We Are Doomed -- Again

"Global warming is far from the first apocalyptic prediction, or even the first based on computer models. The belief that the world is coming to an end appears to be a universal concept based on an innate psychic need." [American Thinker]

California is a greater risk than Greece, warns JP Morgan chief

"Jamie Dimon, chairman of JP Morgan Chase, has warned American investors should be more worried about the risk of default of the state of California than of Greece's current debt woes." [U.K. Telegraph]

Obama signs one-year extension of Patriot Act

"President Barack Obama has signed a one-year extension of several provisions in the nation's main counterterrorism law, the Patriot Act." [AP]

Now the (U.K.) Government wants competence tests before you can be a dog owner

"Every dog owner will have to take a costly ‘competence test’ to prove they can handle their pets, under new Government proposals designed to curb dangerous dogs.

Owners of all breeds would also have to buy third-party insurance in case their pet attacked someone, and pay for the insertion of a microchip in their animal recording their name and address." [Daily Mail]

Brits Hold 1st Tea Party Rally - Standing Room Only

"Dan Hannan was guest speaker. He said that it was time to "bring sanity and order back to the public finances" an that had to be done by reducing expenditure rather than increasing taxes." [Tory Diary]

ACLU Sues Minnesota Muslim School

"Among other things, the school's principal is an imam and almost all of its students are Muslim. It is housed in a building that was owned originally by the Muslim American Society of Minnesota ........ The study of Arabic is required at the school.

The Arabic comes in handy for the Koranic studies that follow the regular school day.

The ACLU Minnesota has brought a lawsuit challenging the legality of the school's operation on public funds; the lawsuit is pending in federal court in Minnesota." [Power Line]

Handgun Derangement Syndrome Grips Restaurateurs

"A wave of constipated thinking has afflicted some Arizonans after legislators passed a law allowing licensed concealed handguns to be carried into businesses that serve alcohol as long as the licensees consume none. Proprietors have the option to post the "No Firearms" sign, and many have done so. .... To anti-gunners who embrace false security, what's important is how it feels, not what's real. By not having concealed weapons in the same building with their food, restaurant patrons can savor "the sign" just before the killer who laughed at the sign swings into action." [American Thinker]

Crist: Don’t scrap ObamaCare, even though I can’t name anything good about it

This ought to be the last nail in Crist's coffin...... he's TOO BUSY to busy "to be focused on issues in Washington" ?? Even when Obamacare would lay HUGE unfunded mandates on states like Florida for the taxpayers of Florida to pick up !

Former Maryland Dean Asked to Return $60k Paid for Summer Research; AG to Decide Propriety of $350k Paid for Untaken Sabbatical

Elitism in academia continues to run rampant .......

OBAMA (DIS)APPROVAL INDEX

Obama & Dems in ‘05: 51 Vote ‘Nuclear Option’ Is ‘Arrogant’ Power Grab Against the Founders’ Intent

In 2005 the Democrats BLASTED Bush for threatening to use what they called then 'THE NUCLEAR OPTION" ..... that is exactly the method the Dems are now calling "Reconciliation" !!! Watch this video showing their hypocrisy.

Thomas Sowell: Economic whodunit

"During bad times, the blame game is the biggest game in Washington. Wall Street "greed" or "predatory" lenders seem to be favorite targets to blame for our current economic woes.

When government policy is mentioned at all in handing out blame, it is usually blamed for not imposing enough regulation on the private sector. But there is still the question whether any of these explanations can stand up under scrutiny." [Thomas Sowell]

A bureaucratic takeover of healthcare

"Pages 25 and 26 of the House version of the health care bill require that when expenses exceed revenues for the "temporary" National High-Risk Pool Program, the secretary of health and human services by herself will "make such adjustments as are necessary to eliminate such deficit, including reducing benefits, increasing premiums or establishing waiting lists."" [American Thinker]

Targeting Health Insurance Companies Not the Answer to Healthcare Reform

"The cost of insurance is merely a reflection of health care cost. Attacking health insurance companies misses the target." [American Thinker]

Climategate Meets the Law: Senator Inhofe to Ask for DOJ Investigation

"[Senator] Inhofe intends to ask for a probe of the embattled climate scientists for possible criminal acts. And he thinks Gore should be recalled to explain his prior congressional testimony" [Pajamas Media]

'My heart, my choice,' Canadian Premier says, defending decision for U.S. heart surgery

"An unapologetic Danny Williams [Newfoundland and Labrador Premier] says he was aware his trip to the United States for heart surgery earlier this month would spark outcry, but he concluded his personal health trumped any public fallout over the controversial decision.

