1. Federal authorities have arrested a Philadelphia man and charged him with threatening to kill Republican House Minority Whip Eric Cantor and his family.Norman Leboon will be charged with two federal counts: threatening to kill a member of Congress and interfering with his federal duties, and posting video online containing such threats. He is scheduled to appear in federal district court in Philadelphia on Monday afternoon. The arrest is the most serious in a string of threats of violence against lawmakers in wake of the divisive health care vote. Continued…
And the Progressive Socialist Democrats’ violence didn’t stop there. Acts of violence and threats mounted this weekend in Searchlight, Nevada, the hometown of Senator Reid. Reid supporters threatened violence and threw eggs at Tea Party goers. Continued…
2. Realizing that they may have lost the battle trying to convince everyone that global warming exists, the Progressive Socialist now want to stop scaring people of impeding disaster and push “low-carbon energy”. They write:
Climate science, even at its most uncontroversial, could never motivate the remaking of the entire global energy economy. Efforts to use climate science to threaten an apocalyptic future should we fail to embrace green proposals, and to characterize present-day natural disasters as terrifying previews of an impending day of reckoning, have only served to undermine the credibility of both climate science and progressive energy policy.
Read the essay here.
3. One week after the House passed the Democratic healthcare plan that President Obama subsequently signed into law, 54 percent of the nation’s likely voters still favor repealing the law. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 42 percent oppose repeal. Those figures are virtually unchanged from last week. They include 44 percent who strongly favor repeal and 34 percent who strongly oppose it.
Repeal is favored by 84 percent of Republicans and 59 percent of unaffiliated voters. Among white Democrats, 25 percent favor repeal, but only 1 percent of black Democrats share that view. Click here to read more about the poll.
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