MSNBC Crops President Bush Out of Newsweek Cover

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On Wednesday's Morning Joe on MSNBC, host Joe Scarborough pointed out the cover of the latest edition of Newsweek magazine, which proclaimed "Victory At Last; The Emergence of A Democratic Iraq" and featured a picture of President George W. Bush walking the deck of an aircraft carrier. However, the image of Newsweek that appeared on screen cropped out President Bush's face entirely...

One of Scarborough's guests, Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass, reacted to Newsweek's declaration of victory in Iraq: "Too positive....For sure. We're going to take months to see a new government formed and we don't know how well the new government's going to operate....Too soon to take out the champagne, if ever." Show co-host Mika Brzezinski added: "Still a lot of controversy as to why we went in."

[What bias?]

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No Where Safe from Leftist Bombast: TV Mom Frets GOP House Guests 'Denying Global Warming'

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Demonstrating how Hollywood writers aren't reticent about inserting gratuitous political points into prime time dramas, on last Sunday night's (February 21) episode of ABC's Brothers and Sisters, “Nora Walker,” played by liberal actress Sally Field, walked into her kitchen during a kick-off party for her daughter's Republican senatorial campaign, and complained to another daughter, a son and his husband:

I can't believe the three of you are in here drinking while the GOP is out there denying global warming.

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Abuse of Power

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A string of electoral defeats and the great unpopularity of ObamaCare can't stop Democrats from their self-appointed rendezvous with liberal destiny—ramming a bill through Congress on a narrow partisan vote.

What we are about to witness is an extraordinary abuse of traditional Senate rules to pass a bill merely because they think it's good for the rest of us, and because they fear their chance to build a European welfare state may never come again.

The vehicle is "reconciliation," a parliamentary process that fast-tracks budget measures and was created in 1974 as a deficit-reduction tool. Limited to 20 hours of debate, reconciliation bills need a mere 50 votes in the Senate, with the Vice President as tie-breaker, thus circumventing the filibuster. Both Democrats and Republicans have frequently used reconciliation on budget bills, so Democrats are now claiming that using it to pass ObamaCare is no big deal.

Yet this shortcut has never been used for anything approaching the enormity of a national health-care entitlement. Democrats are only resorting to it now because they've failed to make their case through persuasion.

Reconciliation is the last mathematical gasp for ObamaCare because Democrats can't sell their policy to the people. This raw exercise of political power is of a piece with the copious corruption and bribery—such as the Cornhusker kickbacks and special tax benefits for union members—that liberals had to use to get even this far.

The goal is to permanently expand the American entitlement state with a vast apparatus of subsidies and regulations while the political window is still (barely) open, regardless of the consequences or the overwhelming popular condemnation.

This is an unprecedented act of partisan arrogance that further marks Democrats as the party of liberal extremism, all so Obama can claim an LBJ-level legacy like the Great Society that will be nearly impossible to repeal...

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[THEN (yes, again)...


"OPPOSE OBAMACARE and 'RECONCILIATION' "


Senate-Reid: http://reid.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm
YOUR Senator: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Californians:
Barbara Boxer web mail http://boxer.senate.gov/en/contact/policycomments.cfm
Dianne Feinstein webmail
http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactUs.EmailMe

or: Speed Message them with your personal distribution list...

and as always, pass it on...

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NBC: Rangel Giving Up Gavel.Salon: No He's Not. ABC: Yes He Is.The Hill: No He's Not

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[They're all right {or wrong}]


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Justices signal they're ready to make gun ownership a national right

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Washington- Most of the Supreme Court justices who two years ago said the 2nd Amendment protects individual gun rights signaled during arguments Tuesday that they are ready to extend this right nationwide and to use it to strike down some state and local gun regulations.

Since 1982, Chicago has outlawed handguns in the city, even for law-abiding residents who sought to keep one at home. That ordinance was challenged by several city residents who said it violated their right "to keep and bear arms" under the 2nd Amendment.

The case forced the high court to confront a simple question it had never answered: Does the 2nd Amendment limit only the federal government's authority over guns and state militias, or does it also give citizens nationwide a right to challenge their local and state gun laws?

The justices will meet behind closed doors to vote this week on the case of McDonald vs. Chicago. It may be late June before they issue a written ruling.

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What Bias? Re: Teapartiers...

