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Al Franken declared the winner of the contested Minnesota Senate seat with a little over 300 votes.

Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin resigns her governorship claiming the emotional and financial cost of continual legal attacks as the reason.

Bernie Madoff receives 150 year jail sentence for his decades of fraud running a Ponzi scheme.

Barney Frank calls California an economic disaster area and proposes using TARP funds to bail out California.

The Washington Post made an offer to it readers to all them to purchase a non-confrontational meeting with influential politicians in Washington at a dinner parties held at various Washington Post editors’ homes. This is a newspaper making an offer to host a dinner at the house of publisher Katharine Weymouth, where certain political power brokers are there, and it could cost as much as a quarter of a million dollars. When this became public, the Post suddenly withdrew this offer.

“It may be a pass through of certain costs, but that is not a tax,” said Bob Eckels, speaking about the cap and trade bill.

“TMZ ghets these stories right [about Michael Jackson and other celebrities] much of the time. I wish that TMZ covered the economy so that we would know more about it.” Bernie Goldberg.

"Banks are starting to pay back money from the TARP sooner than anticipated. There is some economic justice in taking money used to help banks to fix problems the banks had, themselves created." Barney Frank, who also suggests that this money be used to bail out California.

“I think that this guy [President Obama] is in campaign mode 24/7.” Juan Williams, moderate liberal from FoxNews and NPR.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed last Saturday to make the U.S. regret its criticism of Iran's postelection crackdown and said the "mask has been removed" from the Obama administration's efforts to improve relations. Do you suppose that Obama may figure out that he is dealing with a madman here, and not someone with all of their marbles?

Biden told the ruler of Iraq, Maliki, that if Iraq fell into a period of sectarian violence or engaged in ethnic fighting, such a step would change the nature of U.S. engagement, a senior administration official said, according to the report.

Provisions of the energy bill, just passed by Congress, is to determine how houses are to be built all over the United States and that houses sold will be subject to an energy audit.

Here is a longer clip, which features Helen Thomas going back to the first problems with Obama:

Is anyone else reporting this? Tea parties all over the United States around July 4^th.

The EPA covers up a report which indicates that, right now, there is no global warming going on:

If you just need a smile, here is a news report on an officer of the law calling 911 after ingesting some marijuana:

1) NPR interviewed an Iranian reporter who chose to live in Iran, but was born in New Orleans. She pointed out that there had been nothing specific about the election which has been shown to be problematic. The NPR interviewer did not point out that, within 3 hours after the closing of the polls, the winner of the election was called—without the benefit of computerized ballots.

2) We had a huge tea party in The Woodlands, a community just outside of Houston. On the front page of the Houston Chronicle’s local section, there were photos of some of the 500 people who showed up to do some Michael Jackson dance moves downtown. Not a mention of the nearby tea party, which had 1000's of participants. Even though there were a dozen or so tea parties planned on or around the 4^th, in and around Houston, there was a smattering of coverage which said any of this was coming. Two lines about the tea party in Katy were buried in what’s going on in Katy over the 4^th story. Another was a two paragraph story from AP about a Dallas tea party coming up; the thrust of the short article was that our (conservative?) governor had not been invited to speak. 3^rd story listed when I did my search was some sort of a classified ad, wherein saucers for a tea party were for sale. Again, this is another example of a major newspaper not wanting to cover things it does not like.

3) I don’t know if this is real or not, but I heard California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger sounding like a fiscal conservative the other day. On the other hand, I might have dreamed that...

4) According to pollster Frank Luntz, a majority of Americans expect to pay more for health care under Obama.

5) Obama is now using high unemployment numbers in order to sell his public health care plan as well as his cap and trade bill. The Obama talking heads point out that these proposals will provide jobs, and ads are being run on tv and on the internet linking these bills to more jobs. If Obama’s stimulus bill, which was designed to stimulate the economy, did not do what it was supposed to do, why do you think these other game-changing measures, not designed to stimulate the economy will somehow stimulate the economy? It makes no sense. However, apparently, Obama could care less. If he needs to use the misery of America to sell his ideology, he is fine with that. It makes no difference to him whether it is true or not.

6) The Supreme Court has been actually taking the position that not all cases brought before them ought to be decided in the courts. There is the issue of a convicted criminal in Alaska who wants access to his DNA tests, and the court has rightly decided that this is a legislative matter. A court which recognizes its place in the system is a great thing.

7) José Padilla, also known as Abdullah al-Muhajir or Muhajir Abdullah, was convicted in August 2007 by a federal jury, of charges that he conspired to kill people in an overseas jihad and to fund and support overseas terrorism. He was originally arrested in 2002, on suspicions of domestic terrorism (it was believed that we was involved in a dirty bomb plot to be set off in the United States). That he was not convicted on that charge, does not mean that he was not guilty of that charge. He had been apparently converted to Islam and had traveled to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq (remember, this is 2002 and earlier). John Yoo provided George W. Bush with legal advice as to how to proceed legally on this matter, as America had finally realized, by this time, that we were at war with radical Islam. Padilla wants to sue Yoo over the treatment which he has received since his arrest (he was treated as an enemy combatant), and a San Francisco judge has ruled that he may. This is all about attacking conservative lawyers and lawyers who give advice to conservative officials. Simultaneously, he is having his position as a law professor at Berkeley threatened. These are banana republic tactics. Your political enemies are not simply attacked as wrong or immoral; they need to be attacked in any way possible and thrown in jail if the law allows. Sarah Palin was facing the same sort of constant attacks in Alaska as well. It is an evil tactic designed to destroy one’s political enemies.

8) The Obama health care townhall meeting was not a batch of miscellaneous people who just showed up to ask him questions. The people were either invited or pre-screened, and the questions were all pre-screened.

9) On this same ABC network, John Stossel put together a 5 minute piece on Canadian health care. It was bumped in favor of Michael Jackson coverage. We need an entire John Stossel 20/20 show which questions government involvement in health care.

10) You know that very intrusive census questionnaire that some of us are supposed to fill out? The one question they do not ask: are you an American citizen?

11) After talking a very timid and measured approach to people marching to have their votes counted in Iran; Obama came firmly down on the side of President of Honduras Manuel Zelaya, who, despite a constitution which requires him to adhere to a term limit (4 years there), he tried to continue his reign. The army, in what is wrongly called a coup, said, no you don’t, and shipped him out of the country. There was no bloodshed; no one has died. Both Hugo Chavez and Barack Obama support Zelaya. Is it possible that they both agree that term limits for really, really good leaders are problematic?

