In tripping over the YouTube video that was offensive to Muslims, the President seemed to validate other countries’ disregard for freedom of speech....

"And let's not hoist a large Islamic flag, and let's not be barbaric-talking. We will remain a front so that if the thing happens, we will benefit from the new happenings instead of having all of our organizations classified and exposed."

Note this is not a complete sentence: “I based this concern as the Governor as well as an alumnus and supporter of the University of Hawai'i.”

The official, head-to-head debates begin next week, but Sunday’s “60 Minutes” appearances by President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) provided a contrast in the ideas offered on the nation’s entitlements and spending crisis....

...Moreover, it is unlikely to be resolved by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act....

...the five-member commission, in absence of any objective criteria, is given authority to decide who is not a “qualified” Hawaiian....

Community member George Martin is a 1978 graduate of Lauapahoehoe School. A former mechanic for Yamada and Sons, Martin has been a business agent for the ILWU 142 for seven years....

...Robert Katz, whose law firm got a $25,000 contract to redact UH documents, sanitizing them of information his firm felt needed to be protected from public view....

OBAMACARE AND HEALTH ISSUES IN HAWAII a special 90-minute discussion
Tuesday, September 25, 7 – 9 pm, at Boston Basil’s Restaurant & Pizzeria, 75-5707 Alii Drive (downtown Kailua-Kona)

43 days left until the November 6th General Election!

... the state Department of Health violated the federal Clean Air Act in granting a permit to operate to Hu Honua ....

• Senate: Veterans Job Training – Motion to Waive
• Senate: Foreign Aid Suspension
• Senate: Iran Nuclear Threat
• Senate: Continuing Resolution
• House: Student Loan Exemption for Deceased Veterans – Suspension
• House: Public Funding for Political Conventions – Suspension
• House: Welfare Work Requirements – Disapproval Resolution
• House: STEM Visa Program - Suspension
• House: Manhattan Project National Park – Suspension
• House: Energy Regulatory Rollback – Passage

... the tax credits have other, indirect effects: Increased sales of electric vehicles allow automakers to sell more low-fuel-economy vehicles ....

Occupy Wall Street's pathetic first birthday last week confirmed that the longstanding reports of the movement's death have not, in fact, been exaggerated....

"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." -- George Santayana

We are on the same treacherous fiscal path as Greece, Italy and Spain....

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Apparently there are some, including some of the commissioners on the Tax Review Commission, who believe that those unfunded liabilities that combined is estimated to be more than $20 billion must be addressed with increases in taxes....

...the goal was not only to improve efficiency and patient safety, but also to reduce health care costs.  But, in reality, the move to electronic health records may be contributing to billions of dollars in higher costs....

The Washington Post said the film "plays squarely to folks who feel that Christians today are persecuted."