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Random Thoughts – Thomas Sowell What enables ex-President Jimmy Carter to be taken seriously is that millions of people are too young to remember what a disaster the Carter administration was. He lost his bid for re-election in a landslide for a reason. …Nightmare for the 2008 Presidential election: Hillary Clinton versus John McCain. I wouldn't know whether to vote Libertarian or move to Australia.  http://capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4489 and What’s in a Name? Names are just one of the superficialities of our time that have replaced character, wisdom and achievement. http://capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4486

McJobs:  Dead End Jobs? – Walter Williams Putting down so-called dead-end jobs is a destructive insult to honest work. …My stepfather used to tell me that any honest work was better than begging and stealing. As a young person, I worked many jobs from shining shoes and picking blueberries to delivering packages and washing dishes. Today's tragedy for many a poor youngster is that the opportunities I had for learning the world of work and moving up the economic ladder have either been destroyed through legislation or demeaned by today's do-gooders. http://capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4487

New Idea for Abortion Party:  Aid The Enemy – Ann Coulter http://www.thevanguard.org/r/resource.asp?url=http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10514

Data does not prove correlation between increase in CO2 and global warming We find it extremely interesting that from 1950 to 2002, during which time the air's CO2 concentration rose by fully 20% (from approximately 311 to 373 ppm), there was no net change in either the mean onset or duration of snow cover for the entire continent of North America http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/articles/V8/N48/C1.jsp  and more on warming In vivid contrast to this unsupported contention, it is our opinion that when temperature leads CO2 by thousands of years, during both glacial terminations and inceptions (Genthon et al., 1987; Fischer et al., 1999; Petit et al., 1999; Clark and Mix, 2000; Indermuhle et al., 2000; Monnin et al., 2001; Mudelsee, 2001; Caillon et al., 2003), there is plenty of reason to believe that CO2 plays but a minor role in enhancing temperature changes that are clearly induced by something else, which latter italicized point is an undisputed fact that is clearly born out by the new ice core data. http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/articles/V8/N48/EDIT.jsp

How to reform the budget process This could be done automatically through a formula that would limit spending increases to the inflation rate plus population growth. States such as Colorado have done this successfully. It also could be done manually, with annual caps set by lawmakers. In either event these spending limits would be laws -- the only way for Congress to break through them would be with a two-thirds vote. This would force lawmakers to set priorities and stick to them. Congress also should be forced to play by some of the budget laws it subjects private companies to. That means it should begin accounting for the future costs of the promises it's making today. http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed112905c.cfm

Oklahomans petitioning for spending restraint http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/pauljacob/2005/12/04/177703.html

Learning from the Pilgrims – Star Parker   [P]rotesters want Wal-Mart to submit to the unions and to the take-care-of-you-for-life benefit plans that are driving GM and similar older corporations into oblivion. …One possibility is that they will cave to political pressure, meaning they will become the next generation's General Motors. Or, they can be courageous and tell the truth. Talk about the new economy, the need for market-based health care reform where individuals get the same tax treatment as companies for health care purchases, the need to evolve benefits out of companies and letting individuals take care of themselves, and the need for private Social Security accounts. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/StarParker/2005/11/28/176867.html

Fox news selling out?  FNC’s November 13 program on global warming, “The Heat is On,” was a piece of junk -- or more specifically, junk science. …Marc Morano, a guest on FNC when he exposes the left, didn’t get any invitations to go back on the network when he reported on CNSNews.com that FNC Chairman Ailes had approved the one-sided program after Kennedy “dragged” him to a lecture by former Vice President Al Gore on the topic.  http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff73.htm

The Amish Polio Non-outbreak http://www.newswithviews.com/Tenpenny/sherri3.htm

The real secret to defeating Islamic terrorism http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47469

U.S. alliance with S. Korea? http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/dougbandow/2005/11/28/177004.html

U.N. Control of our schools? – Phyllis Schlafly On Nov. 17, 2004, at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris, UNESCO signed a 26-page "Cooperation Agreement" with Microsoft Corp. to develop a "master curriculum (syllabus)" for teacher training in information technologies based on standards, guidelines, benchmarks and assessment techniques. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/phyllisschlafly/2005/11/28/176979.html

Republican Party in Trouble – Tony Snow The Republican Party in Washington is in trouble not because it's overrun by crooks, but because it's packed with cowards -- and has degenerated into a caricature of the party that swept to power 11 years ago promising to take on the federal bureaucracy and liberate the creative genius of American society. …Where elected officials govern with a light touch and without imposing onerous tax and regulatory burdens, prosperity flourishes -- and people flock to the scene. "Progressive" states, on the other hand, are becoming empty husks, with more rigid class distinctions than in any other section of the country. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/tonysnow/2005/12/03/177618.html

Google and the Battle of Intellectual Property Rights http://www.newswithviews.com/metcalf/metcalf162.htm

The Enge Files – keep up with Chuck Muth’s reporting about a brave history teacher in Nevada who is being abused by the school district for including pre-Civil War info in his U.S. history class. http://www.theengefiles.com/

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