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Tuesday, January 25, 2011 |
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Full Text and Video: Obama’s State of the Union Speech
By News Release @ 10:26 PM :: 6175 Views :: National News, Ethics
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...for many, the change has been painful. I've seen it in the shuttered windows of once booming factories, and the vacant storefronts on once busy Main Streets. I've heard it in the frustrations of Americans who've seen their paychecks dwindle or their jobs disappear -- proud men and women who feel like the rules have been changed in the middle of the game.
They're right. The rules have changed.....
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011 |
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Epic Fail: After giving away $1.3B in Tax Credits, Hawaii ranks 36th in High Tech
By News Release @ 8:28 PM :: 10266 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Hawaii scores high in categories which measure money spent and low in categories showing the results of those expenditures. Notably Hawaii scores 6th in “Net Formation of High-Tech Establishments per 10,000 Business Establishments 2002”—this reflects the large number of fake “hi-tech” companies being formed to sop up ACT 215/221 tax credits.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011 |
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Ceded Lands Decision Author Justice Samuel Alito to speak at Hawaii Supreme Court Wednesday
By Robert Thomas @ 7:25 PM :: 10411 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Justice Alito's most "Hawaii-centric" opinion was in Hawaii v. Office of Hawaiian Affairs, 129 S. Ct. 1436 (2009), where he authored the opinion for a unanimous Court. In that case, the Court held that the United States held "absolute fee simple" title to Hawaii's ceded lands, and that Congress' 1992 Apology Resolution had no legal effect.
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Monday, January 24, 2011 |
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Obamacare: How Hawaii’s Congressional delegation voted
By News Release @ 10:29 PM :: 7519 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act - Vote Passed (245-189, 1 Not Voting)
The House voted to repeal the 2010 health care law. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has vowed to block the bill in the Senate.
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Monday, January 24, 2011 |
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National School Choice Week is Underway
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:23 PM :: 6017 Views :: National News, Ethics
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The first-ever National School Choice Week is underway! This week, January 23rd - 29th, school choice advocates from across the country will host events and highlight the benefits of educational freedom. More than 150 organizations are hosting events in nearly every state.
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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 :: 10383 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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Thursday, January 20, 2011 |
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Full Text: House Republicans Propose $2.5 Trillion in Spending Cuts
By News Release @ 1:44 PM :: 4084 Views :: National News, Ethics
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“The Spending Reduction Act gives us a $2.5 trillion head start in the race to preserve the fiscal stability of the United States,” said Garrett. “This bill represents the first step in the process, not the last. To achieve long-term fiscal stability, we must finish the race by making the tough decisions Congress has put off for far too long. Only after we tear down barriers to job creation and make reforms to our entitlement programs can we truly resolve our debt crisis.”
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Thursday, January 20, 2011 |
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Obamacare: The Start of the Debate
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:37 AM :: 5256 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Many will tell you that yesterday’s bipartisan vote of 245 to 189 was an exercise in futility—an empty, symbolic measure. Liberals in Congress, the White House and their echo chamber in the media all insist, as NPR has duly reported, that "this measure will go no further."
