Remember how President Obama promised taxpayers that the government would recover most or all of the billion it handed General Motors during the 2008 $85 billion auto industry bailout?
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Carbon dioxide has been named as the chief culprit in rampant “ocean acidification” which, according to environmentalists on the Natural Resources Defense Council, will soon start killing off fish and dissolving coral reefs, putting a major dent in the seafood and eco-tourism industries.
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After investigating more than 140,000 aviation accidents, the National Transportation Safety Board has fact-based authority for its recommendations on how to make the skies safer. Unfortunately, the Federal Aviation Administration doesn’t always pay heed.
Case in point: Even though nine people died in glider-aircraft collisions over the past 20 years, the FAA has still not followed the NTSB’s 2008 recommendation to require gliders to carry transponders so that air traffic controllers and other pilots can “see” them in the sky.
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Obamacare’s individual mandate, which requires all Americans to purchase health insurance or pay a fine for not doing so, is not only unconstitutional, as ruled last year by federal Judge Henry Hudson, it’s also based on a false premise.
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It’s not only American TEA Party members who are fed up with taxes. Witches in Romania, angered over having to pay income taxes for the first time, threw poisonous mandrake instead of tea into the Danube River in protest.
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Twenty-five states are considering “copycat” immigration laws similar to the one passed in Arizona last year.
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Planned Parenthood is severing ties with its Corpus Christi, Texas affiliate because it doesn’t perform abortions.
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Other states may be grappling with massive budget deficits, but North Dakota is sitting pretty, thanks to the Bakken-Three Forks shale oil deposit.
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Virginia Delegate Bob Marshall, R-Manassas, announced that he was drafting legislation to bar active homosexuals from serving in the Virginia National Guard on the same day the Senate voted to eliminate the 17-year "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. Citing Article 1, Section 8, Clause 16 of the Constitution which "reserv[es] to the States respectively. the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress."
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What a sore loser. Even before he was kicked to the curb by Ohio voters, Rep. Steve Driehaus, D-Ohio, tried to silence the Alexandria-based Susan B.
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Tomorrow in Richmond, members of the General Assembly’s Courts of Justice Committees will hear public testimony to help them decide whether a group of Virginia judges should be recommended for reappointment to the bench. One of those judges, whose term expires Jan.
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Instead of listening to the Svengalis who insist that raising taxes is the only way out of the nation’s dire financial straits, new members of Congress should read Reason’s “How to Balance the Budget Without Raising Taxes.”
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Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Department of Homeland Security for refusing to release a report of an internal investigation into why an illegal immigrant from Bolivia charged with killing an elderly nun in Prince William County this summer wasn’t deported despite a prior DUI conviction. The deadline for responding to the public interest group’s Freedom of Information Act request was Nov. 26th.
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Members of the British Royal Society attending the latest round of UN-sponsored global warming talks in Cancun this week (where, by the way, it’s a balmy 78 degrees) called for tough new measures to cut carbon emissions, predicting that if they are not adopted, temperatures will rise catastrophically.
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Members of the British Royal Society attending the latest round of UN-sponsored global warming talks in Cancun this week (where, by the way, it’s a balmy 78 degrees) called for tough new measures to cut carbon emissions, predicting that if they are not adopted, temperatures will rise catastrophically.
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