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Global Warming Kerfuffle

June 30th, 2009

This from a Fox News report: A top Republican senator has ordered an investigation into the Environmental Protection Agency’s alleged suppression of a report that questioned the science behind global warming. The 98-page report, co-authored by EPA analyst Alan Carlin, pushed back on the prospect of regulating gases like carbon dioxide as a way to [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: climate, energy, global warming
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Political Confusion in Honduras

June 30th, 2009

The situation in Honduras is confused.  The elected president, Mel Zelaya, has been removed from office and exiled to Costa Rica.  President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton see this as a straightforward military coup and demand that Zelaya be restored to office.  Others look at the details of what happened and see a popular [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Chavez, Clinton, Honduras, Obama, Zelaya
Categories: Military, News, Politics | Comments (2) | Home

Camp Cho-Yeh

June 29th, 2009

On June 23 all the young women at my church got to go to Camp Cho-Yeh in Livingston, Texas. My cabin was Cabin 11. I got to be in the same cabin as my friend, Clara. I am an inside person. I’d rather be inside reading a book than playing outside. So this was a big [...]

Articles written by Amber
Tags: summer camp
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Madoff Sentenced to 150 Years

June 29th, 2009

According to a New York Times report, Bernie Madoff has just been sentenced to 150 years in prison.  The judge who sentenced him called his crimes “extraordinarily evil.” I guess we can all rest better tonight.  Madoff’s victims won’t receive much compensation for their losses; however, we can take heart from the fact that we’ll pay his [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Madoff, prison, sentence
Categories: News, Politics | Comments (0) | Home

Sotomayor Decision Overturned

June 29th, 2009

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today on Ricci v. DeStefano, an appeal of a decision of a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.  Judge Sonia Sotomayor, now a Supreme Court nominee, was a member of the three-judge panel and joined in the decision that has now been overturned.  As reported, The Supreme Court [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Law, Ricci v. DeStefano, Sotomayor, Supreme Court
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Addiction to Money

June 29th, 2009

Politicians are addicted to money.  That’s unavoidable, it would seem, given the large amounts of money needed to win and keep their places at the center of power and influence.  The insurance and health care industries are smart about where they spread their political money, and that’s going to impact on how health care reform is structured [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: campaign contributions, Congress
Categories: Economics, Politics | Comments (3) | Home

The Secret of Prosperity

June 28th, 2009

Why has America been so extraordinarily successful, politically and economically? The political answer is easy — freedom and strenuously defended individual rights.  Americans sometimes fall prey to pathological navel-gazing, so closely focused on the cracks and flaws in our system that they can see nothing more.  All it takes is to look up to the horizon [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: creativity, economy, prosperity
Categories: Economics, Politics | Comments (8) | Home

Reparations Squabble

June 27th, 2009

As I noted in an earlier article, Apologies and Reparations, the Senate recently passed a resolution apologizing to African-Americans for slavery and subsequent discrimination.  Now there’s a new development.   The Senate included wording to the effect that the resolution was not to be used as support for slavery reparations.  In order for the apology to [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: apology, reparations, slavery
Categories: History, News, Politics | Comments (0) | Home

The Mule and the Parachute

June 27th, 2009

The Meskelly family winds its way through my stories for several reasons. I guess the main reason was the number of them. Two girls and eleven boys. The old man and the boys worked the land and kept the wolf away from the door. The oldest boy, James, slipped off and joined the Army. This [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: mule, parachute
Categories: Life | Comments (1) | Home

Crime and Punishment

June 26th, 2009

Plainly put, there are too many people incarcerated in the U.S., and the situation has gotten worse over the years.  That conclusion is inescapable.  I’ve spent some time looking through Department of Justice statistics on crime and punishment and comparing U.S. incarceration rates to those of other countries.  The U.S. doesn’t necessarily lead the world in [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: criminal justice, incarceration, prison
Categories: Economics, Life, Politics | Comments (6) | Home

