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Entries for 'Andrew Walden'
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 |
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How Inouye sabotaged Akaka Bill
By Andrew Walden @ 6:40 PM :: 10606 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The White House may be the most convenient punching bag, but it is not that simple. The DoJ’s point man on the Akaka Bill, Deputy Associate US Attorney General Sam Hirsch, in not an Obama loyalist. His ties are to Inouye....
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Sunday, February 27, 2011 |
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Charles Djou, second most moderate Republican in 111th Congress
By Andrew Walden @ 8:06 PM :: 11652 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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According to an analysis of the 111th US Congress published Friday by the National Journal, among Republicans Hawaii Representative Charles Djou was out-moderated only by Rep Joseph Cao of New Orleans.
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Friday, February 25, 2011 |
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Gallup: Hawaii is tops in moderates, has fewest conservatives in nation
By Andrew Walden @ 11:45 PM :: 8637 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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A Gallup Poll of Hawaii adults released today shows that Hawaii has the fewest self-identified conservatives of any state in the nation—but Hawaii’s 27.9% of conservatives still outnumber the Aloha State’s 23.6% of self-identified liberals.
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Friday, February 25, 2011 |
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Hawaii Legislature honored Mao Zedong collaborator
By Andrew Walden @ 7:46 PM :: 10816 Views :: Hawaii History
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Ariyoshi, as editor of the ILWU’s communist line Honolulu Record weekly paper between 1948 and 1958, employed a columnist named Frank Marshall Davis--also a Communist party member--who would in the mid-1970s become a mentor to a kid named Barack Obama....
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Friday, February 25, 2011 |
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Thursday, February 24, 2011 |
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Abercrombie signs Civil Unions: Invites Sex tourists, illegal aliens to Hawaii
By Andrew Walden @ 2:09 PM :: 7540 Views :: Energy, Environment
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"The civil union bill here in Hawaii possibly contains some loop holes whereby undocumented people could in fact enter into a civil union here in Hawaii. I'm looking at that option for me and my partner possibly," Campbell said.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 |
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Monday, February 21, 2011 |
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Gallup: Over 10% of Hawaii voters abandon Democratic Party, exodus among greatest in US
By Andrew Walden @ 10:35 PM :: 7988 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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In a survey of 1016 adults during 2010, Gallup found 50.0% lean Democratic while 30.4% lean Republican. Every US state saw voters walking away from the Democratic Party since the 2008 election of President Barack Obama. Hawaii Democratic numbers enjoyed the fourth largest decline.
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Sunday, February 20, 2011 |
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Abercrombie: GE Tax hike will be People's Will
By Andrew Walden @ 10:01 PM :: 10505 Views :: Energy, Environment
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After campaigning on a promise not to raise taxes and specifically not to raise the GE Tax, Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie this week has promised to sign any GE Tax hike approved by the Legislature.
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Sunday, February 20, 2011 |
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Abercrombie doesn’t want to hear from you about Civil Unions—but he will have to anyway
By Andrew Walden @ 7:18 PM :: 5915 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The message to shut up and sit down is not being heeded by the Hawaii Family Forum.
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Sunday, February 20, 2011 |
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Saturday, February 19, 2011 |
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Leading Birther admits conspiracy theory promoted by Obama supporters
By Andrew Walden @ 10:21 AM :: 11304 Views :: Obama
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In his February 11 American Thinker article “The Real ‘Birther’ Conspiracy Theory”, Cashill admits: “The more (Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie and the liberal media) talk about Obama's origins the more attention they focus on that story.” Cashill's admission comes in his response to my February 6 article, “Hawaii's Governor Manipulates Birthers.”
Cashill is the author of a newly released birther book "Deconstructing Obama."
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Friday, February 18, 2011 |
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UPDATE: Commissioners reject Carlisle's call to cancel Neighborhood Board Elections
By Andrew Walden @ 12:05 AM :: 6650 Views
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Neighborhood Commissioners Brendan Bailey and Sylvia Young are pointing to the Carlisle administration as the source of efforts to cancel upcoming Honolulu Neighborhood Board elections.
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Thursday, February 17, 2011 |
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Seven House Races decided Civil Unions
By Andrew Walden @ 6:55 PM :: 6236 Views :: Energy, Environment
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On February 11, the Hawaii State House voted 31-19 in favor of SB232 Civil Unions. But the result was a lot closer than it would seem. If the following seven races had been won by civil unions opponents, and all other State Reps voted as they did in the House on February 11, SB232 Civil Unions would have failed in the House by a vote of 25-26....
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011 |
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How they voted: Civil Unions passes Senate 18-5
By Andrew Walden @ 8:10 PM :: 5840 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The Hawaii State Senate today passed SB 232 as amended by the House. The bill creates a new family structure called ‘civil unions’ which will be treated as equivalent to marriage.
