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Fact, fiction and the minimum wage January 28, 2014 22:16 Brian Lilley debunks the myth that a higher minimum wage is a good thing. Like many progressive ideas this one is sold to you not with facts, but with emotion, and it actually hurts the people it intends to help. The real story!

Up here in the not so frigid north we actually have a real conservative network (The Sun News Network). They have the best voice for conservatism In North America - Ezra Levant Here is a short segment from last night. What-is-a-human-right?

Singapore Income Tax System & Tax Rates Investors turn to Singapore for establishing their operations for several reasons. The ease of setting up and operating businesses is a prime motivator. Another central determinant is Singapore’s tax regime – well-known for its attractive corporate and personal tax rates, tax relief measures, absence of capital gains tax, one-tier tax system, and extensive double tax treaties. Persons, including corporations, partnerships, trustees and bodies of persons carrying on any trade, profession or business in Singapore are chargeable to tax on all profits (excluding profits arising from the sale of capital assets) arising in or...

OVERVIEW OF THE DAVIDIAN MASSACREby Carol Moore I was one of millions of Americans who, after seeing the April 19, 1993 burning of the Branch Davidian church outside of Waco, Texas wondered: Did these people really commit mass suicide, as the government alleged, despite the clear evidence on television that the fire started after a tank crashed into one part of the building? Were they really as insane as the government claimed? Why did they have to be attacked with massive, military-like force 51 days earlier? What is the truth? After two years of research I came to the following...

Article V of the Constitution spells out the processes by which amendments can be proposed and ratified. To Propose Amendments •In the U.S. Congress, both the House of Representatives and the Senate approve by a two-thirds supermajority vote, a joint resolution amending the Constitution. Amendments so approved do not require the signature of the President of the United States and are sent directly to the states for ratification. •Two-thirds of the state legislatures ask Congress to call a national convention to propose amendments. (This method has never been used.) To Ratify Amendments •Three-fourths of the state legislatures approve it, or...

The Best Video on Obama Yet

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Ontario Wait Times Provincial Summary In April 2008, the government announced that reducing wait times in emergency rooms and improving access to family health care are its two most important health care priorities over the next four years. Currently, 126 hospital sites across Ontario are submitting ER information to the National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS) for reporting on this website. This represents 90 percent of ER visits throughout the province. The amount of time a patient spends in the Emergency Room is referred to as “Total Time Spent in the ER” and is measured from the time patients register...

Simple Chemistry and the Real Greenhouse Effect. Truths: 1. Most of the Sun’s radiation that gets to the Earth’s lower atmosphere passes through substantially unabsorbed. 2. Most of the radiation is then absorbed on contact with the Earth’s surface. This includes the majority water and the minority land. 3. Most of the Earth’s surface is either water or moist vegetation. Most of the radiation from the sun is converted to infrared wavelengths at or near the surface. The water molecules absorb the infrared radiation causing increased vibration within the individual water molecules. This is converted into translational energy during intermolecular...

It's been quite some time since Fess Parker -- coonskin cap on head and long rifle in hand -- half-sung, half-yodelled the great anthem of Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier. Parker played the legendary frontiersman/congressman Crocket both on TV and in a feature film. He was also one of a number of singers who sent the song about Crockett onto the hit parade of the 1950s more than once. No question it's a song about a hero. We're told right in the first stanza that he was "born on a mountaintop," which is a pretty special way of...

This global-warming/climate-change stuff is a great racket. Over in England right now, they're locked in the jaws of a very early freeze-up. The roads are iced, the plows overworked, and people are angry. But there's a precious subset of the English population that are not enduring the frigid and premature torments of a northern winter. They're the climate-change activists, bureaucrats, politicians, puppeteers and NGOs -- the class of professional alarmists who've been banging on about global warming for close on two decades now. This bunch has exempted itself from the rigors of English November, traded their sackcloth and ashes for...

Sarah Palin Tweet HeyTammyBruce Liberals defended Shirley Sharrod, lecturing about importance of hearing statements "in context" For everyone except Dr Laura of course.

One gram of Carbon Dioxide heated at the surface by incident sunlight carries (2 * 539 = 1078) 1078 times less energy into the atmosphere than one gram of water. Carbon dioxide represents 0.0387 % of the atmosphere. Water in the lower atmosphere represents 1% to 4% or 25 to 100 times the amount of carbon dioxide. Combining the two statements above, Water is (25 * 1078 = 27,175) to (100 * 1078 = 108,700) times more responsible for greenhouse effect than carbon dioxide.

Posted: 02/ 04/ 07 8:08 am    Post subject: European Heat Wave 2003: A Global Perspective http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2007/01/31/european-heat-wave-2003-a-global-perspective/#more-215 January 31, 2007 European Heat Wave 2003: A Global Perspective Filed under: Climate Extremes, Heat Waves — Although the event occurred over three years ago, the summer heat wave of 2003 is still prominently featured in every popular presentation of the global warming issue. A web search of “Europe Heat Wave 2003” produces nearly 950,000 sites to choose from, and if you take that plunge, you will see estimates of 35,000 deaths directly attributed to that heat wave, although that number varies considerably...

If the actions of a few Americans represent all of America then why don't the actions of a lot of Muslim Terrorists represent all of Islam?

 REUTERS N.Korea, Libya may have European atomic designs-Dutch [DDHNTXS] By Theo Kolker AMSTERDAM, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Two Dutch ministers said on Monday there were "indications" North Korea and Libya may have acquired potentially arms-related nuclear technology developed in Europe that Pakistan and Iran are known to possess. In November, Vienna-based Western diplomats told Reuters the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was investigating whether designs for uranium enrichment centrifuges developed by the Dutch unit of Urenco, which Tehran acquired from a middleman in the 1980s, came from inside Pakistan. The ministers also confirmed what Western diplomats have told Reuters...

Since the data clearly show a gain in civilian jobs since Clinton, I guess the only ones lost were military! Who would have thought? www.ballainvestments.com/BLS

Danny Brooks is a born again Christian who hit the bottom and ask Christ to save him.  In return, he writes and performs music telling people how he and they can make the world and their lives better through the love of God. You can listen to on of his songs on the link, and if you like it, vote for him.  Give Rap and Britney some competition. The list is alphabetical and the song is: Nobody Knows you like the Lord. http://www.songwritingcompetition.com/voting/pva-vote.htmlhttp://www.dannybrooksmusic.com/soulsville.asp

The Council has 15 members-- five permanent members and 10 elected by the General Assembly for two-year terms: <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]> Membership and Presidency of  the Security Council in 2003 Month Presidency Membership Term Ends January France Permanent Member February Germany 31 December 2004 March Guinea 31 December 2003 April Mexico 31 December 2003 May Pakistan 31 December 2004 June Russian Federation Permanent Member July Spain 31 December 2004 August Syrian Arab Republic 31 December 2003 September United Kingdom Permanent Member October United States Permanent Member November Angola 31 December 2004 December Bulgaria 31 December 2003   Cameroon 31 December...

The Council has 15 members-- five permanent members and 10 elected by the General Assembly for two-year terms: <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]> Membership and Presidency of  the Security Council in 2003 Month Presidency Membership Term Ends January France Permanent Member February Germany 31 December 2004 March Guinea 31 December 2003 April Mexico 31 December 2003 May Pakistan 31 December 2004 June Russian Federation Permanent Member July Spain 31 December 2004 August Syrian Arab Republic 31 December 2003 September United Kingdom Permanent Member October United States Permanent Member November Angola 31 December 2004 December Bulgaria 31 December 2003   Cameroon 31 December...