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  • The Louder He Talked of His Honor...

    ...the faster we counted our spoons.  --R W Emerson

    And that goes for the Climate "Scientists" at CRU/EAU.

    Here’s what Phil Jones of the CRU and his colleague Michael Mann of Penn State mean by “peer review.” When Climate Research published a paper dissenting from the Jones-Mann “consensus,” [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:47pm EST

  • The Captain's Excellent Question

    I thought exactly the same way as does the Captain here...

    <i>Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:16pm EST

  • ObamaCare to Raise Insurance Premiums

    Another "no big deal" for Congress.

    Individual insurance premiums would increase by an average of 10 percent or more, according to an analysis of the Senate healthcare bill.

    The long-awaited report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) also concluded that subsidies provided [...]

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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 4:31pm EST

  • Ice Caps Melting Since 1881: NYTimes

    Considering that the ice caps have been melting for 100++ years, they're damn hard to get rid of.

    The Daily Telegraph has been doing some research and found out that the New York Waste of Times has been panicking about polar ice melt since James Garfield was president.' [...]

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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:43am EST

  • Doctor Zero Schools John Meacham

    Doctor Zero reminds Meacham of Four Little Words: "consent of the governed", in pretty strong terms.

    Meacham kicked it off with this:

    One of the problems with governance since the election of Bill Clinton has been the resolute refusal of the opposition party (the GOP from 1993 [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:13am EST

  • TOTUS Failed in Honduras

    Another foreign-policy embarrassment for Obama.

    Hondurans picked between Mr. Lobo of the conservative National Party and Elvin Santos of the Liberal Party – to which both Mr. Zelaya and Mr. Micheletti belong. --WSJ

    And it was the Conservative, Lobo, who won--not to mention the Hondurans themselves.

    [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 7:57am EST

  • Corn-A-Hole, Again

    The bleating from the Corn-A-Holers has been loud lately.

    Why?

    Because the Feds are deciding whether to stick it to drivers even more than now.

    That despite a few important facts:

    ...many researchers are convinced that 15 percent ethanol in gasoline will cause problems [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 7:51am EST

  • The Reality of "Tolerance"

    Found by Orwell:

    “In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 7:28pm EST

  • On 2010....

    Those damned elections. Why don't the Dems simply legislate their victory?

    Two in five Democratic voters either consider themselves unlikely to vote [in 2010] at this point in time, or have already made the firm decision to remove themselves from the 2010 electorate pool. Indeed, Democrats were three times' [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 3:07pm EST

  • Holder vs. Congress?

    Eric Holder's willingness to pick fights may be a very serious liability soon.

    The "Unlawful Combatant/Terrorists Are Really Civil-Lawbreakers" asininity is Holder picking a fight with the GWB Administration--not to mention the 9/11 Survivors' groups and, for that matter, the intel and military communities.

    But that's mere playground' [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 2:05pm EST

  • Data? WHAT Data?

    This is playing out exactly as one would expect.

    SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.

    It means that other academics are not able to check basic [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 1:36pm EST

  • Field and Forest Solitude

    Having been invited by a generous pal to spend some time Up Nort' (actually, in west-central Wisconsin), I took part in this year's search for the mythical 20-pointer.

    The mythical 20-pointer and all his friends and relatives had apparently skedaddled to Southeastern Wisconsin. They were enjoying Black Friday at' [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 12:31pm EST

  • Trickery and Deceit, ObamaCare Version

    The usual methodology of the superannuated is trickery and deceit. Fits Harry and Nancy to a "T", eh?

    The actual cost of ObamaCare?

    $6 TRILLION.

    "But gee, hey, CBO didn't say that!"

    There's a reason:

    "When the bills force somebody to pay $10,000'" [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 11:58am EST

  • Lautenberg Amendment Hits the Rocks

    The Lautenberg Amendment was destined to have problems with the Constitution.

    It finally happened, although not quite as expected.

    A Rock County man sentenced to two years in federal prison for shooting a deer while he was on probation for domestic violence has had his case overturned [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 11:46am EST

  • More Apologies from O-bow-ma

    You begin to wonder if, perhaps, this apology-making is genetic or something.

