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Thursday, January 20, 2011 |
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Full Text: House Republicans Propose $2.5 Trillion in Spending Cuts
By News Release @ 1:44 PM :: 4347 Views :: National News, Ethics
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“The Spending Reduction Act gives us a $2.5 trillion head start in the race to preserve the fiscal stability of the United States,” said Garrett. “This bill represents the first step in the process, not the last. To achieve long-term fiscal stability, we must finish the race by making the tough decisions Congress has put off for far too long. Only after we tear down barriers to job creation and make reforms to our entitlement programs can we truly resolve our debt crisis.”
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Thursday, January 20, 2011 |
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Obamacare: The Start of the Debate
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:37 AM :: 5564 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Many will tell you that yesterday’s bipartisan vote of 245 to 189 was an exercise in futility—an empty, symbolic measure. Liberals in Congress, the White House and their echo chamber in the media all insist, as NPR has duly reported, that "this measure will go no further."
Don’t believe this for a single minute. The vote last night was an important step in the democratic process of protecting and conserving our constitutional freedoms.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 |
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National Alliance for Public Charter Schools: Hawaii Law still needs Significant Improvement
By News Release @ 11:44 PM :: 10515 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Hawaii's law still needs significant improvement in several areas, including completely removing its caps, strengthening the requirements for both charter application, review and decision-making processes and renewal, non-renewal, and revocation processes, and ensuring equitable operational and categorical funding and equitable access to capital funding and facilities.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 |
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Governor Seeking Applicants to Board of Education
By News Release @ 10:29 PM :: 6204 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Honolulu – Governor Neil Abercrombie today announced that applications are being accepted for service on the numerous boards and commissions – including the Board of Education – via his website....
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 |
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Hanabusa admits failure to get Appropriations Committee seat
By Jonah Ka`auwai @ 10:21 PM :: 10482 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Hawaii GOP Chair Jonah Kaauwai release a statement on Rep. Colleen Hanabusa's announcement that she was unable to secure the Hawaii seat on the House Appropriations Committee that her campaign had promised.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 |
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No Fiscal Notes: Hawaii Legislators shopping without price tags
By Grassroot Institute @ 9:59 PM :: 8013 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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...The Grassroot Institute applauds the House Minority Caucus for including fiscal note legislation in its 2011 legislative package....
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 |
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Governor Babblecrombie does it again: Open mouth, insert birther
By Andrew Walden @ 6:02 PM :: 8028 Views :: Obama
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Gov Abercrombie yesterday re-opened his mouth and spoke of his Holy Crusade against the Diabolical Birthers. And lo and behold, the birthers are thrilled at the support they are receiving from Washington Place. Here’s how Babblecrombie stirred them up…again....
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 |
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Freedomworks: Obamacare Repeal is Real
By Matt Kibbe @ 5:42 PM :: 4758 Views :: National News, Ethics
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As its first major act, the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives voted today on a bill promising the complete repeal of Obamacare. The bill passed with a unanimous Republican vote along with the support of 3 House Democrats, proving that the demand to repeal Obamacare is a real, bipartisan fight that will lead to a serious debate in the Senate.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 |
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Obamacare: Administration Report “wildly misleading” on pre-existing conditions
By Heritage Foundation @ 5:00 PM :: 9184 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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This debunked HHS report was recycled as Hawaii Democrat talking points, and shoveled onto the pages of the Star-Advertiser this morning >>> Democrats warn of harm if health care reform is repealed
It didn't work, The US House today passed HR2 to repeal Obamacare 245-189 with unanimous GOP support plus three Democrats. But the study will be kept on hand in order to manufacture future campaign commercials.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 |
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House Republican caucus announces Legislative Package
By News Release @ 1:39 PM :: 6793 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The residents of the State of Hawai`i have called on the House Republican caucus (HRC) to ensure their taxes are not raised, control government spending, maintain fiscal discipline, increase government accountability, reduce the size and scope of government, stimulate and accelerate student learning and create an economic environment that will help local businesses thrive, create jobs and attract international investments.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 |
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Full Text: Sen. Sam Slom Opening Day Address
By Sen. Sam Slom @ 1:18 PM :: 8170 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Some people have referred to me as "The Lone Ranger" because throughout the entire United States I am the only single party Senator in a State Legislature.
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011 |
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Fiscal Notes and Economic Impact Statements for Hawaii Legislation?
By Andrew Walden @ 9:59 PM :: 8914 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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Hawaii is the only state which does not mandate “fiscal notes” be attached to legislation introduced in the House or Senate. Without Fiscal Notes, Legislators are just guessing....
