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Quinnipiac Poll: Cain, Romney in Dead Heat With ObamaWednesday, 12 Oct 2011 10:35 AM
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Quinnipiac Poll: Romney, Cain in Dead Heat With Obama A new survey of Virginia voters puts President Barack Obama in a dead heat against Republican candidates Mitt R omney and Herman Cain headed into the 2012 election. In 2008, Obama became the first Democratic presidential nominee to win the state in 44 years. But the new Quinnipiac University poll of 1,459 registered voters taken Oct. 3-9 shows that either Romney or Cain would be in position to beat Obama if the election were held today. In head-to-head matchups, Romney edged Obama by 45 percent to 44 percent, and Obama squeaked by Cain 45 percent to 43 percent. When asked which GOP candidate they support, voters who identified themselves as Republicans were evenly split between Romney and Cain. Each drew 21 percent, while Texas Gov. Rick Perry — who just a month ago was a favorite among Virginia Republicans — fell to a distant third with only 11 percent support. Overall, 70 percent of Virginians surveyed said they still like Obama personally, but 55 percent said he does not deserve to be re-elected based on his job performance and administration policies. The Quinnipiac poll also revealed a tossup in the other big Virginia race for 2012 — the fight between former governors George Allen and Timothy Kaine for the seat of retiring Democratic Sen. Jim Webb. At the moment, Democrat Kaine has a razor thin 45 percent to 44 percent lead over Republican Allen. © Newsmax. All rights reserved
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Facebook Admits to Tracking Members AFTER They Have Logged OutSeptember 28, 2011 In its latest privacy blunder, the social networking site was forced to confirm that it has been constantly tracking its 750million users, even when they are using other sites. The social networking giant says the huge privacy breach was simply a mistake – that software automatically downloaded to users’ computers when they logged in to Facebook ‘inadvertently’ sent information to the company, whether or not they were logged in to Facebook at the time. The website’s practices were exposed by Australian technology blogger Nik Cubrilovic and have provoked a furious response across the internet. Mr. Cubrilovic found that when you sign up to Facebook it automatically puts files known as ‘cookies’ on your computer which monitor your browsing history. This is still the case – although Facebook claims the cookies no longer send information while you are logged out. If you are logged in to Facebook, the cookies will still send the information, and they remain on your computer unless you manually delete them. Mr Cubrilovic wrote: ‘Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit. ‘The only solution is to delete every Facebook cookie in your browser, or to use a separate (web) browser for Facebook interactions. ‘This is not what ‘logout’ is supposed to mean |
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WHY DID I VOTE DEMOCRAT? I voted Democrat because
--English has no place being the official language
in America. I voted Democrat because--I believe that a first term Senator from Chicago who has never had a position of leadership in his entire life is better qualified to run this country than a veteran Senator from Arizona, who spent many years in a POW camp when he was captured while fighting for my freedom
I voted Democrat
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ObamaCare Headed For Supreme CourtSeptember 27, 2011
The Obama administration chose not to ask the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to re-hear a pivotal health reform case Monday, signaling that it’s going to ask the Supreme Court to decide whether President Barack Obama’s health reform law is constitutional. The move puts the Supreme Court in the difficult position of having to decide whether to take the highly politically charged case in the middle of the presidential election. The Justice Department is expected to ask the court to overturn an August decision by a panel of three judges in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals that found the law’s requirement to buy insurance is unconstitutional. The suit was brought by 26 states, the National Federation of Independent Business, and several individuals. Since the ruling, the Justice Department had until Monday to ask the entire 11th Circuit to review the case. Administration lawyers didn’t file the paperwork by the 5 p.m. deadline, so the ruling would stand unless the Justice Department asks the Supreme Court to step in. The issue of the constitutionality of the individual mandate has been widely expected to be decided by the Supreme Court. The key question has been the timing. The Justice Department’s apparent decision to ask the Supreme Court to review the case greatly increases the chances the issue will be heard in the 2011-12 term, which begins Monday.
