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Tuesday, August 25, 2009 |
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Myths and Facts about Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:02 AM :: 8346 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Last week NBC News released a poll showing that while 36% of Americans believed President Barack Obama’s health care plan was a “good idea,” 42% of Americans believed it was a “bad idea.” NBC’s explanation for this inconvenient truth? “[M]isperceptions about the president’s plans for reform … that nonpartisan fact-checkers say are untrue.” Specifically NBC found that 55% of Americans believed Obamacare “will give health insurance coverage to illegal immigrants,” 54% believed it “will lead to a government takeover of the health care system,” 50% believed it “will use taxpayer dollars to pay for women to have abortions,” and 45% believed it “will allow the government to make decisions about when to stop providing medical care to the elderly.”
The President has since copied NBC’s diagnosis, devoting his Saturday Weekly Address to debunking these “phony claims.” The problem for NBC News, and the White House, is that every one of these concerns has rock solid foundation in fact.
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Monday, August 24, 2009 |
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Djou calls Hawaii Healthcare townhall meeting
By News Release @ 6:24 PM :: 14789 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The meeting will be in the cafeteria of McKinley High School on Tuesday, August 25th. It will begin at 5:30pm and end at 7:00pm.
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Friday, August 21, 2009 |
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Transcripts: Hawaii 50th Anniversary of Statehood Conference
By News Release @ 1:32 PM :: 10036 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Governor Lingle speech--full text. Zogby poll describes Hawaii at 50, Native Hawaiians: The next 50 Years, Shinseki speech, VIDEOS, more . . .
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Thursday, August 20, 2009 |
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Obamacare: “By Any Legislative Means Necessary”
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:16 PM :: 3347 Views
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The left in Congress is now considering abandoning moderates and independents to pass their narrow partisan ideal of health reform. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid spokesman Jim Manley promised yesterday that Democrats will pass Obamacare “by any legislative means necessary.”
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009 |
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Randall Roth dissects Hawaii's failed Department of Education
By Selected News Articles @ 12:41 PM :: 13193 Views :: Education K-12
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In the lead up to the 50th Anniversary Statehood Conference, Broken Trust co-author Randall Roth dissects the DoE and the historical roots of its boiling dysfunction....
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009 |
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Antonio Gramsci Reading List
By Selected News Articles @ 1:24 AM :: 154558 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Higher Education
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Gramscian ideas are far advanced in America. You see them in "hate crimes" laws, in gender equity legislation, in forced corporate "sensitivity" training, in the menace of coerced "right thinking" in the universities. You feel the nuances of it in casual conversation. It's an attitude at a cocktail party.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 |
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Akaka Bill hearings: OHA, lawyers balk at giving up nepotism, greenmail
By Andrew Walden @ 10:02 PM :: 14150 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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For years, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) has expended every resource to create a Hawaiian Indian tribe. Now, with its goal finally in sight, disputes over how much of Hawaii the Akaka Tribe should grab and how quickly to grab it threaten to torpedo the entire project.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 |
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Six months of "stimulus": 2.8 million jobs lost
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:42 PM :: 7393 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Yesterday was the six month anniversary of President Barack Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package. Since the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” became law, the United States economy has shed nearly 2.8 million net jobs. When Obama signed the stimulus the nation’s unemployment rate stood at 7.6%. Today it is 9.4%. Nationwide, a total of fifteen states are now suffering from 10% unemployment. No wonder 57% of Americans recently told Gallup that the stimulus package is either having no impact on the economy or making it worse.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 |
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Obamacare debate rages in Hawaii -- but no townhalls scheduled here
By Selected News Articles @ 11:57 AM :: 7639 Views :: Health Care
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A Web search shows Hawai'i is the only state that hasn't had the public town hall forums this month.... there have been none of the outbursts because there have been no town hall meetings in recent weeks as the health reform issue heated up.
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Monday, August 17, 2009 |
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Gallup: Hawaii is tops in 'moderates', conservatives outnumber liberals
By Andrew Walden @ 1:37 PM :: 13471 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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While Hawaii is ninth in a Gallup's list of top liberal states, Aloha State conservatives have a 5% edge--29% to 24%--over liberals. Hawaii is tied with Rhode Island as the top state for self-identified moderates at 43%.
