Great idea, especially when energy costs are on eveyone's minds.

The rationale is that NH can lead the way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. According to the Manchester Union Leader, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is being touted by the Lynch Administration as a market alternative to government regulations that tell energy producers how to run their businesses.

Such rhetoric is deceptive. Some might just use the term "bogus". Regulation is regulation, it can be made a bit more acceptable to the general public by trying to provide tradeable pollution credits, but this is not a true market alternative. A market alternative is precisely that, run and regulated by the MARKET, not politicians. The science behind such policies is highly questionable as well. Hear Lawrence Kogan, CEO of the Institute for Trade, Standards and Sustainable Development.

Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists A Conservative Manifesto

The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World

Global Warming and Other Eco Myths: How the Environmental Movement Uses False Science to Scare Us to

The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming

Just listen, and smile!

Sings

Part two of our conversation with Debbie Schlussel. Find out more about Bono's silly antics.

Find Debbie's website at www.debbieschlussel.com or www.debbiedoespolitics.com.

Please note, the music used to open this segment is by Love Spit Love, from the disc "Trysomeeatone". This is Richard Butler's side project, while he was away from the Psychedelic Furs.

Trysome Eatone

Psychedelic Furs

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Hazlitt, a columnist for the New York Times (when the paper was worth buying) and the Wall Street Journal, was a student of Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises. Hazlitt successfully expressed the essential elements of Mises' economic works in this valuable, readable, and insightful book. It is one of the classics of Twentieth Century economics.

According to the Washington Post, US District Judge James Robertson, one of the eleven judges working in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, resigned late Monday, giving no explanation.

The "Post" reports that two associates familiar with Robertson's decision explained that it was his concerns over the Bush Administration policy of conducting covert, warrantless wiretaps which inspired him to leave his post.

For more, listen to this segment from "Against the Grain", on WNTK 99.7 FM, and read the

As cited by the Associated Press, Vice President Dick Cheney appears to have a different take on the US Constitution than that established by the Founding Fathers.

Commenting on the controversy of the Bush Administration conducting warrentless surveillance of Americans, in contravention of the 1978 Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act, Cheney lamented the fact that since the 1970's the office of the President has had much of its power curtailed.

For example, when reporting on Cheney's comments regarding the War Powers Act, the AP stated:

"Cheney told reporters that in his view, presidential authority has been weakened since the 1970s through laws such as the War Powers Act, which Cheney says infringes on presidential authority. "

According to the 1978 "Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" (USC Title 50, Chapter 36, Subchapter I), the President of the United States is given by Congress the power to conduct electronic surveillance of foreigners under these conditions:

(1) Notwithstanding any other law, the President, through the Attorney General, may authorize electronic surveillance without a court order under this subchapter to acquire foreign intelligence information for periods of up to one year if the Attorney General certifies in writing under oath that— (A) the electronic surveillance is solely directed at— (i) the acquisition of the contents of communications transmitted by means of communications used exclusively between or among foreign powers, as defined in section 1801 (a)(1), (2), or (3) of this title.

As we mentioned on Friday, December 16th, the wiretaps sanctioned by the Bush Administration are nothing new, and Congressmen and Senators have known about them for years.

Newsmax.com has also noted that "60 Minutes" already covered the Clinton Administration eavesdropping program, "Echelon", which has been conducting warrantless wiretaps for years. This does not excuse the Bush Administration, but indicts the leftist media very well.

For the Newsmax Link, click here: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/12/19/114807.shtml

Hear Richard Miller, of Talk Radio News, comment on these b

The Bush Betrayal

More with Josh Lynn, of the Center for American Progress.

The trouble is, there ARE no real cuts, just slower growth in domestic spending: sure, you know, the "Constitutional" programs like farm subsidies, welfare, medicare, medicaid, highway spending, OSHA, the FDA, AMTRAK, PBS. Shall we continue? We certainly could! And what a pleasure it would be.

