Tea Party Mom to GOP: “Actions, Not Words”

by elpresidente | 3:36 pm, December 7, 2009

—– Original Message —– From: Kathleen ***** To: Chairman@cologop.org Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 11:36 AM Subject: Why the Tea Party is so upset about McInnis Mr. Wadhams: Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “”In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. ” Last March [...]

Dear Nevada, Harry Reid has a message for you

by Mr. Bob | 2:39 pm, December 7, 2009

#tcot #teaparty #obamacare #harryreid
The majority of Nevadans do not want the government meddling with health care but Harry is flipping them off…he knows better than you.

If you are against government run healthcare, you’re like those who opposed the abolition of slavery.

Rasmussen Poll: Tea Party over GOP

by elpresidente | 1:16 pm, December 7, 2009

Apparently, Tea Party folks AREN’T settling for the GOP: In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting 36% of the vote. The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%, and Republicans finish third at 18%. Another 22% are undecided. Among voters not affiliated with either major party, the [...]

Send a message to the leaders of the world in Copenhagen

by Mr. Bob | 1:16 pm, December 7, 2009

150 characters or less. #tcot #agw #redco #teaparty
http://en.cop15.dk/greetings/send

Here was mine;

What you are doing is a fraud. 20 years ago it was global cooling, now warming? The science is junk. Go home stop wasting our money.

“Cap and Trade” Legislation Tied to Traders’ Pressures?

by redrocks | 11:13 am, December 7, 2009

Wonder why there’s such a rush, by relatively few, to push “cap and trade” legislation forward?

This Marketwatch article, timed with the Copenhagen meetings with week, does an excellent job identifying the dynamics — this potential $2 trillion new asset class has been “stalled” by lack of action in the US, and therefore carbon prices in [...]

Pearl Harbor Day 2009

by Mr. Bob | 11:11 am, December 7, 2009

Let us remember all those who were lost on that day. I will be visiting the memorial again this summer and I pray that my children are touched by all that can be learned there about the evil still loose in this world…and how it must be fought.

Great read at the Weekly Standard on the last living Pearl Harbor Medal of Honor.

Monday Quick Hits: GOP Unity, Church & State, Cold Fraud of Climategate

by Ben DeGrow | 9:21 am, December 7, 2009

After a busy weekend, all I have to offer are a few worthwhile reads for a Monday:

Last week Craig Steiner wrote an insightful piece titled “On GOP Unity in Colorado”, especially worthwhile for those who have followed the intense controversy around the “Platform for Prosperity” and misappropriated Tea Party endorsements
My Independence Institute colleague Jessica Peck [...]

Understanding “Hide the Decline”

by Rossputin | 6:47 am, December 7, 2009

H/T Paul Chesser

Here’s a must-read article for those who want to get into the weeds of “Mike’s Nature Trick”, also called “Hide the Decline”, by which the British Climate Research Unit and their American co-conspirators, particularly Michael Mann, committed scientific fraud in order to convince the world that man-made global warming is real:

See “Understanding Climategate’s Hidden Decline“, Marc Sheppard, American Thinker, 12/6/09
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/understanding_climategates_hid.html

 

Man-Made Global Warming is a religion

by Rossputin | 5:12 am, December 7, 2009

Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift who, when I used to watch the McLaughlin Group before John McLaughlin fell off the deep end, always struck me as someone who speaks entirely on what she hopes or “feels” rather than any sort of rationality, makes a statement that is remarkable for the truth it exposes:  Global Warming is a religion to the left.

Start at 1:20 into this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwBsklUtUQM

Myerson’s economic idiocy

by Rossputin | 4:48 am, December 7, 2009

In his December 3^rd column, Washington Post writer Harold Myerson argues for a second stimulus but bases that argument on information known to be unreliable and on misrepresentation of basic economic principles.

First, Myerson notes that a recent CBO report says “that federal spending has saved or created more than 640,000 jobs, and possibly as many as 1.6 million.” He does not mention the well-known inaccuracies in reported data, such as thousands of jobs being “saved or created” in Congressional districts that do not exist, firms reporting more jobs “saved or created” than their total number of employees, and multiple instances of firms saying they did not understand how to fill out the relevant forms.