12) Harvard Law School grad Cass Sunstein believes that animals should have the right to sue people. He was selected by Obama as to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. The appointment is being opposed because he is a weirdo when it comes to animals.

13) Donald Trump says that OPEC is taking us for a ride. He said that, if two stores got together and determined what price they would charge for this or that, they could be prosecuted for criminal activity. However, this is exactly what OPEC does. Although I do not always agree with what Trump says, he seems to be making sense here.

14) You all remember Ken Lay of Enron fame, and how he is made out to be such a villain. Guess who developed the notion of cap and trade? Ken Lay. That Ken Lay.

15) On the is-it-paranoid-or-is-it-real front, Michael Schener says that the government is going to use Mexico as an excuse to take guns out of the hands of U.S. citizens, so that only the U.S. government has guns. Violence on the border is going to be the excuse. When 60 Minutes rebroadcast as segment on border violence, they did not fix the incorrect statistic that 90% of the seized guns in Mexico come from the United States. It is 90% of the guns which have serial numbers. Many countries which produce guns for sale do not engrave the guns with serial numbers, for obvious reasons. Obama’s call to put 1500 unarmed volunteers from the national guard on the border will set this off.

16) I found the dust up between Obama Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and Helen Thomas quite heartening. Andrew Breitbart called it a honeymoon spat and still does not expect the press to seriously question Obama’s policies. He said the flare up was simply procedural and not substantive. The text and video of that press conference are in this issue of CR.

18) For your homework, where is the press coverage on the United States’ embassy in Iraq? It is a huge, self-contained fortress, with over 5000 employees, sitting on 104 acres. The U.S. is not leaving Iraq any time soon. By contrast, the Beijing embassy, opened in 2008, is 10 acres.

3/4^ths of the top 1% taxpayers are actually small businesses. Over half of the top 5% taxpayers are small business owners. When these businesses are taxed more and more, do you think they hire more people or less? Do you think they are more likely to raise their employee’s salaries and benefits or no? Do you think this will cause them to expand or to contract their small business?

Congress is going to be printing up $9 trillion worth of carbon credits over the next 10 years, assuming that the Cap and Trade bill passes the Senate. To determine what this will cost us as individuals, simply take 300 million and 10 years and divide this into $9 trillion. The result is $3000 per person per year. Cap and trade is going to steal you blind.

Our government now has somewhere between $65–99 trillion worth of unfunded liabilities (i.e., promises made to the public of what government is going to pay for, like the Ponzi scheme of social security). Government takes in $2.4 trillion in tax revenue each year.

Various Obama heads being questioned on their bills and how many jobs these bills would really create (destroy).

“Operation Strike of the Sword” looks to be a good move in Afghanistan. Obama had to okay this approach, and that is a plus in the Obama column.

If you think the conservatism is dead, then why does Obama continue to frame liberal programs in conservative terms?

Obama and the Obama talking heads are now presenting Cap and Trade and Health Care Reform as job creating measures. Pelosi said this energy bill came down to jobs, jobs, jobs. Alexrod claimed the exact same thing.

What Obama and company refuse to do is simply state their position, what a bill will do, what it will cost, and explain why it is important (in his view).

Will your health care proposals do for health care, what your stimulus bill did for the economy?

If the bottom line affect of cap and trade will take dollars out of the pockets of all Americans at all levels and put them into government coffers, why is this not a tax?

10% will be the magic number. When our unemployment reaches 10%, Obama’s popularity will fall below 50%.

This is an easy one: if Obama declares victory in Iraq or Afghanistan, no credit will be give to George W. Bush. Cal Thomas predicted that it is very likely that there will be nothing celebratory when victory is clear and complete in Iraq, since it is the bad war.

Cal Thomas predicts that, unlike many wars in the past (like the Gulf War), there will be no great celebrations over the Iraq victory, when it comes. We will quietly withdraw many troops and redeploy them.

A long time ago, I posted at a website that I believed that Michele Obama will, ideally speaking (in their minds, not mine), run for president, after Barack Obama has been a 2-term president.

The federal government may bail out California. Obama has gone on record saying that e is open to state-by-state bailouts.

[This article approaches health care from a different perspective than most; this woman knows the details and is well-qualified to examine this issue].

Sen. Edward Kennedy's health proposal, the Affordable Health Choices Act, is now being marked up in committee, a first step toward a vote. Critics are mounting a battle against the bill's public insurance option.

But for patients, there's a bigger danger: a mandate that will limit your choice of health plans and restrict when you can see a specialist. You may be compelled to pay 10% or more of your income for insurance you don't want.

Yes. There is a lot of Washington double-talk in the bill - for example, it states, "No individual shall be compelled to enroll in a 'qualified' health plan" (sec. 3101).

But if you file a tax return and fail to attach proof of your qualifying health plan, the IRS, in coordination with the expanded federal office on electronic medical records and a new state bureaucracy called a Gateway, will find you, notify you of your default and fine you (sec. 59).

How big a fine? That's left up to the secretary of health and human services, but it will be big enough to ". . . accomplish the goal of enhancing participation."

Of course, people on Medicare, Medicaid and other government programs are exempt. But the outrage is that members of Congress are exempting themselves (sec. 3116).

The bill doesn't detail what this term means, but the language suggests you will be limited to a managed-care-style plan. Patients will have their care coordinated in a "medical home" - this decade's term for your primary care provider - and will not be allowed to see a specialist or get a test whenever they want to. Their care will be "coordinated." Doctors will be paid with "incentives" or hit with penalties to encourage cost-effective care.

One such method is capitation, which means doctors get paid a flat fee per month per patient. With capitation, the fewer tests and referrals you're allowed, the more your doctor makes (sec. 2707).

There are no prices in the bill, but it does make clear that there will be sliding-scale subsidies for individuals buying plans and temporary subsidies for small businesses covering workers.

The bill says a family of four with a household income of $110,250 will not have to lay out more than 10% of its modified adjusted gross income (sec. 3111). Ten percent is a lot, but you might have to pay even more. Senators are looking for ways to trim costs, including allowing only families in lower-income groups to get subsidies.

Will this plan affect you if you get your health insurance from a large company?