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MSNBC: Tea Party Organizers Include People who Want to 'Kill Blacks and Jews'

'Tea Bagger Freaks' Want to Eat and Breathe Poison

NYT: Tea Partiers Are Terrorists, Beck and Palin Are Their Leaders

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'Pelosi Says She Has Much In Common With The Tea Party'

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So began an article published by ABCNews.com Sunday about Pelosi's interview with Elizabeth Vargas on "This Week."

"The speaker now says she shares views with movement she dismissed last summer as being 'Astroturf,'"

And that wasn't CLOSE to being the most preposterous part of the story.

More absurd was how Vargas during this 'interview' actually allowed Pelosi to get away with such a ridiculous comment (video embedded below the fold with transcript and commentary):

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Attorney General Eric Holder Defends Defense Lawyer at Justice Department

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In an escalating war of words with Attorney General Eric Holder, Senate Republicans are raising "serious concerns" about political appointees at the Justice Department who previously worked on behalf of terror suspects. The Republicans told Holder in a letter obtained by ABC News that "unanswered questions" about these political appointees "raise serious concerns about who is providing advice on detainee matters"...

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DOJ: Department of Jihad?

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War On Terror: The Justice Department employs nine lawyers previously involved in the defense of terrorist detainees. This is a colossal conflict of interest. Just whose side are they on?

From the dropping of a voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party to the decision to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Muhammed in a civilian court within blocks of where the World Trade Center once stood, the actions and attitudes of the Justice Department and Attorney General Eric Holder toward the thugs and terrorists who threaten us has grown curiouser and curiouser.

We may now have a clue as to why...

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Newsweek Asserts 'Terror Begins At Home' -- With the Republicans

[Meanwhile in our professional media...]

Newsweek’s latest issue features an article by managing editor Daniel Klaidman that blatantly associates Republican criticism of the Obama administration with terrorism. Its title in the table of contents is "Terror Begins at Home: The GOP’s Scare Tactics." Inside the magazine, the headline is "Terror Begins at Home: Fearmongering Politicians Are Scoring Cheap Political Points at the Expense of the American People."

In the magazine, the article is illustrated with a blurry drawing of male underwear. Online, its lead image is a finger-pointing photo of Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.).

Is there an article in Newsweek that isn’t an editorial?

Klaidman was firing rhetorical salvos at Republicans and their "ritualistic hazing" of liberals from the very first sentence..''

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Prosecuted for Saving A Girl's Life

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A girl flees from her home in fear for her life -- and law enforcement goes after the people who helped her. That's the situation in the Rifqa Bary case. The Columbus Dispatch reported this about Rifqa's friend Brian Williams:

"An Ohio minister accused of driving a teenage runaway to a bus station last year has retained a lawyer as police say they're investigating whether anyone broke the law in helping the Christian convert leave home for Florida."

And why did she flee to Florida?

What wonderful news, that as he is prosecuted Brian Williams will be defended by legal counsel who understand that this is enforcement of sharia and are unafraid to fight the oppression and intimidation of the Islamic machine. This is in contrast to Rifqa's lawyers, who naively made numerous back door deals with her parents' CAIR-appointed attorney. Every underhanded dirty deal that Rifqa's lawyers made with the attorney for her parents was broken.

Why should CAIR be able to use our judicial system to send a message to non-Muslims that they will be punished for helping a Christian? Brian Williams, and Rifqa Bary, must prevail. If the Islamic machine succeeds in making an example of them, we are all in trouble.

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Panel of former Muslims says U.S. needs to "wake up"; overtolerance could pave the way for shari'a in America

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Apostasy killing of former Muslims could become widespread in the United States if the U.S. government and Americans don't "wake up," a panel of three former Muslims said on Capitol Hill Thursday. The panel told the audience that ingrained American religious and ethnic tolerance and myths about Islam are combining to gravely threaten the West.

"Shi'a radical Islam and Wahhabism is coming to this country," Imani said. "There are 6,000 mosques in the United States now. All the money [we] put into gasoline comes back here and is used in the teaching of hate, violence"

Sultan, who said she regularly gets death threats and emails from people saying they will cut off her fingers and rape her daughters because she left Islam, said it is merely a myth that Islamic terrorists misinterpret 'true' Islam for nefarious purposes.

Westerners "don't want to judge anybody based on their [religion]," Sultan said, "[But] Islam is not a religion. Islam is a very dangerous political ideology. ... There is no such thing as radical Islam and regular Islam or spiritual Islam. ...There is only one Islam."