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Monday, August 17, 2009 |
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Obama: A history of radicalism
By News Release @ 12:29 PM :: 6111 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Six videos presented on the Sean Hannity program. See them for yourself:
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Monday, August 17, 2009 |
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Obamacare: Public Option Is Not Dead Yet
By Andrew Walden @ 11:57 AM :: 5625 Views :: National News, Ethics
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The headlines are encouraging: The AP reports, “White House appears ready to drop ‘public option’.” Politico reads, “White House backs away from public health care option.” And the front page of USA Today says, “Obama may drop public option in health care.” These headers all stem from Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ comment on CNN Sunday Morning that the public option “is not the essential element” of President Barack Obama’s health care plan. But by Sunday night the White House was already walking back Sebelius’ statement.
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Friday, August 14, 2009 |
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Sovereignty Farce: "Birther" "Truther" drug dealer on trial for Iolani assault, kidnapper sought by police
By Andrew Walden @ 2:13 PM :: 15310 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, Ethics
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In an August, 2008 interview with Maui’s Akaku Public Access TV, Roggasch claims there was no assault. He also explains his belief that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and is therefore ineligible to be President. Like many “birthers” the Akahi group are “9-11 truthers” as well. An entire page of their www.FreeHawaii.org website is dedicated to arguing the 9-11 attacks were "a time of reckoning" and "our fault".
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Thursday, August 13, 2009 |
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Sarah Palin: Concerning the "Death Panels"
By News Release @ 10:05 PM :: 9800 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Yesterday President Obama responded to my statement that Democratic health care proposals would lead to rationed care; that the sick, the elderly, and the disabled would suffer the most under such rationing; and that under such a system these “unproductive” members of society could face the prospect of government bureaucrats determining whether they deserve health care.
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Thursday, August 13, 2009 |
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Rep Bordallo: Abercrombie's $10B Guam pork deal "not going to sail"
By Selected News Articles @ 6:27 PM :: 8759 Views :: Military
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"(The Department of Defense) is concerned about this -- we have enough on our plate," she said. "This could derail the buildup. That's how costly it's going to be. ... It's not going to sail."
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Thursday, August 13, 2009 |
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Statehood Celebration events scheduled on Hawaii, Kauai, Maui, Lanai
By News Release @ 6:13 PM :: 14127 Views :: Hawaii County , Honolulu County, DHHL, Energy, Environment
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“Statehood was a major turning point for our state, and 50 years later, we are proud of everything we have accomplished. I hope the residents of Hawai‘i will show their pride in our island home by attending local commemorations and learning more about our state’s history,” said Kippen de Alba Chu, chair of the 50th Anniversary of Statehood Commission.
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Thursday, August 13, 2009 |
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Obama during Primaries: 'Transitioning to Single-payer'
By Andrew Walden @ 2:14 PM :: 5778 Views
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Rhetoric: "Today, he opposes single payer health care, and attacks Sen. Clinton for proposing a plan that covers everyone"
Reality: Obama Has Consistently Said That If We Were Starting From Scratch, He Would Support A Single Payer System, But Now We Need To Build On The System We Have If Obama Were Starting From Scratch, He Would Support A Single Payer System.
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Thursday, August 13, 2009 |
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Heritage: White House losing healthcare debate
By Andrew Walden @ 2:05 PM :: 3449 Views
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Gallup found that more Americans believe the townhall protesters are motivated by their internal beliefs and not stirred up by “political activists” crating “organized opposition.”
