http://www.drudge.com/user/kerrin57 New links and comments. en-us http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Wordzilla/0.58 10 http://www.drudge.com/news/110138/oklahoma-rebellion http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2008/07/16/oklahoma_rebellion One of the unappreciated casualties of the War of 1861, erroneously called a Civil War, was its contribution to the erosion of constitutional guarantees of state sovereignty. It settled the issue of secession, making it possible for the federal government to increasingly run roughshod over Ninth and 10th Amendment guaranteesOklahomans are trying to recover some of their lost state sovereignty by House Joint Resolution 1089, introduced by State Rep. Charles Key. <p> Federal usurpation goes beyond anything the Constitution's framers would have imagined. James Madison, explaining the constitution, in Federalist Paper 45, said, "The powers delegated to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, [such] as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people." Thomas Jefferson emphasized that the states are not "subordinate" to the national government, but rather the two are "coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole. The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government." <p>Both parties and all branches of the federal government have made a mockery of the checks and balances, separation of powers and the republican form of government envisioned by the founders. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:29:56 -0400 kerrin57 http://www.drudge.com/news/110138/oklahoma-rebellion#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.110138 discussion 110138 http://www.drudge.com/news/110000/55-mph-could-speed-us-into-recession http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/slowing_to_55_mph_could_speed.html There is no better example of how out of touch Washington is with reality than the idea that our energy crisis can be addressed with a reduction of the national speed limit to 55 miles per hour. This is a classic sterile ivory tower academic type answer to a much more messy and complex question than politicians realize.<p>It sounds great on the surface. Simply drop 10 (more like 20 in reality) miles per hour and bammo....tons of found oil in effect. Wrong. What do these politicians (and New York cable financial analysts) think folks are doing out there on the interstates? They are not all just cruising around. They are doing what we call "commerce." You know, like trying to get produce to markets. Or making sales calls. Or delivering I-phones that are on back order. Or getting back home to have time with family from making sales calls or getting produce to market or delivering I-phones. <p> This reduced speed limit would have the effect of robbing most Americans of hours per year of time and productivity. Increased productivity that has propelled our markets to new highs in the last couple years. It would reduce the productivity of nearly every single truck driver, repair and maintenance crew, sales and marketing rep and in fact every single person and business who depends on transportation for their commerce. In other words, that means practically every single business in the country would take a hit. That inevitably means fewer jobs, reduced economic activity and lower tax revenues. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:17:32 -0400 kerrin57 http://www.drudge.com/news/110000/55-mph-could-speed-us-into-recession#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.110000 discussion 110000 http://www.drudge.com/news/109997/new-hope-global-warming-deniers http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/new_hope_for_global_warming_de.html Why would anyone be a global warming denier? What's the point? You earn the scorn of Al Gore and maybe Dr. James Hansen, NASA's pre-eminent climate scientist will call for you to be put in jail. Of fossil fuel company CEOs, Hansen recently testified to Congress:<p>In my opinion, these CEOs should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature. If Dr. Hansen turns out to be wrong about climate change should he be tried for high crimes and misdemeanors too? Steve McIntyre and his collaborators at climateaudit.org have already found one big error in Dr. Hansen's GISS global temperature data series. How many mistakes add up to a felony? <p> But things are looking up for the global warming skeptics. First of all there is the global temperature. After holding constant since 1998 it has dropped markedly in the last two years. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:21:44 -0400 kerrin57 http://www.drudge.com/news/109997/new-hope-global-warming-deniers#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.109997 discussion 109997