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Wednesday, June 16, 2010 |
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A Crisis of Competence
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:10 PM :: 4898 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Nearly 31 years ago, on July 15, 1979, President Jimmy Carter told the American people from the Oval Office: "Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally. On the battlefield of energy we can win for our nation a new confidence, and we can seize control again of our common destiny." Last night the American people heard almost the exact same speech from President Barack Obama....
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010 |
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The Obama Energy Tax Game Plan
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:04 PM :: 4779 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Joel Benenson, a pollster for the Democratic National Committee and Obama’s presidential campaign, circulated a memo on Capitol Hill arguing that a comprehensive energy bill "could give Democrats a potent weapon to wield against Republicans in the fall." Politico reports that Benenson’s recommended “messaging architecture" includes the slogan “Making BP Pay Isn’t Enough” and adds: “frame the opposition” as “Big Oil and corporate polluters who have blocked energy reform for decades” and “politicians protecting the special interests that fund their campaigns.”
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010 |
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Heritage: The Government Bailouts Must End
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:03 AM :: 4442 Views :: National News, Ethics
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If the federal government managed to return to the per-household spending level of the Reagan administration, the budget would be balanced by 2012 without any tax hikes. Or just returning to the per-household spending levels that existed before the current recession would balance the budget by 2019. But first we must stop the bleeding: the government bailouts must end.
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Monday, June 14, 2010 |
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Hanabusa to get same kind of National Democrat help Ed Case got
By Andrew Walden @ 2:36 PM :: 12581 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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With the DCCC’s help Ed Case came in dead last. And now, they are going to do the same for “longtime insider” Hanabusa. A DCCC news release sent out this morning announces Hanabusa is being included in the DCCC’s “Red to Blue” program....
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Monday, June 14, 2010 |
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NRCC: “Colleen Hanabusa and her Washington friends have pushed the economy into a jobless recovery”
By Selected News Articles @ 1:39 PM :: 11335 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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“Over the course of the past two years of a Democrat-led supermajority, Colleen Hanabusa and her Washington friends have pushed the economy into a jobless recovery by supporting an anti-jobs, anti-small-business agenda at the expense of a healthy economy,”
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Sunday, June 13, 2010 |
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Hawaii could lose tobacco funds in $1.1B arbitration
By Selected News Articles @ 12:40 PM :: 9286 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Financially pressed states might have to return $1.1 billion to Big Tobacco this year, if a review finds the states aren't trying hard enough to keep a 12-year-old legal settlement from hurting the companies too much.
This summer, states and the nation's Big Three tobacco firms will begin arbitrating a dispute over 2003 payments made under the settlement, the companies have disclosed in financial filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Sums ranging from $705 million to $1.1 billion for each of the subsequent years also are headed for arbitration.
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Saturday, June 12, 2010 |
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Honolulu “peace activist” caught lying about Gaza Flotilla
By IPT News @ 10:57 PM :: 14224 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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"Lerner: Col. Wright I just want to make sure again – so you actually were on a different boat and did not witness the attack firsthand."
Wright: That's correct.
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Friday, June 11, 2010 |
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VIDEO: Rep. Djou on Fox Business News
By News Release @ 9:39 PM :: 11252 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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On the Failure of Congress to Pass a Budget:
“A perfect representation of the problems we have here on Capitol Hill is the failure of Congress to pass a budget. I mean, that’s one of the most basic things any private business, any family would do to get its fiscal house in order. But here in the United States Congress we have yet to pass a budget and it’s already mid-June. This is irresponsible.”
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Friday, June 11, 2010 |
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Clean Energy for Hawaii: Djou co-sponsors American Energy Act
By News Release @ 9:26 PM :: 11133 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Washington, DC — Congressman Charles Djou (HI-01) issued the following statement today reacting to the selection of AECOM as the EIS contractor for the Big Wind Project....
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Friday, June 11, 2010 |
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Hannemann in Pittsburgh "Whacking the rail transit piñata"
By News Release @ 8:32 PM :: 11221 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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"The Honolulu Mayor has used taxpayer dollars to advocate for the reckless rail transit project, he raked in more than $200,000 from donors linked to government contractors in the last six months of 2009, and now he's raising big money from consultants seeking rail contracts. While he's whacking the rail transit piñata for all the goodies he can get, he's raising property taxes and increasing fees on just about every other service the city provides. Is this the kind of leadership Hawaii deserves?"
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Friday, June 11, 2010 |
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Philippine Independence Day: Rep. Djou calls for more visas for family reunification
By News Release @ 7:52 PM :: 14737 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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“We must ensure that the connection between the United States and the Philippines remains strong. One of my priorities in Congress is to strengthen our nation’s ties to the Philippines and expand the number of visas that our government issues, particularly to the Philippines,” Djou continued.
