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Friday, October 23. 2009

Friday morning links

Golden Eagle attacks reindeer calf


What's holding back nuclear power?


Regulating the internet. Is this a slippery slope? However,



...Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican, said he introduced legislation on Thursday aimed at prohibiting the FCC from enacting rules to regulate the Internet



Dem: Repubs are the real enemies of America. Things are getting strange.


Hey, here's a reason to do it! Cap & trade could be a boon to NYC trading firms


Coyote on free speech and the UN:



I continue to be confused why the Left in this country is so absolutely hostile to Baptists in Alabama but are so deferential to Muslims in Saudi Arabia.  Is it simply because one group makes credible threats of violence while the other does not?



By what Constitutional authority could the Federal government force me to buy medical insurance?


India: We’re Not Hurting Our Economy For “Climate Change”


A Lefty has a Moore-gasm


"Sending" more kids to college? Why? We "send" too many already who just waste time and their parents' money.

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 07:41 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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On Coyote's post: the Left is hostile to America, Islam is hostile to America, so the Left is supporting Islam. The Left has failed to note that Islam is, generally speaking, against almost everything the Left claims it is actually for.
On the Constitutional authority to enact the insurance mandate: Maggie's Farmhands and Don Surber's loyal crew have been saying that Congress has no such authority for months. Nor is there any federal authority for the creation of a public option insurance plan.
It's a complicated reach, but I would love to see a Mattatusets resident sue under the 14th Amendment, saying that Mattatusets has no right to compel a citizen to purchase insurance, and such compulsion "abridges the privileges and immunities..."
#1 Geoff on 2009-10-23 11:34 (Reply)
Re: A Lefty has a Moore-gasm

I went to the effort of reading the original screed by Siegel, over at the reliably-leftist and often-amusingly-idiotic Huff'N'Puff Post - and was moved to leave the following commentary:

Having read this entire piece, I feel fully justified in stating what is so clearly obvious: Dan Siegel is just as much a lefty socialist-minded moron and an even more empty-headed wishful "thinker" than Mickey Moore-On, The Fat Fake From Flint himself.

What a total ton of tripe! Go back to writing books nobody reads, Danny-boy. Better yet, try some other form of occupation - writing isn't working out for you.

Of course, I fully expect to a) have my comment deleted and/or b) be blocked or banned from making further comments on Huff'N'Puff...
#2 J.S.Bridges on 2009-10-24 04:01 (Reply)
Re: Nuc power

Our leaders dither while the noose tightens around our collective necks. Lack of an energy policy will ultimately.leave us to pay extorsion rates for oil and has once again. Our friends and enemies around the world must be amazed at the spectacle of American deconstruction.
#3 Scott on 2009-10-24 19:37 (Reply)

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