    Consider his November 23 contention that Asian countries “want our [export] products,” and that American sales to the region are subpar “partly because we just haven't been as aggressive as we need to be.” These remarks' [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 4:51pm EST

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    Stolen directly from P-Mac's blog:

    "Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour, [let us render] unto him our sincere and humble thanks" [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 10:32am EST

  • Obama and SEIU: Parallel Paths

    The author of this article, Randy Shaw, is described as 'very' progressive.

    The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) held a boisterous picket line in San Francisco last night, but their chants targeted a surprising adversary: labor leaders and their political allies.

    ...SEIU’s threat to labor hero [CA [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 9:44am EST

  • Getting Nuked on Black Friday

    You like electricity?

    We hear from a well-placed source that the Obama administration will use the holiday Friday news blackout to announce that it is definitively pulling the plug on the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste repository.

    The move has been in the cards since the ’08 election, [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 6:58am EST

  • No Experience Necessary for ObamaLand

    The Cabinet positions surveyed exclude a few departments: Postmaster General, Navy, War, Health, Education & Welfare, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security

    Note the last four (D) Presidents' level compared to O-bow-ma's.

    HT: ZeroHedge [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 4:59pm EST

  • The Chicago Way and the End of the Obama Dream

    Instructive narrative from Tom Roeser.

    ...Take the case of Paul Vallas. An outstanding Democratic public official he served as chief budget adviser to the president of the state Senate, chief budgeter for the city of Chicago under Mayor Daley. Daley took over the job of running the city's' [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 2:09pm EST

  • Reform Starts With a Wrecking Ball

    Interesting.

    “America’s most-famous superior urban schools are virtually always new starts rather than schools that were previously underperforming. Probably the most convincing argument for the fundamental difference between start-ups and turnarounds comes from those actually running high-performing high-poverty urban schools...

    Seems as though the best way to get [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:40am EST

  • DA Chisholm Is Absolutely Right

    Interesting interview with Milwaukee County DA Chisholm on the issue of handguns. The unmentioned name, by the way, is James Doyle, Ideologue/Idiot.

    Chisholm: I want to make concealed carry a felony offense. In order to do that you would have to create some form of a permitting system [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:10am EST

  • ObamaSavior---AND Military Genius

    This guy is careening out of control.

    “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,” Obama said at a news conference...

    This [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:53am EST

  • Red Cross Exec: "Yup, They Are Death Panels"

    Technically, Bernardine Healy, MD, is an EX-Red Cross official...

    The bill takes all sorts of choices out of patients' and doctors' hands. Even mammograms and prostate-specific antigen tests would be similarly restricted by the government for millions of people, and they actually serve as better examples of what happens [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:45am EST

  • Silly Season in WI Legislature: SB174

    The silly season commences. Here are a few names for you to note:

    Senators Coggs and Taylor; cosponsored by Representatives Young, A. Williams, Turner, Berceau, Grigsby, Colon, Richards, Kessler, Sinicki and Pasch.

    That's the masthead from SB174. The bill, if passed as written, will ban sales of [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:28am EST

  • Test

    Dah deedle dah dum

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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 8:34am EST

  • Sen. Conrad (D-ND) Flips You Off

    Well, it's the season for birds, right?

    Since Attorney General Eric Holder announced on Nov. 13 that five suspects in the 9/11 attacks would be tried in a civilian court in New York City instead of a military tribunal, Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) told CNSNews.com that civilian courts [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:23am EST

  • The Papal/SSPX Conversations and Patrick Kennedy

    Weigel really gets this right.

    The issues to be engaged in these conversations do not involve liturgy; the pope has addressed the legitimate pastoral needs of SSPX clergy and SSPX-affiliated laity by his decree allowing the unrestricted use of the 1962 Roman Missal. The real questions have to [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 1:17pm EST

  • "Paste" Died...Went Mozilla Firefox

    To hell with IE8.

    Took Firefox this morning. Some typeface-stuff to get used to, but on a tip, downloaded Adblock Plus.

    No more grape-jelly stains all over McIlheran's blog!!

    And "paste" works! [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:47pm EST

  • Stupak-ification of the Left

    Heh.

    Only a few months ago, the Left was telling us unqualifiedly that ObamaCare would NOT have any effects on private health insurance.

    You can look at our BayView Banjo guy's blog for evidence...

    Anyhoo....

    "The treatment exclusions required under the Stupak-Pitts Amendment will have" [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:43pm EST

  • The Liars at East Anglia

    Headless does public service.