...in December, his doctors told him the problem had become severe and urged him to get his valve repaired immediately or risk heart failure, he said.

"I wanted to get in, get out fast, get back to work in a short period of time," the premier said.

"I would've been criticized if I had stayed in Canada and had been perceived as jumping a line or a wait list. ... I accept that. That's public life," he said."

So he had surgery done at Mt. Sinai in Miami, FL. [Canadian Press]

Why Was Obama's "Brain" Valerie Jarrett So Happy to Hire Communist Van Jones? Was it Fate?

"Why was President Barack Obama's friend and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett so happy to recruit Bay Area communist Van Jones to the White House?



Van Jones' radicalism was well known on the US left. His links to STORM and Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism were no secret." [New Zeal]

Knights or Fools?

Obama launches his "Debt Reduction Commission". Wanna bet that after two years of study their report will be as effective as the Grace Commission's report in 1984?

Today is The First Day of The Rest of Your Life Under The Credit CARD Act. Which Means, Get Ready For All Sorts of New Fees.

"Lo some nine months ago, Congress took a politically courageous stand against mom, apple pie, and credit card issuers by supposedly reining in the excesses of the latter (excesses which largely consisted of giving lots of people the ability to purchase goods and services on the automated installment plans otherwise known as credit cards). The goal of the new legislation was to clear the books, start anew, blah blah blah, and hem in the contagion known as excessive credit, which was widely believed to be behind the financial crisis that may or may not be over. And, at the same time, of course, Congress was going to make sure that all Americans had access to the credit that is our god-given birthright. The streets of America are paved with gold MasterCards and all that." [Reason]

Disaster Ahead: Third Party Support from the Tea Party Movement

"This post is going to be blunt… supporting third party efforts in 2010, in most cases, would be a complete disaster for the Tea Party Movement.

If you follow tea party news, you’ve probably seen the announcement that a third party “tea party” officially formed in Nevada and has its own candidate going on the ticket against Harry Reid. But as it turns out, the people behind this effort are strangers within the tea party movement. In fact, we haven’t been able to find anyone who knows them!

In Florida, a third party “Tea Party” was filed and the principles started threatening Florida Tea Party groups in an attempt to get them to stop using the tea party name. Florida tea party activists fired back with a lawsuit of their own." [Tax Day Tea Party]

The Online Tax Revolt March

"We are building the largest tax revolt in American history — online. In the map below is your “avatar” and the path it will take to Washington as you “march to Washington” for our rally on April 15." [On Line Tax Revolt]

OBAMA APPROVAL INDEX NOW MINUS 19

George Will's Speech to CPAC

These are MUST VIEW videos wherein George Will describes the differences between liberals and conservatives.

Part 1 - George Will at CPAC

Part 2 - George Will at CPAC

Part 3 - George Will at CPAC

Are the Democrats Coming After Your Savings?

"BusinessWeek reports that the Treasury and Labor departments are asking for public comment on "the conversion of 401(k) savings and Individual Retirement Accounts into annuities or other steady payment streams."

In plain English, the idea is for the government to take your retirement savings in return for a promise to pay you some monthly benefit in your retirement years." [Power Line]

OBAMA - Another Lie Proved

Romney to Obama: Stop Blaming Others for Failure

“When it comes to pinning the blame, let’s pin the blame on the donkey,”

What Does 'Racial Socialism' Sound Like to You?

"The United States today has slipped toward race-based socialism: That's the true name for an overwhelming bias for one race above others, in employment, promotion, and educational opportunities. Our media are constantly stirring the witch's brew of racial grievances, constantly making black people feel aggrieved and white people feel accused. Our schools drive that lesson home with young and innocent kids in a totally ruthless way. Repeat that for twelve years of schooling and TV, and you have a brainwashed kid." [American Thinker]

Barack's Bi-Polar Nuclear Policy

"President Barack Obama recently took drastic steps forward to carry through on his campaign promise to close the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste facility before it ever opens for business.

Yucca Mountain has been designed as a specialized storage center to keep nuclear waste safely contained in an underground facility deep inside a mountain, long after the material is believed safe and no longer radioactive. The storage center is on a military base almost one hundred miles from civilization (and that's Las Vegas, for what it's worth), in the middle of the Nevada desert." [American Thinker]

Rubio Wows Conservatives

I've heard this man speak to a small group..... he is TERRIFIC!