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Health Care Reform Should Empower Patients, Not Government By Andrea Whitman All sides of the current health care debate acknowledge that American health care is in crisis and that changes must be made. But the consensus disappears when it comes to choosing the path toward successful health care reform. The proposals coming from Washington, D.C., put federal bureaucrats in charge of health care decisions, the fast track to government-run health care. A better approach, rooted in principles of individual freedom and choice, would provide patients with greater access to treatments and medical providers, and less interference from insurance companies, bureaucrats, and politicians. Expanding the role of government in the health care arena has consistently contributed to higher costs and lower quality care. We need to carefully address America’s healthcare challenges by finding measurable ways to make it more accessible and affordable without jeopardizing quality, individual choice, or personalized care. Unfortunately, here in Texas, our Legislature attempted this session to go in the opposite direction. By extending continuous eligibility for Medicaid and significantly expanding income eligibility from the Children’s Health Insurance Program, government’s role in health care decisions, restrictions on competition and innovation in health insurance products, and taxpayers’ costs would have greatly increased. Just because the federal government gave the go-ahead to expand government-run, taxpayer-funded programs, Texas should not blindly charge the road to expansion. The federal government is itself on the road to expanding its role in your health care. The plans being developed in Washington, D.C., include individual and employer mandates that threaten to further cripple our access to quality care, as they force people to have insurance or pay costly penalties. Texans have long cherished individual freedoms and personal choice, yet Texas is among the five most heavily regulated insurance markets in the nation. Most of the over-regulation occurs through mandated benefits; nevertheless, the Texas Legislature imposed even more costly mandates this session. No doubt all of the current 55 mandated benefits were passed with the intent of making health care accessible to more people. Instead, they have actually contributed to the growing uninsured population across the state. Historically, government intervention in the health insurance arena has caused the cost of premiums to rise. In the past five years alone, insurance premiums have risen 40 percent in Texas. Requiring every health insurance policy sold in Texas to cover even more conditions and treatments will not help Texas reduce the cost of health care or the number of uninsured residents. The real alternative to today’s health care system is to remove the layers of government regulation and encourage robust competition among health care services and insurance products. Wherever competition is allowed to flourish, the public stands to benefit from improvements in quality and declines in costs. Americans should be particularly horrified by the concept that a committee of bureaucrats in Washington will decide what health care we receive and when we can receive it. Health care should always be a personal decision between you and your doctor. It should never be dictated by government. The Texas Legislature and U.S. Congress should commit to the principle that doctors and patients should make health care decisions, not some bureaucracy. The path that Congress has recommended thus far will ultimately lead to rationing of care – delays and denials of treatment as is common in other countries with nationalized health care. The British national health system rations care based on age. The Canadian delays for care – even for lifesaving treatments – have been well-documented. And most recently, the Oregon state health plan told a terminally ill cancer patient that it would pay for him to get physician-assisted suicide, but not treatment. Our health care freedoms are truly at stake with the threat of a government-run health care system. The Texas spirit has always been one that has valued individual freedom and detested government control. Now is not the time, and health care is too personal an issue, to break with that proud tradition. Andrea Whitman is a health care policy analyst at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a non-profit, free-market research institute based in Austin.
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Darwin Would Not Have Supported Censorship
In the article (Houston Chronicle, "State Board of Education Must Be Held Accountable," February 12, 2009), the Texas Legislators, who were quoted, misstated the current debate when they said, "The SBOE continues to engage in narrow theological debate about the validity of evolution." These Senators obviously have been getting their information from far-leftwing groups and from many in the liberal news media.
The Senators did not name any specific SBOE members because no such statements have been made by any of us. All SBOE meetings are recorded, and I invite the public to go to www.tea.state.tx.us to verify the accuracy of my statement. No SBOE members are seeking to remove evolutionary theory from the science curriculum standards. Evolution is a major theory, and any standards without the theory of evolution included in them would be substandard. There is also no Board member who is seeking to implement religious beliefs into public school science curricula.
For the past twenty years, students in Texas have been required “to analyze, review, and critique scientific explanations, including hypotheses and theories, as to the strengths and weaknesses using scientific evidence and information." This standard has been applied to all scientific theories. Pro-Evolution Advocates, however, want evolution to be singled out and taught differently from the other theories. They want evolution to be taught without including the weaknesses of this theory.