    ...this computer program adds up to 2.6 degrees Celsius to temperatures starting in the 1970's and continuing until 2000 to give the appearance of GLOBAL WARMING! That's over 4 degrees Fahrenheit, and is a huge "fudge factor" (their word, not mine) made to show [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 11:10am EST

  • Flynn, Barrett Resignation Call?

    Channel 4 News reports that "Milwaukee TEA Party" has called for the resignations of Ed Flynn and Tom Barrett.

    Apparently, these folks think Flynn should resign over a morals issue.

    I don't know who "Milwaukee TEA Party" consists of, and frankly, I don't care what Ed Flynn does [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:54am EST

  • Doyle the Vengeful Dictator

    Democrats don't like Doyle, either, which is the thrust of this article from WI (HT Sykes).

    This vignette, significant in itself, tells you all about Doyle's modus operandi: pure "punish your enemies." Pigheaded, stupid, and to Hell with the public interest.

    Take, for example, WMC's questionable' [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:49am EST

  • So Kennedy Should "Represent His District," Eh?

    There's a lot of High Dudgeon emanating from the Lefty Hive about how Rep. Kennedy should "represent the wishes of his District" regarding abortion.

    Yah, well.

    S'pose that the US Congress will "represent the wishes of the people" on ObamaCare now that only 38 percent of the' [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:37pm EST

  • Dave Obey: Aborto-Facilitating Historical Ignoramus

    Kinda nice for Ed to provide us with a clear picture of Dave Obey's ultra-Left "mind."

    Strange. Obey tells us that the cost of Afghanistan is SO onerous that the country will 'run out of money,' while his pet Porkulus is NOT onerous?

    Hmmmmm.

    Then Obey [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 11:05am EST

  • Landrieu: Out of My Price Range

    Now that it is decided exactly what Sen. Mary Landrieu IS.........

    .....it's clear that her price ($300 million) is a bit high for me.

    My question: does Reid really expect he'll get 'full value' for his our money?' [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:47am EST

  • MS Update Blows Off "Paste"?

    Hey.


    Downloaded an MS IE8 update over the weekend, and "paste" went away.

    Still investigating.

    UPDATE: Remove the MS update, "paste" works fine again.

    UPDATE TWO: 60 minutes pass, "paste" dies again. [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:42am EST

  • Spendulus, Indeed

    OK, so who said this:

    "The kind of budget shortfalls we are looking at in the future dwarfs anything we've ever seen. There are two ways to close the fiscal gap--cut spending or increase revenues. ....the level of taxation required to meet projected spending needs is far higher'" [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:16am EST

  • The Manhattan Declaration

    We mentioned this on Friday.

    150 Catholic, Orthodox, and Evangelical religious leaders signed a manifesto which committs them to civil disobedience if laws force them to accept abortion, same-sex marriage, or interfere with religious freedom.

    This is large. The list includes Abp. Dolan, Abp. Wuerl, Chuck [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:16am EST

  • The Attack From the Left: "Shut Up. You're Mean!"

    The passive-aggressive game is on, and Patrick Kennedy is a fine example.

    Kennedy told CNS News that 'he can't understand how the Catholic Church can be against the biggest social-justice issue of all time' when referring to the USCC's strenuous objection to forcing taxpayers to fund abortions. Kennedy' [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:18am EST

  • The USCC's Second Letter, Distributed!!

    The Catholic parish in central Brookfield distributed the USCC's second letter on Obama/Aborto-Care this weekend.

    Happy to see it. Let's hope the parishioners take the Bishops' suggestions seriously.' [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 3:20pm EST

  • No More ObamaCare Prison Terms! (Aren't You Happy?)

    Ace discovered that PelosiPrison is not present in the Senate version of BigAbortion/BigLabor/BigSwamp money-for-you bill. [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:59am EST

  • SNL: Hilarious Obama Skit

    Oh, yah.

    Obama's time is over. [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:46am EST

  • Prayer for the President Is Good!

    New bumper sticker:

    "Pray for Obama: Ps. 109:8"

    See Grim's place for the rest of the story. [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:16am EST

  • The Other McCain: Shocker: Progressive Catholic 'charity' supports anti-Catholic agenda

    [dad29.blogspot.com] [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 6:49pm EST

  • Round One to the Eagle Scouts

    The dipwad count:

    Nick Balzano has stepped down as head of the local Service Employees International Union. Balzano was roundly criticized for crying foul over a Boy Scout's effort to clear a walking path in a park in Allentown. He said the project was taking work away from [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 6:28pm EST

  • This Is What Is Called Dumb

    JS today:

    Rex M. Ballinger was wounded when a rifle being unloaded by Daniel Z. Kassees, 36, of Dousman, discharged, the Sheriff's Department said.

