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Wednesday, July 28, 2010 |
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Djou: “Truth in Spending Act would force Congress to live by financial forecasts”
By Selected News Articles @ 1:10 PM :: 11241 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The Congressional Budget Office employs talented economists whose job it is to study every aspect of every bill and predict how much each will cost – or how much each will save – years into the future.
They are good, but they are not infallible soothsayers. Economic predictions that are off just a little in a year can become wildly inaccurate over the course of decades....
When costs are higher than or savings lower than predicted, the Truth in Spending Act creates a fast-track process to reduce excess costs through legislation.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010 |
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Aiona: Schools’ RTTT finalist selection “a significant step in the right direction”
By News Release @ 1:42 PM :: 8507 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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“Hawai‘i’s Race to the Top application represents a collaborative effort among our Administration, the Hawai‘i Department of Education, non-profit organizations, legislators and community leaders."
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010 |
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Djou cosponsors legislation to help small business with tax relief
By News Release @ 1:33 PM :: 9227 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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“To stimulate the economy and help small businesses, I am proud to join my colleagues in co-sponsoring the Small Business Assistance and Relief Act. Whoever is in the majority—whether Democrats or Republicans—we need fiscal responsibility in Washington, D.C. and tax relief for every working family and small business to get our economy moving again.”
H.R. 5554, the Small Business Assistance and Relief Act, will help small businesses thrive by providing tax relief, reducing regulatory burden and boosting lending in the currently tight credit environment.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010 |
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Would Colleen Hanabusa Support Obama’s Small Business Tax Hike?
By News Release @ 1:31 PM :: 9477 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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“After supporting a Democrat agenda that has buried Hawaii taxpayers under a mountain of reckless government spending and record-high debt, it looks like Colleen Hanabusa could once again support a job killing tax hike that would devastate the economy even further,” said NRCC Communications Director Ken Spain. “Small businesses are looking for some much-needed relief, but all they’re getting from Washington is the uncertainty that comes from the Democrats’ harmful agenda. If Hanabusa can’t finally stand up against the Democrats’ tax-hiking agenda, it will prove once and for all that her loyalties do not lie with Hawaii businesses and families.”
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010 |
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VIDEO: Djou on Fox Business News
By News Release @ 2:57 AM :: 11980 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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“Raising $3.8 trillion in new taxes at any time is a bad idea. Raising these taxes in the middle of an economic downturn is a terrible idea. The current majority in Congress has spent hundreds of billions of dollars to try and turn around the economy with the so-called ‘stimulus’ package. It has utterly failed.”
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Monday, July 26, 2010 |
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Campaign contributions: Inouye pushing for more Sandwich Isles Communications funding?
By Andrew Walden @ 5:11 PM :: 12010 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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In 2009 the US House Energy and Commerce Committee nailed Sandwich Isles as one of the nation’s “10 worst abusers” of Universal Service Fund (USF) tax dollars—which every telephone customer pays with their monthly phone bill.
SIC’s cables run to Hawaiian Homelands properties-most of which are unoccupied and are not going to be occupied anytime soon. The cost per actual user of broadband services is estimated at $278,000 per customer.
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Monday, July 26, 2010 |
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Djou cosponsors Iran Sanctions: Bill becomes Law
By News Release @ 12:13 PM :: 8720 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The legislation penalizes entities that assist Iran in importing refined petroleum or in maintaining or expanding Iran’s domestic refining capacity. These sanctions penalize foreign financial institutions that do business with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, aid Iran’s nuclear program or support Iran’s sponsorship of terrorism. I was proud to join my colleagues on both sides of the aisle in supporting these sanctions.
The bill that I co-sponsored has now become law, signed by the President on July 1, 2010.
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Sunday, July 25, 2010 |
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DoE spends $50M for free software
By Selected News Articles @ 12:00 PM :: 13772 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics
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The DoE is paying millions of dollars to contractors for software when equal or superior alternatives are available elsewhere at lower cost--often free of charge. This wasteful spending is the direct result of the cozy, revolving door relationship between the contractors and the DoE officials who direct business their way.
