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    • GM Electric Car Volt's price induces some sticker shock
      The long-anticipated Chevrolet Volt, General Motors' electric car, will cost $41,000, the company announced Tuesday, leaving consumers to decide whether its environmental appeal is worth a price far above that of similarly sized conventional autos.

      Electric-car technology has been around for years, but the high cost to make the vehicles has prevented automakers from producing them for the mass market. The price announcements for the Volt and its electric rival, the Nissan Leaf, have been highly anticipated as a result. Nissan, the only other major manufacturer expected to bring such a vehicle to market this year, said the Leaf will cost $32,780.

      GM and Nissan are relying on a $7,500 federal tax credit for buyers of electric vehicles to offset some of the added cost, and they're hoping that the allure of their novel power source will make up the rest.
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      Too expensive for the average driver. And, again the American car is more expensive than the Japanese one

      (tags: Chevrolet_Volt Nissan_Leaf)
    • The Disclose Act: DISCLOSE and Disclosure 
      As DISCLOSE careens toward a cloture vote this afternoon, it appears more and more like the purpose of the final vote is the same as the purpose of the original bill – to serve as a campaign tool for Democrats in Congress. There is no evidence that the votes are there to break the a filibuster, and many supporters of DISCLOSE, from the President on down, have already shown themselves to be willing to shamelessly demogogue the issue, misrepresenting the Supreme Court's holding in Citizens United v. FEC, misrepresenting history and experience, and misrepresenting the contents of the so-called DISCLOSE Act. Our Jeff Patch reviews a few of these misrepresentations here.
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      Read the misrepresentations of the Act here: http://www.campaignfreedom.org/blog/detail/fact-checking-final-disclose-push
      (tags: Disclose_Act)
    • Journolist, Day 6: Heroes? Not Many There
      If this is the end of the Journolist series, it’s been fun and informative about the individuals on the list, but with a few exceptions looks more like a deranged debating society than a serious threat in itself. The Joe Klein episode, where he passed off Journolist thoughts as his own in a published article, is probably the worst breach of ethics, and also demonstrated how that kind of message coordination can multiply through the mainstream media. The attempt to convince others on the list to spike the Jeremiah Wright story also calls into question editorial decisions made at the time, but it’s also true that most of the people on this list didn’t have that authority at their publications; Froomkin is one of the exceptions.
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      Indeed not many heroes on the Journolist
      (tags: Journolist)
    • JournoList Sinks Lower – These People Are NUTS
      The Daily Caller has released the latest batch of JournoList messages, and it's a shocker: the journalists and other assorted left-wing intellectuals (!) debating what apparently was the hottest topic of the hour, Sarah Palin's son, Trig. I had thought that the belief that Trig was really Bristol's baby was an insane idea held only by Andrew Sullivan. It is an insane idea all right, but it turns out that it was believed, or at least taken seriously, by a number of liberal journalists–while some others, to their credit, tried to restore a sense of decency to the liberal press. Beyond that, the tactics of how to spin Palin's fifth child in a way that could damage the Republican ticket was seemingly an obsessive concern of these journalists. It is a sad spectacle.
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      Agreed…….
      (tags: JournoList sarah_palin)
    • Is Arizona’s Illegal Immigration law SB 1070 working already?
      If the intent of the Arizona legislature was to get hundreds of thousands of people arrested for immigration violations, then their SB1070 bill for immigration enforcement may never quite deliver. If the intent was to encourage illegal immigrants to leave Arizona, they may claim success even before the first law-enforcement records check takes place. Reuters reports that many “undocumented workers” are preparing to leave:

      Nicaraguan mother Lorena Aguilar hawks a television set and a few clothes on the baking sidewalk outside her west Phoenix apartment block.

      A few paces up the street, her undocumented Mexican neighbor WendiVillasenor touts a kitchen table, some chairs and a few dishes as her family scrambles to get out of Arizona ahead of a looming crackdown on illegal immigrants.

      “Everyone is selling up the little they have and leaving,” said Villasenor, 31, who is headed for Pennsylvania. “We have no alternative. They have us cornered.”
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      Other states will enact

      (tags: illegal_immigration)
  • Barbara Boxer,  Carly Fiorina

    CA-Sen: Barbara Boxer Equates Politicians With Serving in the Military

    July 27, 2010 /
    Barbara Boxer disrespects military by equating men and women in uniform with politicians

    How do you spell OUT OF TOUCH with California voters?

    At a campaign event over the weekend in Inglewood, California, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer seemingly equated being a politician to serving in the military –- and an Iraq War veteran supporting Boxer’s November opponent is calling on her to apologize.

    “We know that if you have veterans in one place where they can befriend each other and talk to each other. You know when you’ve gone through similar things you need to share it. I don’t care whether you are a policeman or a fireman or a veteran or by chance a member of Congress,” the California senator said. “[Democratic Rep.] Maxine [Waters] and I could look at each other and roll our eyes. We know what we are up against. And it is hard for people who are not there to understand the pressure and the great things that go along with it and the tough things that go along with it.”

    “Barbara Boxer’s disrespectful comments underscore just how out of touch she has become after her 28 years in Washington,“ Veterans for Carly Coalition Co-Chairman Lt. Commander Paul Chabot said in a press release, in response to Boxer’s comments. “Equating the experiences of members of Congress with those of brave soldiers who have fought to defend our country is just the latest example in a failed career marked by disrespect for our men and women in uniform.”

    Chabot added, “Barbara Boxer owes an immediate apology to all members of America’s armed forces.”

    Time to retire Senator Barbara Boxer and elect Carly Fiorina.

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  • Day By Day,  JournoList

    Day By Day July 27, 2010 – Not The Same Old Crap

    July 27, 2010 /


    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    As more and more of the Journolist archives are published at the Daily Caller, the more cynical American voters will become of their “FREE PRESS.” A coordinated, collusion of group think on the LEFT = Journolist.

    Does anyone think the Founding Fathers of the United States would have ever anticipated such in an internet age?

    I think yes – and, wasn’t that the point of a “FREE PRESS” in the first place?

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