The loathesome ex-House Speaker, who has been singularly awful on the Ground Zero mosque issue, reaches down into the septic tank for more : “I think the Congress has the ability to declare the area a national battlefield memorial because I think we should think of the World Trade Center as a battlefield site; this is a war,” he said And if that fails, he said, the state government should step in and use its considerable power to stymie the development.
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Gingrich: Use Government Power to Trample Property Rights of Muslims
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* Meg Whitman proves that a smart person can always get out of jury duty, is dismissed after five-hour ordeal.
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California Roundup: Teachers Union Warns of Technopocalypse Under New Obama Admin. Testing Plan
In today’s Washington Post , Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Vincent Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, explain why their groups have filed a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s policy of “targeted killing” for suspected terrorists. Romero and Warren say targeted killing can be justified 1) on the battlefield as part of an armed conflict (in Afghanistan, for example) or 2) outside of an armed conflict “as a last resort and in the face of a truly imminent threat to life.” But Obama’s policy, based on the view (also espoused by his predecessor) that the entire world is a battlefield in the War on Terror/War on Al Qaeda, gives the executive branch carte blanche to kill people it unilaterally identifies as members or supporters of Al Qaeda, including U.S
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Challenging Obama’s License to Kill
When President Obama made his pitch for the health care overhaul, he framed it this way: “Insurance reform; making sure that you can have choices in the marketplace for health insurance, and making it affordable for people; and reducing costs.” It was a pitch aimed at consumers: More access, more choices, lower prices. But over at InsureBlog, certified underwriter Bob Vineyard scans the health insurance market in Georgia and finds that, in the post-PPACA insurance market, there have definitely been changes—but not the ones Obama promised. From the highlight (lowlight?) reel: All but two health insurance companies have withdrawn from offering maternity benefits
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ObamaCare: It’s Going to Get Worse Before It Gets Worse
Here’s Jill Lawrence at Politics Daily : After talking to five economists, I can give you the bottom line: Spending the money differently probably wouldn’t have changed our circumstances much. But the economists took diverse paths to that conclusion, and they have varying opinions about where to go from here…
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It’s Not the Size of the Stimulus.
Later this month an FDA advisory committee is scheduled to consider whether the agency should require a prescription for Robitussin, NyQuil, and other medications containing dextromethorphan (DXM), a cough suppressant that has dramatic psychoactive effects in large doses.
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Tripping Over Robo-Tripping
According to preliminary news reports a non-producing oil platform run by Mariner Energy is burning about 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana in about 2500 feet of water.
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Explosion on Another Oil Platform in Gulf of Mexico
* Bankrupt city to make sure every golf cart driver is a government employee: The City of Los Angeles, after spending seven years negotiating the golf cart concession for its seven!!! (7!!!) public courses, drops the private company and decides to get into the golf cart business itself.
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California Roundup: Plastic Bags and Government Golf Cart Drivers Are Up; Illegal Immigration, Bad Surfers Are Down
I’ve occasionally heard it said that any law where all parties are dissatisfied in a good law. But I’m skeptical.
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New Hong Kong Minimum Wage Law Makes Everyone Unhappy
If drinking makes us healthier and wealthier , why is America’s liquor policy so screwy? Jimmy Carter legalized home brewing in 1978, and that newfound freedom fueled the craft beer movement that continues to lavish beer lovers with endless choices.
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Free the ‘Shine! Why It’s Finally Time to Legalize Liquor
