Americans Still Embrace Ideals from Declaration of Independence
Posted on July 3, 2009 by SiteAdmin
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Americans are celebrating the nation’s 233rd birthday, and the words of the Declaration of Independence will be heard at countless patriotic ceremonies across the land. The core ideals articulated by those words are still embraced by solid majorities of the American public.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 89% of American adults agree that “we are all endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Only seven percent (7%) disagree on that founding premise.
Seventy-four percent (74%) agree with the assertion that “all men are created equal” while just 23% disagree.
Fifty-six percent (56%) agree with the view that governments derive their only just authority from the “consent of the governed.” Interestingly, one-in-four Americans (25%) disagree.
Other survey data shows that voters nationwide overwhelming trust the American people to make key decisions more than they trust political leaders. Those who disagree and hold a Political Class perspective represent a small minority of the population.
via Rasmussen Reports™: Americans Still Embrace Ideals from Declaration of Independence.
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OBAMA: coup in Honduras is illegal
Posted on July 2, 2009 by Mark D (the Scribe)
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Krauthammer Rule of Thumb: If you find yourself on the same side as Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega and the Castro twins, you ought to re-examine your assumptions.
Americans need to re-examine their assumptions. We were the leader of the free world. Not anymore.
REUTERS: Honduras resists pressure to allow Zelaya’s return
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Study: Political leanings drive car choice
Posted on June 30, 2009 by SysAdmin
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In the ’80s, it was the politics of dancing. In the ’90s, the politics of caring. Today, in bailout nation, we have the politics of driving.
The Volvo-driving liberal and the redneck in a Chevy pickup are long-held stereotypes. But a map of car ownership – produced by R.L. Polk & Co. – overlaid on the electoral map reveals the surprising extent to which how we vote corresponds with what we drive.
Blue-staters on each coast, from Los Angeles to Seattle and from Boston to the District, are the most likely to drive foreign cars. Domestic brands have their highest levels of market share in the mostly conservative interior of the country.
In some blue states – where a Democrat has won at least three of the last four presidential contests – foreign cars have as much as 60 percent of the market, as measured by vehicle registrations. It is mostly in red states – Republican strongholds – where domestic cars have 74 percent of the market or more.
This pattern holds in 36 states and the District.
via Washington Times – Study: Political leanings drive car choice.
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Obama’s Gangster Government
Posted on June 29, 2009 by Mark D (the Scribe)
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Elections matter.
None of this would be happening if not for the major media complicity in hiding the truth about the Obama and the Congressional Democrats.
I have a question for North Carolina voters. Where is our Michele Bachmanns?
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Cap & Trade or Capture and Traitor?
Posted on June 28, 2009 by Guest Columnist
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Cap & Trade or Capture and Traitor?
by Craig Horn
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certainly hope that I am not one of the right-wing nut jobs to which frequent reference is made when discussing politics or the actions of our elected officials. But, I have no confidence in a Congress, or anyone else for that matter, that takes no responsibility for its own actions.
Just a few short months ago, the Congress of the United States passed the biggest spending bill in our nation’s history without even reading it. If this is outrageous to you, fasten your seatbelts, the ride gets more bumpy ahead.
Yesterday, June 26, 2009, Congress passed another bill without reading it and this one may just kill us. “Cap & Trade,” as it has become known is the Waxman-Markey Bill to reduce the heating-trapping gases (commonly known as greenhouse gas) that build up in the atmosphere and gradually shift America to cleaner sources of energy. Sounds great, doesn’t it? We are “finally going to do something about climate change!
Well, as Werner Wolfe used to say, “let’s go to the video-tape,” let’s take a closer look!
Sponsor Congressman Ed Markey, D-Mass, says, “this is the bill that the American people were calling for in the 2008 election, a fundamental change that breaks our dependence on foreign oil, creates jobs and reduces the pollution we put up in the atmosphere.” He went on to say that this bill “would create millions of new clean energy jobs in whole new industries with incentives to drive competition in the energy marketplace” and save Americans money by updating efficiency standards on buildings and appliances.
Now let me get this straight, we are going to save Americans money by raising utility bills and establishing a whole new bureaucracy to set caps on emissions and the sale of pollution credits among the energy producers. No potential for corruption here!
The CBO, Congressional Budget Office, says that the bill would cost the average household $175 a year in 2020. What about before 2020? The EPA, Environmental Protection Agency, estimates a lower cost and says that this legislation would lower utility bills by 7 percent because of increases in efficiency. What has the government EVER done to improve efficiency?
But, the little old, and apparently unaware, Massachusetts Institute of Technology reveals in its study that this bill will cost $3,100 per household. But, no matter, what do they know!
Personally, I do think that we humans are often our own worst enemies and I do think that unchecked and wonton pollution has, is and will continue to cause dramatic impact on our planet. And I believe that we humans cannot be counted on to do the right thing. Believe me I hate saying that, but history and experience have proven this to be true.
What do I think is needed? Leadership not dictatorship; accountability not finger-pointing. I think that this bill provides neither.
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Union Toons: What dysfunctional County Government?
Posted on June 24, 2009 by Mark D (the Scribe)
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