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Newton Leroy Gingrich wants your vote. Unfortunately for him, he has to lug around baggage he’d really like us to forget.  Well maybe we will, but not just yet.
 
Bag 1
Freddie Mac is one of the wildly corrupt government-subsidized lenders responsible for igniting our current economic woes.  In 2004, President Bush correctly diagnosed its problem as a serious lack of oversight, and tried to pass some reforms.  The Democrats in Congress blocked it (naturally). In 2006, John McCain warned of the impending economic apocalypse, while the Republican Congress was picking up where Bush left off, trying to get FM under control. And what was Newt doing?  Newt was working as a lobbyist for Freddie Mac, to the tune of $300,000.  He also was quoted as saying that FM was a “solid business model.”
 
Bag 2
In the 1990s, Newt led the fight to stop HillaryCare.  But in 2005, he started cozying up to its author, dedicated socialist and national disgrace Hillary Clinton, the most corrupt first lady in our nation’s history. He appeared with her at a press conference that year in support of-are you ready for this-healthcare legislation!
The New York Times later had this to say:
“ . . . Mr. Gingrich has been talking up Mrs. Clinton’s presidential prospects in 2008, to the chagrin of conservative loyalists who once regarded him as a heroic figure (emphasis mine). Last month, he even suggested she might capture the presidency, saying ‘any Republican who thinks she’s going to be easy to beat has a total amnesia about the history of the Clintons.’”  (On occasion, the New York Times accurately reports the news.)
 
“But he’s so smart!” Are you sure? It gets worse.
 
Bag 3
In this link, you can watch the commercial he made with another dedicated socialist, Nancy Pelosi, who actively promotes environmentalism for no reason whatsoever except to spread Marxism. When I saw this on television, my jaw dropped to the floor! Note at the bottom of the ad a line appears that says, “Paid for by the Alliance for Climate Protection.”  “What is the Alliance for Climate Protection?” you ask?  It’s an organization “committed to educating the global community about the urgency of implementing comprehensive solutions to the climate crisis” and it was started by another dedicated Marxist, the climate-fraud-pedaling, mentally unbalanced Al Gore.  The president and CEO for the Alliance for Climate Protection is professional leftist Maggie Fox, who is the past national president of America Votes, another Marxist organization that promotes socialism through election fraud.  Not smart, Newt.
 
Bag 4
Newt suffers from what is sometimes called “wandering eye.”  Others call it, “lusting after women you aren’t married to.”  He currently is on his third marriage.  I suspect the only reason he bothered to marry again was to create a more palatable candidacy, and to shield himself from the questions that would surely come.
 
At age 19, Newt married his first wife Jackie Battley, his high school geometry teacher.  (She was 26.) While married to Jackie, he hooked up with Marrianne Ginther, divorced Jackie & married Marrianne.  While married to Marrianne, he took up with House staffer Calista Bisek, 26 years his junior, and divorced Marianne to marry Calista.  Their affair went on during the Lewinsky scandal, as Newt led the investigation of Bill Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice on account of his philandering. Nice.
 
Newt explains his chronic cheating by saying he worked too hard. Maybe a good night’s sleep would have been better. I guess the reason most of us don’t cheat on our spouses is because we don’t work very hard.  Of his presidential bid, he has said, “. . . the American people will have to decide whether that’s [his moral lapses] their primary concern. If the primary concern of the American people is my past, my candidacy would be irrelevant.”  Given the fact that past actions are good indicators of future actions, I would say “irrelevant” pretty well sums it up.
 
Now that he has converted to Catholicism, he speaks eloquently about God’s forgiveness.  The message being conveyed is that he has repented, and God has forgiven him; And if God has forgiven him, why shouldn’t we?  I can forgive him, though I don’t see any need to.  He didn’t do anything to me.  He hurt his first two wives & his children.  He should seek their forgiveness, not mine. 
 
Has anyone ever noticed that when slick politicians get caught doing the wrong thing, they claim to have received God’s forgiveness in order to mingle two entirely different & separate issues.  Forgiveness is one issue.  Fitness to lead is quite another, and they have nothing to do with each other.  If you feel you should forgive Newt, by all means do it!  But the crucially relevant question is, is he morally competent to lead our great nation?  To answer that, ask yourself this question:  If his wives can’t trust him, how can I?
 
