Senator Dodd cuts funding for airport explosive detection systems

"Back in July Senator Chris Dodd proposed an amendment to reduce aviation security funding by $4.5 million in favor of “firefighters assistants grants.” It was the senators way of thinking ahead. Instead of detecting explosives at the gate, why not just wait for something to explode like a plane and this way the firefighters would be fully equipped to put out the inferno." [Examiner]

Sen. Nelson down Dramatically in re-election polls

"The telephone survey of 500 Nebraskans, conducted Monday, suggested Republican Gov. Dave Heineman would defeat Nelson in a potential 2012 Senate race by a 61-30 margin.

The poll showed Nelson with a 55 percent unfavorable rating and 64 percent disapproval for Democratic health care reform legislation." [Journal Star]

Analysis: Similar explosive on plane used in Saudi attack

"On August 28, the Saudi Arabian deputy minister of interior, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, survived a bombing attack launched by an al Qaeda cell based in Yemen, Saudi Arabia's southern neighbor." [CNN]

President Obama's year of failure

"President Obama's year of blunders is ending with the worst failure yet by the president and his team: An Islamist terrorist penetrated the United States and came very close to perpetrating the greatest mass-casualty attack within the U.S. since 9/11." [Hugh Hewitt]

Strategy: "To Win" ...... or "To ????" ... confusion reigns

"Earlier this month, the Washington Post reported that the administration's delay in formulating a new strategy for Afghanistan was caused in part by confusion over the mission. President Obama had given Gen. McChrystal one concept of the mission in March, McChrystal had developed a new strategy based on that mission over the summer, but the White House opted in September for a new, somewhat different concept of the mission. Thus, the administration had to return to the drawing board, and its plan was not unveiled until December.

Now, after Obama has announced the new strategy and it is being implemented, the Post reports that there is still serious disagreement about just what the strategy is. According to the Post, the military sees its mission as mounting a comprehensive counterinsurgency operation, albeit on a somewhat smaller scale than origiinally envisaged...........

What is clear is that even after nearly a year of back and forth, the folks who count still are not on the same page when it comes to fighting this war." [Power Line]

Michigan Forces Business Owners Into Public Sector Unions

"Michelle Berry runs a private day-care service from her home on the outskirts of this city, the birthplace of General Motors. "The Berry Patch," as she calls the service, features overstuffed purple gorillas, giant cartoon murals, and a playroom covered in Astroturf. Her clients are mostly low-income parents who need child care to keep their jobs in a city that now has a 26% unemployment rate.

Ms. Berry owns her own business—yet the Michigan Department of Human Services claims she is a government employee and union member. The agency thus withholds union dues from the child-care subsidies it sends to her on behalf of her low-income clients. Those dues are funneled to a public-employee union that claims to represent her." [WSJ]

Napolitano: 'The system worked'

"DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said that the thwarting of the attempt to blow up the Amsterdam-Detroit flight this week demonstrated that "the system worked."" [American Thinker]

FROM WHAT PLANET IS JANET???

Iran's Ahmadinejad mocks Obama, "TV series" nuke talks

" Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday mocked U.S. President Barack Obama's "extended hand" offer made earlier this year and said his country's cooperation on its nuclear program had been spurned." [Reuters]

"Don't Say We're Violent, Or We'll Kill You"

Here are photocopys of an Islamic website's list of the last 60 days of jihadist attacks worldwide .... looks like around 200-300 such attacks!!!!