Yes. The bill leaves blank precisely what employers' obligations will be (sec. 163), but you will need to prove that you are enrolled in a "qualified" plan.

Negotiations in the coming days will determine whether your employer must contribute to the cost of that plan and what the tax treatment will be.

The bill mentions that there will be a public plan, but offers no details (sec. 3101 and 3116). The importance of the public plan has been exaggerated. Its opponents warn that the public option will drive out private insurance, but that will happen anyway. The bill gives the health and human services secretary power to limit profit margins, which makes it iffy how long insurance companies will be able to survive (sec. 2704).

That's another reason President Obama's promise yesterday that he's "not going to mess" with your plan is unconvincing. No one likes insurance companies, but the indications are that faceless bureaucrats in Washington will be even stingier when it comes to doling out your medical care.

McCaughey is chair of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths and a former lieutenant governor of New York State. She can be emailed at betsy@hospitalinfection.org.

A friend went to hear Charles Krauthammer. He listened with 25 others in a closed room. What he says here, is NOT 2nd-hand but 1st. You would do well to read and pass this along to EVERYBODY who loves his country. This is VERY serious for the direction of our country. The ramifications are staggering for us and our children.

Last Monday was a profound evening, hearing Dr. Charles Krauthammer speak to the Center for the American Experiment. He is brilliant intellectual, seasoned & articulate. He is forthright and careful in his analysis, and never resorts to emotions or personal insults. He is NOT a fear monger nor an extremist in his comments and views. He is a fiscal conservative, and has a Pulitzer Prize for writing. He is a frequent contributor to Fox News and writes weekly for the Washington Post. The entire room was held spellbound during his talk. I have shared this with many of you and several have asked me to summarize his comments, as we are living in uncharted waters economically and internationally. Even two Democrats at my table agreed with everything he said! If you feel like forwarding this to those who are open minded and have not drunk the Kool-Aid, feel free.

1. Mr. Obama is a very intellectual, charming individual. He is not to be underestimated. He is a ‘cool customer’ who doesn't show his emotions. It's very hard to know what's ‘behind the mask’. Taking down the dynasty from a political neophyte was an amazing accomplishment. The still do not understand what hit them. Obama was in the perfect place at the perfect time.

2. Obama has political skills comparable to Reagan and Clinton. He has a way of making you think he's on your side, agreeing with your position, while doing the opposite. Pay no attention to what he SAYS; rather, watch what he DOES!

3. Obama has a ruthless quest for power. He did not come to to make something out of himself, but rather to change everything, including dismantling capitalism. He can’t be straightforward on his ambitions, as the public would not go along. He has a heavy hand, and wants to ‘level the playing field’ with income redistribution and punishment to the achievers of society. He would like to model the to or .

4. His three main goals are to control ENERGY, PUBLIC EDUCATION, & NATIONAL HEALTHCARE by the Federal government. He doesn't care about the auto or financial services industries, but got them as an early bonus. The cap and trade will add costs to everything and stifle growth. Paying for FREE college education is his goal. Most scary is his healthcare program, because if you make it FREE and add 46,000,000 people to a Medicare-type single-payer system, the costs will go through the roof. The only way to control costs is with massive RATIONING of services, like in . God forbid.

5. He’s surrounded himself with mostly far-left academic types. No one around him has ever even run a candy store. But they’re going to try and run the auto, financial, banking and other industries. This obviously can’t work in the long run. Obama’s not a socialist; rather he's a far-left secular progressive bent on nothing short of revolution. He ran as a moderate, but will govern from the hard left. Again, watch what he does, not what he says.

6. Obama doesn’t really see himself as President of the , but more as a ruler over the world. He sees himself above it all, trying to orchestrate & coordinate various countries and their agendas. He sees moral equivalency in all cultures. His apology tour in and was a prime example of how he sees , as an imperialist nation that has been arrogant, rather than a great noble nation that has at times made errors. This is the first President ever who has chastised our allies and appeased our enemies!

7. He’s now handing out goodies. He hopes that the bill (and pain) will not ‘come due’ until after he’s reelected in 2012. He’d like to blame all problems on Bush from the past, and hopefully his successor in the future. He has a huge ego, and Mr. Krauthammer believes he is a narcissist.

8. Republicans are in the wilderness for a while, but will emerge strong. We’re ‘pining’ for another Reagan, but there’ll never be another like him. Krauthammer believes Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty & Bobby Jindahl (except for his terrible speech in February) are the future of the party. Newt Gingrich is brilliant, but has baggage. Sarah Palin is sincere and intelligent, but needs to really be seriously boning up on facts and info if she’s to be a serious candidate in the future. We need to return to the party of lower taxes, smaller government, personal responsibility, strong national defense, and states’ rights.

9. The current level of spending is irresponsible and outrageous. We’re spending trillions that we don’t have. This could lead to hyper inflation, depression or worse. No country has ever spent them selves into prosperity. The media is giving Obama, Reid and Pelosi a pass because they love their agenda. But eventually the bill will come due and people will realize the huge bailouts didn’t work, nor will the stimulus package. These were trillion-dollar payoffs to Obama’s allies, unions and the Congress to placate the left, so he can get support for #4 above.

10. The election was over in mid-September when Lehman brothers failed. Fear and panic swept in, we had an unpopular President, and the war was grinding on indefinitely without a clear outcome. The people are in pain, and the mantra of ‘change’ caused people to act emotionally. Any Dem would have won this election; it was surprising it was as close as it was.

11. In 2012, if the unemployment rate is over 10%, Republicans will be swept back into power. If it's under 8%, the Democrats continue to roll. If it's between 8-10%, it’ll be a dogfight. It’ll all be about the economy.

I hope this gets you really thinking about what's happening in Washington and Congress. There’s a left-wing revolution going on, according to Krauthammer, and he encourages us to keep the faith and join the loyal resistance. The work will be hard, but we’re right on most issues and can reclaim our country, before it's far too late.

BARACK OBAMA, (D) PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: All of us have grave concerns about what is taking place there. President Zelaya was democratically elected. He had not yet completed his term.

We believe that the coup was not legal, and that President Zelaya remains the president of Honduras.

BAIER: The coup happened over the weekend in Honduras after the democratically elected president was rousted from his bed, thrown onboard a plane to Costa Rica, and the military essentially took over. The president currently, Manuel Zelaya, was kicked out.

