Global Warming has been a hot political topic for several years now. Self-proclaimed Global Warming "guru", Al Gore, has done much to raise awareness about this debated topic. When politicians use doomsday scenarios to scare the public into draconian legislation, we should require even more scientific evidence than usual. Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth, is full of spin of scientific evidence. It's wise to ponder the motives of the major players in instances like this.

The two loudest voices I have heard on Global Warming are Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Possible motives for these two groups include:

• A sincere desire to improve the lives of the future inhabitants of our planet
• Getting more camera time to further a political career
• Increasing the power and control of the United Nations over sovereign nations

I'm not going to speculate on which motivations dominate the actions, but inspecting the actions can also bring to light the motivations. I have been keenly aware of the many scientists and professionals who have lost their jobs as a result of disagreeing with the politically correct view of global warming. The politically correct view derives mainly from Al Gore's movie and speeches and the IPCC's Climate Change report.

I find it interesting that even though the IPCC asked "600" scientists to review the pre-publication draft of the report, none of the dissenting views were permitted to be published. In contrast, a grass-roots coalition has had 31,478 scientists peer-review many different papers on climate change and reached a completely opposite conclusion than Al Gore and the IPCC. They found no evidence that atmospheric C02 levels have increased due to increased hydrocarbon use, but instead found naturally occuring cycles which account for the changes. And also that increases in CO2 actually benefit the environment.

If the true motivation is to improve the lives of future generations, then why not focus on:

• Increasing free enterprise which has improved more lives than any other political system in the history of the world
• Increasing personal freedoms which leads to greater happiness
• Reducing actual man-made pollutants instead of naturally occurring CO2

Along with supporting free markets and a non-interventionist foreign policy, Campaign for Liberty champions personal freedom, civil liberties, and the rule of law.

Individual liberty and privacy are central to a free civilization, but are threatened by ambitious executives, activist judges, and unprincipled legislatures. In the name of national security, economic stability, and social engineering, government has eroded our liberties.

The Founders, who faced monumental perils, understood the moral importance of liberty and the need for checks on government power, even during war or crisis. They framed a Bill of Rights that prohibits the federal government from violating the freedom of speech, the press, religion, and assembly; the right to bear arms; freedom from unreasonable search and seizure; and the right of criminal suspects to due process. Unlisted rights are protected by the Ninth Amendment. The Tenth bars the federal government from acting beyond its listed Constitutional powers.

Campaign for Liberty defends the Bill of Rights and opposes the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, the Real ID Act, conscription, warrantless surveillance, abuses of habeas corpus, invasions of financial privacy, gun control, the war on drugs, and other measures that violate the Constitution and our individual liberties.

Visit www.CampaignForLiberty.com and help defend and promote our country’s traditional civil liberties.

My cousin, Eric Jorgenson (Chief Deputy District Attorney for Clark County, Nevada), emailed this information - and I thought I should pass it along.

This has been verified by the FBI (their link is included below).  Please pass this on to everyone in your email address book.  It is spreading fast so be prepared should you get this call.  Most of us take those summonses for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip out on their civic duty, that a new and ominous kind of fraud has surfaced.

The caller claims to be a jury coordinator.  If you protest that you never received a summons for jury duty, the scammer asks you for your Social Security number and date of birth so he or she can verify the information and cancel the arrest warrant.  Give out any of this information and bingo; your identity was just stolen.

The fraud has been reported so far in 11 states including Oklahoma, Illinois, and Colorado.  This (swindle) is particularly insidious because they use intimidation over the phone to try to bully people into giving information by pretending they are with the court system.  The FBI and the federal court system have issued nationwide alerts on their web sites, warning consumers about the fraud.

For more information see the link below:

http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm  

Will President Obama veto the value-added tax?  This would be a new federal income tax (25% rate) that will be added to all purchases.

For more information please click on or paste the links into the address bar:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/26/AR2009052602909.html 

"A gallon of milk would jump from $3.69 to $4.61, and a $5,000 bathroom renovation would suddenly cost $6,250, but the nation's debt would stabilize and everybody could see a doctor." 

