News round-up:
-LA Times on Kansas City barbecue.
-CNET News: ”The Environmental Protection Agency may have suppressed an internal report that was skeptical of claims about global warming, including whether carbon dioxide must be strictly regulated by the federal government, according to a series of newly disclosed e-mail messages.”
-Dunkin’ Donuts is opening a new store in Overland Park, KS.
-The Hill: Obama nominee thinks animals should be able to sue humans in court.
-Reuters: Wichita, KS, has the least expensive regular unleaded.
-McClatchy: “What’s really in pool water?”
-This is how gun control leaders seek to reassure gun rights advocates: Obama’s too busy with other stuff. Kansas City Star article, emphasis added:
Peter Hamm, a spokesman for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said there was no tangible evidence that the Obama administration would seek to curtail ammunition purchases or limit gun rights.
“To think Obama is going to take their guns away is stupid. The man has his hands full,” Hamm said. “The calls of gloom and doom that are being sold out there are not only untrue but not healthy.”
-Fox News on Lawrence High School’s Tim Latham: “Kansas Teacher With Conservative Views Gets Job Back”
-The school board of the Kansas City, MO, “public” schools had to pay a $20,000 bonus to the interim superintendant to persuade him to stay around until a permanent CEO was found.
-Kansas City Star columnist Mike Hendricks, who says Bill O’Reilly is complicit in the murder of George Tiller, was awarded a second place honor in the cateogory of humor by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.
-Washington Examiner: “Nick Jonas: Pop star today, president in 2040″
-House Democrats chose not to provide the $36 million needed in funding to build the National Bio- and Agro-Defense lab in Manhattan, Kansas. Where’s our pork?
-LEGO Land is hiring Lego builders.
“I don’t think there’s anything about the public option that would ration care. Unfortunately care is being rationed each and everyday right now. Often private insurance companies stand between a patient and a doctor deciding what treatment can be provided,” she said on Fox News Sunday. “We also have a situation where a lot of people are told that hey can’t have insurance because they have a preexisting condition.”
-David Axelrod: Obama might break pledge to raise taxes on the middle class.
-Taxpayer-funded poll by Kansas Department of Transportation finds that Kansans want more tax money going to roads.
June 29th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
(H/T davidrand) Barack and Michelle DO WHAT together?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neCIg0BiXbE
June 29th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Why the hell is there a story about a Dunkin’ Donuts opening up in Kansas on the front page of Race42012?
June 29th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
#2, why don’t you send him a private email to discuss, instead of the fp?
June 29th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Live a little, Alex.
June 29th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
We need to come together in 2012 and get rid of these people. Don’t we want our Children to have the same freedoms we have (had)?
June 29th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Madrid strips Franco of honorary titles
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090629/od_nm/us_spain_franco_odd
June 29th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
The first thing we all have to agree is that these Far Leftists are EVIL and to stop being CHARITABLE to Obama and his radical socialist-statist agenda.
As usual Rush Limbaugh was right. At ther beginning of the year he said he wanted Obama’s agenda to fail because he knew it was not good for America. The vast majority of Republicans in Congress thought he was crazy. Now most of the Republicans (RINO’s) have decided to attend the party. Unfortunatly they are too late.
June 29th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
The Environmental Protection Agency may have suppressed an internal report that was skeptical of claims about global warming…
Not to through cold water or anything, but this one’s been debunked.
June 29th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Far leftists are not evil.
Also, is that a story about Dunkin’ Donuts? Just checking.
June 29th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Far-leftists are evil. The likes of Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky? Evil.
Howard Zinn has literally stated that, whatever its flaws, the Soviet Union didn’t have billionaires outside of the Communist elite and didn’t have people without health coverage of some sort.
Ideology trumping sanity.
June 29th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Alex, have you read Zinn’s views on slavery and capitalism?
June 29th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Speaking of Lego Land and the KC area… What ever happened to the talk about Lego Land in Olathe, KS or Lee’s Summit, MO?
June 29th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
And I’m not sure the Dunkin’ Donuts story is really front-page R42012 material, but, living in the KC-area, you wouldn’t believe how many people I’ve heard gripe about not having a nearby Dunkin’ Donuts… So that story got a chuckle out of me, at least.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
11 – He thinks slavery was a function of capitalism and that capitalist greed drove the evils of the Civil War and that capitalism kept black men down for the next 100 years and continues to keep them down today. 3948309434i hate howard zinn so much@43
June 29th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Yes, he has some messed up view that President Lincoln should have dismantled the capitalist economy instead of invading the south and that it would have ended slavery sooner then thr length of the civil war…
June 30th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
“Far-leftists are evil.”
Wrong? Yes. Crazy? Definitely. Evil? No.
Evil- Marked by anger or irritability, out of bad conduct or character.
They disagree with you and I, but that doesn’t mean they do it because they’re awful people. Plenty of far leftists are good people.