News by the Numbers - February 2009

Two states, Washington and Oregon, have legalized assisted suicide, according to Chuck Colson. Two down, 48 to go. For Obama that would be 55 states.

5-15% - the “rated capacity” of intermittent electricity during peak summer demand periods, provided by unreliable renewable energy programs which will require tens of billions in subsidies and tax breaks.

15% cuts in carbon emissions will result in “persistently higher prices for products such as electricity and gasoline. Those price increases would be regressive in that poorer households would bear a larger burden relative to their income than wealthier households would,” according to a 2007 study by the Congressional Budget Office.

25% - of active duty members of the U.S. military would consider leaving the service if the ban on open homosexuality were repealed, according to a Military Times survey.

29%, 55% 15% - the amount that emission restrictions will increase the cost of gas, electricity, and natural gas by 2015, according to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology study.

40% of George Washington’s inaugural speech referenced his faith and religion, (approximately).

58% of active duty members of the U.S. military oppose lifting the ban on open homosexuality, according to a Military Times survey.

60% fewer gun massacres occurred between 1977 and 1999 in states that adopted concealed-carry laws and the death and injury rate of such rampages were reduced by 80%, according to a by economists John Lott and Bill Landes.

63% cuts in emissions by 2050, would reduce U.S. gross domestic product by up to $269 billion and cost 850,000 jobs by 2014, according to a study by the National Association of Manufacturers.

65% of Syphilis Cases are attributed to homosexual men, according to a federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)study. They are the “primary driver” of increased overall rates of syphilis, a disease that was almost eliminated as a public health threat less than 10 years ago.

66% of released prisoners are rearrested within three years, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

70% of reported cases of gonorrhea in 2007 were attributed to African-Americans, who make up 12 percent of the U.S. population, according to the CDC.

90% of children ages 8 to 16 have been exposed to Internet porn, according to TopTen­Reviews

90%+ of teens in the United States have access to the Internet, according to Dr. Megan Moreno, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. About half of all teens who use the Internet also use social networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook. MySpace boasts more than 200 million profiles, according to the studies, and about one-quarter of those belong to teens under 18.

99.999% - the safety record of oil companies which produced nearly 12 billion barrels of oil from Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) leases between 1980 and 2007, according to data from the US Minerals Management Service.

600 private jets flown by rich Democrats flew into the Inauguration, according to David Limbaugh.

1,400 years - the length of time Coptic Christians in Egypt have been harassed, tortured and killed by Muslims, according to a report from the Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights. Not one Muslim ever has been convicted in the attacks

3,000 pregnant mothers were "brutalized physically and emotionally by surgical abortion, and 3,000 innocent preborn human boys and girls … killed intentionally," the day Obama was inaugurated, according to March for Life.

5,000 Christians have been massacred in Egypt in the last 10 years, according to Sam Grace of Coptic News

100,000 years of glacial age are coming as the warm, 12,000-year Holocene period soon ends, according to Pravda, Russia's online newspaper. World temperatures have dropped to levels not seen since 2000. The year 2008 has been documented as the coolest year of this century.

1.6 million troops have served in either Iraq or Afghanistan since 9/11 (approximately). Veterans are about 10 times less likely to commit a murder than non-veterans of those wars.

$5 million+ - was pocketed by Obama when he sold the rights to broadcast coverage of inaugural events, effectively limiting the number of Americans who can view them and undercutting Obama’s claims of accessibility, according to Business & Media Institute VP Dan Gainor.

50 million innocent preborn human boys and girls have been eliminated by a systematic and planned extermination since Roe v. Wade, according to March for Life

60 million inhabitants of Iraq and Afghanistan were liberated during President Bush’s administration.

575 MILLION Pounds of CO2 were estimated to be created by the Obama inauguration. The average U.S. household would take 57,598 years to produce a carbon footprint equal to that of Obama’s housewarming party.

$2.07 billion - the amount spent to comply with government regulations in 2007 by the banking and finance industries, almost tripling from $725 million in 1980.

$15.3 billion are spent annually by the U.S. health care system on treatment of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), according to the CDC.

$269 billion in U.S. gross domestic product will be lost along with a loss of up to 850,000 jobs by 2014 will occur if emissions caps, calling for a 63% cut in emissions by 2050, are enacted, according to a National Association of Manufacturers study.

$616 billion - income taxes paid by the top 5 percent of payers in 2006 which rose from $407 billion in 2003, according to the IRS.

$1.024 trillion - the amount of income tax revenue in 2006, up from $748 billion in 2003 -- that's faster than inflation, according to the IRS. Rising spending, not tax cuts have led to a higher deficit.