Field Guide #68 – No Guest Today, All Political Talk

Live on Talkshoe: Mon, Wed, & Fri at 10:00pm EasternCall in: (724) 444-7444 • Talkcast ID: 25742 [display_podcast] Political News Farm Bill’s $286 Billion Heft Draws Criticism From Budget Cutters National Debt Hits $9 Trillion for the First Time Lieberman [...]

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It's Called Baby Fat for a Reason

Having kids, I understand that babies are chubby. That is what makes them SOOOOO adorable. But, to some “modern” parents, that is troublesome fat around their waist: Parents are taking babies as young as four months to special gyms amid [...]

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Ignoring Global Warming is Criminal Now?

The United Nations’ top climate talking head said recently: ignoring the urgency of global warming would be “criminally irresponsible.” He was talking to “policymakers and scientists trying to hammer out a landmark report on climate change.” Crinimally irresponsible? I don’t [...]

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Canada's Health Care Comes with a Big Pricetag

How long can Canada pay this price before they say: “Enough is enough.” Canada’s health-care spending will reach $160.1 billion this year, up from $150.3 billion in 2006, says a new report. The Canadian Institute for Health Information pegs the [...]

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Iran to IAEA: "Here's Some Nuclear Weapons Blueprints."

Iran has handed some nuclear weapons bluepeints over to the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency. The U.N. says it was probably done to avoid any sanctions. I wonder if they have any copy machines in Iran: The agency had [...]

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Flags Foreshadow Another Clinton Presidency

The flags don’t even respect Hillary: Kind of a bizarre moment in Waterloo, IA. After a very presidential-looking news conference with reporters, Clinton stood in front of a dark blue curtain with four flags standing behind her. After answering questions [...]

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Analysis: Violence Down in Baghdad

If we just would have pulled our troops out, none of this would have happened: Rocket and mortar attacks have fallen to their lowest level in nearly two years. Civilian deaths have dropped sharply since summer. Shoppers are venturing out, [...]

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Farmers Report Near Record Profits, Senate Adds $10,000,000,000 to Farm Bill

This makes sense: Thanks to the application of a little last-minute budgetary magic, the farm bill before the Senate this week authorizes about $10 billion in new subsidies, price guarantees and disaster aid in the next decade, even as farmers [...]

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Thompson Talks Social Security

It’s a topic most let go untouched. Fred Thompson has not only touched it, he seems to have grabbed it will both hands and is holding it up for everyone to see. It’s his plan for Social Security, and it [...]

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Lieberman is a Patriot

Cal Thomas tells us why he thinks the Independent Democrat from Connecticut is a real patriot: In a speech last week before Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, Lieberman said, “Since retaking Congress in November 2006, the top [...]

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Tom Tancredo Drops a Bomb in Iowa

Congressman Tom Tancredo is taking a lot of heat for his latest campaign ad. He is being accused of fear mongering. I don’t see it that way. Tom is telling the truth, but no one wants to hear it. Take [...]

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Field Guide #67 – Interview with Warren Meyer of Coyote Blog

Live on Talkshoe: Mon, Wed, & Fri at 10:00pm EasternCall in: (724) 444-7444 • Talkcast ID: 25742 [display_podcast] We spent an hour with Warren Meyer of Coyote Blog discussing his book “A Skeptical Layman’s Guide to Anthropogenic Global Warming.” It [...]

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Iowa Boy, Soviet Spy

The New York Times looks a the life of a Soviet spy who had access to the Manhattan Project. No, I had never heard of him either. Guess it all very embarrassing and hushed up. Now we know how the [...]

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The Poor are Getting…Richer?

There is a study coming out today that looks at the upward mobility of Americans economically. We are being told by John Edwards and Mike Huckabee that America has become a place of “rising inequality and shrinking opportunity.” It looks [...]

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