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Another public service announcement from the Hard Starboard Radio Network....

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Since the 1970s, Detroit's Big Three auto makers have failed to keep up in the competitive auto industry.   High labor costs and inflexible work rules, as well as a failure to overcome negative consumer sentiments have combined to bring the Detroit-based auto manufacturers to their knees. Now they are begging the federal government for a bailout to the tune of $75 billion!

Take Action Now and send a message to Congress and the president that taxpayers should not have to pay for decades of bad business decisions by the Big Three auto makers.

Ten years ago the Big Three posted a combined profit of over $16 billion dollars.  But management failed to wisely invest these profits.

The Big Three are heavily weighed down by irresponsible labor costs.  The problem in the auto industry is caused by unrealistic union contracts written decades ago.    These contracts did not give the industry the flexibility it needed to respond to market changes and burdened the industry with legacy costs. But if Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid have their way, the taxpayers are going to get stuck with the costs of Big Labor's demands!

General Motors is leading the call for the $75 billion taxpayer bailout, speeding up the $25 billion loan program to develop fuel-efficient vehicles, $25 billion in general support to keep the companies operating, and $25 billion to bailout promises to union benefits.  

A GM-funded grassroots campaign is even threatening us with blackmail.  They are saying, "We can loose $25 billion now, or lose $156 billion later."  They want to make their problems our problems.   They claim "domestic auto production would fall to zero" - as if suppliers and other profitable manufacturers would not adjust.

It is time to draw the line in the sand when it comes to federal bailouts. So far, the forgotten man, the middle class U.S. taxpayer, has had to bail out Wall Street, AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We are sick and tired of having to pay for the recklessness of others, and we are not going to take it any more.

Take Action Now and let the politicians know how you feel about this latest government bailout. The Senate vote is likely this week and if we speak loudly with one voice on this issue, perhaps we can put an end to the madness.

Thanks for your continued support for lower taxes, less government and more freedom.

Sincerely,

Another public service announcement from the Hard Starboard Radio Network....

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Do you believe that liberals already dominate the media?

Do you think biased coverage played a large part in the outcome of the presidential election?

If you think things were bad in that regard...

IMAGINE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF WE ALLOW LIBERALS TO FOLLOW THROUGH WITH THEIR PLANS TO IMPOSE THE SO-CALLED FAIRNESS DOCTRINE AND SUCCEED IN SILENCING CONSERVATIVE TALK-RADIO HOSTS LIKE RUSH LIMBAUGH AND SEAN HANNITY AND LAURA INGRAHAM!

Do liberals actually believe that conservative opinions are pornography?

Are liberals so threatened that they're plotting and planning right now, at this very minute, to silence conservative thoughts and opinions from the public airwaves? 

You be the judge.

FOX News asked Senator Chuck Schumer if liberals in Congress will try to implement the so-called Fairness Doctrine - a measure specifically designed to shut down Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and conservative talk radio. 

Schumer replied indignantly:

“Do you think we should allow people to put pornography on the air? Absolutely not. Particularly on television or radio." 

Huh? No, it's NOT a joke! And he didn't stop there. 

Schumer nastily admonished decent Americans for some imagined hypocrisy:

“The very same people who don’t want the Fairness Doctrine want the FCC [Federal Communications Commission] to limit pornography on the air.... That’s not consistent.” 

It's almost beyond belief. 

We couldn't have made it up!

Is Schumer so unhinged that he's not even capable of understanding the fundamental difference between smut and political expression?

Craig Parshall, general counsel for the National Religious Broadcasters said:

"I was stunned by Senator Schumer’s suggestion that by keeping filth off the air, the federal government has somehow become empowered to take over the control of legitimate programming content of broadcasters."

But Parshall missed one very important point.

With control of the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives, Schumer and his liberal colleagues are twisting the First Amendment’s guarantees of Freedom of Speech and of the Press – ALL TO SET THE STAGE TO SILENCE RUSH, HANNITY AND OTHERS.

