Which Czar will be next?, $3800 fine for no health insurance, Chavez wants to "help" Obama

1) CZAR WARS: Van Jones' departure inspires: 'Who's next?' Holdren, Sunstein, Lloyd all linked to radical ideas Former Obama green jobs czar Van Jones is gone, along with his views about whites directing poisons to minorities, his obscene condemnations of Republicans and his affiliation with the idea the U.S. government was behind 9/11. …Holdren, the science czar, for example, has been described as a population control "zealot" who has stated his belief the Constitution justifies compulsory abortions. His 1977 book with Paul Ehrlich called "Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment," states: "There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated. It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society." …Lerer specifically cited Holdren for his "involuntary fertility control methods like mandatory abortions, mandating family size and adding sterilants to drinking water…" …Then there's Cass Sunstein, the Harvard Law professor named the regulator czar.  He's also been on the population control bandwagon, advocated animal rights and followed the teachings of Peter Singer devoutly. Singer has argued that abortion should be allowed because killing unborn babies isn't like homicide.  "Killing a newborn baby is never equivalent to killing a person, that is, a being who wants to go on living."  He also discussed outlawing sport hunting and giving animals the legal right to file lawsuits.  "Any animals that are entitled to bring suit would be represented by (human) counsel, who would owe guardian-like obligations and make decisions, subject to those obligations, on their clients' behalf," he suggested.  Then there's Mark Lloyd, the "diversity czar" who has talked about issues such as a 100 percent tax on broadcast outlets in order to collect money to provide alternative viewpoints, mandatory diversity in station ownership and the idea of requiring broadcast businesses to cater to the demands of local activism committees. Republican Congressman Mike Pence said all such appointees should be reviewed by Congress like those who take various cabinet positions and must be approved by elected legislators.  According to a Fox report, Pence said the czars should be subject to background checks and a vote.  "I’m suggesting that the administration should suspend immediately any future czar appointments while both the constitutionality of this practice is examined and while the background and qualifications of individuals who’ve been appointed as czars is carefully examined," Pence over the weekend. …While Code Pink activist Medea Benjamin was describing the treatment of Jones as being "swift-boated," Obama was pushing ahead with the appointment today of Ron Bloom as manufacturing czar, bringing to nearly three dozen the political appointees who wield huge influence but effectively answer only to the president (emphasis mine). See: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=109183 And: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26809.html#ixzz0QSJOKIUM 1a) Pence requests background checks of all Obama 'czars' Key GOP Congressman Mike Pence is uncomfortable with President Obama's "czars," and he would like to have background checks conducted on all of them and is suggesting suspension on future czar appointments. The House Republican was a leading voice on the Van Jones resignation - after Van Jones was associated with the 9/11 "truther" movement.  "I’m suggesting that the administration should suspend immediately any future czar appointments while both the constitutionality of this practice is examined and while the background and qualifications of individuals who’ve been appointed as czars is carefully examined," Pence said. See: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/278856 1b) “Meet the Press” finds the big lesson in the Van Jones story: You can’t trust the Internet You have to see it to believe it. The singular lesson of the past week, after big media failed to uncover Jones’s Truther past and then actively suppressed it when it broke online, is that they can’t be trusted to chase stories that are inconvenient to The One — especially if doing so would burnish Glenn Beck’s credibility. And yet here they are, through two of their priestlier representatives, warning the public that only a fool would play in the “open sewer” that is the Internet, where lies and smears and video clips that the networks won’t show of Obama administration officials calling Republicans “assholes” flow insidiously onward. Plenty of viewers will believe them, too: Remember, for many, their first taste of the Van Jones story came this morning, and no sooner did they hear about it than a trusted figure like Tom Brokaw appeared to dismiss it as a smear campaign. You couldn’t script a more Orwellian ending. Friedman actually goes so far as to call this a cautionary tale about how everyone’s a potential target in the age of mass media. Hey, Tom? He’s a Truther in charge of $60 billion in taxpayer money. We’re not talking about some alderman here who got caught saying something off-color at the Dairy Queen. See: http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/06/meet-the-press-finds-the-big-lesson-in-the-van-jones-story-you-cant-trust-the-internet/ 2) U.S. no longer most competitive economy  Switzerland takes first place in poll, followed by U.S. and then Singapore GENEVA - The United States has lost its place as the world's most competitive economy, according to a survey released Wednesday, falling behind Switzerland mainly because of the financial crisis and accumulated fiscal deficits.  The survey, which combines opinions of over 13,000 business executives with economic statistics and government regulations, put Switzerland in first place and dropped the U.S. to second place. See: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32730736/ns/business-world_business/ 3) Up to $3,800 fine for failure get health insurance WASHINGTON — A top senator is calling for fines of up to $3,800 on families who fail to get medical insurance after a health care overhaul goes into effect. See: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g77V_f7Vg118P6PDJhf-zihUJmQQD9AJ8OBO0 And: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090909/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_health_care_overhaul 4) When Bush spoke to students, Democrats investigated, held hearings The controversy over President Obama's speech to the nation's schoolchildren will likely be over shortly after Obama speaks today at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. But when President George H.W. Bush delivered a similar speech on October 1, 1991, from Alice Deal Junior High School in Washington DC, the controversy was just beginning. Democrats, then the majority party in Congress, not only denounced Bush's speech -- they also ordered the General Accounting Office to investigate its production and later summoned top Bush administration officials to Capitol Hill for an extensive hearing on the issue. Unlike the Obama speech, in 1991 most of the controversy came after, not before, the president's school appearance. The day after Bush spoke, the Washington Post published a front-page story suggesting the speech was carefully staged for the president's political benefit. "The White House turned a Northwest Washington junior high classroom into a television studio and its students into props," the Post reported. See: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/When-Bush-spoke-to-students-Democrats-investigated-held-hearings-57694347.html 5) EXCLUSIVE: Obama nominee omitted ties to biotech: Homeland nominee advised lobby President Obama's nominee at the Department of Homeland Security overseeing bioterrorism defense has served as a key adviser for a lobbying group funded by the pharmaceutical industry that has asked the government to spend more money for anthrax vaccines and biodefense research.  But Dr. Tara O'Toole, whose confirmation as undersecretary of science and technology is pending, never reported her involvement with the lobbying group called the Alliance for Biosecurity in a recent government ethics filing.  The alliance has spent more than $500,000 lobbying Congress and federal agencies -- including Homeland Security -- since 2005, congressional records show. See: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/08/obama-nominee-omitted-ties-to-biotech/ 6) Venezuela's Chavez says hopes can work with Obama VENICE (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a fierce critic of U.S. foreign policy who once called George W. Bush "the devil," said on Monday he hoped to be able to work more closely with President Barack Obama. …"I have no reason to call him (Obama) the devil, and I hope that I am right," Chavez told reporters in Venice. "With Obama we can talk, we are almost from the same generation, one can't deny that Obama is different (from Bush). He's intelligent, he has good intentions and we have to help him." See: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5864ME20090907 7) Another Shocking Warning About Swine Flu Vaccine The swine flu vaccine has been hit by new cancer fears after a German health expert gave a shocking warning about its safety. Lung specialist Wolfgang Wodarg has said that there are many risks associated with the vaccine for the H1N1 virus. The nutrient solution for the vaccine consists of cancerous cells from animals, and some fear that the risk of cancer could be increased by injecting the cells. The vaccine can also cause worse side effects than the actual swine flu virus. See: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/08/Another-Shocking-Warning-About-Swine-Flu-Vaccine.aspx