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Melissa Bean’s Healthcare101 – Part 6 of 13

May 6, 2010 by

From the Palatine Tea Party…

(Palatine, Illinois) – In response to the letter Melissa Bean wrote to the constituents in district 8 dated April 16, 2010. We will respond to each of her statements Melissa Bean made based on emotion with factual responses where she stated the following:

“Starting in 2014, those limited to the Individual market will be able to choose from a variety of benefit plans in a state-wide Exchange. By pooling together, they will have more benefit options, volume pricing, and reduced risk. An Estimated 31,500 uninsured Eighth District families will get access to affordable coverage.”
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Melissa Bean’s Healthcare101 – Part 6 of 13″

Anti-Americanism - California - Capitalism - Children - Democrats/Leftists - Education - Government - Liberals - Mexico - Patriotism - Warner Todd Huston

Calif. School Bans American Flag Clothing For Non-Existent Mexican Holiday?

May 6, 2010 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

California schools really do hate America. In California apparently you are a bad little boy if you wear to school clothing adorned with the good ol’ Red, White and Blue. You get thrown out, in fact. At least that is what happened to several patriotic American boys that attend Comunidad Educativa Vivo Roble in California… oh, wait, that is the Live Oak High School in California. With all the dissing of America going on in California I thought the school had changed its name. Sorry.

For the Gilroy Dispatch Lindsay Bryant reports that five young students of Live Oak High School in Gillroy, California were kicked out of school on Cinco de Mayo because they dared to wear the venerable American colors while all the Mexican students were wearing the Green, White and Red colors of the Mexican flag. According to Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez these evil American children were “starting a fight.”


The New America: Physically fit boys in American Themed Clothes = Baaaad

Yeah, in American schools you are “starting a fight” when you wear America themed clothing but innocent as the driven snow when you are sporting the colors of foreign nations. Braynt reports that over 100 students were seen in the Mexican colors. One rather corpulent girl-child even pained her face and various overly exposed body part with the celebratory colors.

One Mexican-American student, freshman Laura Ponce, had a Mexican flag painted on her face and chest, peaking out of her low-cut shirt. She did it because, “it’s our day, the only day we can show our spirit.” A school administrator took away the Mexican flag she was carrying as she was waiting to go home. Ponce said: “not cool.”

Even the morbidly obese can celebrate Cinco de Mayo, hold the lettuce. But don’t go wearing any of those evil, evil Red, White and Blue clothes!


The New America: Morbidly Obese Girls in Mexican Themed Clothes = Gooood

I am sure that Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez only speaks Spanish, I mean I can’t imagine him sullying his delicate mouth with the guttural sound of English, so let me help him out with what these fine young boys were exhibiting. It’s called patriotism, Mr. Rodriguez…. oh, yeah, sorry… I mean patriotismo Estados Unidos de América. Forgot your hatred of things American/English there for a second, Mr. Rodriguez. My most fulsome apologies.
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Calif. School Bans American Flag Clothing For Non-Existent Mexican Holiday?”

Conservatives - Entertainment - Hollywood - Liberals - Media - Media Bias - Ronald Reagan - TV - Warner Todd Huston

How Hollywood Maligns The Right

May 6, 2010 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

We all know of the great slights that Hollywood deals out to the American right. We see them all the time. From the TV shows that casts Republicans as villains, the movies that make Christians out to be hypocrites or even outright evil. Traditional motherhood and fatherhood also find constant ridicule at the hands of Hollywood. The overt examples are everywhere, of course. But the grand swipe isn’t all that Hollywood indulges. There are also these ubiquitous, small, quick, too fast to notice swipes against the right perpetrated by Hollywood. A fine example of the side-swipe approach to denigrating the right came in the April 29 episode of The Mentalist, a CBS detective show starring Australian actor Simon Baker.

Now, at the top here I want to say that The Mentalist is generally an inoffensive, amusing little show fashioned in the Sherlock Holmes mode featuring a detective that sees every little clue and can with ease assemble these disparate facts to solve the crime. Baker turns in a funny performance with just enough underlying darkness to make his character interesting.

But, despite that it is generally a diverting entertainment, the show is just as disposed to slam anything from the right as any other and the April 29 episode gives us a prime example of that.
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How Hollywood Maligns The Right”

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Republican Leads to Take Obama’s Old Senate Seat, Could ALL The Dem Leaders Fall?