If you're a liberal, you can burn the flag, put four-letter-word bumper stickers on your car, commit lewd acts on-stage, play profane rap music loudly on your car radio, produce, rent and distribute the most disgusting filth in broad daylight and on the Internet in plain view of minors and even use taxpayer dollars to depict Jesus suspended in bodily waste.

But when it comes to shutting down conservative thoughts and opinions, now that they have grabbed the reins of power, liberals are making control over the content of speech a top priority!

They're plotting and maneuvering behind the scenes to make it happen RIGHT NOW!

Peter Kirsanow writing in National Review Online tells us why this fight is URGENT:

"Imposition of some form of the Fairness Doctrine likely will be one of the Democrats' agenda items for the first 100 days of the new administration. It's important that conservatives begin working now to stop it."

Kirsanow went on:

"Waiting until Inauguration Day to get geared up is too late. By that time the Fairness Doctrine Express will be at full steam — wavering Democrats will be pressed to support the new Democratic president, weak-kneed Republicans will want to display comity, the mainstream media will not be saddened to see talk radio annihilated and much of the public will be too enraptured by Obama's Camelot inauguration to notice or care."

Kirsanow is right.

There is not a moment to lose. If we take a stand now, we can defeat this threat to our civil liberties.

If we wait, it will be too late.

Use the hyperlink below and bombard President George W. Bush and the Republican Members of the Senate with your Blast Faxes. Demand that they stand firm against any attempt by liberals in Congress to effectively outlaw the First Amendment.

We must act now! Liberals in Congress may try to sneak the Fairness Doctrine into legislation any day now. Liberal pundits inside the Beltway and members of the elite media are already attempting to sell conservative Senators on the notion that their only chance for political survival is to display comity. Unless they hear from you now, they WILL believe it, as they have in the past.

We can win this fight. It only takes 40 Senators to stand firm . But if patriotic Americans do not speak up, we will lose this fight for our liberties.

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"Congress Shall Make No Law..."

You might think it's almost beyond belief, but our Founding Fathers understood and dreaded the danger we presently face.

They feared the danger to such an extent that they ratified, as the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, words they thought would be our primary line of defense against the government evolving into a tyranny that would trample on the rights of the people.

To them the danger was real:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech...."

It was not a fluke that the above words came first.

Our Founding Fathers knew that all of our rights flow directly from those fundamental liberties.

And they knew that once the government began eliminating our First Amendment freedoms, all of our other rights would fall like dominoes.

Despots in the modern era knew it as well.

Gaining control of the media is typically the first act of a leftist usurper.

When Castro took power in Cuba, he imprisoned journalists en masse and continued to do so throughout his regime, holding those who opposed him indefinitely without charges. When Josef Stalin returned from exile in March of 1917 he immediately assumed control of an underground publication founded by Leon Trotsky called Pravda (which, ironically, translates as "Truth") and made it an official arm of the Soviet Communist Party. Pravda became and remained the chief propaganda arm of the Soviet Communist Party until it was shut down in 1991 by Boris Yeltsin. Subscription to Pravda was MANDATORY. Immediately after assuming power in 1933, Adolf Hitler placed Joseph Goebbels in charge of the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. All journalists, writers, and artists were required to register with the ministry.

But this is the United States where, unfortunately, such strong-arm tactics are not necessary because liberals already control the media, EXCEPT for conservative talk radio.

Kirsanow again:

"Talk radio is the most important medium conservatives have. It's the only medium conservatives dominate. But liberals aren't content to have only NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, AP, Reuters, Newsweek, Time, the NY Times, Washington Post, Hollywood, etc. Stray conservative thoughts might escape into the population, you know."

CNSNews quoting Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland:

"The government 'has the responsibility' to make sure there are a 'variety of opportunities for people to get information,' said Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) when asked about the Fairness Doctrine at the Democratic Senatorial Committee election night party on Tuesday."

"Variety of Opportunities"... ?

Without conservative talk radio THERE IS NO "VARIETY"... period!

