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Monday, May 10, 2010 |
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National Dems give up on Obama’s home district
By Selected News Articles @ 12:20 PM :: 11896 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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WASHINGTON — House Democrats are abandoning efforts to win a special election in Hawaii as a party feud threatens their prospects in President Barack Obama's native state.
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokeswoman Jennifer Crider today said the organization would stop spending for the May 22 contest to replace Rep. Neil Abercrombie, who left Congress to run for governor.
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Monday, May 10, 2010 |
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CENSORSHIP: ‘Progressives’ call on FCC to reclassify Internet as telephone system, take control of content
By News Release @ 10:53 AM :: 6492 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Most of the dbte on "net neutrality" is arcane, but one fact leaps out. If the Federal Communications Commission grabs regulatory ovesight of the Internet, it will be able to begin subtly controlling content as it does with TV nd radio broadcasts. The Internet equivalents of radio>>>satellite shock jock Howard Stern will not be their only targets....
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Sunday, May 9, 2010 |
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Hawaii's new political reality: Akaka Bill becomes an election issue
By Andrew Walden @ 3:34 PM :: 15756 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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As the Akaka Bill, S 1011, languishes before the US Senate, the Special Election Hawaii First Congressional District race marks the first time a Hawaii election has been fought between major candidates with differing views on the Akaka Bill. It is telling that the candidate who favors the bill's current version--Colleen Hanabusa--appears to be far behind.
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Sunday, May 9, 2010 |
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Obamanomics: A Recovery Only Washington Could Love
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:26 AM :: 5017 Views :: National News, Ethics
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The U.S. economy has now lost a net of 2.6 million jobs since President Barack Obama signed his $862 billion stimulus plan. We are 7.6 million jobs short of the 137.8 million he promised the American economy would support by 2010.
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Saturday, May 8, 2010 |
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UPDATE--Jihadi murderer of Big Island man captured in Iraq: Navy Seals acquitted after facing prosecution
By Andrew Walden @ 9:54 PM :: 17985 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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For five and a half years, the US has hunted for Ahmed Hashim Abed--code-named "Objective Amber." Abed is the alleged ring-leader of an Islamist mob which murdered four US military contractors--including Pa`auilo resident Wesley Batalona--in Fallujah, Iraq on March 31, 2004....After being tracked for five and a half years by US personnel, Ahmed Hashim Abed was captured by Navy SEALS at the beginning of September....Then the complaining began.
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Saturday, May 8, 2010 |
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Aiona saves State Science & Engineering Fair
By News Release @ 1:43 PM :: 6773 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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“We have some of the best and brightest minds right here in Hawai‘i,” said Lt. Governor Aiona. “Our long-term economic diversity and growth will depend in part on our ability to transform Hawai‘i into an economy based on knowledge and innovation.”
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Friday, May 7, 2010 |
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Case “voted for the Bush tax cuts before he voted against them”
By News Release @ 2:32 PM :: 11331 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Hawaii GOP Chairman Jonah Ka’auwai responded to the new television ad:
“Ed Case will do absolutely anything to get elected. In the course of this campaign, Case has described himself as an Independent, a strong Democrat, a moderate and a conservative. During Monday night’s OHA, Honolulu Advertiser and Hawaii News Now debate, he told us he voted for the Bush tax cuts before he voted against them. The truth is, Case has voted for dozens of tax increases and seems to have a hard time keeping his positions straight in his own head.
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Friday, May 7, 2010 |
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Psychiatrists: Obsessive-compulsive patients still fear Global Warming
By News Release @ 2:26 PM :: 10219 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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A recent study has found that global warming has impacted the nature of symptoms experienced by obsessive compulsive disorder patients. Climate change related obsessions and/or compulsions were identified in 28% of patients presenting with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
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Friday, May 7, 2010 |
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RNC: Obama’s ‘New Normal’ unacceptable
By News Release @ 1:46 PM :: 5008 Views :: National News, Ethics
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As Unemployment Rises, White House Waves White Flag On Creating Jobs While Pushing Job-Killing, European-Style Agenda--White House to allow high jobless rate to be 'new normal'
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Friday, May 7, 2010 |
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National Democrats to 're-evaluate' participation in Hawaii Congressional race—Advertiser: “So what?”