If Newt gets elected, and gets caught up in his old ways, there will be no press cover ups.  They will go after him on this, and every thing else like starving, rabid dogs.  Does this make anyone nostalgic for the humiliating years of the Clinton presidency?  

Hello?  What about having a first lady who clearly has no more respect for marriage vows than her husband?  Imagine a spectacle like that for a minute or two, and ponder the notion that for all of Newt’s great intellect, maybe he just isn’t presidential material.
 
Jan Shedd
11/8/11

As the United Nations wrapped up its recent climate conference in Bonn, talks organizer Christiana Figueres proclaimed that climate change is the “the most important negotiation the world has ever faced.” Faced with real problems – financial meltdowns, unemployment, war and genuine human suffering – the world no longer agrees.

It’s a good thing human productivity doesn’t threaten the global thermostat the way the U.N. would have us believe. If it did, we’d be cooked. Countries rich and poor are backing away from commitments they made years ago during rosier economic times, before the public became aware of Climategate, renewable energy costs and genuine debate.

The Kyoto Protocol, the only binding international agreement signed since the global warming scare began, expires after 2012. Canada, Russia and Japan have declared they will not renew; China and the United States never signed it, and the U.S. has made it plain it is not about to. And poor countries are becoming less enamored about signing on, as they realize hard economic times mean there will be little climate “mitigation” and “restitution” money coming their way from (formerly) rich countries.

By Thomas D. Thomas

The “science” of global warming, and/or climate change is NOT a hoax. It just got co-opted by the libs and the socialists, then perverted and exaggerated.

There is a lot of mis-information put out about climate control, very much in part because of government interference (and LIB DISINFORMATION).

First, for old people, we’ve seen all this before, where the tree huggers accuse “RICH NATIONS” of polluting the planet, whether from pesticides, or transportation, or energy production, acid rain, clearing the forests, damming streams, not damming streams, etc.

I grew up giving my Dad a rough time about evil BIG BUSINESS, and he would show me pictures where the CARIBOU LIKED to travel and forage under the power lines that his company put through the TREE HUGGER’s VIRGIN FORESTS. He would show me studies where the warm water from a power generation plant would melt the winter’s ice a month sooner, and this would provide an increase in fish and other wildlife in the area around the river.

I would show him studies where evil AMERICANS were eating ALL the world’s food supply, and sucking ALL the world’s petrolium resources. He would show me where trade with America was developing major parts of the world, and suporting their economies.

The first question honest people would ask, is, “Who made Al Gore king, and why does HE get to decide what is the perfect temperature?”

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Investor’s Business Daily

• Price Of Junk Science - Global Warming: After the 1998 tobacco deal, many wondered where the next battleground for the shakedown lawyers would be. Few wonder now. The legal war over climate change is heating up — and it’ll be costly.
• Defunding The U.N. - Accountability: The new GOP Congress is preparing to cut U.S. funding of the United Nations and the latter is hollering. But with the U.N. doing all it can to undercut its top donor, we fail to see why Congress shouldn’t cut.
• Editorial: Our So-Called ‘Centrist’ President - Politics: Will the man who conned the public into believing he was a moderate, but who has governed as the most immoderate leftist in the country’s history, now try to pull the same con so he can be elected again?
• To Russia With … Hate - Terrorism: Does Monday’s carnage in Russia mean Islamist bombers are indiscriminate and irrational, and pose no special threat to free nations? You might as well ask whom Hitler hated more: Churchill or Stalin?
• Perspective: Shriver And Lieberman: Last Links To JFK - Last Thursday was the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s inaugural speech, and while the anniversary did not go unmentioned, it got less attention than I expected.
• On The Left: For Most Part, GOP Hopefuls Are Unknowns - Herman Cain is thinking of running for president. I learned this from an article by Dan Balz, the Washington Post’s chief political correspondent, so I know it’s true.
• Viewpoint: What The President Shouldn’t Say Tonight In The State Of The Union - This evening, in fulfillment of Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, President Obama will give the State of the Union address.  Tonight, this president is at a crossroads.  Will he level with the American people and make a meaningful shift in administration policies or will he merely recast the same old policies with new rhetoric?
• On The Right: Heroes Of Old Were Creators — Not Talkers - When I mention that my family used kerosene lamps when I was a small child in the South during the 1930s, that is usually taken as a sign of our poverty, though I never thought of us as poor at the time.