It's simple. No conservative talk radio means there is no voice of dissent. No voice of dissent means no free speech and no free speech means that nothing stands in the way of those in government who wish to oppress the governed.

Use the hyperlink below and bombard President George W. Bush and the Republican Members of the Senate with your Blast Faxes. Demand that they stand firm against any attempt by liberals in Congress to effectively outlaw the First Amendment.

We must act now! Liberals in Congress may try to sneak the Fairness Doctrine into legislation any day now. Liberal pundits inside the Beltway and members of the elite media are already attempting to sell conservative Senators on the notion that their only chance for political survival is to display comity. Unless they hear from you now, they WILL believe it, as they have in the past.

We can win this fight. It only takes 40 Senators to stand firm . But if patriotic Americans do not speak up, we will lose this fight for our liberties.

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How It Works...

The sad truth is that liberal elites in the media and in government are totally oblivious to concepts like freedom and fairness and balance. 

Their ONLY agenda is to control all debate, opinion and political discourse.

And the so-called Fairness Doctrine is their means to achieve that end. 

How, you ask?

Years ago the Fairness Doctrine was simply policy at the FCC. 

Bill Ruder, John F. Kennedy's Assistant Secretary of Commerce, spelled it out:

"Our massive strategy was to use the Fairness Doctrine to challenge and harass right-wing broadcasters and hope the challenges would be so costly to them that they would be inhibited and decide it was too expensive to continue." 

Former Reagan Budget Director James Miller put it another way:

"Put yourself in the position of the broadcaster: your very existence is dependent on the FCC's renewing your license every few years. And the FCC says you must offer 'balanced' programming. What does this mean?"

To put it another way, what do you suppose stations would do if they had to provide "balance" to Rush and Hannity and Ingraham AS DICTATED BY NANCY PELOSI and Charles Schumer? 

Say good-bye to conservative talk-radio.

Make no mistake, the racket you'll soon be hearing in Washington will be the ker-blam of the wrecking ball, battering down freedom of speech in America, as Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid use the so-called Fairness Doctrine to reduce the First Amendment to rubble and haul it away in dump trucks.

Use the hyperlink below and bombard President George W. Bush and the Republican Members of the Senate with your Blast Faxes. Demand that they stand firm against any attempt by liberals in Congress to effectively outlaw the First Amendment.

We must act now! Liberals in Congress may try to sneak the Fairness Doctrine into legislation any day now. Liberal pundits inside the Beltway and members of the elite media are already attempting to sell conservative Senators on the notion that their only chance for political survival is to display comity. Unless they hear from you now, they WILL believe it, as they have in the past.

We can win this fight. It only takes forty Senators to stand firm . But if patriotic Americans do not speak up, we will lose this fight for our liberties.

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It Is No Secret.

Liberals in Congress have been trying to shut-down conservative talk-radio for years. 

It's the first item on their agenda!

Here's a quote from Senator James Inhofe recounting a conversation he claims he heard between Senator Dianne Feinstein and Senator Hillary Clinton:

"They said we've got to do something about this. These are nothing but far right-wing extremists.... There's got to be a legislative fix for this..."

Here's former Vice-President Al Gore, unable to squelch his contempt for conservative talk radio in general and Rush Limbaugh in particular:

"[T]hen immediately afterwards, Rush Limbaugh and other hate-mongers began to fill the airwaves."

Here's Michael Ortiz, a spokesman with the Obama campaign, explaining why Barrack Obama believes the so-called Fairness Doctrine does not go far enough. Pay particular attention to the code words:

“He considers this debate to be a distraction from the conversation we should be having about opening up the airwaves and modern communications to as many diverse viewpoints as possible, that is why Senator Obama supports media ownership caps, network neutrality, public broadcasting, as well as increasing minority ownership of broadcasting and print outlets.”

Here's a quote from Senator Richard Durbin, the man who compared our brave men and women in uniform to "NAZIs," but had to begrudgingly apologize after being called on the carpet by conservative talk-radio hosts:

"It's time to reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine. I have this old-fashioned attitude that when Americans hear both sides of the story, they're in a better position to make a decision."

