Roberts Released; Moonbats Mourn

To the dismay of the Moonbat Corps that email me on a daily basis, Chief Justice John Roberts was released today from the hospital, a day after suffering a seizure:

[JURIST] Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts [OYEZ profile; JURIST news archive] was released from the hospital Tuesday after suffering a benign idiopathic seizure on Monday. In a phone conversation with President Bush earlier in the day, Roberts assured the president that he was doing well and White House Press Secretary Tony Snow described Roberts as “in great spirits” [AP report]. Roberts was hospitalized as a precaution [JURIST report] after the seizure occurred Monday at his vacation home in Maine.

This email from “Ihateyounazis” was a typical response to this event from the non-elite Moonbat Corps

I hope Roberts dies. You eveil NAZIS have been talking over this country for far two long and it is tim that we start talking the county back from you! Robets dying and the democrats forcing Busshie to appoint a true American to replace him would be a good start.

Saddly, “Ihateyounazis” is no doubt in therapy today to have his or her Bush Derangement Syndrome further treated.

Latest GOP Rasmussen Survey … Thompson In Front.

http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/presidential_tracking_pollFred Thompson – 25%
Rudy Giuliani – 24%
Mitt Romney – 12%
John McCain – 12%
Brownback – 3%
Huckabee -2%
Ron Paul, Tom Tancredo, Duncan Hunter, Tommy Thompson, or Sam Brownback – 4%
Undecided – 17%

Not Good! PM Brown Praises Bush!

This is no doubt going to cause liberals to panic. They thought after they managed to get rid of Tony Blair that Great Britain might be on a new track towards appeasement of terrorists.

GORDON Brown last night praised George Bush for leading the global war on terror — saying the world owed America a huge debt.The Prime Minister vowed to take Winston Churchill’s lead and make Britain’s ties with America even stronger.
Mr Brown stunned critics by THANKING President Bush for the fight against Islamic extremism, and insisted the UK-US relationship will be his No1 foreign policy priority.

He said on his first visit to the President’s US retreat at Camp David: “Winston Churchill spoke of the ‘joint inheritance’ of our two countries.”

CNN It’s Not All About You(tube)!

Giuliani and Romney have both told CNN and YouTube it isn’t all about them.

Boston (EON) - Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney have both announced that they will not be taking part in the CNN YouTube debate for the Republian presidential hopefuls which is set for September 17th in St. Petersburg.

Basically this boils down to a case where CNN picked a date and asked the candidates to attend. Generally you would consult with each of the campaigns before doing so especially since they all have many commitments … except for maybe McCain, Paul, Brownback, Tommy Thompson, and the other also-rans and don’t have enough support to maintain a full calendar.

The prospect that major candidates wont show for the event has lead to a ballyhoo from some in the Republican Party as well as media types alike who think that when they say jump, candidates should ask “how high”?

Courts make heavy use of translators

By PAT GILLESPIECornelio Mendez struggled to understand the theft charge he faced in Lee County Circuit Court on Tuesday. Mendez, a Mexican immigrant who’s been in the United States for a little more than a year, wanted to tell the judge the incident that led to his court appearance — changing the price tag on children’s clothes at a department store — was a misunderstanding… There’s no way to determine how many cases in area courts are directly linked to illegal — or legal — immigration because local authorities don’t track defendants’ immigration status. Court spokesman Ken Kellum said that, because deportation matters fall under federal authority, it’s not a statistic local authorities compile. The impact of immigrants is evident, though.

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Iraq Victorious!

Failing to heed the advice of liberals to simply cut and run, the Iraqi national soccer team actually stuck around, fought and beat the Saudi Arabia team 1-0.

BAGHDAD — The players wore black armbands to remember the victims of a car bombing. The electricity went out, as usual, at the most exciting moments of the match. Baghdad was under a citywide curfew for fear of insurgent attacks on sports fans.

And all that was forgotten the instant the Iraqi national soccer team won its first Asian Cup championship Sunday in a fairytale 1-0 upset of heavily favored Saudi Arabia. As the Iraqi players wept and danced with joy on a soccer pitch in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, their countrymen rejoiced at perhaps the rarest of Iraqi experiences: a happy ending.

Yes, proving once again, that when you don’t give up you can actually win!

CAFE Tab Too Expensive for America

by Deneen Borelli (bio)

Proposed legislation to increase Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards - the federally-mandated fuel efficiency rules for cars, light trucks and SUVs - will likely cause more harm to the American people than good.

Our nation’s dependency on foreign oil and reducing so-called “greenhouse gases” are the stated motivation for empowering 535 people on Capitol Hill and the President with the ability to set arbitrary demands on the automotive industry. It comes, however, at the expense of consumer choice, safety and economic stability - especially for poor households and the already ailing domestic auto industry.

Legislation that was recently passed in the Senate and is now under consideration in the House of Representatives would increase CAFE standards from the current standard of 27 miles per gallon for cars and 22 mpg for light trucks to 35 miles per gallon for both by 2020. Automakers face the challenge of meeting these steep demands without pricing themselves out of the market competitively or going bankrupt due to the estimated $114 billion necessary to retool assembly lines. The tradeoff - higher gas mileage for increased costs - is not a fair trade because consumers as well as workers and retirees in the auto industry and related businesses will absorb the brunt of increased costs.

First of all, increased CAFE standards adversely affect what vehicles people can buy. Automakers will most likely reduce vehicle weights to meet the new mandates, making them lighter and smaller. Families with small children who have a preference or need for larger vehicles will be among the first victims.

