Sotomayor's Ties to La Raza

by Tom Tancredo

Sotomayor was a member of La Raza and her comments about “Wise Latinas” being superior to white men appeared in the La Raza Law Journal. The National Council of La Raza bills itself as “the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States” who works through “its network of nearly 300 affiliated community-based organizations.”

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Uncle Walter: not so sadly missed

On the face of it—and on the face of them—Michael Jackson and Walter Cronkite would not appear to have much in common. Cronkite was (all together now) “the most trusted man in America”; Jackson was the least trusted child-man in America, at least to any parents whose ambitions for their kid extend beyond a $30-million out-of-court settlement. But, for those members of the Jackstream Media hoping to eke out one more week of prostrations and ululations for their Gloved One, Cronkite’s death served as a kind of intervention.

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“you are known by the company you keep.”

by Procrustes

There’s a reliable saying, “you are known by the company you keep.” If you were paying attention — and you should have been — no doubt you heard it any number of times throughout Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.
We don’t need to list names, as the list appears to be endless. You know of whom we speak.
But then, as always, there’s much much more.

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Meet Your Green "Czar" - Admitted Communist Van Jones

A bio of Baker on the center's website focuses on her contributions to racial equality – her involvement with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP; an organization she founded to fight Jim Crow laws; and her work with Martin Luther King's group, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.Not mentioned, however, is that Baker was an avowed socialist who worked closely with communist activists. She also participated in events that were close to the radical Weathermen group.

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DID JESUS GIVE US THE NAME OF THE ANTICHRIST?

'Science Czar' John P. Holdren's disturbing beliefs about America, capitalism and humanity

Kathy Shaidle

Holdren's official titles are: Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Assistant to the President for Science and Technology; and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
The longtime Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, Holdren is no stranger to controversy.
Holdren's radicalism dates back to the late 1960s. In 1969 Holdren wrote that it was imperative “to convince society and its leaders that there is no alternative but the cessation of our irresponsible, all-demanding, and all-consuming population growth.”

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Venezuela: 'Freedom of expression must be limited'

By CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela's top prosecutor insisted Thursday that freedom of expression in Venezuela "must be limited" and proposed legislation that would slap additional restrictions on the country's news media.
The new law would punish the owners of radio stations, television channels and newspapers that have attempted to "cause panic" and "disturb social peace," Attorney General Luisa Ortega said.

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House debates $2B 'cash for clunkers'

By PATRICK O'CONNOR & MARTIN KADY II

The House is scrambling to save the depleted cash-for-clunkers program, taking up an emergency $2 billion bill this afternoon that would keep alive a program that has encouraged American car owners to trade in their old gas guzzlers for more fuel efficient vehicles.

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'Abortion ship' sails into Christian storm

By John Lichfield

Even the law of the land has never been able to stop Rebecca Gomperts.
The Dutch doctor has been a fervent pro-choice campaigner for more than 10 years, and in order to extend those rights to women who would otherwise be denied them, she hit on an ingenious plan: anchor a ship outside the territorial waters of "pro-life" countries, and distribute abortion pills to women who wanted them from there.

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Antioxidants from black tea may aid diabetics

By Stephen Daniells

Polysaccharides from black tea may blunt the spike in sugar levels after a meal more than similar compounds from green and oolong tea, and offer potential to manage diabetes, says a new study.

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SENATE DEAL: CHANGE A FEW NAMES

By MICHAEL TANNER

THE "compromise" health-care reform being negotiated by six members of the Senate Finance Committee is shaping up as a classic warning of the dangers of bipartisanship without principles: It looks like they'll keep the worst features of other ObamaCare bills -- but simply change the names.

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The Cloward/Piven Strategy of Economic Recovery

By Nancy Coppock

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.

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Dan Rather wants Obama to help save the news

by Andrew Travers

Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather called on President Barack Obama to form a White House commission to help save the press Tuesday night in an impassioned speech at the Aspen Institute.

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Tough love for fat people: Tax their food to pay for healthcare

When historians look back to identify the pivotal moments in the nation's struggle against obesity, they might point to the current period as the moment when those who influenced opinion and made public policy decided it was time to take the gloves off.
As evidence of this new "get-tough" strategy on obesity, they may well cite a study released today by the Urban Institute titled "Reducing Obesity: Policy Strategies From the Tobacco Wars."