By Selected News Articles @ 11:56 AM :: 10917 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Asked if the committee would continue to spend money in the 1st District special election, Van Hollen responded: “We’ll have to re-evaluate based on the situation. The Democrats haven’t been able to come together and resolve this issue. Right now, it’s extremely difficult. So right now, we’ll have to re-evaluate that.”
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Friday, May 7, 2010 |
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Taxes and Insurance make Hawaii most expensive State to own a car
By News Release @ 11:02 AM :: 10390 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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A study by Edmunds.com, the premier resource for automotive information, shows that owning a vehicle in Alaska, California or Hawaii over a five-year period is about $10,000 more expensive than owning the same vehicle in New Hampshire, South Dakota or South Carolina for the same duration.
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Friday, May 7, 2010 |
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WaPo still desperately trying to come up with excuses for Djou victory
By Selected News Articles @ 12:45 AM :: 11155 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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This is how the Dem media will spin a Djou victory. It is not going to be acknowledged as an expression of changing voter attitudes, it is just Democrat infighting. Yeah, right—liberals should just keep on believing that. Their self-deception will prevent them from recalibrating their message as they go to their political demise.
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010 |
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Book Review: The flight of the Intellectuals
By IPT News @ 9:29 PM :: 11412 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Twenty years ago, the liberal intelligentsia in Europe and the United States rallied around Rushdie and denounced the murder threat. That took real courage. One of Rushdie's translators was murdered and another stabbed. Several Norwegian bookstores were bombed, a British hotel was attacked by a suicide bomber, and more than 50 people were killed in anti-Rushdie rioting around the world.
Despite the danger, Berman writes: "A good many intellectuals reached out to their endangered Arab and Muslim counterparts and colleagues, and celebrated the courage of everyone who refused to be intimidated."
In contrast, today, the intellectuals' reaction often is to target the victim.
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010 |
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Stimulus architect Obey quits Congress but Case, Hanabusa hold out for failed policy
By News Release @ 7:38 PM :: 9170 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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HONOLULU--Chairman of the Hawai'i Republican Party Jonah Ka'auwai responded to the announcement by U.S. Rep. David Obey that he would not seek reelection this November:
“Today, House Appropriations Chairman David Obey, the author of $862 billon failed stimulus, has announced he will retire from Congress. Clearly an entrenched Congressman like Obey who has been in Congress for over 40 years is afraid to face his constituents because his hallmark bill failed to keep the national unemployment rate under 8 percent, like he promised. Which poses the question: Why do Ed Case and Colleen Hanabusa still support the so-called stimulus that failed to create real jobs and only drove our country deeper into debt?”
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010 |
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Heritage: Defending American Exceptionalism
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:23 AM :: 5032 Views :: National News, Ethics
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In April 2009 in Strasbourg, France, President Barack Obama was asked at a press conference if he "subscribe[d], as many of your predecessors have, to the school of American exceptionalism that sees America as uniquely qualified to lead the world, or do you have a slightly different philosophy?" President Obama then responded: "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism."
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010 |
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State Budget: Time running short for Medicaid help
By Selected News Articles @ 10:57 AM :: 9617 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The Medicaid assistance, set to expire at the end of December, has become a critical component in many state budgets during a time of devastating deficits. So critical, in fact, that two-thirds of the states crafted 2011 budgets assuming that more of it would come through, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
For a while, this looked like a safe bet. The House had included the states’ extension in its original version of health care reform. But by the time Congress produced a final bill for President Obama to sign in March, the aid to states had disappeared into the legislative ether. Now, with Congress ratcheting up its scrutiny of new spending, it’s not at all clear that the Medicaid assistance will ever materialize.
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010 |
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Djou “Tele talk story” reaches thousands
By News Release @ 11:16 PM :: 10891 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The live Talk Story event embraced by the Djou campaign falls within their new media strategy that has enabled them to communicate directly with thousands of voters throughout the district through digital means. The results of their strategy have resulted in 4008 fans on Facebook, 9 times more than Ed Case and 5 times more than Colleen Hanabusa.
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010 |
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GM papaya wins approval in Japan
By Selected News Articles @ 10:28 PM :: 19197 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Dennis Gonsalves, director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center in Hilo, Hawaii, and professor emeritus of plant pathology at Cornell, detailed to the 63rd annual meeting of the Western Society of Weed Science in Hawaii how Hawaiian agriculture has done what no other ag sector has; win approval to market a genetically modified food crop in the U.S. and Japan.
