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Monthly Archives: November 2009

Climatologists frustrated that climate isn’t following their politically-driven leftist agenda.

[Der Spiegel] Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents. At least the weather in Copenhagen is likely to be cooperating. The Danish Meteorological [...]

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Here’s Bill McGurn: When it comes to terrorists, you would think that an al Qaeda operative who targets an American mom sitting in her office or a child on a flight back home is many degrees worse than a Taliban soldier picked up after a firefight with U.S. Army troops. Your instinct would be correct, [...]

The return of race-card Jesse!

[The Hill] The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill. “We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.” I never realized you can determine [...]

Imagine when they run your healthcare.

[ABC's The Note] ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: The chairman of the Obama administration’s Recovery Board is telling lawmakers that he can’t certify jobs data posted at the Recovery.gov Web site — and doesn’t have access to a “master list” of stimulus recipients that have neglected to report data. Super bang-up job there! Imagine how [...]

Gov’t preemptive rationing.

Let’s review some basic principles of supply and demand: If a government policy increases the demand for a service, the price of that service tends to rise. If the government prevents prices from rising, shortages develop. The quantity provided is then determined by supply and not demand. In the presence of such excess demand, the [...]

Hidden Agenda in KSM trial?

The former prosecutor of the 1993 WTC bombers, Andrew McCarthy, argues that the Obama administration has to know that treating KSM and other illegal combatants the same as a U.S. citizen arrested in the country’s borders and formally charged with a crime will have many adverse consequences related to national security and classified intelligence. Pres. [...]

Holder: Consistently inconsistent.

[Wall Street Journal] Contrary to liberal myth, military tribunals aren’t a break with 200-plus years of American jurisprudence. Eight Nazis who snuck into the U.S. in June 1942 were tried by a similar court and most were hanged within two months. Before the Obama Administration stopped all proceedings earlier this year pending yesterday’s decision, the [...]

Envirowackoism 101

Never confuse conservation with environmentalism. The former promotes images of Teddy Roosevelt establishing national parks (actual parks, that is, not calling something a park when it clearly isn’t just to prevent development); Planting trees, proper stewardship, all that good stuff. Environmentalism, on the other hand, has become part cult, a substitute religion where “the planet” [...]

Deliberate negligence.

Okay, one more post on the Ft. Hood shootings. I couldn’t resist after reading this analysis of the dangers of willful political correctness voiced by a counter-terrorism expert. Note he makes the same point many have previously — had Nidal been pining for, say, Nazism, he’d have been booted out of the military a long [...]

Parting shot on Ft. Hood.

What about the doctors and nurses, the counselors and physical therapists at Walter Reed Army Medical Center who every day hear and live with the pain and the suffering of returning soldiers? How many of them then picked up a gun and shot 51 innocents? … Was anything done about this potential danger [all of [...]