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    • "It's no surprise that [Republican Carly] Fiorina is attacking me," Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., wrote in a recent fundraising pitch, "because she's so out of touch with California voters. … She supports allowing people on the no-fly terrorist watch list to buy guns."

      This is a line I've seen and heard repeatedly in the last month, and one that I expect to hear from many Democratic candidates this fall. At issue in the debate, and in recently proposed legislation: Should the government restrict the gun rights of people whose names appear on a secret list kept by the government?
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      Abridgement of second amendment rights without due process is antithetical to the Bill of Rights itself.

    • Californians need to acknowledge the full consequences of the state’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and accept the reality “that the net result of green policies may be negative for the economy,” says a report released today by the California Lutheran University Center for Economic Research and Forecasting.

      The report, co-authored by the center’s director, economist Bill Watkins, was commissioned by the California Manufacturers and Technology Association. It becomes the latest in a series of conflicting reports and analyses on the potential economic impacts of AB32, California’s landmark climate-change law, and will add fuel to the debate over a November ballot proposition that seeks to suspend the law’s implementation.

      The report, which Watkins called “a review of the evidence,” argues that there will be no net economic benefit from any green jobs created as a result of the legislation.
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      Not a shocker but very obvious….

    • Sen. Barbara Boxer said last week that climate change — not any of that other stuff — will stand as the "leading cause of conflict" over the next two decades. The comment was apparently based on reports and studies over the past few years that have linked climate change to other security issues, but her colleagues — as well as her Senate campaign opponent — described the prediction as a big stretch.

      Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., Boxer's Republican counterpart on the environment committee she chairs and arguably the most outspoken global warming skeptic in Congress, decried the warning on Tuesday as a bogus ploy to win support for a sweeping energy regulation bill.
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      If Boxer persists she will lose big in November.

  • World Series of Poker

    2010 World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions Field is Announced

    Poker Pro and WSOP Bracelet winner Jennifer Harman asks for your vote into The Tournament of Champions

    Yeah, Jennifer Harman made the list.

    Here is a complete list of those who were voted in and the number of votes they received.

    1. Phil Ivey – 16,267
    2. Daniel Negreanu – 16,239
    3. Doyle Brunson – 13,796
    4. Phil Hellmuth – 12,673
    5. Chris Ferguson – 11,585
    6. Allen Cunninghan – 10,486
    7. Johnny Chan – 10,434
    8. Scotty Nguyen – 9,834
    9. Barry Greenstein – 9,806
    10. John Juanda – 8,835
    11. Erik Seidel – 8,802
    12. Jennifer Harman – 8,206
    13. Huck Seed – 8,180
    14. Dan Harrington – 7,342
    15. T.J. Cloutier – 6,281
    16. Sammy Farha – 6,085
    17. Howard Lederer – 5,596
    18. Greg Raymer – 5,404
    19. Joe Hachem – 5,272
    20. Antonio Esfandiari – 5,129

    The Tournament of Champions begins on June 27th and the final table will on July 4.

    I will be in Las Vegas on the 4th and will live tweet the events. Should be a pretty good tournament.

  • Barack Obama,  Day By Day

    Day By Day June 16, 2010 – Spill It

    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    With the obviously weak response by President Obama to the BP Oil Spill, his Administration is spinning out of control.

    Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Howard Fineman react to President Obama’s Oval Office Address on the oil spill. Here are the highlights of what the trio said:

    Olbermann: “It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days.”

    Matthews compared Obama to Carter.

    Olbermann: “Nothing specific at all was said.”

    Matthews: “No direction.”

    Howard Fineman: “He wasn’t specific enough.”

    Olbermann: “I don’t think he aimed low, I don’t think he aimed at all. It’s startling.”

    Howard Fineman: Obama should be acting like a “commander-in-chief.”

    Matthews: Ludicrous that he keeps saying [Secretary of Energy] Chu has a Nobel prize. “I’ll barf if he does it one more time.”

    Matthews: “A lot of meritocracy, a lot of blue ribbon talk.”

    Matthews: “I don’t sense executive command.”

    When the LEFT and the LEFT media sense a lack of executive command and ability with one of their own, you are in trouble –  just like Jimmy Carter and the Iranian Hostage Crisis in the late 1970’s.

    Will this Oil Spill be the Obama Administration’s undoing?

    It looks like the beginning of the end.

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