Obama's Recession Plan: More Bureaucrats

"As hard-working Americans struggle through one of the worst recessions in U.S. history, one part of the country remains recession-proof: Washington, D.C.

Even though federal tax revenues are down 20 percent and the national debt has ballooned to $12 trillion, President Barack Obama and his allies on Capitol Hill continue to believe that we can borrow and spend our way to prosperity. As part of that plan, they’re using our hard-earned tax dollars to increase the size of government and the salary of bureaucrats." [Newsmax]

Lake Erie Frozen over; First Time in 14 Years

"Following a cold snap in the Northeast, Lake Erie's surface is virtually frozen over for the first time in about 14 years." [Accu Weather]

P&G, Wal-Mart collaborate on TV movie

"In an effort to increase the family-friendly programming on television, Procter & Gamble is teaming up with Wal-Mart to produce a made-for-TV movie that will air on NBC in April.

"Secrets of the Mountain," a two-hour movie, will include product placements and advertising exclusively from P&G and Wal-Mart. " [Cincinnati Enquirer]

Down With Small Business!

"We noted here that the "Miss me yet?" billboard of President Bush that garnered national publicity was paid for by a group of small business owners who consider the Obama administration's policies to be hostile to them. No surprise there--pretty much every small business owner I know feels that way. Still, it was a bit of a shock to see these numbers in USA Today, based on a survey of 884 small businesspeople:" [Power Line]

See also:

IMPEACH OBAMA BILLBOARDS SHOW UP IN Oshkosh

World may not be warming, say scientists

"The United Nations climate panel faces a new challenge with scientists casting doubt on its claim that global temperatures are rising inexorably because of human pollution.

The temperature records cannot be relied on as indicators of global change,” said John Christy, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a former lead author on the IPCC.

The doubts of Christy and a number of other researchers focus on the thousands of weather stations around the world, which have been used to collect temperature data over the past 150 years.

These stations, they believe, have been seriously compromised by factors such as urbanisation, changes in land use and, in many cases, being moved from site to site." [UK Times On-line]

Global Warming Fraudsters Bilked EU & US for £800,000 (over $1.25 million) Annually for Last 20 Years

"This weekend top global warming expert Professor Phil Jones admitted that global warming was a fraud.

* Data for vital ‘hockey stick graph’ has gone missing
* There has been no global warming since 1995
* Warming periods have happened before – but NOT due to man-made changes

Jones admitted this weekend that there has been no significant global warming in the last 15 years." [Gateway Pundit]

The Fallacy of "Fairness"

This is the first of an OUTSTANDING four article series.

Here are some excerpts ...... "If there is ever a contest to pick which word has done the most damage to people's thinking, and to actions to carry out that thinking, my nomination would be the word "fair." It is a word thrown around by far more people than have ever bothered to even try to define it.

This mushy vagueness may be a big handicap in logic but it is a big advantage in politics. All sorts of people, with very different notions about what is or is not fair, can be mobilized behind this nice-sounding word, in utter disregard of the fact that they mean very different things when they use that word.

Fairness as equal treatment does not produce fairness as equal outcomes. The confusion between the two meanings of the same word has created enormous mischief, much of it at the expense of lagging groups, who have been distracted from the things that would enable them to catch up. And whole societies have been kept in a turmoil pursing a will o' the wisp in the name of "fairness." " [Thomas Sowell]

Here are links to the remaining three articles:

The Fallacy of "Fairness": Part II

The Fallacy of "Fairness": Part III

The Fallacy of "Fairness": Part IV

Feds push for tracking cell phones

and the left fussed about Bush's Patriot Act ????

Campaign mode doesn't work for governing

"During the campaign, Obama could throw a rhetorical pixie dust over all the difficult choices inherent in governing and the contradictions of his own program, making them fade into a beguiling vision of a sun-lit post-Bush America. This magical realism sustained him until November 2008 -- but couldn't withstand governing." [New York Post]

OBAMA’S P.R. HELPS TERRORISTS

"When President Obama’s leading counter-terrorism staff member, John Brennan, says that “politically motivated criticism and unfounded fear-mongering only serve the goals of al-Qaeda,” he has it exactly backwards." [Dick Morris]

Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything

This material sounds almost too good to be true! Watch out you soap and detergent makers!