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Global warming is the new religion

By Jonathan Manthorpe

Ian Plimer has outraged the ayatollahs of purist environmentalism, the Torquemadas of the doctrine of global warming, and he seems to relish the damnation they heap on him.

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Military planning for possible H1N1 outbreak

From Barbara Starr

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. military wants to establish regional teams of military personnel to assist civilian authorities in the event of a significant outbreak of the H1N1 virus this fall, according to Defense Department officials.
The proposal is awaiting final approval from Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
The officials would not be identified because the proposal from U.S. Northern Command's Gen. Victor Renuart has not been approved by the secretary.

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Do parents have right to educate?

Heather Duncan

A crucial question will soon face parents if present United Nations initiatives gain acceptance in the United States: Who inherently has the right to educate your child, the state or the parent?
Barring a consti-tutional amendment, America could soon follow the path of several member nations that have already abdicated to the state the right of parents to choose the direction of their children's educations.

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Federal role questioned in Oklahoma's English-only debate

BY CHRIS CASTEEL

WASHINGTON — The Oklahoma congressional delegation wants U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to explain why the Justice Department got involved in a debate by the Oklahoma Legislature this year over making English the state’s official language.

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Constitutional Amendment Making Health Care a ‘Right’

By Nicholas Ballasy

(CNSNews.com) - During his speech at a recent National Press Club luncheon, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) said he is introducing a constitutional amendment that would establish health care as “a right” for all Americans. “We need a real serious bill and, by the way, the fundamental question, ‘Is health care a constitutional right?’” he said. “I mean, do you have a right to health care in the American system of government or not?”

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Will Krakatoa rock the world again?

By Marcus Dunk

Bright orange lava spews up into the air, dark smoke mingles with the clouds and the gloomy night takes on an ominous red glow.
Towering 1,200ft above the tropical stillness of the Sunda Strait in Indonesia, one of the most terrifying volcanoes the world has ever known has begun to stir once more.
Almost 126 years to the day since Krakatoa first showed signs of an imminent eruption, stunning pictures released this week prove that the remnant of this once-enormous volcano is bubbling, boiling and brimming over.

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Reparations By Way Of Health Care Reform

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Legislation: Still believe in post-racial politics? Read the health care bill. It's affirmative action on steroids, deciding everything from who becomes a doctor to who gets treatment on the basis of skin color.

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NOW THEY'RE COMING AFTER YOUR FOOD

Mark Lonsberry

Tobacco, health care, communication, energy, banking, the automotive industry.
And now food.
A national soda-pop tax has been proposed, the Urban Institute wants to go after food producers and family budgets the way it went after tobacco companies and smokers, and food is about to be called a hazard to your health.
Ostensibly, because you’re fat.
Actually, because the government wants your money.

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Organic food ‘no healthier’ blow

Sophie Goodchild

Organic produce is no better for health than conventional food, the Government's Food Standards Agency announced today.
Their report, after a 12-month study based on 50 years of research, says the benefits of chemical-free vegetables, fruit and meat have been overstated.

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Debate over gay business contracts resurfaces

BY FRAN SPIELMAN

Chicago’s first openly gay alderman on Tuesday reopened the volatile debate about whether City Hall should establish contract set-asides for businesses owned by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered residents.

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Helen Thomas, Birther?

But I thought it was curious that Helen Thomas seemed to think that concerns that Obama is not really a U.S. citizen are legitimate (some of the following exchange was left out of the official White House transcript, but see the 30:50 mark of this video):
GIBBS: ... no, nothing will assuage them. But there are 10,000 more important issues for people in this country to discuss, rather than--
HELEN THOMAS: A violation of the Constitution.
GIBBS:--whether or not the President is a citizen. ...
THOMAS: Why do you think it keeps coming up?
MR. GIBBS: Because for $15, you can get an Internet address and say whatever you want.

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Electromagnetic attack: Thinking the unthinkable

By: James Jay Carafano

When he delivered a major address on national security last week, the former House speaker went after Defense Secretary Robert Gates for planning for the future the Pentagon wants, rather than dealing with the many serious problems it may actually face. Gingrich mentioned one challenge that many find too terrible to contemplate — which is why our government should spend a lot more time doing exactly that.

