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Anthropogenic (man-made) global warming is predicated on two major things. First, that the earth is abnormally warming. This was alleged to be proven true by the 'hockey stick' temperature graph. The Climategate emails have driven a stake through the heart of this fraud. Second, human activity generated CO2 is causing this alleged abnormal increase in global temperatures. That allegation is also false. The 'hockey stick' graph of CO2 concentrations has been 'fudged' too. Historical CO2 levels are determined from bubble in ice cores. Since the age of the ice is known, this data can be compared with temperature data to...

President Barack Obama asserted that he “will consider any and every proposal that’s put to me” in search of a way to get Americans back to work. One idea that the President attributed to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner would entail the Federal Reserve creating a trillion dollars of new money. This money would be placed inside an abandoned coal mine. The mine would be dynamited. The government would then accept bids from private contractors and select one to dig up the money. “I think it’s ingenious,” the President said. “The cost to the government to implement this plan is negligible....

Two short video clips: 1. Sunday on "Meet the depressed" John McCain is asked about Sarah Palin's "brand" of conservatism. 2. McCain is then asked a leading question: "You must have been shocked to see Palin quit.' The host contunies to whine about Sarah "quitting" and stepping down as governor. McCain thinks that she will play a major role in 2012 but is not quite ready to endorse her:

As we dig deeper in this utter lie, the biggest conspiracy of the century called global warming and climategate that happened this past week we see deeper and deeper into the minds of this world government in the making by Obama and his gang of clowns. One of those clowns turns out to be John Holdren that has his foot deeply embedded into this climategate scandal. Lets start with Al Gore's "inconvenient truth", turns out the truth was inconvenient, so inconvenient they had to mess with the data and make the entire global warming scam to be the inconvenient lie....

The term "hockey stick" was coined by the head of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Jerry Mahlman, to describe the pattern of historical temperatures in the northern hemisphere (it kind of looks like a hockey stick on its side). The chart, created by Professor Michael Mann of Penn State, shows relatively stable temperatures until around 100 year ago when we see a spike up. It is one of the key pieces of information used to prove that global warming is about to destroy the world. To create most of the chart , climate change scientists...

Green Condoms - Google English Translation (Le Monde) The stamp “green” is booming. And condoms are no exception. In recent years, the brand “green” have multiplied. In France, in natural food stores or some pharmacies are the Namnam strawberry or Birds’n Bees green Dr. Theiss. This Swedish brand says use only natural latex and its treatment products (for strength, finesse …) or washing. In England, the spearhead of the animal because there are no condoms certified treatment product of animal origin, such as Condomi or Glyde. APHRODISIAC PRICED FLOOR Across the Channel again, latex condoms have made a place on...

Want to know why most British voters are unconvinced by the Rio-Kyoto-Copenhagen crowd? Read this. Joss Garman, who co-founded the pressure group Plane Stupid, rails at the “undiluted lunacy” of the conservative movement. We Rightists, he says, have concocted a conspiracy theory that is imperilling the planet. We apparently believe that scientists and governments are deliberately, maliciously and secretly falsifying climate change data. “I find it extraordinary that the Conservatives Andrew Tyrie and Daniel Hannan, James Delingpole of The Daily Telegraph and Fraser Nelson of The Spectator have gambled their reputations on a conspiracy theory supported by the flimsiest of...

Of course she's not gonna criticize him, Gibbs compares her to his bratty child and Ryan says both of us "could have done things differently" She does criticize the WH for the Party Crashers..(Video)

Until early January Carol M. Browner, President-elect Barack Obama's pick as global warming czar, was listed as one of 14 leaders of a socialist group's Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for "global governance" and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change. Then Mrs. Browner's name and biography had been removed from Socialist International's Web page, though a photo of her speaking June 30 to the group's congress in Greece was still available. The group's Commission for a Sustainable World Society, the organization's action arm on climate change, says the developed world must reduce...

I posted several photos of Sarah & Todd Palin at the Fairfax book signing and the transcript of Sarah's Gridiron speech.

Here is video of Sen. John McCain today on Meet the Press, where he was asked about Sarah Palin. McCain said he is very "proud" of Palin, and that he read her book and enjoyed it. . . . (VIDEO)

Here is video of Defense Secretary Robert Gates on This Week today, where he said the United States has had no good intelligence on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden for "years." Gates essentially said there is nothing to reports that bin Laden has been sighted in recent days. . . . (VIDEO)

Journal Live: This is the official Sioux City Journal live blog for the expected (sic) SUnday visit of Sarah Palin at the Southern Hills Mall in Sioux City, Iowa.