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Monday, January 17, 2011 |
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Calif. Mayor’s Open Letter to Honolulu Council: Instant Runoff Voting is undemocratic
By News Release @ 4:42 PM :: 12613 Views :: Honolulu County, Office of Elections
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It is my understanding that there is a move in Honolulu to introduce IRV/RCV (ranked choice voting). I would suggest the Council not adopt IRV elections as it does not have the results intended. It will not result in a majority victor. There are many problems with ranked choice voting. At one time, I was a supporter of ranked choice voting but no more.
I was born and raised on the Island and still have many relatives on the Island. As someone from Honolulu, I would not want to subject them to instant runoff voting.
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Monday, January 17, 2011 |
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Martin Luther King Jr held these truths. Do you?
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:59 AM :: 7183 Views :: National News, Ethics
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On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood at the Lincoln Memorial and admonished America to return to its First Principles. In his I Have a Dream Speech, he announced his dream that “one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'” He longed to see a day when all “would be guaranteed the ‘unalienable Rights’ of ‘Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.’" Dr. King did not talk about remaking America. His dream was one which, in his words, was “deeply rooted in the American dream.” It hearkened back to the principles upon which our country was founded. It was not a rejection of our past, but a vision of hope based on the principles of our past.
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Sunday, January 16, 2011 |
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Prayer: Will Hawaii Senators surrender to ACLU?
By News Release @ 12:52 PM :: 9146 Views :: First Amendment, Religion
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The Hawaii session convenes this coming Wednesday, January 19th, 2011. The change of policy is part of a new rules package the Senate will consider for the opening session.
Senate President Shan Tsutsui (D, Kahului) will recommend that the Senate end the tradition of invocations based on the ACLU complaint.
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Sunday, January 16, 2011 |
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Tucson Shooting: Progressive activist who blamed Palin flips out, held for psychiatric evaluation
By Andrew Walden @ 11:15 AM :: 8116 Views :: National News, Ethics
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...something happened to Eric Fuller on the way to his 15 minutes of fame. It took about one day for this very typical and average Progressive activist to implode and he did it in front of dozens of people during the taping of an ABC News Town Hall....
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Sunday, January 16, 2011 |
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House Republican Caucus announces Committee Assignments
By News Release @ 6:47 AM :: 6623 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The Republican Caucus today announced it is moving forward with committee assignments regardless of the Minority Democrats dispute with Speaker Say. The committee lineup highlights the strengths of each of its eight members, including the three Republican freshmen who will bring a wealth of experience to their subject committees.
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Sunday, January 16, 2011 |
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Comprehensive List of Tax Hikes in Obamacare
By News Release @ 1:05 AM :: 6898 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Obamacare is one of the largest tax increases in American history. Below is a comprehensive list of the two dozen new or higher taxes that pay for Obamcare’s expansion of government spending and interference between doctors and patients.
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Saturday, January 15, 2011 |
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Abercrombie, Legislators scheme to divert capital improvement money to General Fund
By Andrew Walden @ 10:57 PM :: 10980 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Abercrombie and potential House Finance Chair Marcus Oshiro have come up with--a $100M per year scheme to divert bond funds into the General Fund disguised as a repeal of the subcontractor exemption from the General Excise Tax.
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Saturday, January 15, 2011 |
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Honolulu Grand Jury charges two more in human trafficking case
By News Release @ 1:12 PM :: 12201 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that a federal grand jury in Honolulu has returned a 10-count superseding indictment charging defendants Joseph Knoller and Bruce Schwartz, both of Los Angeles, as co-conspirators in a scheme to hold 400 Thai nationals in compelled service as agricultural workers in the District of Hawaii and elsewhere.
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Friday, January 14, 2011 |
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Tax hikes? Gambling? Defeated bills from 2010 session may reappear in 2011
By Andrew Walden @ 11:41 PM :: 6738 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Governor Abercrombie and likely House Speaker Calvin Say have both come out against any across-the-board hike in the GE Tax. But that doesn’t mean they won’t be hiking taxes to meet the state’s $800M budget shortfall....
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Friday, January 14, 2011 |
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Reince Priebus elected Republican National Committee Chair
By Jonah Ka`auwai @ 8:19 PM :: 5842 Views
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“I would like to congratulate our new RNC Chairman on his election. I am proud to have joined the other Island members of the RNC in voting for Chairman Priebus."
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Thursday, January 13, 2011 |
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Instant Runoff? Low-income voters struggle with ranked-choice voting
By Selected News Articles @ 10:33 PM :: 12802 Views :: Office of Elections
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Last week Hawai`i Free Press took a look at the experience of Burlington, VT voters who eventually voted to repeal Instant Runoff Voting (IRV). Today we are sharing a voting analysis by investigative reporter Lance Williams of CaliforniaWatch who evaluates a 21-candidate San Francisco Supervisorial election very similar to the one won by Tom Berg.