And you just heard the president of the United States, President Obama saying it wasn't illegal too. A couple hours earlier, his Secretary of State said they hadn't made a legal determination, and they're withholding judgment.

What about all of this, the coup, what it means for the U.S., and the response. We're back with the panel - Charles?

KRAUTHAMMER: Well, the president has a knack for getting all of these big decisions wrong. Two weeks ago he refuses to meddle in a country where peaceful demonstrators are getting shot by a theocratic dictatorship. He doesn't want to choose sides.

And now he's eager to president on behalf of the president in Honduras who is a Chavez wannabe, who is strong-arming his way to a referendum that has been declared illegal by his Supreme Court as a way to have a referendum to establish a constituent assembly which will establish a new constitution, which will be a Chavez-like dictatorship.

That's what everybody understands in Honduras, and that's why the Supreme Court had ruled the referendum illegal. Only Congress has a right to call it, not the president. Congress had denounced it.

The Supreme Court had told the military not to assist in the referendum because it's illegal. So Zelaya fires the chief of staff of the army. The Supreme Court orders him reinstated, he fires him again.

This guy is acting extra-constitutionally. Yes, he was elected, but Hitler was as well, and Chavez also was. It's easy to dismantle a democracy if you a president if you are intent on doing it, and he is intent on doing it.

So our decision ought to be, yes, a coup isn't a nice thing, but it's preferable to having Zelaya dismantle the democracy. And we should insist on the elections of a president as scheduled in November, so it is a temporary situation.

Look, a rule of thumb here is whenever you find yourself on the side of Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, and the Castro twins, you ought to reexamine your assumptions.

BAIER: We should point out, Mara, that Hugo Chavez said in a speech today, he referenced U.S. interference in Honduras. And U.S. officials are saying that they knew this coup was in the works and they were working behind the scenes.

LIASSON: I actually have a different take. I think that the president's words - it is almost like he doth protests too much. I think they're perfectly happy of the outcome of what happened. They would rather not have a Chavez-like president, another one, in Central America.

Now, I think it's the correct public diplomacy in politics to say that, of course, we're for the democratically elected president, and we don't like coups in Latin America. But when all the dust settles, they will be happy to work with the new guy.

They are not working to get Zelaya back into power. That's not what the U.S. is doing here. You are kind of extrapolating that position from his statements.

I think in terms of the split also in terms of the State Department and the White House with Secretary of State Clinton being less forward, not really willing to say this was illegal, I think that, in the end, this is the outcome that the United States would have preferred. This is not the method that they want to publicly condone.

BAIER: We should point out the new guy is the congressional leader Roberto Micheletti.

LIASSON: He was next in line constitutionally. The military didn't install him. This is what was supposed to have happened.

KRISTOL: Yes, he is equivalent of the speaker of the house. He has become president. He has pledged fair and free presidential elections in November with international observers.

That seems like a pretty adequate outcome for a president who was trying to go around the constitution and clearly was trying to stage his own semi - his own coup, as it were, sitting as president.

So I don't know quite why our president is so upset about what seems to be a good outcome.

KRISTOL: I disagree. He is playing a very dangerous hand here. Chavez says he is going to intervene and invade. And we are signing onto resolutions -

KRISTOL: Yes. And it's not out of the question. He can do it. I mean, the OAS says this is illegitimate, the U.S. says this is illegitimate. Obama makes it sound like we will not recognize the new government. He's, of course, been much tougher on this than on Iran, as several people have pointed out.

But, again, I've come back to the fact this new government has said free and fair elections in November. That is not really your classic military coup, where you take over for 15 years, you're sticking people in jail and you're dissolving congress.

And it does is seem to me that it is unbelievable that on the same day it is happening, instead of reserving judgment, President Obama is out there denouncing this one, whereas in Iran, it is who knows if those elections were fair out there? There weren't international observers there.

KRAUTHAMMER: It is not harmless, America supporting the president supporting in this, because it puts us on the side of the U.N., the OAS, and Chavez, pressure on the government, isolation on the existing government of Honduras could bring it down and a restoration of this guy and a Chavez dictatorship.

BAIER: Manuel Zelaya, the president who was ousted, will be at the United Nations tomorrow, and we will have coverage of that.

I hope yall have a safe and Happy 4th of July. Specifically be praying for our military members in S. Korea. Im not jazzed at ALL to hear about the N. Korean whacko with Napoleon syndrome giving us his 4th of July threat. North Korea has carried out the only nuclear detonations the world has seen in the 21st century. Im afraid North Korea is anxious to turn South Korea into a sea of fire.

Lets talk about the recent immigration news, shall we? Did you know that a couple of days ago, the Obama administration had an important meeting with other members at the Hill? Yup. Obama said that he will tighten border security and crack down on employers that are employing the undocumented. The video is on CSPAN if you want to hear it with your own ears. He says it around the :26 second mark. Obama gave his song and dance about how difficult it was to tackle immigration reform. Oh, really? Is tackling immigration reform as hard as it was for Obama to sign the abortion bill within a couple of days of him becoming President? In fact, Obama signed a bill that allows tax payers to fund international abortions specifically in Mexico using our dollars! Now, how is it that Obama can make abortion a priority but not immigration. One wonders if this is his way of decreasing Mexican migration towards the United States by preventing the Mexican unborn their right to life.

The Obama administration will not hold another serious immigration reform discussion until March of 2010. Brilliant. Obama chooses to pick an election year, which is next year, to seriously talk about immigration reform. In other words, the Obama administration is using immigration as a political futbol. I will give this about a week, and Im interested in hearing the official statements from NCLR, CPLC, and LULAC. Are they going to hold Obamas feet to the fire?

In my opinion, Obama PROMISED immigration reform to be addressed this year, but the democrat messiah bamboozled Latinos into believing he would fix the broken immigration system. You wanna know why Obama probably isnt going to be able to fix the immigration system? Because Obama has a UNION mentality. The Unions helped him get elected and the Unions are restrictionist and isolationist in their nature. They dont want to compete with competitive labor that Mexicans and other immigrants can offer. Union workers want to continue to earn $75.00 per hour and they know that there are willing workers who are willing to work for less. Just ask the Toyota workers who make an average of $40.00 per hour. Then, GM wonders why they are sinking into a bankruptcy shit hole after they have already received BILLIONS of our tax paying money. The only way that the immigration system can be fixed in a healthy manner is via the free enterprise system. We must legalize labor for those who simply want to work hard, feed their families and achieve the American dream in much the same way that those who landed on Plymouth Rock did. We also need to know who is coming in and out of our country which is why the system is broken. If we can fund international abortions via millions of our tax paying money..we sure as hell can fund more centers to document immigrants so that there isnt such a back log within the broken immigration system. Heres how we should solve this problem..we stop funding international abortions with millions of our tax paying dollars, and use that money to set up documentation centers so that there isnt as much of a back log.

