Most actors don’t get immediate results after testifying on Capitol Hill. Not so for Kevin Costner. Just about a month after his visit to Washington, the AP reports, Costner will see the oil-cleaning centrifuge machine that he and his company, Costner Industries Nevada Corp, developed over fifteen years ago be used in the Gulf.
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Monday, July 12, 2010
Kevin Costner's Oil Cleaning Device Approved for Deployment this week
By KIKI RYAN
Most actors don’t get immediate results after testifying on Capitol Hill. Not so for Kevin Costner. Just about a month after his visit to Washington, the AP reports, Costner will see the oil-cleaning centrifuge machine that he and his company, Costner Industries Nevada Corp, developed over fifteen years ago be used in the Gulf.
Most actors don’t get immediate results after testifying on Capitol Hill. Not so for Kevin Costner. Just about a month after his visit to Washington, the AP reports, Costner will see the oil-cleaning centrifuge machine that he and his company, Costner Industries Nevada Corp, developed over fifteen years ago be used in the Gulf.
Republicans should embrace Paul Ryan's Road Map
By: Fred Barnes
Weekly Standard
July 12, 2010
For Republicans, the road map authored by Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin is the most important proposal in domestic policy since Ronald Reagan embraced supply-side economics in the 1980 presidential campaign. It's not only the freshest, boldest, and most comprehensive Republican thinking, it's also the most relevant. If Republicans adopt the road map as their basic ideological blueprint, it offers them the prospect of a landslide in the midterm election this year, followed by victory in the presidential election in 2012.
Weekly Standard
July 12, 2010
For Republicans, the road map authored by Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin is the most important proposal in domestic policy since Ronald Reagan embraced supply-side economics in the 1980 presidential campaign. It's not only the freshest, boldest, and most comprehensive Republican thinking, it's also the most relevant. If Republicans adopt the road map as their basic ideological blueprint, it offers them the prospect of a landslide in the midterm election this year, followed by victory in the presidential election in 2012.
Obama at odds with Petraeus doctrine on 'Islam'
By Rowan Scarborough
The White House's official policy of banning the word "Islam" in describing America's terrorist enemies is in direct conflict with the U.S. military's war-fighting doctrine now guiding commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The White House's official policy of banning the word "Islam" in describing America's terrorist enemies is in direct conflict with the U.S. military's war-fighting doctrine now guiding commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan.
New U.K. government bans Michael Savage
The new Conservative Party-led government of Prime Minister David Cameron informed Michael Savage it will continue the ban on the top-rated talk-radio host's entry to the United Kingdom unless he repudiates statements made on his broadcasts that were deemed a threat to public security.
BP Oil Spill: Containment Cap Installed on Leak
July 12, 2010
All eyes are on BP as it performs tests on the new oil cap.
Video Here:
Underwater video of the well showed the new 18-foot, 150,000-pound cap being placed onto the wellhead. The company will soon begin the process of testing the fit that could finally contain all of the leaking oil.
BOMBSHELL: Media Mogul Mort Zuckerman Admits He Wrote One Of Obama's Speeches...
By Mortimer B. Zuckerman
The hope that fired up the election of Barack Obama has flickered out, leaving a national mood of despair and disappointment. Americans are dispirited over how wrong things are and uncertain they can be made right again. Hope may have been a quick breakfast, but it has proved a poor supper. A year and a half ago Obama was walking on water. Today he is barely treading water. Then, his soaring rhetoric enraptured the nation. Today, his speeches cannot lift him past a 45 percent approval rating.
Lab tests: Why Consumer Reports can't recommend the iPhone 4
It's official. Consumer Reports' engineers have just completed testing the iPhone 4, and have confirmed that there is a problem with its reception. When your finger or hand touches a spot on the phone's lower left side—an easy thing, especially for lefties—the signal can significantly degrade enough to cause you to lose your connection altogether if you're in an area with a weak signal. Due to this problem, we can't recommend the iPhone 4.
Palin’s PAC fundraising suddenly looking mighty presidential
posted at 6:54 pm on July 12, 2010 by Allahpundit
The second-quarter numbers are in and people who pay attention are paying attention. It’s not the haul that’s so impressive — $866,000 is a robust figure but Romney’s PAC did more than a million in April and May alone and SarahPAC itself did better in the last half of last year than the first half of this year — but rather what she’s doing with the money. What kind of ex-governor-turned-commentator spends several hundred thousand dollars developing a direct mailing list?
Climate Change: The Deception
'CLIMATE CHANGE' CALL TO GIVE UP AIR CONDITIONING...