Here's Senator John Kerry attempting to advance the idiotic fantasy that conservative opinion dominates the media and liberal opinions are not heard:

"I think the Fairness Doctrine ought to be there... one of the most profound changes in the balance of the media is when the conservatives got rid of the equal time requirements and the result is that they have been able to squeeze down and squeeze out opinion of opposing views."

And here's Senator Dianne Feinstein equating shutting-down the opinions of the minority with fairness:

"I believe very strongly that the airwaves are public and people use these airwaves for profit. But there is a responsibility to see that both sides and not just one side of the big public questions of debate of the day are aired and are aired with some modicum of fairness."

Use the hyperlink below and bombard President George W. Bush and the Republican Members of the Senate with your Blast Faxes. Demand that they stand firm against any attempt by liberals in Congress to effectively outlaw the First Amendment.

We must act now! Liberals in Congress may try to sneak the Fairness Doctrine into legislation any day now. Liberal pundits inside the Beltway and members of the elite media are already attempting to sell conservative Senators on the notion that their only chance for political survival is to display comity. Unless they hear from you now, they WILL believe it, as they have in the past.

We can win this fight. It only takes forty Senators to stand firm . But if patriotic Americans do not speak up, we will lose this fight for our liberties.

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Our Side Knows The Score As Well.

Here's President Bush:

"By insisting on so-called balance, [liberals] want to silence those they don't agree with. They know they cannot prevail in the public debate of ideas."

Here's Martha Zoller, writing for the Business & Media Institute recounting a quick Q and A with Nancy Pelosi a few months ago:

"The do-nothing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said last week that she supports reviving the Fairness Doctrine... When pressed further on whether she would allow the Broadcaster Freedom Act to repeal the Fairness Doctrine permanently, Pelosi said, ' No... The interest in my caucus is the reverse.'"

Here's Cliff Kincaid with Accuracy in Media quoting the Democratic Platform; as with the statement from the Obama campaign, pay particular attention to the liberal code words:

“'We will encourage diversity in the ownership of broadcast media, promote the development of new media outlets for expression of diverse viewpoints, and clarify the public interest obligations of broadcasters who occupy the nation’s spectrum,' the Democratic platform says."
And finally, David Limbaugh sums it all up:

"The left supports campaign finance reform, the Fairness Doctrine and other policies allegedly aimed at ensuring that both sides of the political argument be aired. But it's a colossal fraud. Can you imagine what would be in store for political speech in this country if liberals resumed regulatory control of the airways? I can and am horrified at the prospect; and you should be, too."

The time to act is now.

Pelosi, Schumer, Reid and other extreme-liberals in Congress will move quickly... possibly any day now.

When they're done, the First Amendment might as well read:

Congress shall endeavor to make laws disrespecting establishments of religion, prohibiting the free exercise thereof; abridging the freedom of speech, and the right of the people peaceably to assemble...

Use the hyperlink below and bombard President George W. Bush and the Republican Members of the Senate with your Blast Faxes. Demand that they stand firm against any attempt by liberals in Congress to effectively outlaw the First Amendment.

We must act now! Liberals in Congress may try to sneak the Fairness Doctrine into legislation any day now. Liberal pundits inside the Beltway and members of the elite media are already attempting to sell conservative Senators on the notion that their only chance for political survival is to display comity. Unless they hear from you now, they WILL believe it, as they have in the past.

We can win this fight. It only takes 40 Senators to stand firm. But if patriotic Americans do not speak up, we will lose this fight for our liberties.

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Yours In Freedom,

Jeff Mazzella
President
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We laughed at his "We don't need to drill if we just keep our tires inflated" gaffe; we scoffed at his "Luddite" anti-energy platform.  Now, on Election Eve, another long-lost dose of Barack Hoover Obama energy policy "straight talk" surfaces.

Somehow, it just doesn't seem all that humorous anymore:

Patterico and Beldar have a fuller transcript:

“I voted against the Clear Skies Bill. In fact, I was the deciding vote -- despite the fact that I’m a coal state and that half my state thought that I had thoroughly betrayed them. Because I think clean air is critical and global warming is critical.

