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Week ending 4 May 2008
An Open Letter to Global Warming Alarmists by John Coleman, Weather Channel Founder ‘The science behind your global warming scare is bad and no anthropogenic global warming is happening. Dissenting scientists have now produced convincing evidence that the cornerstone of your scientific argument, increased atmospheric carbon dioxide forcing a rapid, irreversible rise in temperature, is invalid. All of the various “signs of global warming” you have so widely publicized have been proven wrong.’
Pushing for Polar Bear Protection/Paralysis John Hinderaker / Hugh Hewitt That innocent-looking polar bear poses a huge threat to the American economy. It's not his fault, of course. Liberals are always scheming to get control of the economy, and their latest dodge takes advantage of the myth that "global warming" threatens the bears' habitat.
The Private Sector Succeeds, again... Replacing the St. Anthony Bridge over the Mississippi Ed Morrissey Like California, this proves a lesson in free-market power to solve problems efficiently, and in the long run, less expensively.  Instead of running the project themselves, the decision by MnDOT and the legislature to outsource the project applied the skill and experience of the private sector to a critical part of the traffic infrastructure.
Congress: Doubts Grow Over Ethanol Oil companies don’t like the mandate because they say there is insufficient infrastructure to handle the big increase in ethanol. Livestock producers oppose the mandate because it has raised the price of the corn that they buy to feed cattle and hogs. Grocers blame the mandate for rising food costs.
Kennedy Links World Food Shortages to U.S. Ethanol Policy Senators Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) told  Cybercast News Service on Wednesday that they believe there is a connection between federally mandated consumption of ethanol, a gasoline additive made from corn, and world food shortages.
Undoing America's Ethanol Mistake Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison The Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman once said, "One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results." Since February 2006, the price of corn, wheat and soybeans has increased by more than 240%.
Emissions Trading – A Weapon of Mass Taxation In a submission to the Garnaut Enquiry, the chairman of “Carbon Sense”, Mr Viv Forbes, claimed that the scheme would have no effect whatsoever on world climate but every Australian would feel the oppressive cost and dislocations caused by it.
To Obama, 'we' means 'me' Mark Steyn Obama is running explicitly on a transcendent "magic." It doesn't help when the cute girl in spangled tights keeps whining about how awful everything is, and the guy you sawed in half sticks himself together and starts rampaging around the stage. The magician has lost control of the show.
Viva Fidel! Wright On! Humberto Fontova Senor Penalver told this writer, "Castro's apologists, those who excuse or downplay his crimes – these people be they ignorant, stupid, mendacious whatever – they are accomplices in the bloody tyrant's crimes, accomplices in the most brutal and murderous regime in the hemisphere."
Looking for Mr. Wright Jonah Goldberg After Barack Obama gave his big race speech in mid-March, many critics noted that the Illinois senator had thrown his own grandmother under the bus to defend his controversial pastor. Well, Wright proved over the last few days that he would not be outdone. He not only threw Obama under the bus, he chucked much of the liberal and mainstream media under there with him.
The Friends of Barack Obama: "I was only 9 then, the year Ayers' Weathermen tried to murder me." John M. Murtagh  Early on the morning of Feb. 21, as my family slept, three gasoline-filled firebombs exploded at our home on the northern tip of Manhattan, two at the front door and the third tucked neatly under the gas tank of the family car.
Democrats' Longstanding Reliance on Identity Politics has come back to bite them Pam Meister Identity politics – the politics that liberals have eaten, slept, and breathed with over the past four or five decades – is rearing its ugly head. It seems encouraging people to cluster into separate grievance groups, viewing themselves not as just Americans but as insert group-Americans, is wreaking havoc on this year's primary.
For GOP Hillary is Irrelavent From top to bottom, from McCain down to the youthful campaign and party staffers who work nearly around the clock to get him elected, the working assumption seems to be that the Democratic contest is over and Obama has won.
Fox's Chris Wallace rips Howard Dean on DNC Distortions Chris Wallace pressed the DNC chair hard on the latest ads from his organization, which even the nonpartisan group Fact Check insist are distortions of John McCain’s remarks on the economy and on Iraq.
Hurricane Expert may lose Funding because of Anti-Warming Stance Dr. William Gray, who once said that pro-global warming scientists are "brainwashing our children," claims that Colorado State University will no longer promote his yearly North Atlantic hurricane forecasts due to his controversial views.