More importantly, Myerson neglects to mention the CBO’s own critical caveat regarding the type of economic model used in their calculations of the effects of the stimulus. In particular, the CBO relies on “general-equilibrium” models which are widely believed to be unrealistic representations of actual human economic behavior and which produce “multipliers” much higher than either empirical data or other models suggest. (A multiplier is essentially the total effect on the economy of $1 spent. So if the government spends $1 in a situation where there is a multiplier effect of 2, that $1 will have created $2 of total economic activity.)

The CBO says they explicitly do not use other models despite skepticism about the model they do use. Thus they ignore the Life-Cycle Hypothesis (for which MIT economist Franco Modigliani won the 1985 Nobel Prize in Economics) and Milton Friedman’s Permanent Income Hypothesis, each of which attempts to better model human behavior.

The effect of the choice of model is to give a much higher range of multiplier to government spending and certain transfer payments than is widely believed outside of the few Keynesian economists left – most of whom happen to work for government, giving them a self-interest in increased government spending.

For example, the CBO estimates a minimum multiplier for purchases of goods and services by the government of 1 and a maximum of 2.5. A number of studies, however, conclude that the multiplier more likely has a maximum just above one and is generally less. In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece earlier this year, Harvard economics professor Robert Barro says that “when I attempted to estimate directly the multiplier associated with peacetime government purchases, I got a number insignificantly different from zero.”

These errors in multiplier assumptions make the lower end of the CBO’s estimate of jobs “created or saved” more likely to be the maximum than the minimum.

Myerson also argues that there should be a second stimulus because spending cutbacks and tax increases by state and local governments are partially offsetting federal spending. But, like the CBO’s refusal to use a model that represents how people actually behave, Myerson assumes that government can magically create wealth by spending even though government only gets money by taking it (in the future) as taxes or through debasing the currency, the fear of either being enough to cause entrepreneurs to avoid starting or expanding a business. In typical Keynsian fashion, Myerson assumes that you can take money from your left pocket, put it in your right pocket, and say you’ve gotten richer.

Myerson also notes that much of the “stimulus” spending has not yet occurred, being planned for 2010 despite being passed in February. Instead of concluding that we should enact a second stimulus, Myerson should have reached the more obvious conclusion that the stimulus was not intended – even by people who believe in Kenyesian pump-priming – to stimulate the economy as soon as possible. Instead, it was intended to stimulate the Democrats’ chances of minimizing electoral defeat in the 2010 elections by buying shovel-ready votes with our money.

Why to condemn insurance companies

by Brian Schwartz | 1:30 am, December 7, 2009

Is the for-profit insurance industry a “predator” that “prevent[s] us from having a decent health care system”?  Letter writer Bruce Robinson says so (Daily Camera, December 1). He’s partially right. The real predators are politicians who inhibit needed health policy reform.  But insurers are guilty for concealing how they benefit from Congress’s predatory practices, which [...]

ABC News Website tells kids when they should die to save energy

by Mr. Bob | 7:03 pm, December 6, 2009

#teaparty #globalwarming #agw #ABCNews
ABC News Website tells kids when they should die to save energy.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/abc-website-tells-kids-when-they-should-die/story-e6frfro0-1111116454821

hat tip @libertyideals

I have six children and I am so sick if this shite I could spit. Stop it please. They get this all the time in school, every cereal box, every cartoon…stop it….please. Conservation yes, not wasting ..yes, but worship the earth…no. That is religion and that is the parents job.

9/11 Families Rally Blasts Obama’s Show Trial Travesty

by El Marco | 3:43 pm, December 5, 2009

Who are Khalid Shaikh Mohammed’s “peers” for Jury Duty?
New York City, (in spirit), Dec. 5, 2009  -  by El Marco

Today 500 protesters rallied in the pouring cold rain at Manhattan’s federal courthouse where the recently announced Terrorist vs America, circus trials will take place. Two weeks ago, the 9/11 Never Forget Coalition sent a letter signed by [...]

Challenges to Campus Concealed-Carry Bans at CU, CSU will likely end up before Colorado Supreme Court

by CTBC Director | 5:56 am, December 5, 2009

Friday’s vote by the CSU System Board to institute a “weapons control policy” on campus – essentially, implementing a ban on legal concealed carry of firearms by licensed permit-holders – joins a similar ban by the University of Colorado Board of Regents as policies virtually certain to be legally challenged and ultimately decided by the [...]