"It is worth noting that these attacks, all during the last 60 days, occurred in 18 countries. Altogether, jihadists have carried out 14,578 fatal terrorist attacks since September 11. No wonder the Obama administration has declared an end to the war on terror" [Power Line]

Obama the party crasher

"Barack Obama is not used to being the guy not invited to a party. At the Copenhagen global warming conference, however, he found that not everyone wanted to hang with him. Our president can't take a hint." [Washington Times]

2010: The year that was

"We know 2010 is going to be an exciting year. Why wait until next December to find out what happened, when my crystal ball is available to you now? Here's 2010, the year that was." [American Thinker]

Stunner. Barack Hussein Obama & Family to Skip Christmas Services

"A writer for TIME magazine reports that the president and his family are not attending Christmas services. Gee, what a surprise! Barack Hussein Obama has consistently shown his lack of understanding of the Holy Bible, his disdain for the spiritual meaning of Christmas (no Nativity crèche in the White House), and his propensity to bow to Muslim leaders." [CFP]

For Their Next Trick . . .

"The latest example of violating principles of transparency and accountability in the single-minded pursuit of legislative victory.

Look for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to try to circumvent the traditional conference committee process by which the different versions of health care reform passed by each house will be reconciled. If so, it will be the latest example of violating principles of transparency and accountability in the single-minded pursuit of legislative victory" [WSJ]

Has the alleged Fort Hood Gunman's Imam been silenced?

"U.S. officials are awaiting confirmation that a Yemeni air strike killed Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical American cleric who exchanged email messages with the alleged Fort Hood Shooter, Maj. Nidal Hasan." [Time]

UPDATE 12/26/09

Radical Yemeni Cleric Believed Unhurt in Airstrike

Budget Office Rebuts Democratic Claims on Medicare - the TRUTH now begins to trickle out!

"The Congressional Budget Office challenged claims by health-care overhaul proponents that Medicare savings in Senate legislation would help finance expanded coverage and postpone the bankruptcy of the medical program for the elderly.

The nonpartisan agency said the $246 billion it projected the legislation would save Medicare can’t both finance new programs and help pay future expenses for elderly covered under the federal program.

Nor could those savings be used to extend the solvency of Medicare, set to run out of money in 2017, the budget office said....... " [Bloomberg]

Senate raises debt limit - avoids U.S. Default for a few months!

"The Senate voted Thursday to raise the ceiling on the government debt to $12.4 trillion, a massive increase over the current limit ...." good for only a few months. [MyWay]

Now we just need to find someone who will buy our debt!

Arrogance, corruption, stupidity

"This vote is indeed historic. This Congress will be remembered for its arrogance, corruption and stupidity. In the year of 2009, a Congress ignored the coming economic storm and impending bankruptcy of our entitlement programs and embarked on an ideological crusade to bring our nation as close to single-payer, government-run health care as possible. If this bill becomes law, future generations will rue this day and I will do everything in my power to work toward its repeal. This bill will ration care, cut Medicare, increase premiums, fund abortion and bury our children in debt." [Power Line]

Pro-Abortion Maneuvers Could Still Kill Obamacare

"Democrats are close enough to taste victory in their quest to remake the nation's health care system, but differences between the House and Senate on abortion could still blow it all up." [Newsmax]

Rep. Stupak: White House Pressuring Me to Keep Quiet on Abortion Language in Senate Health Bill

"Stupak said that the White House "asked me just to hold off for awhile and not to say anything about this language."

"A review of the Senate language indicates a dramatic shift in federal policy that would allow the federal government to subsidize insurance policies with abortion coverage," [CNS News]

20 Memorable Quotes From Senate Democrooks on Obamacare

1. SEN. BEN NELSON (D-NE): “My Vote Is Not For Sale Period.”

and it goes downhill from here to number 20.....

20. SEN. ROLAND BURRIS (D-IL): “Twas The Night Before Christmas And All Through The Senate.”

71% Angry at Federal Government, Up Five Points Since September

"Seventy-one percent (71%) of voters nationwide say they’re at least somewhat angry about the current policies of the federal government. That figure includes 46% who are Very Angry." [Rasmussen]

Small-business bankruptcies rise 81% in California

"The latest data show small-business bankruptcies up 81% in the state for the 12 months ended Sept. 30, compared with the previous year. Filings nationwide were up 44%, according to the credit analysis firm Equifax Inc.