Laura Ingraham

• Rep. Peter King on combating radical Islam – January 24, 2011 (mp3)

Mark Levin

• 01/24 The Mark Levin Show

American Thinker

• State of the Obama ‘Remaking America’ Revolution - Right now, Americans are forcing transformation on Barack — not the other way around.
• Pillars and Bipartisan Pairs - In recent years, the State of the Union has become nothing more than a laundry list of utopian plans for the future framed in political terms.
• Obama Fakes Right - The country will be treated to yet another orgasmic reaction by the once-mainstream media upon the conclusion of President Obama’s State of the Union speech.
• The Birther Trial Balloon - This latest Matthews/Abercrombie fiasco is not about the birthers. It is about reelecting Obama in 2012.
• That Disdain for Palin - The name of the game is winning elections.
• What Obama Will Not Say at the SOTU - A long list.
• Having Fun with the State of the Union - It matters not what President Obama will say in his speech tonight. Despite the exit of some old staffers and the entrance of some new ones, he is not changing.

Music to my ears. Elections have consequences. Thankfully, we may finally relegate Global Warming Alarmism to the ash heap of history alongside other really stupid ideas, like Phrenology and Communism.

My favorite excerpt:

It has become increasingly clear that any observed warming during the past century is of natural origin and that the human contribution is insignificant. It is doubtful that any significant warming is attributable to greenhouse gases at all.

The Green Bubble is about to Burst

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By Hugh Goldberg

Here is an article on what the Obama administration is doing to the Coal Mining Industry.  This is exactly what they said they would do.  Maybe the Coal Mining industry needs to clean up its act, but this is the heavy hand of government at its best.  This is really scary because if they drive these guys out of business, where are we going to get our energy from and what is going to be the cost? 

We have been mining coal in this country for generations, so I find it hard to believe that it is killing the environment so badly that is must be stopped immediately. 

Hugh

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By Judson Berger

Michael Fox can literally see where his job ends. 

The 14-year veteran of the West Virginia coal mining industry is about a year and a half out from finishing his current project, and he can see the boundaries of the site. He doesn’t know whether there will be any work left for him after that, since a wave of environmental regulation has put his firm’s other permits on hold. 

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I wrote Congressman Solomon P. Ortiz (D-TX27) some time ago and implored him to oppose any legislation that imposed some sort of “carbon tax” on business and/or individuals. I don’t believe for a moment that my letter had any effect on Ortiz’s decision-making, but it does appear that he is going to at least voice opposition to the EPA ruling which opened the door to carbon taxation and regulation.

I received this form letter from the Congressman’s office yesterday:

Dear Mr. Rowan:

Thank you for contacting me with your concerns regarding the December 15, 2009 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruling on the endangerment finding and the ’cause or contribute’ findings for greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. As always, I value the input from my constituents and appreciate this opportunity to respond.

As the Representative for the 27th District of Texas in the U.S. Congress, I am concerned about the negative effect of greenhouse gases on our environment. However, I am acutely aware that some environmental regulations could place an undue burden on our citizens and industries. We must develop regulations based on sound, reliable science that yields results. For this reason, I have co-sponsored H. J. Res. 76, which formally states Congress’ disapproval of a rule submitted by the EPA relating to the endangerment finding and the ’cause or contribute’ findings for greenhouse gases under section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act.

While I strongly believe we must continue to develop a comprehensive and sustainable energy and environmental policy, I will not support legislation or regulations that impose undue financial burdens on hardworking South Texas families. President Obama’s Budget Director, Peter Orszag, has estimated that a 15% reduction in carbon emission could cost the average American family $1300 per year more in utility costs. In such difficult economic times, we simply cannot afford to drive up the cost of energy.

