Labels: Al Gore, Global Warming, John Stossel, Noel Sheppard
John Stossel:Who says there's never any good news? After more than 30 years and tens of millions dead - mostly children - the World Health Organization (WHO) has ended its ban on DDT.Amen. But beware the hysteria. It has it's price too.
DDT is the most effective anti-mosquito, anti-malaria pesticide known. But thanks to the worldwide environmental movement and politically correct bureaucrats in the United States and at the United Nations, the use of this benign chemical has been discouraged in Africa and elsewhere, permitting killer mosquitoes to spread death.
I don't expect any apologies from the people who permitted this to happen. But I am thankful this nightmare is ending. ...
... Junk-science debunker Steven Milloy, an adjunct scholar with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, wonders why the environmentalists took so long to change their minds.
"There are no new facts on DDT - all the relevant science about DDT safety has been available since the 1960s," Milloy says.
Milloy adds:"It might be easy for some to dismiss the past 43 years of eco-hysteria over DDT with a simple 'never mind,' except for the blood of millions of people dripping from the hands of the WWF [World Wildlife Fund], Greenpeace, Rachel Carson, Environmental Defense Fund, and other junk science-fueled opponents of DDT."Milloy reminds us that the same people who spread DDT hysteria are now pushing the global-warming scare."If they and others could be so wrong about DDT, why should we trust them now?"
That's a fair question. For now, let's celebrate the coming elimination of malaria in Africa.
The people who bring you the news of the day about nonexistent wiretaps and hypothetical invasions of privacy disguised as actual events are the same ones reporting on the “scientific evidence” that man is slowly turning Earth into the planet Venus. Unfortunately for the NRDC, Al Gore, and other radical environmentalists, since man didn’t cause global warming, man can’t cure it.Great writing... well done!
Al Gore tells us that the world is getting hotter, and that man is responsible for making it that way. Unless we take drastic steps now to correct this problem the ice caps will melt, our cities will flood, farmland will dry up and the rainforests will die.
Before we get caught up in the same hysteria that thirty years earlier predicted the arrival of a new Ice Age, we might pause for a moment and ask: is any of this true? And if it is, what role did man really play in altering the climate, and if it is getting hotter, what (if anything) can he actually do about it? ...
Labels: Al Gore, Global Warming, John Stossel, Political Correctness, UN
“On this Labor Day, I proudly join my fellow citizens in saluting our Nation’s working men and women. As we celebrate the historic role of our nation’s free labor movement, we are reminded that workers have contributed as much to America’s social greatness as they have to our economic strength... Because of the quality of the goods and services they produce, we enjoy one of the highest standards of living in the world... By shaping a better future for our workers, we can and will assure continued progress and even greater opportunity for all Americans.”John Stossel:
“When a government monopoly limits competition, we can’t know what ideas would bloom if competition were allowed. Surveys show that most American parents are satisfied with their kids’ public schools, but that’s only because they don’t know what their kids might have had!... I bet we’d see cheap and efficient Costco-like schools, virtual schools where you learn at home on your computer, sports schools, music schools, schools that go all year, schools with uniforms, schools that open early and keep kids later, and, who knows what? Every economics textbook says monopolies are bad because they charge high prices for shoddy goods. But it’s government that gives us monopolies. So why do we entrust something as important as our children’s education to a government monopoly?... It’s time to give parents more options. Instead of pouring more money into the failed government monopoly, let’s free parents to control their own education money. Competition is a lot smarter than bureaucrats.”
... The bottom line is that union officials and their allies in congress know that they can’t afford to give workers an actual say when it comes to unionization. While Big Labor pays lip service to “workers’ rights” this Labor Day, union officials are hard at work undermining the freedom of American employees.Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes.
... We've said it before, will say it again: Maybe some day union members will get wise to this grifters' game and say, "No mas." Maybe they'll exercise their right under the law to ask for a refund of that portion of their money that is now going down the rat hole.Fakers.
