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Sarah Palin’s timing and strategy should be in a required reading political text: “Palin on Politics – How to time it; how to move in the political and media morass.” When half the nation thought that she was unqualified to be Vice-President never mind President; when she was being sued in her home state for all manner of imagined infractions (ALL suits were dismissed) – she resigned as Governor of Alaska before the end of her elected term.

Remember over the last few months when all the pundits, strategists, consultants and RNC hacks were busy giving Governor Palin advice about what moves she should make if she wanted to return to the political big time? Well I’m pleased to say she totally ignored them and decided to do it her way – the Palin way...and guess what – it has worked to perfection.

1. She is a woman and we've never had a woman president! Of course, before our current president, we've never had a black president either; but that's different. 2. She's pro-abortion, and even late-term abortion! No, wait - I believe that's someone currently in the office who holds those views. 3. Does she have something to hide? I wonder, since we can't seem to find out anything about her grades and her accomplishments while attending college! Oh boy, I'm wrong again! I believe that's also someone currently in office that I'm thinking about. 4. She doesn't have the background or...

The White House just uploaded this PHOTO of the uninvited couple who crashed the White House State Dinner, from Whitehouse.gov (Photo) = Story

Short answer: because the scientific assessments in which they may take part are not credible anymore. A longer answer: My voice is not very important. I belong to the climate-research infantry, publishing a few papers per year, reviewing a few manuscript per year and participating in a few research projects. I do not form part of important committees, nor I pursue a public awareness of my activities. My very minor task in the public arena was to participate as a contributing author in the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC.

Where are the jobs? All those shovel ready jobs that the stimulus was supposed to create? Mike Pence hits Obama on the economy, and also says "The God who blessed those who landed on these shores, still reigns today" (Video)

Batteries and Birth certificate NOT included http://nobarack08.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/just-in-time-for-the-holidays/

The Constitutional Structure For Limited And Balanced Government The Constitution was devised with an ingenious and intricate built-in system of checks and balances to guard the people's liberty against combinations of government power. It structured the Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary separate and wholly independent as to function, but coor­dinated for proper operation, with safeguards to prevent usurpations of power. Only by balancing each against the other two could freedom be preserved, said John Adams. Another writer of the day summarized clearly the reasons for such checks and balances: "If the LEGISLATIVE and JUDICIAL powers are united, the MAKER of the...

Browsing Liberal Sites you would get the feeling that the even the ultra left are mad as hell with Barack Obama, and with the way the country is going. The fear is growing. Their biggest issues and causes to join forces, like global warming, are starting to fall apart.

"Climategate has rocked international news outlets like it was Watergate. If you were watching news in America you would probably just see “Scientist’s emails were hacked and spread to ruin Obama’s trip to Copenhagen!” I hate to tell the mainstream media outlets this but it is so true… Nobody is watching you."

Obama's Justice Department really knows how to take care of the President's buddies especially the criminal enterprise ACORN. According to the NY Times, the Justice department has directed the Administration to continue to pay ACORN for any services whose contracts were signed before congress cut off funds. Section 163 of Division B (“Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2010”) of Public Law 111-68 does not direct or authorize the Department of Housing and Urban Development to breach a pre-existing binding contractual obligation to make payments to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now or its affiliates, subsidiaries, or allied organizations where doing...

Australia is leading the revolt against Al Gore’s great big AGW conspiracy – just as the Aussie geologist and AGW sceptic Professor Ian Plimer predicted it would. ABC news reports that five frontbenchers from Australia’s opposition Liberal party have resigned their portfolios rather than follow their leader Malcolm Turnbull in voting with Kevin Rudd’s Government on a new Emissions Trading Scheme.

I posted a week or so ago about missing out on tickets to the Sarah Palin booksigning near us (called the day after they went on sale, was told that sales were 'steady but slow', they had 900 out of 1000 left, would I like to buy some over the phone, stupid me, "no, I'll run by tomorrow and pick them up"--TOTALLY sold out the next morning!)--well, my daughter Maya (9 y/o who loves politics and wanted to meet Sarah in person) found out that Mike Huckabee is also coming to our area for a book signing the day after...

"Why is “climategate” getting little to no coverage? It is all about the money. There is so much money to be made on account of the fear caused from global warming, just ask Al Gore. The more fear, the greater the reward, for congress, for anybody."

