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    • Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner is set to unveil his first television spot of the campaign Tuesday — painting himself as the race's true conservative and dissing his Republican rival Meg Whitman.

      The ad refers to Poizner as a Ronald Reagan-style supply-side tax-cutter, and offering him as the best hope to save California "from liberal failure."

      The ad berates Whitman for "false negative attacks on Republican Steve Poizner's conservative solutions."

      Poizner also vows to "Save billions by cutting taxpayer-funded benefits to illegal aliens."
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      Jut the start of the ad wars

    • Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger threatened last week to veto a bill that would reduce a corporate tax break, calling it a tax increase. He says requiring Amazon.com to collect tax dollars already owed is a new tax burden.

      But he believes a new surcharge on property insurance is a "fee" that Californians ought to pay.

      The Republican governor has pledged not to raise taxes in his final year in office, but whether that holds true depends on what your definition of a tax is. Legislative counsel already has drafted the insurance fee as a tax bill.
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      And, guess who voted for some of these fees – why, Chuck DeVore has.

    • Can there be more California political news dropping Tuesday? On the day that Jerry Brown will make the obvious official, GOP guv candidate Steve Poizner finally launches his ad campaign with TWO 30-second TV spots going statewide Tuesday. We say finally because every political dork in the state has been asking him when he's going to launch for months.
    • Billionaire investor Warren Buffett advised President Barack Obama on Monday to scrap the health care bill and start over.

      In an interview with CNBC, Buffett said the current bill does not focus on controlling costs, which he sees as the central problem that must be addressed to reform the system. He added that while he does not like the Senate bill, he’d vote for it in preference to doing nothing.

      “What we have now is untenable over time,” said Buffett, an early supporter of Obama’s candidacy. “That kind of a cost compared to the rest of the world is really like a tapeworm eating, you know, at our economic body.”

      “We have a health system that, in terms of costs, is really out of control,” he added. “And if you take this line and you project what has been happening into the future, we will get less and less competitive. So we need something else.”
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      Obamacare definitely does not control costs

    • But in the Al-Arian case, Campbell defenders can claim that when he defended Al-Arian on civil rights and academic freedom grounds, Campbell didn't know the full extent of the evidence that would later link Al-Arian to terrorism. It's much harder to make that excuse, however, in the case of many other radicals with whom Campbell was connected. Let's take the example of another supporter, Abdurahman Alamoudi of the American Muslim Council, whose views in support of Hamas and Hezbollah were well known — and captured on videotape back in 2000. Yet Campbell was still defending him even as other politicians were running for cover.
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      Tom Campbell and his merry Islamic extremists. Certainly, I will never vote for him – EVER.
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  • Al Gore,  Climate Change,  Day By Day,  Global Warming

    Day By Day March 1, 2010 – Nobel Intent

    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Al Gore and the World Climate Change or Global Warming Cabal are jokes. And, they are frauds.

    But, what are a few mistakes in the science , right?

    I, for one, genuinely wish that the climate crisis were an illusion. But unfortunately, the reality of the danger we are courting has not been changed by the discovery of at least two mistakes in the thousands of pages of careful scientific work over the last 22 years by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In fact, the crisis is still growing because we are continuing to dump 90 million tons of global-warming pollution every 24 hours into the atmosphere — as if it were an open sewer.

    It is true that the climate panel published a flawed overestimate of the melting rate of debris-covered glaciers in the Himalayas, and used information about the Netherlands provided to it by the government, which was later found to be partly inaccurate. In addition, e-mail messages stolen from the University of East Anglia in Britain showed that scientists besieged by an onslaught of hostile, make-work demands from climate skeptics may not have adequately followed the requirements of the British freedom of information law.

    But the scientific enterprise will never be completely free of mistakes. What is important is that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged. It is also worth noting that the panel’s scientists — acting in good faith on the best information then available to them — probably underestimated the range of sea-level rise in this century, the speed with which the Arctic ice cap is disappearing and the speed with which some of the large glacial flows in Antarctica and Greenland are melting and racing to the sea.

    The Nobel Prize has been denigrated with Al Gore winning for climate fraud and President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize as he fights two wars against Islamic extremists.

    Should Al Gore give back his Nobel Prize?

    Why?

    It isn’t worth anything, anyway.

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