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Entries from July 2009

The “Right” To Healthcare

July 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment

From CNSNews: During his speech at a recent National Press Club luncheon, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) said he is introducing a constitutional amendment that would establish health care as “a right” for all Americans. “We need a real serious bill and, by the way, the fundamental question, ‘Is health care a constitutional right?’” [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Government · Health · Insurance · Money · Taxes · The Left · The US

My Insurance Policy

July 30th, 2009 · Comments Off

My zombie prevention tool. Romanian GP WASR-10 AKM (AK-47 clone) in 7.62×39mm. Also for all enemies, both foreign and domestic. Crude, clunky, but will shoot forever. Won’t win any 500-yard contests, not as sexy as an AR, but enough accuracy and plenty of punch to keep just about any predator, 4-legged or 2-legged, from closing [...]

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Tags: Guns

What Stimulus?

July 29th, 2009 · Comments Off

Found over at The Club for Growth: Yep, Obama (and the rest of the country) would have been better off if he would have stayed locked up in the Lincoln bedroom and done nothing for the last seven months. Did you really expect anything different from The Anointed One? So where did all that stimulus [...]

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Tags: Government · Money · Taxes · The Left · The US

Congress = Taxpayer-funded Idiots

July 29th, 2009 · Comments Off

ITEM 1: From CNS News we learn: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Tuesday [07/07/09] that the health-care reform bill now pending in Congress would garner very few votes if lawmakers actually had to read the entire bill before voting on it. “If every member pledged to not vote for it if they hadn’t [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Government · The Left · The US

Americans use a gun in self defense every 13 seconds

July 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment

From Eric Puryear at The Self-Defense Examiner: Americans use a gun in self defense once every 13 seconds, according to a peer-reviewed study. The National Self Defense Survey, as conducted by Florida State University criminologists in 1994, indicates that Americans use guns in self defense 2,500,000 times per year, which is once every 13 seconds. [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Guns

We The Taxpayers

July 28th, 2009 · Comments Off

What Obama’s healthcare plan means to residents of New York: And don’t think this cannot happen in your hometown. Spread The Word:

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Looking Forward To ObamaCare

July 27th, 2009 · Comments Off

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Tags: Government · Health · The Left · The US

Pimp Gates And Enabler Obama

July 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Says Reuters: The incident began last week when police received a call from a neighbor that a man appeared to be breaking into the Gates’ house. Henry Louis Gates, who returned home from a week in China to discover his front door jammed, entered his house through the back door. Police say Gates became belligerent [...]

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The Right To Bear Arms

July 26th, 2009 · Comments Off

Recently from Oleg Volk: Spread The Word:

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Tags: Guns

Looking Forward To ObamaCare

July 25th, 2009 · Comments Off

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Cap And Trade For 0.000024616?

July 24th, 2009 · Comments Off

Over at The Heritage Foundation I learned the following: Greenhouse gases comprise only 2% of Earth’s atmosphere, or 0.02. Nitrogen, oxygen, and argon make up 99.96% of the atmosphere. CO2 gases comprise only 3.62% of all greenhouse gases, or 0.0724% of the atmosphere (although Microsoft Encarta and Wikipedia says it’s only 0.03-0.04%). Humans only create [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Global Warming · Government · Taxes · The US

Blame America

July 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off

Said the Wall Street Journal: With the U.S. secretaries of energy and commerce in China this week, much of the attention focused on the standoff over emissions reductions or small breakthroughs in clean-tech cooperation. But yesterday, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said something amazing—U.S. consumers should pay for part of Chinese greenhouse-gas emissions. From Reuters: “It’s [...]

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Tags: China · Government · The Left · The US

We The Taxpayers

July 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off

What Obama’s healthcare plan means to residents of New York: And don’t think this cannot happen in your hometown. Spread The Word:

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The ObamaCare Stew Is Boiling

July 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off

Says William Kristol at The Weekly Standard: “The time for talk is through.” — President Obama, talking to liberal bloggers on a conference call Monday night. The Democratic bills in the House and Senate are a thousand pages long. They’re still changing as committees try to mark them up, or as they mark up other [...]

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Tags: Government · Insurance · Money · Socialism · Taxes · The Left · The US

Jersey City Hired An Idiot

July 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off

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