The end of the IPCC

"Almost daily, we learn about new problems with the formerly respected UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): In their 2001 report, they claimed that the 20^th century was "unusual" and blamed it on human-released greenhouse gasses. Their infamous temperature graph shown there, shaped like a hockey stick, did away with the well-established Medieval Warm Period (around 1000AD, when Vikings were able to settle in Southern Greenland and grow crops there) and the following Little Ice Age (around 1400 to 1800AD). Two Canadians exposed the bad data used by the IPCC and the statistical errors in their analysis." [American Thinker]

Illinois Woman Told She Is No Longer an American

"For years she, and the U.S. government, thought the Bulgarian-born 34-year-old was an American citizen. But, when she went to renew her passport in 2003, the State Department reportedly told her something terribly different." [Fox News]

Those “saved or created” jobs on the block again

"Barack Obama has tried to take credit for saving or creating two million jobs through the intervention of Porkulus last year. Most of the jobs “saved” came from block grants given to states, which used the money to paper over budget gaps instead of rationally examining bloated budgets and looking for opportunities to make cuts. States declared that they saved positions in law enforcement and education with their Porkulus money that were never at risk in the first place rather than the untouched bureaucracies that should have first come under the knife." [Ed Morrissey]

Saran Palin is miles ahead of every other politician in America

"Watching Sarah Palin's speech to the Tea Party National Convention last night in Nashville on PJTV, it was clear that she has a rapport and comfort with the Tea Partiers that is unmatched among politicians at the national level" [Washington Examiner]

Barack Obama and State of Hawaii on the ropes

It appears as though the State of Hawaii is now in a legal bind. By having the State Attorney General give an opinion on the matter of Obama's birth record, the State must now release all documents relevant to that opinion.

In the matter of Barack Hussein Obama's status as a "natural born citizen", this article raises significant Constitutional issues. See: Obama's Achilles heel - Natural Born Citizenship

Sarah Palin's Tea Party Speech - in full

Watch and listen to Sarah Palin's speech to this week's Tea Party Convention.

Massive Protest Breaks Out at National Tea Party Convention – Media Swarms

MASSIVE, HUGE, COUNTER PROTESTERS ATTACK TEA PARTY CONVENTION

People showed up to complain about the high cost of attending the convention. The media swarmed them to get photos and sound bites. Will be interesting to see how ABCNBCCBSCNN spin this. All four "protesters" were there to complain that attendance cost too much!

BLAME IT ON THE LAST ADMINISTRATION

A cute melody ....... turn up your volume.

Our National Blind Spot

What causes otherwise-honest people to condone the political plunder and redistribution of personal property?

"Many reason that democracy somehow sanctifies and legitimates the forcible redistribution of wealth. For them, democracy sanitizes and civilizes the process of taking someone's honestly earned property. They don't perceive this as robbery. " [American Thinker]

Google to enlist NSA to help it ward off cyberattacks

.... and you were concerned about Bush and the Patriot Act ?????? Where is the left on this ? ....... SILENT !!!

First-time jobless claims rise unexpectedly

New jobless claims rise unexpectedly to 480,000 as layoffs continue, jobs remain scarce

"The Labor Department said Thursday that new claims for unemployment insurance rose by 8,000 to a seasonally adjusted 480,000. Wall Street economists had expected a drop to 460,000, according to Thomson Reuters." [AP]

Bananas Over Bush

"An Argentine artist called Caesar Saëz applied to the Canada Arts Council and le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec and was given, between the two bodies, a grant of $130,000 to create a 300-metre long flying banana that would float over Texas protesting the policies of George W. Bush. " [NRO]

Why I'm speaking at Tea Party convention

Sarah Palin's OpEd in USA Today describes why she will be speaking to the Tea Party convention in Nashville this week. The left wing media has described this convention as a group of "tea-baggers', a gathering of "astro-turfers", and ridiculing them as a disorganized, fractured bunch.

Sarah sets them straight ........................

Backdoor taxes to hit middle class

If you believe that Obama's tax increases are going to apply only to "The Wealthy"...... think again. Read this list of tax changes coming. All federal income tax rates are going up .... taxes on dividends, interest and capital gains are going up. All sorts of tax deductions and breaks are being eliminated for everyone.

"... targeted tax provisions were enacted under the Bush administration's Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001. Among other things, the law lowered individual tax rates, slashed taxes on capital gains and dividends, and steadily scaled back the estate tax to zero in 2010.