Additionally, increased CAFE standards will make driving more dangerous. Lighter and smaller vehicles increase the severity of injuries and decrease survival rates in crashes. According to a 2002 study by the National Academy of Sciences, current CAFE standards cause an estimated 1,300 to 2,600 additional accident-related deaths per year.

Low-income families stand to suffer the greatest harm from increased CAFE mandates. These families may be unable to afford a new vehicle because of CAFE’s added production costs. For that reason, low-income families may forego a new vehicle in favor of older, unreliable vehicles that may already require constant repairs. If they get something new, it would inevitably be among the cheapest and therefore probably the smallest and most dangerous to drive.

Unfortunately, it seems our elected officials are not concerned about the consequences of their actions. Not surprisingly, details of the potential harm revised CAFE standards could impose have, thus far, not slowed Big Government’s aggressive political pursuit of inflexible fuel economy standards.

This insensitivity to the plight of low-income families in particular is found in another scheme designed to address the theory of man-made global warming. The idea, which was endorsed by the corporate criminals at Enron, would limit carbon dioxide through an international “cap and trade” emissions program. According to a April 25, 2007 critique of the policy by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office: “[M]ost of the cost of meeting a cap on [carbon dioxide] emissions would be borne by consumers, who would face persistently higher prices for products such as electricity and gasoline. Those price increases would be regressive in that poorer households would bear a larger burden relative to their income than wealthier households would.”

In a free market, any manufacturer or service provider should have the flexibility to give customers what they want - choice, quality, affordability and convenience. And the market works, as manufacturers have already produced a number of smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles for those consumers who prefer them. Big Government intervention, especially in the instance of fuel economy standards, is harmful to both the consumer and the auto industry. It puts safety and preferences in the backseat.

Drivers should beware and proceed with caution - an increased CAFE standard would move the government into the driver’s seat, leaving the American people with no control and few alternatives.

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Deneen Borelli is a fellow with the Project 21 black leadership network. Comments may be sent to DBorelli@nationalcenter.org.

Published by The National Center for Public Policy Research. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. New Visions Commentaries reflect the views of their author, and not necessarily those of Project 21 or the National Center for Public Policy Research.

Internet Censorship On Rise?

VIENNA, Austria - Kazakhstan and Georgia are among countries imposing excessive restrictions on how people use the Internet, a new report says, warning that regulations are having a chilling effect on freedom of expression.”Governing the Internet,” issued Thursday by the 56-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, called the online policing “a bitter reminder of the ease with which some regimes — democracies and dictatorships alike — seek to suppress speech that they disapprove of, dislike, or simply fear.”"Speaking out has never been easier than on the Web. Yet at the same time we are witnessing the spread of Internet censorship,” the report said.Miklos Haraszti, who heads the OSCE’s media freedom office, said about two dozen countries practice censorship, and others have adopted needlessly restrictive legislation and government policy.Among those are Malaysia, where a government official said this week that laws would be drafted for bloggers and authorities would not hesitate to prosecute those deemed to have insulted Islam.

Government and liberty are always in conflict and just government is always a fine act of balancing the rights of one with the rights of others. But mix in intolerance and a quest for power and government will spread like weeds in a finely groomed yard.

As James Madison once wrote (in Federalist 46) “Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.” In other words, when the government gets out of control we can lock, load and fire!

Mr. Pork, U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, Get’s Raided

Corruption with regards to Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens? Don’t be so quick to think not. This is a man that has made of living of taking tax dollars to his home state:

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Agents from the FBI and Internal Revenue Service on Monday searched the home of U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, an official said.

Investigators arrived at the Republican senator’s home in Girdwood shortly before 2:30 p.m. Alaska time, said Dave Heller, FBI assistant special agent.

Heller said he could not comment on the nature of the investigation.

The Justice Department has been looking into the seven-term senator’s relationship with a wealthy contractor as part of a public corruption investigation.

Joel Connelly of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has a good run down of the shadow that has been cast over representatives of the state:

Threats and bluster are standard operating proceduresfor Alaska’s seniority-laden Washington, D.C., delegation, and Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, was in full cry earlier this month.”There is always another day when those who bite will be killed, too, and I am very good at that,” Young said. No kiddin’. He once waved an 18-inch-long oosik, the penis bone of a walrus, at the first woman to direct the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.Young, the political architect of Alaska’s “bridges to nowhere,” was mad at a bid by Republican New Jersey Rep. Scott Garrett to cut one of his pet programs.

I have no doubt there is something fishy going on here since they have been stealing tax payer dollars for years up there in Alaska. The question is, will whatever it is be found? Time will tell the tale … unless another bribe is paid?

Stevens is just another no-good politician breaking the Constitution on a daily basis and should be impeached for his crimes against the Constitution and is pork barrel projects.

Reason for caution on state (VA) deportations

The Virginian-PilotWhen it comes to illegal immigration, the Virginia State Crime Commission is trying to impose order on chaos. Its members face three barriers: One, the state is the wrong level of government to fix a federal problem. Two, crime is a single facet of a complex challenge that can’t be effectively addressed by ignoring its economic and humanitarian dimensions. And three, there are important, unanswered questions about the commission’s intention - to mandate that sheriffs and jail wardens initiate deportation proceedings whenever an illegal immigrant is arrested for a crime. Even so, Crime Commission members deserve to be commended on two counts. They understand the civic imperative for public officials to respond to widespread citizen anger - especially when that unrest centers on rampant disregard for the law.

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