The actual number of small businesses in trouble is probably higher, experts said, because many owners file for personal bankruptcy rather than seek protection for the business." [LA Times]

"the snowiest Christmas ... in 30 years"

"A storm likely to hit on Wednesday could make this "the snowiest Christmas ... in 30 years" - and be a pain for last-minute travelers." [Star Tribune]

More DISAPPROVE OBAMA than Bush after 8 years

Obama disapproval rating = 46%

G.W. Bush disapproval rating at END OF HIS 8 YEARS = 43%

Attorney General's Law Firm Gains Release of 12 Gitmo Terrorists

Afghans, Somalis and Yemenis released and sent back "home". How long will it be before we see them on the battlefield again? The next time we encounter them, I hope we read them their "Last Rites" rather than their Miranda Rights!

Top Cuban official says Obama lied in Copenhagen

"Cuba's foreign minister called President Barack Obama an "imperial and arrogant" liar Monday for his conduct at the U.N. climate conference, a reflection of the communist island's increasingly fiery verbal attacks on the U.S. government." [AP]

The Walpin pretext, Part Two

More evidence emerges that the inspector general for the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) was illegally fired by Obama for investigating an Obama crony.

Who's Meaner, Insurance Bureaucrats or Government Bureaucrats?

"According to the American Medical Association's National Health Insurer Report Card for 2008, the government's health plan, Medicare, denied medical claims at nearly double the average for private insurers: Medicare denied 6.85% of claims. The highest private insurance denier was Aetna @ 6.8%, followed by Anthem Blue Cross @ 3.44, with an average denial rate of medical claims by private insurers of 3.88%

In its 2009 National Health Insurer Report Card, the AMA reports that Medicare denied only 4% of claims--a big improvement, but outpaced better still by the private insurers. The prior year's high private denier, Aetna, reduced denials to 1.81%--an astounding 75% improvement--with similar declines by all other private insurers, to average only 2.79%." [Power Line]

Deep in Health Bill, Very Specific Beneficiaries

“Every senator uses whatever leverage they have to help their states,” Mr. Axelrod , a senior adviser to President Obama said .....

“This process is corruption. It’s a shame the only way we can come to a consensus in this country is to buy votes.”... Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma [New York Times]

TV Ad: Harry Reid Failed!

Snow on the Beach in Nice, France !

Peolple are seen on the beach covered by snow in Nice, southeastern France, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009. Temperature is 3 degrees celcius (37,2 Farenheit).

(AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

The University of Minnesota redesigns teachers

"Everybody is familiar with the vulgar Marxism in which race is substituted for class. In one form or another, it is ubiquitous in the academy, though its racism pervades every form. It has given rise to stultifying orthodoxies in doctrine, governance and curriculum.

The University of Minnesota's College of Education and Human Development is the foremost institution through which primary and secondary school teachers are licensed to teach in the state. In her Star Tribune column last week our friend Katherine Kersten blew the whistle on it. Kersten exposed a particularly vicious brand of the academy's vulgar Marxism at the College of Education in its Teacher Education Redesign Initiative." [Power Line]

Fake job reports correlate highly with Obama "Blue" states

The chart ranks the states by percentile according to the number of fake jobs “created” per capita, then compares these rankings with the percentage of state voters who went for Obama in 2008. The regression line through the data reveals the basic tendency of this relationship. That the line is upward sloping and statistically significant is damning evidence that the jobs numbers are politically motivated propaganda. The more pro-Obama a state was in 2008, the higher the number of fake jobs it reported in 2009. [ NATIONAL REVIEW 12/21/2009]

Government Spending Now Exceeds Authority

"The latest calculation of the National Debt as posted by the Treasury Department has - at least numerically - exceeded the statutory Debt Limit approved by Congress last February as part of the Recovery Act stimulus bill.

