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A law student at Georgetown wants us to panic, because if she doesn’t have access to free birth control, it’s going to cost her $3,000 a year! My God, how do the common people function without their diamond encrusted platinum diaphragms? I went to a state school, so my government diaphragm was only sterling silver with turquoise. I know, right? Deprived! No, actually, when I was in college, I worked at the Student Health Center, where we had a giant silver cannister of free–count ‘em–FREE condoms for anybody to grab who walked in the center. Most student health centers do,...

Worth watching.... and thinking about. But do so soon, because if we don't the system will collapse, and then there will be no benefits at all. Bill puts into graphs in a couple of minutes what I've been writing about for the last five years. Your choice is to either act on it or go to the store, right now, and buy all the vasoline you can find -- because if you don't act you're going to need it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u24nH03NccI&feature=player_embedded#!

The David Tyree Interview for the National Organization for Marriage June 16, 2011 8:25 P.M. By Maggie Gallagher I interviewed David Tyree after he appeared at a press conference with (evangelical) Bishop Joseph Materra on the steps of New York’s city hall Tuesday. The video is going viral: Gay marriage advocates have seized on Tyree’s “anarchy” comment. But watch the interview. What David Tyree is saying is that same-sex marriage means an escape from the idea there is a natural objective reality surrounding marriage. There is a right and wrong: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6lwIx9f5uk COMMENTS 8 | E-MAIL AUTHOR | ARCHIVE

Wikileaks certainly is making a name for itself. The hysteria currently being heard round the world conjures up the wisdom of my dearly departed O.S.S. father's mantra to me about world events such as these -- "the most obvious story is the one that is never true." And I have a feeling that Daddy would have had a field day with Wikileaks, Julian Assange, what is being released and what isn't being released....... Read more: http://www.gopusa.com/fresh-ink/2010/11/the-wikileaks-story.php#ixzz16oB28Uwu

Even with as impressive a Republican nominee as former New York Jets football player Michel Faulkner and all the ethical clouds looming over embattled Rep. Charles Rangel (D.-N.Y.), the chances of Rangel somehow losing to re-election in the 15th District lie closer to “none” than “slim.” And that is why, incredible as it may seem, there have been recent developments and publicity pointing to Faulkner as a contender to keep one’s eye on......

EPW HEARINGS POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER February 9, 2010 Posted Matt Dempsey matt_dempsey@epw.senate.gov EPW HEARINGS POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER UPDATE: The following Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works hearings have been postponed due to inclement weather this week: - The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife, will hold a hearing entitled, "Collaborative Solutions to Wildlife and Habitat Management." - The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works will hold a hearing entitled, "Global Warming Impacts, Including Public Health, in the United States." Once the hearings are rescheduled, information will be posted at www.epw.senate.gov

Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran is set to deliver a "punch" that will stun world powers during this week's 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution. "The Iranian nation, with its unity and God's grace, will punch the arrogance (Western powers) on the 22nd of Bahman (February 11) in a way that will leave them stunned," Khamenei, who is also Iran's commander-in-chief, told a gathering of air force personnel. The country's top cleric was marking the occasion when Iran's air force gave its support to revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a key event which led to...

A DEADLY plague could sweep across Europe, doctors fear, after an outbreak of a virus in Ukraine plunged the country and its neighbours into a state of panic. A cocktail of three flu viruses are reported to have mutated into a single pneumonic plague, which it is believed may be far more dangerous than swine flu. The death toll has reached 189 and more than 1 million people have been infected, most of them in the nine regions of Western Ukraine. President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko has called in the World Health Organisation and a team of nine specialists are...

What is “Cap and Trade”? June 30, 2009 by Doug Parris “Cap and Trade” is a relatively simple concept using extremely complicated laws. But all you need to understand is the concept. THE GOAL “Cap and Trade” begins with the assumption that using energy is a bad thing and the less we use the better. The goal is using less energy. THE CAP “Cap and Trade” puts a U.S. Government “cap” on energy use, creating a government-imposed artificial energy shortage. The shortage is INTENTIONAL. It is the whole purpose of the program. If you are old enough to remember or...

Speaker Pelosi’s national energy tax is going to raise electricity prices, increase gasoline prices, and ship American jobs overseas to countries like China and India. This, we know. It would be a bureaucratic nightmare overseen by a confusing web of government agencies that would take and redistribute trillions of dollars from family budgets and workers payrolls. This, we also know. BUT WHAT DON'T WE KNOW? Here are some facts you may not know about Speaker Pelosi’s national energy tax: HOMEBUYERS BEWARE. Trying to save up for a new home? You may have to save up a little longer for your...

Uncle Sam singing, tipping his hat, taking money, throwing it around and explaining why cap and trade is not a tax....

...In the end, a diversity of energy resources reduces the threat of global warming and provides for investments in new, innovative economic activity. It would also make the United States more energy self-reliant, making the imperialist tactic of securing energy sources with military interventions overseas increasingly obsolete...

C-SPAN video of Friday's Cap and Trade debate in the House

On Feb 24, 2009, at 7:07 PM, Liberty Counsel wrote: From the Desk of: Mat Staver It is shocking how fast President Obama and Congress are moving. See below. --Mat While most Americans are focusing on the economy, the stealth political attacks on our faith and freedoms are increasing! Our staff at the Liberty Center for Law and Policy in our Nation's capital have alerted me to two bills in the 111th Congress that threaten to undermine the rights of people of faith. These "hate crimes" statutes elevate "sexual orientation" to a special protected status and essentially criminalize Christian beliefs...

Using borrowed money for a band-aid bailout of the economy should seem backwards to most people. However, it likely is a planned strategy to promote radical change. Those naively believing that President Obama is simply rewarding his far-left base, and will then move to the political center, must wise up. The assumption that Obama will need the nation to prosper in order to protect the 2010 mid-term election incorrectly assumes that he esteems free market capitalism. He does not. Rather than win through superior ideas and policies, the Democrat plan for success in the mid-term elections is to win by...

"...Because all that anyone knows for certain about Barack Obama - the only thing anyone knows for certain - is that he is not what he seems. What we do know, because we have the performances on tape is that he is the most seamless liar since Bill himself - smoother by far. Who is the real Barack Obama? Who can tell? We don't really know anything about this man's intentions, and what we do know about his deeds is bad..."

In Richistan, I wrote about a new political divide emerging among the wealthy. While most Lower Richistani’s ($1 million to $10 million in net worth) were voting Republican, most Middle-and Upper Richistanis (those worth $10 million plus and $100 million plus) were voting Democrat...

Interesting video that ties together Obama, Odinga, socialism, marxism and the War on Terror

... Would Obama win if people believed he might well nationalize healthcare, unilaterally disarm our nuclear weapons, push the Global Poverty Act, appoint judges to the left of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, pass legislation banning handguns, greatly increase federal spending by euphemistically disguising it as a stimulus package, or increase taxes on producers and expand "redistribution?" Would he win if they thought he would impose limitations on private executive salaries, empower labor unions, further nationalize public education with the leftist indoctrination agenda of the National Education Association, further open our borders, ratify the Kyoto climate change treaty, abandon Israel, retreat and...

Apparently there is a new logo for Obama, one redolent with historical precedent and meaning.....