    Kassees was unloading the gun next to his pickup truck on private property about 8:15 a.m. in Glen Haven Township. The shot went [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 1:04pm EST

  • Be an Illegal for FREE Healthcare: Reid

    In what should come as an unpleasant surprise to the US Bishops' immigration-pleaders, ObamaCare/Senate version has a nasty provision.

    Under Leader Reid’s amendment, in the year 2019 about 16 million U.S. citizens would be uninsured and be forced to pay a penalty tax of almost $800 per' [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:45pm EST

  • ObamaCare: Friend of BigBiz

    Wonder why big businesses are not adamantly opposed to ObamaCare?

    Because it will enormously burden, or eliminate, small businesses.

    ...2,074 pages are just the beginning. It is fair to say there will several times that number of pages of regulations delineating who must do what, when and [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:25pm EST

  • The USCC's ACORN Problem, Milwaukee and Chicago Ties

    History counts. It also helps to understand ACORN-ism's methods, one of which is to operate under different names. Confusion is good, to ACORN-ites, and confusing Catholic Charities with the Campaign for Human Development is just fine. Except that they are VERY different organizations with a somewhat-common history.

    ************************

    [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:25am EST

  • Delicate Story-Writing

    Here's a delicate way to put it.

    Milwaukee-area Muslim Religious Director Zulfiqar Ali Shah was not allowed to partake in a trip to Israel which would have been paid for largely by Milwaukee-area Jewish donors. As a result, the Muslims have quit the Interfaith Council.

    (We'll' [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:33am EST

  • The Zoo Interchange: It's Still Doyle (and Barrett's) Potential Manslaughter

    No matter how Tommy Barrett's flack tries to spin this article, here's what counts:

    Republicans in control of the Legislature in 2005 sought to move the Zoo Interchange project ahead by putting $38 million for engineering into the 2005-'07 budget, but Doyle vetoed all but $3 million. He' [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:04am EST

  • Kohl, Feingold to Ruin HSA, HRA Plans

    Since these plans work well, the Democrats Kohl and Feingold will ruin them. By no co-incidence, they will also smash the knuckles of middle-income, diligent, consumers of healthcare.

    Thanks, you two twerps!!

    'Flex' accounts let employees set aside some portion of their pre-tax pay for out-of-pocket costs [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 7:36am EST

  • Tax Money, Hush Money, All the Same in DC

    Yah, well. It's only tax money.

    A congressional investigation of the volunteer organization AmeriCorps contains charges that D.C. schools chief Michelle Rhee handled "damage control" after allegations of sexual misconduct against her now fiance, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, a former NBA star and a prominent ally of President [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 7:19am EST

  • Ban the Gun, Not the Terrorist

    The usual idiocy.

    More than two dozen anti-gun violence groups have asked President Barack Obaman to ban further importation of the type of handgun used in the Fort Hood massacre.

    In a Thursday letter to the president, the group takes aim at the FN Herstal [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:17pm EST

  • Doyle Kills the Racetrack

    Belling reports that Doyle killed off the Milwaukee Mile, through apparently bad-faith bargaining by his State Fair Board. The report states that the Board chaircritter changed a critical term of the agreement unilaterally......

    That Board includes a woman named Wickhem-House, named as a "superlawyer" who practices at Foley & [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:40pm EST

  • Abp. Dolan Steps It Up a Notch!

    Wow.

    Here's the link to a declaration recently formulated and signed by 148 luminaries, including Abp. Tim Dolan of NYC.

    ...We, as Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical Christians, have gathered, beginning in New York on September 28, 2009, to make the following declaration, which we sign as individuals, [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:50am EST

  • More Climate "Science" Lies?

    Hot stuff, yet to be verified...but really, really damning if it's real.



    The details on this are still sketchy, we’ll probably never know what went on. But it appears that University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit has been hacked and many many files have been' [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:46am EST

  • Pure Corruption in PelosiCare/ObamaCare Bill

    Besides all the usual stuff, there's more.