Until then, union leaders in Washington will continue to fritter away hard-earned dues money on causes which their members have long since abandoned - if they ever supported at all.
Labels: John Stossel, Ronald Reagan
Labels: Ann Coulter, Books, Conservatism, John Stossel, Liberalism, Newt Gingrich
Protest the NY Times - Monday, July 10 at 5:00PM. (Hot Air video: Changing Times)We have a sound permit, and we will be across the street from the New York Times. They are at 229 West 43rd Street.
The groups on board so far are Free Republic, Caucus for America, the Congress for Racial Equality, and Protest Warrior, NYC Chapter. We have reached out to several other groups as well, and are waiting to hear back from them.
Some high-visibility media people are interested in speaking at the protest. More information will be coming on this as we gather groups and speakers.
So hold the date! If you have been as sick about the Times's unconscionable blabbing of our classified information as the rest of those who care about the nation, now is your chance to do something to make your outrage heard.
... The bottom-line is this; congressional Democrats and their supporting political organizations could have helped to move this country forward, for the good of the people, but they didn’t. They could have aided in successfully executing the war against radical Islamist terrorism in an effort to bring it to a more immediate conclusion, but they didn’t. They could have helped to heal this country after the hard-fought and contentious elections of 2000 and 2004, but they didn’t. They could have put the good of the country ahead of their political ambitions, but they didn’t.
And now they want your money so they can, “move the country in the right direction.” Yeah, right. And Al Gore invented the Internet.
Major Pacific exercise underway with N. Korea in background:SEOUL — Eight Pacific naval powers opened a month of exercises around the Hawaiian Islands this week in one of the biggest displays of allied naval strength since World War II.
The number of vessels participating in the show of force — and some of the specific war games they played — were fine-tuned to train for countering long-range missiles even though the exercises were scheduled long before the current threat from North Korea.
Led by the U.S. Navy, the countries participating included Japan, South Korea, Chile, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain — the last still viewed as a Pacific naval power in view of its colonial legacy and strong ties to other participants.
ABC’s John Stossel was a guest on MSNBC’s “Scarborough Country” Wednesday, and it is quite safe to say that he’s not buying into any of the recent alarmism concerning global warming. As a result, he and host Joe Scarborough had a lot of fun at Al Gore’s expense.
Rated "R," for "Racist":If you falsely use the race card, you become the racist, because you have used race to marginalize the innocent. Recently, three high-profile events of differing importance have emblematically clarified this growing phenomenon.
First, Georgia Democratic Representative Cynthia McKinney claimed that when caught violating security protocols, the Capitol Hill cop stopping her wasn’t trying to preempt her continued infraction as much as he was targeting her because she is an “African American, female progressive.”
The second is tied to the Immigration Reform debate and the ongoing assertion by the Left, and many Hispanic leaders, that supporters of sealing up our borders are racists by virtue of that position held.
And third, the Congressional Black Caucus’ position that Louisiana Congressman Democrat William Jefferson was kicked off the House Ways and Means Committee because he’s black, and not because there’s video footage of him accepting a bribe that was later found in his home freezer. If sophistry were booze, the courts would put these folks on a “twelve-step.”
All the Treason that’s Fit to Print:The most puzzling thing about the New York Times’s exposure of America’s counterterrorism secrets is that this Manhattan-based newspaper has no apparent sense of self-preservation. If the Times were headquartered in, say, Bismarck, North Dakota, its spectacular disregard for human safety might be explained by the low probability that terrorists ever would hit its community directly.
Labels: Al Gore, Global Warming, Immigration, John Stossel, Media, Michelle Malkin, NY Times, Politics, Race-related, Terrorism
1. Did you know that the Congressional Record isn't a record of what was said in Congress and that it's actually a record of what the members want you to think they said? 
2. Did you know about Bush's plans for a NAFTA Superhighway that runs from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn?
