The Bear on Jul 10 2008 | Filed under: Political Quote of the Day
“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
The Bear on Jul 10 2008 | Filed under: Culture
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.
The Bear on Jul 10 2008 | Filed under: Global Warming
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.
The Bear on Jul 10 2008 | Filed under: Culture
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.
The Bear on Jul 10 2008 | Filed under: Election 08’
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.
The Bear on Jul 10 2008 | Filed under: Global War on Terrorism
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 [...]
The Bear on Jul 10 2008 | Filed under: Election 08’, Taxes
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.
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