Shout First, Ask Questions Later: 2011-05-01

Friday, May 6, 2011

Daily Round-Up 05-06

Study Captures Electorate Beyond 'Red vs. Blue'

THE GOOD NEWS IS...

Awesome good news! - AV referendum and local elections live

Election results 2011: Lib Dems suffer worst losses in a generation

Rockefeller to roll out 'Do Not Track' bill

The Necessity of School Choice in Pennsylvania

GOP Rivals Hit Obama on Foreign Policy Despite Bin Laden Killing, Hit Harder on Economy

Bollywood vs. Bin Laden: Why Radical Islam Fears Pop Culture

PLANNED PARENTHOOD/ABORTION SCANDAL

Letter from an aborted child

Reaping the wages of "One Child" - aka forced abortions - Is China Cooking The Books On Its Census Data? The population may be aging even worse than authorities admit in the latest 10-year census. Why China urgently needs to change its birth control policy.

FIGHTING CORRUPTION/TEA PARTY NEWS

My Chance to Cross Examine Architect of Pigford Multi-billion Dollar Fraud

John Stossel Takes On Pigford

The tea party should hold fast on debt ceiling

Ohio GOP, Tea Partyers Fight Healthcare Provision

Mother’s Day and the conservative movement

Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers Takes Heat at Company's Annual Meeting for Promoting President Obama's War on Fossil Fuels

Conservatives’ Answer to Obama’s Social Media Game Plan: Part II

Media Labelling

Poll shows birther beliefs in decline following long-form release

Stories like the one above are really annoying because it is nothing more than media labeling.

Honest people with honest questions as to why Obama didn't offer up this "long-form" birth certificate when asked are immediately labeled "birthers" by the media. Sure there are some conspiracy nuts (on both ends of the political spectrum). But the vast majority simply wanted to know why Obama was refusing a request that came from registered voters.

Of course to any sane person, once that birth certificate was released the numbers of "birthers" would decline. That's because those people were NOT birthers as the media labels them, but folks who expect their questions to be answered by their political servants.

And make no mistake, ALL politicians in America are servants of the people. It is those who forget that very basic fact that are in trouble these days. Just as the mainstream media is in trouble by actions such as giving derogatory labels to those with legitimate questions. Journalists who want to keep getting paychecks better think twice about being so clever.

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Daily Round-Up 05-05

Help Save This Film!! "Battle for Britain" - 35mm Print & World Festival Tour

THE GOOD NEWS IS...

Transparency Report Reveals Sunshine State is Living Up to its Name

Nanny State Roll Back

New Poll: Birthers Vanish, Rapture Suspected "Boy oh boy, if that’s true, then Obama’s decision to release his long-form birth certificate accomplished a feat on par with — nay, greater than — killing Osama bin Laden: it made America dramatically less racist overnight!"

ADF: Ariz. law protecting student religious expression comes at perfect time

A Proposal to End the Practice of Gerrymandering. Using a precise mathematical formula, it is possible to redraw district lines fairly and bring competitiveness back to congressional races.

Soros, Epstein, and Caldwell on Hayek

GENERAL BAD BEHAVIOR

Regulation of the Day 171: Cream Puffs

Obama’s Easter Pastor Makes Inflammatory Racial Remarks

Apple Addresses iPhone Location Tracking Controversy with iOS Update

Former Drug Dealer Explains Black Market Pricing to NPR

Soviet Flags Fly in Kentucky on May Day (KENTUCKY!!)

Lawmakers Step Up Probe of Gun Trafficking Operation AND Friction Grows Between Lawmakers and DOJ Over 'Project Gunrunner' Probe ANd here

Hmmmm - Illinois granted $186M of rail money once offered to Florida

Kloppenburg’s Wretched Habit

Nearly Half Of Detroiters Can’t Read

North Korean Prison Camps Massive and Growing

AND THE GOOD GUYS ARE...

As always, Ken Blackwell has an excellent suggestion - Cut U.S. Funding for Osama’s Mourners

GOP Leaders: ‘Nothing Off the Table Except Raising Taxes’

FL GOP Sen. Candidate Adam Hasner Stresses Playing Offense, Principled Leadership

House Passes Bill Making It Easier to Drill

OBAMACARE

States ask US court to overturn health overhaul

Like Long Medical Wait Times, Crowded Emergency Rooms? You’ll Love ObamaCare.

Private healthcare rationing better than government's

Another Good Swing At Defunding Obamacare—But Not A Hit

JUNK SCIENCE

A fantastic article! - Warming Linked to Giant Ants: Study

UN Reports April Food Prices Climb Again, Hit Second Highest Ever

GE's Immelt wishes he had soft-pedaled green talk

The EPA shouldn’t regulate greenhouse gas emissions

Prince Charles criticizes govt farm subsidies I don't like farm subsidies either but not for the same reasons as Chuck.