These people have officially lost their minds.
By Stan Cox
Sunday, July 11, 2010; B03
Washington didn't grind to a sweaty halt last week under triple-digit temperatures. People didn't even slow down. Instead, the three-day, 100-plus-degree, record-shattering heat wave prompted Washingtonians to crank up their favorite humidity-reducing, electricity-bill-busting, fluorocarbon-filled appliance: the air conditioner.
By Stan CoxSunday, July 11, 2010; B03
Washington didn't grind to a sweaty halt last week under triple-digit temperatures. People didn't even slow down. Instead, the three-day, 100-plus-degree, record-shattering heat wave prompted Washingtonians to crank up their favorite humidity-reducing, electricity-bill-busting, fluorocarbon-filled appliance: the air conditioner.
Marines train for Afghanistan by patrolling streets of Los Angeles...
A tough-talking, muscular Los Angeles police sergeant steadily rattled off tips to a young Marine riding shotgun as they raced in a patrol car to a drug bust: Be aware of your surroundings. Watch people's body language. Build rapport.
Secret gold swap has spooked the market
It takes a lot to spook the solid old gold market. But when it emerged last week that one or more banks had lent 380 tonnes of gold to the Bank of International Settlements in return for foreign currencies, there was widespread surprise and confusion.
The news that a mystery bank has just pawned the family jewels gave traders a jolt – nervous about the sudden transfer of almost 20pc of the world's annual gold production and the possibility of a sell-off.
In a tiny footnote in its annual report, the bank disclosed its unusually large holding of gold, compared with nothing the year before. The disclosure was a large factor in the correction of the gold price this week, which fell below $1,200 for the first time in more than a month.
Taranis: The £143million unmanned stealth jet that will hit targets in another continent
By Daily Mail Reporter
Looming ominously like a space ship from Star Wars, this is the future of unmanned flight.
Defence firm BAE Systems today officially unveiled its first ever high-tech unmanned stealth jet.
The Taranis, named after the Celtic god of thunder, is about the same size as a Hawk jet and is equipped with stealth equipment and an 'autonomous' artificial intelligence system.
The plane will test the possibility of developing the first ever autonomous stealthy Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) that would ultimately be capable of precisely striking targets at long range, even in another continent.
Al-Shabaab Islamists suspected in deadly Ugandan World Cup bombings
Published: 11:24AM BST 12 Jul 2010
Somali Islamists carried out two bomb attacks in Kampala, killing at least 64 people as they watched the World Cup final, Ugandan authorities said on Monday.
Suspicion fell on the al-Shabaab rebel group, which claims links with al-Qaeda, after the severed head of a suspected Somali suicide bomber was found at one of the blast sites.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Ricochet Podcast Episode 24: Jabba the Fed
July 8, 2010
This week we are joined by Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty and Ricochet legal gurus John Yoo and Richard Expstein on Kagan. We also shout out to some Ricochet members, discuss human behavior and the parking lot of Target, the psychology of motorcades, and offer some predictions on taxes (guess!) All this and more, free of charge.
Questions? Comments? Join The Conversation at Ricochet.com or write us at podcast@ricochet.com.
| 0:00 | Opening chat |
| 29:15 | Tim Pawlenty |
| 51:37 | Richard Epstein and John Yoo |
| 1:21:00 | Closing chat |
Democratic governors voiced deep anxiety about the Obama administration’s Arizona suit
Published: July 11, 2010
BOSTON — In a private meeting with White House officials this weekend, Democratic governors voiced deep anxiety about the Obama administration’s suit against Arizona’s new immigration law, worrying that it could cost a vulnerable Democratic Party in the fall elections.
Another Death Ship aka "Flotilla" Enroute to Israel/Gaza ..... Sponsored by Obama-funded Gaddafi Organization
Posted on Atlas Shrugs by Pamela Geller on Sunday, July 11, 2010 at 05:21 PM
I pointed out in this post that another jihad death ship, under the media's affectionate label "flotilla," is making its way to Israel/Gaza. The "aid" ship was sponsored by the Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation (GICDF), headed by the son of the Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. Obama funded the Gaddafi Foundation.
‘Perfect Citizen’: Congress’ Perfect Failure
Reliable national security reporter Siobhan Gorman at the Wall Street Journal has broken a story about an Internet surveillance program called “Perfect Citizen” to be managed by the National Security Agency.
White House: Republicans could win control of House
WASHINGTON |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans could win control of the House of Representatives in elections in November, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs acknowledged on Sunday.
