Roll
back the Supreme Court’s corporate license to spend!
Let’s first of all line up the players in this outrageous decision.
In favor of it, we can count Bush-tilting appointees: Justices Roberts,
Alito, Thomas, Scalia, and Kennedy, who wrote the majority decision.
Against it, we can count Justices Stevens, (who wrote the dissent),
Breyer, Ginsburg, and Sotomayor.
Copenhagen
dampens banks’ green commitment
Banks and investors are pulling out of the carbon market after the failure
to make progress at Copenhagen on reaching new emissions targets after
2012.
Glenn
Beck For Dummies Glenn Beck is being characterized by the establishment
as the leader of the freedom movement and yet a closer analysis of his
ideology reveals that Beck is nothing more than a fake revolutionary
who has supported and is pushing policies that are diametrically opposed
to those embraced by true constitutionalists.
Why
Did the ‘Stimulus’ Fail to Help the Economy?
When Congress was debating President Obama’s proposed “stimulus”
last year, two of the watchwords for the near-trillion-dollar boondoggle
were “jobs” and “shovel-ready.”
Obama
confident of repeat Fed term for Bernanke: adviser Embattled Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will garner
enough votes to win US Senate confirmation for a second term despite
opposition from key Democrats, President Barack Obama’s top adviser
predicted Sunday. Warmongering
vs. the Sanctity of Life
Churches all across America observed Sanctity of Human Life Sunday on
January 24. Literature was passed out on the evils of abortion. Sermons
were preached on the sin of abortion.
China’s
Internet Controls Here to Stay: Beijing Official
China has every right to punish citizens using the Internet to challenge
Communist Party power and ethnic policies, a senior official said on
Monday, pressing Beijing’s counter-offensive against Google.
Lebanon
rules out terror as cause for plane crash Lebanon’s president ruled
out terrorism as the cause for the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines
flight from Beirut. Michel Suleiman said Monday that rescue efforts
would continue despite stormy weather.
Chemical
Ali executed for Halabja massacre
Ali Hassan al-Majid, Saddam Hussein’s henchman who was better
known by his nickname of Chemical Ali, was executed today according
to an Iraqi government spokesman.
Obama
Uses Teleprompters During Speech at Elementary School
President Barack Obama, accompanied by Education Secretary Arne
Duncan, speaks to the media after a discussion with 6th grade students
at Graham Road Elementary School in Falls Church, Va., Tuesday,
Jan. 19, 2010.
Fed
E-Mail to Geithner Cites Bank Benefit From AIG
Timothy F. Geithner, who has denied that the financial condition
of American International Group Inc.’s bank counterparties
was a consideration in structuring the insurer’s bailout,
was told by a senior colleague that the rescue was a way to remove
“uncertainty” for the firms.
ACLU
slams Senators: The Constitution is not ‘optional’ Four U.S. Senators are pursuing legislation they believe
would fix the “mistake” President Obama made with the
man who allegedly failed to blow up a Christmas Day flight into
Detroit.
Investigate
Pachauri now
The IPCC and its deeply conflicted chairman are starting to smell
very badly, and not just because of Climategate.
Pharmaceutical
companies accused of crying wolf over swine flu
Swine flu is under scrutiny once again as pharmaceutical companies
are being accused of hyping up a “false pandemic”. The
Council of Europe has put the virus on its winter agenda, which
starts on Monday.
Ethiopian
airliner crashes in ‘ball of fire’
Aviation authorities in Lebanon say there is no sign of survivors
from an Ethiopian Airlines plane that plunged into the Mediterranean
Sea with 90 people on board.
N.Korea
lashes out at Seoul’s ‘preemptive strike’ plan
North Korea on Sunday lashed out at South Korea’s plan to
launch a “preemptive strike” to thwart any nuclear attack
from Pyongyang as “an open declaration of war,” state
media said.
