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In North Dakota, state senators are considering a bill that would put the government in direct competition with private enterprise by guaranteeing bonds to finance a pipeline project designed to deliver water to the oil industry. The proposal is called the Western Area Water Supply Project (HB 1206) and would pump water from the Missouri River to be sold to cities and oil companies. While the state may have a legitimate role in facilitating the delivery of potable water for human consumption, it has no business selling it to the oil industry when individual  entrepreneurs are already doing it or building the infrastructure to do it better and more efficiently.

Planned Parenthood and the Infanticide crowd can not argue facts....they must deceive to keep the blood $$$$$$$$$$$$ rolling in.

According to Webster, at the moment of conception the fertilized egg is in fact human and a being. Of that there is no doubt.

Thus, according to Black's Law, a human being is a PERSON. Furthermore, that PERSON is a CHILD.

Schiller is being heavily criticized for these comments, as is NPR and elite liberal thinking in general. Schiller, NPR Foundation president and vice president for development (until these comments), is the Left’s latest exhibit in smearing the Tea Party movement as bigots, racists, fascists, Hitler-ites, followers of Attila the Hun, Torquemada, Genghis Khan, or whatever other handy demon. Yet, what’s telling about Schiller’s comments is their lack of factual basis, an even greater sin from a man whose business, and erstwhile employer, is the reporting of facts.

NPR’s Ron Schiller is the extremist when it comes to Tea Party views.

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How mean-spirited are House Republicans? So mean-spirited that they would end federally-funded cowboy poetry! Last Tuesday, Harry Reid, the Majority Leader, took to the senate floor to thunder that this town ain’t big enough for both him and the Mean-Spirited Kid (John Boehner). “The mean-spirited bill, HR 1 …eliminates the National Endowment of the Humanities, National Endowment of the Arts,” said Senator Reid.

Well, because these days, what doesn’t? Once upon a time, the cowboy embodied the rugged individualism of the frontier. In Harry Reid’s world, he embodies dependency without end.

Europe’s years of experience shows that multiculturalism has not lived up to its claims. It did not create the panacea of a harmonious society celebrating diversity. In stead, Europe’s experience proved multiculturalism to be destructive of the host society while preserving and isolating the perpetrating culture.

It was 65 years ago, March 5, 1946, when Winston Churchill delivered his ‘Iron Curtain’ speech in Fulton, Missouri. It was a speech that rocked the world and changed history. By then, Churchill was no longer British prime minister... Churchill and his work, however, were hardly finished. He had been called upon to save Western civilization at the start of the decade, when Hitler’s Germany was at the gates. Now, he saw new vandals, equally dangerous, already inside the gates, and colored red. Stalin was their dictator.

It took the rest of the world a while to awaken to Churchill’s reality. When it did, it recognized the prime minister as a political prophet. But on March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill was a voice in the wilderness.

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Public employee salaries should track market conditions as much as possible.  The debate should be over whether that is happening, not whether public employees are making too much or too little.

What’s south of Europe’s border? Why, it’s even livelier. In Libya, there are presently one million refugees from sub-Saharan Africa whose ambition is to get in a boat to Italy. There isn’t a lot to stop them. Between now and mid-century, Islam and sub-Saharan Africa will be responsible for almost all the world’s population growth – and yet, aside from a few thousand layabout Saudi princes whoring in Mayfair, they will enjoy almost none of the world’s wealth.

In what amounts to a high-stakes game of ‘chicken,’ the big spenders always win, because the fiscal conservatives always blink. They know that a majority of the public fears the disruption of a government shutdown today more than they do a potential major upheaval at some unspecified date in the future. We fiscal conservatives have come across like the boy who cried, ‘Wolf!’ We have warned about the perils of red ink for years, but Armageddon hasn’t come. I think we will be proven right eventually, but we can no more foretell when the federal debt will blow up than one can predict which straw will break the camel’s back.

All personal names and location names have been altered for reasons that should be obvious. This is a recent message home to families from a Company Commander. It is offered to provide readers with insight into the bravery of our soldiers and the sacrifices they make toward our national security and the freedoms we too often take for granted.

Imagine that you’re a young adolescent boy.  Like many your age, you’re shy around girls, perhaps to the point at which even talking to one might make your heart race.  You also like sports, so you go out for your school’s wrestling team.  Then, lo and behold, you’re at a meet, and something hits you like a load of bricks.

Your opponent is going to be a girl. 

You’re going to have to grapple with her.  In front of spectators.  Touching—and being touched in—intimate places. 

There are a bunch of objections I could raise to these statements. Primarily, however, the problem with [Howard] Dean’s comments on the ‘purpose’ and ‘job’ of government is the complete lack of qualification. Dean gives a definition of government that is a leftist definition, provided by a modern liberal/progressive. Howard Dean cannot, logically, honestly, factually, categorically argue that his definition is anything beyond that.

