Occupying Sanity Elsewhere

Shame on you, Newsvine "Community"

If you wonder why so many conservatives have left your ranks, I invite you to look at yourselves. Jazzman646's tribute to conservative women article was just taken down by "You" the "community." The article spawned many very interesting - and even a few respectful - debates on co …

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Sea-Level Acceleration Based on U.S. Tide Gauges and Extensions of Previous Global-Gauge Analyses

After all the math was done, the acceleration in global ocean levels averaged out to 0.0 mm/yr.

Rubicon: A river in Wisconsin

I have heard everyone - from Obama's own debt commission to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - call the looming debt a mortal threat to the nation. We have watched Greece self-immolate. We can see the future.

Florida judge strikes down Obama health care law

Study: Many college students not learning to think critically | McClatchy

As many have suspected, modern education is producing ever more "celebrity"- worshiping automatons.

An Environmentally Friendly Means of Decreasing Wastewater Treatment Costs

Excellent!

Congressional Days of C*****mas

On the first day of C*****mas, the taxpayers gave to me bacon, ham and andouille. On the second day of C*****mas, the taxpayers gave to me big vote payoffs and some bacon, ham and andouille.

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One in 7 US households hit by hunger issues in 2009

WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - The number of U.S. households that reported getting emergency food from a food pantry almost doubled between 2007 and 2009, at the height of the recession, a government report said on Monday.

Obnoxious Tactics of the Black Knights

Most adults have come across those special people who will stubbornly NOT concede a point under any circumstances. The worst offenders are those who resort to ridiculous commentary rather than admit they might be mistaken.

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God sues Westboro Baptist Church

In an unprecedented occurrence, the Westboro Baptist Church, best known for its picketing and hatred of homosexuals and Jews is being sued by God. The transgressions, according to court filings date back to 1955 and cover misrepresentation and defamation of character.

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The Death of Fiscal Federalism - Reason Magazine

For those who insist the Republic is secure...

The Mount Vernon Statement

We recommit ourselves to the ideas of the American Founding.Through the Constitution, the Founders created an enduring framework of limited government based on the rule of law.

Tea Partiers Shouldn't Date the GOP

Tea Party groups are conducting online polling and deliberations to determine the priorities of the movement. This process will create a "Contract from America" to serve as a template for reforms to come.

Peggy Noonan: Question Time Isn't the Answer

At the Feinstein hearings, the head of the FBI said that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be underwear bomber in a federal prison outside Detroit, is offering new information to investigators.

The sea level has been rising and falling over the last 2,500 years

This is a great paper concerning precise measurements of the sea level in an area with little geologic activity. This paper shows that variations in sea level are absolutely nothing new.

Why I Am an African-American Conservative

I guess I don't have to explain why I'm black. This is not about the biological origin of my color, but about the origin of my political ideology, which many people, both online and off, black and white, seem to have an issue with.

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Meteorologists agree: man-made warming isn't real | Herald Sun. Andrew Bolt Blog

Andrew Bolt Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 06:24pm What would 121 meteorologists know about the weather, anyway?

It's the Enemy, Stupid

It was health care that nationalized the special election for what we now know is the people's Senate seat. But it was national security that put real distance between Scott Brown and Martha Coakley.

Change Won't Come Easy

The delusions of Progressives replete & vivify this article. Calvin Coolidge on the 4th of July, 1926:

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Coakley is not finishing well....

Is it just me or do you suspect terrorist chatter must be running high today?

Atlanta to SF flight - 2 \F-16s rousted when an unruly (and drunk) passenger fails to exit the lav. Sky News reports 2 or 3 rowdy Englishmen "may have" issued threats on a flight from London to Dubai. Hugo Chavez also deploys two F-16s due to a rowdy passenger.

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After Flight 253, What's Needed Is a New Approach to Airport Security

No one was killed in the Christmas Day terrorist attack aboard Delta/Northwest Flight 253. But that doesn't mean the al-Qaida operation failed.

REVIEW: Star Chemistry Lifts Sherlock Holmes

For those of you expecting what the trailer promised: a bloated, confusing, noisy, headache-inducing Christmas blockbuster weighed down with CGI and barely made watchable by the presence of He Who Makes Everything Better – star Robert Downey Jr. – you're in for a surprise.

Obama Grants Interpol Diplomatic Immunity: A Rightosphere Roundup

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C.

As the Nation's Pulse Races, Obama Can't Seem to Find His

I was walking through a deserted downtown on Christmas Eve with a friend, past the lonely, gray Treasury Building, past the snowy White House with no president inside.

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