Politicians, like underwear, should be changed often,
and for the same reasons
--Author Unknown

TWENTY-FIVE YEAR OLDS TO THE RESCUE-A PLAN, A SOLUTION

The 25 -30 Year Old Candidate's Specific Platform

SETTING A GREAT EXAMPLE

STEPS TO TAKE:

REDUCED SALARY
As a congressman, accept only 80% (a 20% reduction) of the salary of $175,000-(2010 projected salary).

Show voters, that out of the starting gate, you're deadly serious about profligate spending and that you will set the example on spending and reining in an out of control government.

BlOATED EXPENSIVE STAFFS
Staff spending in 535 districts, averages about $1 million a year, with some individual staff members earning $160,000 a year before adding in very expensive benefits,

Total staff spending can absolutely be shaved to $600,000 a year while still paying very good salaries and more than adequate benefits. No one will exceed $100,000 a year before several years of proven worth to earn a salary that high.

Staff Savings in just 1 of 535 districts-$400,000.

LOBBYISTS
Set the tone immediately. Those who are here for higher government spending will be wasting their time and you (the candidate)will not let them waste any of your time. If they are lobbying for reduced government spending, they will get serious attention.

A past study showed lobbyists in Washington-fighting for higher spending-outnumbered by a whopping 7 to 1-those who are neutral or for lower spending.

EARMARKS/PORK-BARREL SPENDING
Earmarks will be taboo. All Earmarks will get a no vote, pure and simple. Earmarks are obtained through a subversion of the legal process, slipped in, after the full vote.

Democrats took some action to bring earmarks more into view and made a big deal of it, but they left themselves plenty of wiggle room and voted against a measure that would have basically closed out the practice.

There are 40 Republicans who have vowed to swear off earmarks. They have gotten only 3 Democrats to join them.

FARM SUBSIDIES
Eliminate practically all farm subsidies. Most subsidies go to very rich farmers. They cost $24 billion dollars a year, in direct payments to farmers and many billions more in welfare that gets added to them that have nothing to do with farming.

Even thoroughbred owners got in on the recently passed pork-laden farm bill.

Vote to knock out practically all of these, unless it will clearly result in saving some small farmers without hurting consumers. Attempt to bring the yearly farm subsidy down to less than $5 billion a year.

FREE TRADE
Free Trade has huge benefits to the public in lower consumer costs and additional jobs. Employees in America should not be punished because the jobs do not all go to 11 million union workers.

Punishing 150 million workers (The number in the private sector) and 304 million consumers to satisfy a few is not just intolerable, it borders on criminal.

Millions of jobs have been added nationally as free trade has expanded. Those jobs, pay 13-18% better than the average and provide better benefits for those employees.

Heavy union states such as Michigan and Ohio have lost jobs. Instead of negotiating contracts reasonable to employers and employees, union inefficiency has backfired, so unions want to punish the whole country.

Columbia now ships its goods to the US duty, free.
If unions and Democrats would give up special interest politics, our goods would go to Columbia duty free, increasing sales, jobs and government revenue here at home.

SCHOOL CHOICE
The Public-School-Monopoly Is not just stifling educational advancement, it is fighting that advancement, fiercely, for its own gains, and succeeding.

Minority kids' first step toward the American Dream, suffers a devastating effect.

Will America continue looking the other way at what is almost certainly the nation's biggest scandal.

Costs per student have soared in the last 30 years, while test scores have not moved and our students score miserably, internationally.

Competition-school choice is a must.

Confront The Environmental Extremist Movement

Petition Congress For Lower Gas Prices

Here is the petition message:

We, therefore, the undersigned citizens of the United States, petition the U.S. Congress to act immediately to lower gasoline prices (and diesel and other fuel prices)* by authorizing the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries.

Number signed as of June 24, 2008--1,144,196

ENERGY and The Environmental Extremists

Reality must dominate this conversation.

The extremists have planted a seed, that profits, damage the environment, suggesting an uncaring attitude from those who want a reasonable energy policy.

Virtually all Americans care about the planet as much as the environmental extremists do.

Advanced technology has given us the means to have ample, clean energy from fossil fuels and other energy sources presently available.

The reality is that fossil fuels will and must dominate our energy needs for at least the next generation.

The trillions and trillions of dollars invested in machines and auto related items cannot be discarded overnight.

France, for example fulfills 80% of its needs with nuclear energy.

It is time to bring the extremists into a reasonable position on energy.

Congress must be pressured to start drilling soon. We are energy rich, but the environmental extremists are keeping us energy pour and dependent on foreign energy.

Extremists Control Democrats

The villain in the energy problem, is Congress.

Even before Democrats controlled congress, the environmental lobby, with plenty of lobby money, combined with total support from Democrats to make it impossible for U.S. producers of crude oil to tap reserves of oil and gas of any consequence.

Congress has likewise blocked all feasible alternative sources of energy in favor of unfeasible alternatives such as wind and solar, which can only fill a tiny portion of our needs.

All this brings us to taxes on gasoline.

As we learned at hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 21, 2008, 15% of the cost of gasoline at the pump goes for taxes, while only 4% represents oil company profits.

ENGLISH
The National Language. No political correctness. English for the National Language. Official business, government documents, election ballots, telephone messages-English Only

BORDER SECURITY
Not just border security first. Americans of both parties and every persuasion made it clear they want enforcement of all existing laws. Americans also want the withholding of all funding from sanctuary cities.

This candidate vows to do everything that responds to one of the most decisive actions the American electorate has ever taken when it told congress in the most lob-sided manner that it wanted the entire illegal immigration mess, turned legal, period!!!

INCREASE LEGAL IMMIGRATION
To the required number and types of workers America needs most. Conversely we must move quickly and decisively on this crucial issue!!!

We want and need the crucial contribution of immigrants. However we want it legal, no ifs or buts.

PERSONAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS (PRA'S)

The Social Security Fund goes into deficit in 2017, even after congress has spent $1.8 trillion of excess funds on much of the waste we are discussing here.

A 25-year-old male earning $30,000-$35,000 a year with average wage growth, investing that amount in highly safe investments earning a modest 5%, would, at age 67, have a monthly income over $10,000, own the total amount of approximately $1, 250,000, and not be a drain on the social security system which is now getting deeper in the red as fewer employees support increasing retirees.