May 6, 2010 by 4 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Rasmussen is reporting that GOP candidate Mark Kirk is currently leading Democrat Alexi “the Mob Banker” Giannoulias in the race for Barack Obama’s Illinois Senate seat but his isn’t the only one.

Kirk now attracts 46% support in Illinois’ race for the U.S. Senate, up from 41% in early April. Support for Giannoulias is at 38%, virtually unchanged from the previous survey but down from March, when he earned 44% of the vote. Five percent (5%) currently support some other candidate, and 12% are undecided.

Ouchie. Do you think it would be possible for a Republican (even one as liberal as Mark Kirk) to beat the Democrat’s official replacement offered for Obama’s Illinois seat? If a Republican took the president’s old senate seat, this would be momentous.

And maybe the GOP could hope for a hat trick — or better — of Demo smack downs.
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Republican Leads to Take Obama’s Old Senate Seat, Could ALL The Dem Leaders Fall?”

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Whoopi Says Without Abortion Parents Just Kill Kids Later

May 6, 2010 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

I think Whoopi Goldberg has as much hair inside her head as she has outside it. What else explains the harebrained thinking she exhibited (again) on her coffee klatcher’s show The View on May 4?

Goldberg attempted to explain why she supports abortion. It’s because, you see, if parents can’t kill their kids in utero she thinks parents will just kill their kids later on in their lives.

The discussion centered around a new law in Oklahoma that required abortion patients to view their in vitro babies via a new 3-D ultrasound before they make the final decision to undergo the abortion procedure.

Goldberg was against the new law and in her muddled thinking this was her reason to oppose it:
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Whoopi Says Without Abortion Parents Just Kill Kids Later”

Barack Obama - Chicago - Cook County - Democrats/Leftists - Frank Salvato - Government - Illinois State Government - Liberals - Socialism

First, He Was a Community Organizer

May 6, 2010 by

-By Frank Salvato

When Barack Obama entered the 2008 Presidential Election scene, aside from recycling the Clinton mantra of “Hope and Change” (yes, Mr. Obama’s use of the campaign slogan was not original in nature), we were told that his most endearing credential was that he had navigated the “mean streets of Chicago” as a community organizer disseminating “hope”; that he had been successful in making the poverty-stricken neighborhoods of Chicago a better place to live, a safer place to live. As of April 25, 2010, the residents of Chicago have stood witness to 113 homicides. I suppose, for President Obama, all that’s missing is a “Mission Accomplished” banner.

By now, everyone has heard at least one story about the out-of-control violence taking place in the mean-streets of Chicago. Gang crime is so bad in some parts of the city that parents, when there are two existing in the household, routinely remind their children not to play in front of the windows in their houses for fear of being struck by a stray bullet fired from the gun of a gangbanger. The situation is so bad that some lawmakers in Illinois’ capitol, Springfield, have called upon the governor, Pat Quinn (D), to call in the Illinois National Guard to supplement the Chicago Police Department.
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First, He Was a Community Organizer”

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Renaming War On Terror Actually A War On America

May 6, 2010 by

-By Frederick Meekins

The Obama White House has more respect for the homicidal enemies of the United States than it does for the average American citizen. For while Obama operatives at one point set up an email account to gather intelligence on those critical of healthcare legislation and categorized those questioning the need for end of life counseling as astroturf protestors, it has been announced that America is no longer at war with terrorism or even jihadists for that matter.

Instead of blowing this human scum into Sheol, the administration plans to increase aide to foreign governments that will no doubt come back to be used against Americans. There is nothing quite like having the best enemy that money can buy.
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Renaming War On Terror Actually A War On America”

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PC-a-paloosa: Cook County Board Pushes Anti-Arizona and Pro-Affirmative Action Measures

May 5, 2010 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Here we have Cook County Board President Todd Stroger spending as much cash on his family, offices and friends as he can before he gets canned from his high position in government, here we have the County budget coming in at $3 billion, the Board constantly squabbling over massive tax hikes — hikes they thankfully didn’t implement this budget cycle — and so many things going on that are supremely important yet the County Board is wasting time trying to pass anti-Arizona rules and setting up new offices to implement affirmative action measures.