In the fall of 2009 FMU sent a pledge to 111 Muslim organizations in the United States affirming the right of Muslims to leave Islam and not be punished or killed. (Shari'a, Muslim law, calls on Muslims to kill those who convert or otherwise leave the faith.) The document asked recipients to sign and return the pledge to FMU. Just two groups did.

The response is proof of a silent, creeping tolerance in the West for radical ideology, a development that augurs very badly for a free society, panel members said.

Western governments seem oblivious to the apathy of supposedly legitimate organizations about apostasy killings and the growing ubiquity of fatwa (death warrant) issuances, the panel said.

"Fatwas are issued on Arab T.V. on a regular basis. ... And these fatwas are following us right here in America. Why we are sleeping and not making a big deal about that is beyond me."

Darwish said if free reign for such practices continues, they "will change the culture in America. (They've) already changed the culture in Europe."

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Iran Sneaking in Nuclear Equipment

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Early last year, a Chinese company placed an order with a Taiwanese agent for 108 nuclear-related pressure gauges. But something happened along the way. Paperwork was backdated. Plans were rerouted, orders reconfigured, shipping redirected.

And the gauges ended up in a very different place: Iran.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said he was unaware of the pressure gauge deal.

In Shanghai, Roc-Master official Liu Xiaofeng initially said he didn't recall the transaction. But when pressed, he replied,

"It's our company's secret information, so I don't think we need to tell the media anything about it."

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China warming up to be an Arctic player

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Beijing - China doesn't own a single centimetre of Arctic coastline, nor does it belong to the Arctic Council, of which Canada is a member, that addresses Arctic issues. But that's not expected to keep China from becoming a player in Arctic affairs.

A groundbreaking study released Monday says China will seek a say in setting rules and regulations governing activities in the Arctic, to protect its national interests...

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POLL: 50% See China As Long-Term Threat To U.S.

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Just 21% do not believe China is a long-term threat, but another 29% are undecided.

Eighty six percent (86%) of voters are at least somewhat concerned about the level of U.S. debt now owned by China, including 62% who are very concerned. Just 11% voters are not very or not at all concerned about how much U.S. debt China now owns.

Seventy-three percent (73%) believe it is at least somewhat likely China will use this debt against the United States in some fashion within the next five years. That number includes 45% who believe it is very likely. Only 16% say China is unlikely to use the debt against America, but that finding includes just two percent (2%) who say it's not at all likely. Twelve percent (12%) are undecided.

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White House Land Grab

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You'd think the Obama administration is busy enough controlling the banks, insurance companies and automakers, but thanks to whistleblowers at the Department of the Interior, we now learn they're planning to increase their control over energy-rich land in the West.

A secret administration memo has surfaced revealing plans for the federal government to seize more than 10 million acres from Montana to New Mexico, in a move toward halting job-creating activities involving mining and energy development.

At a time when our national unemployment rate is 9.7 percent, it is unbelievable anyone would be looking to stop job-creating energy enterprises, yet that's exactly what's happening...

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The West and the 10th

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In 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt got the Antiquities Act (AA) passed in Congress, legislation designed to protect archeological sites, and giving presidents executive power for preservation purposes.

But the ever-shrewd TR knew that the new law would be useful to do more than just preserve ancient Indian settlement sites or shards of pottery. For good or ill, the only Republican president who is admired by modern Greens used it to close off vast tracts of the American West to economic "exploitation."

All this begs the question as to the constitutionality of legislation such as the Antiquities Act.

How can a president by executive fiat create national monuments in some states, but in others -- such as Wyoming, Alaska, and maybe in the future, Utah -- has powers limited by Congressional legislation?

Are any of the legal nuances involved here in violation of the 10th Amendment? I don't know, I'm not a constitutional scholar. Chief Justice Roberts?

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Al Gore's weird, disconnected op-ed on climate change

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Reading this New York Times op-ed by Al Gore gives you the distinct impression that he has been off somewhere communing with the global warming gods and hasn't been paying attention to the collapse of his "overwhelming consensus" on climate change...

A "criminal generation?" This from a Democrat whose global warming "fixes" would bankrupt the western world?