The immigration problem is a LABOR issue. Abe Lincoln dealt with a labor issue in his day when it was legal to have slave labor. We all recognized that that was a bad law. As such, we must recognize laws that deal with labor issues and address it the same way Abe Lincoln did.

Gibbs: But, again, let's--How about we do this? I promise we will interrupt the AP's tradition of asking the first question. I will let you [Chip Reid] ask me a question tomorrow as to whether you thought the questions at the town hall meeting that the President conducted in Annandale-

Thomas: We have never had that in the White House. And we have had some, but not-- This White House.

Thomas: I'm amazed. I'm amazed at you people who call for openness and transparency and-

Reid: Even if there's a tough question, it's a question coming from somebody who was invited or was screened, or the question was screened.

Gibbs: Chip, let's have this discussion at the conclusion of the town hall meeting. How about that?

Gibbs: How so? Is there any evidence currently going on that I'm controlling the press--poorly, I might add.

Thomas: How so? By calling reporters the night before to tell them they're going to be called on. That is shocking.

Thomas was born in Winchester, Kentucky, to Lebanese Christian immigrants from Tripoli, Lebanon, which at the time was part of Syria. She was brought up in Detroit, Michigan and attended Wayne University (now Wayne State University), graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1942. Thomas, 89, has covered the White House during every presidency since John F. Kennedys. Helen Thomas (born August 4, 1920) is an American news service reporter, a Hearst Newspapers columnist, and member of the White House Press Corps. She served for fifty-seven years as a correspondent and, later, White House bureau chief for United Press International (UPI). Thomas has covered every president since John F. Kennedy. She was the first female officer of the National Press Club, the first female member and president of the White House Correspondents Association, and, in 1975, the first female member of the Gridiron Club.

You may recall that last week, I presented Sarkozy’s policy on burkas, which is quite different from Obama’s. Since then, al Qaeda has vowed revenge on France and Sarkozy (and the people who think that radical Islam is a lot like radical Christianity—whatever that is).

Congressional spending over overseas trips has gone up 10-fold since 1995 and tripled since 2001. We might be in a recession, but Congress certainly isn’t.

Not political; just pictures of some glass balconies on the 103^rd floor to the Sears building:

Washington Post hosting dinners to political power brokers. It is my understanding that one of the evil lobbyists blew the whistle on this unholy alliance between the press and political power.

Budget crisis at California schools and the threatened cutbacks in education. Not a word about the hundreds of thousands of state employees who draw larger salaries with nicer retirement packages.

RUSH: A couple of audio sound bites here, Der Kommissar is Here, is the title of the bump tune. It fits. Barack Obama this afternoon in the White House extolled the virtues of cap and trade.

OBAMA: Just last Friday the House of Representatives came together to pass an extraordinary piece of legislation that will finally open the door to decreasing our dependence on foreign oil, preventing the worst consequences of climate change and making clean energy the profitable kind of energy. Thanks to members of Congress who were willing to place America's progress before the usual Washington politics, this bill will create new businesses, new industries --

RUSH: Stop it. I can't handle it. All of this is lies and there's no other way to put this. All of this, everything you heard him say, is lies. Let's start from the top. Well, they did pass an extraordinary piece of legislation. That's true. But will it finally open the door to decreasing our dependence on foreign oil? It's just the opposite. We're going to be importing more because we're going to be producing less domestically to avoid the new carbon taxes. Preventing the worst consequences of climate change? We're not causing climate change! It is vanity unparalleled to say so. Making clean energy the profitable kind of energy. This bill will create news businesses, new industries, and millions of new jobs. It will also kill many more millions of new jobs. These millions of new jobs created are going to have to be subsidized by the government because there's no market for any of this stuff. I talked about this Thursday and Friday. There's no market for wind. If there were, it would be in existence. You cannot mandate the existence of new technology from Washington. You just can't do it.

I was watching the Fox All Stars on Friday afternoon, and it was a good illustration of what we're up against. Charles Krauthammer was making 150% sense in all this, saying exact same thing. You can't mandate the creation of new technologies from Washington. There's nobody there that knows how to do it. It happens in the private sector when there's a market need for it. When there's a profit to be made is when people will get into it, not before and Juan Williams said you don't understand, you don't understand, you don't understand, you don't understand, this is about taking a much needed step to getting rid of the kind of polluting forms of energy that we have. It has to be taken. This is the same Juan Williams -- who I like, by the way -- the same Juan Williams, who, when he heard Vaclav Klaus, one of the two Vaclavs who is, I think at the moment, the president of the European Union came to Washington, National Press Club, devastating speech on global warming and how it's all a fiction, and Juan Williams said, "I've never heard this before." He'd never heard a contravening view.

Do you realize conservatives are more informed on what the left thinks? Conservatives are far more widely informed than liberals are. Liberals have a narrow little focus and they don't allow anything that contradicts their little cocoon to enter it. So he may as well be taking dictation, Juan Williams, from Rahm Emanuel. No, Charles, you don't understand, this is about finally getting rid of all these old polluting forms of energy. This is about taking steps for the next hundred years and blah, blah, blah. The impact, the market aspects of this be damned because he doesn't even know them and Krauthammer made the point, Juan, Washington doesn't dictate new technologies. If it were that easy, any elected official, president would say, "Today I dictate that we can all fly like Superman, somebody get working on this and make it happen." That's not how it happens. The market drives invention when there is a profit in any kind of economic activity, that's when it will begin, or if there's at least a profit envisioned down the road. Sometimes you'll have to go in the red and take a risk, you take an investment on something, and nobody is willing to go full out on solar or wind. The only people doing it are being subsidized in one way or other by government. Here's the next Obama bite. Now, if this doesn't make you puke I don't know what will.