    The House resolution establishes a scenario that would effectively exclude non-union employers from eligibility to work on program-funded contracts. It also requires participating health care providers to pay wages and benefits that have been collectively bargained or that union-friendly appointees determine [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:22am EST

  • NYT Circulation Office Raid? Mob-Union Problem

    Most of you noted that the circulation offices of the NYT (and other papers) were raided.

    Wanna know why?

    Investigators in the city raided offices for some of the nation’s largest newspapers Tuesday as part of a corruption probe into a powerful union that has long faced [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:19am EST

  • Timmy-Boy Gets All Pissy

    Geithner evades, sidesteps, and Blames Bush!

    UPDATE:

    Lots more at PowerLine, but another Congresscritter is doing the questioning.

    Secretary Geithner, you were referencing in your answer to an earlier question about when the financial catastrophe started in September, October of last year, if I understood [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:52am EST

  • Another FINE Job by Your Government

    Your Government at work.

    The decade-old battle to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes might be over.

    New research shows the fish likely have made it past the $9 million electric fish barrier on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, a source familiar with the [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:05am EST

  • Book Title for Paulson

    Best line of the day, from Mark Hemingway:

    It seems that former Treasury secretary Henry Paulson has a new book coming out. It's supposed to be an inside account of the collapse of the global banking system. [However], the book might run into some legal trouble, as I [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:00am EST

  • Zoo Interchange Bridges Falling Down, so Spend Money on KRM!

    Talk about potted plant IQs...

    The regional transit authority charged with overseeing the Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee commuter rail project will get back on track with a meeting on Monday.

    The reformed nine-member RTA board will meet on Monday morning to discuss its budget, future plans for the [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:55am EST

  • Is Reaganomics Enough?

    Ryan and Hensarling's essay in today's WSJ has a few interesting facts.

    Exhibit A is the economic stimulus package signed into law by President Barack Obama in February. Even among previous stimulus efforts, the 2009 stimulus stands out for its ineffective targeting and sheer size. With interest, it [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:39am EST

  • Is It Getting Dark in Here?

    No, it's just your "energy-saving" lightbulb.

    Energy-efficient light bulbs lose on average 22% of their brightness over their lifetime, a study has found.

    In some cases they emit just 60% as much light as traditional models which are being phased out of shops, it says.

    [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:13am EST

  • No Money, Honey: Wisconsin Sinking

    No wonder Jim Doyle is running away from his office. He's like the 8-year-old kid who knows he'll get caught after busting the picture-window at the neighbor's house.

    Here's the Wisconsin tax-revenue picture through October.

    Individual Income: OFF 5.7% Y-T-D, 09/10

    General Sales Tax:' [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:56am EST

  • ObamaCare, Senate: Neutron Rx

    It's a neutron bomb aimed directly at the country.

    Taxpayer-funded abortions.

    Medicare funding cuts.

    30 million remain un-insured (20 million citizens or legal immigrants).

    States get socked with Medicaid bills.

    $980 Bn Federal spending.

    It'll kill anything it gets close to, including health-insurance' [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:41am EST

  • Harry Wants to Push It? That Would Be VERY Foolish

    Reid seems to think that he can Rahma-Jahma the Abortion Enablement act through by Saturday night.

    That would be very foolish, Harry. The poll-numbers on that are WAY against you now, and Russ Feingold, "Mr. Civil Liberties" hasn't weighed in to pull the aborto-language out. You don't want [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:33pm EST

  • Games of Unrest for Obama

    Don't know much about this online game stuff, but this is interesting.' [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:28pm EST

  • Where's the Wisconsin "Stimulus" Money?

    Rich Zipperer would like to know where the Wisconsin "stimulus" money's being spent.

    News accounts the last several weeks by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and others have drawn attention to multiple errors and exaggerations in the reports released by the White House of the number of jobs supposedly created [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:52pm EST

  • Think Hoffman Lost NY-23? Think Again

    Breaking:

    The computerized voting machines used by many voters in the 23rd district had a computer virus - tainting the results, not just from those machines known to have been infected, but casting doubt on the accuracy of counts retrieved from any of the machines.

    Cathleen Rogers, [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:29pm EST

  • Hypothetical, Of Course: Manslaughter Charges for Doyle?

    Hmmmmm.

