But he is still outside the Washington status quo.
By Lucie Steigerwald
Reason.com
You might not have guessed it from this weekend’s “Commander In Chief” debate—where he was one of only two Republican presidential hopefuls not competing to be seen as the proudest torturer and most enthusiastic killer of terrorists and subversives—but Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has fundamentally changed the terms of next year’s presidential campaign.
If Paul is known for one issue as a politician, it is his detailed and longstanding critique of the Federal Reserve. Since 2008, “End the Fed” has emerged from the fringe and become a broadly popular position. When Paul expressed sympathy for the left-leaning Occupy Wall Street movement in the October 18 GOP presidential debate in Las Vegas, he was in the unusual (for him) position of expressing a centrist sentiment. Paul has also attracted some progressive support with his correct identification of the destructive force of crony capitalism and for having warned about the housing bubble back in 2003. He has been repeating similar economic critiques since long before a national audience was paying attention.
The other GOP candidates are now following in Paul’s footsteps. In August, Michele Bachmann said the Fed made “terrible, grievous errors,” while Perry famously declared that another round of stimulus spending by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke would qualify as “treasonous.” In the October 11 New Hampshire debate, which focused on the U.S. economy, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said, “If [Occupy Wall Street protesters] want to really change things, the first person to fire is Bernanke, who is a disastrous chairman of the Federal Reserve.” read more at Reason.com
Despite the devastating financial impact it will have on all American households and businesses, President Barack Obama desperately wants to resurrect and implement Cap and Trade, if not through Congress then surreptitiously through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). As with suggestions for better-structured health care reform, there is a way to clean the planet without imposing dire financial hardships on its inhabitants. Specifically targeted to foot the bill, are American taxpayers. Yet, President Barack Obama yields to the strident call of radical environmentalists such as Al Gore, reportedly desirous to become the first global-warming billionaire, and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. With extreme hyperbole, Ban warns of war and pestilence to come if the United States does not throw billions of Americans’ tax dollars into an increasingly deceptive environmental abyss.
In a dispassionate disconnect, Obama proclaimed that American’s energy costs would necessarily “skyrocket.” Even after being confronted with the environmental embarrassment known as climate-gate, with revelations of fraud and erupting scandals among man-made global warming scientists, Obama continues today to bow to a fascist far-right business agenda and a far-left environmental agenda based on international wants instead of looking out for America’s needs. The question is: Why? READ MORE at Green Mountain Scribes
Raw sewer: An unidentified man seen defecates on a NYPD patrol car in downtown Manhattan.
Unions consider joining with Occupy Providence movement
Organized labor in Rhode Island is considering joining forces with the Occupy Providence movement, said Patrick Crowley, an assistant executive director with the Rhode Island National Education Association.
“It’s already being discussed at high levels in the labor movement,” Crowley, who plans on attending a planning meeting today at 5 p.m. in Burnside Park as a representative from the local unions. Read the rest here
When you murder someone the case is never closed. The same holds when you murder the truth. No matter how long it takes, truth is defended despite all the calumnies heaped on those who stand firm against the lies and the propaganda intended to persuade those who have been deceived.
Ultimately, truth is its own defense. There never was a shred of truth in the claim that humans were causing the Earth’s climate to heat up by using so-called “fossil fuels” and engaging in manufacturing and other activities. There was no dramatic “global warming” in the 1980s until the present.
The Earth’s climate has warmed very slightly since the end of the Little Ice Age, dated to around 1850. Five hundred years of extremely cold weather had gripped the northern hemisphere starting around 1300. The much heralded “climate change” is, unlike the weather, measured in terms of centuries, not days, weeks or years. It is used by politicians that do not know what they are talking about. It is also used by charlatans, but I repeat myself.
Under the direction of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) a massive fraud was engineered. The object was to turn carbon dioxide (CO2), a common though minor atmospheric gas, into a commodity that could be traded in exchanges around the world that would issue “carbon credits” to utilities, industrial facilities, and others who would be required to pay for permission to produce energy and products. It was an audacious scheme. read the rest at Emerging Corruption
Like most Rhode Islanders, I had never set foot in a courthouse as victim or defendant. That all changed after I filed a complaint with the Bristol police last fall.
During and after the Democratic primary election for my legislative seat last September, I started to receive e-mails sent to my official state representative e-mail address from a person who I discovered had set up an e-mail address in my name (with the last letter changed). I also received vile, twisted, vulgar letters. In addition, a constituent who wrote a supportive letter published in the Bristol Phoenix newspaper was targeted with threatening letters…
…Mr. Leidecker admitted in court that he sent the e-mails to my state representative address. The very professional prosecuting attorney, Jeannie Scott, strategically picked apart the defense’s argument that this was a free-speech issue and not harassment…
…Mr. Leidecker’s sole purpose in sending these childish e-mails was to harass me. The pretense that Mr. Leidecker had a right to do what he did, under the cloak of free speech, is an insult to the founders of our country.
John Leidecker did this to me for two reasons: I was a representative who strongly supported education reform that is child-centered and pressed for reform of the pension system, to help the beneficiaries and leave enough taxpayer money for our classrooms, roads and bridges. The second reason is because Mr. Leidecker thought he could get away with it, pure and simple.
As an attorney, he surely knew better. As a professional, he should have known better. He and other union representatives act this way because they are accustomed to getting away with it. This is not the first time Mr. Leidecker and NEARI leaders have been the subject of harassment complaints. Former Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey filed complaints against both Mr. Leidecker and Secretary Louis Rainone for harassing him.
