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Audacity of Truth
Marginalizing Terror:
"Why? Whether it’s al Qaeda Central, or two twisted, perverted, cowardly knock-off jihadists here in Boston. Why do they do what they do?”
VP Biden, speaking at the memorial service for slain MIT police offer Sean Collier - 4/24/2013
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Oh, no. This won’t set off conservative and libertarian alarm bells at all.
**Posted by Phineas I mean, what’s so threatening about a biometric database of all adult Americans being in the immigration bill, citizen? The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous [...]
Feel Good story of the day: One World Trade Center makes it to 1776 feet (VIDEO)
Fantastic! To cheers from spectators and workers alike, construction crews set a silver spire atop New York City’s One World Trade Center on Friday to bring the structure to its full 1,776 height and cap an emotional 12-year effort to restore a key part of the city skyline shattered by the 9/11 terror attacks. The [...]
Survey says! Police oppose new #guncontrol regulations
**Posted by Phineas Pretty significant, I’d say, since the cops have to deal regularly with violent criminals and the aftermath of violent crime. If a majority of them say new gun regulations won’t do any good and might do harm, then why pass them? (1) An authoritative new poll of more than 15,000 cops released [...]
Obamacare as the gateway to state-run single-payer healthcare? Colorado is the foot in the doorway.
**Posted by Phineas One of the charges made by those oppose Obamacare is that it’s really a Trojan Horse for state-run single-payer system (1); that, in fact, the annoyances and fatal flaws within the PPACA –which are legion– are a feature, not a bug. The idea being that the problems will grow so great that [...]
Quote of the Day: Doing business in Texas vs. California edition
**Posted by Phineas An observation on why Texas might have more appeal to business owners, from John Harrington, owner of Shield Tactical, who recently relocated his company from Orange County, California, to Austin: In Texas, he said, “it’s an iota of bureaucracy.” In California, “it’s like before you put up your range you have to [...]
The death of common sense in America
**Posted by Phineas Writing on the rolling global financial crisis, the Diplomad shakes his head at the foolishness reigning in the US today: The western world continues on a totally unnecessary suicidal path. What was once common sense is no more. Everywhere one looks, the insanity is evident: The refusal to deal with real issues and the [...]
(Video) Canaries in the Coal Mine
**Posted by Phineas Call this a follow up to my worries that Cyprus is a warning and this morning’s post about America being in danger of becoming Europe. In this latest “Afterburner,” Bill Whittle warns us that, with the European Union lurching from fiscal crisis to fiscal crisis, and with the US headed by an [...]
(Video) Is America Becoming Europe?
**Posted by Phineas A philosophical question for you from Encounter Books and narrated by, I think, Bill Whittle: My short answer is “No, and I’d rather not live in Europe, thanks.” (Even though I live in one of the states closest to “might as well just join the EU and get it over with.”
If [...]
Obama Treasury Dept. to open bank records to US intelligence agencies?
**Posted by Phineas Under things that make me a bit uncomfortable, we find: The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens and others who bank in the country, according to a Treasury Department document seen by Reuters. [...]
French minister commits unpardonable sin of telling truth: “We’re broke.”
**Posted by Phineas And he’s deep in la merde, for it: Michel Sapin made the gaffe in a radio interview, which left French President Francois Hollande and other ministers racing to undo the potential damage to the country’s reputation as a solid economy for investors. On Monday, Mr Sapin said: “There is a state but [...]