Who wants this healthcare “reform”?

by Rossputin | 3:05 am, December 5, 2009

For today’s reading, may I refer you to my Human Events article from Thursday, “Who Wants This Healthcare ‘Reform’?” in which I discuss not only that question but also the issue of whether it is OK for such massive legislation to be passed on a party-line vote.

Please see “Who Wants This Healthcare ‘Reform’?”, Ross Kaminsky, HumanEvents.com, 12/3/09
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34652

Rob McNealy Kicks Off Campaign for Colorado Congressional District 6

by Live Free | 7:12 pm, December 4, 2009

Rob McNealy kicked off his campaign for United State Congress to represent Colorado Congressional District 6 this week a the South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce.  Rob McNealy will be challenging Republican incumbent Mike Coffman for the 2010 election.
Here’s the interesting part: Rob McNealy is running as a Libertarian candidate for Congress.
Yes, a Libertarian.
I attended [...]

Algore Confronted on Climategate in Chicago

by Mr. Bob | 1:38 pm, December 4, 2009

wow #climategate #teaparty #newworldorder

Mystery Science Ritter

by elpresidente | 1:15 pm, December 4, 2009

Original at WhoSaidYouSaid.com.

So You Wanna Be a Citizen Journalist?

by Jon Caldara | 1:02 pm, December 4, 2009

With the crumbling print media, radio, and television industries, more and more folks are getting their news from Al Gore’s greatest invention since global warming. I for one spend more time on the Internet than I do watching TV, listening to talk radio, or reading much of anything — and it’s not just because [...]

Scott McInnis and the Tea Parties in Colorado: Disconnect or Unity?

by elpresidente | 12:21 pm, December 4, 2009

Welcome Michelle Malkin readers–scroll for updates. **Update 2–McInnis campaign website has an official response: Working with Republican leaders from across the state, Scott McInnis has made incredible strides in Colorado towards unifying the Republican Party around a governing platform of Conservative principles based on limited government, and fiscal accountability. Scott has not taken these early [...]

NASA refusing to release its climate data? -so far yes

by Mr. Bob | 11:55 am, December 4, 2009

Read the STORY HERE
#tcot redco #climategate

Funny Cartoon of the Day from RedState

Thanks to Recovery.Gov, Time to Learn about Connecticut’s Fighting 42nd CD

by Ben DeGrow | 9:10 am, December 4, 2009

It’s Friday, time to lighten up … Remember all those extra phantom congressional districts on the $18 million federal government boondoggle Recovery.gov? Well, apparently they provide a fabulous educational opportunity. Compliments of the Franklin Center and the Colbert Report, here’s your chance to learn about Connecticut’s “Fighting” 42nd Congressional District. Prepare to laugh:

The Colbert Report
Mon [...]

More climate shenanigans from the same CRU

by Rossputin | 8:20 am, December 4, 2009

I’m proud to announce my first ever article for the American Spectator, now up at spectator.org.  It’s about an interesting and not widely publicized crack in the global warming alarmist establishment which preceded Climategate (and is now somewhat dwarfed by it, but is important nevertheless as you consider the actual “science” behind the alarmist claims.)

Please see “Dead Ringer“, Ross Kaminsky, Spectator.org,12/4/09
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/12/04/dead-ringer

Canada’s Obama Care

by Jon Caldara | 6:23 am, December 4, 2009

On this week’s Independent Thinking, Linda Gorman from the Independence Institute’s Health Care Policy Center and Wayne Laugesen from the Colorado Springs Gazette join me to talk about the Independence Institute’s recent health care fact finding trip to Vancouver to find real people with real stories about Canada’s single heath care system, and what government [...]

US Senate should take a lesson from Australia

by Rossputin | 4:52 am, December 4, 2009

Being married to an Australian and having lived “down under” for a brief time, I pay more attention than most Americans to Aussie politics.  A couple of years ago, Australian voters tossed out long-time Prime Minister John Howard basically because they were ready for something new, not because he was bad (like George W. Bush).  They replaced him and the Liberal Party (the more conservative of the two major parties) with Kevin Rudd of the Labour Party.

Rudd, like most leftists, is a believer in man-made global warming and in massive cap-and-trade/tax systems to deal with the “problem”.

The Australian Senate was to vote on the implementation of a massive cap-and-tax system, but before the vote came up, there was a mini-revolution in Australian politics.