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American Gold? No Thanks!

By Robert Morley

Amid the global economic carnage, one winner has emerged. In a perverse turn of events, the currency of the country that started it all has gone up in value. But the U.S. dollar’s day as king may be nearing an end. Nations are beginning to worry that America’s vast debts and money-creating machines are threatening the greenback.

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Obama 2004: Bush Rushed Legislation

By P.J. Gladnick

A heretofore "unknown" 2004 interview with Barack Obama by leftwing radio host Randi Rhodes has just emerged. And basically, as you shall hear, Obama is saying do as I say, not as I do. In this case he was referring to quickly forcing legislation through congress.

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Seven Things That Would Be Different If McCain Had Beaten Obama

by John Hawkins

However, given the radical changes Barack Obama has been making since he was elected, you have to wonder how things would be different if John McCain had actually managed to make it to the White House. Of course, all we can do is speculate, but you'd have to think that it would have been a mixed bag, at best.

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Nebraskans assert state sovereignty

By Martha Stoddard

LINCOLN — At least three Nebraska lawmakers want to send a message to the federal government:
Butt out of state business.
Next year they will see if a majority of their colleagues agrees.
The senators are working on resolutions asserting Nebraska's sovereignty under the 10th Amendment of the Constitution.

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5 freedoms you'd lose in health care reform

By Shawn Tully

The Obama platform would mandate extremely full, expensive, and highly subsidized coverage -- including a lot of benefits people would never pay for with their own money -- but deliver it through a highly restrictive, HMO-style plan that will determine what care and tests you can and can't have. It's a revolution, all right, but in the wrong direction.

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“Freedom of Choice Act”

by ccartaginese

“The first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That’s the first thing that I’d do.” –Senator Barack Obama, speaking to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, July 17, 2007

The FOCA bill, which was originally sponsored by Congressional Democrats Jerrold Nadler and Barbara Boxer – and co-sponsored by Senators Jon Corzine, Patty Murray, Frank Lautenberg, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Maria Cantwell, Diane Feinstein, Paul Sarbanes and Barbara Mikulski – was an attempt to “codify Roe v. Wade” by repealing former President Bush’s ban on federally funded abortions

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No Point in Members Reading 1,000-Page Health Care Bill

By Nicholas Ballasy

(CNSNews.com) - During his speech at a National Press Club luncheon, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Democratic Congressman John Conyers (D-Mich.), questioned the point of lawmakers reading the health care bill.
“I love these members, they get up and say, ‘Read the bill,’” said Conyers.
“What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?”

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Arrogance

By John Stossel

It's crazy for a group of mere mortals to try to design 15 percent of the U.S. economy. It's even crazier to do it by August.
Yet that is what some members of Congress presume to do. They intend, as the New York Times puts it, "to reinvent the nation's health care system".

Let that sink in. A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system.

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The Phantom 46 Million Uninsured

By Thomas D. Segel

Admittedly, there are millions of us who subscribe to the age-old adage that if a politician’s lips are moving – he is lying. So, with that thought in mind, we ask again, just who are these 46 million Americans the Obama administration and the Democrats say do not have health care coverage? According to various reports, a full 70 percent of that number claim they have access to the health care they need. Almost half of that number are younger, healthy Americans who could purchase health insurance, but don’t see such purchases as being essential or desired.

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Obama health-care claims disputed

By S.A. Miller

Even as President Obama delivered a prime-time sales pitch for his embattled health care reform plan Wednesday, basic facts about coverage, cost and who foots the bills remain in dispute and many of the president's favorite talking points are challenged not only by Republicans but also by independent fact-checkers.

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Experts Dispute Some Points in Health Talk

By ROBERT PEAR and PETER BAKER

While it is true the American Medical Association has endorsed a bill drafted by House Democratic leaders, a half-dozen state medical societies have sharply criticized provisions that would establish a new government-run health insurance plan.
Likewise, Mr. Obama said Medicare could save large amounts of money by creating “an independent group of doctors and medical experts who are empowered to eliminate waste and inefficiency” and hold down the annual increases in payments to health care providers.