When Eric Holder announced he was moving the 9/11 terrorist trial to New York City, a rash of worries were released, the case will be dismissed because of the waterbording, all the evidence will be thrown out because they weren't read their Miranda rights..etc. The Wall Street Journal is warning of the very real possibility that the two of the terrorists, Ramzi Binalshibh and Mustafa al-Hawsawi may be declared mentally unfit to stand trial. Their attorney's claim that the terrorists have mental disorders caused by harsh CIA treatment. The issue already has arisen in military-commission proceedings at the military's detention...

Here is an interesting article and audio. http://www.archive.org/details/OtunnuOnLuoTribeMemberBeingElectedPresidentOct.252008 Otunnu on Luo Tribe Member Being Elected President, Oct. 25, 2008 Olara Otunnu (Harvard Law, 1978) relating the remark of Kenyan historian Ali Mazrui on the oddity that a member of Kenya’s Luo tribe (Barack Obama, a Kenyan citizen and Luo tribe member from birth) may become president of the United States before a Luo tribe member becomes president of Kenya. “Town Hall Forum: An Examination of Race, Age, Gender & Religion in the 2008 Election,” Harvard Law School Reunions, Oct. 25, 2008, 9:15 a.m. (Austin Hall, 1st Floor, West), at 60:17...

The 21st Century has, in less than a decade, seen the explosion of three “bubbles.” In 2001 we saw the tech bubble explode, leaving in its wake the collapse of numerous fortunes and a renewed appreciation for value rather than promises of ever more extravagant high-tech dreams. ... Swearing that the stock market was rigged, people decided to put their money in houses. “Real estate never goes down” was the new mantra, and as evidence we saw houses “flipped” – on TV - for huge profits and real estate assessments climb 20, 30 or 40% per year, proving how to...

In the spring of 1964, Sarah Heath, then just three months old, flew into backwater Skagway, Alaska (population 650) aboard a 1930s-era Grumman Goose to start a new life with her parents, brother, and sister. At that same time, in America's other new outlier state, Hawaii, two-year-old Barry Obama was just getting used to a fatherless existence in the otherwise-comfortable world his white grandparents and occasionally his mother would make for him. At the time, not even Nostradamus could have foretold that the paths of Barry and Sarah would intersect in the "historic" 2008 election, Barry as the first major...

Global Warming stands at the crossroads of scientific tomfoolery and economic ignorance. Now, with the hacking of one of the principle citadels of this world wide fraud, the jig may be up for the global warming swindlers, according to James Delingpole.  The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabites of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That)He shares some damning evidence...

WTH is wrong with people? They should sue.

Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present the Obamacare version of the future of America: Poor nursing care, filthy wards and lack of leadership at Basildon and Thurrock University NHS Hospitals Foundation Trust led to the deaths of up to 400 patients a year. Figures compiled by a health watchdog showed death rates at the Essex trust were a third higher than they should have been... At first glance you might think that this is a scenario from an episode of the Twilight Zone, but for thousands of British Citizens, this is all too real and caused by understaffed, filthy hospitals....

...Mr. Krauthammer makes one small but very important statement with which I disagree. He begins the end of his column with this statement: “Insuring the uninsured is a moral imperative.” Is it? Why?

As of this date 17 Nov 2009, Barack Hussein Obama aka Barry Soetoro has spent in excess of $1.8 million to defend lawsuits regarding his eligibility under the United States Constitution. Bauer’s client Barack Hussein Obama aka Barry Soetoro might like to explain why he claims to have his original Birth Certificate. As mentioned in “Dreams of My Father” he claims finding his birth certificate. On Page 26 of “Dreams of My Father”, Obama writes: “I discovered this article, folded away among my birth certificate and old vaccination forms, when I was in high school,” While this brief quote does...

The Cash for Clunkers program was widely touted as a major success by the Obama Administration and the Progressives in Congress but like most comments coming out of Washington that "success," was nothing but pure spin. The Automotive research website Edmunds.com did a simple business analysis of the cash for clunkers program and discovered that American Tax Payers payed an average of $24,000 to sell each additional car in the clunkers program. A total of 690,000 new vehicles were sold under the program, all but 125,000 would have been sold anyway. Divide the the total cost of $3 billion by...