You can be certain that I will continue to work to craft sensible and balanced energy and environmental legislation that addresses the needs of our nation while keeping costs manageable for families struggling to make ends meet. Please be assured that I will keep your concerns in mind as I work on this issue with my colleagues. Thank you again for your correspondence. Please visit http://ortiz.house.gov to learn more about my views on other issues and legislation, and do not hesitate to contact me regarding any issue at the federal level. With kindest regards, I am

Sincerely,

Solomon P. Ortiz
Member of Congress

It’s a non-binding resolution, but it’s better than voting for a carbon tax bill. I strongly suspect that we are being told one thing while Congressman Ortiz does another. We’ll just have to wait and see.

-Chris

(From The American Interest)
By Walter Russel Meade

In one of the most embarrassing news stories I’ve ever seen in the mainstream press, the New York Times has a comprehensive report on the catastrophic meltdown in the public’s interest in global warming.

The only problem: nothing in here is news, if by news you mean ‘new’.

“Climate Fears Turn To Doubts Among Britons,” blares the headline.

The story begins:

LONDON — Last month hundreds of environmental activists crammed into an auditorium here to ponder an anguished question: If the scientific consensus on climate change has not changed, why have so many people turned away from the idea that human activity is warming the planet?

Last month? The conference was last month and we are only hearing about it now, at the end of this month?

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I originally uploaded this to Scribd so it could be viewed without downloading it first, but it turns out that the PDF file is password-protected and encrypted.  So, Scribd won’t display it.  Wouldn’t be prudent.  Click on the image below and the PDF will download to your PC.  Assuming, of course, you have the Adobe PDF Reader installed.

-Chris

I originally uploaded this to Scribd so it could be viewed without downloading it first, but it turns out that the PDF file is password-protected and encrypted.  So, Scribd won’t display it.  Wouldn’t be prudent.  Click on the image below and the PDF will download to your PC.  Assuming, of course, you have the Adobe PDF Reader installed.

-Chris

The Peter Morrison Report

Summary of this week’s report:

There’s some good news this week for Texas conservatives – Governor Rick Perry, Attorney General Greg Abbott, and Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples are defying the feds, who are trying to saddle Texas with burdensome regulations in the name of fighting global warming, which is nothing but a hoax being perpetrated to stifle the economy and erode our freedoms.

Full report:

Sometimes it seems as if there’s never any good news for Texas conservatives, and the endless litany of backsliding and betrayal on the part of our politicians can be downright discouraging.  That goes with the territory, of course.  Politicians these days find it much easier to play to the liberal media than to stick with their principles and remember why we elected them.  Fortunately, that’s not the case this week – three Texas leaders are actually showing some backbone and are taking a stand to resist political correctness and federal encroachments on our state sovereignty.

Governor Rick Perry, Attorney General Greg Abbott, and Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples sued the Environmental Protection Agency  (EPA) for declaring carbon dioxide (CO2) a dangerous pollutant.  If the EPA has its way and this ruling stands, the consequences for the Texas economy will be enormous.  Our oil industry may not be as robust as it once was, but it’s still big business in Texas, and the EPA’s action will take a huge toll on it, even as our nation is desperate for domestically produced gas and oil.  It’s estimated that thousands of jobs could be lost, along with substantial tax revenue, all because of the misplaced fear over “man made global warming.” 

Governor Perry made it clear that it’s not only the oil industry that’s at risk: “When the EPA recently declared carbon dioxide a toxic substance,” he said, “they put countless businesses, farms, even large churches in their cross hairs.”  The EPA’s threats are even more outrageous in light of the fact that Texas has made substantial progress in reducing pollution without any federal abuse of state sovereignty.  We have our own state office for dealing with pollution – the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, and even the EPA admits that TCEQ has done a good job at reducing carbon dioxide and ozone levels.  That’s not enough for the power hungry DC bureaucrats, and they’re actually claiming the right to usurp this state function and take over the TCEQ if Texas doesn’t bow to their demands.