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010 |
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Obama to Inouye: Dump Hanabusa
By Selected News Articles @ 12:12 PM :: 13996 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Voters are already casting their ballots in the May 1-22 Special Election and the Democrats are still fighting over who should be running. National Democrats think that all Hanabusa voters would automatically go to Case or vice-versa, but that’s not the way it works. There are two parties within the one party and a faction which loses by these Chicago-style tactics will not line up to vote for Case in November. Likewise Case voters will not line up to vote for Inouye’s Hawaii-style union thugs in November and many will cross over. Either way Charles Djou wins. Think “1986.”
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010 |
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Debate Fact Check: Ed Case vs. Reality
By News Release @ 3:39 AM :: 13146 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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MYTH: Ed Case said tonight he 'understood' DC and talked about his 'experience' representing Hawaii's other district. Case also attempted to defend his 148 missed votes, stating 148 was not that much.
FACT: Ed Case was rated one of the least effective members of Congress and missed numerous important votes:
“Two members of Congress ranked as some of the least effective – Rep. Ed Case [D-Hawaii] and Sen. Dan Akaka [D-Hawaii] – are battling over who has the worse rating on a national political Web site.” (Richard Borreca, “Case to Akaka, Akaka to Case: You’re ineffective,” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 08/29/06)
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010 |
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New National Democrat Poll Confirms 8-Point Lead For Djou
By News Release @ 2:57 AM :: 12103 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The poll, conducted by the mainland Democrat polling firm Harstad Strategic Research, Inc., and paid for by the Democratic National Committee, shows amongst likely voters Djou actually does better than reported by the Honolulu Advertiser poll yesterday. Among likely voters, the poll shows:
- Djou - 39%
- Case - 31%
- Hanabusa - 20%
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010 |
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Djou: Debate underlines true difference between candidates
By News Release @ 1:42 AM :: 10503 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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See VIDEO clips from debate...
"Unlike my opponents, I am the only major candidate to live in the first Congressional district. Also unlike my opponents, I am not in this race for political gain; I am in this race to do what is best for the people of Hawaii.”
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010 |
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WaPo: How Djou is winning Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 1:25 AM :: 9888 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Last month the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee tried to raise Djou's negatives by arguing that his signature on Americans for Tax Reform's pledge meant he'd honored a "special interest group" to protect tax breaks for evil corporations. ATR punched back immediately and nonpartisan groups fact-checked the ad, finding it wanting. (And I'm told that the many D.C. groups that try to get GOP candidates to sign their pledges are on notice to behave the same way when one of those candidates get hit.)
It's a simple story of the conservative base engaging while the Democratic base squabbles or sleeps.
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010 |
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WaPo: Republican hopes in Hawaii special rise with new poll
By Selected News Articles @ 1:14 AM :: 8583 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The result of the special election is likely to be interpreted as a national referendum on the state of play in advance of the November midterm elections. But, remember that Democrats -- even if they lose later this month -- are likely to win the seat in the fall due to its strong lean toward their party and the fact that it will be a one on one race rather than a three-way battle….
(Obviously the Washington Post doesn't know what "1986" means.)
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Monday, May 3, 2010 |
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Media: Djou’s message of “lower taxes, limited government and fiscal responsibility is resonating”
By News Release @ 1:08 PM :: 11038 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Also this weekend, the Honolulu Advertiser released a poll showing that Djou’s message of “lower taxes, limited government and fiscal responsibility is resonating” throughout the district. Here is just a sampling of recent headlines on the race . . .
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Monday, May 3, 2010 |
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Another Bullet Dodged in New York
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:30 PM :: 7618 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Whether Saturday's failed attack turns out to be connected to Islamic radicalism or is the work of a lone wolf, there have now been 31 foiled terrorist attacks in the United States since 9/11, eleven in New York City alone. Yesterday's plot was foiled by sheer luck and quick-thinking civilians. But luck is not an adequate strategy for protecting a nation.
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Monday, May 3, 2010 |
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Federal Reserve Bank: Hawaii among three “least free” states
By Heritage Foundation @ 9:37 AM :: 7111 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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According to the Fed research, “states with greater economic freedom – defined as the protection of private property and private markets operating with minimal government interference – experienced greater rates of employment growth.”
