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Scientists' Leaked Correspondence Illustrates Bitter Feud over Global Warming The scientific community is buzzing over thousands of emails and documents -- posted on the Internet last week after being hacked from a prominent climate-change research center -- that some say raise ethical questions about a group of scientists who contend humans are responsible for global warming.The correspondence between dozens of climate-change researchers, including many in the U.S., illustrates bitter feelings among those who believe human activities cause global warming toward rivals who argue that the link between humans and climate change remains uncertain.Some emails also refer to efforts by scientists...

DoctorFinder for Patients The information contained in the AMA DoctorFinder report does NOT meet the primary source equivalency requirement as set forth in the credentialing standards of accreditation organizations such as the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) or the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).Nidal Malik Hasan , MD (Non-Member) Primary Specialty (Self Designated)(note): PSYCHIATRY Location: Killeen, TX 76541

Costco Connection magazine pushes lefty Al Gore on us. Go to the link to see the cover shot. And no, they've not featured any conservatives on their magazine cover. Don't conservative leaning small businesses people make up a large part of Costco customers? Maybe the Editor, David Fuller needs to hear from Costco Customers about how they don't appreciate their membership fees being used to provide a platform for leftists. dfuller@costco.com

Orly Taitz, the Birther lawyer who released the document that was supposedly a copy of President Obama's Kenyan birth certificate, has now taken to her blog with an angry screed in response to the evidence that her find is in fact a poorly done forgery.Referring to the discovery that the purportedly Kenyan document was almost certainly based on a copy of a birth certificate issued for an Australian man, David Jeffrey Bomford, Taitz writes, "Recently Obama’s thugs in main stream (sic) media came up with this Bomford report in order to stop my efforts in exposing and prosecuting Obama. Though...

The information about Barack Obama's true birthplace led to a bittersweet moment for the president's supporters: The good news is that he was, in fact, born in the United States. The bad news is that he was really born in Texas. During last year's campaign it was suggested that Obama was born in Kenya, on a plane, or somewhere in between. The Obama campaign wasn't forthcoming about the matter, and has still not supplied the original birth certificate that legally confirms the date and time, even to support the Texas claim. The White House announced yesterday that Barack Hussein Obama...

It used to be easy to predict who the next Republican presidential nominee would be. It was decided by primogeniture: The next oldest guy in line got to be the king. It’s not so easy looking to 2012, with former Vice President Dick Cheney out of the running and a woman, soon-to-be former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, in.And I do believe she’s in — damaged in her chances, maybe, but fully intending to make a run and very popular with the shrinking hard core of the GOP.In the Democratic Party, primogeniture sometimes applies, as with Adlai Stevenson in 1956 and...

WASHINGTON — Unanticipated events in politics — say, for example, Sarah Palin’s announcement that she was quitting as governor of Alaska — tend to be overanalyzed, imbued with more motive, forethought and political calculus than might really be there... _________________________________________ Some people suggested there was a shrewdness to her gambit. From this view, the announcement, as precipitous as it might have appeared, was part of a considered grand plan of rehabilitation and preparation that would position her as the strongest possible challenger to President Obama in 2012... ______________________________________________ Perhaps. But there is plenty of evidence that argues against the idea...

Reasons to expect more from her in the future By Tony Blankley Tuesday, July 7, 2009 Professional politicians and political journalists don't waste energy on political corpses. They reserve their energy -- positive or negative -- for viable politicians. Thus, an intriguing part of the Sarah Palin phenomenon is the intensity of response to her every word and move -- from both Republican and Democratic Party professionals and from the conventional media. The negative but sustained passion being expressed by the professional Washington political class against her tends to belie its almost unanimous assertion that she is washed up. I...

WASHINGTON - I have covered politics for a long time. I can tell when someone is running for president. Sarah Palin is running for president. On a sunny (slow news) day in Wasilla, Alaska, the governor and former GOP vice presidential candidate appeared before the cameras and   announced that she was stepping down as the state's chief executive 18 months before her term expires. Just like that — like the distant sound of a chain saw in a stand of northern pines — the 2012 Republican race lurched into gear. Palin is not the front-runner — there IS no front-runner...

The White House says it will indeed release a photograph from the $329,000 "photo shoot'' of one of the Air Force jumbo jets that serve as Air Force One when the president is aboard but mainly served to scare a lot of New Yorkers in that recent flyover. President Barack Obama voiced outrage over the incident, as did the mayor of New York, the senior senator from New York and many street-level New Yorkers who didn't know what to make of the presidential aircraft trailed by an F-16 fighter making low arcs over the Hudson River. It was a "photo-op,''...

by Multiple Personality Disorder09-Apr-2009  A transcript of a senior staff meeting in the White House has been leaked to underground blogsphere.  Meanwhile the White House officials remain mum about the validity of the transcript, possibly because according to unsubstantiated reports, recording of the conversation also exists.  The following is a part of what is claimed to be the conversion between the President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, code named OB1 in the transcript, and the U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Rodman Clinton, the wife of former President Bill Clinton, code named Hill Billy:   Hill Billy:...

