"Santa promotes obesity and drink-driving, claims health expert" is a headline in the UK Telegraph (via Joanne Jacobs). Dr Nathan Grills from Monash University in Australia said the idea of a fat Father Christmas gorging on brandy and mince pies... [...]
Check out this AP bit on climate change: A pivotal meeting in Bali, Indonesia, in December 2007 set a two-year timetable for the world to produce a grand new agreement to cut even deeper into the greenhouse-gas emissions largely blamed... [...]
First place in the Council category was The Razor with Obama Versus Carter. First place in the non-Council category was Zomblog with Why America Hates Universal Health Care: The Real Reason. Full results are here.... [...]
From the NAS e-mail bag: MINNEAPOLIS, December 17, 2009The University of MinnesotaTwin Cities is defending its plans to enforce a political litmus test for future teachers in the face of national outrage. The plans from its College of Education and... [...]
Linda Wallace in a column in last week's Philly Daily News typifies the utter nonsense that is the modern "diversity" and "multicultural" movement, not to mention the modern hypocrisy on matters racial. Titled "The true value of A.I." (as in... [...]
Courtesy of the European Foundation via the UK Daily Express. UPDATE: Here's what you do when you face the "sacrilege" of someone questioning your religious belief in global warming (fast forward to 5:55 in the clip):... [...]
Good (surprise, at that) editorial in the Philly Daily News dealing with the attacks on Asian students at South Philly High over the past month or so. Like Mayor Nutter's ridiculous statement: "All of us responded very quickly, very swiftly..." [...]
That is, if the Obamanauts actually know what science is: In July 2009, Obamas mighty automotive team arrived to talk with David E Cole. Sadly, he has "no experience" in car production, apart from being chairman of CAR (Centre for... [...]
Al Gore, fairly fresh off his "the center of the Earth is several million degrees" whopper, is now touting this new "fact": The Arctic ice may be gone in about five to seven years: New modelling suggests that the Arctic... [...]
First place in the Council category was Wolf Howling with Obama Fails His First Test As Commander In Chief. First place in the non-Council category was Gateway Pundit with Fistgate II: High School Students Given Fisting Kits At Kevin Jennings... [...]
Asian students to file federal civil rights complaint against Philly School District. Superintendent Arlene Ackerman still doesn't get it: She "announced new security measures and diversity programs" and said "We're not going to continue to make this an Asian vs...." [...]
Looks like I won't be standing in line for James Cameron's "Avatar": Set in 2154, Avatar is a thinly disguised, heavy-handed and simplistic sci-fi fantasy/allegory critical of America from our founding straight through to the Iraq War. Sam Worthington is...' [...]
UN climate dude sics security on an "inconvenient questioner." Remember: Just ACCEPT MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING. DO NOT QUESTION IT. If you do, there must be something psychologically wrong with you. Hmm ... this type of idea was tried before, I... [...]
Headline: Struggling? Maybe you should get a federal job. Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time -- in pay and hiring -- during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the private sector, according to a USA... [...]
The complete and utter joke that is Keith Olbermann: He calls for the firing of an ABC reporter for "selective editing," then for "proof" of his allegations he shows ... a selectively edited clip!! This douche has called for the... [...]
See if you can find the term "hate crime" in this Philly Inquirer article about the ongoing travails of Asians students at South Philly High. And perhaps the most troubling aspect of this whole mess is this: Staff members who... [...]
Nancy Unwilling at her virtually undecipherable blog Delaware Way: Well, color me astonished: Ted Kaufman did not side with gender equality in health care yesterday. What other nasty surprises might be in store from the Junior Senator from Delaware? Now,... [...]
... goes to Donny Douche, er, uh, Deutsch: DONNY DEUTSCH: I'm still trying to understand why the analogies he's made are wrong. Obviously, the issue here is that any great change throughout history has the naysayers saying "it's not time,...'" [...]
Philly.com news story about the Asian students in Philly schools who're so tired of being harassed and attacked that they've boycotted classes: Fifty Asian students who fear for their safety today boycotted South Philadelphia High, where after dismissal others said... [...]
Via the Newsbusters e-mail tipline, which goes out to all contributors and not just myself: No, I don't have a story tip, but I do have a bit of advice to your movement. You claim to bust the most liberal...' [...]
