Statements Related to Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) thinks that the US government should apologize to British Petroleum for asking the company to create a trust fund of less than one year's profits to restore the Gulf ecosystem from the oil spill they caused.

• Some deaths in the 1918 flu epidemic were caused by an overdose of aspirin aimed at treating the virus (1+/0- justifications)
• Due to a 1950 US Supreme Court misinterpretation of the phrase "in combat duty" (the Feres doctrine), members of the military cannot sue the US government for any harm it does to them. (1+/0- justifications)
• The United States military planned to fabricate violence apparently perpetrated by Cubans in order to create public support for attacking Cuba (1+/0- justifications)
• Congress made health insurance companies exempt from anti-trust oversight in 1945 (1+/0- justifications)
• Steve Buyer, U.S. Rep. from Indiana (Republican), created a charitable organization in 2003, the Frontier Foundation, to award scholarships. Since that time it has raised $880K, but given no scholarships and donated only $10K (to his lobbyist buddies). Instead it has funded golfing trips for Buyer and his lobbyists. (1+/1- justifications)
• Steve Buyer's Frontier Fund has raised over $600K (net expenses). (1+/0- justifications)
• Steve Buyer's Frontier Fund is waiting to raise $1M to make the fund self-sustainable before granting scholarships (1+/0- justifications)
• Steve Buyer's Frontier Fund has raised over $600K (net expenses) and will grant scholarships after it has raised $1M so that the fund is self-sustainable (3+/0- justifications)
• Scientists create and boy uses cybernetic hand that restores feeling. (1+/0- justifications)
• Health insurance companies should be exempt from anti-trust regulation (1+/0- justifications)
• Health insurance companies are not allowed to compete across state lines, and so anti-trust regulation is not applicable to them (0+/0- justifications)
• Illegal music sharing creates greater profits for the recording industry and artists than would exist without illegal music sharing. (1+/0- justifications)
• Former AIG CEO Maurice Greenburg is avoiding restrictions imposed upon AIG after its collapse by starting a new insurance company C.V. Starr & Company (1+/0- justifications)
• The website recovery.gov allows taxpayers to see how the government spends every dollar of the 2009 Recovery Act (1+/0- justifications)
• President Obama has made government more transparent and accountable (5+/0- justifications)
• Most climatologists believe that the Earth has been cooling in 2008–2009 because we are at the nadir of an 11-year solar cycle and last year was a particularly strong La Niña year (2+/0- justifications)
• Rep. James Inhofe (R-OK) has been instrumental in official Ugandan efforts to systematically murder homosexuals (1+/0- justifications)
• Goldman Sachs replaces bonuses for its top 30 executives with 5-year stock options (1+/0- justifications)
• Companies (including Wal-Mart) mark up shipping to APO addresses to create profit (1+/1- justifications)
• The House version of the Health Reform bill does stip insurance companies of their anti-trust exemption (1+/0- justifications)
• Premiums for low and middle income people will be lower (subsidized by government) after health reform (0+/0- justifications)
• The Federal Reserve bought (and held) 80% of the $1.5 trillion of 2009 government debt (1+/0- justifications)
• World Vision is a strictly Christian organization and receives several hundred million dollars each year (1+/0- justifications)
• The Federal Reserve profits for 2009 are only 0.1% (1/10 of one percent) of its bailout promises (3+/0- justifications)
• Rush Limbaugh purposefully instills distrust of the U.S. government in his listeners (1+/0- justifications)
• The U.S. government is responsible for the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1+/0- justifications)
• French oil and gas company Total used slave labor to build a pipeline in Myanmar (1+/0- justifications)
• The federal government may be infiltrating social networking sites (1+/0- justifications)
• Drilling in ANWR is expected to increase US oil production by 780,000 barrels per day at peak (1+/0- justifications)
• The US consumes about 20 million barrels of oil per day (1+/0- justifications)
• Drilling in ANWR would reduce foreign oil dependence by 4% (4+/0- justifications)
• If ANWR were to produce the maximum expected output of 1.45 million barrels per day, it would reduce US foreign oil dependency by 7% (4+/0- justifications)
• Drilling in ANWR will at maximum increase US oil production by 1.45 million barrels per day at peak (1+/0- justifications)
• The US can satisfy its energy requirements by expanded domestic oil exploration (3+/0- justifications)
• ANWR contains oil (0+/0- justifications)
• Reliance upon oil for energy makes the US politically vulnerable (0+/0- justifications)
• The United Nations Population Fund supports the forced abortion and infanticide of China's "one child" program. (1+/0- justifications)
• A person requires at minimum 1,000 cubic meters/year of water (1+/0- justifications)
• 107,000 cubic kilometers of rainwater falls on the Earth's land area every year (1+/0- justifications)
• Almost all state governments started fiscal year 2010 with budget deficits (1+/0- justifications)
• DEA is busting marijuana growers despite President Obama's promise that the federal government would not pursue those in compliance with state law (1+/0- justifications)
• British MI5 helped arm the IRA (1+/0- justifications)
• Global warming has been caused or contributed to by the actions of humans (anthropogenic) (2+/0- justifications)
• Americans drink an average of 50 gallons of soda a year (1+/0- justifications)
• Nuclear power in the US is insured by the federal government (and therefore the US taxpayer) (1+/0- justifications)
• The staff at Wikimedia make on average over $160K/year including benefits (4+/0- justifications)
• Wikimedia will spend at least $4.7 million of its revenue this year on salaries and benefits (4+/0- justifications)
• Because all religions would compete for scarce government support and funding, the support of one religion would be a de facto exclusion of other religions (0+/0- justifications)