Forecasting Hurricanes. Not! Alan Caruba Given the record of some presumably very smart meteorological people, it almost doesn't matter what any of them have to say on the subject of hurricanes. I'm not being mean because even the predictors are quick to say they haven't gotten things right in a while.
Neb. AG Refuses To Sue for Illegal Immigrants' Fair Housing Rights "I'm not going to use taxpayer dollars to file lawsuits for illegal aliens," said Attorney General Jon Bruning after learning the couple was in the U.S. illegally. "You're not going to get a free lawyer" from his office, he said, "if you're not a citizen of this country."
School Choice Works — And It’s Winning Greg Forster Research, using rigorous statistical analysis to ensure accuracy, consistently finds that public schools exposed to vouchers improve in response to the healthy competitive incentives they provide. Sometimes the improvements are dramatic – Florida’s voucher program produced huge gains in the state’s very worst public schools.

Week ending 27 April 2008
The Alger Hiss Democrats Jeffrey Lord After a series of stunning events, finally including the revelation of stolen State Department documents that conclusively proved Hiss's guilt, Hiss went to prison. It was what surfaced in the course of the Hiss episode that in retrospect has had such an increasingly decisive impact on American politics since the Hiss case, particularly on the image of Democrats nationally. That "it" is, of course, the charge of "elitism."
Britons Kidnapped in Iraq are ‘Held by Iran’ Five British hostages who were kidnapped in Iraq almost a year ago are being held inside Iran by Revolutionary Guards, according to two separate sources in the Middle East and London.
The Friends of Barack Obama  Part1   Part 2 John Hinderaker When Illinois State Senator Alice Palmer decided to retire in 1995, she hand-picked local left-winger Barack Obama as her successor. In order to introduce Obama to influential liberals in the district, she held a function at the home of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. This was, really, the beginning of Obama's political career.
Change that Sees No Evil Obama tries to explain Ayres. Andrew C. McCarthy Obama whined to Stephanopoulos, "the notion that ... me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn't make much sense." Actually, Senator, it makes perfect sense.
You Don't Need A Weatherman to Know Which Candidate Blows Ann Coulter The key problem for Hillary's campaign is that normal people reel back in horror at her association with the Clinton administration... Even semi-respectable Democrats look sleazy by their association with the Clintons.
Slavery in Islam "Islam does not prohibit slavery but retains it for two reasons. The first reason is war (whether it is a civil war or a foreign war in which the captive is either killed or enslaved) provided that the war is not between Muslims against each other - it is not acceptable to enslave the violators, or the offenders, if they are Muslims. Only non-Muslim captives may be enslaved or killed. The second reason is the sexual propagation of slaves which would generate more slaves for their owner."
From the Soviet Union to Putin's Russia Alan Caruba Oil has been critical to the comeback the Russian Federation has made and one must pause at this point and ask if anyone in the United States Congress or the White House has a really good reason for restricting access to our nation's known reserves of oil in Alaska, as well as the unexplored and untapped reserves in 85% of our vast coastal shelf.
Americans Hoard Food as industry seeks regs on Speculators The diversion of one-third of the U.S. corn crop into making ethanol for vehicles has increased prices for corn and other staples such as soybeans and cotton as more acreage is set aside for ethanol production.
When Political Correctness Becomes Conventional Wisdom Doug Patton Until last week, I still had hope. I still believed, perhaps naively, that the majority of Americans were wise enough to see the truth. Perhaps they are, but given the onslaught of political correctness now surrounding the topic, I seriously doubt it. The issue is global warming, now cleverly called "climate change" by those who seek to explain away those pesky unseasonable drops in temperature that contradict the idea of "warming."
World Running Low on Oil? New Brazalian Find Proves Otherwise Brazil's state-controlled Petroleo Brasileiro SA in November said the offshore Tupi field may hold 8 billion barrels of recoverable crude. Among discoveries in the past 30 years, only the 15-billion-barrel Kashagan field in Kazakhstan is larger.
Tripling of Prices Eases Resistance to Biotech Grain Soaring food prices and global grain shortages are bringing new pressures on governments, food companies and consumers to relax their longstanding resistance to genetically engineered crops.