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Friday, July 23, 2010 |
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Hawaii Leads in Wellbeing; West Virginia Ranks Last
By Selected News Articles @ 10:56 AM :: 8451 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Hawaii’s natural advantages continue to mask its political failings.
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Friday, July 23, 2010 |
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Hawaii lawsuit challenges use of racial identification on birth certificates
By Selected News Articles @ 9:51 AM :: 12258 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Setting snark aside, there is a real issue here: Is it appropriate for a state to require parents to declare their races so they can be stamped on to their children’s birth certificates, where they will remain in perpetuity? As of 1993, only five states had such policies in place. Now, over 15 years later, we have a multiracial president in the White House. Is it still necessary to insist upon racial identification on birth certificates — or is it time to discard such policies as outdated and counterproductive?
What valid purposes are served by such policies? Don’t they just exacerbate the problem of excessive race-consciousness in this country? To quote the wise words of Chief Justice John Roberts, “[t]he way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” And the way to stop discriminating on the basis of race is to stop knowing or caring what race a person is. [FN1]
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Thursday, July 22, 2010 |
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GOP Senate candidate Cam Cavasso launches “Crazy” TV ad
By News Release @ 11:27 AM :: 11139 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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“With the economy reeling from an unprecedented national debt and an unsustainable addiction to expanding the size and spending of government, and with traditional values mocked and marginalized by an unaccountable, out-of-control Congress, we must bring sanity back to Washington, D.C. More than any other Beltway politician, Daniel Inouye personifies the Pelosi-Reid Congress’s big spending, anti-family agenda. If we are to repair our economy and restore our nation, the reign of Daniel Inouye must end.”
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Thursday, July 22, 2010 |
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In DC: Hanabusa not invited to White House, lectures National Democrats on “Bum Information”
By Selected News Articles @ 12:01 AM :: 12636 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Hanabusa said that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's preference for former Rep. Ed Case (D) in the special election was based on "bum information" in an interview with the Fix Monday. "I'm president of the Senate. I'm not a neophyte when it comes to understanding political alignments and misalignments," she added. (Is that why she "aligned" with Mehau against Bronster?)
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010 |
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States That Pay The Most Taxes: Hawaii is #1
By Selected News Articles @ 10:12 PM :: 9191 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The Aloha State may be renowned as one of the most beautiful states in the Union, but that beauty comes at significant cost: the average Hawaiian paid out $1,010 in state taxes in the first quarter of the year, the highest of any state. The two biggest components to the state's revenues were income and excise taxes.
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010 |
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Secret "DSAer"? Abercrombie’s Denial Raises More Questions
By Selected News Articles @ 2:34 PM :: 12975 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Here are some questions for Abercrombie and Caraway:
- If Neil Abercrombie was never a member of Democratic Socialists of America, why did Democratic Left’s editors indicate otherwise?
- How does Abercrombie explain the 16-year record of his involvement in D.S.A. activities?
- Is the erstwhile First Lady of Hawaii still a member of D.S.A.?
- Has she ever openly acknowledged her D.S.A. membership to a Hawaii audience or publication?
The voters of Hawaii deserve to know the answers.
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010 |
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How Charles Djou can do it
By Selected News Articles @ 11:52 AM :: 10919 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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At first blush, Hawaii’s First Congressional District doesn’t look like a potential Blue to Red conversion target. Obama did carry HI01 by a lopsided 70-28 percent spread, but that margin seems to be grossly distorted in favor of Honolulu’s Favorite Son. President Obama was born and spent some of his schoolboy years in this very district.
Djou’s Honolulu-based district is historically Democratic, but it is not utterly inhospitable to Republican candidates. As the Washington Examiner’s senior Political Analyst Michael Barone mentions in his Almanac of American Politics, HI01 is home to “many military families in modest neighborhoods who may vote for Democrats but can be attracted to Republicans.”
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010 |
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Djou: “We need more private sector jobs, not more public sector programs”
By News Release @ 9:02 PM :: 10126 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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“Mr. Speaker, the American people expect Congress to act responsibly and to be trustworthy. But how can this happen when this Congress has no plan?
“No plan for a budget. No plan to create jobs. No plan to turn around our economy other than to spend, spend, and spend some more of the people’s money.
