Archive for July 10th, 2008

Quote of the Day… 7/10/08

“Congress is spending us into a hole. We hear about the cost of earmarks and the Iraq war. But what about ‘entitlements’? That’s the government’s ironic term for programs that transfer money from people who earned it to people who didn’t. Entitlement? How can you be entitled to someone else’s money?” —John Stossel

Barack Obama and Equal Pay for Women By Selwyn Duke

So we can choose the discrimination of the market’s meritocracy or that of the statists’ bureaucracy. I, for one, will settle on the people’s determinations every time.

G-8, CO2 And The Garden Of Eden

As atmospheric CO2 levels consistently have been increasing, global mean temperatures have not kept pace. Warming has not been constant. In fact, it has been interrupted periodically by — dare we say it? — global cooling, and seems to have stopped entirely in 1998.

Does patriotism matter? By Thomas Sowell

Most Americans today are unaware of how much our schools have followed in the footsteps of the French schools of the 1920s and 1930s, or how much our intellectuals have become citizens of the world instead of American patriots.

Lurching With Abandon By BOB HERBERT

Mr. Obama is betting that in the long run none of this will matter, that the most important thing is winning the White House, that his staunchest supporters (horrified at the very idea of a President McCain) will be there when he needs them.

Iran

Iran has resumed A-bomb project, says West
Iran has resumed work on constructing highly sophisticated equipment that nuclear experts say is primarily used for building atomic weapons, according to the latest intelligence reports received by Western diplomats.
The work is aimed at developing the blueprint provided by Dr AQ Khan, the “father” of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb, who [...]

Lady, you kinda crazy, but I’m with you!

You just have to love this woman. She gives McCain a thorough lesson on her feelings toward taxes, and has the whole crowd cracking up.