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A Blizzard Of Lies From Al Gore

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Climate Fraud: Al Gore resurfaces in an op-ed to say that nobody's perfect, everybody makes mistakes and climate change is still real. And he has some oceanfront property in the Himalayas to sell you. If hyperbole and chutzpah had a child, it would be the opening paragraph of Gore's op-ed...

"Looking at the United States of America, the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) clearly warned that unchecked global warming will lead to reduced snowpack in the western mountains, critically reducing access to water, which is our lifeblood."

So global warming simultaneously causes mountain snow to vanish and Himalayan glaciers to recede while blanketing the northeastern United States with snowfalls breaking 100 year records.

Clearly, this is an untenable position. One phenomenon cannot simultaneously produce two different results...

[HT:LDot: "One day he will write an op-ed and no one will publish it."

We can hope.]

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Al Gore Mocked At Apple Meeting: He's 'Become A Laughingstock'

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Nobel Laureate Al Gore was mocked Thursday at the Apple shareholders meeting in Cupertino, California.

As the subject of whether or not he should be reelected to the tech giant's board of directors surfaced, one longtime shareholder stood up saying, "[Gore] has become a laughingstock. The glaciers have not melted."

According to CNET, the gentleman then wisely said,

"If his advice he gives to Apple is as faulty as his views on the environment then he doesn't need to be re-elected"

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Al Gore to get honorary degree from UT

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How Bad Is the Indoctrination in Our Colleges?

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Let me begin by stating what I believe indoctrination to be and what it is not. Indoctrination is presenting opinion to students as though it were scientific fact or as though no rational, decent, and moral person could have any other view. It is the equivalent of presenting students with ready-made conclusions which they cannot realistically feel free to challenge. There are entire fields of study that are in fact programs of indoctrination.

For example, all Women’s Studies programs with which I am familiar are programs to train students to be radical feminists and specifically to instill in them the doctrine that gender differences are “socially constructed” – that they are artificially created by male elites to subordinate and oppress women.

The social construction of gender is not taught as a theory that students in Women’s Studies courses are free to adopt or reject. It is taught in the same way university courses in physics teach Newton’s laws of motion. When, at a recent academic conference, I confronted the president of the American Association of University Professors over this very issue, he replied that he did indeed teach the social construction of gender as a scientific fact...

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OUT: Upward Bound -- IN: The Radical Sexual Indoctrination of our Kids

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Radical Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings will get a fat raise in funding this year

Recently the Obama Administration cut funding to Upward Bound, a successful educational program with a proven track record. Upward Bound provides support to participating students in their preparation for college entrance. Upward Bound serves high school students from low-income families and high school students from families in which neither parent holds a bachelor’s degree. 95% of Upward Bound graduates have entered post-secondary education and are four times more likely to earn a college degree than students from similar back-grounds who do not participate in the program.

At the same time, despite the runaway federal spending and record budget deficits, Barack Obama is including $410 million in the 2011 budget for his “safe schools” czar Kevin Jennings. This is an increase of $45 million over last year’s budget. These additional funds ought to buy a more child porn books and the sexual indoctrination of teens and pre-teens...

[Parents; do you know what your children are being 'taught'?]

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The Re-Establishment of America

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... Most of the time, we Americans don't pay much attention to politics. We focus all of our energy on our jobs, our families, and our faith. We work hard, play by the rules, and wish only to be left alone. We love our country, consider ourselves blessed to be living here, and ask little from the men and women we elect except to keep from screwing things up.

But in just the last decade, Americans were shocked by two catastrophes we hadn't imagined our political establishment would allow to happen. The first was 9-11, when nineteen terrorists successfully attacked our homeland, and by doing so revealed that for years, al-Qaeda and its allies had been waging holy war against us. The second was the 2008 financial crash, which revealed that our economy is a house of cards built on a pile of debt so high we cannot possibly repay it.

Republicans blame Democrats, and Democrats blame Republicans. To ordinary, non-political Americans -- who grasp intuitively, and correctly, that both parties share responsibility for these two catastrophes -- these politicians seem like children who've turned a party into a food fight. And what do parents do when a children's party gets out of control? They turn off the music, turn out the lights, and send everyone home... [snip]

The re-establishment of America won't be easy, and we'll make mistakes along the way. Some of the new people will prove just as worthless as they ones they replaced. And some very good people who now hold key positions in politics, the media, education, and finance will be swept away by the avalanche. That's too bad, but collateral damage is unavoidable.