3. Did you know that U.S. Marines are being held in shackles by the U.S. Government in Camp Pendleton...and they haven't even been charged with anything yet!!! This one's a doozy that I posted on a few days ago. Labels: Glenn Beck, John Stossel, Michael Savage, Michelle Malkin
Labels: Humor, John Stossel, Unions
Thomas Sowell releases his latest Random thoughts on the passing scene: (browse previous "random thoughts" here)One of the few encouraging signs in the current political scene is that Senator John McCain finished behind several other candidates in a Republican straw poll for Presidential candidates. Apparently his self-centered opportunism has not gone unnoticed, despite the good press he has gotten by pandering to the media.
The pro-amnesty people largely believe the USA has a moral obligation to accept millions of poor people as citizens. The reasoning varies. Hardcore Democrats like Howard Dean and Ted Kennedy see future votes. Cardinal Mahoney sees future parishioners and wants a more compassionate approach toward the poor in general. And some activists believe it is America's fault that there's poverty in Mexico and other countries.
On the peace front, most of those demonstrators believe the USA is a flawed country - and so is Israel - and it's our fault there's terrorism in the world.
The politicians continue the taxpayer rip-off / pork-fest with a $500M earmark for "disruption costs" from Katrina going to the huge $30,000M (revenue last year) defense contractor Northrop Grumman when NG is already in litigation with it's insurance company for money to cover the very same costs. After the vote, Coburn could be seen on the floor animatedly lecturing a silent Cochran. It can be guessed he was promising to hold the Senate's feet to the fire on one earmark after another. Coburn this coming week will propose removing from the bill $500 million to be paid Northrop Grumman for lost income caused by Hurricane Katrina. The outcome will indicate whether last Thursday's events on Capitol Hill truly point to new congressional concern about using taxpayer money.
There can be no "Spanish version" of the national anthem or any other alternate version, unless Congress says so. Congress may conceivably say so, but if I were you I'd expect a solution to Social Security and, for that matter, war with Alpha Centauri before that happens. Until then, try to imagine what Abraham Lincoln would say:
"If you call "Nuestro Himno" a version of the national anthem, how many versions are there?"
Unless you're a talk show host or a careless journalist or a politician snatching at yet another diverting issue or you just plain enjoy being irked, you'll join Abe in answering "One. Calling "Nuestro Himno" a Spanish version of the anthem doesn't make it one."
Cal Thomas wonders where is the leadership amidst Republican ineptness?How could a party go from a visionary like Ronald Reagan who changed the world, not to mention restoring American optimism, to the tunnel vision of his illegitimate offspring who seem to care less about change than perpetuating themselves in office? They aren't even doing a good job of that as the fall election results may show, unless somebody or something quickly lights a fire under them. Never has the derogatory phrase, "Republican in name only," applied to so many who have done so little for so few.
But many reporters, fed a steady diet of alarm by environmentalists, hear "radiation" and automatically link it with a laundry list of horrors, from Three-Mile Island to nuclear bombs. According to Stossel:"They don't worry much about bacteria because bacteria is natural. But radiation is natural too. We are exposed to natural radiation every minute of our lives: cosmic radiation from space, radiation from the ground, and radiation from radon in the air we breathe. Every year, the average U.S. citizen is exposed to natural radiation equal to about 360 dental X-rays."
Dennis Prager talks about the dangers of rewriting our history: The totalitarian temptation is not confined to Nazis and communists; it can rear its head in any society and gradually destroy it. And as the Soviet dissident joke notes, one quick way to identify totalitarian threats to liberty is to identify those who falsify the historical record on behalf of their cause...
...Those who want a fully secular America don't care about what the Left is doing to America's Christian history. And those who loathe cigarettes don't care about what the anti-smoking zealots (again, usually folks on the Left) are doing to photos and films. But, as Shakespeare said about a rose, totalitarian behavior by any other name smells the same -- and that is a lot worse and a lot more dangerous than even cigarette smoke.