Japan's Hunger Becomes A Dire Warning for Other Nations While soaring food prices have triggered rioting among the starving millions of the third world, in wealthy Japan they have forced a pampered population to contemplate the shocking possibility of a long-term – perhaps permanent – reduction in the quality and quantity of its food.
Greenpeace founder: "no proof global warming is caused by humans" Calls for more Nuclear Power Generation The only viable solution is to build hundreds of nuclear power plants over the next century, Moore told the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday. There isn't enough potential for wind, solar, hydroelectric, and geothermal or other renewable energy sources, said Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore.
Gore Ducks, as a Backlash Builds Against Biofuels 30% of America's corn crop now goes to fuel, not food With prices for rice, wheat, and corn soaring, food-related unrest has broken out in places such as Haiti, Indonesia, and Afghanistan. Several countries have blocked the export of grain. There is even talk that governments could fall if they cannot bring food costs down.
Advanced Academic Fatuousness at Harvard Roger Kimball Homi K. Bhabaha has it all: exotic name, correct ethnic background, impeccable left-wing political opinions, and a prose style that you'd need dynamite to penetrate. Professor Bhabha spends most of his time emitting anti-Western and especially anti-American sentiments for his admiring colleagues and students.
Lefties Silent on Sex Alterations Occurring in Fish Iain Murray The environmentalists' silence on this topic and their willful distortions when they do talk about it show how, for many of them, the environment is more a tool for advancing favored policies than a real cause in itself.
$1/2 Billion Spent Annually Yet Many Predict AIDS Vaccine will Never Be Most scientists involved in Aids research believe that a vaccine against HIV is further away than ever and some have admitted that effective immunization against the virus may never be possible, according to an unprecedented poll conducted by The Independent.
Why is Al Sharpton still welcome in polite society? Michelle Malkin Shame on every enabler who has aided and abetted Al Sharpton’s campaign to mainstream, enrich, and advance himself as a “civil rights leader” for decades despite his lying, poisonous, police-hating, crime-coddling, race-hustling agenda.
Things I'm Sick Of Hearing Doug Patton I'm sick of hearing that everyone has a right to be proud of his or her race, creed, gender, sexual preference, marital status, religion and national origin – everyone except happily married conservative white male heterosexual Christian Americans.
Cosby, Tucker join Fulton judge in message to black youths On Thursday, Bill Cosby headlined a "fireside chat" with Arrington and Atlanta-born comic Chris Tucker at Benjamin E. Mays High School. The packed auditorium held mostly at-risk high school students and their parents — the people Cosby is trying to reach with his message of tough love for the African-American community.

Week ending 20 April 2008
Bill Clinton's German Paymasters John Rosenthal A media company that profited from a close collaboration with the Nazi regime paid the former president a $15 million advance for his autobiography. Was this payment for services rendered?
Disloyalty, or a Reckoning of whether the Clintons have been good for the Party One person’s “disloyalty” is, to another set of eyes, well-deserved “comeuppance.” And there is no shortage of powerful Democrats who are quick to accuse the Clintons of defining loyalty as a one-way street, with little regard for the sacrifices they have made for a couple whose own political needs seem to their critics always to come first.
What would a Hillary Clinton President Look Like? Carl Bernstein An endless psychodrama: the essential Clintonian experience that mesmerizes the press, confuses the citizenry, confounds members of both parties in Congress (not to mention the Clintons themselves, at times) and pretty much keeps the rest of the world constantly amused and fixated.
Norman Hsu Who? Lee Cary If and when the time comes to perform the autopsy on Hillary Clinton's campaign, some will trace the start of its demise back to the Norman Hsu episode.  Others will ask, "What's a Norman shoe?"
Guns and God? Hell, yes Mark Steyn I think a healthy society needs both God and guns: It benefits from a belief in some kind of higher purpose to life on Earth, and it requires a self-reliant citizenry. If you lack either of those twin props, you wind up with today's Europe – a present-tense Eutopia mired in fatalism.
A Living Lie Thomas Sowell An e-mail from a reader said that, while Hillary Clinton tells lies, Barack Obama is himself a lie. That is becoming painfully apparent with each new revelation of how drastically his carefully crafted image this election year contrasts with what he has actually been saying and doing for many years.