The ceiling was set at $12.104 trillion dollars. The latest posting by Treasury shows the National Debt at nearly $12.135 trillion." [CBS]

GOP: Dems Violated Senate Rules By Cutting off Reading of Sanders Amendment

"The Senate Republican leadership believes that the parliamentarian allowed Democrats to violate the rules of the Senate by allowing Sen. Bernie Sanders to cut off the reading of his single-payer proposal." [American Spectator]

Obama’s Comrades Push Socialized Medicine

"The push to socialize U.S. health care came not from the "people," but from a small clique of Marxists, led by a man with close personal ties to President Barack Obama. This group's goal is fully socialized, government run "single payer" health care-as long promoted through Congressman John Conyers' National Health Insurance Act, or HR 676.

The leader of this Marxist clique is Quentin Young-a retired Chicago physician, a life-long Marxist activist and long time friend and political ally of Barack Obama. Young has known and worked with Obama for years in Chicago and has reportedly directly influenced Obama's views on socialized medicine." [AIM]

Federal Employees at the Trough

"Last week, USA Today reported that nearly one in five federal government employees now earn over $100,000. The paper also reported the average federal salary rose to $71,260, almost $31,000 more than the comparative average private-sector wage. " [American Thinker]

Read here about ALL the other benefits Federal employees receive ......

Lockerbie bomber disappears from hospital

"When Scotland released Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, the man in prison for the murder of over 270 people in the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, they claimed he was just weeks away from dying and that his release showed the West’s “compassionate” values. The government promised to keep close tabs on Megrahi, a task that fell to the East Renfrewshire Council, which claimed that they could keep track of Megrahi and that the terrorist would never leave the Tripoli hospital." [Hot Air] He has now gone missing!!!

Jobs or Snow Jobs?

"President Obama keeps talking about the jobs his administration is "creating" but there are more people unemployed now than before he took office. How can there be more unemployment after so many jobs have been "created"? " [Thomas Sowell]

White House using base-closure process to extort Nelson’s vote on ObamaCare?

"According to a Senate aide, the White House is now threatening to put Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base on the BRAC (Base Realignment And Closure) list if [Senator Ben] Nelson doesn’t fall into line." [Hot Air]

This is the Headquarters of the STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND !!!! For God's sake ....... these Democrats (Socialists? Communists ???) would even sacrifice our national security in order to pass their "social justice" Health Care takeover.

Is deregulation to blame?

In the lates issue of Claremont Review of Books, " is James Keller's "Is Deregulation to Blame?" In the review Keller evaluates two new books on cause of the financial crisis.

Taking issue with Judge Richard Posner's A Failure of Capitalism, Keller asserts that the financial crisis wasn't caused by financial deregulation. The solution to the crisis is therefore not more regulation. The Obama administration has of course taken the position that massive additional regulation is necessary." [Power Line]

Poll Reveals Trauma of Joblessness in U.S.

I thought that "the recession is over" !

The two faces of O

"In public, President Obama is on a tear against Wall Street. In private, not so much.....

Over the weekend, Obama attacked fat-cat investment bankers, telling "60 Minutes" he didn't become president to aid and abet Wall Street -- which, only a year after the financial meltdown and taxpayer bailout, is now scheduled to hand out tens of billions of dollars in bonuses to its bankers and traders.

But the president's meeting yesterday with the CEOs of the largest banks was nearly a lovefest, I'm told by attendees." [NY POST]

We've Been Had

"Last year, my column "Global Warming Rope-A-Dope" (12/24/08) started out: "Americans have been rope-a-doped into believing that global warming is going to destroy the planet. Scientists who have been skeptical about manmade global warming have been called traitors or handmaidens of big oil." New evidence proves that climatologists and environmental policy advocates have not only fed us lies, engaged in scientific and academic fraud but committed criminal acts as well." [Walter E. Williams]

Obama Administration is Stalling on Giving Congress Intelligence About Fort Hood Shooter, Says Hoekstra

"Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, says the Obama administration is stalling in providing information to the leaders of the House and Senate and the congressional intelligence committees on the multiple murders allegedly committed by a radical Muslim Army officer at Fort Hood more than a month ago." [CNS News]

Big brother is already in the consulting room

Patient receives a letter from his health insurance company. The letter says that a review of insurance claims suggests he might have a certain type of heart condition and should consult with his physician. To which the patient (a physician himself) says "bunk".. This is a portent of the sort of "robodoc" computer driven crap we will be seeing more of!