Benjamin Netanyahu on 'FNS'
Israel's prime minister on possible rift between U.S. and Israel
Alinsky, Stalinsky, It's Still the Same Old Agitprop
July 11, 2010
By James Lewis
"Stalinism" is a useful term for the totalitarian left -- even to the left itself. It's one word they haven't been able to chew up, gulp down, and transform into its opposite. They still know what "Stalinist" means, even after generations of new names for the same community agitators: "The New Left," "hippies," "Black Panthers," "youthful radicals," "idealistic students," "feminists," "the workers," "black nationalists," "Third World socialists," "the wretched of the earth," "Green Party," "Gay activists," "LGBT," "Global Warming," "peace and freedom party," "eco activists," "civil rights campaigners," "post-modernists," "gender studies," "J Street," "Bolivarismo," "ACORN," "undocumented workers," "Moveon.org," "Liberation Theology" -- there must be hundreds and hundreds of front labels for the Same-Old, Same-Old. They make up new ones all the time. This year's fashionable lefty cult is called ... "progressivism!"
'The Crisis at Which We Are Arrived'
Don't fear the Tea Parties.
William Kristol
July 19, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 41
After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the UNION, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force. If there be any truth in the remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind.
—Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 1
We are not now quite at a founding moment, or even a re-founding moment. But we have arrived at a genuine crisis, or a set of crises, and we may well be at a decisive moment for the country.
The Mad Rush to Build the Ground Zero Mega-Mosque
Posted by Pamela Geller
New York politicians are bending over backwards and violating protocol to build a mega mosque at Ground Zero. In warped speed they are ramming it through, removing every obstacle to expedite the process and erect a triumphal mosque at Ground Zero in time for it to meet its stated opening date, the tenth anniversary of September 11. Why? Would they do this for a church? A synagogue? This is an outrage.
The selective modesty of Barack Obama
Remember NASA? It once represented to the world the apogee of American scientific and technological achievement. Here is President Obama's vision of NASA's mission, as explained by administrator Charles Bolden:
"One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science and math and engineering."
So, How's Our Stock Market Recovery Doing? Not So Good...
Image: Doug Short, dshort.com
After last week's welcome rally, the S&P 500 is now 31% below its October 2007 peak.
October 2007 was 33 months ago.
So how is our stock market recovery doing relative to others in history?
Not well.
Sens. Coburn and Barrasso Release 100-Day Obamacare Check-Up
07/08/2010
The only two U.S. Senator physicians have released a blistering oversight report examining the first 100 days of Obamacare implementation.
Whitewashing black racism; Shabazz: “Prepare for war”
My column today blasts the MSM for its silence over the black racial demagogues of the New Black Panther Party and its ilk.
Before I get to the column, some context:
Longtime readers and viewers know I go way back with the poisonous race hustlers of the New Black Panther Party.
Black GOP candidate slams Obama for exploiting race
- 07/08/10 04:57 PM ET
One of the GOP’s handful of black candidates for Congress condemned President Barack Obama for exploiting race for political gain.
Allen West, the Republican challenging Rep. Ron Klein (D) in Florida’s 22nd congressional district, sharply criticized the Obama administration for having declined prosecuting the New Black Panther Party on voter tampering charges allegedly for political reasons.
Christie looks to privatize motor vehicle inspections, other services
State House Bureau
STATE HOUSE BUREAU
New Jersey would close its centralized car inspection lanes and motorists would pay for their own emissions tests under a sweeping set of recommendations set to be released by the Christie administration today.
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The Constitution and Freedom
55 Percent of Likely Voters Find ‘Socialist’ an Accurate Label of Obama?
July 09, 2010 9:13 AM
The latest poll by Democracy Corps, the firm of James Carville and Stan Greenberg, has Republicans leading on the generic ballot among likely voters, 48 percent to 42 percent.
Deep in the poll, they ask, “Now, I am going to read you a list of words and phrases which people use to describe political figures. For each word or phrase, please tell me whether it describes Barack Obama very well, well, not too well, or not well at all.”
On “too liberal,” 35 percent of likely voters say it describes Obama “very well,” 21 percent say “well,” 21 percent say “not too well,” and 17 percent say “not well at all.” In other words, 56 percent of likely voters consider Obama too liberal.
When asked about “a socialist,” 33 percent of likely voters say it describes Obama “very well,” 22 percent say “well,” 15 percent say “not too well,” and 25 percent say “not well at all.”
In other words, 55 percent of likely voters think “socialist” is a reasonably accurate way of describing Obama.
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