“But this notion of no coal, I think, is an illusion. Because the fact of the matter is, is that right now we are getting a lot of our energy from coal. And China is building a coal-powered plant once a week. So what we have to do then is figure out how can we use coal without emitting greenhouse gases and carbon. And how can we sequester that carbon and capture it. If we can’t, then we’re gonna still be working on alternatives.

“But ... let me sort of describe my overall policy. What I’ve said is that we would put a cap and trade policy in place that is as aggressive if not more aggressive than anyone out there. I was the first call for 100% auction on the cap and trade system. Which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases that was emitted would be charged to the polluter. That will create a market in which whatever technologies are out there that are being presented, whatever power plants are being built, they would have to meet the rigors of that market and the ratcheted-down caps that are imposed every year.

“So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted. That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel, and other alternative energy approaches. The only thing that I’ve said with respect to coal — I haven’t been some coal booster. What I have said is that for us to take coal off the table as an ideological matter, as opposed to saying if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, we should pursue it, that I think is the right approach. The same with respect to nuclear. Right now, we don’t know how to store nuclear waste wisely and we don’t know how to deal with some of the safety issues that remain. And so it’s wildly expensive to pursue nuclear energy. But I tell you what, if we could figure out how to store it safely, then I think most of us would say that might be a pretty good deal.

“The point is, if we set rigorous standards for the allowable emissions, then we can allow the market to determine and technology and entrepreneurs to pursue, what the best approach is to take, as opposed to us saying at the outset, here are the winners that we’re picking and maybe we pick wrong and maybe we pick right.”

No coal?  No nuclear?  We already know he won't drill for domestic oil and that he sure does want to "pick the winners" of his energy policy sweepstakes ("renewables") by requiring that ten percent of our energy come from those sources in just the next four years.  The only way that outcome can practically be achieved is by reducing the use of fossil fuels and nuclear energy.  A greenstremist/global warming fetishist cap & trade scheme that would bankrupt the coal and nuclear industries would fit into that equation quite nicely.

We also know that Lucifer wants to reduce U.S. electricity demand by a whopping 15% by 2020.  His blueprint for that "achievement" was also offered in this same San Francisco Chronicle interview:

What's the most effective way to depress demand for a product?  Make it ruinously expensive.  Plus, as an added bonus, it would provide the ruling Donk junta with another gift-wrapped excuse to demonize the "greedy profiteering" of whatever scattered segments of the energy sector that had not yet been nationalized - and set the stage for rectifying that "oversight".  After which would follow even bigger shortages, as the Lord Barack and his party bulldozed America technologically (if not politically) back to the eighteenth century.

How do you sell the American public on getting gouged for eight trillion dollars over the next dozen years for a purported technological payoff that will be unaffordable by definition and an even more dubious climatological payoff that was a hoax to begin with?  Simple - you don't tell them before Election Day, only after which you reveal your "plan to radically transform our entire economy as part of some enviro-utopian pipe-dream."  And by "transform," you mean "disembowel."

Good thing Barracuda was paying attention:

Responding to the discovery of an audio tape of an old Barak Obama interview Sunday, Sarah Palin accused the Democrat of “talking about bankrupting the coal industry,” as she campaigned through the coal regions of Ohio.

“He said that, sure, if the industry wants to build coal-fired power plants, then they can go ahead and try, he says, but they can do it only in a way that will bankrupt the coal industry, and he's comfortable letting that happen,” Palin said. “And you got to listen to the tape.”

The audiotape Palin referred to was recorded by the San Francisco Chronicle in a January 17 interview and uncovered by the Drudge Report.

“Why is the audiotape just now surfacing?” Palin said, according to CBS News.

Someone in the crowd shouted, “Liberal media!”

“This interview was given to San Francisco folks many, many months ago,” Palin said. “You should have known about this, so that you would have better decision-making information as you go into the voting booth.”