We are in big trouble

"Our country is in big trouble ... huge trouble. It is time that Americans took a hard look at our values, our conception of justice, and our standards for truth." [American Thinker]

How is Obamacare to be stopped?

"Over at Redstate, Erick Erickson makes an impassioned plea for Republican Senators to stop Obamacare in its tracks. Erickson essentially argues that unused parliamentary devices could and should be used by Republicans to oppose Obamacare in the Senate." [Power Line]

For feds, more get 6-figure salaries

Average federal job holder's pay now $30,000 per year more than private sector !

"The highest-paid federal employees are doing best of all on salary increases. Defense Department civilian employees earning $150,000 or more increased from 1,868 in December 2007 to 10,100 in June 2009, the most recent figure available.

When the recession started, the Transportation Department had only one person earning a salary of $170,000 or more. Eighteen months later, 1,690 employees had salaries above $170,000." [USA Today]

Christian fathers put in jail for shunning explicit sex ed

"Joel Thornton of the International Human Rights Group told WND the government in Salzkotten, Germany, is sending the fathers of the children to jail for terms of one week because they have refused to turn their children over to school officials for mandated sex classes.

"Unlike American officials, German officials do not recognize the right of parents to opt their children out of offensive classes such as sex education which overrides the parent's beliefs or desires for their own children," Thornton said.

"One of the reasons for this is that German officials view the children as belonging to the state, particularly during the time they are in school,"

" [WND]

Dems to lift debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion

"In a bold but risky year-end strategy, Democrats are preparing to raise the federal debt ceiling by as much as $1.8 trillion before New Year’s rather than have to face the issue again prior to the 2010 elections." [Politico]

Nobel peace prize: Norwegians incensed over Barack Obama's snubs

"Barack Obama's trip to Oslo to pick up his Nobel peace award is in danger of being overshadowed by a row over the cancellation of a series of events normally attended by the prizewinner.

Norwegians are incensed over what they view as his shabby response to the prize by cutting short his visit.

The White House has cancelled many of the events peace prize laureates traditionally submit to, including a dinner with the Norwegian Nobel committee, a press conference, a television interview, appearances at a children's event promoting peace and a music concert, as well as a visit to an exhibition in his honour at the Nobel peace centre.

He has also turned down a lunch invitation from the King of Norway." [UK Guardian]

Anonymice Trash Palin

"Officials of John McCain's losing presidential campaign are trashing Sarah Palin again. And no wonder. The media let them say anything they wish about Palin while remaining anonymous, and thus not accountable. In effect, they get a free shot at her. The Washington Post, for example, identified them as "multiple former McCain officials," a group that includes at least "one former senior official." No names are attached." [Weekly Standard]

Poll Shocker: Palin Within 1% of Obama

"Riding a wave of positive publicity from her book tour, Sarah Palin's favorable rating has crept within just 1 percent of President Barack Obama's job approval rating, according to the latest polls by CNN and USA Today/Gallup." [Newsmax]

The climate-change travesty

"Barack Obama, understanding the histrionics required in climate-change debates, promises that U.S. emissions in 2050 will be 83 percent below 2005 levels. If so, 2050 emissions will equal those in 1910, when there were 92 million Americans. But there will be 420 million Americans in 2050, so Obama's promise means that per capita emissions then will be about what they were in 1875. That. Will. Not. Happen." [George Will]

The idiocy, outright lying, intentionally fraudulent statements of this President is AMAZING !!!!