Hear the statist economic argument in favor of more taxation and redistribution of wealth, with Josh Lynn, a research associate attached to the Center for American Progress, in Washington, DC.

The most recent presentation of the "progressive" logic can be found in this piece co-authored by Mr. Lynn and CAP's Robert Gordon.

The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to American History (Politically Incorrect Guides)

Perhaps it is because they are so slow, biased, and time pieces for political effect. This article is a supposed "revelation", that the Bush Administration gave the go-ahead after 9/11/01 for the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans without search warrants, in order to search for evidence of terrorist activity.

See the piece here: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/15/politics/15cnd-program.html

The article is a long look at how the Bush Administration enacted a policy in which a domestic warrant would be circumvented, and permission to allow for wiretaps and e-mail monitoring would be placed under the purview of the "Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, a "secret Washington court that deals with national security issues."

Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years

Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil

The Bush Betrayal

Rudolph is a capitalist fable so says this Marxist review of "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" Worth a fun read.. despite the leftist take on it.

Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Making Of The Rankin/Bass Holiday Classic

The Original Television Christmas Classics (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / Santa Claus Is Comin' t

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

NH Democrat Party Chairman Kathy Sullivan (frequent recipient of the weekly Bad Attitude Award from "Against the Grain", on WNTK 99.7 FM) made it official December 13, 2005; she is angry.

Why?

On the day in question, NH Republican Party Chairman Warren Henderson filed an election-law complaint against the former manager of the Bob Baines re-election campaign. According to the complaint, Henderson said that Geoff Wetrosky, the Baines staffer who was living at Sullivan's abode, and had been accused by witnesses of stealing political signs of Baines opponent (and now future Mayor) Frank Guinta, and taking them to Sullivan's house, signed a false affidavit prior to voting on November 8, 2005.

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After years of wondering, many Americans are finally beginning to get a better idea of why the Japanese government attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941.

Many people suspected that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt not only maneuvered the United States into a position in which the Japanese military would initiate an attack, he might have known the general time and place of the attack.

Stinnet's book takes a close look at this, using new information only accessable after great effort to open previously sealed US documents.

It is an essential revision of the

For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health asin: 0684827360 binding: Hardcover list price: $25.00 USD amazon price: $25.00

Jacob Sullum, a writer known for his excellent work in "Reason" Magazine, has produced a thorough look at the science and politics of the anti-smoking crusade. His analysis of various studies is invaluable, and his writing is fluid and perceptive. Grab this now, and hold onto it.

“Smoke Gets in Their Eyes”
December 6, 2005
P. Gardner Goldsmith

For many years, New Hampshire distinguished itself from Massachusetts by being a place where people could live and conduct their lives more freely, where the heavy hand of paternalistic government was less present, and people were trusted to make decisions for themselves. Unfortunately, the “granite state” has recently been mimicking its southern neighbor far too often. Case in point: A proposal sponsored by Hampton Representative Sheila Francoeur to ban smoking in “public” establishments accommodating less than fifty people.

For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health

Downsizing the Federal Government asin: 1930865821 binding: Hardcover list price: $20.00 USD amazon price: $20.00 USD

Chris Edwards, Director of Tax Policy Studies for the Cato Institute (www.cato.org) has produced one of the most impressive books this year to expose the backwards economics of politically driven government redistribution of wealth. Not only does he cite cases of government waste, department by department, he also provides suggestions to decrease the burden of government on the productive economy it always impedes.

Look for this book, read about it, and get it if you have a chance. You will not be sorry. In fact, buy it for a friend, you'll be an even better one!

Part three of three, featuring Chris Edwards, of the Cato Institute, author of the new book, "Downsizing the Federal Government".

Find the Cato Institute at www.cato.org

More, with Chris Edwards...

Join Cato Institute Scholar Chris Edwards, author of the new book, "Downsizing the Federal Government", as he discusses the pernicious effects of government spending and regulation, and how to effect a positive change.