The evolutionists want the time-tested standard to be removed from our Texas standards and, hence, from our textbooks and teaching materials. The twenty-year old standard does not state nor imply the teaching of religion, just “scientific explanations and scientific evidence." If a teacher in our state had used this twenty-year-old standard as a "backdoor vehicle" through which to teach students religion, the ACLU most certainly would have sued by now.
The Houston Chronicle article goes on to say that if the SBOE does not remove this standard that it will "impact the economic progress of our state." The facts tell otherwise. According to a recent press release by the Governor's office, Texas has shown increases in both economic growth and jobs while the rest of the nation has shown a decline. In the 2009 State of the State Address the Governor stated that 70% of the jobs created in the U.S. were in Texas. All this has occurred in Texas during the time that this twenty-year-old policy has been in place.
A new Zogby poll released on 2.3.09 states, “A large majority (80%) agree that teachers and students should have the academic freedom to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of evolution as a scientific theory, with more than half (54%) saying they strongly agree. A sixth (17%) disagree.” (http://www.freemarket.org/Img/2009%20Zogby%20Poll%20Findings%20Report.pdf)
The open and
vigorous public debate on controversial issues is one of the hallmarks of
America. As a people, we cherish and defend academic freedom, political
freedom, freedom of association, freedom of movement, and freedom of
thought.
If our
public-school science standards censor out scientific weaknesses, we limit
our educators by directing them to avoid scientific controversy. As U.S.
Senator Robert Byrd (a Democrat) has wisely pointed out regarding science
education, “If students cannot learn to debate different viewpoints and to
explore a range of scientific theories in the classroom, what hope have we
for civil discourse beyond the schoolhouse doors?”
Darwin himself would not have supported censorship of the scientific weaknesses of his own theory. Indeed he wrote a whole chapter in his book, On the Origin of Species, about the difficulties with his theory. Darwin said, "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down."
The 17% who
would thwart critical thinking, particularly in light of recent advances in
science, can only be described as censors, no matter what their
organizational name may say.
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How to Save Texas Consumers a Lot of Money Savings Could Reach $4.3 Billion per Year By Bill Peacock April 6, 2009 -- High prices and a failing economy have everyone looking for ways to save consumers money. Unfortunately, most people are looking in all the wrong places. Texans have a history of being self-reliant. But there is still a tendency here to put the blame for high prices on big business and turn to the government for relief. It hasn’t helped. The high prices consumers are struggling to pay have been largely brought on by federal, state, and local governments through a litany of fees, taxes, restrictions, and mandates. In fact, the cost imposed on consumers by Texas governments alone could reach $4.3 billion annually depending on the outcome of the current session of the Texas Legislature. A recent example was the mold crisis. Heavy regulation of homeowners’ insurance—along with some enterprising trial lawyers—led to Texas becoming the national leader in mold claims for several years. In 2002, though, the Texas Department of Insurance relaxed its regulations; all of a sudden there was no longer a mold crisis, even though the mold hadn’t gone anywhere. This episode cost Texas consumers almost $900 million in higher premiums.Telecom is another area where this has occurred. Before the BlackBerry, we suffered through decades of black rotary-dial telephones and expensive long-distance service thanks to the government-sponsored monopoly on phone service. While those days are gone, their legacy is that Texans are still saddled with some of the highest telecom taxes in the nation. This includes more than $653 million in annual franchise fee payments to cities and $472 million in double taxation caused by applying the sales tax on top of other taxes/fees and telecommunications equipment.Today, the government’s helping hand is reaching into the energy sector in the name of protecting consumers, either from high energy costs or the predicted environmental disasters to come. Whether these measures will reduce global warming is open to debate. But one thing is for sure: they aren’t saving consumers any money. For instance, Texas consumers are already on track to pay more than $20 billion in subsidies to renewable energy producers through 2025. Most of the subsidies today are going to wind energy producers. Legislation pending before the Texas Legislature would increase these subsidies—especially for solar and biomass energy producers—by about $1.1 billion a year. Energy efficiency measures also threaten to impose heavy costs on consumers. There are two basic ways to achieve energy efficiency. One is for the market participants to discover innovations that accomplish the same result by using less energy, making energy cheaper to use. The second way is through government mandates that make using energy more expensive so that consumers have higher overall costs and use less energy. The energy efficiency legislation filed this session, unfortunately, follows this path and would cost Texas consumers and taxpayer around $426 million a year for subsidies, tax breaks, and mandates. Finally, there is strong support in Austin for raising energy taxes to fund transportation projects. Local governments are asking legislators to give them a menu of options for tax increases, including a new 10-cent/gallon local gasoline tax. At the same time, legislation has been filed to index the state gasoline tax for inflation. These two tax proposals could cost Texans up to $676 million annually. Contrary to expectations, government is making life more expensive for consumers. Just the opposite of the free market, which has consistently driven down costs while improving quality. Yet policymakers who feel their constituents’ urgent need to “do something” don’t have to just sit back and watch the marketplace work. By repealing current subsidies, taxes, and mandates and rejecting new ones, they can save consumers as much as $4.3 billion a year.
