the Palestinian Authority (PA) moved to Israel in 1994-2002, some of them engaged in either sham or polygamous marriages.
Israel has two major reasons to fear this uncontrolled immigration.
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WHAT BINDS TOGETHER THE FINANCIAL PROBLEMS OF THE U.S.A. & THE WEST PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 9, January 17, 2012
THE U.S.A. IS ON A SUICIDE WATCH
By Alan Caruba
The United States of America, the greatest engine of wealth the world has ever seen, is bankrupt. The U.S. national debt exceeds the Gross Domestic Product, the
sum total of all revenue generated by goods and services.
The President has asked that the debt ceiling be raised another trillion or so, and Congress will comply. That, I submit, is insane.
I also submit that, since Barack Obama was sworn into office on January 20, 2009, the nation has been witness to the economic insanity personified in the man and
in the Democratic Party-controlled Congress that was his partner until 2010, when the control of the U.S. House of Representatives was wrested away by the Tea
Party movement and its support for Republican candidates.
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THE HISTORY LESSON THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA IS IGNORING PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 8, January 15, 2012
PRESIDENT OBAMA WEAKENS U.S. MILITARY
By Alan Caruba
“Si vis pacem, para bellum.” If you want peace, prepare for war. The adage is attributed to the 4th or 5th Century Latin author Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus’s tract
De Re Militari, Book 3. This fundamental wisdom is being ignored by President Barack Obama, one of two recent U.S. Commanders-in-Chief who never spent
a day in uniform, let alone under fire.
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RICK SANTORUM'S VERSION OF AMERICAN CONSERVATISM PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 7, January 12, 2012
DEBUNKING THE MYTH OF SANTORUM'S "BIG GOVERNMENT CONSERVATISM"
By Christopher G. Adamo
Rick Santorum is no advocate of the “big government” that confiscates private property and redistributes it in the name of “social justice.” Yet, he understands that
government must be “big enough” to fulfill its constitutional role, if the nation is to survive and flourish. Many of his critics are wailing and gnashing teeth over the
dismal path the nation has recently taken. Yet they stubbornly refuse to admit that no shortcuts exist by which it can be restored.
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A RABIDLY ANTI-ISRAELI & PRO-ARAB PROPAGANDIST AT UCLA RETIRES PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 6, January 10, 2012
FAREWELL TO UCLA'S SONDRA HALE
By Cinnamon Stillwell
The rabidly anti-Israel University of California, Los Angeles, Anthropology and Women's Studies Professor Sondra Hale has retired. Her list of dubious achievements
is long, and, over the years, Campus Watch has chronicled a good number of them.
UCLA now has an opportunity to make amends for Hale's years of agitprop and politicization of her discipline by filling her position with someone who will pursue
disinterested, rigorous scholarship.
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OBAMA RUNNING FOR REELECTION AGAINST AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONALISM PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 5, January 7, 2012
BARACK MACHIAVELLI
By Alan Caruba
The Founding Fathers, authors of the Constitution of the United States of America, were obsessed with any form of government that could become too powerful, too
willing to use force to oppress citizens. They had cause. They had fought a long war against the greatest major world power of their age, the British Empire, which
was ruled by a king with nearly absolute power. America's Founders fashioned an instrument of government which was designed to ensure that the U.S. President
could not rule by edict and which defused power among the three branches of the U.S. national government -- legislative, executive, and judicial -- and between the
national government and the semi-autonomous member-states of the American federal union, the United States of America.
We have a U.S. President currently running for reelection against Congress, Wall Street, Republicans, and the right of citizens to be free of an overly intrusive
government.
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HOW THE EPA OPERATES: IT LIES ALL THE TIME, SPREADING PROPAGANDA PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 4, January 5, 2012
EPA'S KILLER MACT
By Alan Caruba
To understand how the Environmental Protection Agency operates, one must first understand that it lies all the time. Its “estimates” are bogus. Its claims of lives
saved are bogus.
It thrives on scare-mongering to a public that is science-challenged, but the science remains and the EPA must be challenged to save the nation from the loss of
the energy it needs to function. It must be challenged to unleash the huge economic benefits of energy resources — coal, oil, and natural gas — that can reverse
our present economic decline.
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ROMNEY AS THE "CENTRIST" CONTENDER FOR THE GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 3, Jan 5, 2012
THE REAL IOWA CAUCUS WINNER: "NOT ROMNEY!"
By Christopher G. Adamo
In a fitting epilogue to Mitt Romney’s eight-vote “victory” over Rick Santorum in the Iowa caucus, the former Massachusetts Governor has received an endorsement
from Senator John McCain (Republican - Arizona), who some might remember as the 2008 “Republican” presidential nominee. Such a ringing affirmation from a politician
who epitomizes every negative aspect of the Republican “Establishment” will eventually do Romney more harm than good. Yet, he is not likely to perceive it that way.
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A SUCCESSFUL SOUTH SUDAN COULD BECOME A VALUED ALLY OF THE WEST PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 2, January 3, 2012
SOUTH SUDAN -- ISRAEL'S NEW ALLY
By Daniel Pipes
It's not every day that the leader of a brand-new country makes his maiden foreign voyage to Jerusalem, capital of the most besieged country in the world, but Salva
Kiir, President of South Sudan, accompanied by his Foreign and Defense Ministers, did just that in late December, 2011. Israel's President Shimon Peres hailed his
visit as a "moving and historic moment." The visit spurred talk of South Sudan locating its Embassy in Jerusalem, making it the only government anywhere in the
world to do so.
This unusual development results from an unusual story.
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THE ADVANTAGES OF GRIDLOCK IN AMERICAN POLITICS & GOVERNMENT PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 1, January 1, 2012
HOW NOT TO GO CRAZY IN 2012
By Alan Caruba
Election years tend to create a level of frenzy concerning the selection of the nominees and the outcome. The media feed this in order to keep readers reading
and viewers viewing. The history of American elections has always been one of vituperation between the parties, so there is nothing new about this. Indeed,
since so much depends on it, the political free-for-all is a healthy exercise.
It can, however, make for a difficult environment in which to go about one’s life; the air filled with charge and counter-charge, polls going up and down, and a
general sense that something is very wrong with the way the government functions.
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