It's All Gone Abe Greenwald The radiant charm; the verbal agility; the promise of change; the post-racial unity; the deferential press; and most importantly, the vagueness of character and intent that sustained the whole façade. These were the hallmarks of Barack Obama's run for the Democratic nomination.
Candidate Superior Jumps the Gun He doesn't prove his worth, he assumes it. Mark Hemingway Whatever you want to make of Obama’s diverse background prior to his adult forays into the Ivy League, liberal activism, and politics, his remarks seemed to suggest that it is this latter experience with those elitist institutions that define the world Obama inhabits.
Obama Woos Gun-Toting God Nuts Ann Coulter It is an article of faith with the Democrats that they must fool Americans by simulating agreement with normal people. The winner of the Democratic primary is always the candidate who does the best impersonation of an American.
MSM Covering Obama's Backside over Rezko Connection Hugh Hewitt Really, not mentioning the house deal and the question of where Mrs. Rezko got the money to help the Obama's purchase their home by buying the empty lot next to it at the same time the Obamas bought the home is journalistic malpractice, especially in a column titled "fact-checker"
24 Hours on the 'Big Stick' P.J. O'Rourke Some say John McCain's character was formed in a North Vietnamese prison. I say those people should take a gander at what John chose to do–voluntarily. Being a carrier pilot requires aptitude, intelligence, skill, knowledge, discernment, and courage of a kind rarely found anywhere but in a poem of Homer's or a half gallon of Dewar's.
Earth Day: A Good Day to take back the Earth from the Liars Alan Caruba Earth Day is a holiday for liars. I have followed the apocalyptic claims and the legislated mandates of the environmental movement since the 1970s and their single unifying factor has been the lies told to achieve various elements the Green agenda.
EU Defends Biofuel Targets Amid Food Crises, Famine The EU Commission rejected claims that producing biofuels is a "crime against humanity" that threatens food supplies, and vowed to stick to its goals as part of a climate change package. The comments came amid growing unease over the planting of biofuel crops as food prices rocket and riots against poverty and hunger multiply worldwide.
Letter by Glasgow Jihadist Reveals much about Islam-Terror Linkage Note the repeated instructions to his brother to feign ignorance, to lie, to appear shocked, to portray the jihadist as a law-abiding PhD student. And compare that to the reactions from relatives and friends of all jihadists whenever they are interviewed in the press.
The "Useful Idiots" of Militant Islam Youssef M. Ibrahim Mild Islamism is an oxymoron. Sharia law, which sanctions beating of wives and stoning for adultery, is irreconcilable with human rights. The Muslim Brotherhood founded Hamas, calls suicide bombings a good thing, and is the 21st-century version of the organized fascism of Hitler and Mussolini in the last century.
Yank Carter's Passport, De-Fund his Think Tank Congresswoman Myrick has called for Carter's passport to be removed and for U.S. taxpayer money to be cut off from the Carter Center, the former president's library and global humanitarian institution in Atlanta.
Ibn Warraq: Defending the West The theory and practice of jihad – bin Laden's foreign policy – was not concocted in the Pentagon; it is directly derived from the Koran and the hadith, Islamic tradition. But Western liberals and humanists find it hard to admit or accept or believe this.
Ben Stein's Expelled, a Must See Bruce Walker Perhaps only Stein could properly portray the Kafkaesque persecution of scientists, journalists and other professionals who challenge the increasingly untenable proposition that an almost incomprehensibly complex mechanism – the living cell – could have evolved through the oafish mechanism of natural selection.
Planned Parenthood Has 'Racist Agenda,' MLK's Niece Says The niece of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., is among a group of pro-life black leaders calling for an end to federal funding for Planned Parenthood because of what she calls Planned Parenthood's "racist agenda."

Week ending 13 April 2008
Pelosi Perfidy Planned U.S. Defeat Atlas Shrugs Certain members of Pelosi's 7 representative delegation to Syria last spring met with officers of the PKK an affiliated terrorist organization...this is not an assumption...this is something that several republican congressmen know with 100% certainty, but they can't come  forward with it because they need to protect sources and methods.
Latin American Media Paints Pelosi As a Chavez Lackey The South American news agencies were following the Democrat's historic move to change House rules and block a free trade agreement for the first time in American history.