    State transportation officials moved Thursday to replace three bridges in the Zoo Interchange by June, through a unique emergency construction effort that would limit full road closures on the spans to three weekends.

    The deteriorating bridges carry traffic northbound on I-894/45 through the interchange and serve [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:16pm EST

  • Reid's ObamaCare Tax Hits

    Oh, yah....there are tax increases.

    40% excise tax on health coverage in excess of $8,500 (individuals) / $23,000 (families). Amounts are indexed for inflation by CPI-U + 1% – begins in 2013 – $149 B tax increase

    (It will be a very close call for most Wisconsin public-employee [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:35am EST

  • "I Do Solemnly Swear.......To Be a Photo-Op"???

    That wasn't part of the oath I took on entry to the Armed Services.

    Now it is!

    Obama arrived on the base 3:19 p.m. local time (1 a.m. Eastern Standard Time), and received a rousing welcome from 1,500 troops in camouflage uniforms, many holding cameras or pointing cell' [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:27am EST

  • Want to Reduce Your Muni Budget? Fuggedaboutit

    The Unions absolutely, positively, OWN Jim Doyle and the Leggie-slime majority.

    Starting in 2010, a city or village that wants to operate its police or fire departments more efficiently and save tax dollars will first need permission from the Wisconsin Department of Revenue.

    I know it sounds [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:02am EST

  • Holder, the DamnFool

    Holder can't help himself if he opens his mouth.

    HERB KOHL (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) woke up and asked a question. Holder's response is a jaw-dropper of the first water. Actually, it's a fire-able offense.

    KOHL: "....taking into account that you never know what happens when you walk into a'" [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:42am EST

  • Another Royal, Another Bow


    Think it can't happen? Think again. HT: Moonbattery' [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:31am EST

  • Palin Derangement

    This captures it, I think.

    Why is she [Palin] so popular in the heartland?

    Because she is us. A good-hearted ambitious American doing her best to offer her best. If they -- and who are they, exactly? -- hate her so much, then it has to be the [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:40am EST

  • Palin Derangement

    This captures it, I think.

    Why is she [Palin] so popular in the heartland?

    Because she is us. A good-hearted ambitious American doing her best to offer her best. If they -- and who are they, exactly? -- hate her so much, then it has to be the [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:40am EST

  • Who's Eric Holder Trying to Fool?

    Our current Attorney General, like his boss Obama, are doing their damndest to make lawyers look really, really, bad.

    Successfully, we should add.

    The Bozo-Lawyers want us to believe that:

    A non-US citizen
    Who committed war crimes
    As a non-State actor
    Who was captured on foreign soil
    [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:23am EST

  • Who's Eric Holder Trying to Fool?

    Our current Attorney General, like his boss Obama, are doing their damndest to make lawyers look really, really, bad.

    Successfully, we should add.

    The Bozo-Lawyers want us to believe that:

    A non-US citizen
    Who committed war crimes
    As a non-State actor
    Who was captured on foreign soil
    [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:23am EST

  • Good News, for a Change

    Here's a happy thought for Waukesha County voters.

    State Rep. Mark Gundrum (R-New Berlin) said Friday that he is running for Waukesha County circuit judge and will challenge incumbent Judge Richard Congdon in the April 10 election.

    Why?

    Congdon was appointed to the bench in January [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:07am EST

  • Good News, for a Change

    Here's a happy thought for Waukesha County voters.

    State Rep. Mark Gundrum (R-New Berlin) said Friday that he is running for Waukesha County circuit judge and will challenge incumbent Judge Richard Congdon in the April 10 election.

    Why?

    Congdon was appointed to the bench in January [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:07am EST

  • Pedro Colon's Handwriting Problems

    Maybe it was a really, really, cold day or something, eh?

    From the State D of J memorandum (P. 4 in the PDF here):

    "Mr. Colon's signature on two of these certifications appears markedly different from [his] signature on the other two pages. Handwriting analysis [State Crime" [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:31am EST

  • Hey, Tommy! Here's Another "Just One Name"

    Tommy Barrett's going to be really convincing when he goes out-State and talks about the wonderful things he's doing with the City of Milwaukee's governance.

    Including the City's Election Commission, of course.

    Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced that on November 18, 2009, attorneys for the Wisconsin [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:24am EST

  • A Test for "Mr. Civil Liberties," Russ Feingold

    The Senate ObamaCare bill oozed out from under the rock yesterday, and included tax-supported abortions.