Don’t believe this for a single minute. The vote last night was an important step in the democratic process of protecting and conserving our constitutional freedoms.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 |
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National Alliance for Public Charter Schools: Hawaii Law still needs Significant Improvement
By News Release @ 11:44 PM :: 10099 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Hawaii's law still needs significant improvement in several areas, including completely removing its caps, strengthening the requirements for both charter application, review and decision-making processes and renewal, non-renewal, and revocation processes, and ensuring equitable operational and categorical funding and equitable access to capital funding and facilities.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 |
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Hanabusa admits failure to get Appropriations Committee seat
By Jonah Ka`auwai @ 10:21 PM :: 9974 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Hawaii GOP Chair Jonah Kaauwai release a statement on Rep. Colleen Hanabusa's announcement that she was unable to secure the Hawaii seat on the House Appropriations Committee that her campaign had promised.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 |
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Freedomworks: Obamacare Repeal is Real
By Matt Kibbe @ 5:42 PM :: 4534 Views :: National News, Ethics
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As its first major act, the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives voted today on a bill promising the complete repeal of Obamacare. The bill passed with a unanimous Republican vote along with the support of 3 House Democrats, proving that the demand to repeal Obamacare is a real, bipartisan fight that will lead to a serious debate in the Senate.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 |
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Obamacare: Administration Report “wildly misleading” on pre-existing conditions
By Heritage Foundation @ 5:00 PM :: 8767 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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This debunked HHS report was recycled as Hawaii Democrat talking points, and shoveled onto the pages of the Star-Advertiser this morning >>> Democrats warn of harm if health care reform is repealed
It didn't work, The US House today passed HR2 to repeal Obamacare 245-189 with unanimous GOP support plus three Democrats. But the study will be kept on hand in order to manufacture future campaign commercials.
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Monday, January 17, 2011 |
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Martin Luther King Jr held these truths. Do you?
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:59 AM :: 6848 Views :: National News, Ethics
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On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood at the Lincoln Memorial and admonished America to return to its First Principles. In his I Have a Dream Speech, he announced his dream that “one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'” He longed to see a day when all “would be guaranteed the ‘unalienable Rights’ of ‘Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.’" Dr. King did not talk about remaking America. His dream was one which, in his words, was “deeply rooted in the American dream.” It hearkened back to the principles upon which our country was founded. It was not a rejection of our past, but a vision of hope based on the principles of our past.
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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 :: 7740 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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Sunday, January 16, 2011 |
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Comprehensive List of Tax Hikes in Obamacare
By News Release @ 1:05 AM :: 6579 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Obamacare is one of the largest tax increases in American history. Below is a comprehensive list of the two dozen new or higher taxes that pay for Obamcare’s expansion of government spending and interference between doctors and patients.
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Saturday, January 15, 2011 |
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Honolulu Grand Jury charges two more in human trafficking case
By News Release @ 1:12 PM :: 11641 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that a federal grand jury in Honolulu has returned a 10-count superseding indictment charging defendants Joseph Knoller and Bruce Schwartz, both of Los Angeles, as co-conspirators in a scheme to hold 400 Thai nationals in compelled service as agricultural workers in the District of Hawaii and elsewhere.
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Thursday, January 13, 2011 |
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650% return on Inouye: $1.9M in contributions, $1.25B in earmarks
By Center for Public Integrity @ 6:16 PM :: 9055 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Perhaps because at different points in the past four years he chaired commerce and appropriations, he got significant campaign contributions from players in the communications industry and from government defense contractors. Both Boeing and Northrop Grumman, among Inouye’s largest PAC contributors, each received millions in 2010 defense earmarks....
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Thursday, January 13, 2011 |
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Flashback: Obama defends Christian Invocation at Inaugural
By News Release @ 2:07 PM :: 8227 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Since the majority of the Hawaii Senate Democratic Caucus has gone brain-dead on the subject of religious invocations before Senate sessions, here is a taste of reality from their lord and master, the world’s highest-ranking Manoa liberal, Barack Obama....
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011 |
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'Great Garbage Patch' Not So Great After All
By Selected News Articles @ 1:05 PM :: 11735 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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It's been called the Great Garbage Patch and "the most shocking thing" Oprah has ever seen: a massive island of plastic in the Pacific Ocean that, according to many reports, is twice the size of Texas, outnumbers plankton, and has killed millions of sea birds.
But many of those claims, according to a new analysis, are huge exaggerations. Others are downright false.
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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 :: 11238 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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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 |
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Father of 9yr old Tucson Victim: Don't use my daughter's death to take our freedoms
By Video @ 2:22 PM :: 4884 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Video interview with the father of 9 year old Christina Taylor Green....