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009 |
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Pay for Play? Developers, Contractors, Engineers fund Hannemann Campaign
By Selected News Articles @ 8:27 PM :: 11518 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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There were 247 contributions from individuals and PACs. Of these 247 only 12 were for less than $1,000. 235 individuals and PACs donated more than $1,000 each. There were 33 contributions that were at the maximum of $6,000. There were numerous contributors who are in the same family that maxed out their contributions at $6,000 apiece.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009 |
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Unions reject furloughs: Governor seeks ag inspection alternatives
By Letters to the Editor @ 1:08 PM :: 7820 Views :: Agriculture, Labor
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State Government cannot afford to look or be the same. We need to find new ways to do the tasks that were once performed. We want to explore with the Agriculture industry options such as third-party certification, self certification, and random sampling.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009 |
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MDs pay to be cut: Star-Bulletin attacks Lingle, spreads Obamacare myths
By Andrew Walden @ 11:39 AM :: 11350 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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SB: "Most of the cuts would come from revision of reimbursements for doctors, discounts for prescription drugs and elimination of co-payments for preventive services — changes that would affect providers, not beneficiaries."
So with Hawaii already suffering an MD shortage caused in large part by low medicare reimbursements, Obama is going to cut them even more. And that won't affect beneficiaries, just providers??? It will when the MDs leave Hawaii. And this isn't a "cut"?
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 |
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Obama answer to staged Townhall question: I won't "pull the plug on grandma"
By Andrew Walden @ 6:01 PM :: 10191 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Julia's mother was an early Obama supporter in Massachusetts during the presidential election, so she had previously met First Lady Michelle Obama, the Obama daughters Sasha and Malia, and Vice President Joe Biden.
Kathleen Manning Hall, Julia's mother, was shocked when her daughter said she wanted to ask a question. They wrote it down beforehand, and Julia didn't miss a beat when Obama called on her.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 |
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Dirty Secret No. 1 in Obamacare: A social worker in every home
By Selected News Articles @ 5:19 PM :: 10903 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The bill says that the government agents, "well-trained and competent staff," would "provide parents with knowledge of age-appropriate child development in cognitive, language, social, emotional, and motor domains ... modeling, consulting, and coaching on parenting practices," and "skills to interact with their child to enhance age-appropriate development."
(This applies to Indian Tribes as well, so if the Akaka Tribe is ever formed, Hawaiian families will find themselves inspected by US Government social workers with the power to remove children from the home. "Sovereignty", eh?)
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 |
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Global Cooling: July Temperature Below-Average for the U.S.
By News Release @ 4:07 PM :: 7087 Views :: National News, Ethics
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PHOTOS Left: Sun at peak of warming, 1998. After 10 years of cooling, 2008. NASA reports that the absence of sunspots continues today.
More than 400 record low minimum temperatures and 1,300 record low maximum temperatures (lowest high temperature) across the nine-state area that make up the Central region. Ohio, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania experienced their coolest July on record. Kentucky, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Michigan each had their second coolest July on record, while Minnesota and Tennessee had their third coolest July on record.
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Monday, August 10, 2009 |
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Obamacare: Dissent is not un-American
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:36 PM :: 5726 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Reviewing the month’s polling data, Gallup’s Frank Newport sums it up: “The bottom line is a sense that, while Americans apparently favor some type of healthcare reform in the long term, they are in no hurry to see healthcare reform legislation passed in the short-term on a rushed schedule. … A Pew Research poll released this week shows that those who are worried about new health care legislation are most likely to say it is because it involves too much spending and would increase the deficit.”
Wrapped in their liberal Washington cocoon, however, the leadership in Congress simply do not want to hear this message. Instead, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) have chosen to pen an op-ed in today’s USA Today calling those who want Congress to hear their concerns about health care “simply un-American.”
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Saturday, August 8, 2009 |
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NRO: President Obama, Hawaii, and Dodgy Certificates (of Need)
By Selected News Articles @ 8:07 PM :: 12621 Views :: Health Care
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... if you want to know how state enterprises really feel about competition, take a look at Obama’s home state of Hawaii ....
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Friday, August 7, 2009 |
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Layoffs: State challenges HGEA call for refusal of RIF forms
By News Release @ 1:16 PM :: 7903 Views :: Energy, Environment
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“I hope our employees adhere to the deadline we have set, because the possible consequences to them of ignoring the deadline could be the loss of any ability to bump into a different position,” Governor Lingle said.
“I am also very disappointed that the HGEA and UPW have failed to respond to the offer we presented on July 21, 2009. Unfortunately, the State’s deteriorating budget situation is getting worse, not better, and the amount the State can afford to pay in labor costs continues to decline. The unions’ failure to accept or recognize this is, in my opinion, not in their members’ best interests.”