In talks about new red-light cameras that are little else but cash machines that sap money from the citizens straight to government pockets while providing little by way of safety, it occurred to a pair of pro-law breakers on the County Board that they should exclude the Arizona-based company that was in the running for the county’s red-light camera business.
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PC-a-paloosa: Cook County Board Pushes Anti-Arizona and Pro-Affirmative Action Measures”

Budget - Chicago - Congress - Cook County - Democrats/Leftists - Elections - Government - Health - House of Representatives - Illinois - Liberals - Melissa Bean - State Government - Taxes - Tea Party - Warner Todd Huston

Melissa Bean’s Healthcare101 – Part 5 of 13

May 5, 2010 by

From the Palatine Tea Party…

(Palatine, Illinois) – In response to the letter Melissa Bean wrote to the constituents in district 8 dated April 16, 2010. We will respond to each of her statements Melissa Bean made based on emotion with factual responses where she stated the following:

“A man unable to start his own company because his pre-existing condition makes it IMPOSSIBLE to afford health insurance in the individual market. Moms and dads who have been laid off from work, dreading the expiration of COBRA benefits and access to health insurance for their families.”

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HuffyPoo Helps Dems Smear Republican Govs Assoc Video

May 5, 2010 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Oh, the OUTRAGE! It’s outrageously, outrageous enough to make everyone outraged, don’t you know? HuffPost gave space today to allow the Democrat Governors Association to vent its outrage about the Republican Governors Association video that proposes “domestic terrorism.”

Yep. Outrageous and stuff.

Mind you, no one was talking about any “domestic terrorism” but HuffyPoo and their pals the Democrats. But, well, they have to find something to try and hang their hat on what will all the Dems that are “retiring” just ahead of an electoral rout and all. The Democrats are desperate to turn the tide that is about to swamp them in November.

So, I want to help the Dems to vent. Here are the two outraaaaageous videos that the RGA posted over the last few weeks that got the Dems panties all up in a bunch…

Here’s the original video:

We Will Remember from Republican Governors Association on Vimeo.

And here’s the follow up the RGA produced:

I have to say, every time someone says the words “Huffington Post” to me I think of some stick of lumber jammed in the ground somewhere. And whenever I read something from the site I am sure that I’ve found the equivalent of the good sense that stick of lumber could produce on the web!
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When is Enough Government Enough?A Day in the Life of the Regulatory State

May 5, 2010 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) has a great video starring my pal Lee Doren — OK, I met him at a bar once but we do write for some of the same blogs. It is a stark reminder of the overweening regulations that every day oppress us and the businesses we all work for.

And Obama/Reid?Pelosi want more of this?
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When is Enough Government Enough?A Day in the Life of the Regulatory State”

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Seth MacFarlane: Historical Illiterate (Hollywood Lies About Arizona Law)

May 5, 2010 by 3 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

“Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane proves once again that while the denizens of Hollywood might be good at acting, or singing, or TV and movie making, they most certainly have no clue about history or contemporary politics. They are utterly illiterate about the world around them because of the insular bubble in which they live. In a recent interview reported by Reuters, the insufferable MacFarlane proves himself to be el stupido on the recent Arizona illegal immigrant law.

Now, one isn’t necessarily illiterate to oppose the new law essentially forced upon Arizona due to the utter failure of the federal government to properly deal with the illegal immigration problem, a problem that we’ve suffered under in this country since at least the 1980s. Certainly, there are substantive reasons to be both for and against the new law. Unfortunately for MacFarlane, “substance” isn’t in him.

The first quote that Reuters reports from MacFarlane is this bit of historical illiteracy…
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Seth MacFarlane: Historical Illiterate (Hollywood Lies About Arizona Law)”

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News Alert: Bald Eagles Arrested For Eating Endangered Species

May 5, 2010 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

Yesterday the State of California arrested several pairs of American Bald Eagles that researchers released into the wild near the Channel Islands. Authorities charged the birds with conspiracy to kill endangered island foxes and rare seabirds for purposes of eating them.

The state’s case was built on the research of Seth D. Newsome, a researcher with the department of zoology and physiology at the University of Wyoming, who determined that the Bald Eagles could begin eating the endangered animals should the availability of the bird’s regular fish-based diet change.

Environmentalists celebrated the arrests saying that if the Bald Eagles refused to abide by federal endangered species laws, then the birds have abdicated their own protected status.
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News Alert: Bald Eagles Arrested For Eating Endangered Species”

Chicago - Cook County - Democrats/Leftists - Guns - Illinois - Illinois State Government - State Government - Warner Todd Huston

Last Minute Anti-Gun Bills In Springfield

May 5, 2010 by

From the NRA-ILA…

While the Illinois General Assembly tries to complete its business this week, anti-gun extremists are putting on a desperate push to pass attacks on our Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

As mentioned last week, House Bill 5849 and House Bill 5480, both sponsored by State Representative Harry Osterman (D-14), are expected to be debated on the floor, along with the amendments previously discussed.
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Last Minute Anti-Gun Bills In Springfield”

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It’s For Your Own Good

May 5, 2010 by

-By Nancy Morgan

Since I’ve been otherwise occupied making a living, it’s reassuring to know that my government is looking out for me. In just the last month, our tireless public servants have proposed numerous measures that will make my life better and more worry free.