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 |
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Hawaii Concealed Carry: More Guns, Less Crime
By News Release @ 12:43 PM :: 9298 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Honolulu, Hawaii – John R. Lott, Jr., author, activist, speaker and professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, will be in town speaking on the topics of gun control, public policy and other points of interest at a dinner hosted at The Plaza Club Tuesday, February 15th, 2011 starting at from 6:30 p.m.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 |
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Gates: North Korea will soon have missiles capable of hitting Hawaii with A-bomb
By Selected News Articles @ 10:48 AM :: 11866 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Implicit in Mr. Gates’s five-year assessment was the possibility that the North could soon solve one of its biggest technological hurdles: manufacturing a warhead small enough to fit atop a missile….
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Monday, January 10, 2011 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted January 5-10, 2011
By News Release @ 9:08 PM :: 7197 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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- House: Health Care Repeal Rule
- House: Reducing the amount authorized for salaries and expenses
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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 :: 11967 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 :: 10616 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 :: 8099 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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Saturday, January 8, 2011 |
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Djou “Shocked and saddened by shooting of Rep Giffords”
By Rep Charles Djou @ 5:01 PM :: 10794 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Former Rep. Djou served on the House Armed Services Committee with Rep. Gifford. The two of them co-sponsored the Truth-in-Spending bill in the 111th Congress and co-authored editorials together advocating for restraint in Federal government spending. Djou and Gifford’s bipartisan cooperative relationship was a subject on televised debates in Hawaii and Arizona.
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Friday, January 7, 2011 |
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Hiram Bingham IV, the secret rescuer
By Selected News Articles @ 1:23 PM :: 12454 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Did you know that an idealistic U.S. diplomat disobeyed his Washington superiors early in World War II and saved 2,500 Jews in southern France, before Nazis could ship them to death camps?
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011 |
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Hanabusa: One Day on the Job, One Broken Promise
By Jonah Ka`auwai @ 11:28 PM :: 10961 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Rep. Hanabusa and Senator Inouye assured voters last October that she would get a seat on the powerful Appropriation Committee if elected and that has turned out to be nothing more than an empty campaign promise.
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011 |
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Djou: Our hard-fought battle allowed the GOP to gain 3-5 additional seats on the mainland
By Rep Charles Djou @ 11:20 PM :: 10011 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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I believe that a vibrant two-party democracy is better at preserving liberty than monolithic one-party rule.
I believe that open and responsive elected officials are better at ensuring an accountable government than an old-boy network.
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011 |
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WaPo: Futile, Discouraging, Depressing -- Hanabusa joins the lowest of the low
By Selected News Articles @ 3:39 PM :: 9605 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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"The Congress is the most futile place in the world, and the most discouraging, and the most depressing" for people in this position....
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011 |
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011 |
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Birthers “Born Again” thanks to Abercrombie
By Selected News Articles @ 4:20 PM :: 7421 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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That’s some favor Abercrombie did his old pal; he took a non-issue that was as settled as it’s ever going to be and fired it up all over again.
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011 |
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VIDEO: Steele Faces Rivals in RNC Chair Debate
By Video @ 2:23 AM :: 6009 Views :: National News, Ethics
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for all their criticism in print and on-line of incumbent Chairman Michael Steele, none of his four opponents in the race (which will be decided at the RNC winter meeting next week) landed a knock-out blow or even roughed up the embattled RNC chief….
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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 :: 27223 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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Monday, January 3, 2011 |
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Calif. EIS shows plastic bag ban harms environment
By Selected News Articles @ 5:59 PM :: 12928 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Maui’s County-wide plastic bag ban goes into effect January 11, 2011. No EIS has been required. Here’s what they are hiding:
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Monday, January 3, 2011 |
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WaPo: Abercrombie “taking the pole position of political surrealism ”
By Selected News Articles @ 2:27 PM :: 8405 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Hawaii is taking the pole position of political surrealism in the far-flung states. The new governor, Neil Abercrombie, an iconic longhair and college pal of Barack Obama's father, has decided to make knocking down Obama birther conspiracies his top political priority.