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Friday, June 11, 2010 |
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RTTT: Prolonging Education's Race to the Bottom
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:22 PM :: 8612 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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But unlike the federal takeover of the banking and health care industry, this time around Obama and his liberal allies are shrewdly avoiding another public fight by moving their education agenda forward without even going through Congress. The administration is supporting a move to implement national education standards, using the $4.35 billion Race to the Top grant program to secure those ends. National standards will give the federal government – not parents – more power over education. Now, instead of petitioning their local schools boards for curriculum changes, parents will have to trek to Washington to lobby D.C. bureaucrats for input in the content taught at their children’s school.
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Friday, June 11, 2010 |
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Bloomberg: Hawaii will run out of pension funds in 2020
By Selected News Articles @ 12:52 PM :: 11116 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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June 11 (Bloomberg) -- Seven states will run out of money to pay public pensions by 2020. That hasn’t stopped them from hiring new employees.
The seven are Illinois, Connecticut, Indiana, New Jersey, Hawaii, Louisiana and Oklahoma....
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Friday, June 11, 2010 |
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Study: Hawaii ERS to go broke in 2020
By News Release @ 12:27 PM :: 14825 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The pension plans sponsored by states and municipalities will place a substantial burden on state and local public finances in the near future. My recent work has estimated that the present value of already-promised state pension benefits is over $5 trillion when the benefit payments are discounted using Treasury yields, compared to a little over $2 trillion in pension fund assets. Most state constitutions offer special protections to pension benefits that state workers have already earned.
This analysis raises the question of how soon such a situation might lead to an all-out state and municipal fiscal crisis. One important day of reckoning is the day that the state pension funds run out of money. At that point, pension payments to retirees will have to come out of general revenues. This day of reckoning is in fact not as far away as some might imagine. For Illinois, it could be as soon as 2018. (For Hawaii it is 2020.)
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Thursday, June 10, 2010 |
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Aiona: AECOM selected to conduct EIS for undersea cables
By News Release @ 8:57 PM :: 9183 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The undersea interisland cable is one component of the Interisland Wind Initiative, which includes the development of wind farms in Maui County, the development of the undersea cable, and the utility infrastructure upgrades that would allow the integration of a renewable energy electrical grid.
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Thursday, June 10, 2010 |
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VIDEO: Djou floor speech “We need to put our fiscal house in order”
By News Release @ 8:35 PM :: 11891 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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RepCharlesDjou — June 10, 2010 — Congressman Djou gave the following speech from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives discussing the nation's fiscal situation and the need for a budget that puts our nation's fiscal house in order.
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Thursday, June 10, 2010 |
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Lingle: Strengthening Partnerships in Guangdong Province
By News Release @ 7:58 PM :: 12069 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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The seminar also provided potential investors with detailed information on how Chinese students can enroll in local educational institutions, how to retire in Hawai‘i and buy a place to live, and business opportunities in areas such as medical clinics, golf and tennis facilities, and retailing.
In her remarks, Governor Lingle noted that Hawai‘i can serve as an entry point for the U.S. mainland and is an excellent location for a headquarters operation for Chinese companies because of our language and cultural ties, as well as being a safe place to do business and live.
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Thursday, June 10, 2010 |
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Gov. Lingle to host 7th Annual International Women’s Conference
By News Release @ 7:53 PM :: 12638 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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HONOLULU – Top women leaders from seven nations will gather in Honolulu, Hawai‘i this fall to share their personal and professional stories at the 7th annual International Women’s Leadership Conference (IWLC). Hosted by Governor Linda Lingle on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at the Sheraton Waikīkī Hotel and Resort, the conference will build on the success and growth of the past six years.
Online conference registration is now available at www.hawaiiwomensconference.com.
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Thursday, June 10, 2010 |
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How the White House is Making Oil Recovery Harder (Jones Act)
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:34 PM :: 7210 Views :: National News, Ethics
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According to one Dutch newspaper, European firms could complete the oil spill clean up by themselves in just four months, and three months if they work with the United States, which is much faster than the estimated nine months it would take the Obama administration to go it alone. The major stumbling block is a protectionist piece of legislation called the Jones Act which requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports be carried in U.S.-flag ships, constructed in the United States, owned by U.S. citizens, and crewed by U.S. citizens. But in an emergency this law can be temporarily waived as DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff did after Katrina.
