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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (68348)	7/12/2009 10:58:32 AM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224748

The best VP ever

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (68348)	7/12/2009 11:00:11 AM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224748

EDITORIAL: Flack Panthers Justice thwarts Congress on voter intimidation For some reason, the Justice Department is covering for the Black Panthers. For months, congressmen have asked the Justice Department a simple question: How could the department drop one of the worst voter-intimidation cases ever? The department's only explanation was revealed in its dismissal filing with the court; the case was dropped because the defendants, two members of the New Black Panthers, offered no defense. This is unsatisfactory grounds for such a serious civil rights abuse. As the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights summarized in a letter of inquiry to the department: the "defendants were caught on video blocking access to polls, and physically threatening and verbally harassing voters during the November 4, 2008 general election." The defendants made racial threats to voters, and one of them was brandishing a night stick. Frustration with Justice Department stonewalling boiled over Thursday when Republican members of Congress wrote to the department's inspector general, asking him to "investigate whether improper political considerations led the Justice Department to dismiss" the case. The letter was signed by a list of prominent lawmakers with direct oversight responsibilities, including all the minority party members of the House Appropriations subcommittee on commerce, justice and science and all but one of the Republican members of the House Judiciary subcommittee on the constitution, civil rights and civil liberties. This isn't the first attempt to get some answers from the Justice Department. Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith, the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, wrote the department's Civil Rights Division on May 28. Virginia Republican Rep. Frank Wolf wrote Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on June 8. Even the Civil Rights Commission, which rarely issues letters without any dissent, has sent two letters to the department asking for an explanation. The numerous requests have received no response. As Thursday's letter from Congress states: "The dismissal of the Department's case against the New Black Panther Party raises significant concerns about possible politicization of the Justice Department. The case in question was filed by the Department against members of the New Black Panther Party and two individuals affiliated with it. Significantly, one of those individuals carried credentials indicating he was a member of the local Democratic Committee." There is no justice at the Department of Justice when Black Panthers are cleared for terrorizing voters.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (68348)	7/12/2009 11:03:54 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224748

Chilling out in the summer 'Climate change' you can't believe in By Deroy Murdock \| Sunday, July 12, 2009 As "cap-and-trade" advocates tie their knickers in knots over so-called global warming, Mother Nature refuses to cooperate. Earth's temperatures continue a chill that began 11 years ago. As global cooling accelerates, global warmists kick, scream and push their pet theory -- just like little children who cover their ears and stomp their feet when older children tell them not to bother waiting up for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. Consider how the globe cooled last month. c June in Manhattan averaged 67.5 degrees Fahrenheit, 3.7 degrees below normal -- the coldest average since 1958. The National Weather Service stated July 1: "The last time that Central Park hit 85 in May ... but not in June, was back in 1903." c In Phoenix, June's high temperatures were below 100 degrees for 15 days straight, the first such June since 1913. The June average in California's desert Yucca Valley was 83.5, which was 8.5 degrees below normal. Downtown Los Angeles averaged 74.5 degrees, 5 degrees below normal. c Boston saw temperatures 4.7 degrees below normal. "This is the second coldest average high temp since 1872," veteran meteorologist and Weather Channel alumnus Joseph D'Aleo reports at Icecap.com. "It has been so cool and so cloudy that trees in northern New England are starting to show colors that normally first appear in September." Looking abroad, Mr. D'Aleo notes: "Southern Brazil had one of the coldest Junes in decades, and New Zealand has had unusual cold and snow again this year." c New Zealand's National Climate Center issued a June 2 press release headlined, "Temperature: Lowest ever for May for many areas, colder than normal for all." c South African officials say cold weather killed two vagrants in the Eastern Cape. Both slept outdoors June 26 and froze to death. Simmer down, global warmists retort. These are mere anecdotes, handpicked to make the warmists look silly. Well, one would be foolish to challenge space-born satellites that gauge Earth's mean temperatures -- cold, hot and average. Here again, evidence of global cooling accumulates like snow drifts. "There has been no significant global warming since 1995, no warming since 1998, and global cooling for the past few years," former U.S. Senate Environment Committee spokesman Marc Morano writes at ClimateDepot.com. Citing metrics gathered by Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama at Huntsville, Mr. Morano adds: "The latest global averaged satellite temperature data for June 2009 reveal yet another drop in Earth's temperature. ... Despite his dire warnings, the Earth has cooled 0.74 degrees F since former Vice President Al Gore released 'An Inconvenient Truth' in 2006." Earth's temperatures fall even as the planet spins within what global warmists consider a thickening cloud of toxic carbon dioxide. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, consistently and reliably has measured CO2 for the past 50 years. CO2 concentrations have risen steadily for a half-century. For December 1958, the laboratory reported an atmospheric CO2 concentration of 314.67 parts per million (ppm). Flash forward to December 1998, about when global cooling reappeared. CO2 already had increased to 366.87 ppm. By December 2008, CO2 had advanced to 385.54 ppm, a significant 5.088 percent growth in one decade. This capsizes the carbon-phobic global-warmist argument. For Earth's temperatures to sink while CO2 rises contradicts global warmism as thoroughly as learning that firefighters can battle blazes by spraying them with gasoline. So, to defeat so-called global warming, there is no need for the $864 billion Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, the Kyoto Protocols, elaborate new regulations or U.N. guidelines. Instead, let the cold times roll. It is one thing to have a national debate about a serious problem, with adults differing over which solution might work best. Reasonable people, for instance, can dispute whether growing federal involvement would heal or inflame our health care system's serious maladies. But as so-called global warming proves fictional, those who would shackle the economy with taxes and regulations to fight mythology increasingly resemble deinstitutionalized derelicts on an urban street corner, wildly swatting at their own imaginary monsters. Deroy Murdock is a nationally syndicated columnist and a media fellow with Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (68348)	7/12/2009 11:15:56 AM
From: TopCat	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224748

"Cheney won't even deny it." Deny what?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (68348)	7/12/2009 11:43:24 AM
From: tonto	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224748

Don't want posters to focus on how wrong Obama and the democrats are regarding the economy and their stupid decsions which has greatly increased our debt, so you post about a has been. Oh well, it beats the weather report