December Event - Club Christmas Party!
Date: Monday, December 14
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Location: Triv's Restaurant
Street: 17100 Royalton Road
Join us as we celebrate the holidays and look forward
to 2010 when Republicans will take back Ohio and
Congress!
This event is FREE to all Club members and friends.
The Club will provide appetizers. You can order dinner
off the menu and drinks if you'd like.
This event is in lieu of our regular Club
meeting.
Healthcare Reform Action Plan - What You Can Do!
Help Wanted, No Private Sector Experience Required
Less than 10 percent of Obama cabinet has
private sector experience
By Nick Schulz
November 25, 2009
A friend sends along the following chart from a J.P.
Morgan research report. It examines the prior private
sector experience of the cabinet officials since 1900
that one might expect a president to turn to in seeking
advice about helping the economy. It includes
secretaries of State, Commerce, Treasury, Agriculture,
Interior, Labor, Transportation, Energy, and Housing &
Urban Development, and excludes Postmaster
General, Navy, War, Health, Education & Welfare,
Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security-432 cabinet
members in all.
When one considers that public sector employment
has ranged since the 1950s at between 15 percent
and 19 percent of the population, the makeup of the
current cabinet-over 90 percent of its prior
experience was in the public sector-is remarkable.
http://blog.american.com/?p=7572
Copenhagen's Political Science
By Sarah Palin
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
With the publication of damaging e-mails from a
climate research center in Britain, the radical
environmental movement appears to face a tipping
point. The revelation of appalling actions by so-called
climate change experts allows the American public to
finally understand the concerns so many of us have
articulated on this issue.
"Climate-gate," as the e-mails and other documents
from the Climate Research Unit at the University of
East Anglia have become known, exposes a highly
politicized scientific circle -- the same circle whose
work underlies efforts at the Copenhagen climate
change conference. The agenda-driven policies being
pushed in Copenhagen won't change the weather, but
they would change our economy for the worse.
The e-mails reveal that leading climate "experts"
deliberately destroyed records, manipulated data
to "hide the decline" in global temperatures, and tried
to silence their critics by preventing them from
publishing in peer-reviewed journals. What's more,
the documents show that there was no real
consensus even within the CRU crowd. Some
scientists had strong doubts about the accuracy of
estimates of temperatures from centuries ago,
estimates used to back claims that more recent
temperatures are rising at an alarming rate.
This scandal obviously calls into question the
proposals being pushed in Copenhagen. I've always
believed that policy should be based on sound
science, not politics. As governor of Alaska, I took a
stand against politicized science when I sued the
federal government over its decision to list the polar
bear as an endangered species despite the fact that
the polar bear population had more than doubled. I
got clobbered for my actions by radical
environmentalists nationwide, but I stood by my view
that adding a healthy species to the endangered list
under the guise of "climate change impacts" was an
abuse of the Endangered Species Act. This would
have irreversibly hurt both Alaska's economy and the
nation's, while also reducing opportunities for
responsible development.
Click here for more . . .
Barack and the Buchanan Precedent
Presidential comparisons that greeted Barack
Obama's election ranged from the sublime to the
transcendent. He was variously described as the
second coming of John F. Kennedy, a re-embodiment
of Franklin Roosevelt, and even a budding Abraham
Lincoln-a sort of Savior-in-Chief to rescue an
aggrieved nation from the Dantesque tribulations of
his predecessor. Mr. Obama's public
pronouncements signaled his determination to
abrogate George W. Bush's policies and send us all
back upon paths of righteousness. And that was
before the new president had even done anything.
Well, now President Obama has done quite a number
of things, which bring to mind other analogies, some
of which lurk beneath the worship continuum. Before
Roosevelt there was Herbert Hoover, and before
Lincoln there was James Buchanan, both of whom
share the dishonor of being ranked among the
country's worst presidents, as Nathan Miller pointed
out a decade ago in a perky book entitled "Star-
Spangled Men." About Hoover, much has been written;
but it is President Buchanan who presents a really
interesting case.
Miller's review suggests that presidents fail because
they are clueless or spineless or both. James
Buchanan was both. Among the most reviled in the
heap, he exhorted Supreme Court justices to deliver
what was arguably the most disastrous court decision
in American history-Dred Scott v. Sanford-and in the
process egregiously violated constitutional integrity
and the separation of powers. Buchanan lambasted
Congress for not passing the notoriously pro-slavery
Lecompton Constitution that would have admitted
Kansas as slave state into the Union. To get his way
he resorted to political thuggery: promises of cash to
his supporters and dismissal of officials who
opposed him. All to no avail; Congress defeated the
measure anyway. A later vote in "bleeding Kansas"
resulted in the defeat of the Lecompton plan by a
margin of about nine to one, a result that surprised
him. Cluelessness.
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