Blaming Big Oil is not the answer

By W.F. Walker Johanson

"So what's going on with the world's oil prices?

It's simply that demand for oil is exceeding the currently available supply. And why is that? It's not because demand is too great. It's because the available supply is too small. And that's because Democrats in Congress have prohibited U.S. oil companies from getting the oil we already own from out of the ground!"

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Ode to (manly) men

by Patrice Lewis

"I'm not threatened by men being men."

Here’s a woman who understands. She didn’t say it is an ode to men. She doesn’t have time for a wuss. She said it is an ode to manly men.

Read all about it....

Beware Global Warming

Global warming may cause kidney stones. Sure enough, that’s what it says here.

And it may cause climate change delusion. For kicks, read this.

And it even causes fish to grow bigger.

In each of these alleged cause and effect relationships, it is assumed that global warming is a fact and the cause. This is not science. It is impossible for non-existent global warming to cause anything. In deed, much of the media and so many politicians are under the delusion of climate change.

"Socket" To Us Jeremy!

House File 1890 authored by Jeremy Kalin would "set energy efficiency standards for water coolers. . . . . ."

Conserve even more electricity, Representative Kalin, do away with water coolers and drink the water straight from the faucet at room temperature. So who needs it cooled!

And Kalin would also prescribe energy efficiency standards even for such major (!) energy parasites as DVD players and AC/DC converter plugs!!

A real environmentalist he, that Kalin!

Scapegoating Speculators

Walter E. Williams says,

"Congressional attacks on speculation do not alter the oil market's fundamental demand and supply conditions. The long-term price of oil would be lowered if Congress permitted exploration for the estimated billions upon billions of barrels of domestically available oil, not to mention the estimated trillion-plus barrels of shale oil in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah."

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And here is another article.

Last major stockpile from Saddam's nuclear efforts arrives in Canada

The removal of 550 metric tons of "yellowcake" — the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment — was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam's nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to U.S. and Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or smugglers crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions.

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I wonder what Saddam was doing with this huge amount of yellowcake? It couldn’t possibly be that he wanted to enrich it into nuclear bombs, could it? Nah. He was a nice Red Cross worker who was totally misunderstood.

This elephant in the living room is so huge that few want to even talk about it. Why if the Dems just cover their eyes, the yellowcake elephant disappears (except Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame know Saddam wasn't buying yellowcake from Niger as Bush claimed)!

So let’s see........Saddam’s nuclear program came to a screeching halt without terrorists or Iran getting their hands on it. Qaddafi gave up his nuclear program. And now the North Koreans have blown up their cooling tower for their nuclear program. Maybe President Bush was on to something!

TONY SNOW, 1955-2008

Tony Snow passed away today as a victim of cancer. Susan Estrich wrote an article on his passing that pretty much sums it all up, and is worth everyone reading. The link is:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,381304,00.html

To quote her: "A good man died today."

KALIN ALLEGES HUNGER IN CHISAGO COUNTY

"The HHS (Health & Human Services) BUDGET CONSTITUTES APPROXIMATELY HALF OF ALL CHISAGO COUNTY EXPENDITURES." (Source: Guest Columnist commentary in Forest Lake Times by Chisago County Commissioner Ben Montzka - posted May 10, 2006)

Thus a multi-million dollar county human services department is in place and is charged with the responsibility to administer programs to meet human need but, according to you, Rep. Kalin, even with this high expenditure of public money, apparently the job is not getting done.

If, as you assert, Rep. Kalin, there are families in Chisago county who "have to choose which family member will eat tonight" then, Rep. Kalin, surely you will want to - along with Senator Olseen - publish a letter to the Chisago County Board and the public sharing and revealing the facts you have relied on and your research that support your allegation of the unmet basic human need for food in Chisago county since avoidable hunger is not a societally acceptable circumstance.

The County Commissioners and the public want to know why the job is not getting done.

DON TAYLOR for STATE REPRESENTATIVE 17B

"The 2008 Minnesota Legislative session was the most anti-family, anti-life, anti-marriage (session) in the last 20 years."

(Source: The Minnesota Family Institute) - (The Lesson: We Must Elect Don Taylor as State Representative for District 17B!)

