It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.
— Will Rog
Please note my comments and comments of those who contribute articles are in italics and in parentheses. Bertie
Federal agencies are leaving “billions of taxpayer dollars on the table” by failing to carry out recommendations of in-house watchdogs, according to a House committee report to be released today.
Nearly 17,000 recommendations from agency inspectors general remain pending that if fully implemented would save more than $67 billion, says a staff report prepared for a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing to be held this morning.
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State Department on Friday raised no major objections to the Keystone XL oil
pipeline and said other options to get the oil from Canada to U.S. Gulf Coast
refineries are worse for climate change. ["Here is my question: why on
Earth is it the State Department who is giving its opinion, and not the
Department of Energy, or the EPA? However, I do believe it is in our
national security interest to not keep buying our oil from our enemies, sending
them the money they will use against us." from Karen Peters]
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/02/no-major-objections-to-keystone-xl-oil-pipeline-state-department-says/?test=latestnews#ixzz2MOjGpHdh
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[For some important and compelling reading, please click on the
website to read the full article" Karen Peters]
THIRTEEN years ago, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
began the grim task of documenting all the ghettos, slave labor sites,
concentration camps and killing factories that the Nazis set up throughout
Europe.
What they have found so far has shocked even scholars steeped in
the history of the Holocaust.
The researchers have cataloged some 42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps
throughout Europe, spanning German-controlled areas from France to Russia and Germany
itself, during Hitler’s reign of
brutality from 1933 to 1945.
The figure is so staggering that even fellow Holocaust scholars
had to make sure they had heard it correctly when the lead researchers
previewed their findings at an academic forum in late January at the German
Historical Institute in Washington.
The biggest site identified is the infamous Warsaw Ghetto, which
held about 500,000 people at its height. But as few as a dozen prisoners worked
at one of the smallest camps, the München-Schwabing site in Germany. Small
groups of prisoners were sent there from the Dachau concentration camp under
armed guard. They were reportedly whipped and ordered to do manual labor at the
home of a fervent Nazi patron known as “Sister Pia,” cleaning her house,
tending her garden and even building children’s toys for her.
When the research began in
2000, Dr. Megargee said he expected to find perhaps 7,000 Nazi camps and
ghettos, based on postwar estimates. But the numbers kept climbing — first to
11,500, then 20,000, then 30,000, and now 42,500. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/sunday-review/the-holocaust-just-got-more-shocking.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&adxnnlx=1362236748-5jy69MPKaw0svfJWxthXZQ
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Dr. Benjamin Carson reveled on
Fox News "Hannity" that before his speech at the National Prayer
Breakfast he was instructed by an Obama official to “not offend the President”
with his remarks. - See more at: http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/03/02/Dr-Carson-I-Was-Told-beforehand-Not-to-Offend-the-President-with-His-Prayer-Breakfast-Speech#sthash.rnlOUJlL.dpuf
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Executive Director of the Dallas-Ft. Worth Council on American-Islamic Relations Mustafaa Carroll spoke at a rally for Islam in Austin, Texas and told the crowd that members of Islam should not be bound by American law. “If we are practicing Muslims, we are above the law of the land,” Carroll said.Read more: http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/03/radical-muslim-in-tx-we-are-above-the-law-of-the-land/#ixzz2MfHeZEwE
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While President Obama claimed repeatedly during both the fiscal cliff and the sequestration debate that America’s problem lay just as much on the tax revenue side as it did on the government spending side, new statistics show what a lie that is. According to the Congressional Budget Office, federal tax revenue will hit $2.7 trillion in 2013, the highest number ever.
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Erie, Colorado-based Magpul Industries founder Richard Fitzpatrick is making one thing clear: if Democrats in the state house and senate succeed in passing a high capacity magazine ban, Magpul is leaving the state and taking the $85 million it would have generate for Colorado next year with it.
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Gun control dates back to laws before and after the Civil War that prohibited or restricted African Americans from owning firearms, a group of black leaders said Friday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
“History is with examples. There’s a direct correlation between gun control and black people control,” Stacy Swimp, president and CFO of the Frederick Douglass Society, said at the event.
http://americac2c.com/profiles/blogs/stacy-swimp-gun-control-and-black-people-control“History is with examples. There’s a direct correlation between gun control and black people control,” Stacy Swimp, president and CFO of the Frederick Douglass Society, said at the event.
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(Great article by Thomas Sowell)
At the local level, the first response to budget cuts is often to cut the police department and the fire department. There may be all sorts of wasteful boondoggles that could have been cut instead, but that would not produce the public alarm that reducing police protection and fire protection can produce. And public alarm is what can get budget cuts restored.
The Obama administration is following the same pattern. The Department of Homeland Security, for example, released thousands of illegal aliens from prisons to save money -- and create alarm.
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In the previous two columns, I highlighted the first seven of the top 10 reasons I wish George Washington were still alive:
10) Washington was a role model for many, even as a youth.
9) Washington epitomized courage.
8) Washington wasn't afraid of public opinion or challenging the status quo.
7) Washington was a man of integrity and character yet just as human as the rest of us.
6) Washington was a first-class servant leader who walked what he talked.
5) Washington didn't allow personal obstacles to stop his service to God, his family and his country.
4) Washington was a devoted family man.
(I may become a Chuck Norris fan)
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The manipulation behind Study of Ice Age Bolsters Carbon and Warming Link by Justin Gillis, New York Times, March 1, 2013A NY Times science story (by Justin Gillis, March 1) illustrates some interesting points about science journalism - esp. in the contentious and politically charged issue of climate change. A scientific journal, in this case the renowned Science magazine, wants to gain publicity for its journal among the non-scientific readers of the NY Times. So it sends out a press release about a scientific paper it plans to publish. Of course, it has been 'peer-reviewed' to the satisfaction of the Science editor, but it has not yet been vetted by the scientific community.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/03/the_anatomy_of_climate_science_hype.html#ixzz2MfMsVx81
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Congressional Republicans are already pressing Environmental Protection Agency assistant administrator Gina McCarthy, President Obama’s pick for the agency’s new administrator, on the EPA’s use of secret data to formulate air quality rules.
“EPA has continually refused to make public the basic scientific data underlying virtually all of the Agency’s claimed benefits
from new Clean Air Act (CAA) rules,” wrote Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith and Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter in a letter to McCarthy. “Everyone agrees on the importance of clean air, but EPA needs to release the secret data they use in formulating new rules.”Smith and Vitter specifically pointed to the lack of transparency behind the EPA’s forthcoming review of National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ozone.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/04/republicans-press-obama-epa-nominee-on-transparency-issues/#ixzz2MfNTJsg6
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