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  • To Think ...

    ... they still consider themselves to be holier than thou.  And still above reproach:
    Objective Journalism: Michael Gerson Defends a Profession That No Longer Exists
    By John Nolte

    Once again, from that familiar MSM perch where one can look down their nose at the great unwashed who just [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:50am EST

  • The Seeds Of Their Own Destruction

    Why leftists and the press will fight mightily to ignore the news - the facts - about Climategate,

    The Anchoress:
    In a nutshell, Climategate is a destroyer of world-views. As someone who has always maintained that the AGW [anthropogenic global warming] hype was a matter of politicians and grifters [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:33am EST

  • A Shot Across The Bow

    Words have meaning.  And with the words "Commander in Chief" come a great deal of weighty responsibilities.  Obama's now finding that out.

    But is he up to the task?
    Will He Prove Them Wrong?
    By Jennifer Rubin, Commentary magazine

    The Washington Post’s editors are nervous about the' [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:10am EST

  • It's Amazing ...

    ... how earth-shaking something seemingly as innocuous as a HARRY_READ_ME.txt file can be.

    Earth-shaking in that the liberal movement to push the planet into one-world governance is in the process of crumbling to rubble.

    I wonder if the man or woman who released that file to the [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:04am EST

  • Stop Them Before They Act

    World leaders are meeting in Copenhagen next month to hammer out a plan to stop CO2 emissions from further warming the globe.  But it has become obvious to anyone who isn't eager to tax and regulate humans like never before that the reason for their meeting has been proven to' [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 4:52am EST

  • Tragedy In Lakewood, WA

    Michelle Malkin has some valuable background information on that asshole who murdered four police officers out in Lakewood, Washington.  As is often the case, it's a matter of an extremely violent animal being given leniency over and over and over again by a disinterested government.  And now four of [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 4:28am EST

  • Gov't In Action

    I wonder if the kids over at the Roanoke Times - the ones who are really big on the government takeover (and assured destruction) of what most Americans consider to be the finest health care delivery system the world has ever devised - think about their position when they read [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 7:27am EST

  • Tom Perriello a One-Termer?

    If the reaction of the people of Virginia's 5th District continues to grow ever more negative towards ObamaCare, it certainly is a possibility.  For the anger toward Obama's abominable government takeover of the health care system continues to rise.  And heads (including Tom's) will surely roll:
    Growing public backlash over' [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 7:06am EST

  • Be Careful What You Wish For

    We all hate the rich.  Right?  We want them punished.  We want them to bleed.  To squeal like pigs.  That's why, when we hear talk of capping their salaries and taxing the living hell out of them, we all smile.  They deserve it.

    If only it worked out that' [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 6:14am EST

  • For The Love Of God

    Finally!
    Climategate: University of East Anglia U-turn in climate change row

    Leading British scientists at the University of East Anglia, who were accused of manipulating climate change data - dubbed Climategate - have agreed to publish their figures in full.
    Excellent.

    There is a growing chorus of [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 6:13am EST

  • Another Reason The Global Warmists Lost

    They are hilariously ridiculous in their efforts to make their case.

    From the "You can't make this stuff up" page (sometimes referred to as the op/ed page) of the New York Times:
    Before the Climate Conference, a Weather Report

    President Obama and other world leaders will gather' [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 5:40am EST

  • Oh, No. Not Again.

    When Christians think small:
    Mass. woman sees image of Jesus on her iron
    Associated Press

    Metheun, Mass. -- A Massachusetts woman who recently separated from her husband and had her hours cut at work says an image of Jesus Christ she sees on her iron has reassured her that [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 7:12am EST

  • Coming To a Hospital Near You

    Welcome to ObamaCare:
    Hundreds of patients died needlessly at NHS hospital due to appalling care
    By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor, London Telegraph

    Poor nursing care, filthy wards and lack of leadership at Basildon and Thurrock University NHS Hospitals FoundationTrust led to the deaths of up to 400 patients a [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 6:00am EST

  • The Global Warmists May Try To Dismiss This ...

    ... but it's not going away.

    The efforts to distort data and crush dissenting points of view in what is now being called Climategate are, to one scientist, acts of treason against science:
    Climategate: The Skeptical Scientist’s View
    By Frank J. Tipler, Professor of Mathematical Physics at Tulane University
    [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 5:49am EST

  • You Be The Judge



    Peggy Noonan on the amateurs who are in charge of our country:
    The Obama bowing pictures are becoming iconic not for those reasons, however, but because they express a growing political perception, and that is that there is something amateurish about this presidency, something [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 5:13am EST

  • The Travesty That Is Climategate

    In a nutshell.  In the form of cautionary advice.  From Johna Till Johnson:
    Don't make stuff up. The released document HARRY_READ_ME.txt contains examples in which the coder, supremely frustrated with the poor quality of his data, simply creates some. Even if the underlying science is sound, "created" data' [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 4:50am EST

  • Put Up Or Shut Up

    There's only one solution to be secured in the developing Climategate scandal.  Release the data!