For Thanksgiving Barack Obama thought it would be a great idea to demand Israelis to release 1000 terrorist in exchange for peace. What is he, a complete Moron? I personally don't think someone could be that stupid, and he is doing this on purpose. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said he could “guarantee” that arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti would not be released from prison in any deal to exchange terrorists for kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. “We have no intention to free the head of the murderers, a person who has been sentenced to four life terms in prison. There are red...

More editorial cartoons with a conservative slant.

Why is “climategate” getting little to no coverage? It is all about the money. There is so much money to be made on account of the fear caused from global warming, just ask Al Gore. The more fear, the greater the reward, for congress, for anybody. Newscasters NEED apocalyptic stories to survive.

AFA list of retailers Christmas friendly and not so friendly in their newspaper advertising, radio and television ads and Christmas related items in store...List

According to the latest Gallup Poll America believes that Eric Holder is WRONG ! Barack Obama is Wrong ! By an overwhelming 59% to 36% margin, Americans believe that 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his gang of killers should be tried in a military court Republicans (74%) and independents(63%) overwhelmingly believe the trial should be held in a Military Tribunal. The President's Democratic base disagrees as a slight majority (51%) feel the trials should be held in a civilian court

"The lack of media attention to this so called “climategate” is unbelievable. I do not even know if we can even call it “climategate”, as nobody seems to acknowledge that it has happened. Of course Fox News has brought it up, as well as numerous talk show hosts but, there has been no trace of coverage almost anywhere else. When searching for climate stories, almost the only thing you can find is major coverage of Obama wanting to cut emissions down 20%. On CBS News absolutely no trace of climategate, but we did find this… "

This week ABC 7's Chuck Goudie aired a report made in conjunction with the Better Government Association that explored the efficacy of the Illinois Township and what they discovered is just more waste and ripoffs of the Illinois taxpayer. Townships were originally created for two main purposes: raising taxes to take care of roads in unincorporated areas and to provide temporary aid to the poor. Unfortunately the I-Team and the BGA have discovered that this extra layer of government is collecting large amounts of taxes, spending only a fraction on the two purposes for which they were created, and banking...

Earlier this month President Obama fired Greg Craig, his main counsel on matters concerning the Guantanamo Bay Facility. And this week Obama sheds another one of his GITMO team with the resignation of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense for Detainee Policy Phillip Carter. It appears that Obama's GITMO team is being systematically eliminated. One has to ask, why? The only real answer has to be that Obama is setting up some plausible deniability by firing or forcing the resignation of officials involved with GITMO policy. Once enough of these people are gone, Obama can look wide-eyed to the public and...

We had the chance to talk with her earlier today at the 6th Annual Turkey Trot and she was full of energy. "This is so encouraging, nice warm reception. I should have expected it because it's the Tri-Cities, and amazing hospitable people live here, we love it," said Palin. Sarah Palin was surrounded by hundreds including a handful of supporters from Alaska. The former Vice Presidential candidate has taken a few days off her nationwide book tour to spend her Thanksgiving weekend with family and friends. She has two aunts in town and deep roots in the Tri-City area. "It's...

Howard Dean had a rare Lucid Moment during an interview on the Liberal Air America Network's Bill Press Show on Tuesday. He Said that Obamacare was a lousy bill that wouldn't help reduce the cost of health care. The only good thing about it is the public option which will put America on the road to a single payer system. This is a harmful bill to the nation without a public option, because it’s going to take trillions of dollars, billions, well, trillions over several decades from our kids. The Republicans are right about the rhetoric of the bill. But...

Catastrophe Denied: A Critique of Catastrophic Man-Made Global Warming Theory

Marvin Olasky has touched upon a brilliant meme in terms of academia. As the universities and colleges have been hijacked by the Left, perhaps it is time to consider charter colleges. It would certainly improve the quality of education, considering the generation of know-nothings schools are producing these days. Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.

Rush Limbaugh has a tradition of reading his version of how Thanksgiving went down. Because I listened to Dennis Prager, a talk-show host of a very high intellectual caliber, for many years, I never got to hear Rush do his thing until about two years ago. Needless to say, I found the story impressive. It doesn’t gloss over the bad, but it allows people to understand, directly from the record of the Pilgrims themselves, how events unfolded without interference from liberal fabulists. It makes for a nice read on a day where all should be thankful for the blessings our...