Who knows what else they have done through the years that has not been reported?
Mr. Leidecker and other NEARI leaders, including Mr. Rainone, who threatened to assault one of my former House colleagues in the courthouse, are part of a culture of thuggery that is not only condoned by such leaders as President Larry Purtill and Executive Director Robert Walsh, but also encouraged.
I do not believe classroom teachers support these acts by their NEARI leaders, but it is incumbent on them to do something about it. If they do not, by omission they support their leaders’ actions, and are therefore equally guilty. How will they answer the child’s question:
“If you don’t want me to bully other children, why do you support union leaders who bully people?”
Time will tell if there are some true leaders in the NEARI membership.
Voters should consider this case, too. They should examine carefully whom they vote for and whose interests those politicians will serve. Will it be the special interests, or will it be the common good and the taxpayers? After all, it is the politicians who got us into this pension mess. Read the entire post at the Projo.com
Douglas Gablinske, a Democrat, is a former state representative from Bristol.
The judge called one [scientist] a “zealot” who didn’t let facts get in the way of her goals and the other an “untrustworthy” witness.
Jim Kouri
Law Enforcement Examiner
A federal judge blasted Obama Administration-connected scientists on Friday for their lying to justify a drastic reduction in the amount of water that flows into California’s central valley for the sake of protecting “endangered” fish, according to a blogger for a major public-interest group that investigates government corruption.
The feds provided “equivocal or bad science,” in order to divert two years’ worth of water from the state’s central valley farmland, according to a 279-page opinion issued this week by U.S. District Judge Oliver W. Wanger in Fresno, California.
Considered the state’s agriculture hub, the area spans 2 million acres and has a population of about 25 million, according to a report from the Judicial Watch blog.
“An adequate water supply is essential and should trump the needs of “endangered” fish. That’s not how the Obama Administration sees it…
…But the judge dismissed portions of the government’s biological opinion, calling them “arbitrary, capricious and unlawful.”…
In case anyone’s still bitterly clinging to the “botched sting” theory of this clusterfark, cling no longer:
According to documents obtained by Fox News, Agent John Dodson was ordered to buy six semi-automatic Draco pistols — two of those were purchased at the Lone Wolf gun store in Peoria, Ariz. An unusual sale, Dodson was sent to the store with a letter of approval from David Voth, an ATF group supervisor.
Dodson then sold the weapons to known illegal buyers, while fellow agents watched from their cars nearby.
This was not a “buy-bust” or a sting operation, where police sell to a buyer and then arrest them immediately afterward. In this case, agents were “ordered” to let the sale go through and follow the weapons to a stash house.
According to sources directly involved in the case, Dodson felt strongly that the weapons should not be abandoned and the stash house should remain under 24-hour surveillance. However…
One of the most sinister aspects of political correctness is the way in which its edicts purport to be in the interests of minority groups.
This is despite the fact that, very often, they are not promulgated at the behest of minorities at all, but by members of the majority who want to destroy their own culture and who use minorities to camouflage their true intentions.
The latest manifestation stars once again that all-time world champion of political correctness, the BBC. Apparently, it has decided that the terms AD and BC (Anno Domini, or the Year of Our Lord, and Before Christ) must be replaced by the terms Common Era and Before Common Era….
…Indeed, I would go much further and react with undiluted scorn and disapproval to any attempt to do so.
That is because I feel passionately that a society should be allowed to express its own culture – and this attack on BC and AD, fatuous as it may seem on the surface, is yet another attack on British culture and the Christian underpinnings which provide it with its history, identity and fundamental values.
The impulse behind changing such established terms – obviously as familiar to us all as the names of the days of the week – is part of the wider desire to obliterate Christianity in British culture….
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The result of this inversion of right and wrong is that morality itself has been reversed or negated. Politically correct language is thus a way of shifting the very centre of moral and political gravity.
So what was once considered far-Left has become the centre-ground; and those who stand on the real centre-ground are now dismissed as extreme.
The attack on BC and AD is merely the latest salvo in the war of the words, part of the defining madness of our time.
Out in Chicago, Democrat Mayor and former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel campaigned on a promise of longer school days. Now that he’s actually following through with this, the teacher’s union is balking. But the part of this that is most surprising is the teachers are knowingly and voluntarily contradicting their own union….So then we can wonder how the union is taking this with regard to its members….
…A STEM staff member who participated in Friday’s meeting said a CTU representative came to the school to speak to the staff about the waiver vote. The staff member said the representative seemed to be using “scare tactics”, at one point telling teachers he would put on his “mean hat.” ….
…..So how much extra time are we talking about here? In RI, the minimum requirement is 5.5 hours of instruction time and 180 days. That math says we must have 59,400 minutes or 990 hours in a school year. In Chicago, the current requirement is 52,360 minutes a year or 873 hours. That works out to about 4.85 hours of instruction a day in Chicago. They’re looking to add an extra 1.5 hours a day. That is quite the investment for teachers and what they’re being offered in return is a 2% raise.
So let this serve as a blog post where teachers are congratulated for doing what is right, doing what is best for education and the students they serve, even if they are directly contradicting the wishes of their own union. READ THE ENTIRE POST @ Anchor Rising
Like most Rhode Islanders, I had never set foot in a courthouse as victim or defendant. That all changed after I filed a complaint with the Bristol police last fall. 