    Eric S. Raymond:
    Open-Sourcing the Global Warming Debate

    The email and documents recently netjacked from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia raise serious questions about the quality of the [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 4:23am EST

  • What Is It About Staunton and the Mentally Insane?

    Did you know that the city of Staunton once hosted the site of the commonwealth's largest lunatic asylum?

    Did you know that it will again soon?

    Of course we don't refer to the mentally handicapped ... er, mentally deficient ... er, those with intellectual capacity challenges as being' [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 6:24am EST

  • In Denial

    One of the Washington Post's less gifted columnists, Eugene Robinson, comes to the defense of those climate scientists who have been caught red-handed fudging their data and trying (successfully) to manipulate the press.  And an odd defense it is:
    Tell it to the ice caps

    Stop hyperventilating, all you [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 6:00am EST

  • And Speaking of Deniers

    The Roanoke Times, being heavily invested in the notion that the planet is heating up and humans are causing it to, comes out with its own pronouncement on the growing Climategate crisis.  Its take?

    Ain't no thang:
    The scientific theories and immense body of evidence that shows' [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 5:45am EST

  • Where's The Mainstream Press?

    With their heads stuck up their ... looking the other way.  As usual.
    Big Media Ask: What Climate Scandal?
    By L. Brent Bozell III, writing in Investor's Business Daily

    Here's a dirty little secret about the New York Times: It likes to leak things. Important things. Things that change [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 5:25am EST

  • Joke Of The Day

    From James Taranto:

    Q: How many climate scientists does it take to change a light bulb?
    A: None. There's a consensus that it's going to change, so they've decided to keep us in the dark.

    It's come to this.' [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 4:49am EST

  • Will The Democrats Still Pursue Cap-n-Tax?

    Pursue it despite the fact that the reason for its being is now in question?  That reason being the control of carbon emissions so as to mitigate the advancement and effects of "global warming"?  That globe that isn't warming?

    Kimberley Strassel, writing in the Wall Street Journal, says' [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 4:27am EST

  • And To All Of You ...

    ... have a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving. [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 7:26am EST

  • Indianapolis Colts Look Out


    In  local news:
    New public safety football team snaps to it
    A newly formed minor league football team is made up of firefighters, police officers and sheriff's deputies from the Roanoke and New River valleys.
    By Amanda Codispoti, Roanoke Times

    Monday was the third time' [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 7:19am EST

  • Quote of the Day

    John Hinderaker in the prosecution of those union thugs out in St. Louis:
    It occurs to me that if these union thugs had been Navy SEALS apprehending a terrorist mass murderer of Americans, rather than agents of the Democratic Party trying to suppress expression of a political view [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 6:43am EST

  • Subheader of the Day

    The fuzzy math and goofy logic of government-goosed employment
    [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 5:49am EST

  • The Devil In The Details

    As experts pore over those Climategate emails, more damning proof of subterfuge comes to light.

    This wasn't a matter of naïveté.  Nor of chums communicating colloquially about the data they had accumulated.

    It was FRAUD.  From start to finish.
    CRU's Source Code: Climategate Uncovered
    By Marc Sheppard, American [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 5:21am EST

  • Fabulous

    Along with the appropriate shock and anger that have flowed from the Climategate revelations, we now have - thanks to the wonderful nature of the internet - a heaping dose of ridicule and scorn directed at those "scientists" who have been pushing the global warming hoax.

    [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 5:18am EST

  • The Corruption May Be Widespread

    Anthony Watts reports that those CRU "scientists" may not have been alone in manipulating climate data in order to achieve a desired result:
    Uh, oh – raw data in New Zealand tells a different story than the “official” one.

    The New Zealand Government’s chief climate advisory unit NIWA [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 5:00am EST

  • Here's Why It Matters

    The New York Times this morning, front page:
    Businesses in U.S. Brace for New Rules on Emissions
    By Jad Mouawad

    The nation’s corporations have long been bracing for the day when they would be required to carry out sharp cuts in the emissions that cause global warming. That day [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 4:50am EST

  • Here It Comes

    On the lighter side this morning, "One Single Payer System," the musical.

    Turn up the volume.  Bend over:




    Shouldn't we at least get a kiss first, Barry?' [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 4:37am EST

  • A Worthy Cause

    Elizabeth Strother, writing in the Roanoke Times:
    For those who have too little

    In our part of the country, the Southwestern Virginia Second Harvest Food Bank reports 20 percent to 30 percent increases over the last two years in the numbers of people getting emergency food assistance from [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:51am EST

  • Headline Of The Day

    Isn't this how these stories always turn out?