The then-current Liberal leader, Malcolm Turnbull, who supported Kevin Rudd’s massive taxation plan, was ousted in a 42-41 vote by Liberal senators and replaced with Tony Abbott, a man who is explicitly not a global warming “skeptic” but who is vehemently opposed to the carbon trading system.

After Abbott’s takeover, the carbon trading scheme went down in a 33-41 vote.

Obviously, all the US Republican senators together don’t have the power to stop anything if all the Democrats (and two Independents) stick together.  But in general, what a great lesson for American politicians.  It’s time to jettison those who would work with the left to slightly improve the worst legislation  in history and pass the second-worst legislation in history.

It’s time to jettison Snow, Graham, and probably McCain. Time to jettison Mary Bono, Mark Kirk, and their ilk from the House. (Kirk is running to replace Roland Burris’ Illinois senate seat.)

Abbott has said that the conservative coalition in Australia will not have a carbon tax as part of their platform in the 2010 elections.

Still, the alarmist Labour Party isn’t giving up. They plan to reintroduce legislation in February with modifications worked out with certain Liberal members of the Senate.  Abbott must hold off the Aussie version of RINOs and should spend the next two months explaining to the Australian public how enormous the damage to their economy would be should the measure pass.

Again, our senators can take a lesson from Abbott.  Even though he’s wrong about humans being an important factor in climate, he at least realizes that you can’t solve the problem by destroying the economy.  Our Democratic senators in particularly need to think about that sort of cost/benefit analysis not just with cap-and-tax, but also – or especially – with health care “reform”.  I’m not holding my breath.

What else can go wrong for climate alarmists?

by Rossputin | 4:12 am, December 4, 2009

I got this in my e-mail on Wednesday.

Where are you now, Algore?

WHISTLER BLACKCOMB SMASHES 30-YEAR RECORD FOR SNOWIEST MONTH EVER WITH OVER 5.5 METRES (18 FEET) OF SNOWFALL

As the calendar flips over to December, it’s now official that November 2009 will go down in history as the snowiest month on record at Whistler Blackcomb, dating back to when the collection of weather data began 30 years ago.

November 2009 has seen a total accumulation of 560cm (18 feet) of snowfall, nearly four times that of November’s average snowfall of 148cm (58 inches). This is an increase of more than 19 per cent over the previous record of 469cm (185 inches) set in January 2006, and a 22 per cent increase over January 1992’s record of 459cm (181 inches).

Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey to pick commissioner to rewrite Colorado Constitution?

by CTBC Director | 11:45 pm, December 3, 2009

So much for constitutionally mandated separation of powers and “checks and balances…”
A recent editorial on the Colorado Legislature’s “Long Term Fiscal Stability Commission” (a 16-member group dominated by big-government advocates thinly disguising yet another attempt to eviscerate – or outright eliminate – the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, TABOR) brought to light a troubling attempt to bypass [...]

Senate health-care bill: insurance premiums soar like a Tiger Woods drive

by Brian Schwartz | 11:37 pm, December 3, 2009

The CBO predicts higher insurance premiums, but what do supporters say? From the Wall Street Journal:
“No Big Cost Rise in U.S. Premiums Is Seen in Study,” said the New York Times, while the Washington Post declared, “Senate Health Bill Gets a Boost.” The White House crowed that the CBO report was “more good news about [...]

Lang Sias Joins Crowded GOP Field in Colorado 7th Congressional Race

by Ben DeGrow | 5:43 pm, December 3, 2009

ARVADA–Add one more to the list of Republican candidates for Colorado’s 7th Congressional District. This morning at DiCicco’s Restaurant in Old Town Arvada, U.S. Navy veteran and former McCain presidential senior staff member Lang Sias told a crowd of about 20 supporters that he was officially throwing his hat into the ring to challenge incumbent [...]

CSU May Ban Licensed Carry of Concealed Weapons

by wesley | 5:12 pm, December 3, 2009

**Update: Larimer County Sheriff Responds to CSU’s Proposed Ban** Sheriff Jim Alderden makes me proud to be a Coloradan. Here’s the lead of his letter to CSU President Tony Frank (read the entire letter here – H/T to PPC reader Jim) As a former CSU student, former CSU police officer, chief law enforcement officer in [...]

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