'Ya just gotta laugh: Executives at National Public Radio recently asked the networks top political correspondent, Mara Liasson, to reconsider her regular appearances on Fox News because of what they perceived as the networks political bias, two sources familiar with...' [...]
First place in the Council category was Mere Rhetoric with Leaked Global Warming Docs: Publicity Machine Used To Manipulate Journalists And Intimidate Scientists. First place in the non-Council category was Victor Davis Hanson with Dithering And Trashing America. Full results... [...]
Unbelievable article by the AP's Jesse Washington yesterday which utilizes some of the most base stereotypes of African-Americans one can imagine: Amid all the headlines generated by Tiger Woods' troubles the puzzling car accident, the suggestions of marital turmoil...' [...]
So writes AWR Hawkins: ... Gore is as blind to his own hypocrisy as he is to reality. And he apparently doesnt want to take the risk of being corrected. He has refused to engage in an honest debate about... [...]
Check out this AP article via the Washington Post. All about the big Copenhagen climate summit; nary one word about Climategate. Absolutely amazing. Meanwhile, here's what you do when people ask about the "uncomfortable" Climategate topic: Call them an "a**hole."... [...]
The Messiah -- using a racially insensitive term? At a town hall in Allentown, PA today, Pres. Obama said he is seeking to regulate health insurance companies to make sure that people don't get "gypped." gyp Slang vb gyps, gypping,...' [...]
George Stephanpoulos: "Lou Dobbs Now Too Soft for Hard Right Immigration Group." The "hard right" immigration group is question is ALIPAC -- Americans for Legal Immigration. Notice the word "legal" in there. Since when did supporting legal immigration and speaking... [...]
From the News Journal: 26 Asian students attacked at Philly high school. A number of Asian students at South Philadelphia High School are staying home after some say they were targeted for attack. A counselor at the Chinatown Development Corporation... [...]
Soccer Dad - The Warming Concensus The Razor - ClimateGate Shows the Importance of the Amateur Scientist Joshuapundit- Obama The War President And The Speech Right Truth - Its All About The Boobs Bookworm Room - The incoherence emanating... [...]
Unstable Mental State at the LGOMB posts about how a member of the Ugandan Parliament -- who's a member of the religious group The Family -- is sponsoring a bill there "under which any person 'convicted of gay sex is...'" [...]
... and the supposed racism he invokes. That's because now it's a Republican [former] governor -- Mike Huckabee -- who commuted the sentence of killer Maurice Clemmons. (See also here, among many other MSM stories.) I wonder if the MSM... [...]
Hey, isn't that supposed to be a phrase of the [overly patriotic] reactionary right? Not anymore! It's also Kent Conrad's (D-North Dakota) new mantra: Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) told CNSNews.com that civilian courts are well-suited to prosecute al Qaeda terrorists...' [...]
The BBC says that a full inquiry into "Climategate's" [hacked] e-mails will be underway soon. Which is nice, considering that the Beeb apparently had some of the e-mails a month ago -- and didn't report a blessed thing. Not a... [...]
Since our local channel 57 doesn't carry the 11:00am "Three Stooges" anymore, here's the second half of one of my favorite episodes, where minutes 3:00 to 4:06 absolutely kill me:...' [...]
Man. Steve Newton of DE Libertarian has closed up shop; now Brian Shields of The Mourning Constitution is doing same. These two have joined other noted First State bloggers Mike Matthews, Dana Garrett and lastly, fellow libertarian Shirley Vandever. The... [...]
It's been widely reported that a non-invited couple made it through Secret Service security and got to meet The Messiah at a state dinner the other night. Yeah, even the MSM noted it! But will they note this: The couple... [...]
Unbelievable, considering that Climategate just gets "better and better." Now, according to the Times of London, it seems global warming advocate "scientists" have admitted to ditching temperature data: SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away... [...]
First place in the Council category was The Razor with Obama The Weak Horse. First place in the non-Council category was The Strata-Sphere with Alarmist hide truth about (lack of ) global warming. Full results are here.... [...]
... but there's no shortage -- still -- of pro global warming yarns. Here's the AP via MSNBC: "Much less stable ice for polar bears, expert says; Survey by ship finds satellite data about thicker Arctic ice was wrong." Hmmm.... [...]
I understand and even agree with the legislation's rationale; however, the problem is that they are selectively enforced. Latest case in point: Denver police should be applauded for apparently breaking up a ring of thugs who were attacking mostly white... [...]