Do as I say, Not as I do

This seems to be a reccuring theme for Obama, who, like most liberals, think they need to make tons of rules for the rest of us, but not themselves. "...the choice could not be clearer...it starts with equal pay." So says Obama, trying to illustrate the differences between him and Senator McCain. He did so quite beautifully...'eloquently', if you must. Here's the scoop on the two senator Presidential Candidates:

"On average, women working in Obama's Senate office were paid at least $6,000 below the average man working for the Illinois senator." CNSNews.com reports of their own findings. "Of the five people in Obama's Senate office who were paid $100,000 or more on an annual basis, only one -- Obama's administrative manager -- was a woman."

In contrast, women outnumbered men on McCain's Senate payroll by 30 to 16. The women were paid an average of $3,000 more than the men.

Well put senator Obama.

Oil Production—Russian Style

Russia does not have any problem drilling for oil in the Arctic. The comments on this article are informative. Meanwhile, the Dems talk a lot and block a lot. They will sink us into a second-rate country.

Our leaders are in carbon-cloud cuckoo land

By Christopher Booker

For a perfect example of what is meant by "gesture politics" - an empty pledge given solely for effect, which the politician has no hope of honouring - one could not do better than this week's commitment by the G8 leaders on how they want us to fight climate change.

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Click here and here for some appropriate political cartoon commentary.

Unalienable Rights

Thomas Jefferson declared:

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.

Today we hear much about human rights and far too little about unalienable rights. What are human rights? Here is a dictionary definition:

The basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled, often held to include the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.

If the word human is stuffed with the above concepts, it might do the job. But imagine Jefferson writing:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men have certain human Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

The ring and cadence is gone. But more than that—the meaning is shot.

The Founding Fathers believed in unalienable rights, not human rights. There is a difference. "Human" says the rights belong to human beings and not much more. The word says nothing about the divine origin of the rights. The word says nothing about the inviolability of those rights.

When used in some settings, the word "human" focuses attention on those who have rights, not on the Giver of those rights. In other contexts, the rights are understood to be those granted by government. This suits the anti-God crowd just fine for they love words that are devoid of God-talk. It suits big government types because they view government as the fountain of all rights. Unfortunately, both views go hand-in-hand because big government advocates do not have room in their universe for a God who endows all his creatures with unalienable rights.

Imagine the Founding Fathers proclaiming to King George that they had rights—human rights. On the one hand, the monarch would scoff that he had taken away any rights they imagined they had. On the other hand, the self-conceptualizing, ever-beneficent royalty would rebuke them for not recognizing he grants rights to his subjects.

The word unalienable is a necessary modifier of rights. Jefferson told King George all men are endowed with unalienable rights, rights that are not alienable or capable of being sold or transferred. They are absolute, unchangeable, inherent, indigenous, intrinsic, native. They are inviolable, that is, not capable of being violated or infringed.

Life is a right that government cannot grant. Only God can endow each of his creatures with life. Government can destroy that life in this life, therefore, the Declaration argues, ". . . to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men. . ."

Government cannot endow a person with liberty. God endows each of his equally created creatures with liberty. Government can impinge that liberty, therefore, ". . . to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men. . ."

Governments and governors (of whatever variety) must recognize that the governed and the governors are created equal by God who endowed both with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Any other view will lead to despotism. King George had violated this fundamental fact and therefore they charged him with about two dozen wretched violations of their God-given rights which in their minds entitled them to declare independence. They were uninterested in human rights.

Minnesota Legislature Similar Rating?

The heading of the "Rasmussen Reports" on the current U. S. Congress reads "Congressional Approval Falls to Single Digits for First Time Ever" - "just 9% say Congress is doing a good or excellent job" - clearly it does not get much worse than that!

It would be very interesting to subject the Minnesota legislature to the same or similar rating test to see where the Minnesota legisalture fits in the mind of the public after the recent legislative session with its exhorbitant taxes and unbridled spending and unconscionable political power grabs.

And by the way, which Party is in the Majority at both Federal and State levels of government?

Nazi Fighter, Protector of Jews

Here is the story of Irena Sendler, who died recently at 98 years of age.

Read the account of her heroic efforts to save Jewish children from the holocaust. Read also about the young girls who began the "Life in a Jar" project. Irena Sendler heroically saved 2,500 Jewish children from death and was honored as a Polish Righteous Gentile. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

The worthy Irena Sendler was displaced by the unworthy Al Gore who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for advancing the cause of a non-existent global warming. What a shame! What a travesty! The Goracle isn't worthy to untie her shoelaces. Ironically, Irena means peace in the Greek language.

Irena Sendler is a model of selfless courage, bravery, compassion and noble purpose. She is worthy of honor.