Did President Obama bow to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at last week's G-20 meeting? Conservatives say yes – and some aren't happy about it. The White House, meanwhile, says the president did nothing of the kind. Ben Smith has the story. As he notes, the president met Abdullah last week in London and appeared to bow to the Saudi leader, prompting outrage from some conservative quarters. "The President of the United States executed a bow to a monarch so deep that he literally had to take a step back to balance himself," wrote Hot Air. "No American President should...

Shariah court approves SMS divorce JEDDAH: A Shariah court here has approved the divorce of a young Saudi woman in her 20s whose husband sent her an SMS text from Iraq saying he had divorced her.The husband, who is in Iraq to participate in what he described as “jihad,” also telephoned two of his friends who witnessed his marriage and told them that he had divorced his wife.The woman had approached the court and asked for an official document proving she was divorced.A judge summoned the two witnesses who confirmed that their friend called them from Iraq and told...

A photo of President Obama apparently bowing in front of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is stirring a royal-size controversy. The photo and a video were largely ignored by mainstream media outlets but created outrage in some quarters. “Such an act is a traditional obeisance befitting a king's subjects, not his peer. There is no precedent for U.S. presidents bowing to Saudi or any other royals,” said the conservative Washington Times. An Obama aide speaking anonymously denied that the president was bowing. “It wasn’t a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he’s taller than King Abdullah,” the...

The White House is denying that the president bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at a G-20 meeting in London, a scene that drew criticism on the right and praise from some Arab outlets. "It wasn't a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he's taller than King Abdullah," said an Obama aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.The Washington Times called the alleged bow a  "shocking display of fealty to a foreign potentate" and said it violated centuries of American tradition of not deferring to royalty. The Weekly Standard, meanwhile, noted that American protocol apparently rules...

The Secret behind Obama's Bow to the King08/04/2009By Muhammad Diyab If Arab poet Abu Tayyeb Al-Mutanabbi had not written the verse "I sleep soundly without a worry, while the people remain sleepless and anxious [about what I have done]" then American President Barack Obama might well have said it first, for this epitomizes the situation that he is facing. Many Americans have been concerning themselves, even now, with Barak Obama's religious affiliation, and whether he is a Christian, as he has said, or a Muslim whose political ambitions have forced him to conceal his faith. Public opinion polls indicate...

Most Americans like having a leader whom foreigners adore. But some wish he was feared a bit more AFTER Barack Obama’s first long jaunt abroad as president, Americans are in two minds. Some are delighted that so many foreigners love him. Others fret, like Machiavelli, that it is often better to be feared than loved, and that the people who ought to fear America don’t take Mr Obama seriously. ...North Korea, which has already made at least one illegal nuclear bomb, fired a test missile over Japan. Though the missile crashed into the sea, many Republicans think it illuminated Mr...

Let the new president grow into the job -- but he'd better do it fast! Plus: Readers ask about everything from talk radio, morality, Mary McCarthy, and a big movie about a sinking ship.In your column, you say, "President Obama has been ill-served by his advisors and staff..."CharlesPennsylvania You are absolutely correct! The buck stops with the top executive. But we all know how little executive experience Barack Obama has had. He was elected for his vision and his steady, deliberative character, not his résumé. For better or worse, Obama is learning as he goes -- and surely most fair-minded...

Fugedaboutit. For those of you who don't speak New York, that's "forget about it", the most emphatic of the negatives in a New Yorker's repertoire. But it has nothing like the power to influence events that the "non", "nein" and "no" that capped Barack Obama's tour of Europe have. It is one thing to attract a crowd in Berlin, a city in which politicians have historically been successful in attracting mass audiences, or to wow several hundred adolescents in Strasbourg and thousands of adults in Prague with talk of a nuclear-free world, and quite another to get the elected representatives...

President Obama prepared to end his first overseas trip at the nexus of Europe and Asia having received a crash course in the strengths -- and limits -- of his popularity when it came to forging foreign policy... ...Obama mugged for the cameras with Russia's Dmitry Medvedev, chatted with Chinese President Hu Jintao, and kept tea time at Buckingham Palace. His few stumbles included giving the queen an iPod on the heels of widespread mockery over his earlier gift of a DVD set to Brown, and appearing to bow upon shaking hands with Saudi King Abdullah, an image that has...