I’m sure you’ve heard our un-documented President talk about the healthcare bill he and his love slaves are trying to force down the throats of people who don’t want it. One of his more interesting rebuttals to the criticism that the bill will a) increase taxes on, and the cost of, medical devices and prescription drugs, b) criminalize choices we now make freely, and c) force everyone over 50 to have a “death” consultation with their doctor or unnamed government appointed medical “professional” is that government healthcare will be just like going to the Post Office. Gee … isn’t that...

An AP article claims “Militia movement resurfaces across U.S.” (link here; though this story differs from the one I read in the San Jose Mercury News). How did they come to this frightening view? They were told it was so via a press release (devices which save reporting time) generated by Political Research Associates, a group whose tag line is “Researching the Right for Progressive Changemakers.” Presumably, “Changemakers” are those graduates of left-wing gender or ethnic “studies” programs that you see working at, inter alia, Taco Bell. Anyway, the PRA publishes a journal called Public Eye, in which you can...

Concerned that “casual” and “irregular” so-called journalists are “confusing” the American people. Senators Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) have introduced legislation that attempts to “draw the line between legitimate and illegitimate purveyors of news.” The legislation, Senate Bill 448, would define a legitimate journalist as a person working as a salaried employee of, or independent contractor for, a recognized publisher or broadcaster of news. Those falling outside this definition would be denied the privileges granted to established news media under freedom of the press. “The American people need to be protected from being misled by unauthorized sources,” Feinstein...

Our magnificent Navy SEALS will be arraigned tomorrow for the alleged crime of giving a fat lip to a savage barbarian. The same savage barbarian who massacred Blackwater employees engaged in the mission of delivering catering supplies. The slaughter was not sufficient to impress Allah; Ahmed Abed went for extra credit by burning their bodies and hanging them from a bridge for a special pro- Allah photo op. Arraignment is a hearing in which defendants enter their pleas. The attorney for one of our SEALS told Fox News this morning that he had received nothing from the prosecuting attorneys that...

Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee and possible contender for the top job in 2012, has been in the media to promote her new memoir. Felsen picks up on comments by Palin on Good Morning America last week in response to a question about the Obama administration’s opposition to Israeli expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. “I disagree with the Obama administration on that,” the former Alaska governor told interviewer Barbara Walters. “I believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon because the population of Israel is going to grow. More and more...

Wednesday, December 2nd brought hundreds of folks out to Costco in Tempe, Arizona. The one and only Sarah Palin graced their presence to sign her new book, "Going Rogue". According to a gentleman calling in to the Sean Hannity radio show on Thursday, he persuaded Governor Palin to not only sign his book but also his back. If you think this unbelievable, the Palin devotee then reported that he and his girlfriend wasted no time driving to a tattoo establishment and, you guessed it, having Palin's autograph permanently engraved on his back via tattoo. He sounded quite proud, while Hannity,...

As a former conservative turned free-market libertarian, I have always been intrigued by Ron Paul's strong advocacy for the free market. After all, conservatives claim to stand on the same principles. So, I found it quite odd during the Republican presidential debates of 2008 when all of the other candidates actually had answers for how they would better "run" the economy. Having lived in Russia, China, and Europe, each candidate's answer scared me to death. Had they somehow missed the memo about how planning economies doesn't work, has never worked, and never will work? Cold War, anybody? The proper answer...

Saturday Night Live's take on the State Dinner party crashers

A great analogy that explains the dilemma of our "redistribution program" here in America (welfare, food stamps, or Medicaid, etc.) is one of a triplex. I must thank Neal Boortz for this analogy (his book, The Terrible Truth About Liberals), by the by. Our government, as our Constitution says, derives its powers “from the consent of the governed.” The idea here is that we cannot and should not ask the government to do anything for us that we cannot legally or morally do for ourselves. Sounds logical, doesn’t it? With that premise in mind, lets build the following scenario. You...

Fraudster the Snowman by F.R. Duplantier Fraudster the Snowman Was an enterprising pol, With a trust-fund life And an upturned nose And a heart made out of coal. Fraudster the Snowman Was a senator, they say. He was made of snow, But the voters know How he came to life one day. There must have been some magic in Those tight blue jeans they found, For when they placed them on his legs He began to dance around. O, Fraudster the Snowman Found a way to live for free. While the people pay, He could laugh and play And...

“Planet 51”-an Okay Stereotype Sort of MovieIt was an entertaining enough kind of movie, “Planet 51”, when granddaughter visited. Granddaughter is 5 year old and by my use of the “wiggle” meter, I’d give this film a c+, at best a B-. The “wiggle” meter is my guide as to how the movie being viewed captivates the younger audience, specifically my granddaughter, who is 5 years old and fairly typical. For the movie “UP”, she did not wiggle once. For this movie she began wiggling about halfway through. Other similar types of movies and the mileage varies. The animation...