This isn’t just an overzealous federal government trying to reduce pollution; it has nothing to do with concern for the environment at all.  The ultimate goal is government control over every aspect of the economy and even our personal lives, and concern for the environment is simply a ruse.  Decades ago radical socialists realized that they were never going to make any headway in America by being honest about their goal of a totalitarian central government and would have to pursue their agenda by other means.   The environmental movement was chosen as one of the most promising paths to gradually turning America into a socialist country.  Environmentalism and “global warming” hysteria have always been driven by far left-wingers, and that’s no coincidence.

One of the biggest milestones on this path occurred in 1997, when the “global warming” hoax was just beginning to gain traction.  That’s when the Clinton administration signed America on to the Kyoto Protocol, which requires countries to fight “global warming” by taking stringent measures toward “stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would minimize dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.”  (Anthropogenic means caused by man’s activities, as opposed to naturally occurring.)  It’s precisely because of the Kyoto Protocol that the EPA is now going after Texas industries.  Many people believe the sole purpose of the Kyoto agreement was to stifle free enterprise and capitalism, and there are some good reasons to think they may be right.

If that wasn’t the case, then it’s a mystery why countries like India and Communist China are exempt from adhering to the Kyoto standards.  China is now the worst polluting country in the world, by far, yet it’s exempt from these burdensome standards that are supposedly aimed at reducing pollution across the planet.  That’s because the agreement unfairly targeted developed countries – America, England, Japan, Germany and most European nations.  The argument was that these prosperous nations, all of which have capitalist economies, had caused more pollution than “developing” countries, so we would have to make far more radical reductions in CO2 than these “developing” countries.  Somehow Communist China was given a pass, even though they were one of the world’s largest economies even in 1997.  Meanwhile, freedom loving nations are being forced to crack down on business and industry while China and India can pollute all they want.

It’s outright hypocrisy, and it’s clear that it’s being done to punish Western countries, and move them toward socialism in the name of cleaning up the planet.  Now the EPA wants to start enforcing the Kyoto Protocol in Texas, to reduce greenhouse gases.  This nonsense has got to stop.  The “global warming crisis” is nothing but a hoax, and that’s becoming clearer all the time.  It seems every day we read about a new scandal concerning lies, evasions, distortions, faked research results and obfuscation being employed to spread this leftist propaganda.  Not long ago we had Climate Gate and the leaked emails, and just last week one of the top “global warming experts” in the world admitted that  there hasn’t been any significant warming since 1995, and that the planet may well have been warmer in the Middle Ages than it is now. 

It’s clear that the leftist propaganda about man-made “global warming” is nothing but a house of cards, and it’s quickly collapsing under the weight of the evidence.  It’s outrageous that the EPA wants to burden the Texas economy with draconian regulations even as the whole theory behind them being necessary is being discredited.  Governor Perry, Attorney General Abbott, and Agriculture Commissioner Staples are right to defy this power grab, and stand up in the federal courts for the sovereign rights of the Lone Star State, and we need to show our gratitude.  I encourage everyone to let these men know how much we appreciate them bringing this lawsuit, and opposing Obama’s plans to foist socialism down our throats under the ruse of concern for the environment.

Governor Rick Perry
Office of the Governor
P.O. Box 12428
Austin, Texas 78711-2428
Phone: (512) 463-2000
Fax: (512) 463-1849
Email: http://www.governor.state.tx.us/contact/

Attorney General Greg Abbott
Office of the Attorney General
PO Box 12548
Austin, TX 78711-2548
Phone: (512) 463-2100
Fax: (512) 475-2994
Email: greg.abbott@oag.state.tx.us

Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples
Texas Dept. of Agriculture
P.O. Box 12847
Austin TX 78711
Phone: (512) 463-7476
Fax: (888) 223-8861
Email:  pub.info@TexasAgriculture.gov

Sources:

http://www.texasinsider.org/?p=22001

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123894530

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/if_at_first_you_dont_seceed_sue_the_epa_texas_guv.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol#Ratification_process

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250872/Climategate-U-turn-Astonishment-scientist-centre-global-warming-email-row-admits-data-organised.html

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