    First you get the wild-eyed wienies on the left screaming about some right-wing conspiracy and then ...

    ... the truth comes out:

    Census worker murdered by conservatives not actually murdered by conservatives

    As it turns out, the' [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:47am EST

  • Quote of the Day

    Charlie Martin on those global warmists who have been caught fudging their work:

    "Simply put, scientists aren’t software engineers. They don’t keep their code in nice packages and they tend to use whatever language they’re comfortable with."

    While possibly true, it's not right.

    If a scientist [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:29am EST

  • On The Science Scandal of the Millenium

    Here's where those purloined emails are leading the (new media) investigation.  The scientists who gave us global warming had to seriously distort their own data in order to reach their pre-established conclusions.

    Charlie Martin:
    I think there’s a good reason the CRU didn’t want to give their data' [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:22am EST

  • Our War-Time Commander

    Tick tock.  Tick tock.  Tick ...

    “After eight years, some of those years in which we did not have, I think, either the resources or the strategy to get the job done, it is my intention to finish the job."

    “And I feel very confident that when the" [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 5:52am EST

  • Things Are ... Heating Up

    Expect to see a lot more activity like this as concerned citizens try to get a better handle on the nefarious activities of those climate alarmists who perpetrated the worst - and most damaging - hoax in the history of mankind:
    Competitive Enterprise Institute Sues NASA in Wake of Climategate [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 4:50am EST

  • Try Again, With Feeling

    If bowing before foreign rulers is a sign of respect ...

    ... why isn't anyone bowing before the Great and Powerful O?



     


    Are they all then being disrespectful?
    ' [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 4:37am EST

  • Looks Like I'm Not Alone

    A record number of people polled by Rasmussen are now strongly disapproving of the job performance of Barack Obama.

    If only they had listened when it counted.

    The latest:

    -15 and dropping.

    I guess talk of hope and change will only [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 4:23am EST

  • Quote of the Day

    Ouch.  This, from Der Spiegel, has to hurt:
    When he entered office, US President Barack Obama promised to inject US foreign policy with a new tone of respect and diplomacy. His recent trip to Asia, however, showed that it's not working. A shift to Bush-style bluntness may be coming.
    [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:26am EST

  • A Huge Disconnect

    60% of the United States Senate supports ObamaCare.

    Nearly 60% of America opposes it.

    What's wrong with this picture?
    Support for Health Care Plan Falls to New Low
    Rasmussen Reports

    Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:13am EST

  • It Seems So Simple

    "We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better."
    -- Jeff Bezos

    Yeah?  If only.

    So I was standing in line at the bank' [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:07am EST

  • 'Low Ebb,' Gutter, One in the Same

    A point to be made about those who hate - or fear - Sarah Palin:
    Sarah Palin and the low ebb of the cultural left
    By Claude Sandroff, American Thinker

    One of the great challenges when writing about Palin is to keep focus on her concrete accomplishments (the energy [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:05am EST

  • Really?

    Here's a liberal Washington Post columnist's take on Obama's submissive bow to the emperor of Japan:

    "There's been a lot of misguided criticism of President Obama's trip to Asia. You're upset that he bowed to the emperor of Japan? Get over it. Obama was being respectful" [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 4:59am EST

  • What's Al Gore Going To Do For a Living Now?

    Even his close allies in the struggle to turn us back to the Stone Age are abandoning ship:
    Global Warming Promoter 'Dismayed and Deeply Shaken' by ClimateGate
    By Noel Sheppard, NewsBusters

    One of the world's leading promoters of the anthropogenic global warming myth claimed Monday he is convinced the' [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 4:41am EST

  • How's That War Planning Coming, Barry?

    Obama Thanks Hollywood With Coveted Invites To First White House State Dinner
    [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 4:23am EST

  • Trying To Provide Cover

    Feebly.

    From today's Roanoke Times, a laugher:
    A real threat to Medicare
    editorial

    There is one real and immediate threat to Medicare patients that touches on the health care reform debate: Republicans and some fiscal hawks among Democrats are balking at a measure to avert a 21 percent [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:23am EST

  • Whereas Joe Biden Couldn't Pack a Denny's Restaurant ...

    .. at lunch hour, Sarah Palin drew the masses on Sunday:

    Palin welcomed by 1000+ fans at Roanoke book signing

    Wow. [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:04am EST

  • A Permanent Situation, We Hope

    Fort Hood suspect paralyzed from chest down, lawyer says
     [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 5:47am EST
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