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Sunday, May 2, 2010 |
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Abercrombie: Gay Rights Trump Will of the People
By AtomicMonkey @ 4:10 PM :: 16584 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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According to retired Congressman Neil Abercrombie, long time advocate for gay marriage, “moral authority” should be the exclusive realm of the gay minority and state legislature. The general public is of little concern to him and their “religious” views make their opinions illegitimate anyway.
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Saturday, May 1, 2010 |
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An Appetite for Real Immigration Reform
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:38 PM :: 4307 Views :: National News, Ethics
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In a very rare visit to the press cabin of Air Force One yesterday, President Barack Obama told reporters that the White House will not be leading any immigration reform efforts in 2010. Obama said: "…I've been working Congress pretty hard. So I know, there may not be an appetite immediately to dive into another controversial issue." Obama went on to assert that energy taxes were a higher priority, and that the election in November would make tackling immigration tough.
Apparently, Majority Leader Harry Reid didn't heed the President's advice. Several hours later, Reid, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and their colleagues from the left introduced an immigration reform framework that on the surface is identical to the legislation America rejected in 2007. When you dig down, it may be worse.
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Saturday, May 1, 2010 |
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As ballots are mailed, Djou pushes to get out the vote
By News Release @ 11:52 AM :: 11209 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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With Charles Djou clearly positioned as the only Congressional candidate opposed to Gay Marriage and Gay Civil Unions, the CD1 Special Election will be voters' first opportunity to register their reaction to the Legislature's vote.
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Friday, April 30, 2010 |
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Djou: Hanabusa, Case, legislature ignore will of people on traditional marriage
By News Release @ 1:46 PM :: 13332 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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"Hawaii voters have spoken very clearly in support of traditional marriage. I am very disappointed that Colleen Hanabusa and the Hawaii State Legislature have clearly and blatantly ignored the will of the people of Hawaii on this issue. Unlike both Ed Case and Colleen Hanabusa, my two major opponents in this congressional campaign, I will not ignore Hawaii voters and look forward to their judgment in our upcoming special election."
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010 |
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John Carroll: I believe Larry Mehau supports me for Governor
By Letters to the Editor @ 7:43 PM :: 18375 Views :: Hawaii County , Ethics, Law Enforcement, Republican Party
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You are correct about the Abercrombie sign being on the Mehau fence. You may know that Mufi was endorsed for the Governor’s race by the ILWU. Larry Mehau is friends with Yoshito Takamine, Bobo Lapena, and Takashi Domingo. The three have ties to ILWU and do not like Mufi. They asked Larry to put the Abercrombie sign up on his fence. He consented.
While Larry and his family have not openly endorsed my candidacy, they have allowed me to put my sign on that same fence and I believe that they are supporting my candidacy, not Abercrombie’s.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010 |
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The Senate's Goldman Kabuki
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:32 PM :: 6070 Views :: National News, Ethics
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The American people just don't believe that Washington has any idea about why the financial crisis happened or how to regulate our financial system. According to Rasmussen Reports, 64% of Americans are not confident that policymakers in Washington know what they’re doing when addressing the current economic problems on Wall Street.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010 |
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The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism
By Daniel Pipes @ 1:57 PM :: 8544 Views :: Environment, Ethics, Family
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"All of modern thought," he adds, "can be reduced to mechanical denunciations of the West, emphasizing the latter's hypocrisy, violence, and abomination."
He exaggerates, but not by much....
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010 |
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Obama’s Justice Dep’t says no to Inouye: OKs purchase of Advertiser by group including Ed Case’s uncle
By Andrew Walden @ 7:33 PM :: 12057 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The Obama Department of Justice has concluded its inquiry into anti-trust issues related to the purchase of the Honolulu Advertiser by owners of the Star-Bulletin. The inquiry, which had been demanded April 20 by Senator Dan Inouye in a letter sent to the DoJ anti-trust division, found no reason for justice to block the sale. Inouye had supported Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama in the 2008 Hawaii Democrat caucuses.
