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March 14, 2011 Libertarian
Commentary on The News
By Nathan A. Barton © 2011 New Religions: Environism
EPA Chief Jackson defends Greenhouse Gas Regulation to Congress Environmental Leader The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday defended the agency’s greenhouse gas regulations before House Republicans. Lisa Jackson was a witness at a hearing held by the Energy and Commerce Committee, to review the economic impact of the EPA’s limits on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.... “Anthropogenic warming is an issue that the scientists are still debating and you know it and I know it,” Freshman Rep. David McKinley (R-WV) said, according to Politico. Jackson replied: “No, I do not agree with that, I absolutely do not agree with that. I am an engineer as well and I know [how to] look to scientific experts to make decisions like this.” Lisa Jackson is nothing more than a political "engineer" who tells her bosses (the President and his backers) what they want to hear. She has not demonstrated, nor provided, any supported evidence of her claims. These claims are the basis for more power for her agency and the administration, at a frightful cost to the American people and our economy. She may claim to be a (chemical) engineer, but she does not have a P.E. after her name, she is not listed in NJ as a registered professional engineer under either her married or maiden name, and none of her biographies show either that she (1) has obtained her license or (2) ever WORKED as an engineer: she is a professional regulator and political advisor, who has spent her entire adult life in government regulatory agencies or high-level appointed positions. (In many states, for her to identify herself as an engineer would be a criminal act.) We cannot continue to allow politicians to dictate science: this is not 1930s Germany or the Soviet Union. Editor's Note IAEA update on Japan Earthquake Don't depend on the mainstream
media for news or facts on this situation. Sensationalism and sloppy
research are compounded by an agenda of disinformation. Keep track of
the TEPCO site
and the IAEA Tsunami Update page.
Environmental
Terrorism
The
Bill of Rights Merely Legitimizes GovernmentBy Nathan Barton © 2011 Neil Cavuto asked why, instead of getting oil
from Libya's
Moammar
Gadhafi and other Middle East countries, America doesn't drill for more
oil domestically. Morano replied, "The Congressional Research Service
just did a study of natural gas, coal, and oil. We have more than the
entire world, we have more than China, Canada, and Saudi Arabia
combined, but 83% of our lands are inaccessible for oil drilling. And
we have the Interior Department held in contempt of court for not
allowing more permitting out in the Gulf Coast."
Marc pointed out that many environmentalists view high gas prices as a good thing: "Many people, including the environmentalists, are getting exactly what they want right now, and it is a situation they helped create by locking up 83% of our oil." External Articles By Debbie and Carl This article was sparked by an essay written by
Forrest McDonald entitled "The Bill of Rights: Unnecessary and
Pernicious," in which he presents the thesis (which he shares with some
other historians) that the first ten amendments to the federal
Constitution were essentially a legitimizing device used by those
favoring a strong central government. In other words, many Americans
who otherwise might not have supported the new central government were
won over to it by the adoption of the Bill of Rights. Reading
McDonald's article led me to review some of the history of the adoption
of the Bill of Rights, of the conflict between the Federalists and
their opponents, the Anti-Federalists, of the strategy adopted by the
Federalists in urging the ratification of the Constitution, and to
consider the ultimate significance of the Bill of Rights. Would we, as
late 20th Century Americans, have been better or worse off' had the
Bill of Rights never been adopted? What would American constitutional
history look like if there had been no Bill of Rights? The purpose of
this article is to examine these topics from a Voluntaryist
perspective, and to decide what position the committed Voluntaryist
would have taken during the struggle for the ratification of the
Constitution and the adoption of the first ten amendments.
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National Gun Rights Examiner
“Other issues”… Like “Project Gunwalker”*…? Is that important enough? Now that
the president's direct reports at Justice, Homeland Security and State
are up to their necks in dealing with the nation's top gun cops, who
have been accused of abetting domestic and international criminal
acts...? And both the Senate and the House smell blood because there is
blood...? Libertarian
News Examiner
Julian Heicklen: sometimes you just can’t get arrested By Garry Reed Julian Heicklen, veteran libertarian rights
activist, went to Orlando FL with good intentions; he wanted to get
arrested for distributing jury rights pamphlets outside the Orange
County Courthouse in defiance of Chief Judge Belvin Perry's
orderagainst distributing jury rights pamphlets outside the Orange
County Courthouse.
As explained in an earlier Libertarian News Examiner article, the judge considers providing literature such as Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA) information to anyone who might conceivably become a juror to be an act of jury tampering. (Read the rest here) (Use the back button to return) Features From The Last Issue Libertarian Commentary on The News By Nathan A. Barton © 2010 External Articles by James Heiser - The New American National Gun Rights Examiner Tyranny Fighters, FIJA take on Orlando Judge’s order By Garry Reed Click Here for the Archives PLEASE let me know
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