“We spent more than a trillion dollars to ‘create jobs,’ but as of yet our unemployment rate still languishes at over 9.5%. Our nation is plagued with debt and not creating a budget further amplifies the problem."
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010 |
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“National Ocean Council” to impose “zoning”, sparks fears of recreational fishing ban
By Selected News Articles @ 2:52 PM :: 8437 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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...the recommendations center on creating a National Ocean Council to coordinate regulation of oceans and the Great Lakes, and on a principle of "ecosystem-based management" for marine areas….
The first draft of the policy, released in September, drew heavy criticism from some quarters, including industry and recreational anglers concerned that sport fishing might be restricted or banned.
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Monday, July 19, 2010 |
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America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution
By Selected News Articles @ 4:36 PM :: 7721 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Never has there been so little diversity within America's upper crust.... Today's ruling class, from Boston to San Diego, was formed by an educational system that exposed them to the same ideas and gave them remarkably uniform guidance, as well as tastes and habits. These amount to a social canon of judgments about good and evil, complete with secular sacred history, sins (against minorities and the environment), and saints. Using the right words and avoiding the wrong ones when referring to such matters -- speaking the "in" language -- serves as a badge of identity. ... America's ruling class speaks the language and has the tastes, habits, and tools of bureaucrats. It rules uneasily over the majority of Americans not oriented to government.
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Monday, July 19, 2010 |
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Djou “Rapidly becoming one of most active and outspoken US Reps”
By News Release @ 12:37 AM :: 10259 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Despite having served for less than two months, Hawaii Congressman Charles K. Djou is influencing national policy in Washington. He has rapidly become one of the most active and outspoken representatives in the U.S. today.
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Saturday, July 17, 2010 |
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RS: Chances for Akaka Bill “nil” without GOP Support in Senate
By Selected News Articles @ 10:17 AM :: 7330 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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If Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) pulls the trigger and moves to proceed to the bill, Senator Murkowski may be the 60th vote to join liberal Democrats to break a filibuster....
A source that closely follows progress of the Native Hawaiian bill tells Red State Insider that “despite the recent spinning and posturing in the press, the likelihood of the (Native Hawaiian Bill) passing in the Senate this year is nil … unless .. a few votes can be wrangled from the Republican side to break any Republican (threat of a filibuster) and stop time-consuming amendments.” The Senator who is tasked to round up votes is Murkowski, and sources tell me that she has been specifically tasked with rounding up the votes of the other three Republican women Senators.
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Friday, July 16, 2010 |
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VIDEO: Djou calls for peace in Thailand
By News Release @ 4:46 PM :: 12863 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Thursday’s editorial in the Washington Post: “Wrong way in Thailand” highlights an issue of personal significance to Congressman Djou. He is the first Member of Congress of Thai descent and still has family living in Bangkok.
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Friday, July 16, 2010 |
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VIDEO: Djou on CNBC Worldwide Exchange
By News Release @ 3:38 PM :: 13479 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Washington, DC — Congressman Charles K. Djou (HI-01) appeared on the CNBC program “Worldwide Exchange” to discuss, among other things, the flawed financial regulatory reform bill that passed the U.S. Congress, the ballooning national deficit and debt, and Congress’ failure to pass a budget.
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Friday, July 16, 2010 |
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Djou co-sponsors “Hawaiian Home Ownership Opportunity Act”
By News Release @ 3:28 PM :: 8379 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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“This is an important bill that has stalled in Congress for far too long. This legislation will re-authorize Title VIII of the Native American Housing and Self-Determination Act (NAHASDA), which has been waiting for reauthorization since 2005. This legislation will expand opportunities for Native Hawaiians, particularly those of limited means, to access affordable housing. This is a good idea and will benefit not just Native Hawaiians, but to Hawaii as a whole. I look forward to working with my colleagues in both parties to ensure that this legislation becomes law.”
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Thursday, July 15, 2010 |
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Djou: Unemployment increases under ‘stimulus’ spending
By News Release @ 11:29 AM :: 7978 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the so-called “stimulus,” was enacted in February of 2009 when the national unemployment rate was 8.2% and Hawaii’s unemployment rate was 6.3%. Today, unemployment is at 9.5% nationally and remains at 6.3% in Hawaii.