Massive deceit by congressmen whose interests want you dependent on government largesse, results in unfounded scare tactics.

Even though the social security system soon goes into deficit, nanny-state Democrats use scare tactics to continue dependency on that program despite pleas from the Comptroller General for congress to level with the American people.

Below Find the Necessary Steps to Implement the Plan

VOTERS PREFER LESS GOVERNMENT SERVICES-LOWER TAXES

May 20, 2008

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 62% of voters would prefer fewer government services with lower taxes. Nearly a third (29%) disagrees and would rather have a bigger government with higher taxes. Ten percent (10%) are not sure.

For less government-lower taxes 62%

For bigger government-higher taxes 29%

Not sure 10%

Vote Below-What % of Your Income Should Government Take?

See also, what voters have said traditionally

July 4th Nightlife:Tucson Az-Below Declaration of Indepenence

June 30, 2008

July 4th is Just Days Away-Lucky Americans Will Celebrate Our Good Fortune

Following "Reflections "Are The First Two Paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence Interrupted By Brackets and Spaces

Reflections

Near the end of its session the Supreme Court issued three major rulings.

Two of them dragged down American opinion of the Court's performance.

The liberal members of the Court and the swing voter, Anthony Kennedy, seemed to follow what a majority of Americans object to, i.e. decisions being based on what justices think is fair rather than being based on what the Constitution says.

The unfavorables essentially:

1. gave enemy combatants the same rights guaranteed to American citizens in the court system,

2. ruled that a child rapist cannot receive the death sentence if a murder was not committed.

The Court's ratings went up after it ruled that the law in Washington D.C., banning handguns was unconstitutional.

We know that the court's decision should not be based on popularity with voters.

However is the question of what the Constitution says, regarding how those decisions are arrived at, valid, when we are talking about the obligation of justices to follow the Constitution or decide issues based on their own opinion, of what is fair.

This seems to be the history of the liberal members of the court, although this is not established as a fact.

The polling referred to was from Rasmussen Reports.

As murders of children and women on college campuses seemed to be happening with regularity shouldn't we begin to question the phrase "cruel and unusual punishment" if legislatures representing the voters pass laws, which get overturned by the courts.

We have amendments whereby we change decisions, even those made by the courts.

We can even change (alter or abolish) our government, as long as we do it properly; no rebellions of an illegal nature, or treasonous acts, and if I interpret correctly the the wording below in brackets, the government itself would first have to be in violation of constitutional principles.

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

[[[ - That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.]]]

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. - Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

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ARIZONA DAILY STAR

Things to do on the Fourth of July

06/30/2008 04:41 PM

Adrienne Lake

Full article Adrienne Lake Az Daily Star

The Fourth of July is a big one in Tucson. That's probably because its long-standing traditions are not only unifying, but are right out there in every neighborhood within firework-spotting distance for everyone to see and enjoy, instead of behind closed doors as with other, less neighborly holidays (Thanksgiving, I'm looking at you). It's one of the most social of holidays around these parts - families drag folding chairs out into the street or climb onto still toasty roofs in the Barrios, South Tucson or in the University area. They blast boom boxes that play Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" or perhaps just good old fashioned Norteño, dip into coolers full of beer and soda, and every burg is thick with the all-American scent of BBQ.

Personally, I can't imagine growing weary of this scene - where neighbors are neighborly and festive, where awestruck children and unashamed jaded hipsters stand side by side to ooh and aah at the display of exploding airborne chemicals. But just in case, here is a short list of 4th of July to-dos about town. Many are family friendly, but please%u2026 leave the pets at home, indoors with some nice mood music playing to soften the impact of what sounds like Armageddon descending to them. It's tiring constantly chasing down the inevitable pack of spooked mutts that break free every year.

OK, first things first - to those who don't have friends with homes with a good view of A Mountain's fireworks (set to begin at 9 p.m.), you have options: you can tailgate at the Tucson Convention Center, Parking Lot B (Granada & Cushing). It's $4 a car, but hey, there's food! A beer garden! Live music! It all starts at 7 p.m. Or you can cruise the West Side for businesses that allow people to gather in their parking lots for the festivities.

Caliente

Night life events

Tucson, Arizona | Published: 07.03.2008

Acacia at St. Philip's Plaza - 4340 N. Campbell Ave. Live jazz, 7-10 Saturdays; Ed DeLucia Trio, 6-9 Fridays. 232-0101.

Antonio's - 2231 S. Fourth Ave. DJ music, 9 Wednesdays; live waila music, 8:30-1:30
Fridays-Sundays. 884-8086.

Federal Government Should and Could Reduce What It Takes From States-Only To Send Back Less

Reduce taxation of all states. Stop taking it, for the bureaucracy, adding federal payroll and new federal programs, then sending a portion of it back. This is silly.

States have twice as much revenue (adjusted for inflation) as they did just several decades ago. Let states start paying for their own bridges, highways, and other state expenses. Less taxation will more than cover the costs, add jobs, add revenue, and likely improve construction, repair and much else.

Saving the bureaucratic expense of the federal government will add much to the prosperity of most states and give others the incentive to do the same.

HOW IT WORKS (AGAINST US)

The federal government taxes families, initiates an new-often inefficient-program which adds administrative costs, then sends the remaining tax revenues back to the state and local governments--with rules, telling states how they must spend the money.

So the federal government becomes an expensive middleman, creating mandates that limit the flexibility that state and local governments need to solve their own problems.

Washington, D.C. bureaucrats are mostly policy wonks who know much theory but with little or no problem solving experience.

Many of these disasters distribute money to one district at many times the cost it would have been to just do it locally in the first place, but the congressperson attaches his/her name to it and the few recipients gush, over all he did for them.

This is the exact opposite of Constitutional intentions.

Do We Ever Discard Programs That Don't Work

No!!! Someone's pork would be lost.

Just in one category, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, there are 342 duplicative programs. There should be 1.

There are a combined 260 programs serving at-risk youth and the disabled.

In the recent past, the total number of duplicative programs has exceeded 1100.

This is detailed in GAO and Senate reports.