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Friday, August 7, 2009 |
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KITV-4 to air 50th Anniversary of Statehood Documentary
By News Release @ 1:12 PM :: 6380 Views :: Energy, Environment
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You have only a few more days to enjoy the pause in the Gramscian War on the cultural and historic foundations of Hawaii Statehood.... So be sure to tune in tonight.
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Friday, August 7, 2009 |
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Obama calls out union goons to townhall meetings: "Punch back twice as hard"
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:24 PM :: 12339 Views :: National News, Ethics
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"Presidential" leadership: In Tampa, Florida, protester Barry Osteen was pushed in the face by Democratic Club Treasurer Karen Miracle and union members allegedly assaulted another concerned citizen. Both of the events were organized by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Asked about the possibility of people concerned about Obama showing up at their event, in Tampa, SEIU spokeswoman Kim Diehl told the St. Petersburg Times: “We’re prepared. We have strategies to deal with it if it should come up.”
As this video plainly shows, one of those strategies is to lock out dissenters while letting in purple-shirted SEIU members. The desire to silence dissent on Obamacare goes all the to the top. At a Democratic rally in Virginia last night, the President told supporters: “I don’t want the folks who created the mess doing a lot of talking. I want them to just get out of the way so we can clean up the mess.”
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Thursday, August 6, 2009 |
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AP: Hawaii Hurricane response test reveals shortfalls
By Selected News Articles @ 6:58 PM :: 10189 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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IMAGE: CAT 4 Hurricane Felicia takes aim at Hilo, but is projected to weaken before landfall.
(And here's what would happen if a CAT 4 hit Oahu....)
A powerful hurricane would shut down Hawaiian Electric's grid for 30 days. Streets as far inland as Beretania and the H-1 freeway would be flooded. Debris would block roads. And homes would be damaged across the island of Oahu, if a powerful hurricane struck Oahu, officials said. The imagined scenario officials have been working with calls for a Category 4 hurricane -- meaning a storm with sustained winds over 130 mph -- to make landfall at Kapolei.
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009 |
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Gov Lingle appoints Kaulana Park DHHL Director
By News Release @ 7:31 PM :: 7339 Views :: Energy, Environment
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HONOLULU – Governor Linda Lingle has appointed Kaulana Park to serve as the new director of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) and chairman of the Hawaiian Homes Commission. Park, the department’s deputy director since February 2008, succeeds Micah Kāne, who will become a Trustee for Kamehameha Schools. The transition will take effect on Aug. 12.
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009 |
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Tied to Iranian regime, UH Manoa Prof. defends accused Buenos Aires bomber, ducks debate
By Selected News Articles @ 6:45 PM :: 11805 Views :: National News, Higher Education, Military
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UH Manoa professor Farideh Farhi, an advisor to the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), a group that lobbies for better relations with the Islamic Republic, challenged me a couple weeks ago...for a column questioning Iranian sincerity in diplomacy.... Today Tabnak (website of accused Buenos Aires bomber) suggests why: In the course of discussing the controversy, it mentions that Farhi worked some years for the Foreign Ministry of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Indeed, her work at the Foreign Ministry coincided with Holocaust revisionist conferences.
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009 |
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Spreading “Disinformation” About Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:25 PM :: 7987 Views :: National News, Ethics
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The White House wants people to believe they are losing the health care debate because “scary … videos are starting to percolate on the internet” that are spreading “disinformation” about Obama’s health care plan. The White House is even encouraging Obama supporters to help them identify people spreading this “disinformation.” The official White House blog now asks Americans: “If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.”
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009 |
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No to Islamic Law
By Daniel Pipes @ 6:30 AM :: 9017 Views :: World News, Family
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...issuing hijabs as part of uniforms in Great Britain is nothing new – the London police led the way in 2001, followed by other police forces, at least one fire brigade, and even the furniture chain Ikea. What sets the Avon and Somerset hijabs apart from these others is their being intended not just for pious Muslim female staff but also for non-Muslim staff....