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Thursday, July 15, 2010 |
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Djou campaign raises $935K in 2nd Quarter
By News Release @ 1:13 AM :: 9721 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Congressman Charles K. Djou is entering the general election with a strong showing of support from 4,137 individual donors for the quarter that ended June 30, 2010. The Djou campaign raised $935,435 in the second quarter, receiving nearly $200,000 of that in the five weeks after his special election victory. Djou has entered the third quarter with $379,046 on hand.
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Thursday, July 15, 2010 |
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Djou pushes Feds to cut red tape blocking Honolulu municipal waste exports
By News Release @ 1:10 AM :: 10702 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Washington, DC — Congressman Charles K. Djou (HI-01) today expressed his concern regarding the municipal waste buildup in Honolulu to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and received verbal assurance that the matter would be resolved as quickly as possible.
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Thursday, July 15, 2010 |
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Djou: “If our nation continues down this fiscally reckless path, what is happening in Hawaii will be writ large”
By News Release @ 1:02 AM :: 9847 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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“If our nation continues down this fiscally reckless path, what is happening in Hawaii will be writ large, and that is an outcome that we simply cannot afford”
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Thursday, July 15, 2010 |
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Djou backs line item veto to cut waste
By News Release @ 12:56 AM :: 9863 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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“I met with constituents of Hawaii’s First Congressional District while I was home this past week,” Djou said. “From town hall meetings to business visits to encounters on the street, the number one concern that constituents expressed to me was the reckless and runaway federal spending in Washington.”
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010 |
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No money for Hawaii DoE? Congressional Dems strip Obama’s RTTT funds
By Selected News Articles @ 12:50 PM :: 7730 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Asked Monday what the next step would be, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) was anything but certain. “I wish I knew; I really mean that,” he said in a brief Capitol interview.
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010 |
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Full Text: Lingle sends letter to Senators urging support for amended Akaka Bill
By Gov. Linda Lingle @ 4:47 PM :: 8302 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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In the letter sent today, Governor Lingle said the agreed upon changes to the bill between her and Sens. Inouye and Akaka “return the bill to a form that protects health and safety in Hawaii, while providing explicit federal recognition to the only native people in the United States who lack that recognition – Native Hawaiians.”
The Governor also wrote that passage of the Akaka Bill will, “put Hawaii on an equal footing with its forty-nine sister states, and will recognize Native Hawaiians just as America recognizes it other indigenous groups. It is fair and just – nothing more, nothing less.”
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010 |
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Hawaii diploma mill scams trap Pakistani cabinet member, former Microsoft China President
By Selected News Articles @ 1:52 PM :: 11634 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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WASHINGTON: The university from where Law Minister Babar Awan claims to have done his PhD is banned in the United States from issuing any degree and cannot even claim that it is a legal educational institution.
Long before the dispute over fake degrees became a political issue in Pakistan, the Circuit Court of the First Circuit in the State of Hawaii, declared that the University of Monticello was a non-recognised and non-chartered university....
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Sunday, July 11, 2010 |
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Former Rep. Cam Cavasso unveils campaign platform in challenge to Inouye
By News Release @ 2:30 PM :: 9669 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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In his almost 50 years in the United States Senate, Daniel Inouye has become perhaps the strongest Senate proponent of government spending. As the Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee he controls how our tax dollars are spent—literally, the buck stops with him. However, through his earmarks and other support for federal spending, he has not hesitated to shower special interests with our hard-earned tax dollars.
Our loss has been Sen. Inouye’s gain. A recent study by Taxpayers for Common Sense found no other U.S. Senator received more campaign contributions from earmark beneficiaries than Inouye.
As Senator Inouye and his cohorts in Congress continue to pile up debt that our children and grandchildren will be forced to repay in the future, their spendthrift ways are sucking the oxygen out of the economy today. Unless and until they are brought to heel, Americans’ standard of living will continue to decline. Prosperity has never been built on debt.