Interestingly, Inouye’s demand came immediately after the Advertiser’s April 18 endorsement of Inouye nemesis Ed Case, facing off in the May 1-22 Congressional Special Election against Republican Charles Djou and Inouye's favorite, Senate President Colleen Hanabusa. Ed Case’s uncle, Grove Farm corporate attorney Dan H. Case, is among the Star-Bulletin minority owners participating in the takeover of the Advertiser.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010 |
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The Obama Fiscal Responsibility Farce Continues
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:13 PM :: 5594 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Today President Barack Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform will convene for the first time at the White House. Tasked with making recommendations to Congress that would put the budget in primary balance by 2015 and "meaningfully improve" our nation's long-term fiscal outlook, the commission meets a little over a month after Congress approved a new $2.5 trillion health care entitlement that the Obama administration now confirms will increase our nation's total health care spending.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010 |
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Democrats reek of George Wallace
By Selected News Articles @ 1:58 PM :: 6244 Views :: National News, Ethics
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There was a time when majorities in both parties (even if narrower among Democrats) endorsed the equal treatment of all Americans, without regard to race. Public opinion shifted heavily and quickly in the same direction, perhaps because the moral and rational case was compelling. As sociologist John Shelton Reed wrote, "During the three years 1963 to 1966, support for de jure segregation became a minority view among white Southerners. The percentage of white Southern parents who completely opposed public school desegregation, for example, dropped from 61 to 24." That was a dramatic shift in a short time. It was permanent, too, the death rattle of Jim Crow.
Sadly, however, the ascendancy of "colorblind" politics in the Democratic Party was fleeting. The Democrats were the masters of racial patronage; with hardly a hiccup, they took the game to another level. Where once they played on the fears and prejudices of whites, they found new "victim" constituencies to "protect" with pledges of government largesse and favoritism.
So, blacks and perhaps Hispanics, among others, became the new and increasingly dependent beneficiaries of racial preference. Other "peoples of color," such as Indians and Asians, perceived as intent on self-reliance, generally were not among the favored. Thus, the same old game resumed, with a cynical new arrangement of pieces on the playing board. Once again, the Democrats sought gain through divisive means, playing on fear and resentment.
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Monday, April 26, 2010 |
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Special Election: Dozens of articles in national media -- nearly none in Advertiser, Star-Bulletin
By Andrew Walden @ 3:18 PM :: 13837 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The conflict of interest of Hawaii print media is obvious. Dan H. Case, the uncle of Democratic candidate Ed Case, is a minority owner of the Star-Bulletin and is now part of the group of investors buying the Advertiser.
So, for the benefit of news-starved Hawaii readers, we at Hawai’i Free Press have assembled dozens of articles—including a few about the Hawaii gubernatorial race--from national media of all political persuasions for your reading pleasure.
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Monday, April 26, 2010 |
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CBO Confirms: You're on the Hook for Wall Street Bailout Bill
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:06 PM :: 5539 Views :: National News, Ethics
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President Barack Obama's favorite rhetorical device is to lecture the American people about what are and are not "legitimate" public policy arguments. So throughout the health care debate, President Obama insisted that it was "not legitimate" to claim that "a public option is somehow a Trojan horse for a single-payer system." This despite the fact that Reps. Barney Frank (D-MA), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Anthony Weiner (D-NY) and Nobel Prize winning New York Times columnist Paul Krugman were all caught on video explaining to single-payer advocates that the public option was exactly that.
Now the President is bringing the same audacity to the health care debate, telling a handpicked audience at New York's Cooper Union: "Now, there is a legitimate debate taking place about how best to ensure taxpayers are held harmless in this process. But what is not legitimate is to suggest that we're enabling or encouraging future taxpayer bailouts, as some have claimed. That may make for a good sound bite, but it's not factually accurate."
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Sunday, April 25, 2010 |
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UPDATE Akaka running in 2012: Ed Case talks about Senate “opportunity”
By Andrew Walden @ 11:37 PM :: 14850 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Ed Case said: "I’ve never ruled out the Senate. If there is that opportunity, I’m not going to sit here at the end of 2009 and say I’m not going to be a candidate.”
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Sunday, April 25, 2010 |
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Honolulu Special Election: "Democrats petrified, going nuts"
By Selected News Articles @ 5:11 PM :: 13599 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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"The rhetoric has certainly ratcheted up," said Neal Milner, a University of Hawaii political scientist. He added, "the stakes are very high, higher than for a usual special election, because the national Democrats are petrified that a Republican will win this seat in (President Barack) Obama's home territory."