This is why rookies shouldn’t run for President Ed Morrissey I warned Democrats not to take the risk of placing their bets on a candidate that had not had to fight a national campaign against a real opponent. Only a rookie would make a colossal blunder like calling Midwestern, small-town voters a bunch of bigoted, overly religious gun nuts. Maybe Obama was right about Pennsylvania... maybe. Click for image info Hicks Nix Clique's Shticks Mark Steyn If you're running as a glamorous blank slate on which people project their own utopian fantasies, you've got to be very careful not to give the game away – especially when the game turns out to be the usual cliched elite disdain for the great unwashed.
Breaking Down the Dishonesty Ed Morrissey In their attempts to spin away from Barack Obama’s stunningly stupid remarks at a San Francisco fundraiser last weekend, Democrats and the Obama campaign have focused on only the least objectionable portion of the comment as a means to frame the national discussion.
Obama's Remarks Give Hillary an Opening A political tempest over Barack Obama's comments about bitter voters in small towns has given rival Hillary Rodham Clinton a new opening to court working class Democrats 10 days before the Pennsylvanian primary.
Obama's Dimestore Mein Kampf Ann Coulter Has anybody read this book, "Dreams of my Father"? Inasmuch as the book reveals Obama to be a flabbergasting lunatic, I gather the answer is no. Obama is about to be our next president: You might want to take a peek. If only people had read "Mein Kampf" ...
Did Barack Obama Hide His Father's Ideology? Greg Ransom There's a big mystery at the heart of Barack Obama's "Dreams For My Father".  What was Barack Obama doing seeking out Marxist professors in college?  Why did Obama choose a Communist Party USA member as his socio-political counselor in high school?  Why was he spending his time studying neocolonialism and the writings of Frantz Fanon, the pro-violence author of "the Communist Manifesto of neocolonialsm", in college?
20 Questions for Barack Obama John Hawkins So far, because the mainstream media is smitten with him, Barack Obama has been able to get by running a campaign based on hope, change, unity, love, and rainbows made of cuddly kittens. However, before we get around to coronating Barack as our new President/Cult of Unity Leader, there are a few questions he should have to answer:
Clinton Portrays Herself as a Pro-Gun Churchgoer Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton managed to co-opt Mr. Obama’s message of hope and optimism, beginning a speech in Valparaiso, Ind., by talking about how positive and “fundamentally optimistic” Americans are. But Wait. Just like her Bosniamnesia, Her statements from 1999 tell a different tale Stepping up the Clinton Administration's campaign against gun violence, Hillary Rodham Clinton used an emotional White House ceremony today to call on Americans to press Congress to ''buck the gun lobby'' and pass several gun control measures.	Hillary says questions about her "not relevant", only about Obama
Bill Clinton linked to China's crackdown of Tibetan Dissidents A firm that has donated to the president's charity is accused of collaborating with the government in its crackdown on Tibetan activists. Hillary Clinton has spoken out against China's actions.
Gov. Bill Richardson Long Ago Paid off his Debt to the Clintons He finally concluded that he had settled his debt to the former president: He had worked for Clinton's election in 1992, helped pass the North American Free Trade Agreement as part of his administration, stood by him during the Monica S. Lewinsky sex scandal, and rounded up votes to fight impeachment.
Gore Admits Financial '$take' in Advancing Global Warming Hy$teria On March 1, while speaking at the TED Conference in Monterey, California, the Nobel Laureate admitted to having "a stake" in a number of green "investments" that he recommended attendees put money in rather than "sub-prime carbon assets" like "tar sands" and "shale oil."
Science of global warming "doesn't seem to stack up" Respected academic Don Aitkin has seen the ugly side of the climate change debate after being warned he faced demonization if he challenged the accepted wisdom that global warming poses a danger to humanity.	More from Prof. Aitkin
Weather Expert: "a mild form of McCarthyism has developed toward those scientists who do not agree" with Man-made Warming "We are also brainwashing our children on the warming topic. We have no better example than Al Gore's alarmists and inaccurate movie which is being shown in our schools and being hawked by warming activists with little or no meteorological-climate background," hurricane expert William Gray wrote.
How the Endangered Species Act Could Accomplish What Al Gore Couldn't Hugh Hewitt As I noted a fortnight ago, the listing of the [polar] bear is just the first step in an elaborate dance that will result in the imposition of extraordinarily expensive and delay-inducing permitting requirements on any industrial or commercial activity that (1) requires a federal permit of any sort and (2) emits greenhouse gases.
