Appeals Judge Demands Justice Department Clarify Obama's Remarks On Judicial Review - Investors.com

Appeals Judge Demands Justice Department Clarify Obama's Remarks On Judicial Review - Investors.com: ""I want to be sure that you are telling us that the attorney general and the Department of Justice do recognize the authority of the federal courts through unelected judges to strike acts of Congress or portions thereof in appropriate cases," Smith said."

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Obama Blasts Free Market Economics As The World Is Largely Embracing It - Investors.com

Obama Blasts Free Market Economics As The World Is Largely Embracing It - Investors.com: "Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Chapman, who first spotted the incredible World Bank report released Feb. 29, noted Thursday the cut in the world poverty rate coincided exactly with global gains in economic freedom. "

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The Real Employment Data Are Bleak And Don't Look Good For An Obama Re-Election - Investors.com

The Real Employment Data Are Bleak And Don't Look Good For An Obama Re-Election - Investors.com: "CBO report: "The share of unemployed people looking for work for more than six months — referred to as the long-term unemployed — topped 40% in December 2009 for the first time since 1948, when such data began to be collected; it has remained above that level ever since.""

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White House Underestimated 2012 Deficit By 138%... - Deficit - Fox Nation

White House Underestimated 2012 Deficit By 138%... - Deficit - Fox Nation: "the White House does not have a good record in estimating what the federal deficit will be in future years.

In February 2009, Obama submitted his first budget to Congress. It boldly predicted that the federal deficit would decrease dramatically during Obama’s term, dropping from an estimated $1.841 trillion in fiscal 2009 to $557.4 billion in fiscal 2012."

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The best article on wind farms you will ever read – Telegraph Blogs

The best article on wind farms you will ever read – Telegraph Blogs: "Have a look at this debate between pro-renewables campaigner Jonathan Pyke and Mark Duchamp of the European Platform Against Wind Farms in The Earth Times and you'll see what I mean:
Q: How accurate is the argument that wind turbines have to be 'backed-up' by alternative sources of power, eg nuclear or coal, due to the irregularity of wind?
Jonathan: It's not accurate and I think it stems from a misunderstanding about what wind energy is for. It's better to think of wind as the back-up for gas, allowing us to make much better use of our existing fossil fuel power plants than relying on gas alone. "

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'Germany's George Monbiot' turns climate sceptic – Telegraph Blogs

'Germany's George Monbiot' turns climate sceptic – Telegraph Blogs: "One of the fathers of Germany’s modern green movement, Professor Dr. Fritz Vahrenholt, a social democrat and green activist, decided to author a climate science skeptical book together with geologist/paleontologist Dr. Sebastian Lüning. Vahrenholt’s skepticism started when he was asked to review an IPCC report on renewable energy. He found hundreds of errors. When he pointed them out, IPCC officials simply brushed them aside. Stunned, he asked himself, “Is this the way they approached the climate assessment reports?”"

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RealClearPolitics - The Galileo of Global Warming

RealClearPolitics - The Galileo of Global Warming: "Those who have followed the global warming controversy over the years may recall that cloud-formation is one of the major gaps in the computerized climate "models" used by the consensus scientists to predict global warming. They have never had a theory to explain how and why clouds form or to account accurately for their effect on the climate. Svensmark has smashed through this glaring gap in their theory."

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Stephen Moore: A Fairness Quiz for the President - WSJ.com

Stephen Moore: A Fairness Quiz for the President - WSJ.com:

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Wind Power Does Not Equal Job Power - ABC News

Wind Power Does Not Equal Job Power - ABC News: ""Most of the jobs are going overseas," said Russ Choma at the Investigative Reporting Workshop. He analyzed which foreign firms had accepted the most stimulus money. "According to our estimates, about 6,000 jobs have been created overseas, and maybe a couple hundred have been created in the U.S."

Even with the infusion of so much stimulus money, a recent report by American Wind Energy Association showed a drop in U.S. wind manufacturing jobs last year."

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State of the Union Flop - Charles Krauthammer - National Review Online

State of the Union Flop - Charles Krauthammer - National Review Online: "Back to the decade-old Democratic obsession with the Bush tax cuts, the crusade for a tax hike of all of 4.6 points for 2 percent of households — ten years of which wouldn’t cover the cost of Obama’s 2009 stimulus alone.

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Review & Outlook: The Greece Next Door - WSJ.com

Review & Outlook: The Greece Next Door - WSJ.com: "Only a year ago, Governor Pat Quinn and his fellow Democrats raised individual income taxes by 67% and the corporate tax rate by 46%. They did it to raise $7 billion in revenue, as the Governor put it, to "get Illinois back on fiscal sound footing" and improve the state's credit rating.

So much for that. In its downgrade statement, Moody's panned Illinois lawmakers for "a legislative session in which the state took no steps to implement lasting solutions to its severe pension underfunding or to its chronic bill payment delays.""

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Rejecting the Keystone pipeline is an act of insanity - The Washington Post

Rejecting the Keystone pipeline is an act of insanity - The Washington Post: "President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico is an act of national insanity. It isn’t often that a president makes a decision that has no redeeming virtues and — beyond the symbolism — won’t even advance the goals of the groups that demanded it. All it tells us is that Obama is so obsessed with his reelection that, through some sort of political calculus, he believes that placating his environmental supporters will improve his chances."

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Obama’s Keystone pipeline rejection is hard to accept - The Washington Post

Obama’s Keystone pipeline rejection is hard to accept - The Washington Post: "We almost hope this was a political call because, on the substance, there should be no question. Without the pipeline, Canada would still export its bitumen — with long-term trends in the global market, it’s far too valuable to keep in the ground — but it would go to China. "

And, as a State Department report found, U.S. refineries would still import low-quality crude — just from the Middle East. Stopping the pipeline, then, wouldn’t do anything to reduce global warming, but it would almost certainly require more oil to be transported across oceans in tankers.

Environmentalists and Nebraska politicians say that the route TransCanada proposed might threaten the state’s ecologically sensitive Sand Hills region. But TransCanada has been willing to tweak the route, in consultation with Nebraska officials, even though a government analysis last year concluded that the original one would have “limited adverse environmental impacts.” Surely the Obama administration didn’t have to declare the whole project contrary to the national interest — that’s the standard State was supposed to apply — and force the company to start all over again.

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