Climategate -- the Washington Post's take

"This was a big weekend for the Washington Post. In a front-page story today, it exposed, albeit almost sub silentio, the incompetence of the Obama administration's decision-making process with respect to Afghanistan. And in a front-page story yesterday, it reported, for the first time I believe, on Climategate.

Why did it take the Post so long to provide an account of Climategate? It seems to me that the authors, David Farhenthold and Juliet Eilperin, reveal the reason when they claim that the "scandal has done what many slide shows and public-service ads could not: focus public attention on the science of a warming planet." [Power Line]

Major Corp. CEO Tells Employees Like It Is !

"Emerson is the St. Louis-based manufacturing company that describes itself as a global technology solutions powerhouse. Formerly known as Emerson Electric, the company shortened its name to Emerson in 2000."

..... CEO tells it like it is to his U.S. employees !

NPR Uses Thought Police Tactics on Its Own

"According to a source, Liasson was summoned in early October by NPR's executive editor for news, Dick Meyer, and the network's supervising senior Washington editor, Ron Elving. The NPR executives said they had concerns that Fox's programming had grown more partisan, and they asked Liasson to spend 30 days watching the network." [Power Line]

Always remember: 68th anniversary of Pearl Harbor

DECEMBER 7, 1941

"The lesson from that war is that appeasement and complacency doesn’t keep one from having to fight a war. It usually forces one to fight from an extreme disadvantage. That’s a lesson we have not remembered in dealing with expansionist powers in our own time, even after a second shock like 9/11 after years of complacency in dealing with al-Qaeda. We’re falling back to treating radical Islamist terrorism like a Law and Order episode, and allowing one of the main drivers of radical Islamist terror, Iran, to arm itself with nuclear weapons with no consequences whatsoever." [Hot Air]

'Fighting' terror with wishful thinking

"It's not true that the only good terrorist is a dead terrorist. Even dead terrorists aren't good. But at least they're dead.

And that helps." [NY POST]

Jobs Lost

Chart from the Bureau of Labor Statistics- via Sweetness and Light
Obama promised his stimulus plan would create 3.7 million new jobs.
Instead America has lost 3.6 million jobs.

Researcher: NASA hiding climate data

"The fight over global warming science is about to cross the Atlantic with a U.S. researcher poised to sue NASA, demanding release of the same kind of climate data that has landed a leading British center in hot water over charges it skewed its data. ...... [the data] would show how the agency has shaped its climate data and would explain why the agency has repeatedly had to correct its data going as far back as the 1930s. ...... The numbers matter. Under pressure in 2007, NASA recalculated its data and found that 1934, not 1998, was the hottest year in its records for the contiguous 48 states. NASA later changed that data again, and now 1998 and 2006 are tied for first, with 1934 slightly cooler." [Washington Times]

PROMISES, PROMISES: A closed meeting on openness

"It's hardly the image of transparency the Obama administration wants to project: A workshop on government openness is closed to the public." [AP]

Tough Love ??

White House forgot that they told McChrystal to defeat the Taliban

"To set the scene, this comes from the October 8 war room meeting on Afghanistan, with McChrystal teleconferenced in from Kabul to explain what he’d been doing since receiving his orders in March." [HotAir]

McChrystal says he was ordered to "defeat the Taliban"....... the war cabinet now says he misunderstood..... they really meant that he was to "degrade the Taliban" !!!!!!! Incredible waffling, backpeddling, and outright soldier killing prevarication on the part of Obama's war leaders.

Capitalism Costars

"Despite the vast leftist wasteland of Hollywood -- one in which a pathological mocker can produce garbage like Capitalism: A Love Story -- the movie Sunshine Cleaning delivers a surprisingly refreshing look at capitalism's role in developing human virtues." [American Thinker]

Scientists behaving badly

"Steve's article, "Scientists behaving badly",provides a useful summary of the documents and situates them in the global warming debate, sorting out the issues and the personalities along the way. Steve touches on the destruction of raw data by the CRU. His account of this episode can be supplemented by Patrick Michaels's "The dog ate global warming." " [Power Line]

Day Fourteen and Counting

For the fourteenth straight day, the three broadcast networks have failed to report on the great and growing ClimateGate scandal on their weekday morning or evening news programs. How to explain this?