There’s nothing wrong with being a good steward to your Earth, as I’ve said before. The problem comes with liars trying to shake people down for money to promote a phony agenda. The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board comments further here. Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.

Lord Lawson was right to call in today’s Times for an inquiry into the global warming scandal. As noted below, through a set of hacked emails a group of some of the most influential scientific proponents of anthropogenic global warming have been revealed to have been manipulating, suppressing and distorting scientific evidence in order to bolster their claim. They in turn have said the email messages have been taken out of context. And with so much material now in the public domain, it is possible that some of it has an innocent explanation. But in an awful lot of it...

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Like a squabble between jilted lovers the Barry Hussein Soetoro administration and the pro-Global warming international community are spatting about who’s committed to the cause of Global warming. (see story) But in the spirit of Jerry Steinfeld who’s classic story line about a television show about nothing, Steinfeld's show about nothing, is nothing (no pun intended) compared to the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen Denmark this coming December. This Conference is literal about nothing because there is no Global warming--there never was. Yet Barry Hussein Soetoro, Europe and the United Nations intend to ratify an agreement among themselves regarding Climate...

“In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwriten, by the loyall subjects of our dread soveraigne Lord, King James, by the grace of God, of Great Britaine, Franc, and Ireland king, defender of the faith, etc. “Haveing undertaken, for the glorie of God, and advancemente of the Christian faith, and honour of our king and countrie, a voyage to plant the first colonie in the Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine our selves togeather into a civill body politick, for our...

As If Making The Afghanistan Announcement From West Point Fools Anyone It has been close to 90 days since the demands made by General McCrystal were aired, and the leisurely process seems to be finally winding down despite itself. The healthcare plan has passed the initial hurdle to get to the Senate floor, so the field is clear to make an announcement on troop strength and strategy. Now if this was a war the way that WWII was a war and President Obama was a general, we would have been in big trouble. If every decision that is "critical" takes...

So, will the state-run media be bold enough to hide this, too? Obama’s socialist Science Czar John Holdren, who once said that forced abortions were needed to save the planet, is also involved in the Climategate Scandal. Holdren, another socialist in the White House, was pushing global cooling before he was pushing man-made global warming.

The desperate denial on the part of the press that global warming is a hoax is testimony to the fact that they have as much invested in the hoax as the hoaxers themselves. This is obvious for two reasons. Global warming is the perfect vehicle for government control of … pretty much everything. As a vehicle for fascism, it’s right up there with government control of health care. The twenty-first century world’s energy – with the exception of primitive areas where human and animal energy predominates – is based on carbon based fuels. Outlaw those, and demand that people do...

The Obama administration has found a new way to appease terrorists and put Israel in danger. Last week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the Obama administration was playing along with the terrorist ruse in Lebanon when she differentiated between the military branch and a political one in Hezbollah. Clinton’s statement on the Charlie Rose Show came only 24-hours after Prime Minister Saad al-Harriri had created a cabinet of national unity, which includes two members of Hezbollah. Terrorist organizations create a fake divide between political and military branches to give Western Nations "cover" to appease the terrorist groups, and...

Obama's unemployment save-or-create plan

Last night I had a dream… 20 years from now, the geographical region currently known as “America,” and indeed the entire world, will have undergone a breathtaking transformation. Like a fragile butterfly, who spreads her delicate painted wings only after being stuffed into a frumpy looking cocoon of racist oppression, my dream-self wandered in wonder and delight, crying in joy, screaming, “Yes we DID! Yes we DID!” This is what I saw…

I keep hearing how Iran might get nuclear weapons – It looks like they’ve had them since 1993. Putting a search in Google for Iran 1993 nuclear – and it yielded this - http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Iran/1825_1870.html

Eleven months ago, he landed on the shores of the presidency, destroying everything in his path. A gigantic, fire-breathing monster wreaking havoc, consuming private sector industries, crushing institutions which have made America great, and destroying lives. With fear and trembling we dare to utter his name...Obamazilla! Though appearing indestructible and unstoppable, millions of brave patriots arose to challenge the beast, vowing not to sit idly by as America as we know it is terminated. As a patriot, I am totally focused on defeating Obamazilla, America's true nemesis. I will not allow myself to be sidetracked into participating in Tea-Party-movement family...