• The world population subsidizes 1/3 of the profits of the world's biggest companies (1+/0- justifications)
• Ron Paul thinks the US Civil War was a mistake because other countries did not have civil wars to end slavery (1+/0- justifications)
• Almost half of all Jews and Hindus in the US make over $100K/year (1+/0- justifications)
• Executives of US corporations are legally required to maximize their corporation's profits (1+/5- justifications)
• US Federal judges try to create secret decisions (1+/0- justifications)
• Some government in the world is engaging in geoterrorism by remote earthquake creation (1+/1- justifications)
• Bacteria that live in clouds create rain (1+/0- justifications)
• An oil and manufacturing company Koch Enterprises, the second largest private company in the United States, has secretly spent $50 million over ten years to support climate change denial (2+/0- justifications)
• Undocumented immigrants contribute $2B per year to the U.S. Social Security Fund (1+/0- justifications)
• General Electric, a New York corporation, paid $0 in taxes to the U.S. but had world-wide profits of $10.8 billion (1+/0- justifications)
• Colony Collapse Disorder is caused by nicotine-based pesticides (neonicotinoids) that disorient bees preventing them from returning to their hive. (1+/0- justifications)
• In 1993 a group of tobacco, nuclear energy, agribusiness, chemical, and oil companies created an astroturfed organization called The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC) (1+/0- justifications)
• British Petroleum's profits for 2008, 2007, and 2006 were $25.6 billion, $18.4 billion, and $22.2 billion, respectively. (1+/0- justifications)
• British Petroleum's profits for 2009 were $14 billion. (1+/0- justifications)
• British Petroleum's profits for the first quarter of 2010 were $6.1 billion, more than double their first quarter profits from 2009 ($2.6 billion) (1+/0- justifications)
• British Petroleum's 2010 profits were on track to be double their 2009 profits, or $28 billion (1+/0- justifications)
• General McChrystal has seen his wife only 30 days out of a year since the Afghanistan occupation began in 2003 (1+/0- justifications)
• Group opinion stereotyping is correctly applied if some of the group support the opinion in the company of the whole group, but no one in the remaining group does anything to oppose the expression of the opinion. I.e., it would only be a fair metaphor if the rapist Beatles' fans engaged in rape in the company of all Beatles' fans and the non-rapist Beatles' fans did nothing to oppose the rape. (0+/0- justifications)
• The Federal Reserve caused the 2008 financial crisis (1+/0- justifications)
• The Venezualan government has let thosands of tons of food rot and go to waste (1+/0- justifications)
• As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Timothy Geithner supervised Citibank's actions that lead to the largest bailout of any company (1+/0- justifications)
• The cost of incarceration is $18K to $50K per year per prisoner (1+/0- justifications)
• The agreements into which credit card companies require merchants to enter create a regressive subsidy of credit card usage (1+/0- justifications)
• Government officials conspired to assassinate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1+/0- justifications)
• The purpose of the U.S. 2003 invasion of Iraq was to secure the country's oil for U.S. use (1+/0- justifications)
• Fred Koch might have believed that a black president indicated a communistic takeover of the U.S. government (1+/0- justifications)
• George W. Bush increased the national debt by $5.1T in 8 years to fund the invasion of two countries that were unrelated to the 911 attacks and to fund tax cuts for the wealthy (1+/0- justifications)
• The U.S. government had a budget surplus during the last years of Clinton's presidency (0+/1- justifications)
• The U.S. government opposes including social security or medicaire in the government accounts via accrual accounting because the government can cancel the programs at any time (2+/0- justifications)
• 2005 was the first year that an immigrant-born child could apply for German citizenship (1+/0- justifications)
• The Chinese government has access to Microsoft Windows' source code (1+/0- justifications)
• The North American honey bee collapse is caused by clothianidin (1+/0- justifications)
• The US invaded Iraq for oil (1+/0- justifications)
• Satoshi Kanazawa thinks we should have had a nuclear response to 9-11 (1+/0- justifications)
• MRSA kills more persons per year than AIDS (1+/0- justifications)
• Greenpeace found evidence of bromine in the iPhone, which can create toxic by-products during disposal of the phone (1+/0- justifications)
• Unintended pregnancies cost the U.S. public $11 billion per year (1+/0- justifications)
• The Soviet declaration of war on Japan caused Japan to surrender during World War II (1+/0- justifications)
• An Israeli company left the World Trade Center days before Sept. 11, 2001, breaking its lease and losing$50K (1+/0- justifications)
• The U.S. government does not save money by using third-party contractors (1+/0- justifications)
• The Chairman of the New York Federal Reserve owned Goldman Sachs stock while that company applied for recognition as a bank-holding company violating Federal Reserve policy. After receiing a clandstine waiver for his violation, he began purchasing more Goldman Sachs stock. (1+/0- justifications)
• Libya increased its oil tariffs shortly before being invaded (1+/0- justifications)
• The US government caused the 2008 financial crisis by pushing home ownership (1+/0- justifications)
• Insufficient sewage systems cause 1.4M children worldwide every year (1+/0- justifications)
• The federal government is paramilitarizing local and state US law enforcement agencies (3+/0- justifications)
• The federal government is making local and state US law enforcement agencies more dangerous towards their public (4+/0- justifications)
• The federal government is making local and state US law enforcement agencies less capable of performing their work (4+/0- justifications)
• Rich people create jobs (1+/0- justifications)
• In the U.S. a partnership is formed any time two or more persons act together to conduct business and share any profits (1+/0- justifications)
• Rep. Steve King is a racist arch-conservative (1+/0- justifications)