Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people.— John F. Kennedy
Just in case that was too subtle, Gawker has now published a complete list of every licensed gun owner in New York City. The headline? “Here Is a List of All the Assholes Who Own Guns in New York City.” Writes the author, John Cook:
Below is a 446-page list of every licensed gun owner in New York City. I obtained it from the NYPD two-and-a-half years ago via a Freedom of Information Law request. Because the NYPD is more interested in raping and/or eating ladies and spying on Muslims than it is in honoring public records law, the list contains only the names, and not the addresses, of the licensees…
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The latest government report on national health spending provides more evidence that ObamaCare will act as poison to a health care system that was already on the mend.
In 2011, the last year for which data are available, spending on health care climbed just 3.9% for the third year in a row.
The press is dismissing it as the result of the recession, while the Obama administration claims ObamaCare deserves credit. Neither is true.
Read More At IBD: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/010813-639833-health-care-mending-before-obamacare.htm#ixzz2HR8QUxvV
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Article 1 Sect. 7 of the U.S. Constitution begins, "All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives."
The framers put the House in charge of taxes because House members — elected every two years from small districts — would be the first to know if a tax were unfair or burdensome.
House Republicans who voted for the fiscal cliff bill, despite its being stuffed with tax favors for Hollywood, alternative energy companies and the president's other favorite constituents, disgraced this mandate.
Read More At IBD: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-viewpoint/010813-639771-higher-taxes-federal-political-spending-giveaways.htm#ixzz2HR8wufEL
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The Harkin Institute for Public Policy’s short life has been riddled with controversy from its secretive inception within the Iowa Board of Regents to ethical questions about its namesake’s relationships to the institute’s donors.The Harkin Institute is named for sitting United States Sen. Tom Harkin (D., Iowa). The institute will house Harkin’s papers and serve as a venue for public policy research on issues related to the left-wing senator’s work.
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Health insurance companies across the country are seeking and winning double-digit increases in premiums for some customers, even though one of the biggest objectives of the Obama administration's health care law was to stem the rapid rise in insurance costs for consumers.
Particularly vulnerable to the high rates are small businesses and people who do not have employer-provided insurance and must buy it on their own
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/01/health_insurers_jacking_up_rates_by_double_digits_in_advance_of_obamacare.html#ixzz2HTZ8lSja
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You’ve certainly seen the news stories trumpeting data from the National Climatic Data Center purporting to show that 2012 was the warmest year on record in the continental United States. This AP story, to note just one example, is headlined “US roasts to hottest year on record by landslide.” And news reports invariably try to link this claim with human-induced global warming, even though the U.S. represents only 2% of the Earth’s surface area. No doubt the Russians, who have endured record-smashing cold in recent months, wish they could have enjoyed a little of our warmth last year.
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Over the five years since Al Gore joined KPCB to promote environmentally-correct “green tech” investments, the results have been pretty dismal. According to VentureSource, of the more than 60 companies that have received KPCB equity backing, only three have been acquired or merged into other companies. And since the time Gore joined KPCB, only two have managed to go public. Shareholders of one, Amyris, Inc. a biomass company, have lost 80% of their value since the firm’s 2010 IPO. The other, Enphase Energy which went public last March, was listed by the Wall Street Journal in December as the worst IPO of the year.
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A recent lawsuit filed in a federal court in California alleges that National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) member Richard Griffin was complicit in a scheme to cover up embezzlement at a major labor union by terminating employees who attempted to expose the effort.
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A fundraising appeal obtained by The Associated Press shows the Presidential Inaugural Committee is going far beyond Obama's previous self-imposed limits and is looking to blow away modern American presidential inauguration fundraising records by offering donors four VIP packages named after the country's founding fathers.
Event organizers are hoping the packages will pay for expensive events surrounding Obama's inaugural on Jan. 21. Obama raised $53 million in private money for his first inauguration, when a record 1.8 million people packed the National Mall to see the nation's first black president take the oath of office. The celebration has been scaled down this year, with less than half the crowd expected and a cut from 10 inauguration-night balls to two.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_INAUGURATION_FUNDRAISING?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=
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State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland attempted to deflect questions about the investigation today by saying that it was the FBI’s responsibility. But that lame response goes right to the heart of the government’s ongoing failure in this case. The administration has consistently failed to treat Benghazi the way we ought to expect the U.S. government to respond to what was a direct terror attack on a symbol of American sovereignty. Instead of a full-court press from security and intelligence services, it was handed off to an FBI that seems to still be lost in Libya. From the first days during which we were told a fairy tale about the murders being a case of film criticism run amok to the present when questions about an investigation that shows no sign of life are stonewalled, Benghazi remains a fiasco for which there has no been accountability.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/01/08/justice-for-benghazi-still-on-hold-fbi-hillary-clinton/
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