Judges Turn Britain into al-Qaeda Hub Melanie Phillips How Al Qaeda must be gloating. What would any sane country do if it discovered that living among it was Osama Bin Laden's right-hand man, who was wanted by his own country on terrorism charges? It's a fair bet that it would deport him to that country as fast as it could.
The United Nations: Islam’s Gestapo        Stephen Brown Nepotism, corruption, anti-Semitism and now censorship. While the United Nations has disgraced itself over the years with sporadic eruptions of the first three negatives, it added another one last March 28 when its Human Rights Council passed a disturbing resolution that directs the body’s expert on free speech to report on “individuals and news media for negative comments on Islam.”
Teacher Breaks Wall of Silence at State's Muslim Public School Katherine Kersten Evidence suggests that Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA) is an Islamic school, funded by Minnesota taxpayers. Amanda Getz of Bloomington is a substitute teacher.Her experience suggests that school-sponsored religious activity plays an integral role at TIZA.	Newspaper column prompts investigation
Serb prisoners 'were stripped of their organs in Kosovo war' Serb prisoners had their internal organs removed and sold by ethnic Albanians during the Kosovo war, according to allegations in a new book by the world's best known war crimes prosecutor.
Dutch Court: Wilders can Compare Islam To Fascism "The contested remarks are not seen as unlawful. The defendant's freedom of speech has been the decisive factor in this matter," the court said in a statement. Wilders sparked outrage last month when he released a short video accusing the Koran of condoning violence, interspersing verses from the Muslim holy book with images of bombings.
Revealed: Financial data from top aides who are “actually writing the law of the land” Working from a cramped loft apartment a mile from the Capitol, a small Internet company has sparked a privacy rights battle with hundreds of angry top House staffers upset that the Web site has begun posting details about their personal finances.
Chertoff Defends Immigration Enforcement In an interview with The Associated Press, Chertoff said this week that the rising complaints from businesses offer some evidence the Bush administration's approach is working.
S. African police should "kill the bastards" A government official sparked an uproar Thursday after she said police should shoot to kill when confronting armed criminals in South Africa, a country notorious for its high rates of murder and rape.	50 killings a day!

Week ending 6 April 2008
British Muslims in airliner terror plot 'talked of taking families on suicide missions' Members of a British Muslim terrorist cell discussed taking their wives and children on suicide missions to blow up transatlantic jets, a jury heard yesterday. Six of the eight-strong gang each made "chilling" suicide videos expressing the desire to wreak "death and destruction" against the West and "Kuffar", or non-believers.
Ex-Taliban Commander Lectures Mullah Omar About Koran Former Taliban commander Mullah Mohammad Salaam has a penchant for quoting the Koran – whether speaking to journalists, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, or NATO military officers in his Helmand Province district of Musa Qala. Now he is also lecturing the Taliban leadership on the true meaning of the Koran and Islam.
Former Clinton AG Janet Reno joins ACLU as it Taps Top Legal Talent to Defend Accused 9-11 Plotters The American Civil Liberties Union, which for years has scorned Pentagon military commissions as "kangaroo courts,'' announced Friday that it will try to provide top civilian defense attorneys for alleged terrorists facing trial at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba – including the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Return of the Warm-Monger Jay D. Homnick If this planet has survived every possible heating, cooling, burning, icing, watering, steaming, gassing and drying that billions of years in this solar system have produced, the thought that a bunch of humans driving trucks for a hundred years could destroy the system is profoundly, you should forgive the expression, unscientific.
London's 'Green' Initiative to Tax non-PC Vehicles; Global Warming used as Rationale for Huge Fees Why is it being done? Because Mr. Livingstone wants to lord his green credentials, and it's a good way of raising money, because clearly some people will pay the charge," said Roger Lawson, London region coordinator for the Assn. of British Drivers.
Liberal Dems push for listing Polar Bears as "Endangered" "A decision to list a presently healthy species – exhibiting no present trajectory toward endangerment based on large scale hemispheric models forecasting problems 50 years in the future is a radical departure from the language of the ESA," countered William Horn. Polar Bears Potential ESA Listing Called 'Regulatory Monster' Sen. James Inhofe – United States Senate Environment and Public Works Committee FACT: Worldwide polar bear population numbers are at or near all-time highs, especially in comparison to 40-50 years ago.  A majority of populations are considered stable and some are increasing. Listing polar bears under ESA will alter the original intent of ESA and may create "a regulatory monster of unprecedented proportions."