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Friday, July 9, 2010 |
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“Why I left Jihad” Ex-terrorist to speak at Calvary Chapel of Honolulu
By Selected News Articles @ 10:13 PM :: 12459 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Walid Shoebat, ex-PLO member, will be speaking at the Sunday, July 11, services at Calvary Chapel of Honolulu (8:30am, 10:45am, and 6:00pm). The public is invited.
Calvary Chapel of Honolulu is located in Aiea, on Komo Mai Drive. LINK>>> Google map
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Friday, July 9, 2010 |
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Djou to hold four talk-stories Saturday
By News Release @ 9:13 PM :: 9769 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Holomua Elementary School, Mililani High School, Pearl Ridge Elementary School, Kawananakoa Middle School
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Friday, July 9, 2010 |
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Six Months to Go Until The Largest Tax Hikes in History
By Selected News Articles @ 3:47 PM :: 6901 Views :: National News, Ethics
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In just six months, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect. They will hit families and small businesses in three great waves on January 1, 2011....
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Friday, July 9, 2010 |
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A Veto from Hawaii: Marriage Debate Needs More Than Last-Minute Legislative Maneuvers
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:25 AM :: 7174 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The debate surrounding the redefinition of marriage in Hawaii centers on the nature of family and its role as “a prime institution in civil society.” According to Heritage Foundation Senior Fellow Chuck Donovan, the “family is not the creature of the state” but is “both natural and pre-political” in its origins. As such, the consequences of a redefinition for the whole of the state are weighty. A change of this magnitude should not “be made by one person sitting in her office or by members of the Majority Party,” but, as Governor Lingle suggests, “by all the people of Hawaii.”
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Friday, July 9, 2010 |
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Equal Pay for Equal Work? Public Employees paid $47B extra
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:09 AM :: 7228 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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USA Today reported that Federal employees earn higher average salaries than private-sector workers in more than eight out of 10 occupations that exist both in government and the private sector. Instead of taking the news as an opportunity to save taxpayers money, the Obama administration pushed back against the news and dispatched Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag to defend government employee pay. Orszag told reporters: "I think the key thing to remember about that is the federal workforce is more highly educated than the private workforce. ... Basically the entire delta between private sector and public sector federal government average pay can be explained by education and experience." The problem is, this is just not true.
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Thursday, July 8, 2010 |
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Lingle announces terms of agreement on Akaka Bill
By News Release @ 1:15 PM :: 7724 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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“I am very glad the Akaka Bill will be amended to reflect the State’s concerns,” Governor Lingle stated. “I have assured Senators Akaka and Inouye that I will strongly support a bill with the changes described above, and will write to Senators of both parties expressing my support. I sincerely hope the bill will become law in 2010.”
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Thursday, July 8, 2010 |
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Amended Akaka Bill: A Trojan horse for Tribal immunity?
By Andrew Walden @ 12:53 PM :: 13045 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Last December, Neil Abercrombie passed a previous immunity-free version of the Akaka Bill as a Trojan Horse to get through the House Committee on Natural Resources. He then amended the bill by substitution on the House floor. Would Akaka pass a no-immunity version through the Senate and then use the House-Senate Conference Committee to change it back? Of course he would—everything about the underhanded and secretive way the new version of Akaka Bill was created shows that is possible.
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010 |
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Washington Post--Charles Djou: Incumbent, underdog
By Selected News Articles @ 11:07 PM :: 7605 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Now, Djou enters a new stage in his political career: embattled incumbent. After easily winning a three-way special election in the more conservative -- but still dang Democratic -- House district in a May 22 special election, Djou enters an abbreviated 2010 reelection campaign as one of a handful of deeply endangered GOP incumbents.
That's just fine with him, and nobody will accuse Djou of being ill-prepared. "The only way I know how to campaign is running a race where I'm down by two points and closing in," he said in a recent interview with the Fix.
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010 |
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Hawaii ACLU to sue for civil unions to recognize new types of ‘families’
By News Release @ 12:57 AM :: 7696 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Lambda Legal and the ACLU had readied a lawsuit after the House tabled HB 444 in January. The Hawai`i Senate had previously approved the bill by a veto-proof 18 to 7 majority and sent it back to the House for a conforming vote.