That IS the role of a free press, actually.  Which is why freedom of the press is enshrined in the First Amendment.  I doubt the Founders ever imagined a mass psychosis like Obamanationalism would ever completely subvert the "watchdogs of government" that are supposed to keep a sovereign people from getting bilked out of the Republic they bequeathed them.

Is this latest ought-be-devastating revelation too little, too late?  Or might it be the nail in Barry O's coffin?  We'll soon find out.

It isn't that Barack Hoover Obama doesn't understand supply and demand; it's that he doesn't believe in it.  He really believes that economic freedom doesn't work, markets are evil, and everything should "trickle down" from the federal government.

B.O. is an orthodox Marxist.  Take Mark Steyn's eloquent word for it:

As John Hood pointed out at National Review, communism is not “sharing.” In a free society, the citizen chooses whether to share his Lego, trade it for some Thomas the Tank Engine train tracks, or keep it to himself. From that freedom of action grow mighty Playmobile cities. Communism is compulsion. It’s the government confiscating your Elmo to “share” it with someone of its choice. Joe the Plumber is free to spread his own wealth around — hiring employees, buying supplies from local businesses, enjoying surf’n’turf night at his favorite eatery. But, in Obama’s world view, that’s not good enough: the state is the best judge of how to spread Joe the Plumber’s wealth around.

The Senator is a wealthy man, mainly on the strength of two bestselling books offering his biography in lieu of policy and accomplishments. Many lively members of his Kenyan family occur as supporting characters in his story and provide the vivid color in it. But they too are not merely two-dimensional cartoons. His Aunt Zeituni, a memorable figure in Obama’s writing, turned up for real last week, when the dogged James Bone of the London Times tracked her down. She lives in a rundown housing project in Boston.

In his Wednesday-night infomercial, Obama declared that his “fundamental belief” was that “I am my brother’s keeper.” Back in Kenya, his brother lives in a shack on twelve bucks a year. If Barack is his brother’s keeper, why couldn’t he send him a ten-dollar bill and near double the guy’s income? The reality is that Barack Obama assumes the government should be his brother’s keeper, and his aunt’s keeper. Why be surprised by that? For twenty years in Illinois, Obama has marinated in the swamps of the Chicago political machine and the campus radicalism of William Ayers and Rashid Khalidi. In such a world, the redistributive urge is more or less a minimum entry qualification.

The government as wealth-spreader-in-chief was not a slip of the tongue but consistent with Obama’s life, friends and votes.

A vote for Barack Hoover Obama is a vote for permanent economic depression and a permanent energy crisis.  It's that simple.

"Never find out," indeed.

It's appalling that we have to be told this from across the pond, rather than vice versa (via Newsmax Insider):

A British editor and politician prominent in the discussion of climate change has written an open letter to John McCain criticizing statements the Republican candidate has made about global warming.

The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, who was an adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, sought to keep Al Gore’s global warming [crock]umentary An Inconvenient Truth out of public schools in Britain, and in March 2007 challenged Gore to a debate on climate change.

Now in his letter to McCain, published on the Web site American Thinker, Monckton calls manmade global warming fears “scientifically discredited” and advises, “Not for a single moment longer must you allow yourself to be distracted by the murderous foolishness of the climate alarmists.”

Monckton quotes a McCain statement that “we need to deal with the central facts of rising temperatures.”

Monckton, saying he bases his assertions on “peer-reviewed scientific literature,” counters, “For most of the past 600 million years, the temperature that most often prevailed globally is thought to have been 12.5 degrees higher than today’s temperature . . . 

“From 1700 to 1998, temperature rose at a near-uniform rate of about one degree per century. In 1998, ‘global warming’ stopped, and it has not resumed since. Indeed, in the past seven years, temperature has been falling at a rate equivalent to as much as 0.7 degrees per decade.”

Responding to McCain’s statement that greenhouse gases, chiefly carbon dioxide, “are heavily implicated as a cause of climate change,” Monckton writes, “Two-thirds of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is naturally present, and carbon dioxide occupies just one ten-thousandth more of the atmosphere today than it did two hundred fifty years ago.”