No longer will I have to worry about drug addicts being able to rig a urine test. The Senate is set to vote on a measure that would make it illegal to sell fake urine for the purpose of falsifying a drug test. Whew.

While they’re at it, Congress is also working on banning smokeless tobacco in Major League Baseball. Not only that, but Obama just signed legislation that bans the Post Office from shipping cigarettes, and the CDC is preparing to launch a co-ordinated 50-state anti-smoking campaign. This is just in case you didn’t know that smoking may contribute to lung cancer.
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It’s For Your Own Good”

Business - Constitution - Democrats/Leftists - Government - Immigration/Immigrants - Jobs - Liberals - Mexico - President - Taxes - Tea Party - Warner Todd Huston

Tea Party, Meet the Tequila Party – The Rule of Law vs. the Law of Rule

May 5, 2010 by

-By Resa LaRu Kirkland

One party shouted chants, the other shouted profanities. One party questioned with boldness, the other grabbed its crotch. One party spoke with clarity, courage, and the Constitution, the other threw bottles and food at the policemen who were there to protect them.

One party flew the American flag with joy, the other flew the Mexican flag with menace.

Yep, we are now a two-party people: The pro-American Tea Party, and the anti-American Tequila Party.
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Tea Party, Meet the Tequila Party – The Rule of Law vs. the Law of Rule”

Budget - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Illinois - Illinois State Government - Taxes - Truth in Accounting - Warner Todd Huston

Update From the Institute for Truth in Accounting

May 4, 2010 by

Weinberg Attends Peterson Foundation Fiscal Summit

On April 28th, Sheila Weinberg attended the Peter G. Peterson Foundation ‘2010 Fiscal Summit: America’s Crisis and A Way Forward,’ a meeting to launch a national bipartisan dialogue on America’s fiscal challenges. The Fiscal Summit included a range of voices including keynote speaker former U.S. President Bill Clinton, OMB Dir. Peter Orszag, Alan Greenspan, Paul Volcker, former Treasury Sec. Robert Rubin and Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan.
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Update From the Institute for Truth in Accounting”

Budget - Democrats/Leftists - Government - Illinois State Government - Taxes - Tea Party - Warner Todd Huston

Tea Party Patriots Gathering in Springfield Tomorrow

May 4, 2010 by

There will be a gathering of Tea Party folks in the Illinois capital in Springfield tomorrow…

Hundreds of concerned citizens are set to gather Wednesday, May 5 at 12:00 noon CDT in front of the Capitol in Springfield to oppose unsustainable state government spending and Governor Quinn’s proposed 33% income tax increase. After the rally, the citizens will enter the Capitol at 1:00 p.m. to meet with their representatives from the House and Senate.
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Tea Party Patriots Gathering in Springfield Tomorrow”

Budget - Chicago - Cook County Board - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Government - Illinois - Illinois State Government - President - State Government - Taxes - Tony Peraica - Warner Todd Huston

The Campaign to Stop Stroger’s Lame Duck Spending Spree

May 4, 2010 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Todd Stroger lost his bid for re-election to his position as President of the Cook County Board. Since he lost that primary, Stroger has stepped up his efforts to spread County cash to all his buddies in a last ditch, lame duck campaign to reward his friends and family before he’s out of office for good.

Led by Commissioner Tony Peraica the County Board has been racing to put an end to this wild, lame duck spending spree. They have voted to put a limit on the spending that Stroger can indulge.

Sadly, this is what we have come to expect from Chicago politicians. Whether on the way out or on the way in, they all too often use their offices as a cash machine for friends and family.

Fortunately some, like Peraica, valiantly fight in the public’s interests. but it is up to we voters to pay attention to what our elected officials do and it is incumbent upon us to do something about it.
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The Campaign to Stop Stroger’s Lame Duck Spending Spree”

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Leftist Media Maligns GOP Video as ‘Terrorism’

May 4, 2010 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Riddle me this, Batman: When is a checkmark like a “V”? When the Old, left-wing media establishment wants to make you into a terrorist instead of a voter, that’s when!