Politically Correctness is intended to politicize not civilize a society. It is said to be racially motivated to question a morally twisted Middle-Eastern Army Officer shouting “Allah Akbar” before his shooting rampage toward his fellow countrymen, and yet it is not so to omit the WASP from the racial compositions of American society in a Social Study. “No one said anything about the WASP race, why is that?” asked my mixed-races 9 year old daughter. It was the WASP Americans who framed and founded this Republic, and Politically Correctness views other races as inferior to this supreme achievement. If the...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Karen Malec is the President of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer. Malec is one of the world's leading authorities on the relationship between abortion and breast cancer. The following essay is a perfect illustration of how mainstream media bias has tried to silence the public debate over this issue. On two occasions early in November, The Daily Iowan's opinion editor, Shawn Gude, invited a reader by the name of Rebecca Curtis to send him a 600-word rebuttal in response to a guest opinion written by University of Iowa law students, Amber Fricke and Amy Hirst, on October 27,...

I propose a Constitutional Amendment to read as follows: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such...

As Americans, there is a disconnect between our professed regard for liberty and this tendency to seek for ourselves gods among men. On the surface, we love to wrap ourselves in the rhetoric of equality, freedom, and the populist sentiments underlying representative government. On the other, we crave, demand, and ultimately crown royalty. A friend recently told me in reference to President Obama, “The way he speaks, you can just tell he’s intelligent. He’s so intelligent. And you want that in your president, someone intelligent.” The unspoken implication which I find echoed in criticisms of Sarah Palin is we want...

Backing Gas Ken Lay’s political niche began innocently enough with a unique, highly focused natural gas strategy, one that would culminate in Enron’s 1995 self-description as “the world’s first natural gas major.” In pursuit of that goal, Lay promoted gas-fired power generation relative to coal. He countered the coal lobby’s contention that the 1970s shortages were the inevitable result of a tiring North American gas resource base. “We had a surplus of regulation, not a shortage of gas,” Lay would say, and Enron backed up its claim by offering utilities long-term fixed-priced gas contracts. Enron also challenged the tendency of...

Sorry for two posts of this article. But the below post does not connect with the blog.

As a practicing physician I have major concerns with the health care bill before Congress. I actually have read the bill and am shocked by the brazenness of the government’s proposed involvement in the patient-physician relationship. The very idea that the government will dictate and ration patient care is dangerous and certainly not helpful in designing a health care system that works for all. Every physician I work with agrees that we need to fix our health care system, but the proposed bills currently making their way through congress will be a disaster if passed.

"One thing Commander Quitter-in-Chief, Barack Obama, left out of his little West Point talk is that his new Afghan strategy has forced him to break a promise he made to the Army his first week on the job!... ...the...promise to soldiers that the Army would be moving to 2-for-1 Dwell Time — that is, each soldier would get twice the time at home as deployed. That move,...was aimed at combating record-high rates of suicide, divorce, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder..."

The chemical Bisphenol A, which has been used for years in clear plastic bottles and food-can liners, has been restricted in Canada and some U.S. states and municipalities because of potential health effects. The Food and Drug Administration will soon decide what it considers a safe level of exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA), which some studies have linked to reproductive abnormalities and a heightened risk of breast and prostate cancers, diabetes, and heart disease. Now Consumer Reports' latest tests of canned foods, including soups, juice, tuna, and green beans, have found that almost all of the 19 name-brand foods we...

The Big 12 Championship game is finally here and Longhorn fans have made the trek to the Dallas Cowboy’s Stadium in Arlington to witness the game firsthand. Fans are looking forward to a win and a trip to Pasadena.

Thanks to a reader for this idea. Do you still get mailings from the DNC or AARP that include a “No Postage Required” envelope intended for you to send a check back to them? Instead of giving the DNC or AARP — two entities we abhor because of their recent behavior — any money, why not start costing them money with those mailings? Since the DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee met on May 31st, 2008 to take delegates away from Hillary Clinton that she won in Florida and Michigan, we’ve sent back every contribution envelope we’ve received from the DNC...

Is this the beginning of the end of big media? I kicked my heels on the way to work today, felt a zing of joy in the crisp winter air. Blogistan kicked some arse this week – MSM; yooor boys took one hell of a beating! Climategate of course. The story that big media and government tried to kill with censorship, obscurity, inaction and faint, misleading one para stores. But the blogosphere simply would not let it die. More than that, the superb range of analysis poured into the subject by bloggers and commenters developed and expanded the story in...

