1Declaration: Free Markets, Free People, Free Minds

Libertarian Presidential Nominee Bob Barr appeared on the Glenn Beck Show on June 25, 2008. Here is a excerpt from the interview.

“What I am doing, and what I intend to do though the remaining months of this campaign, is raise the issues that neither of the two major party candidates are raising. Questions and issues that go to the fundamental nature of why government has gotten so big, why its spending so much money, why its invading our privacy, why we are seeing court decisions like [Kennedy v. Louisana]. These are issues that are important to the American people, not the issues being discussed by Senator McCain and Senator Obama.” - Bob Barr

Barr now becoming a regular guest

The Fairness Doctrine was an act of Congress that made sure that when one view point was expressed on the radio that the radio station gave opposite and equal air time to the issue as well in an effort to be "fair." The Fairness Doctrine was repealed by Ronald Regan and since then talk radio has flourished but much to liberals dismay it has been overwhelmingly conservative, about 91% right leaning.

From the Media Research Center:

The Issue:
Once again, liberal leaders are pushing the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” to silence conservative leaders like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Mark Levin. Their goal is clear -- silence conservative speech over the radio airwaves. Read MRC’s Special Report: Unmasking The Fairness Doctrine (.pdf)

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The Media Research Center is leading the effort to expose and defeat these efforts. The Broadcaster Freedom Act (H.R. 2905) -- a bill in Congress that would ban permanently the so-called “Fairness Doctrine.” -- is stalled in Congress. We want to rally 100,000 signers by July 4th so we can press every member of Congress to go on record on this vital First Amendment issue.

Global warming has become highly politicized in recent years with the likes of global warming alarmist Al Gore and environmentalists. This politicization has hampered American efforts to use readily available and economically viable energy solutions to reduce the price of energy now. The politicization has likewise hampered American ability to decrease our dependence on foreign energy sources and force us to continue paying countries who despise us and support terrorism.

If one man gets his way energy prices will go higher when he attempts to sue fossil fuel companies for "high crimes against humanity and nature." This man is James Hansen who spoke 20 years ago to Congress about the dangers of global warming (see the PDF transcript of the testimony here). He is speaking before Congress again testifying that large fossil fuel entities like Exxon and Peabody Energy have spread knowingly misleading information about anthropogenic global warming.

Despite significant evidence to the contrary Dr. Hansen, head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is calling for members of Congress who have doubts about the truth of global warming or a shaky history on the support for global warming legislation to be unseated.

Like most environmentalists, Dr Hansen is hoping to stop our use of America's most abundant energy source, coal. He also advocates supporting the "creation of a huge grid of low-loss electric power lines buried under ground and spread across America, in order to give wind and solar power a chance of competing."

His energy plan would most likely be funded by the public and cost us billions dollars not to mention the economic devastation that would occur if he gets his way and gets America's next president to support the Kyoto Protocol.

Dr. Hansen like other environmentalists notably Al Gore say that global warming is without a doubt true and nonbelievers of this phenomenon should be ostracized for their beliefs despite continuing studies against anthropogenic induced global warming.

Click here to read the full article on Guardian News.

NASA scientists have linked increased solar activity to the heating of earth's atmosphere. This is not really new news, only a confirmation that the global warming phenomenon Al Gore, global warming alarmist, speaks about is much more questionable and debatable than he would like you to know.

"It has become clear in recent years that coronal heating is a highly dynamic process, but inconsistencies between observations and theoretical models have been a major source of heartburn. We have now discovered two possible solutions to this dilemma: energy is released impulsively with the right mix of particle acceleration and direct heating, or energy is released gradually very close to the solar surface," says James Klimchuk, an astrophysicist at the Goddard Space Flight Center's Solar Physics Laboratory in Greenbelt, Md. Klimchuk will present his team's findings on May 29 at the American Geophysical Union conference in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl.

X-rays and ultraviolet radiation from the solar corona affect Earth and its atmosphere. For satellites, this can be a real drag--literally. As Earth's atmosphere gets hotter, it expands and becomes denser at high altitudes. When this happens, satellites experience more drag, which changes their orbits. Accurately predicting this "space weather" gives satellite operators more time to respond to or avert problems that could potentially cause interruptions and outages.

To read the whole article click here.

This story was brought to my attention by Further Adventures of Indigo Red.