On March 9, 2009, Barack Obama issued an executive order that overturned Bush's policy restricting public tax dollars from being used to fund research involving new embryonic stem cells taken from human embryos. All research using public

The public comment period on the new NIH (National Institutes of Health) draft guidelines to open federal funding for research on human embryonic stem cells (ESCR) ends on May 26, 2009. NIH encourages comments to be entered on-line at:
http://nihoerextra.nih.gov/stem_cells/add.htm

As you comment, consider the following points:

    * I oppose killing human embryos. The proposed regulations will force taxpayers like me to fund research I believe is unethical because it requires the killing of human embryos.
    * Expanding funding to new human embryonic stem cell lines will divert federal funds away from promising research that is treating people now with non-embryonic stem cells and will also divert funds away from other sources of embryonic-like stem cells that have been generated without the use of human embryos.
    * The proposed regulations create a financial incentive for the creation of more human embryos to be destroyed to obtain their embryonic stem cells.
    * The guidelines do not require any separation between an IVF doctor and an ESCR researcher. The guidelines say they "should" be separate, but only when practicable. The guidelines allow any IVF doctor to create more embryos than are needed for fertility purposes in order to generate more so-called "leftover" embryos for ESCR research using taxpayer funds.
    * Instead of preventing any future expansion of funding for ESCR on unethical experiments involving human clones and human-animal hybrids, these regulations open the door for such funding upon the order of NIH.
    * The guidelines do not require full informed consent for the parents of the human embryos so that they understand that their options include permission for infertile couples to adopt them.
    * The media has also reported much success by researchers using non-embryonic/adult stem cells which do not kill human embryos.

A Harley rider is passing the zoo when he sees a little girl leaning into the lion's cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the cuff of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her under the eyes of her screaming parents.

The biker jumps off his bike, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch. Whimpering from the pain the lion jumps back, letting go of the girl, and the biker brings her to her terrified parents, who thank him endlessly.

A New York Times reporter has watched the whole event. The reporter says, "Sir, this was the most gallant and brave thing I saw a man do in my whole life." The biker replies, "Why, it was nothing, really, the lion was behind bars. I just saw this little kid in danger, and acted as I felt right."

The reporter says, "Well, I'm a journalist from the New York Times, and tomorrow's paper will have this story on the front page... so, what do you do for a living and what political affiliation do you have?"

The biker replies, "I'm a U.S. Marine and a Republican."

The following morning the biker buys The New York Times to see if it indeed brings news of his actions, and reads, on front page:

"U.S. MARINE ASSAULTS AFRICAN IMMIGRANT AND STEALS HIS LUNCH."

Here is an example of explaining why socialism won't work from an economics professor at  Texas Tech . . . When I was teaching economics I would simply draw a wagon on the chalk board with people riding in the wagon and people pulling the wagon and I would ask the students what happens when there is more riding than pulling?  The answer is obvious, the wagon stops.  It is the same with an economic system.  Someone has to pull the wagon.

Last weekend I decided to experiment with some of Google's web tools. I used Google Sites to create a free new website called Swine Flu Trends. I used Google Docs to create the chart below from a Google Spreadsheet. I setup Google Analytics to track the number of visitors to the site. I used Google Webmaster Tools to submit the new site to the Google Search Engine. I applied for a Google Adsense account to see how that all works. I added a blog to the site using Google's Blogger. And finally, to make it all look official, I purchased the www.swineflutrends.com domain name from NetFirms for $6.99 for one year. Google makes some very slick tools to quickly create a decent website.

As far as the Swine Flu goes, many experts say that it is less dangerous than the annual flu outbreak, but still the rate at which it is spreading worldwide is quite fast.

"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value."

-- Alan Greenspan, 1966

"Already combinations are being entered into which are very ominous for the future prosperity, welfare, and happiness of this great republic."

-- John Taylor, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 23, p.62, April 9, 1882

When the Saab Company asked the Swedish government for help due to the financial crisis, the Swedish government refused saying, "The Swedish state is not prepared to own car factories."

Are we more socialist in the US when our government jumps at the chance to own failing car companies like General Motors? Is the government smarter than the market in determining which companies should survive?

According to its last annual testing of vehicles, Consumer Reports recommended 100% of Subaru vehicles, 95% of Hondas, 89% of Toyotas, and 70% of Fords. Only 17% of GM cars and 0% of Chryslers were recommended. It sounds like the US taxpayers were forced to make one of the worst automotive investments possible.

HR 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009 , is critical for us to maintain a representative government where the people have visibility into how our government functions. Without this transparency, corruption and waste will flourish.

The last time I checked, there were 91 co-sponsors of this important legisltation! Is your representative one of them?  Click here to find out!

TAKE ACTION!