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Thursday, June 10, 2010 |
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Fed Chair Calls Dems’ Spending ‘Unsustainable’ As Hanabusa's Party Refuses to Budget
By News Release @ 1:32 PM :: 11349 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Washington- The nation’s chief economist warned yesterday that America’s fiscal path is unsustainable and called for swift action to manage a growing national debt crisis, but Democrat candidate Colleen Hanabusa's Washington friends still refuse to do the necessary work to lead the country back to fiscal stability. While Democrats still refuse to create a budget for the upcoming fiscal year, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified to the House Budget Committee yesterday that it’s time for Congress to act....
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Thursday, June 10, 2010 |
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Hawaii Meth Project Launches New Statewide Campaign
By News Release @ 1:37 AM :: 10536 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Honolulu, Hawaii—June 8, 2010—The Hawaii Meth Project today announced the second wave of its public education campaign, unveiling a new series of television, radio, online, and outdoor advertisements that will launch statewide this week. The high impact campaign will reach Hawaii teens three to five times per week throughout 2010 with four television commercials, nine radio spots, and six print and online ads that graphically communicate the risks of using Meth.
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010 |
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Guangdong: Lingle addresses business execs at “Experience Hawaii Forum”
By News Release @ 8:12 PM :: 11832 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Today the Governor is in Guangzhou in Guangdong Province, where she will address Chinese business executives at the “Experience Hawai‘i – A Place for Vacation, Education and Business” forum sponsored by Bank of Hawai‘i. Governor Lingle will also participate in an “Invest in Hawai‘i” seminar coordinated by the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism. The seminar is designed to provide potential investors with information on Hawai‘i’s economic outlook and investment climate, as well as the “State’s EB-5 Immigrant Investment Program” in which foreign nationals who invest $500,000 or more in Hawai‘i and create 10 or more full-time jobs can obtain permanent residency.
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010 |
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Video: Djou questions Bernanke on Deficit
By News Release @ 5:02 PM :: 14633 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Rep. Djou: Second series of questions, Dr. Bernanke, and that is I have been frustrated and disappointed that there have been a number of free trade agreements languishing in Congress. Do you believe that were the Congress to pass free trade or expansion of free trade, it would help the economy?
Bernanke: Yes I do. I think we need to be part of the globalized economy, I think trade is an important source of demand for our goods and also a source of materials and imports as well. So I think that generally speaking, you ought to push forward on the DOHA round and on the free trade agreements that we’re looking at.
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010 |
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WSJ: Djou questions Bernanke on stimulus--Dow rises 115 points
By Selected News Articles @ 3:20 PM :: 12983 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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WSJ: It took Charles Djou, the new Republican Congressman from Hawaii, to put it bluntly to Bernanke. Should there be “additional fiscal stimulus?”
And Bernanke answered as bluntly as a Fed Chairman ever will, “If you (Congress) decide to do more fiscal stimulus, then it would be very helpful to combine that with a plan for a fiscal exit strategy.”
Everyone in that hearing room got the joke. Congress not only has no plan for a fiscal exit strategy. It can’t even be trusted to come up with one. That’s why we now have a presidential bipartisan debt commission.
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010 |
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Deficit Reaches New Heights: Hanabusa’s Democrats Refuse to Stop
By News Release @ 3:11 PM :: 9158 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Washington Democrats continue to push forward with their reckless spending agenda. Just last week, they passed another spending bill that will increase the deficit by an additional $57.4 billion. Now, economists are warning that an additional one million jobs are at stake and that the country is venturing on an unsustainable path. Instead of creating a budget to address the country’s economic crisis, Hanabusa's would-be Democrat colleagues continue to push full-speed ahead with their runaway spending.
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010 |
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Super Tuesday Primaries: Unions Flush $5 Million of Your Tax Dollars Down Toilet
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:50 PM :: 4484 Views :: National News, Ethics
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It is not every day we get to agree with the Obama administration. But after Sen. Blanche Lincoln defeated Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter in the Arkansas Democratic Senate primary runoff election, after the AFL-CIO, SEIU, AFSCME poured millions of dollars into Halter's campaign, a senior White House official told Politico: "Organized labor just flushed $10 million of their members' money down the toilet."
But it wasn't just "their members" money that those unions were wasting....
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010 |
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Hawaii TEA Party proposes “Contract From America” for 2010 Elections
By News Release @ 1:48 PM :: 12531 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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We, the undersigned, call upon those seeking to represent us in public office to sign the Contract from America and by doing so commit to support each of its agenda items, work to bring each agenda item to a vote during the first year, and pledge to advocate on behalf of individual liberty, limited government, and economic freedom....