The Sentence

June 26th, 2009

To-Do List: A Sentence, Not 10 Paragraphs, Peggy Noonan’s column today, takes a thought-provoking look at what may be President Obama’s biggest problem right now.  He’s trying to do too much instead of focusing on the things that are most important and that most Americans are concerned about.  She wrote, Something seems off with our [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: economy, energy, health care, Obama
Categories: Economics, Politics | Comments (4) | Home

Looking for a Few Honest Congresspeople

June 25th, 2009

I’ve always been an anti-union guy, mainly because unionization all but eliminates individual incentives to achieve. The concept of providing the biggest raises and bonuses based on performance is a basic (and necessary) concept for any business that wants to be successful — this makes unionization a formula for failure. I know that back when [...]

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: Congress, corruption, unions
Categories: Economics, Politics | Comments (5) | Home

Clearwater Legacy

June 24th, 2009

When folk singer Pete Seeger and some friends launched the Clearwater project in 1969, the Hudson River was an open sewer for industries, cities and towns along its majestic sweep from the Adirondack Mountains to New York Bay. In the years since, the full-sail sight of the Clearwater sloop tacking up and down the river [...]

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: Clearwater, environment, Hudson River, Pete Seeger
Categories: Life, News, Politics | Comments (3) | Home

Affair of the Missing Governor

June 24th, 2009

I know, I know — everybody has something to say about the five-day disappearance of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford.  It’s all over the media, and blog writers of right and left, pro and con, are salivating.  Chris Cillizza has a review of the situation at The Fix in The Washington Post. Sanford, probably a Republican presidential contender [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: governor, Mark Sanford, South Carolina
Categories: Life, News, Politics | Comments (4) | Home

The Waning of Obama

June 24th, 2009

Oh Yea!! The honeymoon is definitely over and perhaps, just perhaps, the majority of Americans are starting to wise up to the fact that Obama is chasing some personal dream of some imagined Utopia and practicing the worst kind of mule-headed partisan politics to push us over the brink, rather than using his brilliance, his charisma and his popularity (while he still has it) to bring this country back from that brink.

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: economy, Obama, Obamanomics
Categories: Economics, Politics | Comments (3) | Home

My Dad the Cowboy

June 23rd, 2009

I’ve written about my dad and what a special person he was. His was a hard life for many years but not without some lighter moments as well. I like to think these moments were God’s way of encouraging Dad not to give up. One of those times was what I call “Bert the Cowboy.” There [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: Catalina, cowboy
Categories: Life | Comments (2) | Home

North Korean Missiles

June 22nd, 2009

North Korea is reportedly preparing to launch another missile on or about July 4.  There’s speculation that it might be launched in the direction of Hawaii, and U.S. missile defense systems are prepared to shoot it down if necessary. North Korea’s threats are taken seriously for three reasons:  First, they’ve acted aggressively in the past against U.S. [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Hawaii, missile, North Korea, Obama
Categories: Military, News, Politics | Comments (2) | Home

Obama: No More Meddling

June 22nd, 2009

“It’s up to Iranians to make decisions about who Iran’s leaders will be … having said that, I am deeply troubled by the violence that I’ve been seeing on television.” — President Barack Obama In the wake of the Iranian election hundreds of thousands of supporters of Mir-Hossein Mousavi are taking their very lives in [...]

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: foreign policy, Iran, Mousavi, Obama
Categories: Military, News, Politics | Comments (2) | Home

Father’s Day for My Dad

June 21st, 2009

Who’s your hero? I think every father secretly hopes his child will respond by saying “My Dad.” Life’s experiences will usually reveal to whom we owe our true love and allegiance. As a child I loved my father just as any child loves his father. That love was nothing compared to how I felt about [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: Father's Day
Categories: Life | Comments (3) | Home

Who Are the Uninsured?

June 21st, 2009

From The Stealth Single-Payer Agenda by George F. Will in The Washington Post: Although 70 percent of insured Americans rate their health-care arrangements good or excellent, radical reform of health care is supposedly necessary because there are 45.7 million uninsured. That number is, however, a “snapshot” of a nation in which more than 20 million [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: health care reform
Categories: Economics, Politics | Comments (0) | Home

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