When Obama "Talks to Our Enemies," What Will He Say? Lee Smith What’s unique about Obama, we now recognize, is that the notion of “talking to your enemies” is not just a diplomatic cliché. He will indeed hear out the obscurantist regimes that plot against U.S. citizens, allies, and interests, just as he sat still while his obscurantist preacher fulminated against “white America.”
The Audacity of Rhetoric Thomas Sowell In college, "I chose my friends carefully," Obama said in his first book, "Dreams From My Father." These friends included "Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk rock performance poets" – in Obama's own words – as well as the "more politically active black students."
Bill Clinton Earned $15.4 Million from Burkle Firm Yucaipa “Most people who make that much money work for it,” said Yale University tax law professor Michael Graetz. “What are they being paid for, and if it’s the Sheikh of Dubai paying the husband of somebody who might be the next president of the United States, what do they think they’re paying for?”
Hillary Clinton's Bosnian misadventure should disqualify her from the presidency, but the airport landing is the least of it. Christopher Hitchens Words begin to fail one at this point. Is there no such thing as shame? Is there no decency at last? Let the memory of the truth, and the exposure of the lie, at least make us resolve that no Clinton ever sees the inside of the White House again.
Airport Girl says Bosnia Sniper Tale "A lie" Many Bosnians – still confronted with bullet-scarred and burned-out buildings from Sarajevo to Tuzla – said their very real experiences with violence should not serve as cheap fodder for Clinton's political ambitions. "It was a horrible lie," said 29-year-old Midhat Efendira.	click to enlarge
Universal Health Insurance: Just Don't Get Sick Alan Caruba Okay, let's say that President Obama or Hillary is in office and Congress has passed a bill that requires everyone to have health insurance. Gas is up over $4.00 a gallon, food prices are sky high, and, if you've recently graduated from college, you are paying off loans at $1,000 per month. All of a sudden, mandatory health insurance doesn't seem like such a great idea.
Why Didn't Berkeley Police Defend Pro-Troop Demonstrators? Catherine Moy The nation's largest pro-troop nonprofit organization is asking the U.S. Attorney's office in San Francisco to investigate whether the city of Berkeley has broken federal laws by encouraging radical anti-war groups to "impede" a U.S. Marine recruiting office and failing to protect pro-troop demonstrators.
No Right to Educate Your Own Child? John Stossel A California appellate court, ruling that parents have no constitutional right to homeschool their children, pinned its decision on this ominous quotation from a 47-year-old case, "A primary purpose of the educational system is to train schoolchildren in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and the nation as a means of protecting the public welfare."
Apostles Of Atheism:  How the broadcast and print media helped spread the Gospel of Godlessness in 2007 Culture and Media Institute Fully 87 percent of Americans say they believe in God, according to the National Cultural Values Survey.  Yet atheism was the “it” belief system in 2007, or so it seemed according to publishers’ bestseller lists and the coverage the topic received from the national media last year.
Bad Drugs at a Pharmacy Near You Henry Miller The FDA has increased the number of its investigations of domestic counterfeiting several-fold during the past decade. These incidents encompass not only products that are completely fake, but also those that have been tampered with, contaminated, diluted, repackaged or mislabeled in a way that misrepresents the contents, dosage, origin or expiration date.
U.S Demands to see Swiss-Iran Contract The U.S. has demanded to see a Swiss contract for natural gas supplies from Iran to see whether it violates an American sanctions law against Tehran, the U.S. Embassy in Switzerland said Sunday.
Anger Over Rising New Zealand Immigration "If we continue this open door policy there is real danger we will be inundated with people who have no intention of integrating into our society. The greater the number, the greater the risk," New Zealand First Party deputy leader Peter Brown said.
UC Irvine: America's Hate Speech Center Here’s an update on the absolutely appalling situation at UC Irvine, where radical Muslim student groups have been allowed to run wild with hate speech and incitement against Jews, while the school administration denies the problem and local media take the side of the Islamists.

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