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Monday, February 14, 2011 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How they voted Feb 7-14
By Andrew Walden @ 8:50 PM :: 6898 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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- House: Patriot Act Extensions
- House: United Nations Tax Equalization Refund Act
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Monday, February 14, 2011 |
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Pensions, Rail, Earmarks: Abercrombie and Obama wage war on Inouye
By Andrew Walden @ 12:30 AM :: 11236 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Just two months into his term, Neil Abercrombie has led Hawaii politics into chaos. From the White House to Honolulu Hale, progressive Democrats are duking it out with the old boys.
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Sunday, February 13, 2011 |
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Gaming Lobbyist describes much deeper involvement in selecting Abercrombie Cabinet
By Andrew Walden @ 6:21 PM :: 8771 Views :: Energy, Environment
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"I'll tell you this: We vetted him as carefully as anybody could be vetted and looked into his background, his family, his relationships," said John Radcliffe, a lobbyist who was part of the transition team that reviewed Abercrombie's Cabinet picks.
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Sunday, February 13, 2011 |
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A State-Recognized Indian Tribe for Hawaii?
By Andrew Walden @ 5:34 PM :: 9595 Views :: Akaka Bill
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HB1627 which would create a State-run Indian Tribe will be heard by the House Judiciary Committee Thursday February 17, 2011.
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Saturday, February 12, 2011 |
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Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections to be Cancelled?
By Andrew Walden @ 11:17 PM :: 12452 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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Hundreds of community activists and aspiring political leaders across Oahu are preparing for Neighborhood Board Elections in April and May to fill 439 seats on 33 Neighborhood Boards. February 18 is the last day to register to vote in the election and the last day for candidates to file nomination papers. But NCO Executive Assistant Bryan Mick and the Neighborhood Commission (NCO) have a surprise in store. On February 17, 2011 the Commission will be holding a “Special Meeting” to vote on a motion to cancel the election ....
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011 |
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Flashback: Hooser, Hanabusa predict HB444 will bring gay marriage back before Courts
By Andrew Walden @ 12:55 AM :: 13827 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Pro-gay-marriage Senator Gary Hooser (D-Kauai), speaking on the Senate floor March 25, 2009 said:
“…it may very well be likely that this law would be challenged in court….”
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011 |
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Sen. Gary Hooser campaign website linked to Holocaust deniers
By Andrew Walden @ 12:28 AM :: 20980 Views :: Democratic Party, Kauai County, Politicians, GMOs
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Hooser invites readers to look at his campaign website www.GaryHooser.com. Listed on the right column of his site are links to other websites described as “Senator Gary Hooser’s Regular Reading Regime.” The 25 links include the Kailua, O`ahu-based anti-Semitic 9-11 conspiracy website www.WhatReallyHappened.com (WRH).
At WRH “Regular Readers” like Hooser may peruse an article from a Holocaust denier publication asserting: “(only) two to three hundred thousand Jews perished in Nazi concentration camps, but none in gas chambers.” Another WRH article touts a 1928 communist scheme to send Russian Jews to Siberia. There are literally hundreds of such articles interspersed between a selection of articles about Jewish child molesters, Jewish swindlers, and any other—mostly Jewish or “Israeli”--wrongdoing.
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011 |
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The transsexual agenda for Hawaii schools
By Andrew Walden @ 12:39 PM :: 21264 Views :: Education K-12, Family
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Here's the long history behind the new anti-bullying policy being proposed for Hawaii schools.
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Sunday, February 6, 2011 |
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Abercrombie: Some Retirees do not “make positive contributions in our community”
By Andrew Walden @ 11:52 PM :: 9321 Views :: Energy, Environment
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As a candidate, Neil Abercrombie said over and over again, “We Will Not Be Raising Any Taxes."
But as Governor, Neil Abercrombie has a different message for many of Hawaii’s seniors—you’re not contributing, you’re escaping your responsibilities and, as Governor, I will force you to “make positive contributions in our community.”
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Sunday, February 6, 2011 |
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Hawaii's Governor Manipulates Birthers
By Andrew Walden @ 1:48 AM :: 7999 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Hawaii's newly elected "DSA-er Democrat" Governor Neil "I am not a socialist" Abercrombie is the birthers' best friend -- and many commentators in Hawaii and across the nation are becoming increasingly annoyed by his antics.
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Thursday, February 3, 2011 |
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Civil Unions Bills to be heard Tuesday
By Andrew Walden @ 10:57 AM :: 6322 Views :: Energy, Environment
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SB 232 SD1 Relating to Civil Unions is scheduled for hearing next week Tuesday. In addition to this bill, another civil union bill (HB 1453 Relating to Legal Relationships) will also be heard.
