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Why China and India’s Leaders Won’t Be Attending the U.N. Climate Summit

As President Obama prepares to attend the UN Climate Summit in New York, it is worth noting that China’s President Xi and India’s Prime Minister Modi are not attending, in large part because officials see many international climate agreements as unfairly punishing developing countries. One senior Indian official noted that the summit “cannot be seen as a forum for negotiating a climate pact.”
- Tuesday, September 23, 2014



No Apologies: Lois Lerner Breaks 16-Month Silence on IRS Scandal

It’s been one year since Lois Lerner officially retired from the Internal Revenue Service amid accusations that the tax agency improperly had targeted tea party and other conservative groups. Now, Lerner is speaking out and offering no apologies for her role in the scandal.
- Monday, September 22, 2014



“We can do it better”—Scotland and The West Parallels

The world watched and waited to learn the fate of Scotland following its vote on the referendum for independence. For many other regions within the U.K., including Wales and Northern Ireland; within Europe, including Spain’s Catalonia and Belgium’s Flanders; and states within the U.S., including Vermont, Texas and Alaska; Scotland’s vote energized and inspired separatists’ movements—even though they were disappointed with the outcome.
- Monday, September 22, 2014


Democrats take all their voters for granted, not just blacks

Republican voters get frustrated with Republicans in Congress because it seems as if they are not aggressive enough on key issues. They have backed off of putting a repeal-and-replace ObamaCare alternative on the table. They now say they will repeal parts of it and try to fix it. It's not fixable! But repair is all they believe they can get if they gain control of both chambers of Congress by winning the Senate and maintain control of the House in November. That may be the case politically, but Republican voters would like for them to at least try to repeal and replace it. Republicans in the House control federal spending authorizations, but when they try to use that power, the Democrats leverage the bias in the mainstream media to put Republicans on the defensive over everything from children to the elderly to animals to the environment and, of course, "government shutdowns".
- Monday, September 22, 2014


Court of Appeals restores Wisconsin's voter ID law

The justice system in MJ's home state of Wisconsin is awfully twisted. Not only do county prosecutors conduct baseless investigations against Gov. Scott Walker and his supporters just because he is a Republican and they don't like him, but now we have a Clinton-appointed federal judge from the state taking the liberty of striking down the state's voter ID law simply because that is what Democrats are expected to do.
- Monday, September 22, 2014


Liberty Counsel Defends Church’s Rights in Amicus Brief

Washington, DC— The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco decided a Freedom of Speech case using subjective legislative motive rather than the facts in the case, Liberty Counsel told the Supreme Court in an amicus brief today. Later this year, the Supreme Court will hear Reed. v. Town of Gilbert, a First Amendment challenge from Good News Community Church, which was denied the right to advertise its church like other businesses or political candidates.
- Monday, September 22, 2014


Stratification

Mondays suck. Over the weekend we see a dearth of reportable, recordable information occurring because legislators and civic leaders go to the house and start sipping on a cold one. The other problem to consider is this is the day when these nimrods return to work gumming up the process and trying like the dickens to maintain their cushy jobs doing no more than talking to each other, posturing before microphones and in general being of little to no good to the people paying their exorbitant salaries.
- Monday, September 22, 2014

The Most Futile March Ever

Street marches today are to real politics what street mime is to Shakespeare. This was an ersatz event: no laws will change, no political balance will tip, no UN delegate will have a change of heart. The world will roll on as if this march had never happened. And the marchers would have emitted less carbon and done more good for the world if they had all stayed home and studied books on economics, politics, science, religion and law. Marches like this create an illusion of politics and an illusion of meaningful activity to fill the void of postmodern life; the tribal ritual matters more than the political result. --Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest, 21 September 2014
- Monday, September 22, 2014



In the dark of night remember to pray for America

In the dark of night remember to pray for America
At the end of each day as we lie abed each and every night there is something many of us forget to do. That something forgotten is to pray for America. In the vale of tears that life on earth is and has always been; in the misery that Marxism continues to spread among vulnerable masses, we pray for family members and friends who have fallen ill. We pray our job will be there for the foreseeable future, and even that we can somehow make this month’s rent or mortgage.
- Monday, September 22, 2014

NIH Makes Monkey’s Uncles Out of Taxpayers

The National Institutes of Health has billions of tax dollars to give away each year in the form of research grants. I’m sure that senior bureaucrats have the really famous diseases and maladies already booked up.
- Monday, September 22, 2014

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