Politics Cloud Common Sense on Energy

Climate activists target states with lawsuits

MEDIA BIAS

Oops - NYT magazine cover story: ‘A Beast Within the Heart of Every Fighting Man’ (Update: Blackfive fisks the story)

Lib-Talker Malloy: When Will Navy SEALs Take Out George W. Bush?

How to Lose $10 Million on a Startup Web Site in Three Months

Newspapers fight to keep public-postings revenue

Isn’t Arianna Huffington Supposed To Favor Spreading the Wealth?

WaPo Notes Passage of 5-cent Bag Tax, Leaves Out That Newspaper Bags Exempt

BIG UNION/LEFTIE GROUPS

Cry me a river - Trumka to Union Members: We’re Being Targeted

Labor board plays fast and loose in Boeing case

Oshkosh Professor Reprimanded for Comments on Recall Vote AND Felon (and Wisconsin professor of criminology) encourages election fraud

Interesting Question - If Supermarkets Were Like Public Schools What if groceries were paid for by taxes, and you were assigned a store based on where you live?

MORE SHOCK VIDEO: U of Missouri ‘Labor Studies’ Course Teaches How to Shut Down Non-Union Companies

Insecure Communities

PLANNED PARENTHOOD/ABORTION SCANDAL

House Passes "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act" 251 to 175 (Corrected)

Steven Tyler of Aerosmith and American Idol, Has Suffered Post Abortion Trauma

Good Counsel Makes Abortion Rarer

FIGHTING CORRUPTION/TEA PARTY NEWS

MacIver’s Fake Doctors’ Notes Video Report Garners Atlas Award

McDonnell Correctly Vetoes PBS Funding

Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers to be Challenged Over His Support of President Obama's War on Fossil Fuels by Stockholders at the Company Shareholder Meeting Thursday

Why Rebuffing the Legal Attack on the National Day of Prayer Matters...Especially at a Time Like This

AV Referendum results map

Bad Politician Bad 05-05

President Obama Job Approval

Latest Election Polls

2012 Republican Presidential Nomination

The presidential election will likely be decided in 14 states.

Study Captures Electorate Beyond 'Red vs. Blue'

Google and Government: A Threat to Your Privacy

Harry Reid: “Marco Rubio has to understand who he is…” Videos of Reids asshattery and Rudio's response at link.

DNC coordinates with Former White House staffer on response to Pawlenty

Obama and Debt: “evasion, contradiction and deception.”

The Obama Administration’s cloud of confusion explained *UPDATED*

Parsing Chrysler’s Payback Edition

Regulation of the Day 171: Cream Puffs

In Economic Woes 05-05

Never did get a job from a poor man - Why Do We Have to Raise Taxes on the Rich?

Decline of the working man. Why ever fewer low-skilled American men have jobs

Data hints at slowdown in job creation

Stocks sink after weak data on jobs

Unemployment applications hit 8-month high

Dollar tumbles to 3-yr low; data underpins rate view

Hells no - Obama administration floats draft plan to tax cars by the mile

Oregon's GPS Mileage Tax Encourages Bad Habits: Analysis

Leaders of minority parties in Senate and House introduce jobs agendas

Re: The Debt-Limit Question Answers Itself

Don't know if this is good or bad - Oil plummets more than 8 percent as commodities battered

Back-Door Tax Increases Are a Recipe for Bigger Government

Raise Taxes, but Not Tax Rates

Politics Cloud Common Sense on Energy

National Debt: Fix It or Face National Decline

CBO Endorses Market Valuation of Pension Liabilities

Interesting Question - If Supermarkets Were Like Public Schools What if groceries were paid for by taxes, and you were assigned a store based on where you live?

World Food Prices Rise to Near-Record High as Inflation Speeds Up, UN Says

Nation of Gas Speculators Condemns Oil Speculators

America’s Middle Class Crisis: The Sobering Facts

UN Reports April Food Prices Climb Again, Hit Second Highest Ever

Regulation of the Day 171: Cream Puffs

Spending caps not enough

Members eager for White House tax plan

How feminist groups skewed the Obama stimulus plan towards women's jobs.

Free markets at work - Chile Economic Growth May Surpass 6%, Finance Minister Says

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Not Releasing Bin Laden Photo

Obama won't release bin Laden photos

I still haven't decided if this is a good thing or not.

On one hand, if the photos are released, it would just give ammo to terrorists. On the other hand, if we don't, it would just give ammo to terrorists. Claims that Osama is dead will always be met with claims he is still alive.

That said, Osama's daughter confirms her father shot dead by US Special Forces in Pakistan. Now only a real conspiracy nut would argue against that eye-witness.

Releasing a gruesome photo would only titillate some and antagonize the rest. Not releasing any photo does the same. In a damned if you do, damned if you don't, what do you do?

At the end of the day, if the reports of the "treasure trove" of information the Seals captured during their attack are true then so are two things, Osama is dead and it should be the beginning of the end of Al Qaeda.