NPR EXPOSED

Jaun Williams is now in a better place - Fox News.
The fired National Public Radio news analyst found his freedom of speech squelched when pitted against CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations), despite the fact that CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the federal indictment of the Holy Land Foundation in 2007. The Texas-based terrorist front was accused of raising millions of dollars to support Hamas.
CAIR contacted NPR and complained about Williams admitting on Fox's O'Reilley Factor that he felt a moment of fear when he boarded a plane with people dressed in traditional Muslim garb. Williams' fear is not irrational. It is a fear shared by many of us who fly.
If we allow logic to rule our thoughts we would recall this; all of the 9/11 hijackers, the shoe bomber, the failed Christmas Day bomber and the failed Times Square bomber were dressed in regular everyday garb when they attempted to ply their terrorist trade.
What was irrational was Williams' former NPR boss, CEO Vivian Schiller suggesting he, Williams, should consult his psychiatrist or publicist. Not only was it a silly, stupid, insulting statement by Schiller, it was defamatory. She better hope Williams doesn't consult an attorney.
NPR's federal funding, funneled through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, should be stopped - period.
Anyway, NPR may not need our tax money. That model of American immigration and assimilation, George Soros, is giving NPR $1.8-million to hire 100 reporters. One has to wonder if Soros was also calling for Williams' head behind the scene. One-point-eight million buys Soros a lot of clout with NPR executives, something the leftwing billionaire has never been shy about using.
Soros is also donating heavily to Media Matters and The Huffington Post, two of the most venomous voices on the left, in the billionaire's backdoor effort to encourage a sponsor boycott of Fox News Network.
Despite his best effort and expenditure of big bucks, Soros was unable to derail the reelection of George W. Bush to a second term as president. But the financial strings he is pulling through donations to NPR is a far more insidious move and should be watched carefully. I would consider my tax dollars better spent on public television and radio if the Soros donation was rejected.
It won't be, of course, so lets halt further funding of both public television and radio. That might be enough to send Schiller and her ilk at PBS and NPR making appointments with their own psychiatrists.
Move Antique Roadshow to Fox and I will never miss public television.
As for NPR - I never listen, mainly because a 2005 study by UCLA and the University of Missouri found public radio and its programming "leans left" which corrupts NPR's original mandate "to provide an identifiable daily product which is consistent and reflects the highest standards of broadcast journalism."
The highest standards of journalism, all journalism - be factual, be unbiased. NPR is neither.

THE MURKOWSKI RESOLUTION

Three cheers for Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). Her resolution to prohibit the Obama Administration from back-dooring Cap and Trade legislation by allowing the Environmental Protection Agency to impose the bill through regulation will be voted on Thursday.
The Murkowski resolution has garnered some surprising support - West Virginia's staunch liberal Jay Rockefeller for one. And several other leading Democrats.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is carrying the water for the White House and predicts the resolution will fail. Let's hope he is wrong.
No where, other than perhaps West Virginia, will the devastating economic impact of Cap and Trade regulation be felt more than here in Indiana. We mine coal in this state, especially in the southern part. Most of our plants which generate electricity are powered by coal. If the EPA gets a congressional green light to impose onerous greenhouse gas regulations, it will put Hooiser coal miners in unemployment lines.
And it will, as President Obama so famously forecast before his election, skyrocket utility bills.
Over the years average Americans have become environmentalists without joining militant environmental activists groups. We routinely recycle cardboard, aluminum cans, plastic grocery bags and newspapers, among other everyday items.
We have watched our monthly utility bills double and quadruple in the past twenty-five years without a lot of uproar as coal-fired power generating plants recovered the costs to switch from coal to natural gas or added costly electrostatic precipitators to sharply reduce sulphur dioxide and particulate emissions.
Indiana senators Bayh and Lugar need to join Murkowski.
Even as the science behind global warming is being exposed as fraudulent, there is still drum beating from Progressives and the Obama Administration to enact Cap and Trade, which is the biggest fraud of all. Unfortunately both Bayh and Lugar bought into the global warming scam.
Under the Cap and Trade bill proposed by Obama, utility bills could quadruple very quickly because it would force power generating companies to purchase so-called clean energy credits to offset any greenhouse gases pumped into the atmosphere. That would make George Soros, Al Gore and their cohorts happy. They own a big chunk of the company that would trade such credits and the Chicago-based exchange that would buy and sell such credits.
Will the air we breathe be cleaner?
No!
What's worse, there will be less money to refurbish old power plants and build new, more environmentally friendly plants.
Cap and Trade, the bill itself or the EPA regulations, is a lose-lose for Americans. Just ask the Spanish. Spain went green in a big way several years ago. Now Spain is going broke and a quarter of its workforce have no jobs, leaving all those "green" workers in Spain singing the "blues."