Here is video from Saturday Night Live last night, where they spoofed the Party-Crasher story. They had Obama speaking in Pennsylvania, where he was followed by the Salahis - the couple who crashed the White House State Dinner. In the spoof, while Obama drones on about the economy, all kinds of things go on behind him, without him noticing - until the very end. . . . (VIDEO)

Here was the headline New York Magazine just ran, about the current First Lady at the Christmas tree lighting ceremony: MICHELLE OBAMA WORE CLOTHES TO LIGHT THE CHRISTMAS TREEHere’s a screen grab of the post because we’re sure they’ll scrub it:

Ultra-liberal feminists detest that a moose-hunting everymom was able to rise to the top of the heap when so many elitist feminists rest on their lily-white laurels and pat themselves on the back for their "enlightened" political views while accomplishing very little.

Description of simple experiment that shows CO2 can't cause warming by trapping Infra Red (Credit to mystery blogger) The claim that carbon dioxide (CO2) can increase air temperatures by "trapping" infrared radiation (IR) ignores the fact that in 1909 physicist R.W. Wood disproved the popular 19th Century thesis that greenhouses stayed warm by trapping IR. Unfortunately, many people who claim to be scientists are unaware of Wood's experiment which was originally published in the Philosophical magazine , 1909, vol 17, p319-320. Wood was an expert on IR. His accomplishments included inventing both IR and UV (ultraviolet) photography. Wood constructed two...

Note: Photo included. Al Mazraq Refugee Camp, Yemen Filed under: Saada War, Saudi Arabia, USA — by Jane Novak at 10:10 pm on Saturday, December 5, 2009 This 15 month old toddler is in the al Mazraq refugee camp, or was. The child may be dead by now. The UN is struggling to save hundreds of children like this one from dying of malnutrition in the Yemeni refugee camps. But due to lack of funding and lack of access, they are really struggling. Tens of thousands of children are outside the camps and beyond the reach of food aid, as...

SNL: The Salahi's show up while Obama is giving a press conference, Secret Service and Biden show up and start taking pictures with them..(Video from open)

Today, we bought our copies of Going Rogue here in Chicago. Not knowing we were buying them, several friends bought extra copies when they bought theirs, and so we’re going to have extra books later tonight. Tomorrow, we are taking three of those to the assisted living centers/nursing homes here in Boystown to donate them to the little libraries they have there. Old people are the most dependable, regular voters out there…and they typically default vote Democrat. But, this crazy assault on Medicare that is the Utopiacare plan has seniors scared. If they also happen to read Going Rogue while...

VIDEO: Carly Fiorina delivered the weekly Republican address on the topic of the current health care reform bill being debated in the U. S. Senate and across America.

Here’s a letter that I sent yesterday to the New York Times:RE Thursday’s White House “Jobs Summit” (”Obama Turns to Job Creation, but Warns of Limited Funds,” Dec. 4): the language is misleading. Jobs themselves do not need to be created, for they are among the most abundant opportunities in our midst. You can paint my house, serve as my personal masseuse, cook my dinners and clean my kitchen every evening. You’re hired! But you refuse, because I won’t pay you enough to do so. It’s obviously not jobs that people ultimately want; it’s opportunities to earn income – and...

Muslim parents mutilate girls’ genitals, using crude instruments such as razor blades and scissors. The girl is held down often by her mother while the father cuts her genitals so that she does not have sexual desires. That makes her males’ slave for life. Parents cut their children with swords to celebrate various so-called “holy days.” Early youngsters learn to let blood, see blood and tolerate bloodletting.

Here is video of Anne Graham Lotz talking with Greta Van Susteren, and describing Gov. Sarah Palin's visit with Dr. Billy Graham recently. Palin visited Graham's home in North Carolina and had dinner with Graham, his son Franklin, and his daughter - Anne Graham Lotz. The video also shows Palin sharing her thoughts in having the opportunity to meet Dr. Graham. Lotz also discussed her new book, "The Magnificent Obsession." . . . (VIDEO)

The name of the game for research scientists is research grants. The way you advance up the ranks and receive notoriety is to be awarded new grants (they also pay many of the bills). Over the past few years Professor Phil Jones has received more than 13 million British Pounds in research grants (the equivalent of $22.5 million). Which gives Professor Jones strong a incentive to make sure those global temperature numbers keep rising.

I hadn't given much hope that any Senator would have the intestinal fortitude to ask Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke any tough questions during his confirmation hearings before the Senate Banking Committee. Bernanke, who succeeded Alan Greenspan, was originally appointed by George W. Bush, and was recently reappointed to a second term by President Barack Obama. I'm happy to see that Senator Jim DeMint courageously carved Bernanke up while still being a perfect Southern gentleman (see video below from hearings).

<p>Great to see Gateway Pundit and Breitbart posting the truth about Kevin Jennings' GLSEN indoctrination materials.</p>