Bill Peacock is the Director for the Center
for Economic Freedom at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a
non-profit, free-market research institute based in Austin. He
may be reached at
bpeacock@texaspolicy.com.
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WHY DID I VOTE DEMOCRAT? I voted Democrat because
--English has no place being the official language
in America. I voted Democrat because--I believe that a first term Senator from Chicago who has never had a position of leadership in his entire life is better qualified to run this country than a veteran Senator from Arizona, who spent many years in a POW camp when he was captured while fighting for my freedom
I voted Democrat
because--- now I can marry whatever or whomever I want, so I've
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials are urging boaters and swimmers to be especially careful as thousands take to the state’s lakes and bays over the last holiday weekend of the summer. "Typically, we see more accidents on the three big summer holidays — Memorial Day, 4th of July and Labor Day weekends," said Maj. Alfonso Campos, chief of marine safety enforcement for TPWD. "There are more people on the water and it’s usually a party atmosphere. For some folks, these long weekends are the only time they go out all year." As of the last week of August, there have been 101 water fatalities in Texas so far this year. That’s down from 140 for the same period in 2007. Of those 101 reported victims, 32 died in boating accidents, compared to 45 by this time last year. There have been 173 reported boating accidents this year on Texas waters. “We’ve seen what seems like a really sharp spike in shoreline drownings in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex,” said Game Warden Lt. Jennifer Kemp. “It’s everyone from unsupervised children to young adults who don’t know how to swim. Do yourself and your family a favor: if you’re not a strong swimmer, please wear a life jacket.” Last year marked a four-year high in Texas boating fatalities, with 52, even though nationwide the number of fatalities dropped. Boating and water safety advocates hope to see the downward trend in Texas this year continue. "There are two things people can do that will really improve their chances of coming home safe," said Aaron Reed, a TPWD spokesman and boating education instructor. "First, designate a driver for the boat and for a safe ride home. It’s neither safe nor socially acceptable to drive drunk in a car or a truck, and the same holds true for boats. Second, wear a lifejacket. The new inflatable lifejackets, including the belt packs, are comfortable and effective." Alcohol is believed to be a factor in about one-third of all boating fatalities in Texas. Of victims who drowned in boating accidents nationwide, approximately 85 percent were not wearing lifejackets. Penalties for Boating While Intoxicated (BWI) are similar to those for Driving While Intoxicated and can include suspension of the boat operator’s automobile driver’s license. TPWD game wardens will be out in force on state waters over the holiday weekend. TPWD and Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) "Nobody’s Waterproof" water safety outreach teams also will be on the water at Lake Travis this weekend, with the LCRA team providing safety games and free life jackets in the Mansfield Dam Recreation Area up to Devil’s Hollow and the TPWD team reaching boaters from Pace Bend Park to The Pier, both on Sunday. There have been eight drownings at Lake Travis so far this year. Editors' Note: To schedule a ride on the LCRA Nobody's Waterproof boat from Mansfield Dam, call Jennifer Scharlach at 512-657-6255. To schedule a ride on the TPWD Nobody's Waterproof boat from Pace Bend Park, call Brandi Bradford at 512-657-6597. To schedule ride-alongs with Dallas-Fort Worth-area game wardens (TPWD game wardens will have four boats on Lake Lewisville and boats on other lakes thorughout the region this weekend), call Lt. Jennifer Kemp at 817-343-8802. |
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