Will we continue to allow such inefficiency and listen to false promises when they allow such horrendous waste year after in order to gain the support of their latest pork project, so they can return the favor.

This racket just works you harder and harder and keeps growing.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
--P. J. O'Rourke

FEDERAL BAILOUTS, STATE BAILOUTS, CAN CITIES BE FAR BEHIND

CITIES: FAT PENSIONS CAUSING CITIES TO FILE FOR BANKRUPTCY

Bankrupt Cities-Fat Pensions-Money Magazine

LIMIT FEDERAL SPENDING INCREASES TO ECONOMIC GROWTH

We Must Tell Congress The Acceptable Amount To Spend-Not The Other Way Around

Not Just Vague Words, But A Specific Dollar Amount

SPENDING GOALS-2009-2010 BUDGETS

Projections Are For Only About 2% growth in the economy, in each of the next two years.

A matching 2% increase, in the federal budget, would limit congress to between $60 and $75 billion for each of the next two years.

Two percent of the present $3 trillion federal budget is $60 billion.

This would Put Congress on The Same Footing With American Families Who Earn That Money But Who Have Been Forced To Turn Over Increased Percentages of Those Earnings To A Profligate Out Of Control Congressional Spending Machine.

SINCE 2000 CONGRESS HAS SPENT DOUBLE THE AMOUNT OF ECONOMIC GROWTH

Both parties are guilty.

Democrats promised they would straighten the mess out in 2006.

Since Being Put Back in Control in 2006, Democrats are spending recklessly, raising taxes and promising entitlements that will bankrupt the nation.

The Comptroller General of the United States Says exactly that

IMPLEMENTING THE PLAN

USE

A. The Internet

B. Squidoo, Facebook, YouTube, My Space and similar sites for exposure for this plan

C. Small contributors

D. 80% Salary Example
---$35,000 Reduced Congressman's Salary and $400,000
staff savings just for 1 district
---Keep distance between the candidate and lobbyists
whose job it is to seek favors for special
interests, which incessantly increases government
cost and power

E. Help from groups that promote small government
-Seek the help of the many groups and individuals
who promote growth through smaller government. Many
such groups now exist. Some directly with publicity
and funding, others with publicity and other means

F. Help from the many youth groups who pay attention and care

Club For Growth-See website for more details
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW)-See website

The Tax Foundation- See website for more details

Club For Growth

Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW)

Citizens Against Government Waste

The Tax Foundation Tax Foundation

Candidate's Continuing Example

1. Pledge to seek no more than a cost of living increase in salary in the first 3 terms in the House.

2.Seek no more than 5 terms in the House. Presently a huge portion of "pork spending and other unnecessary spending" goes to long term members who gain chairmanships through longevity.

3. After five House terms, the congressman would be at least 35 years of age and qualify to run for the U.S. Senate, if he desired. In the Senate, he would begin as the junior senator with no seniority and little power to dispense pork or fall into the spending trap of most of his fellow senators.

America Is Disgusted As Never Before. This is a fact not a worn out platitude

John Tyler Hammons

-May 13, 2008, Muskogee, Ok, population 38,000, elected a 19 year old as Mayor
-An 18 year old was elected Mayor of Hillsdale, Ohio in 2005
-36 year old Bobby Jindal became Governor of Louisiana in October of 2007.

Is This Plan Realistic?-UNEQUIVOCALLY-YES!

What About Fundraising?

Hillary was going to be coronated, everyone knew that. Barack won Iowa and millions of dollars have poured in since.

Ron Paul, a congressman running for president on a smaller government platform with many similarities to this one, raised $4 million dollars in one month from small donors and raised many millions more, since. It's a whole new political world out there!!!

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
-Thomas Jefferson

CLUB FOR GROWTH-A CLUB WORTH KNOWING

The CLUB FOR GROWTH publishes a yearly scorecard, so that members and the public "can monitor the actions and the voting behavior of members of Congress on economic growth issues."

Below is just a portion of what the "Club" says, relating to arriving at scores for both HOUSE and SENATE members:

Because big spending legislation can harm economic growth and can gain momentum from large numbers of cosponsors, we gave credit to lawmakers whose net legislative agendas cut spending. We believe that each member of Congress who proposes new spending programs should also offset those costs by identifying reductions in other programs.

To provide some additional guidance concerning the scores, each lawmaker was ranked. Scores and ranks can not be directly compared between the House and Senate as different votes were taken in each chamber. Please note that the lowest possible rank was 426 in the House, as several members did not cast enough votes to be ranked. In the Senate the worst rank was 97.

THE TOP Five U.S. Senators For Controlling Spending

Score most favorable to taxpayers-100%
Worst score---0%

1 James DeMint R SC 100%

2 Tom Coburn R Ok 97%

3 Richard Burr R NC 97%

4 Jon Kyl R AZ 92%

5 James Inhofe R Ok 91%

THE Senators Ranked Sixth Through Tenth Best For Controlling Spending

6 Ensign, John R Nevada 90%

7 Cornyn, John R Texas 88%

8 Allard, Wayne R Colorado 88%

9 Enzi, Michael R Wy 85%

10 McConnell, Mitch R Ky 84%

Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW)-2006

CAGW-TOP Has A Similar Scoring System To Club For Growth

1 James DeMint R SC 95%

2 Tom Coburn R Ok 95%

3 John McCain R AZ 95%

4 Jon Kyl R AZ 95%

5 James Inhofe R Ok 95%

THE Senators Ranked Sixth Through Tenth Best For Controlling Spending

6 Johnny Isakson, Republican GA 90%

7 Richard Burr, Republican NC 90%

8 Rick Santorum, Republican PA 90%

9 Jim Bunning, Republican KY 86%, Six others tied for 9th through 15 With 86%-All Republicans.

Club For Growth-Senators Who Most Supported Pork Projects

Score Based On Support For 15 Most Egregious Pork Projects

37 Senators Voted For 14 of 15 Pork Projects-35 DEMOCRATS-2 Independents

Shown along side of the Senator's name and state is the number of times the Senator voted "for" amendments to lessen or remove the pork vote.

There were 15 such attempted amendments.

