Is Nuclear Power Really Dangerous?
Coal, oil and even solar power all kill more people than the much maligned nuclear power. According to research, for every terrawatt of energy produced, coal kills 161 people. Oil costs 36 lives for the same amount of energy.
Nuclear, however, causes only 0.04 deaths per terrawatt produced.
To put it another way, for every person who dies as a result of nuclear power, 4,000 people die due to coal.
Libya is a “Blood For Oil” War
Remember when the left protested President George Bush over the war in Iraq back in 2003, calling it a blood-for-oil war? That was a war that liberated 26 million people and took out a ruthless dictator. We didn’t get control over the oil in Iraq.
In Libya, you have the French and Italians who are desperate for the oil from Libya to keep flowing, no matter what the costs … to the Americans. As Barack Obama becomes the stooge of European elite, the American military must do the bidding of a handful of countries who need Libyan oil. What’s worse, Obama has no plan B:
“The [Libyan conflict] is an after-affect of French and Italian colonialism. The Libya war is neo-colonialism by the Europeans. And the United States is like fraternity pledges that the brothers make mop up the frat house floor on Sunday morning after an all-night kegger that they didn’t attend.”
And what is puzzling, if not actually astonishing, is that Barack Obama, who reputedly is of such deep anti-colonialism that he kicked Winston Churchill’s bust all the way from the Oval Office to London, fell for it.
Hat tip: Instapundit
HuffPO Concedes that Palin Has Abilities
What in the world is happening if even the far left-wing Huffington Post admits that Sarah Palin has the chops to meet and greet foreign leaders and does so with ease, even looking “comfortable on the world stage?”
While there are a few unnecessary criticisms, the HuffPo writer at least admits that the Question and Answer session in India had no gaffes, as well as a claim that Palin is “no longer awkward in speaking publicly and to the media on issues involving the international arena”:
If Sarah Palin should declare her candidacy for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, the past few days may be looked back at by political historians as an important marker. While pundits continue to dwell on the supposedly collapsing poll numbers for Palin and trumpet the erosion of her presidential ambitions, the former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee was abroad, buttressing the one area seen as a major weakness in Palin’s ability to project herself as a national political leader, foreign policy. Palin was the keynote speaker at the India Today Conclave in New Delhi, an assembly of the most prominent Indian business leaders. Her speech dealt with her vision of America, with a major focus on energy independence and oil drilling, a possible key issue for a future Sarah Palin for President campaign.
After her speech to India’s elite, Sarah Palin went off to Israel for a brief visit, which included a private dinner with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The dual visits to India and Israel within such a compressed period of time showed Sarah Palin as not only comfortable but even self-confident on the world stage. In New Delhi, she answered questions in an unstructured Q & A session that was devoid of major gaffes. The interview she granted Fox News upon her return from Israel, in which she commented on events in Libya and the Middle East, revealed a Palin that was no longer awkward in speaking publicly and to the media on issues involving the international arena.
It seems clear that Sarah Palin has been working hard on buttressing her knowledge of foreign policy issues, and her facility in discussing international affairs in a public setting. No doubt, Palin has been helped by some serious coaching from others who are much more knowledgeable on foreign policy. The question that surfaces is this: for what purpose has Sarah Palin devoted time and effort towards enhancing her grasp of foreign affairs? Critics on the left, and even within the establishment of the Republican Party, will argue that this is merely for the purpose of increasing her marketability and fees as a celebrity speaker. I think these critics do not fully comprehend the objectives and political ambitions of Sarah Palin, and her determination and focus in pursuing them.
The Donald Plays the Role of Doubting Thomas
Real estate and business tycoon Donald Trump has created quite a stir by questioning aloud why Barack Obama continues to hide his birth certificate. Though “birthers” have been ridiculed by the main stream media for three years now, The Donald’s question carries a greater force. Could he use his celebrity to bring the question out into the open?
“I want him to show his birth certificate,” Trump said on ABC’s The View. “There’s something on that birth certificate that he doesn’t like.”
Trump said he believe Obama “probably” was born in the United States but repeated questions he raised last week about the president’s childhood, CNN reported.
