Thursday 2 December 2010

December 2, 2010

Whoops -- Food Safety Bill Hits Constitutional Snag
WASHINGTON -- A controversial food safety bill that supporters were confident would sail through the House following passage this Tuesday by the U.S. Senate, has been stopped in its tracks by a constitutional provision that revenue-raising measures must originate in the lower chamber. The bill had come under fierce attack for its grant of massive new powers to the Food and Drug Administration, and today’s.....
http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news229.htm
by NWV News




I Am A Proud Conspiracy Theorist
I don’t know how we got to the point in America where words became meaningless. We have permitted the hi-jacking of the English language. Our schools no longer teach language, and especially the origin of words. Pop culture has become the new thesaurus to the point that dictionaries have become obsolete. Today, in America, words mean only what others tell us that they mean. It is the fruit of political correctness. Take time to.....
http://www.newswithviews.com/Daubenmire/dave216.htm
by Coach Dave Daubenmire




Reporters Fail to Probe Pentagon Brass
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen began their news conference on the issue of gays in the military at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday but the report they were talking about was not released to the public on the Internet for another 15 minutes or so. Hence, people watching the on-line news conference could not immediately judge the factual assertions—or omissions—being made by Gates and Mullen as they relate to the report......
http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff468.htm
by Cliff Kincaid




The Enormous Folly and Cost of the Dream Act
With the same stealth chicanery of the Immigration Reform Act of 1965 by the late Teddy Kennedy that added 100 million people to the United States within 40 years, U.S. Senator Harry Reid expects to shove the Dream Act through Congress next week. It downgrades the rule of law! It upgrades illegal aliens to citizenship. It costs billions of dollars American taxpayers don’t have. It features millions of added people.....
http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty615.htm
by Frosty Wooldridge