Lieberman (I-CT)--7%--1 / 15
Sanders (I-VT)--7%--1 / 15
Pryor (D-AR)--7%--1 / 15
Boxer (D-CA--7%--1 / 14
Feinstein (D-CA)--7%-- 1 / 15
Salazar, K.--(D-CO)--7% 1 / 15
Nelson, Bill--(D-FL)--7% 1 / 15
Akaka (D-HI)--7%--1 / 15
Inouye (D-HI)--7%--1 / 15
Durbin (D-IL)--7%--1 / 14
Cardin (D-MD)--7%--1 / 15
Mikulski (D-MD)--7%--1 / 15
Kerry (D-MA)--7%--1 / 15
Levin, C. (D-MI)--7%--1 / 15
Stabenow (D-MI)--7%--1--/ 15
Klobuchar (D-MN)--7%--1/ 15
Baucus, M. (D-MT)--7%--1 / 15
Nelson, Ben (D-NE)--7%--1 / 14
Reid, H. (D-NV)--7%--1 / 15
Lautenberg (D-NJ)--7%--1 / 15
Menendez (D-NJ)--7%--1 / 15
Schumer (D-NY)--7%--1 / 15
Conrad (D-ND)--7%--1 / 15
Dorgan (D-ND)--7%--1 / 15
Wyden (D-OR)--7%--1 / 15
Casey (D-PA)--7%--1 / 15
Reed, J. (D-RI)--7%--1 / 15
Whitehouse (D-RI)--7%--1 / 15
Leahy (D-VT)--7--1 / 15
Cantwell (D-WA)--7%--1 / 15
Murray (D-WA)--7%--1 / 15
Byrd (D-WV)--7--1 / 15
Kohl (D-WI)--7--1 / 15

August 13, 2008

First Quarter of 2008 Earnings by Industry (net income/sales)

Big Oil in 12th place (out of 25) in Earnings To Net Sales

Top 5 listed below.

Pharmaceuticals & Medicines---25.9%

Beverage & Tobacco Products---17.8%

Chemicals ---15.7%

Computer & Peripheral Equipment 13.7%

Elec. Equip. Appliances & components 12.1%

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Oil & Natural Gas (12th) ---7.4%

Thursday August 7, 2008 Rasmussen Reports

Americans Believe Finding New Energy Sources-Urgent National Need

New Energy Sources is Urgent National Need

Agree--81%

Disagree--9%

More Important? Finding New Energy Sources or Reducing Current Usage

Finding New Sources--65%

Reducing Usage--28%

August 7, 2008

More Taxes Will Mean Less Oil

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

August 05, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Investor's Business Daily

Excerpts:

Energy Policy: Democrats say there should be a limit to the profits oil companies can make. Should there also be a limit on the taxes government can take? Just who's the profiteer here?

...The oil and gas industry as a whole made 8.3% compared with 8.9% of all U.S. manufacturing. Meanwhile, the federal government operated at a huge loss...

...Electronics company LG saw its profits grow by 505% in 2007. Abbott Laboratories saw its profits soar 110% Google had a profit margin of 25.3%, more than double Exxon's...

..." for what advocates of a windfall-profits tax to redistribute income ignore is that Exxon Mobil also paid a record $61.7 billion in taxes...

August 6, 2008

The United States has such advanced technology that percentage wise, we would provide the safest drilling in the world.

But Nancy Pelosi and Democrats are so controlled by the extremist Environmental movement she and Democrats are sticking their collective fingers in the eye of the American people.

Pelosi is so determined to do what hurts America that she leaves the door wide open for tyrants like Chavez and countries unfriendly to us, like Russia, to gain the benefits while probably doing more harm to us.

August 5, 2008

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Monday, August 4, 2008

DRIESSEN: Hot air about wind power

Paul Driessen WASHINGTON TIMES

Excerpts:

...We can and should harness the wind, but 22 percent of our electricity by 2020 is far-fetched. Wind power is intermittent, unreliable and expensive (even with subsidies). Many modern turbines are 400 feet tall and carry 130-foot, 7-ton, bird-slicing blades. They operate at only 20 percent 30 percent of rated efficiency - compared to 85 percent for coal, gas and nuclear plants - and provide little power during summer daytime hours, when air-conditioning demand is highest, but winds are at low ebb.

Using wind to replace all gas-fired power plants would require over 300,000 1.5-megawatt turbines, covering Midwestern "wind belt" agricultural and wildlife acreage equivalent to South Carolina...

Building and installing these turbines requires 5 to 10 times more steel and concrete than is needed to build nuclear plants to generate the same electricity more reliably, says Berkeley engineer Per Peterson. Add in steel and cement needed to build transmission lines from distant wind farms to urban consumers, and the costs multiply.

August 4, 2008

Al Gore and Environmental Extremist Movement Ignores World's Biggest Polluter-China-Never Fails To Find Fault With U.S.

Investor's Business Daily

August 2, 2008

Investor's Business Daily

China has overtaken the U.S. as the world's top polluter, according to a University of California, Berkeley, study published this year in the Journal of Environment Economics & Management. The evidence is seen daily in the skies over Beijing.

The Berkeley researchers say China's emissions are growing at an annual rate of 11%. In 2006-07, China added 186,000 megawatts of coal-fired electrical generation capacity, equivalent to two United Kingdoms. The U.S. Energy Department says China's emissions rose 138% from 1990 to 2005.

As the Heritage Foundation's Ed Feulner points out, China's emissions rose 8% last year after jumping 11% in each of the two previous years. The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency notes that China alone accounted for two-thirds of the growth in global greenhouse gas emissions in 2007.

August 3, 2008

INCOME TAX PAID BY MAJOR OIL COMPANIES

Before Individual Tax Cuts of 2001-2003

2001---$27.7 billion

2002---$14.6 billion

2003---$32.3 billion

After Individual Tax Cuts of 2001-2003

2004---$48.4 billion

2005---$71.1 billion

2006---$90.4 billion

August 2, 2008

WHO OWNS BIG OIL

Mutual Funds and Other Firms--29.5%

Pension Funds-----------------27.0%

IRA'S--------------------------14.0%

Individual Investors------------23.0%

Other Institutional Investors----5.0%

Corporate Management---------1.5%

August 1, 2008

OIL DRILLING UPDATES

T. Boone Pickens "We Are For All Forms of Energy Except For Foreign Oil"

Investor's Business Daily

McCain Rows The Boat Offshore, Hallelujah!