If the provisions are allowed to expire on December 31, the top-tier personal income tax rate will rise to 39.6 percent from 35 percent. But lower-income families will pay more as well: the 25 percent tax bracket will revert back to 28 percent; the 28 percent bracket will increase to 31 percent; and the 33 percent bracket will increase to 36 percent. The special 10 percent bracket is eliminated." [Reuters]

Free Falling

The U.S.' standing on the stage of world economic freedom ............... (click to enlarge)

The Attorney and the General

"Michael Hayden, the former CIA director, penned a superb op-ed in the Washington Post on Sunday. Succinctly, he tallies the wages of having Attorney General Eric Holder make national-security decisions. .... He shows that these decisions have been premised on left-wing political calculations that always shortchange intelligence collection and the pursuit of American interests. Holder’s judgments are not based on what America’s safety requires or on what the law maximally permits U.S. intelligence to do in wartime......

People can blame the attorney general, and there certainly is plenty for which he should answer. But Holder is a sideshow. These decisions are presidential decisions. The fact that Obama evidently delegates them to Holder does not change that. The policy of surrendering enemy combatants to the civilian-justice system and giving them all the rights of the American citizens whom they are trying to kill is an Obama policy being implemented by Holder; it’s not a Holder policy. " [NRO]

List of Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2009

Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT):
Senator John Ensign (R-NV):
Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA):
Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner:
Attorney General Eric Holder:
Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL)/ Senator Roland Burris (D-IL):
President Barack Obama:
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA):
Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) and the rest of the PMA Seven:
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY):

[ Judicial Watch]

Climategate scientist hid more information?

"Even before Climategate, a lot of people were skeptical about global warming. The most fanatical cultists like Al Gore and Laurie David insisted we conserve energy and drive fuel efficient cars, all while they fly around the country in private jets and live in mansions using more energy in a day than most of us do in a year. It was hard to take a movement seriously when the leaders of that movement didn’t even do what they said needed to be done in order to save the planet.....

Well, Climategate just took another interesting turn. It turns out that it doesn’t stop just at some hacked e-mails. Professor Phil Jones, the former director of Climatic Research Unit, allegedly went further than just trying to hide the truth in some e-mails — and the UN might be involved, too." [Hot Air]

Obama Surrenders to Mayor of Tampa

Governor Crist stands ready to suck up to him .........

The most important story you didn't see last week (and probably won't ever see)

"A Senate hearing last week confirmed the public's worst concern about Barack Obama: That when it comes to national security Obama hasn't just been asleep at the switch, he hasn't even bothered to find the switch. ....

The picture that emerged from the hearing was of a president disinterested in national security, more concerned about health scare and cap-and-tax than in preventing what his Homeland Security chief infamously called "man-caused disasters"; of an administration more busy fighting turf wars than waging the real war against Islamic terrorists--whom Obama refuses to even call by that name; of a Commander in Chief who doesn't take seriously his most essential job of protecting this country's citizens, more focused on extending terrorists these citizens' rights than he is on gathering the intelligence needed to keep Americans safe." [American Thinker]

Black History Month Should Be About Black History

"I've often said jokingly that Black History Month should more accurately be called "white people and America suck" month. Rather than focusing on all of black history, every February the liberal media and most democrats gleefully bring up all of America's past sins. Fine. I mean after all, it is a part of history. But what is so wrong is these race exploiters imply that current race relations in America have not come very far from the days of blacks being lynched. Thus, Black History Month in reality is the liberal democrat's annual fund raiser and promo campaign for more entitlement programs." [Lloyd Marcus]

What Obama Isn't Saying

"What every progressive wants is to put the particular issue he espouses beyond political dispute. Obama wanted, and as his first State of the Union address showed still wants, to put health care beyond politics so that he can be the last president to be concerned with it. .....

Obama is not our king. But he uses the monarchical branch of our republic without embarrassment to project the nonpartisan image of a monarch. He has not been a strong president; he has deferred to Congress, perhaps to his cost. But he likes the aura of monarchy and uses it skillfully to transcend partisan argument. He lets us know that he admires Abraham Lincoln, yet his speeches could not be more different from Lincoln’s in respect to argument. Lincoln used argument to transcend momentary feelings. Obama avoids it by recourse to vacuous words like “change” and “hope,” never saying toward what or for what." [Weekly Standard]

Geithner Singled Out In TARP Watchdog Neil Barofsky's Scathing Report On AIG Bailout

"A brutal report issued Monday by a government watchdog holds Timothy Geithner -- then the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and now the nation's Treasury Secretary -- responsible for overpayments that put billions of extra tax dollars in the coffers of major Wall Street firms, most notably Goldman Sachs." [Huffington Post]