OBAMA: The first step we're taking sets new efficiency standards on fluorescent and incandescent lighting. I know lightbulbs may not seem sexy, but this simple action holds enormous promise because 7% of all the energy consumed in America is used to light our homes and our businesses. Between 2012 and 2042 these new standards will save consumers up to $4 billion a year. We're going to start here at the White House. Secretary Chu has already started to take a look at our lightbulbs and we're going to see what we need to replace them with energy efficient lightbulbs.

RUSH: Jimmy Carter. This is Jimmy Carter all over again, the cardigan sweater, the thermostat down to 68 in the wintertime. We're going to start here in the White House, going to get rid of all these bulbs, we're going to put these compact fluorescents in there. And this is absurd. I know a lot of you are in the compact fluorescent business. If people want them, that's fine. I really don't care. But don't tell me I have to buy one of the damn things because I'm destroying the planet otherwise. I refuse to have my intelligence insulted that way. And that's the way all this crap is being sold to people, all this stuff that is irrelevant and makes no smidgen's difference whatsoever, is being pitched as, you have to do this to save the planet, and if you don't do it, we're going to make you do it, like the kind of car we're going to make you drive and all this other rotgut. Dictatorial, statist crap coming out of this administration. So we got hell breaking loose in Honduras. Oh, and you know we learned about Honduras? We learned the Obama administration tried to stop the coup.

Now, the coup was what many of you wish would happen here without the military. What happened in Honduras was that the president down there was constitutionally prevented from seeking another term of office, said, to hell with it. I'm going to run, I'm staying here. Right out of a book of Hugo Chavez. And opposition got the military -- you are not going to destroy the Honduras constitution that way. So they kicked him out of office, and now you've got the Obama administration upset about that and they tried to stop this from happening. So they'll meddle in all these countries that are going to promote dictators. Obama will be happy to help dictators survive, including in Iran. He didn't meddle there. He meddled in Honduras, but time to throw Israel overboard, an ally. With all this garbage going on, the president of the United States makes a little press conference speech about lightbulbs and a mythical financial statistic that between 2012 and 2042 Americans will save $4 billion in energy costs?

Can I share with you a dirty little secret? We don't have an energy shortage. There is not an energy crisis. All of this has been trumped up. We have all the energy we want. There might be brownouts in California now and then in the summertime but those are explained not by a shortage of resources, but rather a screwed up grid or a number of different stupid things that administrators are doing. We don't have a shortage of this stuff, and we're really not all that wasteful. We've been tightening up and becoming more efficient. This man talks to us like we're still a bunch of children wasting energy all over the place when people aren't. So the people of this country are under indictment when they're not criminals and so forth, all of this, and you don't know what you're doing, you're destroying the planet, you have to be saved from yourselves, that's a tenet of liberalism.

RUSH: You've gotta hear this sound bite from Henry Waxman this afternoon with Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, on MSNBC. She said, "Republican leader John Boehner, in explaining why he was reading the bill on the floor," meaning the cap-and-trade fiasco, "told The Hill newspaper, 'People deserve to know what's in this pile of [expletive.]' Does that indicate what kind of relationship has now developed between the Democrat majority and the Republican opposition right now?"

WAXMAN: Since Obama has become president, the Republicans have said no to an economic stimulus bill, are saying no to the global warming bill, they're saying no to health care reform. They're rooting against the country. And I think in this case, they're even rooting against the world because the world needs to get it's act together to stop global warming. I wish they were playing a more constructive role. Some Republicans doubt the whole science of global warming even though the consensus is overwhelming. They don't want to believe it; they don't want to do anything about it. And, meanwhile, the evidence is mounting faster and faster that we're suffering already from carbon emissions.

RUSH: I am apoplectic. He could not be more wrong. The consensus has fallen apart. Nations that adopted it at one time and started implementing some of these economic changes have pulled the plug. Australia, Japan, it doesn't work, it only depletes their private sector, it doesn't fix anything, even this bill wouldn't reduce emissions more than two-tenths of a percent did I see, something like that? Henry Waxman is just -- I better be careful. This is just dangerous. It's the Republicans that made the damn thing pass, for crying out loud, Waxman. Eight Republicans -- only four were needed. Eight voted for it, cap and trade. Republicans rooting against Obama, the country, and the world. What do you think he's talking about? They're rooting against socialism. Congressman Waxman, the Republicans are rooting for the country. Republicans are rooting for the world. It is your party, Congressman, that's setting out to destroy what made America exceptional, and in the process, you're going to wreak more damage on the rest of the world than you could possibly imagine. You're an idiot. You are a dangerous idiot.

RUSH: Here is Pat in Chicago. I'm glad you waited. You're next on the EIB Network. Hello.

CALLER: You're making me crazy all over again. I watched Congressman Boehner on Friday --

RUSH: Oh, you're going to disappoint me. I thought you meant crazy in another way.

CALLER: No, no, no, no. I was crazy because I was sitting here listening to him say all these things and reading their words I'm going, oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God, and after an hour of this, I'm like, how can anybody vote for this? And this was just the amendment. This created a whole new bureaucracy.

RUSH: Boehner did do a great job on Friday, you are absolutely right. I don't know how many people had a chance to hear it, but you ask how can these people vote for it? There's an answer to that question. It depends on whether people want to face it squarely.

CALLER: I understand that but, you know, he did what the Republican Party has to do. Not modernize, not socialize, educate, read their own words.

CALLER: Use their own words because I've been telling people about what he read and people are like, "That can't happen. I didn't hear about that." Talk about going to sell your house. You can't put your house on the market unless it's rated by who? It's gotta be rated. You've gotta have all new windows, all new doors.

RUSH: Have you heard about this, folks? When you sell your house, environmental experts have to come in and do a survey to find out if you've got leaky windows, if all the environmental systems are correct, if you have relatively new appliances, and until you modernize in the way they say, you can't sell -- that's in the bill. I'm not kidding, Brian. See, you can't believe it. You can't. It's in the bill. It was in this amendment that Boehner read.

CALLER: I said that's not even half of it. I mean he went page by page by page and you're like, oh, my God. This was what's written. This isn't him saying, "Well, this is what they're going to do, this is what's going to happen," this is what they are doing. And they're doing it over and over and over and over again. It makes me nuts. And this is not going to be a country as we know it in the four years it takes him to get outta here.

CALLER: He gets no support, the congressman and the Republicans get no support from anybody. It was nowhere on the news, it was nowhere. It was their own words.

