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NJ weighs bill to encourage alternative energy on farms
NJ weighs bill to encourage alternative energy on farms By TOM HESTER Jr. Published: Sunday, June 15, 2008, the Press of Atlantic City http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/190/story/183230.html For centuries, farming has involved plowing the fields and tending to livestock. Soon, farmers in New Jersey may also be tending to solar panels and windmills. New Jersey is contemplating defining solar and wind energy generation as agricultural activity.The sands are running out for Democrats up for election in 2010
Hello, Tipping Point The Obama presidency was always a race against time. Kim Strassel (WSJ) 'We don't look at either of these gubernatorial races . .8 Reasons Fox Is Not a News Organization
Even before Barack Obama was elected to the presidency, Rupert Murdoch had declared war on him via the personalities of Fox News Channel, a subsidiary of Murdoch's media conglomerate, News Corp.
Since Obama's election, the cable channel's hosts and paid analysts have launched a full frontal assault on the president, smearing his nominees, calling him a racist and suggesting that his administration was trying to persuade disabled veterans to off themselves.
Now the fearmongers at Fox are crying foul since the president and his aides declared Fox not to be a news organization.
Sunstein: Americans too racist for socialism
Defends communism, welfare state but says 'white majority' oppose programs aiding blacks, Hispanics By Aaron Klein October 07, 2009 WorldNetDaily JERUSALEM – The U.S. should move in the direction of socialism but the country's "white majority" opposes welfare since such programs largely would benefit minorities, especially blacks and Hispanics, argued President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein. "The absence of a European-style social welfare state is certainly connected with the widespread perception among the white majority that the relevant programs would disproportionately benefit African Americans (and more recently Hispanics)," wrote Sunstein.King Obama to Congress: "write the legislation I want, or else I will simply enact it by decree"
Commentary by Robert Tracinski Friday, October 02, 2009 1. The Anti-Industrial Coup It looks like President Obama, facing the failure of his domestic agenda in Congress, is now going to attempt to pull out a victory by threatening Congress with the usurpation of its legislative powers. How?State to mom: Stop baby-sitting neighbors' kids
Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood's children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her home for about an hour before they left for school. Regulators who oversee child care, however, don't see it as charity. Days after the start of the new school year, Snyder received a letter from the Michigan Department of Human Services warning her that if she continued, she'd be violating a law aimed at the operators of unlicensed day care centers.2009 Shadwell Travers Stakes
Belmont Stakes winner Summer Bird followed in the footsteps of his sire Saturday afternoon at Saratoga Race Course as he splashed his way to an imposing 3½ length victory over longshot Hold Me Back in the 140th running of the Grade 1, $1 million Shadwell Travers Stakes.
The son of 2004 Belmont-Travers winner Birdstone, ridden by Hall of Famer Kent Desormeaux, took the lead with a quarter-mile to go and was never threatened as he edged clear through the stretch to add the “Mid-Summer Derby” to his victory over Dunkirk and Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird in the Belmont Stakes.
Summer Bird’s winning time for the 1¼ miles was 2:02.83 over a sloppy track.
From Citizens to "Stakeholders": The New American Constitution
From Citizens to "Stakeholders": The New American Constitution By Angelo M. Codevilla "I'm going to get everybody concerned around a big table where all can express their views and their needs. And I'll express mine, and that will make sense of them all because I'll be president."Was the Climate Bill Actually Written When House Voted?
Thought this provided interesting context to a claim that keeps coming up In Washington, it's not unusual for lawmakers to get as heated about the arcane rules of Congress as they do about the substance of a bill. Such was the case with a plan to slow climate change passed by the House of Representatives on June 26, 2009. Republican lawmakers not only opposed cap-and-trade because they fear it will be too expensive, but they were angry that they'd had only a few hours to vet 300 pages of last-minute changes to the already massive legislation.Canadian Bill Angers U.S. Tobacco Biz
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/cigarettes-at-center-of-new-buy-american-flap-2009-06-20.html Tobacco country lawmakers are seething over a bill that would outlaw U.S. cigarettes in Canada. Bill C-32, which has been approved by Canada’s House of Commons but not the Senate, would ban the use of all flavorings, except menthol, in all cigarettes.
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