That’s what happened when the Republican Governors Association made a video to stir the voters to “Remember in November” and get to the polls and vote against the Obama regime. (See original video HERE)

As soon as the video came out the leftists tried to spin it as an allusion to the domestic terrorist Guy Fawkes, a radical that tried to blow up Parliament in 1605 England. And where the visual motif that the RGA used in the video was a voter’s checkmark, the Old Media tried to spin it as a “V” as in “V for Vendetta,” an allusion to the anti-establishment comic book/movie based loosely on a Guy Fawkes-esque plot to destroy a future England turned fascist.

The RGA wants voters, not terrorists. But the Old Media can’t help itself from telling lies.

Well, the RGA had fun responding to the critics of its earlier video…

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Leftist Media Maligns GOP Video as ‘Terrorism’”

Barack Obama - Britain - Budget - Business - Communism - Congress - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Europe - Free Trade - Government - Health - Liberals - Medicine - President - Socialism - Taxes - Technology - Warner Todd Huston

Obamacare Will Kill Medical Technology

May 4, 2010 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

In 2008 Patrick Swayze was treated with an advanced medical tool called a “CyberKnife.” It helped add months to his life as he tried to beat the cancer that was consuming him. But, Swayze wasn’t the only American with the good fortune to have this highly advanced medical technology available to him. In fact, there are 100 such machines across the United States. From California, to Minnesota, to Illinois and Washington D.C. Americans currently have the luxury of these wonderful new devices.

Sadly, Britons are not so lucky. There are two CyberKnife machines in the Britain, but they aren’t going to do anyone in the country’s socialist healthcare system any good because despite how successful these machines are British authorities won’t allow them to be used on patients.

Despite that the Mount Vernon cancer hospital in London is part of the National Health Services, despite that they spent £3m to purchase the machine, and quite despite the praise the machines receive in the U.S. and throughout the world, British NHS authorities won’t let NHS doctors use the machine on their patients.
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Obamacare Will Kill Medical Technology”

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Gov Christie to NJ Supreme Court Justice: You’re Fired!

May 4, 2010 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

My favorite sentiment about the U.S. Supreme Court is from that rascal President Andrew Jackson. In 1832 the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Worcester v. Georgia that Old Hickory wasn’t too happy with. In reply he is famous for the sentiment that the Court made its decision and proposed that “now let them enforce it.”*

Would that we had more Andrew Jacksons.

Well, perhaps we do have at least one. I nominate Governor Chris Christie for the Andrew Jackson award for 2010 because Christie is taking an extremely unusual measure for this day and age. He’s firing one of New Jersey’s Supreme Court Justices and appointing one of his own, one that will closer follow a more conservative path.

We need to see legislators exhibit a more adversarial relationship with the courts. You see, it wasn’t supposed to be that the courts ruled all they surveyed. Our system has been warped into imagining that the courts are the final word on everything. This was not supposed to be the way it worked. Courts were merely meant to read the law and adjudicate cases accordingly. And if a court ruled something un-constitutional, then it was then back in the legislature’s court to write a law that is Constitutional. Unfortunately, we’ve lost the idea that the legislatures and executives of our political system are supposed to fulfill their own roles as leaders and lawmakers. Unfortunately, they’ve all too often abdicated roles to the often unelected and unaccountable courts.
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Gov Christie to NJ Supreme Court Justice: You’re Fired!”

Barack Obama - Budget - Chicago - Communism - Energy - Government - Liberals - Oil - President - Socialism - Taxes - Warner Todd Huston

Trans. Sec LaHood: Forget Your Car, Ride a Bike

May 4, 2010 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Apparently Sec. of Transportation Ray LaHood thinks he lives in France, or maybe Amsterdam, or some such tiny, closed-in country. That is the only conclusion I can come to with his idiotic statements recently given to CNSNews. On May 3, LaHood announced a snazzy, wondermous, neato and momentous “sea change” in American transportation, a great idea whose time had come. And that great idea was: Everyone should ride a bike to work.

Most Americans live between 10 and 25 miles away from their places of work so Americans spend at least a half hour one way in their cars going to work. In 2005, for instance, it was estimated by the federal government that the average drive-time for America’s workers was 24.3 minutes. Adding the rest of the day’s traveling needs, a University of California study found that we spend some 101 minutes a day driving.
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Trans. Sec LaHood: Forget Your Car, Ride a Bike”

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Chart: How Google-AdMob Creates a Bottleneck; How New DOJ/FTC Merger Guidelines Affect the Deal

May 4, 2010 by

-By Scott Cleland

Given the FTC is very likely to disapprove Google’s acquisition of AdMob soon, I have prepared a one-page chart that illustrates the core reason the deal is anti-competitive: it would create a substantial bottleneck for advertisers and publishers entering the in-application mobile advertising market.