What Howard Dean offered was an expansive modern ‘progressive’ definition of government, that’s fine, but his terms need to be identified as just that…. No, I’m not calling Lawrence O’Donnell and Howard Dean communists, but I am calling them Leftists and redistributionists. That’s what they are, as is their definition of government. Their definition is, first and foremost, theirs—not America’s.

Over the past twenty years I've often written about "the Hive" - my nickname for the informal body of opinion comprising liberals, socialists, outright Communists, and various other strains of "progressive" opinion.

Like an odor, such folk are easier to sense than to define. They include assorted activists for specific causes, as well as more passive enablers, especially in the news media. The Democratic Party is their chief American organ.

USA Today Report Says North Dakota State-Employees Make Marginally More Than The Average Worker

Tucson Episode Illustrates Inadequacy of Obama Care - It is impossible to treat the victims with this kind of speed and with the kind of technology applied to the case of Congresswoman Giffords. Few would likely survive, or if they did by some miracle, we would never expect to see a full recovery.  In such a situation the concept of triage comes into play with the best cases for survival getting immediate attention and the rest waiting until 1) everyone else is taken care of or 2) they die waiting. 

While the Obama administration and Democrats are in contempt of court for continuing to implement a voided law, Democrats like Conrad are still in contempt of the people. Democrats are continuing to rule against the will of the American people. In disregarding our constitution, Democrats are acting like lawless third world dictators. All that’s missing are military uniforms and sunglasses.

It is impossible to treat the victims with this kind of speed and with the kind of technology applied to the case of Congresswoman Giffords. Few would likely survive, or if they did by some miracle, we would never expect to see a full recovery.  In such a situation the concept of triage comes into play with the best cases for survival getting immediate attention and the rest waiting until 1) everyone else is taken care of or 2) they die waiting.

The entitlement mentality in unions has come home to roost. Unions believe they are entitled to whatever they demand simply because they demand it. Our schools, politicians and society condition people to be endlessly selfish. It is perfectly acceptable to live off neighbors and unions are no exception. They have the power to impose their will over the voters. The tax eaters have multiplied faster than the taxpayers. FDR, JFK and LBJ would never recognize the union protestors in Wisconsin as Democrats.

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But the worst kind of insensitivity is numbness to Truth.  The Truth is always a defense, as it originates with a source that transcends courts and human-rights tribunals.  And this should make a person wonder, if an entity suppresses it, whose bidding is it really doing?

Ah, the irony.  A government suppresses Truth on behalf of a group that sometimes may call that government as satanic.  Well, I suppose everyone is right about something.

As an educator, I have great respect for all those (and they are many) in my chosen profession who capably and even brilliantly serve our nation’s youth. The fact is, though, that the status quo is untenable.

What is really at stake in the Wisconsin donnybrook is whether individual liberty or government power has the upper hand in our country. We are witnessing a battle for the soul of the republic.

Adversity is often opportunity in disguise and hereby affords a readymade opportunity to turn the tables on Liberals and Democrats. What a great opportunity to defeat the liberal planet-saving nostrum of coercing people to behave in certain ways contrary to their instincts, to wit: buying hybrid and electric cars. Using Rule #13 from Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals,” wouldn’t he be proud of those who would effect change. Alinsky’s Rule # 13, you will recall states, “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” On second thought, use of Rule #13 by conservatives isn’t exactly what Alinsky had in mind. Nevertheless, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

I was quite impressed by the computer, which easily beat the two most successful ‘Jeopardy!’ players of all time. Some might see this victory of a machine over human champions as a cause for concern, perhaps thinking of Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey. While there may be some cause for concern, it is not of the ‘Space Odyssey’ variety. In truth, humans are firmly in control of any dangers.

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Well, Justin Bieber has lost his political virginity.  And it was taken by, of all people, the stoners at Rolling Stone magazine.

Excerpts released from an upcoming interview with the teen star included political statements that, as some reading this will know, have earned him criticism in conservative circles.  What fewer in the right-blogosphere may realize, however, is that they also brought him lashing from the left.  Attacked from the right, attacked from the left…yikes.

The truth is that anthropogenic global warming remains an unproven theory with much of it resting on climate computer models programmed with the equations and assumptions the builder thinks causes global warming. The resulting 50-100 year forecasts reflect his opinion and 100% of the time provide the result he programmed in.

Why anyone would think a chaotic system can be accurately represented this way, when there is nothing for natural cycles, changes in the sun, magnetic fields, geothermal heat. It lacks key deep ocean data as well as information regarding interactions involving water vapor and feedback mechanisms/climate sensitivity.

We simply cannot let North Dakota reach the absurd levels of government that exist in liberal Wisconsin (or Minnesota for that matter). We simply must not let our government employees in North Dakota become so large in numbers and so “entitled” that they act as unprofessionally as those public employees that are currently embarrassing all of the residents of Wisconsin!