Army Colonel Bashes Army Over Ft. Hood P-C

"A military installation, whether it is Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, or Coast Guard, is supposed to be a safe sanctuary for our Warriors and their families. It is intended to provide a home whereby our “Band of Brothers and Sisters” can find solace and bond beyond just the foxhole but as family units.

A military installation is supposed to be a place where our Warriors train for war, to serve and protect our Nation.

On Thursday, 5 November 2009 Ft Hood became a part of the battlefield in the war against Islamic totalitarianism and state sponsored terrorism.

This is not a “man caused disaster”. It is what it is, an Islamic jihadist attack." [Allen West]

Jihad returns to Fort Hood

" ...the Defense Department has brought a top official of the Islamic Society of America (ISNA) to Fort Hood to lecture our troops who are about to deploy to Afghanistan. The ISNA official, Louay Safi, has also served as research director at the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)." [Power Line]

Searching in Vain for the Obama Magic

The Germans have Obama's number !!!

Bush - Obama Reception by Military

Congress Proposes Return of DEATH TAX

"The House voted Thursday to permanently extend a 45 percent inheritance tax on estates larger than $3.5 million, canceling a one-year repeal of the tax set to begin next month." [AP]

Democrats: Criminalizing Dissent

More assaults on our freedoms !!!!!

Cadet prepares for Obama - Big Letdown

U.S. Army West Point Cadet doing his homework in preparation for what he thinks his mission ought to be. Too bad Obama didn't say so. Note sharpshooter badge as well as ribbons including the Army Service Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, and five others I am unable to decipher. This chap is NOT a rookie!

Rumsfeld Rebuffs Obama

"Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has vehemently denied President Obama’s claim that the Bush administration ignored the military’s repeated requests for more troops in Afghanistan." [NewsMax]

Obama refused to be photographed with F-22

That OBAMA is ANTI-MILITARY is obvious. There are numerous examples. The scowl on his face as he addressed West Point'ers recently is fairly understandable coming from a person who has contempt for our military and what it represents to our security and freedom.

Health Care: Largest UNFUNDED MANDATE ON STATES in U.S. History

"The Obama healthcare initiative will be the biggest unfunded federal mandate on the states in history. It will force dozens of states, particularly in the South, to abandon their low-tax ways and to move toward dramatically higher rates of taxation. It may even force Florida and Texas to impose an income tax!" [The HILL}

Cash For Clunkers RIP OFF!

This article shows how you lost $3350 if you bought a car under the "Cash for Clunkers" program.

Inhofe Asks Boxer to Investigate Possible Scientific ‘Conspiracy’ in ‘Climategate’

Ya wanna bet Boxer "woofs" this one !!!!!

"Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, is calling on Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) to conduct hearings on a possible conspiracy between some of the world’s most prominent climatologists to, among other things, manipulate data on so-called global warming." [CNS News]

HARRY_READ_ME: New bombshell document on global warming leaked!

"Attached you will find a new document (text file) recently leaked from CRU that reveals in its 15,000 lines just how absolutely botched up the weather data is that is supposedly the basis for CRU weather analysis and the whole "proof" of man-made global warming. I have read this entire document, which is a log of notes, data and program snippets relating to the analysis of weather data collected from weather stations around the world. Being a software engineer with over 30 years experience, I found it hard to believe just how messed up the data sets are, and how pathetic the so-called "programs" for massaging and analyzing the data is." [abovetopsecret.com]

Here is the Air Force 757 (C-32) that Senator Nancy Pelosi uses to fly from Washington DC to California and return, every week. Cost estimated at around one-half million dollars per month!