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Thursday, January 13, 2011 |
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650% return on Inouye: $1.9M in contributions, $1.25B in earmarks
By Center for Public Integrity @ 6:16 PM :: 9489 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Perhaps because at different points in the past four years he chaired commerce and appropriations, he got significant campaign contributions from players in the communications industry and from government defense contractors. Both Boeing and Northrop Grumman, among Inouye’s largest PAC contributors, each received millions in 2010 defense earmarks....
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Thursday, January 13, 2011 |
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Flashback: Obama defends Christian Invocation at Inaugural
By News Release @ 2:07 PM :: 8752 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Since the majority of the Hawaii Senate Democratic Caucus has gone brain-dead on the subject of religious invocations before Senate sessions, here is a taste of reality from their lord and master, the world’s highest-ranking Manoa liberal, Barack Obama....
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Thursday, January 13, 2011 |
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Anti-gay religious cult tied to torture seeks Charter conversion of Mokapu Elementary
By Andrew Walden @ 4:01 AM :: 25303 Views :: Education K-12, Military, Religion
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Hiding behind the benign sounding label, “Mokapu STEM School”, a religious cult with billions of dollars in assets is secretly trying use the charter school conversion process to take over Mokapu Elementary School located in Kaneohe on Marine Corps Base Hawaii.
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011 |
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'Great Garbage Patch' Not So Great After All
By Selected News Articles @ 1:05 PM :: 12451 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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It's been called the Great Garbage Patch and "the most shocking thing" Oprah has ever seen: a massive island of plastic in the Pacific Ocean that, according to many reports, is twice the size of Texas, outnumbers plankton, and has killed millions of sea birds.
But many of those claims, according to a new analysis, are huge exaggerations. Others are downright false.
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011 |
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Abercrombie announces four more appointments
By News Release @ 12:01 PM :: 7157 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Honolulu – Four more positions within the Administration were appointed by Governor Neil Abercrombie. These positions include the Director of Office of Youth Services, the Executive Director of the Office of Aging, the Deputy Tax Director, and the Deputy for the Department for Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA).
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 |
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Spring Cleaning at Hawaii’s oldest Home
By News Release @ 11:44 PM :: 8628 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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The museum will reveal the techniques it uses to preserve and protect objects in the 1821 Mission House, the oldest documented house in Hawai‘i.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 |
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Governor Abercrombie Appoints Kahele to Senate Seat
By News Release @ 7:52 PM :: 9033 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Energy, Environment
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Honolulu – Governor Neil Abercrombie today announced the appointment of Gilbert Kahele to represent Senate District 2. Kahele fills the seat left vacant by Department of Agriculture Interim Director Russell Kokubun.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 |
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Judge: Federal Court ruling “leaves Honolulu police officers no safe course” to detain mentally ill persons with guns
By Andrew Walden @ 4:13 PM :: 11813 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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If the officers had done nothing and Arekat had proceeded to shoot someone, defendants undoubtedly would have been sued for failing to detain Arekat. One of the officers explained in her deposition that this case reminded her of a prior case in which the police had not removed a firearm from a person who exhibited signs of paranoia, and that person had used it to kill a person, resulting in a huge civil liability for the police department and the city. In this case, the defendants made a courageous decision to detain Arekat.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 |
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Father of 9yr old Tucson Victim: Don't use my daughter's death to take our freedoms
By Video @ 2:22 PM :: 5233 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Video interview with the father of 9 year old Christina Taylor Green....
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 |
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Hawaii Concealed Carry: More Guns, Less Crime
By News Release @ 12:43 PM :: 9831 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Honolulu, Hawaii – John R. Lott, Jr., author, activist, speaker and professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, will be in town speaking on the topics of gun control, public policy and other points of interest at a dinner hosted at The Plaza Club Tuesday, February 15th, 2011 starting at from 6:30 p.m.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 |
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Gates: North Korea will soon have missiles capable of hitting Hawaii with A-bomb
By Selected News Articles @ 10:48 AM :: 12501 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Implicit in Mr. Gates’s five-year assessment was the possibility that the North could soon solve one of its biggest technological hurdles: manufacturing a warhead small enough to fit atop a missile….
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Monday, January 10, 2011 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted January 5-10, 2011
By News Release @ 9:08 PM :: 7597 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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- House: Health Care Repeal Rule
- House: Reducing the amount authorized for salaries and expenses
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Sunday, January 9, 2011 |
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Fingers point at Self-styled “King of Hawaii” in Tucson shootings
By Andrew Walden @ 10:22 PM :: 12602 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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...finger pointing by those seeking to assign blame has reached a fever pitch. In articles today, Slate magazine, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Ben Smith of Politico attempt to tie alleged shooter Jared Lee Loughner to a strange website promoting a self-styled “King of Hawaii.”