    This is an opportunity for our "Mr. Civil Liberties"--Russ Feingold--to demonstrate that he's actually honest. For what "civil libertarian" could possibly force all taxpayers to pay for what most people believe is murder [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:10am EST

  • Welcome to OUR World

    White-by-exclaustration?

    The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill.

    “We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”
    [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:44pm EST

  • Oh, Yeah. But It's Just Cord Blood

    Sorry, folks, it's not news because it's not ESCR.

    The Levines were in luck: Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg, a professor of pediatrics and pathology at Duke University, was conducting a study where children with cerebral palsy were injected with their own cord blood cells. On May 28, 2008, at [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:55pm EST

  • Delphi Plant Goes Down Soon

    Another unique-to-Milwaukee building goes away.

    The [Oak Creek] Common Council on Tuesday approved an agreement that requires the remainder of the former Delphi Automotive Systems plant to be demolished by Oct. 31

    Somebody--Gurda would be best, of course--should do an article on the Delphi (Delco) plant.

    [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:42pm EST

  • A MILLION Degrees, or Something

    That's the ticket.

    Drill a really deep hole, down to where AlGore says 'it's a million degrees.' (Insert a really really really tough drill-bit that AlGore personally invented which won't melt, or something.)

    Then you bring the million degree stuff up and make steam. Push the steam through' [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:04pm EST

  • Who Needs Waterboarding? We Have Obama!

    Mass-murderer-worshipers, tax-cheats, ethically-challenged, "world-gummint"-admirers, bozo-science idolaters, and anti-child/anti-life bigots.

    Those are just Obama's nominees and appointments--not to mention the A.G. who would destroy the Federal criminal justice system. Or his nonchalant attitude about 40,000 US troops he's left twisting in the Afghan wind.

    Every day, a new and [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:04pm EST

  • Doyle's Political Bombing Run Starves People

    Smooth move, Jimbo.

    Thousands of poor people in Wisconsin have waited months for food stamp benefits because of a backlog of applications at a state processing center.

    The Hunger Task Force of Wisconsin estimated that the federal FoodShare benefits left undelivered totaled more than $11.7 million from [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:55am EST

  • Deprive US Citizens to Punish Mexican Gangs!

    Yah, that's the ticket. (Another damnfool lawyer/member of the Party-In-Government speaks). Fuggedabout all that "shall not be infringed" foolishness...

    The former head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection called Monday for the U.S. to reinstitute the ban on assault weapons and take other measures to rein in the [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:07am EST

  • Deprive US Citizens to Punish Mexican Gangs!

    Yah, that's the ticket. (Another damnfool lawyer/member of the Party-In-Government speaks). Fuggedabout all that "shall not be infringed" foolishness...

    The former head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection called Monday for the U.S. to reinstitute the ban on assault weapons and take other measures to rein in the [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:07am EST

  • Cancer Screens and Politics? Oh, My!

    Gee.

    What a difference six months — and a health-care overhaul proposal — can make! Just six months ago, the U.S Preventive Services Task Force, which works within the Department of Health and Human Services as a “best practice” panel on prevention, sounded a warning signal over a [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:20pm EST

  • These Questions Are Above Holder's Paygrade

    PJB:

    Are we at war—or not?

    For if we are at war, why is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed headed for trial in federal court in the Southern District of New York? Why is he entitled to a presumption of innocence and all of the constitutional protections of [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:31am EST

  • A Little 'Counter-Intuitive' Economics on PRC

    Interesting.

    ...While some fret about liquidity-driven inflation, Justin Lin, World Bank chief economist, said the greater danger is that record levels of idle plant almost everywhere will feed a downward spiral of job cuts and corporate busts. "I'm more worried about deflation," he said

    By holding the' [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:05am EST

  • The 2A Explained

    Think that the Second Amendment is dated?

    Then watch the Commies work over a cameraman in Fort Lauderdale.

    HT: PowerLine [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:52am EST

  • Is Our President a Complete Tool?

    Bowing to a foreign Emperor is nothing compared to this idiocy.

    "Japan serves as an example to the world that true peace and power can be achieved by taking this path. For decades, Japan has enjoyed the benefits of peaceful nuclear energy, while rejecting nuclear arms development -- and" [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:42am EST
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