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009 |
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Governor announces layoffs for union members: Furloughs for non-union
By News Release @ 11:23 PM :: 6526 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Governor Lingle also announced that she will furlough approximately 900 state employees for three days per month effective September 1, 2009. These “exempt excluded” employees are all non-union employees, who are not covered by Judge Karl Sakamoto’s order barring the Governor from unilaterally implementing furloughs for union employees.
(Sounds like union membership is detrimental to the interests of those emplyees who are being laid off.)
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009 |
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Depleted Uranium: Radioactive Propaganda
By Andrew Walden @ 2:50 PM :: 16064 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Military
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In attempting to prove DU is dangerous, the activists have in fact proved the opposite. They have discovered what any junior high school physics student already knows -- the world is naturally bathed in background radiation. This background radiation is far stronger than anything depleted uranium could ever emit. DU radiation is literally too weak for them to measure.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009 |
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UPDATE: Senate Committee to consider Akaka Bill Thursday
By Andrew Walden @ 2:34 PM :: 15422 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs will conduct a hearing on S. 1011, the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2009. The hearing is scheduled for Thursday, August 6, 2009 at 2:15 PM (EST) which is 8:15AM Hawai`i Time and will be held in the Dirksen Senate Office Building room 628. UPDATE: Names of hearing tesifiers have been released....
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009 |
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The Depleted Uranium Scam
By Andrew Walden @ 7:53 AM :: 18796 Views :: Environment, Military
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If the Big Square Building comprises 100,000 square feet weighing 100 pounds per square foot, and that weight were made up of equal parts drywall, brick, and cement, the ten-million-pound building contains about 42 pounds of non-depleted uranium and 63 pounds of radioactive thorium.
Jim Albertini of the misnamed Malu-Aina Peace Center writes March 27, “We must not tolerate having any depleted uranium in our environment….” By this logic the legislature should immediately be shut down and quarantined as a toxic waste dump.
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Monday, August 3, 2009 |
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The Obama Middle-Class Tax Hike is Coming
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:30 PM :: 7086 Views :: National News, Ethics
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President Obama is finding that keeping the promises made by candidate Obama is next to impossible. You just can’t borrow a trillion dollars for an economic stimulus, enact a new trillion dollar health care entitlement, and increase discretionary spending by 12% through 2019 (including doubling federal education spending) and then expect to pay for it all by taxing the most productive Americans. Eventually the moment would come when reality would catch up to candidate Obama’s promises. That moment is fast approaching. This weekend on the Sunday talk shows, both Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and National Economic Council Director Larry Summers refused to rule out the possibility that President Obama will raise taxes on the middle-class....
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Monday, August 3, 2009 |
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VIDEO: Obama Explains How His Health Care Plan Will ‘Eliminate’ Private Insurance
By Selected News Articles @ 10:08 AM :: 9308 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and National Economic Council Director Larry Summers both sidestepped questions on Obama's intentions about taxes. Geithner said the White House was not ready to rule out a tax hike to lower the federal deficit; Summers said Obama's proposed health care overhaul needs funding from somewhere....
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Sunday, August 2, 2009 |
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Hawaii Hospitals: Not Quite Catching Up To Africa
By Andrew Walden @ 7:06 PM :: 28374 Views :: Hawaii County , Maui County, Health Care
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Originally published July, 2007, this article outlines the effect of government-controlled health care on Hawaii. Since Hawaii's system has been pointed to as a model for socialized health care, other Americans may be interested to learn the fate which awaits them.
In the wake of a heated fight over construction of a privately funded hospital on Maui, the Hawaii Health Services Corporation (HHSC) is moving to improve its facilities by agreeing to provide Hawaii patients with equipment available in some African hospitals....
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Friday, July 31, 2009 |
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Congressional townhall meetings go wild (Coming to Hawaii next week?)
By Selected News Articles @ 6:26 PM :: 15613 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Screaming constituents, protesters dragged out by the cops, congressmen fearful for their safety — welcome to the new town-hall-style meeting, the once-staid forum that is rapidly turning into a house of horrors for members of Congress.