"Djou benefits from the latter and I think that is quite possible," Milner added. "The DCCC must be going nuts."
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Saturday, April 24, 2010 |
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Abercrombie: My “emanations” will make DoE serve students first
By Andrew Walden @ 2:12 AM :: 16617 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Abercrombie's entire scheme hinges on a single line buried in paragraph 24: "Working collaboratively with public sector unions will result in contracts that serve our students first."
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Friday, April 23, 2010 |
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Akaka votes for Federal Value Added Tax-modeled on Hawaii GE Tax (Inouye opposes)
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:20 PM :: 11436 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Some liberals in Congress want to pay for their massive new spending with a value-added tax, a sort of national sales tax on the price of goods at each stage of production. While popular in Europe, such a tax is a bad idea for the United States. And a significant number of lawmakers and even White House officials seem to agree.
Last week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) led a brigade of 85 Senators in a vote denouncing a VAT in America. McCain's non-binding sense of the Senate resolution accurately stated that a VAT would "cripple families on fixed income and only further push back America's economic recovery."
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Friday, April 23, 2010 |
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Heritage: The Fatal Flaws of the Wall Street Bailout Bill
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:19 PM :: 5436 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Speaking to an audience of big business and big labor executives (including Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein, Bank of America's Bruce Thompson and SEIU's Andy Stern) at New York's Cooper Union, President Barack Obama noted "the furious efforts of industry lobbyists to shape" the financial regulation bill "to their special interests." Obama then admitted, "I am sure that many of those lobbyists work for some of you. But I am here today because I want to urge you to join us, instead of fighting us in this effort." Obama should have saved his breath. Wall Street and big labor lobbyists have already joined forces to make sure the current Senate legislation has become a Wall Street Bailout Bill.
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Thursday, April 22, 2010 |
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Papahanaumokuakea: Ed Case takes credit for George Bush’s work
By News Release @ 10:53 PM :: 11994 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Upon Governor Lingle's request, President George Bush sent White House Council on the Environment James Connaughton to Hawaii to travel with a Hawaii delegation, which I was privileged to be part of, to Midway Island. Being appropriately impressed, James Connaughton went back to the White House and worked on the preservation status. Jean-Michel Cousteau accompanied us on the trip and produced Voyage to Kure, a documentary.
I was privileged to go, along with the Governor and my wife, to the White House for a small dinner at which time this documentary was aired. In a conversation after dinner, I distinctly remember the President of the United States looking at James Connaughton and saying "let's get it done", referring to the marine reserve.
Within months we were once again in the White House for a huge ceremony in which First Lady Laura Bush announced the President's signing of a Declaration of Memorial Status for the northwest archipelago.
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Thursday, April 22, 2010 |
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Economic Freedom Will Save the Earth
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:12 PM :: 10515 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Back in the 70s, President Barack Obama's Director for Science and Technology Policy John Holdren even came up with a formula to measure capitalism's evil impact on the environment: I=PAT, which means that environmental impact is equal to population multiplied by affluence multiplied by technology. Thus according to the left, protecting the planet requires fewer people, less wealth and simpler technology. But this is just flat wrong. In fact, studies clearly show that important indicators of environmental quality actually improve as incomes and levels of consumption go up.
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Thursday, April 22, 2010 |
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Hanabusa Can't Stand Up To Local Bankers—How Will She Tackle Wall Street?
By News Release @ 2:20 PM :: 9909 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Honolulu - Charles K. Djou, Republican candidate for Hawaii’s 1st Congressional District, questioned Senate President Colleen Hanabusa on Earth Day on her claims that she will hold Wall Street accountable given the Legislature’s failure to pass a proposal to use state bonds to finance loans for homeowners to install rooftop solar panels, solar hot water heaters and energy-efficient appliances. The measure passed both chambers and had community support, but last-minute opposition from the Mortgage Bankers Association of Hawaii contributed to the failure of the measure.
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Thursday, April 22, 2010 |
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VIDEO: Charles Djou on Sean Hannity show
By News Release @ 1:05 AM :: 12626 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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VIDEO: Honolulu Special Election Congressional candidate Charles Djou appearing on the Sean Hannity show Wednesday April 21.
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