July 30, 2008 4:20 PM PT

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Some 168 platforms and 55 rigs were destroyed or damaged by Katrina and Rita. According to the U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS), "due to the prompt evacuation and shut-in preparations made by operating and service personnel, there was no loss of life and no major spills attributed to either storm."
What about accidental spills? According to MMS figures, since 1980, 101,997 barrels spilled during offshore oil drilling operations that extracted 11,855,000 barrels of oil. That's a rate of 0.001%. Mother Nature oozes 620,500 barrels of oil naturally from the seabed every year, and there are suggestions that drilling would relieve the pressure that forces these natural leaks.

Ironically, those who have blocked drilling off the California coasts for 40 years say it would take five to 10 years to develop these offshore resources. But as we saw in the price drop that followed President Bush's lifting of the federal ban, just the expectation of increased supply throws cold water on the speculators betting on higher prices as domestic production dwindles.

July 31, 2008

Bush pushes Congress on oil drilling
President cites tough times for families in
urging lawmakers to allow vote on bill to open ocean drilling

President Bush on Wednesday called for Congress to allow offshore oil drilling, citing an "urgent" need to reduce pressure on crude and gas prices.

The comments come as lawmakers are debating legislation to expand domestic oil drilling. The Senate, which is set to begin summer recess after this week, has been gridlocked for days on various energy bills.

Bush criticized Democrats who he said are refusing to allow a vote on legislation to expand domestic oil drilling.

"American drivers are counting on Congress to lift the ban and so are American workers," Bush said.

Full article Lara Moscrip CNNMoney.Com

July 30, 2008

For Over 50 years the Powerful Environmentalist Extremist Movement has Had the Democrat Party In Its Hip Pocket, Causing Economic Hardship For Families and Danger To America's Safety

Investor's Business Daily

By M. DAVID STIRLING

Monday, July 28, 2008

Full article M. David Stirling IBD

Excerpts:

Consider that in the 1980s the U.S. Geological Survey estimated some 17 billion barrels of recoverable oil lie under the 1.5-million acre Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. One million barrels of oil produces 27 million gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel; here there are potentially 17 billion barrels.

Many urged drilling in ANWR to capture this oil and natural gas. With modern drilling technology, only about 2,000 surface acres would be required to recover the oil and natural gas under the Coastal Plain. But the environmentalist organizations began a "no drilling in ANWR" PR campaign, claiming that wildlife species such as the porcupine, caribou, arctic wolf, polar bear and others were on the brink of oblivion, and would be lost forever if drilling occurred.

Several bills to allow extraction of this oil and natural gas were presented in Congress over the past 20 years, but each was either killed or vetoed. Nor was there scientific evidence supporting the claim that any of the wildlife species were even close to the brink of extinction.

July 29, 2008

Washington Post

This Time, It's Different

Steven Mufson

Global Pressures Have Converged to Forge a New Oil Reality

July 29, 2008

Excerpts:

"...Last month, 51 percent of the respondents in a Washington Post poll said rising gas prices were causing a serious financial hardship for them or others in their household. It was the first time a majority had said that since the poll began posing that question eight years ago.

The rising prices are also adding to inflation, aggravating the U.S. trade deficit -- oil now accounts for about half of it -- and taking a toll on businesses already struggling with the economic slowdown caused by the housing and financial crises.

The tightening of the oil market reflects decisions made a decade ago, when conditions looked radically different. Regular unleaded gas was less than a dollar a gallon. Oil was little more than $10 a barrel. And the Economist magazine, predicting prices could soon be half that, ran a cover story with the headline: "Drowning in Oil..."

Full article

Steven Mufson Washington Post

July 26, 2008

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Arctic Abundance

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Full article INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Energy: It has become something of an article of faith among those who oppose drilling in the Arctic that it's too much trouble for too little oil. Well, how about 90 billion barrels of oil? Too little for you?

That's how much oil is estimated to be in the Arctic region, with at least a third of it under sovereign U.S. territory, according to a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey.

Let's put this in perspective. That 90 billion barrels of Arctic crude is enough to run the entire world economy for three years. And it could fuel the U.S. alone for 12 years.

July 25, 2008

July 22-23 Fox Poll

75% Want Drilling To Begin Immediately

72% Want Immediate Drilling Including Offshore Drilling

Democrat Party spin and deceit not persuading thinking Americans

July 24, 2008

American Spectator

Peter Ferrara

Shut Up and Produce Some Oil

July 23, 2008

Full article The American Spectator Peter Ferrara

Excerpts:

Well, let's see. On Friday, July 14, the price of a barrel of oil hit $147. On Monday, July 17, President Bush withdrew the Executive Order banning offshore drilling. That doesn't even start any new drilling because there is still a Congressional ban in place. Nevertheless, by Friday, July 21, after 4 straight days of decline, the price of oil had plummeted to $128, a decline of 13% on a symbolic action alone. The Center for American "Progress" was only off by 21 years, 51 weeks.

There are oil wells off the Pacific coast that were capped years ago when the offshore drilling ban was first adopted. They could be brought back into production in less than a year. Expert oil engineers recently interviewed have said other sites could be producing in 18 months. The standard estimate for production from new drilling in Alaska is 10 years. But if the government gets the lawsuits and regulatory delays out of the way, here's betting the new wells would be producing in less than 5 years.

More importantly, if Congress adopted a comprehensive plan to open up domestic oil production in the U.S., everyone would know that in the long run the price of oil would be heading down. That would break the back of the oil panic today that has driven the price up to ridiculous levels. If the Fed reversed its weak dollar policy at the same time, within a year the price of oil would drop by 50% or more, dropping the price of gas down close to $2 a gallon, which is where it should be. In a competitive market, price is supposed to equal the marginal cost of production. For a barrel of oil, that would be $25 to $40 at most, which is where the long term price of oil would be if the U.S. removed production restrictions.

July 23, 2008

Oil: Change Your Lifestyle-Elitist Democrats Know What's Best For You

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

July 22, 2008

Full article IBD

Excerpts:

...With the advent of $4 gasoline, Democrats began sensing an opportunity to drive the country closer to their vision of utopia.

