Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh

The French Will Never Leave the Cafes Now

Socialist France moved further to the left of Putin’s Russia. The French just elected President the leftist Francois Hollande who professes to be the protector of the poor, wants more government handouts (stimulus), and rejects the austerity measures that his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy had cobbled with Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor.

The Global Climate Change Initiative, More Waste of Taxpayer Dollars

President Obama signed on September 22, 2010 the Presidential Policy Directive on Global Development, elevating foreign development assistance to a national priority status involving development, diplomacy, and national security.

The Global Warming/Globalist Crowd is on the March Again

The globalists are on the march and quite busy in the month of June 2012. The Rio +20 is meeting in Brazil to check on the progress of United Nations Agenda 21 twenty years later. G-20 is meeting in Mexico to discuss sustainability and the threat to globalism by the Euro zone crisis.

G-20 Summit Is Not Just a Mexican Vacation

Although Los Cabos, Mexico is a fabulous vacation destination, Americans will pay no attention to the activities of the G-20 Summit there because they do not understand what G-20 members do or care, but they should. Even Congress pays scant attention to this group that was established in 1999.

Maligned Fossil Fuels Engine of Economy

According to the Congressional Research Service, overall energy consumption has tripled in the U.S. since 1950, per capita consumption increased 50 percent, and electricity consumption increased even more rapidly. The heaviest energy user, the industrial sector, grew the slowest. From 1973 to 2010, “the consumption of electricity remained close to 0.4 kwh per constant dollar of GDP.” Annual power generation now is ten times larger than in 1950.

Are Speculators to Blame?

The Obama administration masterfully manipulates the politics of fear and obvious misinformation through speeches and a compliant media to rally its voting base and to justify its destructive policies that have brought this economy and our country to its knees.

A Piece of Land and a Moment of Time

In December 1989, communism fell in Eastern Europe and Romanians started the process of reclaiming their land and personal property confiscated by the Communist Party during 1949-1962. My maternal family recently received judicial notification of recovery, 23 years after the suit commenced.

Shaping America into Progressivism

Teaching or substituting in America of the early 1980s was not easy. As a Superintendent of Education had told me, they “did not just take anybody off the street. You had to be highly qualified.” That did not necessarily mean well versed in a subject matter. You had to belong to the “rarefied” group of licensed teachers.

Cook Stoves and Climate Change

Several months ago, I reported on the Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues, Melanne Verveer, a czarina post created by President Obama on April 6, 2009, to represent the interests of third world female population. Verveer, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, suggested that we had to “build a global market for clean cook stoves” because they affect the climate through “greenhouse gases and short-lived particles such as black carbon. In her opinion, by integrating females into the supply chain of clean cook stoves, new economic development opportunities would be created for third world women, thus bringing gender to climate change. The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, which was launched on September 21, 2010, in Washington, D.C., had 240 partners and many founders:

A War by Any Other Name is Still War

I just watched in tears the space shuttle Discovery over our house, flying to its resting place at the Udvar-Hazy Space Museum at Dulles. Part of the American exceptionalism that made U.S. into a superpower ended with the demolishing of the NASA space shuttle program. Many closures have taken place under this administration that will affect and diminish our ability to defend national security for many years to come. Will we ever recover?

Liberal “Political Psychology” Propaganda

Chris Mooney wrote an article for the Washington Post on “why Republicans and Democrats don’t just vote differently – their brains work differently too.” He is the author of “The Republican Brain: The Science of Why they Deny Science – and Reality.”

Bike to Work Day

We were invited recently by our county supervisor, a Democrat and UN Agenda 21 Smart Growth proponent, to a “bike to work day.” Our county has almost a million inhabitants and is criss-crossed by two of the busiest interstates and highways in the nation. On any given day and night, we are lucky to get home unharmed, after inching our way in extreme traffic congestion. Most people live at least 10-25 miles from work. I tried to picture how this “bike to work day” would work, not withstanding logistics and mortality rates, but also in terms of middle-aged people with various degrees of arthritis, able to bike such a long distance. How would they smell to co-workers, once they made it to work, should they not first succumb to sheer exhaustion or die splattered on the very busy highways by drivers eager to get to New York?