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Americans ‘Need to Pay’ for Chinese Emissions

By Keith Johnson

“It’s important that those who consume the products being made all around the world to the benefit of America — and it’s our own consumption activity that’s causing the emission of greenhouse gases, then quite frankly Americans need to pay for that,” Commerce Secretary Gary Locke told the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.

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Police Arrest, Handcuff 3 Young Children

Suzanne Collins

It was an experience 7-year-old Jesse Flayhart will never forget. He was arrested after he and two friends, 8 and 11 took a scooter, a go kart, and a wagon from a neighbor's yard. The boys were all handcuffed and taken to juvenile jail.

"They called the paddy wagon and put handcuffs on us.

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First Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 case found in Canada

CTV.ca News Staff

Canada has recorded its first case of Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 virus, in a Quebec man who had been given the drug to prevent infection.
The 60-year-old man was given the antiviral medication after his son fell ill with the pandemic virus. But he managed to come down with the flu anyway.

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We are now so spineless.................

By Boris Johnson

We will never conquer the Red Planet. Homo sapiens will flunk the next great test not because we lack the technology, nor even because we lack the money. We will fail, because – 40 years after the Moonshot – it is increasingly clear that we lack the willingness to take the necessary physical risk.

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A different take on moon landing

By JAMES H. WARNER

I, too, remember where I was and what I was doing on that day, However, I did not hear the news of the moon landing for several more years. I was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam and on July 20, 1969, I was in a small box that sat out in the sun in the third month of a prolonged interrogation about what the Communists were convinced was an escape attempt. Although we did not hear any news about the actual moon landing, the Apollo program did affect us in an interesting way because we thought the landing had happened several months earlier.

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Ancient Climate-Change Event Puzzles Scientists

By Phil Berardelli

Carbon dioxide (CO2) gets a bad rep for contributing to global warming, and deservedly so. But scientists say they can't entirely blame the greenhouse gas for a curious spike in Earth's temperature 55 million years ago. New research reveals that something else also seems to have warmed the planet during that time, though no one's quite sure what it was.

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Disaster fears as 'monster' eclipse looms

From correspondents in New Delhi, India

THE world's most populous nations will gaze skywards on Wednesday as the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st Century lays a carpet of darkness across India and China, from Mumbai to Shanghai. The event is being hyped in the obscure world of eclipse-chasers as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity which, due to its trajectory over some of the most densely inhabited areas on Earth, could end up being the most-watched eclipse in history.

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'I wed Iranian girls before execution'

The Jerusalem Post

In a shocking and unprecedented interview, directly exposing the inhumanity of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's religious regime in Iran, a serving member of the paramilitary Basiji militia has told this reporter of his role in suppressing opposition street protests in recent weeks.
He has also detailed aspects of his earlier service in the force, including his enforced participation in the rape of young Iranian girls prior to their execution.

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Change is Here, Change is Coming

Sam Webb

Let me begin with a simple observation: If the last 30 years were an era of reaction, then the coming decade could turn into an era of reform, even radical reform. Six months into the Obama presidency, I would say without hesitation that the landscape, atmosphere, conversation, and agenda have strikingly changed compared to the previous eight years.

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Parent-Paid Aides Ordered Out of New York City Schools

By WINNIE HU

For years, top Manhattan public schools have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from parents to independently hire assistants to help teachers with reading, writing, tying shoelaces or supervising recess. But after a complaint by the city’s powerful teachers union, the Bloomberg administration has ordered an end to the makeshift practice.

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Cap and Trade: A Comparison of Cost Estimates

Nicolas D. Loris

The U.S. House of Representatives passed, by
a narrow margin, a massive energy bill that most
notably includes a cap-and-trade program to
reduce carbon dioxide emissions and allegedly
curb global warming. A number of groups, including
The Heritage Foundation, have estimated the
costs of the bill introduced by Representatives

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It's Not An Option

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Congress: It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the House's "health care for all Americans" bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.

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Tax Hike Comin'

Likely missing from their pitch will be the tragic cost it will mean for the economy once the huge new tax hikes to pay for it are in place. The House bill, for instance, is estimated to cost $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion over 10 years. To pay for it, the White House has proposed raising taxes by $544 billion, almost all on the "rich" — those in the top 5% of incomes.

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