These are the people - or in some cases representatives of people - who want $8 a gallon gasoline so we'll get out of our cars, turn off our air conditioners, dim our lights, strangle our commerce and impose a global asceticism in a post-capitalism wilderness.

Of course, this spartan existence would be for the masses only. The elites will still be able to live their lives of opulence, just as high-ranking communists in the Soviet Union, the nomenklatura, had private Chaika lanes in Moscow streets that members of the working class - Marx's proletariat - were forbidden to drive on...

Bank Mess Started With Gov't Intervention

Investor's Business Daily

Full article Thomas Sowell IBD

Excerpts:

In one of those front-page editorials disguised as "news" stories, the New York Times blames "the lucrative lending practices" of banks and other financial institutions for helping create the current financial crisis of millions of borrowers and of the financial system in general.

It must take either a willful determination to believe whatever they want to believe or a cynical desire to propagandize their readers for the New York Times to call "lucrative" the lending practices that have caused many lenders to lose millions of dollars, some to lose billions and some to go bankrupt themselves.

The practice of not lending in some neighborhoods was demonized as "redlining" and the fact that minority applicants were approved for mortgages only 72% of the time, while whites were approved 89%, was called "overwhelming" evidence of discrimination by the Washington Post.

July 21, 2008

Gas Prices: Democrats Thumb Their Nose At Taxpayers-Hope To Stall Energy Production Till Election, Hoping Voters Blame Republicans

The science strongly suggests that alternative energy would fullfil about 4% of future needs.

Even though we need a massive effort for the other 96%, Democrats are bowing to the Environmental Extremists.

Excerpts from Donald Lambro, Washingyon Times article:

...The Obama and Pelosi Democrats are captives of their global-warming special interests, who are dead set against drilling.

The response in Democratic cloakrooms seems to be "let Bush and Republicans turn slowly, slowly in the wind" -- an apt turn of phrase that fits into the Democrats' rigid energy orthodoxy, which supports biofuel, solar and wind, spurns oil production at home.

But our patience is coming to an end with the Obama Democrats who say no to more oil drilling, no to more refineries and no to nuclear power...

FULL ARTICLE: Donald Lambro Washington Times

July 20, 2008

More of Al Gore's Insanity- Refuted By Facts

THE AMERICAN

The Good News About Energy

By Robert Bryce From the July/August 2008 Issue

Filed under: Science & Technology

Despite the pessimistic headlines on energy, a beneficial long-term trend is underway called decarbonization.

Full article Robert Bryce The American

Excerpts:

Amid this torrent of doom and gloom, there is some good news that has largely been ignored by the media: the trend toward consumption of cleaner fuels that contain less carbon. This decrease in the carbon intensity of global energy use, known as decarbonization, has been ongoing for more than two centuries and appears to be gathering speed.

Better still, decarbonization is continuing without government mandates or subsidies. The reason for this is clear: consumers are always seeking the cleanest, densest fuels that they can get. Given a choice, most consumers would prefer cooking their dinner over a natural gas stove rather than a wood fire. Most also prefer electric lights to kerosene lanterns or candles for illuminating their homes. The reasons for these preferences are obvious: natural gas and electricity don't pollute indoor air when they are used.

" Nobel Prize winner Al Gore has said that global warming will likely result in "a string of terrible catastrophes." And in his Academy Award-winning movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," he implies that a warmer planet could mean that sea levels will rise by 20 feet.

July 18, 2008

Al Gore's Insane Environmental Extremism Grows Worse

U.S. News & World Report

James Pethokoukis

Full article James Pethokoukis U.S. News & World Report

Dissecting Al Gore's $5 Trillion Energy Plan

Excerpts:

..."Al Gore challenged the United States to "produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun, and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years"...

..That would be like creating another Japan. Or fighting World War II all over again...

...This isn't the first time Gore has made a proposal with jaw-dropping economic consequences. Environmental economist William Nordhaus ran the numbers on Gore's idea to reduce carbon emissions by 90 percent by 2050. Nordhaus found that while such a plan would indeed reduce the maximum increase in global temperatures to between 1.3 and 1.6 degrees Celsius, it did so "at very high cost" of between $17 trillion and $22 trillion over the long term, as opposed to doing nothing. (Again, just for comparative purposes, the entire global economy is about $50 trillion...

Barack Obama wants to lift the income cap on Social Security taxes for folks making $250,000 a year or more.

Adding in the employer's share means a 12.4 percentage point increase in tax rates on the highest earners.

The social security fund already goes into deficit in 2017.

Congress has already stolen $1.8 trillion of the excess from that fund, therefore it is heading for a massive deficit, the same as the Medicare and Medicaid Funds.
Obama's plan eliminates a portion of the shortfall on the fund. One estimate is small 43 percent, even if it stayed in the fund but it won't, congress will spend it.

Obama will let the tax cuts expire taking the top rate up to 39.6% plus 6.2% payroll increase bringing it then to 46.1%

Small business would be hit with the employer's share adding another 6.2% and Obama wants to raise the minimum wage and add billions to the welfare program with the badly misnamed title Earned Income Tax Credit.

That program sent out over $11 billion dollars in fraudulent checks last year and $10 billion the year before and keeps giving increases to people who are already receiving thousands in that and other welfare programs.

Data below on lifting the social security wage cap.

The 10 states that would get hit the hardest by the Obama plan.

(Data courtesy of the Tax Foundation and TaxProf Blog):

1. New Jersey (10.7 percent of the state's workers would see their payroll taxes increase.)

2. Maryland (9.6 percent)

3. Connecticut (9.5 percent)

4. Virginia (9.0 percent)

5. Massachusetts (8.9 percent)

6. California (8.8 percent)

7. New York (8.0 percent)

8. Illinois (7.02 percent)

9. Colorado (6.96 percent)

10. New Hampshire (6.8 percent)

For the year 2007 three members had a perfect score when voting for growth.

This means they voted against all earmarks/pork projects and other special interest legislation which is not in the best interest of America.

