“As of December 2010, Cantor is the only Jewish Republican in the United States Congress.[2][10][19] He supports strong United States-Israel relations.[2][5] He cosponsored legislation to cut off all U.S. taxpayer aid to the Palestinian Authority and another bill calling for an end to taxpayer aid to the Palestinians until they stop unauthorized excavations on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.[20] Responding to a claim by the State Department that the United States provides no direct aid to the Palestinian Authority, Cantor claimed that United States sends about US$75 million in aid annually to the Palestinian Authority, which is administered by the U.S. Agency for International Development. He opposed a Congressionally approved three-year package of US$400 million in aid for the Palestinian Authority in 2000 and has also introduced legislation to end aid to Palestinians.[21]
The Republican House should immediately pass a short term debt ceiling hike (say $500 BILLION) coupled with double the amount ($1,000 BILLION) in spending cuts. Two dollars cut in spending for every dollar added to the debt ceiling sends a clear message that the United States will clamp down hard on its out of control spending spree.
Under Obama, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats, the U.S. debt to GNP ratio DOUBLED in the last three years. This must be reversed. Here what the Speaker of the House has to say:
The Swiss have successfully reduced societal and personal costs of drug addiction by supplying heroin and other drugs to addicts.
Manage U.S. drug addiction based on Switzerland's successful program Perhaps we can learn from the successes of other nations’ management of drug addiction.
In the U.S. today 1 out of 100 persons in behind bars. If crimes related to drugs can be managed successfully without incarceration that will reduce the number of people in jail and the societal costs of keeping them there.
And, very importantly, if drug addiction can be managed without incarceration for the use of drugs, the angst, and shame that individuals and families experience will be considerable less.
The Swiss have a successful drug addiction program. They have solved many of their drug troubles by creating a successful policy of enforcement, treatment, harm reduction and prevention.
The Swiss have a heroin maintenance program that supplies addicts with cheap pharmaceutical-grade heroin, methadone and other things they need. They have seen a great reduction in addict-caused crime in Switzerland.
Demand for outlaw drug dealers in Switzerland has declined because there is no reason to buy boot leg drugs when a source of cheap, guaranteed, pure, legal drugs is available.
The Swiss have virtually eliminated overdose deaths for those in the program. Injection-transmitted diseases (HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C) have been greatly reduced.
The Swiss drug policy has resulted in a great decrease in heroin’s addiction’s damage to society. In 2008, the Swiss endorsed the national drug policy with a 68%+ vote of support in a national referendum.
Consider what might happen if alcohol was illegal today. Might gangs fight for turf control? Imagine Anheuser-Busch and Miller Brewing gangs killing each other for control of the beer market!
When we had Prohibition there was a surge of violence and organized crime. If pot and heroin are legalized, there’s no need for drug cartels in Mexico to fight each other resulting in thousands of dead Mexican citizens. Why not put the drug cartels out of business with the legalization of heroin and pot.
But before we legalize drugs let’s put a treatment program in place which can replicate the success Switzerland has achieved.
Switzerland is not America. Switzerland is much more homogeneous. One program which fits all in Switzerland might not work in America. For sure, the U.S. does need a drug policy that works better.
For more discussion, see The U.S. Needs a Drug Policy that Works Much Better, Letters to the Editor, The Wall Street Journal, Friday, July 8, 2011
Obama's Justice Dept. buys guns for Mexican criminals which kill Americans $50 MILLION U.S. taxpayer Stimulus money — the “stimulus” which created no shovel ready jobs for Americans — went to Eric Holder’s Justice Department’s Fast and Furious program.
The Fast and Furious program bought guns which were allowed to cross over the border destined for drug cartel criminals in Mexico. These guns, paid for by U.S. taxpayer money, killed Americans and Mexican citizens.
Why might Obama’s administration want guns to end up in Mexican hands and which resulted in the death of a border patrol person plus other Americans?
If American made guns do great harm, will Americans then desire more gun control?