No other country in history has ever attempted to replace its establishments so smoothly and so peacefully -- and so cheerfully -- as we are doing right now. And it isn't likely that any other country ever will attempt something like this. How exhilarating to realize that 234 years after our revolution, the United States is still the most dynamic, forward-looking, optimistic place on Earth.

Boy, what an exciting time to be an American.

[Are you participating?]

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POLL: 73% Agree That Washington Is “Broken”

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Yet while 87% of Mainstream voters say Washington is broken, 73% of the Political Class disagree.

However, 75% of all voters now say they are angry at the government’s current policies, up four points from late November and up nine points since September.

Sixty percent (60%) think neither Republican political leaders nor Democratic political leaders have a good understanding of what is needed today.

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Governor’s aide: National Security meeting “surreal”

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“During both of their presentations… the best way that I can explain it, it was like listening to a teacher in health class giving a lecture about sex to a pre-teen, yet prohibited from or unwilling to use certain proper anatomical terms or even the necessary anatomical references,”

she stated, adding that both Napolitano and Brennan were very careful to avoid using words and phrases that in any way associated terror concerns with Islam or Islamic ideology.

For example, this source described Napolitano talking about Najibullah ZAZI, a 24-year-old, Afghan-born Muslim resident of Denver and a follower of al Qaeda. ZAZI, who pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction on Monday, was identified by federal authorities as a key player in what has been described as the most serious terror plot since 9/11. Investigators found evidence that ZAZI was motivated to kill and injure Americans based on of his beliefs in Islamic jihad.

Napolitano instead described him generically as a “domestic extremist” and “never once used the phrase Islamic terrorism” or made any reference to Islam, jihad, or the ideology and mechanism that motivated ZAZI and his co-conspirators to plot attacks in New York...

Rather, Napolitano spoke of the “need to study and analyze the motivation behind these extremists", something that I thought should have been quite obvious based on the amount and type of evidence uncovered in that case...

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The “Peace Partners” Who Never Were

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On February 14th, all of the major Palestinian terrorist factions met at the offices of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for peace talks. But this was not about peace with the Israelis. No, this was a meeting to reconcile differences, in order to direct all energies in a violent manner against Israel.

While the West has been obsessed with locating a “peace partner” for the Jewish state, none would be found here...

[Again and again...]

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There's No Dilemma Like a Euro Dilemma

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Eventually, Greece is obviously going to get someone bigger to stand behind its crippling budgetary debts. The specter of sovereign default has stalked the euro zone long enough, dragging its proud currency into disrepute.

The trouble is that Germany's trump card, its thumping great trade surplus, is largely built up against, guess who, other countries within the euro zone. In a nutshell, the deficits of Greece and Spain and Portugal are the German surplus...

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Head of 'Climategate' research unit admits he hid data - because it was 'standard practice'

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Scientists at the heart of the Climategate row were yesterday accused by a leading academic body of undermining science's credibility. The Institute of Physics said 'worrying implications' had been raised after it was revealed the University of East Anglia had manipulated data on global warming.

The rebuke is he strongest yet from the scientific community...

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Drop Climate Change Initiatives, Save TRILLIONS

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"There has been no statistically significant warming since 1995."

So finally admits Professor Phil Jones, former director of England's University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) and primary contributor to the IPCC 'reports' claiming to 'prove' a link between Global Warming and CO2 emissions only actually observed in climate models create for that purpose.

In a statement on its Web site, the CRU said:

“We do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (i.e., manipulated) data.”

Many climatologists believe the raw data records were deliberately destroyed, leaving only "homogenized" and "synopsized" versions of what was contained in the original records — "doctored" data used in graphs to 'show' that carbon dioxide (CO2), a substance in the Earth's atmosphere on which all life on the planet depends, as the culprit in "man-made" global warming.

It did not take long for politicians to seize upon the opportunity to make global warming a tax issue. Politicians are talking about a human carbon "footprint" narrowing the CO2 issue down to individual citizens, making their carbon use a marketable commodity.

Europe has established such a market, and opportunists in America have seized upon the global warming issue and are turning it into private businesses for their own profit. Schemes that are being advanced to diminish t carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are terrifying when the costs of such solutions are calculated. Costs have been estimated to be in the trillions to sequester CO2... [snip]

Can man even cause global warming? This question has not been legitimately answered. And even if he could, a warmer planet by less than 1 degree centigrade in 140 years is not life-threatening - in fact it's beneficial to man.