“We’re obviously disappointed that Governor Lingle has, once again, used her power to deny the people of Hawai`i their civil rights” said Laurie Temple, Staff Attorney for the ACLU. “Luckily for the people of Hawai`i, however, our constitution prevents discrimination based on sexual orientation. If the Governor won’t honor her oath to uphold the constitution, the courts will.”
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010 |
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The Rationer-in-Chief
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:01 AM :: 5454 Views :: National News, Ethics
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When Linda O’Boyle was diagnosed with bowel cancer, her doctors told her she could boost her chances of survival by adding the drug cetuximab to her regimen. But the rationing body for Britain's National Health Service, the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), had previously ruled that the drug was not cost-effective and therefore would not be paid for by the government. So O'Boyle liquidated her savings and paid for the drug herself. But this is not allowed under NHS rules. When government bureaucrats found out that O'Boyle had purchased the drug with her own money, she was denied NHS treatment and died within months.
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010 |
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Remember the Gulf
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:31 AM :: 4721 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Remember 9/11. Remember Katrina. Remember Haiti. Often, after a disaster of epic proportions, we are urged to remember the victims and the lessons of how to avoid a similar catastrophe. These reminders are necessary because after the moment of impact passes, people’s attention is drawn to other major events. Rarely ever, however, is the phrase used while the crisis continues unabated; while the administration that the media needs to hold accountable flounders in a sea of ineptitude, red tape and finger pointing.
Yes, we’re talking about the Gulf oil spill. It may be the first time in U.S. history that a president and the national media’s attention need to be refocused on a crisis while it is still, in fact, underway. Remember the Gulf.
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Sunday, July 4, 2010 |
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Djou to hold Four Talk Story Meetings Monday July 5
By News Release @ 3:30 PM :: 10796 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Koko Head Elementary School--Kaimuki High School--Noelani Elementary School--McKinley High School
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Sunday, July 4, 2010 |
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Djou: Freedom to Be Independent
By News Release @ 3:27 PM :: 8421 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The American experiment with democracy began 234 years ago with the enduring words: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Those words remain a profound statement of our natural rights. And to this day, the United States of America is the freest and most prosperous nation in the world. The success of our nation is a testament to the timeless vision of our Founding Fathers.
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Sunday, July 4, 2010 |
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Duke Aiona: We can achieve the American Dream in Hawaii
By Lt Gov Duke Aiona @ 3:10 PM :: 6484 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The people of Hawai`i want our state to be more self-sufficient; they want to be more independent.
I believe that to be a true leader, innovation, entrepreneurship and stewardship need to be fostered, nurtured and rewarded.
It is not enough to encourage today’s citizens and businesses to innovate and think big. Public officials have to do the same.
The American Dream is based upon our liberty and opportunity to flourish. It is the hope of all to build a prosperous future, and we can achieve it right here in these islands.
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Sunday, July 4, 2010 |
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Independence Forever: Why America Celebrates the Fourth of July
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:05 PM :: 4628 Views :: National News, Ethics
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As a practical matter, the Declaration of Independence publicly announced to the world the unanimous decision of the American colonies to declare themselves free and independent states, absolved from any allegiance to Great Britain. But its greater meaning-then as well as now-is as a statement of the conditions of legitimate political authority and the proper ends of government, and its proclamation of a new ground of political rule in the sovereignty of the people.
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Friday, July 2, 2010 |
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Inouye pressures Akaka Tribe: Akaka pushes back
By Andrew Walden @ 7:33 PM :: 9266 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Once again Hawaii may be saved from the immune-from-prosecution rump Akaka Tribe by Republican US Senators from other states. With Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) dead and buried, and sometime Akaka Bill supporter Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) facing strong opposition in the August 24 Alaska GOP Primary, Sen Akaka finds himself short on votes and short on time.
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Friday, July 2, 2010 |
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Happy Fiscal New Year, Hawaii. Here's Another Round of Tax Increases
By News Release @ 1:04 PM :: 6510 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Fiscal Year 2011 started yesterday in most states, and some saw the imposition of tax increases passed in previous legislative sessions. Hawaii, of course, is among them. The Aloha State, already sporting the nation's sixth-highest per capita tax burden, decided to ignore its overspending problem and steal more money from the private sector.
The tax increases implemented yesterday include...
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