Monckton, who was an editor and writer with Britain’s Evening Standard newspaper, quotes McCain, “We need to deal with the central facts of . . . rising waters.”

He counters, “Sea level has been rising since the end of the last ice age ten thousand years ago . . . The rate of increase has averaged four feet per century. Yet in the twentieth century, when we are told that ‘global warming’ began to have a major impact on global temperature and hence on sea level, sea level rose by just eight inches.”

Then in a swipe at Al Gore, whom he does not mention by name, Monckton observes, “There is not and has never been any scientific basis for the exaggerated projections by a certain politician that sea level might imminently rise by as much as twenty feet.

“That politician, in the year in which he circulated a movie containing that projection, bought a $4 million condominium just feet from the ocean at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco.”

Monckton also seeks to refute statements McCain has made on receding glaciers, melting polar ice sheets, extreme weather events, threats to polar bears, and more.

And in reference to the candidate’s stated support for efforts to control climate change by reducing the emission of greenhouse gases, Monckton tells McCain: "With every respect, there is no rational basis for your declared intention that your great nation should inflict upon her own working people and upon the starving masses of the Third World the extravagantly pointless, climatically irrelevant, strategically fatal economic wounds that the arrogant advocates of atmospheric alarmism admit they aim to achieve.”

Think of it as a twin reminder of how very far even Republicans have strayed away from Reaganism (and Thatcherism), and that even if McCain manages to pull out this election, it will be far from an unmixed blessing.

Another public service announcement from the Hard Starboard Radio Network....

 

Obama's campaign is trying to stop our TV ad from running!

We have struck a real nerve.

On Friday four broadcast television stations in the key battleground stations have contacted us and said the Obama camp is denying a key allegation in one of our hard-hitting TV ads.

They even demanded that the stations stop running our TV ad.

As you know, we at the Republican National Trust PAC are spearheading the effort to expose Obama as the radical he is and defeat him on Election Day.

In our TV ad we expose Obama's radical policy toward the nation's 12 million illegal aliens.

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Specifically, the Obama campaign says Obama does NOT support giving illegal aliens Social Security benefits.

It is a blatant lie — but typical of Obama.

They are clearly frightened by the National Republican Trust, our ads and the fact the the public will find out about Obama's radical agenda.

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In fact, Obama is not only wants to give Social Security benefits to illegals, he also backs giving them driver's licenses, free government Medicaid and health care, welfare benefits and even cheap in-state college tuition.

We have the evidence to back up our claims and are working with the stations to get our TV ad back up and running.

We are providing the station's documentation, which includes our Fact Sheet: Obama's Dismal Record on Illegal Aliens.

As our Fact Sheet reveals Obama favors granting 12 million illegals amnesty and citizenship — which makes them immediately eligible for all government benefits — including Social Security.

But Obama also voted in the Senate against an amendment which would have banned illegals getting Social Security benefits.

We have Obama nailed on this one.

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This time he has been caught!

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Another public service announcement from the Hard Starboard Radio Network....

Last week, we added up the costs of all the government bailouts and stimulus packages (over $1 trillion), and asked how you would spend that money to better America.

Hundreds of ideas were submitted, but one kept popping up - energy - and how it ties into our overall economic problems.

It's no accident that our current economic situation comes at a time when we're sending $700 billion a year overseas for energy. That money could be used to produce more American-made energy and create more American jobs.

Yes, gas prices have dropped, but the problem has not gone away.  We still need a comprehensive energy policy that will spur economic growth here in America.

At Solutions Day, our General Chairman Newt Gingrich and Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams outlined solutions to our energy and economic crisis:

 

 

 

After you watch the presentations above, download this energy checklist with ten proposed solutions to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and grow our economy.

The time to vote is near, and knowing where your elected officials and candidates stand on these issues is very important.