On the eve of the August recess, members are reporting meetings that have gone terribly awry, marked by angry, sign-carrying mobs and disruptive behavior. In at least one case, a congressman has stopped holding town hall events because the situation has spiraled so far out of control.
We at Hawai`i Free Press care about voter participation, so here is a convenient list of upcoming Neil Abercrombie Town Hall events. Don't be shy...
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Friday, July 31, 2009 |
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Stop government control of your health? "Yes We Can!"
By News Release @ 4:58 PM :: 5135 Views :: National News, Ethics
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We have set up a new Health Care Action Center on our website that centralizes key facts and action items to keep you informed throughout the health care debate.
Please take this information and pass it on to others. And follow the links to add your voice to our petition and speak out to your members of Congress. Remember, only a few votes in Congress stand in the way of this “reform” becoming a reality. Thank you for taking action with us!
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Friday, July 31, 2009 |
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Inouye salutes Statehood
By News Release @ 1:38 PM :: 7776 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Three years ago, a Statehood Rally was attacked at Iolani as police stood by. Now this from Inouye:
"The territory of Hawaii was annexed to the United States in 1898 by a joint resolution of Congress based on a treaty signed with the Hawaiian government. For many years thereafter, many delegations of congressmen and senators visited the territory to consider the pleas submitted by generations of our people requesting statehood."
These lines are sure to aggrivate the phony "sovereignty" activists--drug dealers, mortgage scammers, child abusers and others paid by OHA to create an argument for the Akaka Bill by pretending to oppose it in favor of "independence". But Hawaii's elite have decided to turn off the faucet on OHA's goons--for now. What will happen AFTER Admission Day?
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Friday, July 31, 2009 |
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AIONA: Developing Hawai‘i’s high-tech industries
By Lt Gov Duke Aiona @ 3:30 AM :: 6371 Views :: Energy, Environment
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In the coming weeks and months, I will be leading our state’s efforts to formulate solutions to grow our high-tech industry and put us back on track. Your input and involvement in this new endeavor will be critical to our success.
If you share the vision of a thriving high tech industry in Hawai‘i, I ask you now for your help. Please contact my office at ltgov@hawaii.gov and let me know if you want to be part of the solution.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009 |
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Risen from dead: Deal in works for vote on Obamacare
By Selected News Articles @ 6:20 PM :: 5452 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Republican and Democratic senators negotiating financial details of healthcare reform have made great progress and are on the verge of a deal, a key Republican senator said on Wednesday.
"We have made great progress. Every day we make some progress," Senator Charles Grassley, one of the three Republicans from Senate Finance Committee involved in the talks to overhaul the healthcare system, told NPR radio. "Will we get it done so we can get a bill to the other members by this weekend because there is a certain time you've got to give people to study it? We're on the edge, and almost there," he said in the interview.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009 |
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Hashimoto focuses on Senate, Taniguchi
By News Release @ 5:53 PM :: 7686 Views :: Education K-12, Environment
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Please know that should I run, I will be a strong voice against tax increases, for moral values to protect our Keiki, and encouraging our community to have a stronger voice in the legislature.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009 |
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Djou seen as top congressional candidate
By News Release @ 5:36 PM :: 11621 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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“The NRCC is committed to working with Charles Djou as he continues to meet the rigorous goals of the Young Guns program,” said NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions. “With all that Charles Djou has accomplished in just a few short months, I am confident that he will be successful in his effort to regain a seat for Republicans and keep the Democrats accountable for their reckless anti-jobs agenda.”
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009 |
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US Secret Service looks at alleged coup plotters: "Birthers' Queen Bee” could lose law license
By Andrew Walden @ 4:44 PM :: 11144 Views :: Obama
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“Birtherism” is more than a wacky conspiracy theory. Dentist/lawyer Orly Taitz, dubbed the Birther “Queen Bee”, is facing a disbarment complaint filed anonymously in California--the only state in which she is admitted to the Bar. The first paragraph of the complaint reads as follows:
“A California attorney has decided that President Obama is ineligible to be President, and has taken on the mission of removing him from office – by force if necessary. On at least two occasions, she has openly called for armed rebellion by the military, to arrest and imprison the elected President.”
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