PERFECT SCORE FOR TAXPAYERS

100%

D Lamborn, Republican Colorado

J Hensarling, Republican Texas

J Flake, Republican Arizona

Near PERFECT SCORES FOR TAXPAYERS

99%%

M Pence, Republican Indiana

P Broun, Republican Georgia

July 12, 2008

Friday July 11, 2008 Rasmussen Reports

Which Is More Important? Cutting Government Spending or Balancing The Budget?

Favor Cutting Spending Over Balancing The Budget--58%

Favor Balancing The Budget Over Cutting Government Spending--30%

Cutting Government Spending Is More Important Than Balancing The Budget--By Party

Republicans 70%

Unaffilitate Voters 57%

Democrats 52%

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July 5, 2008

The oil price

Don't blame the speculators

Jul 3rd 2008

ECONOMIST.COM

Full article Don't Blame Oil Speculators

Excerpts:

Follow the oil, not the futures

This reasoning holds obvious appeal for those looking for a scapegoat. But there is little evidence to support it. For one thing, the surge in investment in oil futures is not that large relative to the global trade in oil. Barclays Capital, an investment bank, calculates that "index funds", which have especially exercised the politicians because they always bet on rising prices, account for only 12% of the outstanding contracts on NYMEX and have a value equivalent to just 2% of the world's yearly oil consumption.

More importantly, neither index funds nor other speculators ever buy any physical oil. Instead, they buy futures and options which they settle with a cash payment when they fall due. In essence, these are bets on which way the oil price will move. Since the real currency of such contracts is cash, rather than barrels of crude, there is no limit to the number of bets that can be made. And since no oil is ever held back from the market, these bets do not affect the price of oil any more than bets on a football match affect the result.

The Democrat Party and The Environmental Extremists Are Totally To Blame

July 1, 2008

RASMUSSEN REPORTS

Solid Majority Thinks The Federal Government Has As Much Money As It Needs

1* Does the federal government need more tax revenue to fund important national programs such as highway repairs and health care reform?

33% Yes

52% No

14% Not Sure

2* Suppose one candidate for office promised to oppose all tax increases and another said he would raise taxes only on the rich. For whom would you vote?

37% Candidate who opposed all tax increases

48% Candidate who raised taxes only on the rich

16% Not Sure

3* When you think about federal, state, and local taxes combined, does the average American pay more than 25% of their income in taxes?

64% Yes

16% No

20% Not Sure

Author's note.

Readers should know that the government takes more than 35% of the national income (GDP).

Total government spending-$3.1 trillion federal and slightly more than $2 trillion state and local is over $5 trillion dollars in an economy slightly over $14 trillion. Dividing one into the other yields a spending percentage slightly under 36%.

4* Should the government be required to provide a report showing the total amount of taxes each person pays on an annual basis?

43% Yes

34% No

23% Not Sure

5*Should voter approval be required for all tax increases?

57% Yes

30% No

14% Not Sure

June 30, 2008

Telegraph.CO.Uk

Israel has a year to stop Iran bomb, warns ex-spy

A former head of Mossad has warned that Israel has 12 months in which to destroy Iran's nuclear programme or risk coming under nuclear attack itself.

He also hinted that Israel might have to act sooner if Barack Obama wins the US presidential election.

Israel Has A Year To Stop Iran

June 27, 2008

Cheer up. We're winning this War on Terror

Full article Gerard Baker Times of London

Al-Qaeda and the Taleban are in retreat, the surge has worked in Iraq and Islamism is discredited. Not a bad haul

RASMUSSEN REPORTS

June 18, 2008

Is Congress Doing A "Poor" Job or is it "Good or Excellent

Poor Job--52 %

Good or Excellent--11%

The poor rating has jumped 5 points from 47% last month giving a rating of poor, up to the present 52%

Corruption In Congress

Members of Congress Are Corrupt

Agree 30%

Disagree 43%

June 17, 2008

Believe Supreme Court Justices Have Their Own Agenda

Justices Have Their Own Agenda--60%

Justices Remain Impartial--23%

Supreme Court should base decisions on Constitution and legal precedent or on judge's concept of fairness and justice

Should Base on Constitution--54%

Should Base on Judge's concept of fairness and justice--37%

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June 11, 2008

Do Reporters Offer Unbiased Coverage of Election Campaigns or try to help the candidate that they want to win

Offer Unbiased Coverage--17%

Help The Candidate They Want To Win--68%

Seventy-seven percent (77%) of voters nationwide say John McCain's call for a series of ten Town Hall debates is a good idea.

McCain has proposed that the candidates meet once a week in ten different cities around the country. The two men would answer questions from private citizens instead of reporters.

Believe The Town Hall approach is best

Prefer town hall approach-----60%

Prefer direct debates with nobody else asking questions----22%

Prefer traditional debates----11%

More Debates or Less Debates

To have "a lot" of debates---55%

To have "just a couple"---36%

Debates Are Important To Voting Decision

Very important---37%

Somewhat Important---40%

July 18, 2008 Results of the Tax Cuts of 2003

-Increased the number of American jobs by eight million.
-Increased real per capita income by $2,887.
-Increased stock market value by $3.7 trillion.
-Increased federal revenues by $785 billion.

Those tax cuts lapse in January 2011.

The Democrat Party is fighting to increase taxes back to where they were before 2003.

July 17, 2008 Cost of Government Day

Happy Cost of Government Day

By Grover Norquist

July 16, 2008

This year Americans have worked until today, July 16, to pay for the total costs of federal, state and local government. This is 197 days of the year consuming 53.9 percent of national income. Over the past 22 years, in only four years (1982, 1983, 1991 and 1992) did Cost of Government Day fall later in the year.

Federal spending will consume 83.7 days. State and local spending will consume 50.5 days effort. Federal regulations cost 4l.7 days and State regulations cost 20.9 days. The spending data is precise, the regulatory burdens are understated.

Full article Grover Norquist Real Clear Politics

July 16, 2008 End Taxes on Capital Gains and Dividends

Andrew Roth

Via National Taxpayers Union, Rep. Wally Herger (R-CA-02) is sponsoring a bill that would get rid of the capital gains tax and the dividend tax. This is a wonderful, pro-growth proposal.