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010 |
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Gallup: Debt ties terrorism as most worrisome issue
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:51 PM :: 8569 Views :: National News, Obama
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the latest Pew poll shows that for the first time ever, more Americans now believe that the president's economic policies have made economic conditions worse than made them better.
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010 |
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The Hill: New members Critz, Djou start off in campaign mode
By Selected News Articles @ 1:56 PM :: 11313 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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For Reps. Mark Critz and Charles Djou, the Washington axiom of a “permanent campaign” has never been more apt.
The capital’s newest congressmen have been in office less than a month, but the looming November election has forced them to begin their legislative careers in full campaign mode.
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Monday, June 7, 2010 |
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Report from Shanghai: Hawaii Day in China
By News Release @ 6:35 PM :: 11230 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Today (Tuesday in China) is “Hawai‘i Day” at the USA Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. Governor Linda Lingle, legislative leaders, representatives from the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority, the visitor industry and entertainers will officially kick off “Hawai‘i Week” at the Expo. The Expo is expected to attract more than 70 million visitors, 86 percent of whom will come from China.
Yesterday (Monday in China), Governor Lingle spoke to over 300 members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai (AMCHAM) at its Distinguished Speakers Series. The Governor covered a wide range of topics including Hawai‘i's progress in promoting clean energy, the status of direct flights from China to Honolulu, and the steps her Administration has taken to improve travel visa issuance procedures with the assistance of U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman.
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Monday, June 7, 2010 |
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Why Obama's Stimulus Failed
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:38 PM :: 7540 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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This morning on MSNBC, former Rep. Joe Scarborough (R-FL) pressed prominent Keynesian economist and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University Jeffrey Sachs on whether it was too early to declare President Obama's stimulus a failure. Scarborough had to ask the question twice, but Sachs finally relented: "Obama’s stimulus failed."
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Saturday, June 5, 2010 |
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VIDEOS: Flotilla “Peace Activists” chant “Oh Jews, the army of Mohammad will return.”
By Andrew Walden @ 11:39 AM :: 13439 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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VIDEO: On the boat, the “peace activists” chant the popular Islamic battle cry, "khaiber khaiber ya yahood jaish muhammed saya'ud".
Khaibar was the last Jewish village defeated by Muhammad's army in 628. The battle marked the end of Jewish presence in Arabia.
Remember, they’re just piece activists. Some are two-pieces activists, and others are many-tiny-little-pieces activists.
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Saturday, June 5, 2010 |
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RS: Introducing Cam Cavasso, Candidate for Hawaii’s Senate Seat
By Selected News Articles @ 2:36 AM :: 8908 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Cam Cavasso, a former Hawaii State Representative and small businessman from Oahu, has announced that he will challenge Senator Inouye in this upcoming November election....
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Friday, June 4, 2010 |
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Djou: “With Ed gone, we are alone in being voice for mainstream in Hawaii”
By News Release @ 1:22 PM :: 11590 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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This weekend, however, the forces who want Hawaii's government to maintain the failed status quo consolidated their opposition to our campaign at the Democrat Party convention. This is not unexpected. We never thought the establishment would simply give up without a fight - they have too much to lose.
I personally wish Ed Case well. However, with Ed gone from this race, we are alone in being the voice for the mainstream across Hawaii. I look forward to this critical fight for Hawaii's families against entrenched special interests.
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Friday, June 4, 2010 |
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Jobs: Tax-n-spend policies favored by Hanabusa fail to deliver
By News Release @ 1:12 PM :: 11156 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Washington- A temporary boost in government hiring has padded jobs numbers for the month of May, but the 9.7 percent unemployment rate belies just how badly the runaway spending agenda pushed by Colleen Hanabusa’s Democrat friends has failed Hawaii families. The spike in jobs is simply a reflection of over 410,000 new census workers being added to the government’s payrolls at the taxpayers’ expense.
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Friday, June 4, 2010 |
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The Jobless Obama Recovery
By Heritage Foundation @ 9:03 AM :: 4571 Views :: National News, Ethics
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This Wednesday in Pittsburgh, President Barack Obama defended his administration's economic policies telling the audience at Carnegie Mellon University: "Now, I've never believed that government has all the answers. Government cannot and should not replace businesses as the true engine of growth and job creation." But that is exactly what the President's big government policies are doing.
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Thursday, June 3, 2010 |
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Djou: “Jonathan Lai is an excellent choice” for Council
By News Release @ 9:19 PM :: 10794 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Congressman Charles K. Djou (R-HI) reacted to the Honolulu City Council Executive Matters and Legal Affairs ("EMLA") Committee's recommendation of attorney and former HCDA Chair, Jonathan Lai, to succeed him on the City Council.