The nation will eventually come to recognize the simple fact that man does not contribute to the warming of the planet in any appreciable amount, and that carbon dioxide, a trace in the atmosphere, has never been scientifically shown to cause global warming - in fact science shows what increases the planet experiences on a cyclical basis are the effect, and not the cause, of warming.

Anyone sincerely concerned with the welfare of man made aware of the facts surrounding this issue will quickly conclude that world needs to step back and recognize that the real threat to our welfare are the self-serving actions be proposed, and not the inaction being portrayed as culprit...

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MSNBC Won't Release Video of Van Jones Calling Saddam's Human Shields 'Heroes'

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Remember Van Jones? He's trying to make a comeback, and the mainstream media seems to be lending him a helping hand in getting back into the Washington power structure. Jones, in case you don't remember, was the administration's Green Jobs Czar. He resigned after it came to light that his name appeared on a 9/11 Truther petition.

That, it turned out, was not the extent of his wackiness. He led a vigil mourning "the victims of U.S. imperialism around the world." He was an admitted communist and black nationalist. Now, it turns out, he considered Americans who shipped off to Iraq to be human shields for Saddam Hussein "heroes."

He said just that on MSNBC's "The Abrams Report" in 2003, according to a transcript of the show (relevant portion below the fold). I would post video here, but MSNBC refuses to release it...

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Is This An Interview? On PBS, Tavis Smiley Tells Van Jones He Loves Him, Would Take a Bullet for Him

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How often does a network interviewer declare to the interviewee that he loves him and "would take a bullet" for him? On his self-titled PBS show on Thursday night, Tavis Smiley declared his love for radical 9-11 truther/Obama adviser Van Jones:

"I believe in supporting friends and you know I love you, would do anything - would take a bullet for Van Jones."

Worse yet, Smiley attacked the Obama White House for not fighting the "absolute lies" that sunk Jones – without ever bringing specifics...

Smiley offered no skepticism whatsoever to the strange claims of Jones that he never signed the petition demanding an investigation into charges the Bush administration "deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur."

PBS is taking our tax dollars to provide a completely sympathetic platform for a radical-left scandal figure, a place where he can seek to rehabilitate his image with the kindest of collaborators.

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Van Jones, Obama czar forced to resign over being 9/11 'truther,' to teach at Princeton

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Report shows government's liabilities surging

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The federal government fell further into the red in 2009, with its financial position hitting a deficit of $11.46 trillion. That figure is 12.3 percent higher than the previous year, according to a new report issued by the Treasury Department on Friday. The annual report shows that the government's big entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare are facing a deficit over the next 75 years of $45.88 trillion, an increase in that deficit of $2.9 trillion in just one year...

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Dems: Raising taxes a realistic option for cutting $12 trillion debt

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Tax increases may be necessary to rein in $12 trillion in federal debt, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Monday. Hoyer emphasized the need to reform Social Security and Medicare, but also made it clear that raising taxes will have to be on the table.

''No one likes raising revenue, and understandably so,'' ... ''But if you're going to buy, you need to pay.''

[Who 'bought' it all?]

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Obama creates commission to study his gigantic deficit

[I.e., today's insult.]

During yet another contrived attempt to convince the country (or perhaps just himself) that he has a firm handle on the dire economic predicament he has fully exacerbated, Barack Obama announced the creation of a commission to 'study' the deficit.

Yeah - that'll help.

"Federal debt has exploded, the trajectory is clear and it is disturbing."

Is there anyone left, outside his shrinking circle of sycophants, who doesn't realize that he's the one who pushed the handle down on the plunger?

Really now, what better way to convey confidence in his ability to get this crisis under control than taking the bold step of studying it some more. Anybody else feel the tingle of positive assurance from having a President who is so clearly in command of the situation?

Didn't think so.

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E-Verify misses half of illegal workers

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The system Congress and the Obama administration want employers to use to help curb illegal immigration is failing to catch more than half the number of unauthorized workers it checks, a research company has found. The online tool E-Verify, now used voluntarily by employers, wrongly clears illegal workers about 54 percent of the time, according to Westat, a research company that evaluated the system for the Homeland Security Department. E-Verify missed so many illegal workers mainly because it can't detect identity fraud, Westat said.

[HT:LDot: "Please, please, let these bureaucrats run our health care system."]

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