Sincerely,

Dave Ryan
President
American Solutions

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Do you care much about Adolph Ahmadinejad's annual harangue to the UN and touring of his country's future conquered estates?  I don't either.  His stuff ("He’s forever threading the needle between … psychopathic Islamist designs on Israel and the sort of squishy brotherhood nonsense that buys him legitimacy with the international community on which he depends") is pretty much rehashed from year to year, and not all that original in the first place.

Two ancillary items do merit mention, though.

1) Why would ANY American "journalist" of any stripe want to conduct a prime time interview with the Geico Caveman?  Do either CNN (natch - I guess Keith Olbermann must still be indisposed) or Lucky Larry really value 'dolph's take on our presidential campaign?  Don't they already know that the mullahgarchy is openly slavering at the prospect of President Hussein?  Or do they just wish to give him an opportunity to propagandize the American viewing public at our own expense, like the dhimmis they are?

2) Evidently somebody at Team Messiah was concerned about it, what with the foreign policy presidential debate only days away:

“I strongly condemn President Ahmadinejad’s outrageous remarks at the United Nations, and am disappointed that he had a platform to air his hateful and anti-Semitic views. The threat from Iran’s nuclear program is grave. Now is the time for Americans to unite on behalf of the strong sanctions that are needed to increase pressure on the Iranian regime.

“Once again, I call upon Senator McCain to join me in supporting a bipartisan bill to increase pressure on the Iranian regime by allowing states and private companies to divest from companies doing business in Iran. The security of our ally Israel is too important to play partisan politics, and it is deeply disappointing that Senator McCain and a few of his allies in Congress feel otherwise,” said Senator Barack Obama.

What was that Sinaed O'Connor once said?  "Fight the real enemy!"  An appellation that most certainly does NOT apply to "President" Ahmadinejad in the mind of The One....

UPDATE: Want more proof?  His bundlers love 'dolph almost as much as they do him.

Ed Morrissey is calling this a "concession" of defeat; I think it's just a stall:

Democrats have decided to allow a quarter-century ban on drilling for oil off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to expire next week, conceding defeat in an months-long battle with the White House and Republicans set off by $4 a gallon gasoline prices this summer.

Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-WI, told reporters Tuesday that a provision continuing the moratorium will be dropped this year from a stopgap spending bill to keep the government running after Congress recesses for the election.

Republicans have made lifting the ban a key campaign issue after gasoline prices spiked this summer and public opinion turned in favor of more drilling. President Bush lifted an executive ban on offshore drilling in July.

“If true, this capitulation by Democrats following months of Republican pressure is a big victory for Americans struggling with record gasoline prices,” said House GOP leader John Boehner of Ohio.

Is it?  Remember the gist of Crazy Nancy's anti-drilling "drilling" bill, denying coastal states the right to share in the estimated $2.6 trillion of tax revenue that would flow from opening the full continental shelves to energy exploration.  That bill was DOA in the Senate, but the end of the drilling moratorium brings pretty much the same set of conditions: drilling is fair game, but states can't cash in on it without federal legislation.  Additionally, it doesn't take a crystal ball to look into the near future and see an avalanche of greenstremist lawsuits blocking every single last Big Oil attempt at opening up any additional fields or building so much as a single new drilling platform.

And let us not forget that, despite the 110th Congress being an almost total bust for the Dems - no defeat in Iraq, no new taxes, no double-impeachment of Bush and Cheney, no President Pelosi - they are nevertheless going to increase their majorities significantly.  Add to that dismal prospect President Hussein - who currently enjoys a slight Electoral College lead and very modest but undeniable momentum at the moment - and that drilling moratorium will be slapped back in place faster than a cheesy fry going down Bill Clinton's gullet come January, locking away our energy resources and keeping us economic hostages to our enemies in Tehran and Caracas and Moscow for another generation - if we survive that long.

Even if John McCain somehow pulls this election out, the Left's litigation hordes will still keep a lid on in OCS, and there'll be little or nothing he can do about it.

The Speakerette may be crazy, but she knows that folding on one bad hand does not the game concedeth.  Particularly when she's the dealer of marked cards in a stacked deck.