Power Grab for Natural Gas – New Executive Order

It was Friday the 13. If you are superstitious, then the new Executive Order issued yesterday, “Supporting Safe and Responsible Development of Unconventional Domestic Natural Gas Resources” must give you pause.

Unfortunately Named the Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009

Chance brought across my path an old friend, Dr. March, whom I had not seen in four years. During the last conversation, he was trying to convince me that electing President Obama would be a positive turn in the history of our country, particularly after the “dreadful Republican Bush.”

The Home George Washington Never Left

On this glorious Easter Sunday, Mount Vernon is sparkling in a symphony of luscious greenery and azalea blooms worthy of a magical palette. The colonial white mansion with its signature red roof, sits on a bluff overlooking the Potomac River, across from Maryland. White picket fences surround adjacent quarters dedicated to household chores befitting such a large mansion. A solarium with tropical plants is a novelty for this era. There is a smithy, a greenhouse, overseer’s quarters, salt house, gardener’s house, kitchen, clerk’s quarters, seed house, coach house, stables, and ice storing facility, a smoke house for curing meat, a bakery, a laundry, a saddle maker, and slave quarters.

Subsidized and Expensive Solar Energy Bites the Dust Again

Solar Trust of America, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware courts--the ninth solar energy company to bite the dust--adding to the previous list of Beacon Power, Ener1, Evergreen Solar, Fisker, Solyndra, Sunpower, and Spectrawatt. Solar Trust of America, which listed assets between $1 to $10 million and liabilities between $10 and $50 million, was unable to meet the Department of Energy loan guarantee deadline. The $2.1 billion loan guarantee was “the largest amount ever offered to a solar project.” (The Washington Examiner)

When is Global Warming Enough?

It depends who you ask. Professor Kari Norgaard from Oregon University thinks, “If you don’t believe in climate change you must be sick.” If you are a skeptic of global warming, you are a racist. Overcoming this challenge, she continued in a paper presented at the Planet under Pressure Conference in London, March 24-29, 2012, is similar to overcoming “racism or slavery in the south.”

Scrubbing Space Exploration Saved $3 Billion a Year, a Mere Rounding Error

It is not often that I can watch an entire segment of “60 minutes,” but I was riveted this past Sunday by their coverage of the last space shuttle flight and the economic and political repercussions for the Brevard area and for our nation. Person after person interviewed were sad or in tears about the deliberate destruction of our country, of our economy, and of our technological edge and the ability to defend ourselves.

Anthropocene - Age of Man

If you have not seen this word, it is because it was invented by the global warming crowd, supported by United Nations Agenda 21’s goal of total global control through environmental protection policies that will fundamentally alter the way humans exist. According to a National Geographic article published in March 2011, “Age of Man,” the word “anthropocene” was conceived ten years ago by the Dutch chemist Paul Crutzen who said, “we are no longer in the Holocene, we are in the Anthropocene.” The Holocene was the period between the last ice age, 11,500 years ago, and present time. Paul Crutzen received a Nobel Prize for the discovery of ozone-depleting compounds. (Elizabeth Kolbert)

How much is the U.S. dollar worth?

“Let the influx of money be ever so great, if there be no confidence, property will sink in value…The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.” -- James Madison, Speech, Virginia Convention, June 20, 1788 According to data from the University of Illinois professors Lawrence H. Officer and Samuel H. Williamson, the value of the dollar had depreciated so much by 2008 that it took $5.31 to buy what it cost $1 in 1971 when Nixon decided that the dollar would no longer be backed by gold. Until then, $35 could buy a troy ounce of gold every day. Our dollar today is worth less than 19 cents when compared to 1971 and the price of gold fluctuates between $1,500-1,700 per ounce.