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Apparently “Please call me Senator” Barbara Boxer has a problem with natty dressed townhallers who chose to exercise their rights to debate and disagree with her or any administration regarding health care. So let me remind you Senator Boxer that we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree. Following is Boxer demonizing citizens that she disagrees with. (see.58sec. video) Boxer does her flat out best to disparage hundreds of citizens who were motivated by nothing more than their opposition to her Party’s attempted trek into socialized medicine. The same plan that Democrats are proposing for America...

WATCH THIS ONE! Should be at link later.

Dang .. hallelujah! Harry C. Alford is awesome!!! MUST hear !Alford Interview Video * * * Black Chamber head slams Boxer words as 'racial,' 'condescending' and 'God awful' The President and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) tore into Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) Thursday for what he said were "condescending" and "God awful" racial statements at a hearing. NBCC head Harry C. Alford took strong exception to Boxer having referenced an NAACP report favoring climate change legislation during a hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, of which Boxer is the chairwoman. "Madam chair, that...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday defended her integrity and honesty as she clashed with senators about the Bush administration's justification for the Iraq war and its exit strategy. Testifying at her U.S. Senate confirmation hearing Rice was questioned about the number of U.S. troops sent to Iraq, the adequacy of Iraqi forces being trained to replace them and the failure to find weapons of mass destruction that were the Bush administration's central justification for the war. Rice, whose confirmation as the first black woman secretary of state is all but assured, vowed to press diplomacy...

Budget Balanced on Faulty Figures As election neared, state leaders ignored warning signs of a faltering economy and made erroneous assumptions about future revenue. By Jeffrey L. Rabin Times Staff Writer February 23, 2003 Last August, Gov. Gray Davis and members of the Legislature were in a bind: The state budget was two months late, election day was fast approaching and they still had a gap of more than $10 billion to fill. Rather than confront the magnitude of that challenge, however, California's elected leaders resorted to budget tricks, ignored evidence that the economy was faltering and made false assumptions...

The frequent flyers of Capitol Hill seemed to have made a very large mess of the security program at airports. Only overpaid politicians can think this stuff up -- and keep a straight face while admitting it. The liberty of every traveler is abused, but is security any better? Not hardly. According to the USA Today a few weeks ago: "Checkpoint screeners at 32 of the nation's largest airports failed to detect fake weapons -- guns, dynamite or bombs -- in almost a quarter of undercover tests by the Transportation Security Administration last month." In another article, USA Today reported:...

May 31, 2002 by: John Stewart An independent group recreation advocates has been investigating the California Wilderness Coalition (CWC) and their involvement with the California Wild Heritage Act of 2002 proposed by Senator Boxer, D-CA. Initially exposed was conflict of interest on the part of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) employees and CWC that involves the misuse of the USGS logo and official titles of employees on a lobbying letter to California Governor Gray Davis. In that letter, dated 30 April 2001, a group of individuals claiming to be “scientists” signed a letter to Governor Davis advocating support for habitat...

Legislative Alerts and Updates • Current Legislation • Key Votes • Capitol Hill Basics Action Alert The UN opposes Mother's Day!Tell the Senate to REJECT the UN's CEDAW! Enjoy this year's Mother's Day. According to the Family Research Council (frc.org), if the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has its way, the annual celebration will be our last. Not only does the committee overseeing implementation of CEDAW argue to legalize prostitution, it also discourages motherhood in an attempt to level every kind of distinction between men and women at every level...

Senate Left Pushes Intrusive U.N. Treaty Wes Vernon, NewsMax.comThursday, June 6, 2002 NEWSMAX.COM - WASHINGTON A United Nations treaty seeks to impose world government-style authority over the personal affairs of all Americans. The so-called Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is scheduled for a hearing next week, to be conducted by far-left Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. This is yet another U.N. treaty that would meddle in personal matters that are none of its business. Originally signed by Jimmy Carter in 1979, it was never ratified by the Senate, although the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, just a few...

Wilderness Bill ProposedLegislation: Sen. Boxer seeks to add 2.5 million acres to state's highly protected public land. Opposition is expected. By BETTINA BOXALL TIMES STAFF WRITER May 11 2002 Another 2.5 million acres of public land in California would receive federal wilderness protection under legislation proposed by U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer--potentially the third-largest such addition in the state since passage of the Wilderness Act nearly 40 years ago. The wilderness bill, which Democrat Boxer plans to introduce next week in the Senate, would ban logging, construction and motorized vehicles in 77 areas of the state, ranging from the North...

A top California regulator told Congress today that the Enron Corporation engaged in sham transactions in late 2000 that drove up electricity prices and helped worsen the energy crisis that plagued the West for more than a year. Testifying to a subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee, Loretta Lynch, president of the California Public Utilities Commission, said regulators had studied Enron's actions in the fourth quarter of 2000 and had determined that five subsidiaries traded large volumes of electricity contracts among themselves in an effort to push up prices. Ms. Lynch said the effect of the trading was to set...