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Thursday, June 3, 2010 |
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Ed Case to supporters: “Stay involved with some other candidacy”
By News Release @ 6:49 PM :: 12556 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Case: "Hanabusa has to understand the deep disillusionment and frustration that many of us of any political party or no political party feel in the system of politics in Hawaii today and in our country. We don't want power to be trumping principle and people. We don't want division, we want unity. We don't want extremism, we want consensus. We don't want exclusion, we want inclusion. And those are the things that we all want desperately."
(In other words, she has to stop being Colleen Hanabusa.)
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Thursday, June 3, 2010 |
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Hawaii Republican Assembly: Home to Hawaii’s moderate Republicans?
By Andrew Walden @ 2:48 AM :: 14552 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Meeting in convention at the Hilton Hawaiian Village May 15, Hawaii Republicans voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution expressing opposition to House Bill 444—gay civil unions. The smattering of opposition came from a surprising quarter: Paul Smith and his Hawaii Republican Assembly (HiRA).
HiRA, founded in 2009, bills itself as “The Republican wing of the Republican Party” and the casual observer may view HiRA as a conservative group. But HiRA’s website refers to the group specifically as “A home for Hawaii fiscal conservatives.” (emphasis added)
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010 |
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Time to Change Course in the Middle East
By Heritage Foundation @ 6:30 PM :: 9073 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Early Monday morning in the international waters of the Mediterranean Sea, helicopters lowered Israeli Commandos onto a Turkish-flagged ferry carrying 600 passengers determined to break Israel's blockade of Gaza. Beset by activists armed with poles, knives and guns, the Israelis defended themselves, and the resulting violence left at least nine dead. Hours later, the International Atomic Energy Agency released a report claiming that Iran now has enough nuclear fuel, with further enrichment, to make two nuclear weapons. These two stories are not unrelated. And they ought to serve as a signal to the Obama administration that it is time to change its approach to the region.
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010 |
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Gaza: Violence and Humanitarian Aid
By IPT News @ 2:18 PM :: 15186 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Was it, as some suggest, the plan of flotilla organizers all along?
It's worth remembering why the aid was being transported by sea in the first place. A convoy led by then-British MP George Galloway (Bought and paid for by Saddam Hussein via oil for food scam--AW) ended in violence at the Egyptian-Gaza border in early January after authorities delayed their entry into Gaza.
An Egyptian police officer was shot and killed by Hamas gunmen. Egypt deported Galloway, made it clear he was unwelcome there again, and told the convoy it could no longer enter through its crossing. Galloway's partner in that convoy was the Turkish-based International Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), which helped lead the flotilla.
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Sunday, May 30, 2010 |
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Ed Case quits race: “Dream of a better way forward” crushed by Hawaii Democrat old boys (again)
By Andrew Walden @ 11:09 PM :: 13136 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Just as in the 2006 Senate Primary race, Ed Case has once again been forced to abandon any hope of achieving change within the Hawaii Democratic Party.
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Friday, May 28, 2010 |
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Rep. Djou joins House Budget, Armed Services Committees
By News Release @ 4:16 PM :: 13005 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Washington, D.C. – Congressman Charles Djou (HI-01) received two key committee assignments today on the important House Budget and Armed Services Committees as he begins serving Hawaii's First Congressional District. Congressman Djou issued the following statements . . . .
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Friday, May 28, 2010 |
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Greenwood Mafia grabs two power positions in UH system
By Andrew Walden @ 10:52 AM :: 25003 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Some in the UH Hilo community are shocked and surprised by UH Board of Regents' unanimous May 20 decision selecting Donald O Straney, Dean of Biological Sciences at Cal Poly Pomona, to take the place of UH Hilo's retiring Chancellor Rose Tseng. Others, such as UHPA President AJ Musto, are surprised by the transfer of Rockne Freitas to head up UH's legislative lobbying as UH Vice President of student affairs and university and community relations.
They shouldn't be....
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Friday, May 28, 2010 |
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White House in Disarray
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:04 AM :: 9208 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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A fudgelike goo coating Louisiana's marshes. A thick oil slick stretching across the Gulf of Mexico. A plume of oil miles below the ocean surface. A tragic loss of life. Reverberating economic consequences. Throw in a poll that shows that 53 percent of Americans rate President Barack Obama "poor" or "very poor" in his handling of the Gulf oil spill, and it's no wonder the President yesterday broke his 308-day self-imposed press conference moratorium in hopes of conveying some semblance of leadership amid an environmental, economic and human catastrophe that has spiraled out of his control.
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