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img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3405" title="van-jones31" src="http://newsrealblog.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/van-jones311.jpg?w=300" alt="van-jones31" width="300" height="294" /> This video clip should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed NewsReal's coverage of "Green Jobs czar" Van Jones here, here, here, here, and here. And be sure and read John Perazzo's definitive analysis here.

How market capitalism saved the Jewish state The most precious resource in the world economy is human genius, which we may define as the ability to devise significant inventions that enhance survival and prosperity. At any one time, genius is embodied in just a few score thousand people, a creative minority that accounts for most human accomplishment and wealth. Cities and nations rise and thrive when they welcome entrepreneurial and technical genius; when they overtax, criminalize, or ostracize it, they wither.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2, 2009 – More than one in 10 employees of the Ohio Department of Public Safety is a member of the National Guard or reserves. So when citizen-soldiers on staff are called to active duty and asked to trade their civilian attire for a military uniform -- as 155 currently are -- the department also fulfills its obligation to the country -- and then some. As is the case with all law-abiding civilian employers, the Ohio Department of Public Safety, or ODPS, promises to keep servicemembers’ jobs in place until they return. But the Columbus-based ODPS also goes...

BP has made a "giant" oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico after drilling the deepest known oil well in the world. The prospect, named Tiber, is believed to contain more than 3bn barrels of oil – making it a greater find than BP's Kaskida field in the region three years ago. Sources close to BP said that within the next 10 to 15 years the Tiber and Kaskida finds could increase production by 50pc in the Gulf of Mexico. Transocean, the US offshore rig company, said the Tiber well drilled more than 35,055 feet (10,685m) into the Earth about...

Should we greatly expand the federal government's role in regulating and providing health care for all Americans? As his fading poll numbers show, President Obama is having trouble getting us to yes on that question. He seems to be backpedaling from the so-called public option by the minute. And now he's facing a potential foe even more powerful and unpredictable than Congress: swine flu.

Michael Moore and Oprah: 'A Love Story'? September 2, 2009 When it comes to the most eagerly anticipated movie showing at next week's Toronto Film Festival, the hands-down winner has to be Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story." Arriving 20 years after the debut of "Roger & Me," it is being billed as Moore's magnum opus on the horrific impact of corporate dominance on the lives of everyday Americans, which means that the film should spark a conflagration of debate between Moore's always ferocious advocates and detractors. But when I called Overture Films, which is releasing the film later this...

It took $833.69, a total of 15 hours 50 minutes, four trips to the Metropolitan Police Department, two background checks, a set of fingerprints, a five-hour class and a 20-question multiple-choice exam. Oh, and the votes of five Supreme Court justices. They're the ones who really made it possible for me, as a District resident, to own a handgun, a constitutional right as heavily debated and rigorously parsed as the freedoms of speech and religion. Just more than a year ago, by a 5-to-4 decision, the court struck down the District's three-decades-old outright ban on handguns -- the most restrictive...

“The People” are speaking up like never before. Town halls, protests, Tea Parties; the American people are voicing their displeasure with the way things are going in Washington. We do not want government run health care, cap and trade, exorbitant spending and a host of other things this current crop of statist politicians are attempting to impose on us. We assume that because we have voiced our opposition so loudly and we live in a representative republic, our representatives must listen to us. After all, they work for us, right? Not really. We know that the vast majority of politicians...

Sociobiology has long been a sore spot for the Left, and with good reason. Our fundamental traits have a firm biological basis, shaped as they are by complex gene-environment interactions. And the more we discover how firmly ingrained our abilities, attitudes, and behaviors tend to be, the less plausible leftist social-intervention programs become. No biological trait threatens that agenda more than intelligence. With standard IQ tests, we can measure and rank people on a continuum, allowing us to make reasonable predictions about their success in life. Granted, a good IQ score is not the whole story of a person’s life—not...

Doing business in China is getting harder, not easier, according to European businesses, as they laid out almost 600 pages of complaints in a new report. The report, from the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, covers the whole gamut of the Chinese economy, from industrial chemicals to mobile phones to banking. It paints a troubling picture of the Chinese business landscape, filled with discrimination against foreign companies, arbitrary laws and regulations, and abuses of China's World Trade Organisation obligations. Although China has repeatedly complained about protectionism in the United States and Europe, the report suggests that China is...

Did he jump or was he pushed? That's the easy question. Bishop Joseph Martino was pushed into resignation at the age of 63. No intelligent observer can credit the official explanation: that Bishop Martino retired because of health problems. The outgoing bishop openly acknowledged to reporters that he "clearly" was not suffering from any grave illness. Clearly Bishop Martino was under a great deal of pressure, and therefore it is not difficult to believe that he suffered from insomnia and fatigue: the only medical complaints that were mentioned in the press conference announcing his departure. But while those are serious...

So, I posted up some of those RIP-The US Constitution signs around UW-Milwaukee, and I will see how long they remain up. Also, I asked around campus and showed students the sign. Most thought the statement was controversial. Also, I learned that the UWM Student Association president is a member of Students for a Democratic (Communist) Society. He has been accused of trying to rewrite the UWM student constitution. The conservatives on this campus have got to change this. Link to story

Representative Bobby Bright says you are an extremist that doesn't matter.

Is this the future of America. The UK Telegraph is reporting. that doctors in the UK are being forced to speed up the dying process In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, a group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death. Under NHS guidance introduced across England to help doctors and medical staff deal with dying patients, they can then have fluid and drugs withdrawn and many are put on continuous sedation until they pass away. But this approach can also mask the signs that their condition...

  I am reading St. Augustine's Confessions these days, for the second or third time. The whole thing is a great antidote for all that is confused and squalid about our own epoch, but more particularly for the sloth and folly that marks one's own inner being.   The book itself is an astonishing thing. You find this out in the first line. It is an autobiography, to be sure, and there are thousands of them. But this one astonishes us because the whole thing is addressed to God. It is a prayer. When you come to think of...

Right blasts Obama speech to students President Barack Obama's plans for a televised back-to-school address to students next week are drawing fire from some conservatives, who say he's just trying to indoctrinate them to his political beliefs. In the Sept. 8 speech, Obama will challenge students to work hard, set goals for their education and take responsibility for their learning, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a letter to principals. The Education Department is encouraging teachers to create lesson plans around the speech, using materials provided on the department website, that urge students to learn about Obama and other presidents....

WASHINGTON -- It’s no surprise that former Vice President Dick Cheney is opposed to the Justice Department’s decision to investigate the torture of prisoners during the Bush-Cheney administration. After all, Cheney has acknowledged that he was "aware" of waterboarding (simulated drowning) of detainees to get them to talk. It’s fair speculation that the orders for this method of torture came from on high. And in the Bush-Cheney administration, no one was higher than the vice president. Cheney has blasted Attorney General Eric Holder’s appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate abuse of prisoners. The duty fell to veteran Connecticut lawyer...

Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), still facing the prospect of a tough re-election in 2010, has reversed her position on the public insurance option, saying Tuesday she will oppose the measure as a part of health care reform after previously expressing support for the policy, the Arkansas News reported. Lincoln’s vote on a health care reform bill could be key as the Senate Democratic leadership looks to build a coalition of 60 Senators to pass legislation without using reconciliation. Reconciliation is a budgetary tool that would allow Democrats to clear a bill with just 51 votes. “For some in my caucus,...