RUSH: Well, now, look. I know that they got no support in the news, but you shouldn't expect that to happen. I'm not trying to depress you. We gotta face reality and we're dealing with an Obama State-Run Media here. Of course they're not going to give Boehner any support or even any coverage or any publicity. But she's right, sell your house, before you can do that, you have to pass an environmental test that some government person is going to come in and make sure you have proper storm windows and if you live in a hurricane area the inspection is even more Draconian. You have to have modern appliances, a kitchen and that sort of thing, energy efficient TVs and this sort of stuff and until you replace all that stuff you can't sell it. Now, normally that would be up to seller and buyer. If the buyer wants to accept some old TVs and a kitchen that's not stainless steel, fine, you negotiate that on price. But now it's not going to be a matter of negotiation. Before you can be approved in selling your house, some government regulator is to come in and give you an examination.

Now, just to illustrate how this is going to work, once again I have a piece of property that would pass inspection, right now if this were the law. But do you think some government regulator coming into my house is going to pass me if it's the Obama administration or if it's some Democrat-run bureaucracy? No way. Everything is going to be political and this is how they are going to get people to switch party to become Democrat so that they're not harassed. Folks, consequences are dire here. And all this is happening under this umbrella of this kind soft-spoken very smart president who only wants to save our lightbulbs and save the White House and save the world and who, of course, can be against that, who's for dirty air, who's for dirty water, nobody's for that when that's not at all what any of this is about. Pat, I appreciate the phone call.

RUSH: "The speaker of the California assembly..." According to Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters.org the speaker of the California assembly, her name is Karen Bass -- she's a Democrat, Los Angeles, and she -- has said that conservative talk radio hosts are "terrorists." This was her response to the question, "How do you think conservative talk radio has affected the legislature's work in California?" She said, "Well, the Republicans were essentially threatened and terrorized against voting for revenue," meaning tax increases. "Now some are facing recalls. They operate under a terrorist threat. You vote for revenue and your career is over. I don't know why we allow that kind of terrorism to exist. I guess it's about free speech but it's extremely unfair." So conservative talk radio, which opposes new tax increases and all this new spending, are terrorists according to the Democrat speaker of the California assembly.

So she has essentially decided that voters going about their constitutional freedoms to support or oppose candidates, depending upon their actions, is "terrorism;" and don't think this is a misguided statement. Don't think this is some nutcase. Well, she's a nutcase but don't think that explains the statement. This has popped up out there, folks, repeatedly in recent weeks. Remember the Homeland Security alert that labeled veterans as possible right-wing extremists? The left, liberals, are doing everything they can to make what's normal seem outrageous -- and then they will move to outlaw it. That's the way totalitarians roll. Everything normal is outrageous, discriminatory, unjust, unfair, immoral -- and everything that's perverted or abnormal? That's what's normal. That's what's gotta be rewarded. That's what's happening.

RUSH: This is Jan in Spokane, Washington. Hi, Jan, I'm glad you called. Nice to have you with us.

CALLER: I just flipped on the radio this morning on my way to work and was listening to you talking about Sotomayor and some things that she said and what I was wondering is when will Caucasians become the minority, considering that we're thinking about amnesty, and also considering the birth rates of non-Caucasian people groups, who's keeping track of when we become the minority?

RUSH: I don't know what the projected target is nationally. In California it's pretty quick. It's pretty soon. You've got a number of things happening in California, people leaving, illegal immigration, of course. I don't know what the year is, but there have been some demographers that have run projections on this based on current trends. The middle of the century is probably the best guess as to when this will happen, but the problem is that you've got people running the show now from Obama all the way down through his administration through the House of Representatives who, regardless of their race, are racists. They are far left extreme radicals who believe this country has been unjust since its founding, and their objective -- and this describes Sotomayor -- minorities will always be found in favor of wherever it is, a court, a place of work, wherever, simply because they've been discriminated against. Maybe they haven't been discriminated against personally, but members of their race have been.

This is about get even with them time. This is returning the nation's wealth to its rightful owners. This is radical leftism on parade. So when I say does it really matter when Caucasians become a minority, what I mean by this is we already have a governing majority. He's gonna treat them that way. It's reverse racism. We have people who are angry and fit to be tied and they think it's time some people have a lesson taught them and those people happen to be those who have succeeded, those who have achieved, regardless of their race, and those who have been perceived to have all of the power for all of these years, it's time to get even with them. And the parade is on, and you see it happening right before your eyes very day with every piece of legislation that comes forth.

CALLER: Hmm. Well, yeah, I was just wondering when they're going to start needing to make some laws to make things go the other way so that now the minorities can be --

RUSH: No, no, no, you misunderstand. The purpose of the laws now is to achieve the exact opposite. The affirmative action quotas, whatever you want to call it, the intent was never to find equality or to properly compensate, and I first learned this all the way back in the seventies. I was dabbling in a talk show on a local Kansas City radio station. This is before I went to work for the Kansas City Royals. I forget the issue. Might have been the Bakke case, University of California-Davis, a guy, Bakke, had scored far greater on medical school entrance exams and was not permitted to get in, almost a replay of this firefighter case in New Haven and I had a bunch of civil rights supporters on and they were singing the praises of affirmative action and quotas and ending discrimination, and I said, "Well, okay, at what point down the line, how far out in the future is it going to be where you think that the playing field has been leveled and we're no longer going to need what you're saying?" "Never! That will never happen." Their purpose has not been to level any playing field. It's to reverse it.

Folks, the best way to understand this, I think -- and it's hard for those of us who are patriots who love this country the way we do, it's hard to understand there are people who detest it, who hate it, who think it is immoral and unjust and always has been. This really took root in the sixties, and all these kids in the sixties, a lot of them in government now, a lot of them in universities teaching your kids various classes, a lot of them are on the bench, the federal bench, they arrive at these positions with anger in their hearts. I firmly believe this describes Obama. I think Obama is angry, he's not this cool, calm, collected guy. He's very cold, he's very angry, he's angry at the British over the colonization of Africa, he's angry at Churchill, he's angry at this country for its discrimination and slavery past and so forth, and he doesn't think that the proper price has been paid for it. Some people are speculating that all of this cap-and-trade legislation, health care reform is nothing more than reparations in disguise, that it is a way of transferring the nation's wealth to its, quote, unquote, rightful owners.