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Sunday, January 2, 2011 |
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Birther War Year Two: Hey Neil, Don't feed the trolls
By Selected News Articles @ 11:48 AM :: 8006 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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This truism is lost on the ignoramuses at the Seattle Times, who published an editorial this morning applauding newly-elected Governor Neil Abercrombie's declared intention to do something to squelch the conspiracy theory....
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Saturday, January 1, 2011 |
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Abercrombie’s Birther War named in top ten Flubs of the Year
By Selected News Articles @ 2:26 PM :: 8738 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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It is easy for Seattle Times editors to cheer on the war effort from comfort of their offices, but many on the front lines are starting to think this is not a winnable war—a quagmire. Some are even calling for negotiations with the birthers.
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Friday, December 31, 2010 |
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AFP: 2011 brings tougher challenge, greater rewards
By News Release @ 5:34 PM :: 6285 Views :: National News, Ethics
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At Americans for Prosperity, we're asking you to join us once again as we fight three key public policy battles during the coming year....
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Friday, December 31, 2010 |
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Hartford Courant: Who’s Abercrombie kidding?
By Selected News Articles @ 11:47 AM :: 9174 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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In case you’ve been hiding under a rock since just before Christmas, Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie has committed our lives and our treasure to a Sacred Cause. Our New Governor is heroically leading the State in a Holy War to defeat the Diabolical Birthers. On Day Seven of this Fight to the Death, the national and international media continue to react while the local media focuses intently on the price of ahi, hoping against hope that Aoki and Asselbaye will quiet The Abercrombie down and get him to pretend to refocus on the budget or something….
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Thursday, December 30, 2010 |
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Thursday, December 30, 2010 |
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Rep Djou announces US Service Academy Nominations
By News Release @ 9:09 PM :: 10201 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Honolulu, HI — Congressman Charles K. Djou (HI-01) personally congratulated selected nominees for respective United States Service Academies at the Prince Kuhio Federal Building today. The following individuals will be nominated by Congressman Charles Djou of Hawaii’s First Congressional District:
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Thursday, December 30, 2010 |
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HuffPo: Abercrombie on a fool’s errand
By Selected News Articles @ 3:22 PM :: 10417 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The new governor of Hawaii, Neil Abercrombie, has big issues to handle, including a substantial budget deficit that threatens to grow exponentially in coming years.
On top of all his headaches, though, Abercrombie has piled on another, bigger conundrum that he says he is committed to resolving.
Yes. He's taking on the birthers.
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010 |
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Theme of Prison Audit lifted from Kat Brady commentary
By Andrew Walden @ 9:01 PM :: 10743 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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With the UPW desperately hoping to somehow magically repatriate the Hawaii convicts being held in mainland prisons, State Auditor Marion Higa has graciously obliged with an audit of Hawaii’s private prison contracts....
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010 |
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Abercrombie’s Birther Crusade: Day Five
By Selected News Articles @ 12:22 PM :: 8902 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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More news from around the country as Governor Neil Abercrombie, implementing a "top priority” of his administration, heroically crusades against the “demonic, eviscerating” Birther hordes.
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010 |
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USA Today: Neil Abercrombie, the friend you don’t need
By Selected News Articles @ 12:24 PM :: 10253 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie’s “top priority” – leading Hawaii in Holy Crusade to slay the Birther dragon – continues to make national and international news. Google News reports over 2000 articles have been published and more are coming out by the hour. Here are some of the latest….
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010 |
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Sunday, December 26, 2010 |
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NYT: Inouye pushes Exemption from Terror Embargo after $2000 contribution
By Selected News Articles @ 8:16 PM :: 10776 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Several ... American businesses were permitted to deal with foreign companies believed to be involved in terrorism or weapons proliferation. In one such case, involving equipment bought by a medical waste disposal plant in Hawaii, the government was preparing to deny the license until an influential politician intervened....
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