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Coach Roy's Reading List for 12/8/2011
Coach Roy's Reading List for 12/8/2011
Now that I have successfully taken care of my middle son's ACL surgery... I can return to Delaware and the normal persuits of whatever...Politics as usual Department:
Why progressive policies always fail
Much has been made lately of those whose income is in the top 1 percent, who supposedly don't pay their "fair share" of taxes. They have been denounced as close to common thieves.EDITORIAL: The USS Karl Marx - Washington Times
The responsibility for naming U.S. warships has traditionally been left to the secretary of the Navy. That needs to change. President Obama’s Navy secretary, Ray Mabus, has politicized the christening process to the point where some form of oversight is needed.
PATTERSON: Labor unions and communism - Washington Times
Trade unions are a school of communism. -Vladimir Lenin
Labor leader Andy Stern has seen the future. There’s no freedom there, but he’s OK with that. Mr. Stern, a former president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), recently returned from a trip to China, where he had the opportunity to meet with “high-ranking” government officials, who outlined for the former labor leader the authoritarian regime’s long-term economic plan.
Terrorists said to be infiltrating military - Washington Times
The House of Representatives held two big oversight hearings yesterday, one questioning Attorney General Eric Holder and the other questioning Democratic former-New Jersey senator and governor Jon Corzine. Other than the witnesses professed ignorance, little was learned.
Presidential Election Department:
COLE: Obama should quit emulating others
Pundits and politicians, perhaps struggling to make sense of their own era, are fond of finding parallels between contemporary figures and those
Roosevelt, unlike Obama, wasn't a radical
[Ahhh, but he was a "progressive" republican...]
KUHNER: Being anyone but Barack
President Obama has been reborn as a populist. At a major speech this week in Kansas, Mr. Obama outlined the themes of his 2012 re-election campaign. He is a champion of the middle class, which he claims is under siege. Their enemies are big business, corporations and the rich. Published December 8, 2011
Cain 'considering' a radio or TV show
[Which is what some people thought he was up to all the time.... remember Rush's comments?]
Global What? & Environmental Control Freaks too...
Unions push for Montgomery County to keep 150 percent increase in energy tax
More unsupported hysteria over fracking
Hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") is the process used by the energy industry to extract immense deposits of oil and natural gas from deep geologic formations that only a few years ago were unreachable. It involves injecting a solution of water and chemicals far underground, typically thousands of feet below groundwater supplies.
Douglas Brinkley, best-selling author and celebrity history professor, let his allegiance to Big Green get the best of his scholarly self-control in a recent hearing before the House Natural Resources Committee.
Popular Culture, etc.:
And the rest of the stuff:
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