...As condescending leftists like California Senate Majority Leader, Gloria Romero, champion the cause of illegal aliens, and supporters of the movement continue to insult those of us who actually understand the concepts of right and wrong by calling us racists and xenophobes, conservative talk radio hosts and political columnists are hammering home the truth of the matter to their audiences.
The illegal alien situation, which was once seen by many as an unpleasant, yet largely uncorrectable problem, is now being taken very seriously by the majority of U.S. citizens, who no longer believe that stopping the flow of illegals into this country is such an insurmountable task. Tens of millions of Americans have finally had enough of their elected officials' indifference to the alien invasion of our country, and they plan to punish those politicians in November unless radical changes are made to our border policies.
In the meantime, companies that chose to shut down production on May the 1st, or that have a history of exploiting illegal workers for profit, are being added to lists circulating throughout cyberspace, and those businesses will soon become the targets of extended boycotts by American consumers who are unwilling to forgive them for helping to fuel the fire of the most vile socio-political movement in recent U.S. history.
Labels: Bill O'Reilly, Christianity, Dennis Prager, John McCain, John Stossel, Politics, Pork, Poverty, Random Thoughts, Ronald Reagan, Ted Kennedy, Thomas Sowell
...No one person made my dinner possible. It took thousands of people to get me the food. And none of them did it for me. As economist Adam Smith put it, "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."Previous:
Rosanke and the others don't particularly care if some TV correspondent gets his steak, yet they cooperate to make it happen, motivated by self-interest -- what many call greed. Think about that next time you listen to my colleagues sneer at the "greed" and "selfishness" of private business. They don't realize that the institution they celebrate, government, is far less effective at serving humanity.
"In a free market, you get more for yourself by serving your fellow man," said economist Williams. "You don't have to care about him, just serve him. I'd feel sorry for New Yorkers in terms of beef. If it all depended on human love and kindness, I doubt whether you would have one cow in New York."
Does anything get done based on "human love and kindness"? Well, a nonprofit group called City Harvest collects donations of restaurants' surplus food for the poor. But where does that food come from? Greedy people like Virgil Rosanke produce it, and greedy restaurateurs buy it. Kindness can only give away the goods self-love provides.
Labels: John Stossel
Perhaps the most fundamentally flawed idea is this all-too-common one: "Public schools were created to provide a 'public good': education for all, regardless of a family's ability to pay ... By contrast, under a voucher system that gives public dollars to completely unmonitored private schools, there is no such right to expect or demand accountability for student performance or how tax dollars are spent."Crazy idea... competition creates accountability.
They don't get it. Competition brings accountability.
Private schools may be "unmonitored" by bureaucrats, but they face the most demanding kind of supervision our society provides: a market full of freely choosing individuals. Parents' desire for a good education for their children is a much more powerful check on schools than any politician's law or union rule. The people who want to control every young American's education like to talk about accountability, but what they want is to make schools accountable to anointed bureaucrats who think they know what's best for all of us. They evade real accountability -- the kind of accountability where if a student or parent realizes a school isn't doing its job, he can find another one.
Parents' desire for a good education
for their children is a much
more powerful check on schools than
any politician's law or union rule.
I could go on; there are plenty of myths. But the most important point to remember is quite simple: If public schools are good, they have nothing to fear from school choice. Students and parents will choose them.
Labels: Education, John Stossel, Unions
Top 10 Most Outrageous Liberal Media Quotes From the Last 20 Years
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Glenn Beck ~ 9am-noon
Rush Limbaugh ~ noon-3pm
Sean Hannity ~ 6pm-9pm
Michael Savage ~ 9pm-midnight
(M-F, Times Eastern U.S.)
Bill Bennett ~ 6am-9am
Laura Ingraham ~ 9am-noon
Dennis Prager ~ noon-3pm
Michael Medved ~ 3pm-6pm
Hugh Hewitt ~ 6pm-9pm
(M-F, Times Eastern U.S.)