To help people get up to speed on the deal and the likely FTC disapproval coming up, I have also pulled together a 30-page Google-AdMob backgrounder, which includes a one-page summary, charts, the top 10 reasons the deal is anti-competitive, why Google is a monopoly, how Google has abused its monopoly and why Google’s main antitrust defenses, like “competition is one click away,” are specious.

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Chart: How Google-AdMob Creates a Bottleneck; How New DOJ/FTC Merger Guidelines Affect the Deal”

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Melissa Bean’s Healthcare101 – Part 4 of 13

May 4, 2010 by

From the Palatine Tea Party…

(Palatine, Illinois) – In response to the letter Melissa Bean wrote to the constituents in district 8 dated April 16, 2010. We will respond to each of her statements Melissa Bean made based on emotion with factual responses where she stated the following:

“Across the district, I’ve heard of countless health care challenges families have been struggling with: A mother fearing for her son’s life because he’s hit his lifetime cap on benefits at age 14, contemplating bankruptcy to provide him care. A man unable to start his own company because his pre-existing condition makes it impossible to afford health insurance in the individual market. Moms and dads who have been laid off from work, dreading the expiration of COBRA benefits and access to health insurance for their families. I’m proud to have voted to end these uniquely American stories.
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Melissa Bean’s Healthcare101 – Part 4 of 13″

Congress - David Ratowitz - Democrats/Leftists - GOP - Government - Illinois - Republicans - State Government - Warner Todd Huston

5th District Ratowitz: Democrats in Congress Failed to safeguard the Gulf Coast

May 3, 2010 by

From the Ratowitz for Congress campaign (5th District)…

David Ratowitz, Republican Candidate for Illinois’ 5th Congressional seat, demands accountability from Democrats in Congress for their failure to safeguard the Gulf Coast

U. S. Congressional Candidate, David Ratowitz (IL – 5), claims “Democrats in Congress have spent the last four years rehashing lost political fights of the past instead of governing 21st Century America. We have the capability to contain and minimize damage from an oil spill, Democrat failures to realistically address America’s energy policy are the cause of the current oil spill calamity.”

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5th District Ratowitz: Democrats in Congress Failed to safeguard the Gulf Coast”

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Melissa Bean’s Healthcare101 – Part 3 of 13

May 3, 2010 by

From the Palatine Tea Party…

(Palatine, Illinois) – In response to the letter Melissa Bean wrote to the constituents in district 8 dated April 16, 2010. We will respond to each of her statements Melissa Bean made based on emotion with factual responses where she stated the following:

“After deliberate review of the final legislation in relation to (the concerns of the people of the 8th district) I supported it (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) because it will provide the health care security, affordability and choice families and businesses seek, while utilizing the private market-not a government takeover-and yielding a significant federal deficit reduction of $1.3 trillion…”

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Melissa Bean’s Healthcare101 – Part 3 of 13″

Americans For Prosperity - Budget - Chicago - Children - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Education - Government - Illinois - Illinois State Government - State Government - Taxes - Warner Todd Huston

Legislative Update: Springfield Lawmakers Passing the Buck

May 3, 2010 by

This was sent out by Americans for Prosperity Illinois, but I want to be sure and direct your attention to the info about SB 2494, the school voucher bill. This is a very important bill that is soon to be considered in Springfield. This bill would be good for education in Illinois.

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Legislative Update: Springfield Lawmakers Passing the Buck”

Chicago - Cook County - Democrats/Leftists - Elections - Government - Illinois - Illinois State Government - Liberals - Scott Lee Cohen - State Government - Warner Todd Huston

Scott Lee Cohen Runs for Ill. Gov. as Independent

May 3, 2010 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Well, it seems to be official. Former Democrat Lt. Gov. primary winner, Scott Lee Cohen, is running for governor as an independent.

Cohen told Fox News that he is “tired of waste and mismanagement” in Illinois government. and that is why he’s running. He told the media that he may not be perfect, but he’s been honest with the people.

Cohen needs to get 25,000 signatures on his petition by June 21 to have his name added to the ballot.

It ought to be interesting, eh?