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011 |
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US Senate repeals part of Obamacare: Inouye, Akaka left out in cold among 17 bitter-enders
By Andrew Walden @ 10:42 PM :: 8151 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The US Senate voted 81-17 to repeal the Obamacare "1099-MISC" tax hike and information reporting requirement. Hawaii Senators Dan Akaka and Dan Inouye were among a rump group of 17 Obamacare bitter-enders.
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Monday, January 31, 2011 |
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Wanna-be Dearborn Mosque bomber was mentally ill Wikileaks supporter
By Andrew Walden @ 5:07 PM :: 9317 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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It isn’t the first time around for Roger Dale Stockman, arrested in the parking lot of a Dearborn, Michigan mosque last week. Stockman, allegedly caught with illegal fireworks after making threats against Arabs at a Dearborn bar, has a long criminal and psychiatric record. At least two of his previous federal arrests involved threats. In 1985 he was sent to a Federal Prison psychiatric ward after placing a pipe bomb in the Reno, NV airport.
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Sunday, January 30, 2011 |
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Four assisted suicide bills introduced to Hawaii Legislature
By Andrew Walden @ 3:14 PM :: 7566 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Four assisted suicide bills have been introduced in the State House and Senate. None of them have yet been scheduled for committee hearings. The bills can be tracked here ....
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Friday, January 28, 2011 |
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Abercrombie Administration admits lying about Palafox withdrawal
By Andrew Walden @ 11:48 PM :: 14374 Views :: Health Care, Higher Education
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Adding to its developing reputation for secrecy, the Abercrombie Administration has now clearly lied about at least one aspect of the sudden withdrawal of Dr Neal Palafox’s DoH nomination.
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Friday, January 28, 2011 |
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Carnegie Institution Study: Genocide reduces global warming
By Andrew Walden @ 1:39 AM :: 6679 Views
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While some may find genocide morally repugnant, environmentalists had a different concern: Would re-forestation be enough to overcome the greenhouse gases released by all those decaying bodies? Julia Pongratz, who headed the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology research project from the Institution’s Stanford University campus offices, provides the answer ...
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Thursday, January 27, 2011 |
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Beyond Marriage The Confession: Hawaii Gay marriage advocates let the polyamorous cat out of the bag
By Andrew Walden @ 3:41 PM :: 23188 Views :: Family, Hawaii History
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Do you think that gay marriage advocates just want ‘equality’--they just want to have same-sex marriages made legally equivalent to traditional marriage?
According to the activists themselves, you’re wrong....
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Sunday, January 23, 2011 |
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Transparency? Abercrombie administration brings secrecy back to Capitol
By Andrew Walden @ 8:50 PM :: 8789 Views :: Energy, Environment
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“There must be transparency in government so people know that their economic interests are being represented, not just the interests of a powerful few.” -- Neil Abercrombie, “A New Day in Hawaii”
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Sunday, January 23, 2011 |
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On second try, Abercrombie makes birtherism mainstream
By Andrew Walden @ 5:40 PM :: 9176 Views :: Obama
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He did it. Neil Abercrombie has finally made birtherism mainstream.
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Thursday, January 20, 2011 |
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Analysis: Hanabusa’s glorious DC MetroRail would leave Rida Cabanilla stuck in traffic
By Andrew Walden @ 10:51 PM :: 10299 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Rep Rida Cabanilla last October told the audience at a candidates’ forum: “You ride the rail so I can drive my car.”
In DC, 106 miles of subways have been built--how do the regal V-8 carriages of Cabanilla's DC bretheren fare now that the the peasants have been removed from underfoot?
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 |
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Governor Babblecrombie does it again: Open mouth, insert birther
By Andrew Walden @ 6:02 PM :: 7639 Views :: Obama
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Gov Abercrombie yesterday re-opened his mouth and spoke of his Holy Crusade against the Diabolical Birthers. And lo and behold, the birthers are thrilled at the support they are receiving from Washington Place. Here’s how Babblecrombie stirred them up…again....
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011 |
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Fiscal Notes and Economic Impact Statements for Hawaii Legislation?
By Andrew Walden @ 9:59 PM :: 8376 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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Hawaii is the only state which does not mandate “fiscal notes” be attached to legislation introduced in the House or Senate. Without Fiscal Notes, Legislators are just guessing....
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Sunday, January 16, 2011 |
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Tucson Shooting: Progressive activist who blamed Palin flips out, held for psychiatric evaluation
By Andrew Walden @ 11:15 AM :: 7647 Views :: National News, Ethics
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...something happened to Eric Fuller on the way to his 15 minutes of fame. It took about one day for this very typical and average Progressive activist to implode and he did it in front of dozens of people during the taping of an ABC News Town Hall....
