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Written by George Landrith
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
When I first saw the McCain campaign ad that showed footage of Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Barack Obama and made the point that celebrity status and popularity do not mean someone is prepared to lead the nation, I thought it made a valid point, but was perhaps a little unsporting. I admit that Obama is unprepared to lead the United States. But on the other hand, Obama didn't rise to fame because of paparazzi pictures of him out on the town drinking without underwear. However, it turns out I was wrong. The ad was actually unfair to Paris Hilton.
Despite her frivolous reputation, it turns out that Paris Hilton may be better prepared to lead the nation than Obama. For example, her energy plan, recently released in an online video response to the McCain ad actually made more sense than Obama's plan and he has more than 300 advisors and experts helping him. Paris Hilton began her energy plan with drilling for more oil in the United States. |
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Written by Istvan B. Gereben
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
Remembering Hungarian Prime Minister Imre Nagy and his Associates on the 50th Anniversary of their Execution
In this year, on the 50th anniversary of his death, we pay tribute to the memory of Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary during the heroic uprising of 1956 and his martyred associates. As many of us still recall, Imre Nagy led the revolutionary government that took the first steps toward a free and independent, pluralistic Hungary, until the savage retaliation of Soviet Forces quashed the popular revolution leaving thousands of innocents dead.
Following the bloody suppression of the revolution, Imre Nagy sought refuge in the Embassy of Yugoslavia in Budapest. Tricked out by false assurances of amnesty, he was arrested and imprisoned before being tried and executed by the Soviet-installed Kadar regime along with several of his closest colleagues. He and the other martyrs of the revolution were ignominiously buried in prison graves, bundled in tarred paper, face down. His writings and name were banished from usage, his memory submerged beneath the weight of Soviet domination. |
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Written by George Landrith
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
United States Senate
U.S. Capitol
Washington, DC 20002
Dear Senator:
We the undersigned write to urge you to reject legislation that imposes regulations on American energy usage through a so-called “cap-and-trade” provision in a vain attempt to change global average temperatures.
The underlying assumption of such legislation – that we are experiencing catastrophic, anthropogenic global warming – is highly questionable. It is important to note that temperature data show there has been no warming trend in more than a decade, and now even many climate change alarmists admit that there will be no additional warming in the coming decade, and that we may in fact see a cooling trend. We believe that a 20-year period with no warming -- despite record CO2 emissions – is a clear refutation of earlier alarmist predictions that should give policymakers pause. Many climate change alarmists dismiss this 20-year period of stable or cooling temperatures as being attributable to natural climate variability. If that is the case, why wouldn’t the warming trend that apparently stopped or reversed itself in the mid-1990s, also be attributable to natural climate variability? Are we seriously to believe that all cooling is natural, but all warming is man-made? |
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Written by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
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Contrary to conventional wisdom, the enduring malaise of Lebanon is not rooted in the religious differences of the “Shi’ism” of Hetzbollah, the “Sunni’ism” of the rest of the Muslims and the “Christianity” of the Maronites. Neither is the war among these three constituent communities of the country merely a proxy war between Iranians and Arabs. Finally, the alleged incompatibilities between modernity and Islamic traditions, democracy and xenophobic Islamic fundamentalism do not have significant bearing on the current situation. |
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Written by Vincent Gioia
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Tuesday, 03 June 2008 |
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Even though no one expects it to become law this year, a desperate effort is underway to enact the so-called "Climate Security Act", the brainchild of Senators Lieberman and Warner. As I have written before, among other horrors it would impose "cap-and-trade" mandates on anything that generates carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and that pretty much includes everything in our daily lives from electricity to cars. |
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Written by U.S. Senator James Inhofe
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Tuesday, 03 June 2008 |
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The Wall Street Journal
June 3, 2008
With average gas prices across the country approaching $4 a gallon, it may be hard to believe, but the U.S. Senate is considering legislation this week that will further drive up the cost at the pump.
The Senate is debating a global warming bill that will create the largest expansion of the federal government since FDR's New Deal, complete with a brand new, unelected bureaucracy. The Lieberman-Warner bill (America's Climate Security Act) represents the largest tax increase in U.S. history and the biggest pork bill ever contemplated with trillions of dollars in giveaways. Well-heeled lobbyists are already plotting how to divide up the federal largesse. The handouts offered by the sponsors of this bill come straight from the pockets of families and workers in the form of lost jobs, higher gas, power and heating bills, and more expensive consumer goods. |
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Written by George Landrith
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Thursday, 29 May 2008 |
Dear Senator or Representative:
We are writing to respectfully urge Congress to exercise rigorous oversight the Defense Department’s decision to award a $40 billion refueling tanker contract to the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS).
Our many concerns about the wisdom of this contract are based on grave questions about the mission capability, survivability, and excessive cost of the EADS aircraft. The Airbus 330 is able to land on only about half as many airfields as the American-made Boeing KC-767, is a bigger target with an excessively large footprint, and is unable to refuel the V-22 Osprey, along with other commercial and military aircraft. EADS has never manufactured a functioning boom or a fully operational tanker. |
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Written by Editorial, Daily Herald, Everett, WA
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Thursday, 29 May 2008 |
While the General Accounting Office investigates the Air Force's decision to award a $35 billion refueling tanker contract to Europe's Airbus rather than Boeing, Sen. Patty Murray is asking some very pointed and pertinent questions. Answers have been elusive.
Why, Washington's senior senator asked the Pentagon's comptroller at a hearing last month, did the Air Force apparently not consider the difference in additional construction costs at air bases for Airbus' larger and heavier tanker? The Airbus A330, the airframe chosen by the Air Force over Boeing's KC-767, would require an additional $2 billion to upgrade hangars, runways, ramps and other infrastructure, Murray pointed out. |
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Written by Dennis Hastert
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Thursday, 29 May 2008 |
The Washington Times
A core lesson our nation learned on Sept. 11, 2001, is the asymmetric nature of the threats we face and how comprehensive our security efforts must be to effectively combat them.
While in subsequent years, many among our political class have chosen to disregard this lesson, it was shocking to learn that a critical element of our national security team has apparently disregarded it as well.
In the largest acquisition in its history, the U.S. Air Force recently awarded a $40 billion contract to build our next generation of aerial refueling tankers to a foreign-led consortium of companies. This decision puts at risk our ability to project power across the globe, protect our supply chain of critical military components and maintain our economic competitiveness — all essential components of a truly comprehensive national security effort. |
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Written by George Landrith
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Thursday, 29 May 2008 |
Another website with great information on the misguided award of America's next generation of tanker to Airbus/EADs can be found at:
www.americastanker.com/tankerhome.html |
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