National Taxpayers Union

July 15, 2008

Today July 14, 2008: Victory In Iraq Is Now Possible-Rasmussen Reports

Agree 40%

Disagree 44%

One Year Ago July, 2007 Victory In Iraq Is Now Possible

Agree 32%

Disagree 54%

July 14, 2008

UnionLeader.com

Hitting rock: Dems oblivious on oil

Saturday, Jul. 12, 2008

Full article Union Leader.Com

Excerpts:

MAYBE THE quickest way to lower oil and gas prices would be this: Immediately enroll every Democratic member of Congress in an entry-level economics class.

JULY 12, 2008

Dissent Is By No Means The Highest Form of Patriotism

New York Post

Ralph Peters

Full article Ralph Peters New York Post

WE all have irritants that make us want to reach for the revolver. One of mine is the bumper-stickerization of the American mind - the reduction of our hard-won freedom of political speech to slogans that substitute for vision.

JULY 11, 2008

Oil Exec Explains Market Realities

Joseph Petrowski Wall Street Journal

Excerpts:

To Democrats:

Supply must be increased, and that will require more drilling.

We can responsibly drill. The technology to find, drill and recover oil has evolved tremendously, and careless drillers will fear tort lawyers more than government regulators. The claim that the oil companies are sitting on leases and not drilling defies all logic. With oil at $135 per barrel and drilling rigs renting at $300,000 per day, there are no idle rigs anywhere. Furthermore, economic decline - and war induced by basic resource struggles - are greater threats to the environment and American workers than drilling.

Your claim that any oil we drill for now will not come on line for five years or longer - and will thus have no effect on prices today - is incorrect. Unlike past oil crises, where the spot price of oil (that is, today's price) rose more than forward prices, the oil price for delivery in 2012 is trading at $138 per barrel. The market is sending a clear price signal that our problem is in the future - because we do not have the will to curb demand or increase supply.

JULY 10, 2008

Obama Would, In Fact, Govern From Left

By Dick Morris Real Clear Politics

Full article Dick Morris RCP

Excerpts:

The list of issues on which Barack Obama has flipped now that the primaries are over is long and growing rapidly.

He says he believes in a Second Amendment right to bear arms.

He now opposes late-term abortion.

He suddenly is a devotee of using faith-based institutions to deliver public services.

He now says that he won't raise Social Security taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year. In the primary, he said he'd eliminate the threshold entirely, including on people making as little as $100,000.

He recently opposed the Fairness Doctrine for talk radio.

Now he says he's going to consult with the military before pulling out of Iraq.

But so extensive a list of flip-flops, all in the past few weeks, begs the basic question: Was he lying before when he was a liberal, or is he prevaricating now?

JULY 8, 2008

California Republicans Will Withhold Funds-Want Republican Leadership Ousted For Not Fighting Earmarks

To Learn more and to support an end to Earmarks, visit FLASH REPORT

The message: "Come Nov. 5, should the current GOP leadership in either house survive to lead in a new Congress, the Lincoln Club of Orange County will review the financial backing of all congressional Republicans, and we urge others to do likewise. A GOP caucus that would re-elect such leaders is not one we would likely continue to support. Because, simply put, we refuse to support a permanent minority."

The Lincoln Club estimates that its nearly 300 members will individually contribute $1.5 million to federal causes and candidates in the 2008 election cycle. The club is spreading its message to angry Republicans throughout California and around the nation. The ultimatum finds responsive members of the House (if not the Senate), who even now are preparing a housecleaning after the additional loss of seats in this year's election.

RASMUSSEN REPORTS JULY 7, 2008

Middle Quintile-$37,771 To $60,000-Now Paying Lowest Tax Rate Since 1979

Full article Carpe Diem Dr. Mark J. Perry

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Recently released Congressional Budget Office (CBO) data show that the total effective federal tax rate (including income, payroll, and excise taxes) of the middle fifth of households declined after 2001 to its lowest levels since at least 1979 (see chart above). Under the 2001 and 2003 tax relief legislation, the income tax as a share of income for the middle fifth also has fallen to its lowest levels in decades.

RASMUSSEN REPORTS JULY 6, 2008

Townhall.Com

Does Patriotism Matter

Thomas Sowell

Full article
Thomas Sowell Townhall.com

Excerpts:

Most Americans today are unaware of how much our schools have followed in the footsteps of the French schools of the 1920s and 1930s, or how much our intellectuals have become citizens of the world instead of American patriots.

Our media are busy verbally transforming American combat troops from heroes into victims, just as the French intelligentsia did-- with the added twist of calling this "supporting the troops."

Will that matter? Time will tell.

RASMUSSEN REPORTS JUNE 27, 2008

Americans Citizens Now Have a Right To Own Guns

The court struck down a strict gun control law in the U.S. capital, thus removing any doubt about every private citizen's right in the United States, to own a gun.

The court rejected a long held view by opponents that the right to keep and bear arms was tied to service in a state militia.

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Dow plunges 350 points as oil soars above $140 a barrel.

RASMUSSEN REPORTS JUNE 26, 2008

Does Hillary Clinton Want Barack Obama To Win

Hillary Wants Barack To Win--37%

Hillary Does Not Want Barack To Win--33%

Not Sure--30%

Do Unaffiliated Voters Think Hillary Clinton Should Be Barack Obama's Running Mate

Hillary Should Be Barack's Running Mate--24%

Hillary Should Not Be Barack's Running Mate--52%

June 25, 2008

Drilling: Polling Data-Various Polls

Through our polling at American Solutions we have long known that a whopping 81 percent of Americans support developing more domestic energy, including oil and coal. And this 81 percent majority is made up of 85 percent of the Republicans, 83 percent of the independents and 76 percent of the Democrats surveyed.

Now we have even more data showing widespread support for increasing domestic energy production.

A new Rasmussen Poll has revealed that a full 67 percent of Americans support offshore drilling.

What is the party breakdown behind these numbers? The supporters were 85 percent Republican, 57 percent Democrat and 60 percent unaffiliated voters.

Moreover, a new Zogby poll shows that 74 percent of Americans support drilling offshore for our American oil. The supporters were 90 percent Republican, 58 percent Democrat, and 75 percent independent voters. A related survey by Zogby also shows that 59 percent of Americans support drilling in ANWR.