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Saturday, January 15, 2011 |
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Abercrombie, Legislators scheme to divert capital improvement money to General Fund
By Andrew Walden @ 10:57 PM :: 10334 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Abercrombie and potential House Finance Chair Marcus Oshiro have come up with--a $100M per year scheme to divert bond funds into the General Fund disguised as a repeal of the subcontractor exemption from the General Excise Tax.
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Friday, January 14, 2011 |
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Tax hikes? Gambling? Defeated bills from 2010 session may reappear in 2011
By Andrew Walden @ 11:41 PM :: 6385 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Governor Abercrombie and likely House Speaker Calvin Say have both come out against any across-the-board hike in the GE Tax. But that doesn’t mean they won’t be hiking taxes to meet the state’s $800M budget shortfall....
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Thursday, January 13, 2011 |
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Anti-gay religious cult tied to torture seeks Charter conversion of Mokapu Elementary
By Andrew Walden @ 4:01 AM :: 24260 Views :: Education K-12, Military, Religion
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Hiding behind the benign sounding label, “Mokapu STEM School”, a religious cult with billions of dollars in assets is secretly trying use the charter school conversion process to take over Mokapu Elementary School located in Kaneohe on Marine Corps Base Hawaii.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 |
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Judge: Federal Court ruling “leaves Honolulu police officers no safe course” to detain mentally ill persons with guns
By Andrew Walden @ 4:13 PM :: 11142 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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If the officers had done nothing and Arekat had proceeded to shoot someone, defendants undoubtedly would have been sued for failing to detain Arekat. One of the officers explained in her deposition that this case reminded her of a prior case in which the police had not removed a firearm from a person who exhibited signs of paranoia, and that person had used it to kill a person, resulting in a huge civil liability for the police department and the city. In this case, the defendants made a courageous decision to detain Arekat.
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Sunday, January 9, 2011 |
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Fingers point at Self-styled “King of Hawaii” in Tucson shootings
By Andrew Walden @ 10:22 PM :: 11831 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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...finger pointing by those seeking to assign blame has reached a fever pitch. In articles today, Slate magazine, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Ben Smith of Politico attempt to tie alleged shooter Jared Lee Loughner to a strange website promoting a self-styled “King of Hawaii.”
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Sunday, January 9, 2011 |
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Alleged Tucson Shooter: Flag-burning Leftist, dope smoking atheist
By Andrew Walden @ 5:43 PM :: 10522 Views :: National News, Ethics
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"As I knew him he was left wing, quite liberal. & oddly obsessed with the 2012 prophecy."
"He was a political radical & met Giffords once before in '07, asked her a question & he told me she was "stupid & unintelligent"
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Sunday, January 9, 2011 |
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UK Lib-Dems push for end of “libel tourism”
By Andrew Walden @ 4:29 PM :: 8026 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Threats of libel actions in UK courts were used to silence coverage of the financial connection between Barack Obama, Tony Rezko, and Iraqi ex-Baathist billionaire and lifelong Saddam Hussein associate Nadhmi Auchi during the 2008 campaign. Hawai’i Free Press was one of the few news sources anywhere on Earth willing to defy the threats.
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Friday, January 7, 2011 |
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Stalemate Broken: House Republican Caucus backs Calvin Say for Speaker
By Andrew Walden @ 9:10 PM :: 6615 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Rep Gene Ward: "The eight of us have heard directly from our constituents, from Oahu to Maui, about the importance of not raising the general excise tax (GET), providing favorable pro-small business initiatives that will create jobs and ensuring improvements are made to state infrastructures."
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Monday, January 3, 2011 |
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Robert Iwamoto trust sued over Maui Ponzi scheme
By Andrew Walden @ 8:31 PM :: 27028 Views :: Hawaii County , Maui County, Ethics, Law Enforcement
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Lloyd Kimura, a Democrat donor, gambler, and brother of Hawaii County Prosecutor Jay Kimura, pled guilty December 28 in State Court to operating a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme known as Maui Industrial Loan & Finance Co. or Maui Finance Co. (MFC). He could face up to 20 years in prison. But Kimura’s admission of guilt is just the beginning....
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010 |
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Republican Tom Berg wins Council Special Election
By Andrew Walden @ 11:18 PM :: 9620 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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The results are in. With 100% of the votes counted in the all-mail in special election for Honolulu Council District 1, covering Ewa and Leeward Oahu, Republican Tom Berg has been elected.
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010 |
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2011 Legislative Agenda: ERS benefits to be slashed, “all eligible members to retire”
By Andrew Walden @ 9:59 PM :: 8706 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Hawai has an unfunded pension liability to the government Employees Retirement System estimated by the American Legislative Exchange Council in excess of $5 billion dollars. But a September 9, 2010 Procurement exemption request filed by State vendor KMH LLP suggests that liability will be cut by reducing benefits during the 2011 legislative session.
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