They're smart enough to know that if they call a piece of legislation reparations, it doesn't have a prayer, but if they couch the legislation in fairness and compassion, the usual liberal terms, then people will go for it because they think that they have created enough white guilt at all of the unjust immorality of the history of this country that people sit by and let it happen so that their own personal guilt can be assuaged, regardless of the impact on the country. They're playing this tune very consistently, and they're playing it very well. Political correctness has gone a long way to shutting people up and making a lot of people afraid to stand up and oppose all this rotgut, which is exactly what it is, and we'll just see how far they're going to be able to take it and get away with it. We hope that the Senate does end up being this saucer where the heated coffee spills and cools awhile before they actually vote on it.

RUSH: A very pleased Associated Press reported in 2007: "White Americans no longer a majority by 2042, according to new government projections." That's eight years sooner than previous estimates made in 2004. AP was excited as they could be over this, so 2042 according to government projections, whites will be the minority by 2042. Not that that matters. I'm just answering the question I was asked by a caller. (interruption) Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. No, no, no. Now, Mr. Snerdley has asked... It's actually a very good question for a change. (laughing) "If these laws on the books benefiting minorities, if they're all that good, will they then apply to the white minority in 2042?" Snerdley, would you answer your own question on this? I mean, if you want to project out to 2042, what do you think will happen by then? What's going to happen is that the white majority is always going to be considered to be a majority no matter what the numbers are.

The Second Circuit Sotomayor case -- the Ricci case, the firefighters case -- illustrates the point. This is why Justice Scalia said today that the pedal is going to hit the metal, the rubber is going to hit the road pretty soon because the whole constitutionality of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was not decided, and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, according to a lot of lawyers, is in direct contravention of the Fourteenth Amendment. This case did not require that whole Title VII to be reviewed because this case was so obvious it could be decided just on the merits of it, and Scalia said there's a reckoning coming and we didn't deal with it here in this case. So I guess, not being a lawyer, this was so blatant (laughing) there was no way anybody could find appropriate cover here to uphold Sotomayor and her gang on the Second Circuit. Don't forget it was Jose Cabranes, a Clinton appointee, on the Second Circuit who upbraided Sotomayor for deciding this case along with her colleagues in summary judgment and totally ignoring the constitutional issues here -- which happened to be Title VII, Civil Rights Act of '64. And is it in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, equal-protection clause? We've got an equal-protection clause in the US Constitution. We've got a Civil Rights Act which just blows it to smithereens. And it hasn't been tested constitutionally yet. And this case didn't get that done so that's the day of reckoning still ahead. Scalia is right.

Here's, Tim, Toledo, Ohio. You're next. I'm glad you waited. Welcome to the program.

CALLER: Hello, Rush. I wanted to make a comment on the Sotomayor non-promotion that she voted in favor of, being overturned. We're like one vote away from total one-party control top-to-bottom from Congress, the president, and now the Supreme Court. I know she's not replacing a conservative, but what's to stop us from having like a total dictatorship, you know, one-party rule? What I say... You know, from the president on down.

RUSH: The only thing stopping us is the next election or any next election. But then you gotta throw into that mix our old buddies at ACORN who are out there trying to jimmy all these elections by fraudulently registering people. It's the Chicago way. The consequences are dire. There's no question. I talked about it last week and people smirked at me. But trust me there are people who are looking at what's happening and they're not seeing much of a viable opposition rise up. They're saying, "You know what? I better get what I can now, enjoy what I can now because it's going to hell in a handbasket." A lot of people are very fatalistic. And your question sort of summarizes or epitomizes the view that more than a few people I know have about this. So the next election. It's always the next election. And always going to boil down to just how much faith are you going to have to in the American people? At some point to say, "This is not what we want; this is not what we voted for."

The problem with that is, how many of them benefit from all this "dictatorship" you call it. How many benefit? How many are benefiting from government getting bigger? How many benefit from the government run by a bunch of statists. Well, the statists want as many to benefit as possible. It's hard to vote against the entity that provides you your living, regardless what that living is. This is something the libs have known for a while. So it's the next election. And the next election. And the next election. You know, liberalism is something that's going to have to constantly be fought. The evidence: 1980, 1984, Ronaldus Magnus two landslides. You would figure as well as the country did then -- tax cuts, the economy coming back, beat the Soviet Union, wiped out Soviet communism. You would think that those eight years of actual experience would have instructed people, but the Drive-By Media back then and through today and the Democrat Party has done its best to revise history and lie about what actually happened during the eighties.

"Yeah, we did pretty well but we did it on the backs of the poor," which of course makes no mathematical sense whatsoever but they still said that. Of course the poor believe it. Some in the middle class believe it. Lifelong Democrats -- born that way, don't question anything -- believe it. And that's why it is so troubling to me to see conservatism fractured the way it is. With so many of our otherwise bright people saying, "Colin Powell is the way of the future of the Republican Party." Sorry, I still don't get it. We have a faction of the conservative movement who actually believes, "You know what? People do want big government now. So we gotta come up with a better way of saying, 'We can do it better.'" Well, that's forfeiture of the game. That is giving up. That is abandoning conservatism for the sake of doing whatever you have to do to win. My point is, if you are a conservative but you throw it away in order to win, what have you won if you have to govern as a liberal in order to stay in power? So it's a lot of work ahead, folks. I'm not sugarcoating it.

4-pronged attack on the U.S. economy (by Obama and Democrat legislation) (great article):

Obama may have a policy against meddling in the affairs of other nations, and hence is slow to publically state an opinion, but he had no trouble figuring which side he was on with regards to the Honduras:

Since there are some links you may want to go back to from time-to-time, I am going to begin a list of them here. This will be a list to which I will add links each week.

This is an outstanding website which tells the truth about Obama-care and about what the mainstream media is hiding from you:

Politico.com is a fairly neutral site (or, at the very worst, just a little left of center). They have very good informative videos at:

On Obama (if you have not visited this site, you need to check it out). He is selling a DVD on this site as well called Media Malpractice; I have not viewed it yet, except pieces which I have seen played on tv and on the internet. It looks pretty good to me.

And the infamous Cap and Trade Chart, just so you know what is going on. By the way, this is a lot like ACORN and all the related profit and non-profit organizations which are tied to ACORN. They make up such a bureaucratic mess, that it will take years and a team of lawyers to discover any malfeasance taking place.

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Issue #82	Kukis Digests and Opines on this Week’s News and Views	July 5, 2009