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WSJ Blames Housing Mess On Hispanics, Not Illegals
→ Common Sense Junction | 6 Jan 2009 | 9:35 am MST
I guess the words illegal immigrants have been deleted from vocabularies at the WSJ. HOUSING PUSH FOR HISPANICS SPAWNS WAVE OF FORECLOSURES For years, immigrants to the U.S. have viewed buying a home as the ultimate benchmark of success. Mortgage lenders appear to have regarded Latinos as a largely untapped demographic. • Between 2000 and 2007, as the [...]
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North East States To Adopt Low Carbon Energy Standards
→ Common Sense Junction | 6 Jan 2009 | 9:06 am MST
American-ized Kyoto standard 11 Eastern states agree to low carbon standard BOSTON — Eleven Eastern states have agreed to adhere to a new fuel standard that they hope will reduce greenhouse gases. Massachusetts energy secretary Ian Bowles said Monday that the states will decide on a single standard for the entire region. He says it will create a [...]
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Figures Don’t Lie But Liars Sure Can Figure
→ Common Sense Junction | 6 Jan 2009 | 8:21 am MST
The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) analyzes the analysts on compensation for American workers: TOTAL COMPENSATION AND LABOR PRODUCTIVITY The relation between wages and worker productivity is a key determinant of the standard of living of the employed population. According to research by economist Martin Feldstein, the share of national income going to employees is at [...]
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Why The Hush When Rockets Fell On Israel?
→ Common Sense Junction | 6 Jan 2009 | 7:44 am MST
RICHARD COHEN at IBD: Nearly a year ago, I was in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, where, on almost any day, you could see the current war coming. “The next Middle East war may start over Sderot,” I wrote back then. I came by my prescience the hard way — in a bomb shelter. That day, three [...]
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Murderers Rally In Chicago
→ Common Sense Junction | 5 Jan 2009 | 9:38 am MST
Jake and MJ at Freedom Folks took their cameras into the streets of Chicago last week to cover the pro-Hamas (actually pro-murderers) rallies. The photos show anti-Israel louts that are either dumber than dirt or outright frauds because they were waving pro-Palestine signs instead of Hamas signs. Here’s MJ’s original coverage and Jakes followup. - addthis_url [...]
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How They Built Stonehenge?
→ Common Sense Junction | 5 Jan 2009 | 6:43 am MST
Wally Wallington lifts a Stonehenge-sized pillar weighing 22,000 lbs and moves a barn 300 feet with gravity and his ingenuity. - addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.commonsensejunction.com%2F%3Fp%3D5907'; addthis_title = 'How+They+Built+Stonehenge%3F'; addthis_pub = '';
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Drunk Teen Driver Calls 911 To Report She Is DUI
→ Common Sense Junction | 4 Jan 2009 | 9:28 am MST
BISMARCK, N.D. — Police get calls about drunken drivers all the time, but rarely do they come from the alleged offender. A 17-year-old girl in Bismarck called 911 on New Year’s Eve “to report herself driving under the influence,” police Lt. Randy Ziegler said. “I’ve never heard of such a thing happening, and neither has [...]
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Bush 43 Leaves A Token National Security Legacy
→ Common Sense Junction | 4 Jan 2009 | 8:30 am MST
Smuggler’s Gulch lived up to its infamous name. For a century, the narrow canyon leading into California from Mexico provided cover for cattle thieves and opium dealers, bandits and booze runners. More recently, it has hidden thousands of illegal immigrants on their journey north, sealing its place in border lore. Now, it’s a fading memory. The canyon has [...]
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2008: OPEC, Iraq, MS-13, Blue States, Bailouts
→ Common Sense Junction | 3 Jan 2009 | 10:37 am MST
• In 2008 OPEC made the first run since 1974 at cornering the world’s money supply and it backfired again. Greed and Islamism pushed the average U.S. pump price to $4.11 per gallon in July but the price has plummeted to $1.66 as drivers parked their cars. Like a middle finger salute to OPEC’s failed [...]
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Why The Right Made A Left Turn
→ Common Sense Junction | 3 Jan 2009 | 8:58 am MST
Phyllis Schlafly: Why did 18-to-29-year-old evangelicals vote for Barack Obama despite his apostasy on the fundamental moral issues of abortion and same-sex unions? They voted 32 percent for Obama, twice the percentage of that demographic group who voted for John Kerry in 2004. Many of these young people identify “social justice” as the reason that led them [...]
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