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Sunday, January 9, 2011 |
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Alleged Tucson Shooter: Flag-burning Leftist, dope smoking atheist
By Andrew Walden @ 5:43 PM :: 11070 Views :: National News, Ethics
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"As I knew him he was left wing, quite liberal. & oddly obsessed with the 2012 prophecy."
"He was a political radical & met Giffords once before in '07, asked her a question & he told me she was "stupid & unintelligent"
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Sunday, January 9, 2011 |
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UK Lib-Dems push for end of “libel tourism”
By Andrew Walden @ 4:29 PM :: 8569 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Threats of libel actions in UK courts were used to silence coverage of the financial connection between Barack Obama, Tony Rezko, and Iraqi ex-Baathist billionaire and lifelong Saddam Hussein associate Nadhmi Auchi during the 2008 campaign. Hawai’i Free Press was one of the few news sources anywhere on Earth willing to defy the threats.
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Saturday, January 8, 2011 |
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Djou “Shocked and saddened by shooting of Rep Giffords”
By Rep Charles Djou @ 5:01 PM :: 11487 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Former Rep. Djou served on the House Armed Services Committee with Rep. Gifford. The two of them co-sponsored the Truth-in-Spending bill in the 111th Congress and co-authored editorials together advocating for restraint in Federal government spending. Djou and Gifford’s bipartisan cooperative relationship was a subject on televised debates in Hawaii and Arizona.
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Friday, January 7, 2011 |
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Stalemate Broken: House Republican Caucus backs Calvin Say for Speaker
By Andrew Walden @ 9:10 PM :: 7064 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Rep Gene Ward: "The eight of us have heard directly from our constituents, from Oahu to Maui, about the importance of not raising the general excise tax (GET), providing favorable pro-small business initiatives that will create jobs and ensuring improvements are made to state infrastructures."
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Friday, January 7, 2011 |
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Rep. Marumoto Bill to mandate DNA collection from arrested suspects
By News Release @ 3:07 PM :: 8159 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Honolulu – Representative Barbara Marumoto submitted the following bills for inclusion in the Women’s Caucus Legislative Package.
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Friday, January 7, 2011 |
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Hiram Bingham IV, the secret rescuer
By Selected News Articles @ 1:23 PM :: 13147 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Did you know that an idealistic U.S. diplomat disobeyed his Washington superiors early in World War II and saved 2,500 Jews in southern France, before Nazis could ship them to death camps?
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011 |
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Hanabusa: One Day on the Job, One Broken Promise
By Jonah Ka`auwai @ 11:28 PM :: 11482 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Rep. Hanabusa and Senator Inouye assured voters last October that she would get a seat on the powerful Appropriation Committee if elected and that has turned out to be nothing more than an empty campaign promise.
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011 |
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Djou: Our hard-fought battle allowed the GOP to gain 3-5 additional seats on the mainland
By Rep Charles Djou @ 11:20 PM :: 10643 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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I believe that a vibrant two-party democracy is better at preserving liberty than monolithic one-party rule.
I believe that open and responsive elected officials are better at ensuring an accountable government than an old-boy network.
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011 |
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WaPo: Futile, Discouraging, Depressing -- Hanabusa joins the lowest of the low
By Selected News Articles @ 3:39 PM :: 10111 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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"The Congress is the most futile place in the world, and the most discouraging, and the most depressing" for people in this position....
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011 |
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011 |
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Instant Runoff Voting debunked
By Selected News Articles @ 7:44 PM :: 13568 Views :: Office of Elections
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Because voters in the Dec 29 special election for Honolulu County Council Dist 1 elected a Republican, Tom Berg; the billion dollar Progressives at Civil Beat have concluded that the system of elections must be changed, “to prevent such an election in the future.”
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011 |
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Birthers “Born Again” thanks to Abercrombie
By Selected News Articles @ 4:20 PM :: 7832 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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That’s some favor Abercrombie did his old pal; he took a non-issue that was as settled as it’s ever going to be and fired it up all over again.
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011 |
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$126M Giveaway: Abercrombie quietly boosts spending on Public Employees’ Insurance
By News Release @ 3:50 PM :: 11288 Views :: Energy, Environment
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UHPA: After a series of meetings with Governor Abercrombie, a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) was signed on December 23rd, 2010 that increased the employer’s contribution to 60% of the premium costs for the coverage selected by individual public employees.
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011 |
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VIDEO: Steele Faces Rivals in RNC Chair Debate
By Video @ 2:23 AM :: 6362 Views :: National News, Ethics
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for all their criticism in print and on-line of incumbent Chairman Michael Steele, none of his four opponents in the race (which will be decided at the RNC winter meeting next week) landed a knock-out blow or even roughed up the embattled RNC chief….
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