Was this program, traceable directly to Eric Holder’s Justice Department and Obama’s Stimulus money, designed to undermine the willingness and constitutional right of Americans to hold guns? One wonders …..
If the above proves true, then it is time to ask for Eric Holder’s resignation …. And time for Americans to say NO MORE to Obama in 2012.
The World Bank’s Biocarbon Fund had arranged to pay European “entrepreneurs” $1 million to establish a system under which 60,000 Kenyans would restrict themselves to farming under rigidly controlled, inefficient, “sustainable” techniques.
For that the Kenyans will receive $1.4 million over 20 years.
That’s right, the beneficent World Bank will enrich more Europeans so 60,000 Kenyans can receive $23.83 a piece for 20 years of drudgery, poverty and misery – a princely $1.19 a year.
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Return to the stone age (for at least some of us). “Tote that barge…”
Going too far: TSA requires older woman to remove diaper during search Jean Weber filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security after her 95-year-old mother was detained and extensively searched last Saturday while trying to board a plane to fly to Michigan to be with family members during the final stages of her battle with leukemia.
Her mother, who was in a wheelchair, was asked to remove an adult diaper in order to complete a pat-down search.
“TSA cannot exempt any group from screening because we know from intelligence that there are terrorists out there that would then exploit that vulnerability,â€said Sari Koshetz a spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration in Miami,who also said she could not comment on specific cases to protect the privacy of those involved.
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As said before, no public employee was ever disciplined for following orders.
Just whose privacy is this monsterette protecting?
At what point do we say that we’d rather take our chances with hijackers and such rather than put up with muggings on the ground?
Wanted for many murders, for years Whitey Bulger assumed a low key identify in Santa Monica, CA. Girl friend from his past in Boston told CA neighbors he had a rage problem
Santa Monica’s rent control program has a stated goal of preserving economic diversity in that Southern California city.
Upon his arrest, Whitey Bulger was said to be in possession of $800,000 cash. The controlled rent was $1,145 per month for his apartment.
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Hey buddy can you spare a 100k and a 45?
Inside, agents found not only $800,000 in cash but also more than 30 firearms, including pistols, rifles and shotguns, several types of knives and a variety of false identification cards.
Jackson rants about Christian militants during the King hearings on causes of increased Muslim radicalization in the prisons.
At a congressional hearing on Muslim radicalization in U.S. prisons, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said that investigators needed to analyze Christian militants in America because they too might try to “bring down the country.†Rep. Jackson Lee mentioned the case of a man who blew up an abortion clinic.
Rep. Lee then said, “ we should include an analysis of how Christian militants or others might bring down the country. We have to look broadly, do we not?â€
Dunleavy answered: “I don’t know that Christian militants have foreign country backing or foreign country financing.â€
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This so called legislator thinks the Flying Nuns crashed into the twin towers.
IPCC has Dr. Frankenstein type ideas how to control climate change.
climate change by Dr. Frankensteins
In a leaked document obtained by The Telegraph the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has outlined a series of techniques in which scientists hope will manipulate the world’s climate to reduce carbon emissions.
Among the ideas proposed by a group of 60 leading scientists from around the world include producing “lighter colored” crops to reflect sunlight, blasting aerosol “mirrors” into the stratosphere and suppressing cirrus clouds.
Other suggestions include spraying sea water into clouds as another reflection mechanism, depositing massive quantities of iron filings into the oceans, painting streets and roofs white and adding lime to oceans.
These so-called experts, whose livelihood depends on UN and government largess, continue to exploit the science-fiction fantasy of manmade “climate change.” Another sterling example of your tax dollars at work.
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Even now scientists are working on a ladder tall enough to reach the clouds with an attached sea water spewer. Millions of acres of daisies are under cultivation as we glance at the humongous hole in the ground filled with iron miners.
Peter Falk died Thursday at age 83 in his Beverly Hills, Calif., home. But Columbo lives on as the shining ideal of anyone with a smudge on his tie, whose car isn’t the sportiest, who often seems clueless, who gets dissed by fancy people.
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