Rand Paul: Cut Out the Wasteful Fed Departments
Senator Rand Paul has unveiled a 5 Year Plan to Cut Four Federal Agencies to balance the budget. Via Hot Air:
Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., unveiled today his five-year path to a balanced budget, leaving several federal agencies behind. Among the items on the cutting room floor are the Departments of Education, Energy, Commerce and Housing and Urban Development.
“There’s a lot of things in here that everybody could agree to, Republicans and Democrats, but nobody’s leading on the president’s side and on our side we felt we needed to put this forward to get the debate started, at the very least,” the freshman Senator explained at a Capitol Hill press conference this afternoon.
The proposal also calls for the repeal of “Obamacare,” but leaves entitlements untouched.
According to Paul, a Tea Party conservative, the proposal will bring spending to the “historic average since World War II” in just one year. He further claims the budget achieves a $19 billion surplus by FY2016 and will bring all non-military discretionary spending back to FY2008 levels.
Senator Jim DeMint agreed, and added that the power transfer should go back to the states: “There are functions and departments at the federal level that need to be devolved to the states. Part of balancing the budget is restructuring and devolving federal functions back the states, local communities and people.”
The Palin Doctrine Emerges
… and a REAL leader emerges?
“The call by the Arab League for Western military intervention in an Arab state — in this case asking that a UN “no-fly zone” be imposed over Libya – is not only without precedent but it puts in formal terms what Governor Palin stated three weeks ago should have been America’s response to the political and humanitarian crisis now unfolding there.”
In addition: “Mrs. Palin also continues to link America’s energy policy — a realm in which she has experience — and U.S. foreign and anti-terrorism policies. She recognizes that the ongoing transfer of billions of U.S. petro-dollars to unstable or even hostile Mideast regimes has, since the formation in 1973 of the Organization of Petoleum Exporting Countries, been an drain on U.S. financial resources.”
Read: Palin Doctrine Emerges as Arab League Echoes Her Demarche on Libya
By BENYAMIN KORN
Yes We Can…Do What, Exactly?
“The world feels like a dangerous place when leaders are seen to lack certitude but the only thing President Obama seems decisive about is his indecision. What should the US do about Libya? What should the US do about the Middle East in general? What about the country’s crippling debts? What is the US going to do about Afghanistan, about Iran?”
What is President Obama doing about anything?
Thought for the Day from Will Rogers
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” ~Will Rogers
Why They Fight in Wisconsin
In 2011, “the average annual compensation for a teacher in the Milwaukee Public Schools system will exceed $100,000.”
No, that’s not a wild statement, it’s a fact from the Milwaukee (WI) Public School system itself: MPS’ budget manager says that in 2011-2012 (the fiscal year that begins July 1, 2011), the average MPS teacher would receive total compensation of $101,091 – $59,500 in salary and $41,591 in benefits.
Oh, and there are additional perks. Milwaukee teachers get their $786,000 annual Viagra habit paid for by the Wisconsin taxpayers.
Priorities, people. Remember, “it’s for the children.”
Palin’s Courage: The Central Virtue
British historian Paul Johnson writing in the The Wall Street Journal is optimistic that Americans will pull through the current crisis as they have been doing for over 200 years.
As for his impression of Sarah Palin, he told writer Brian Carney that pessimists have been predicting America’s “decline since the 18th century.”
But whenever things are looking bad, America “suddenly produces these wonderful things—like the tea party movement. That’s cheered me up no end. Because it’s done more for women in politics than anything else—all the feminists? Nuts! It’s brought a lot of very clever and quite young women into mainstream politics and got them elected. A very good little movement, that. I like it.”
Then he deepens his voice for effect and adds: “And I like that lady—Sarah Palin. She’s great. I like the cut of her jib.”
The former governor of Alaska, he says, “is in the good tradition of America, which this awful political correctness business goes against.” Plus: “She’s got courage. That’s very important in politics. You can have all the right ideas and the ability to express them. But if you haven’t got guts, if you haven’t got courage the way Margaret Thatcher had courage—and [Ronald] Reagan, come to think of it. Your last president [Bush] had courage too—if you haven’t got courage, all the other virtues are no good at all. It’s the central virtue.”
It’s a good read.
Was the 2008 Economic Crisis Manufactured?
The Pentagon has issued a report on the series of events that led to the fall 2008 economic crash. Was it manufactured? This seminal event marked the ascendancy of Obama’s candidacy, and arguably resulted in his election as president.
