Sunday, May 25, 2008

Mexico is Soon to be a Bigger Problem

  Energy item by Alan Caruba (5/25/08)

As if the constant flow of illegal aliens and drugs from Mexico were not already a huge problem for the United States, it is about to get worse. When Business Week took notice of Mexico’s dwindling oil reserves and failed national oil company, Pemex, in its May 5th edition, it signaled a problem whose significance is as great as the one involving an invading population.

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Drip, Drip, Drip

  Demercrats item by Roxanna Moser (5/24/08)

No, that’s not a leaky faucet.  That’s the sweat off the brows of congressional democrats as the full consequences of their refusal to allow America to harvest its own resources get clearer and more dire every day.

31000 scientists sign Oregon GW Skeptic Petition

  Global Warming item by Dennis Avery (5/24/08)

Over 31,000 U.S. Scientists Deny Man-Made Global Warming. In 1998, Dr. Arthur Robinson, Director of the Oregon Institute for Science and Medicine, posted his first Global Warming skeptic petition, on the Institute’s website ( oism.org ). It quickly attracted the signatures of more than 17,000 Americans who held college degrees in science. Widely known as the Oregon Petition, it became a counter-weight for the “all scientists agree” mantra of the man-man Global Warming crowd.

Congressional Attack Dogs Bark Up Wrong Tree!

  Congress item by Doug Edelman (5/24/08)

Once again, in response to constituent outcry over gasoline prices, Oil Company executives have been hauled before Congress to get their posteriors ripped into by self-serving grandstanding Senators.

‘As Global Cooling Moves Forward Does Anybody Care?’

  Global Cooling item by Malcolm Hedges (5/24/08)

A brief general review would say the answer is no.  Some several observers of such things as the Suns heating system and certain perhaps unrelated Earth system cycles have suggested we are in the process of a general trend toward “Global Cooling” for some 5 to 20+ years.

Thursday, May 22, 2008

‘New Yorkers Are Smarter Than Other Americans’

  Elitists item by Warner Todd Huston (5/22/08)

Speaking as a Chicagoan, I get my “second city” dander up every time I hear people who live in New York City patting themselves on the back and blathering aloud about how much better they are than the rest of us peons in flyover country. Usually this sort of arrogant bravado is reserved for New Yorkers talking to other New Yorkers, at least, usually seen as the sort of talk one would hear at the corner bistro or what one might encounter listening to what passes for conversation at highbrow dinner parties. So we don’t often see such self-congratulatory nonsense outside local New York media. While it isn’t seen so often in publications that serve the nation, Smithsonian Magazine(1) has decided to give New York dance critic Joan Acocella the platform of their publication to tell us all how cool she thinks New York is and how people there are just naturally smarter and better than everyone else everywhere in the country… if she, a resident of New York City, does say so herself.

‘Dear American Voter’ – George Soros Says The World Should Pick Our President

  NewWorldOrder item by Warner Todd Huston (5/22/08)

We’ve seen it over and over, people in Europe who imagine that they should be allowed to vote U.S. presidential elections(1). Some of these people imagine that they should have a voice in our elections because, they say, America is so supremely powerful that the man who becomes our president makes decisions that will impact the entire world. Now some far left think tanks and foundations have created a so-called “non-partisan” website called “Dear American Voter"(2) for foreigners to make videos aimed at letting Americans know how they feel about our elections. 

Media missteps

  MSM item by Ari Kaufman (5/22/08)

The mainstream media has been taking quite a few hits lately. Even if the average American has not noticed, the powers-that-be in the big city outlets would have to be sheltered on the highest Colorado mountaintop to deny their sincerity and honesty has been called into question. This has not been a kind few weeks.

Monday, May 19, 2008

Labor-Liberal Incest

  Progressivism item by Thomas E. Brewton (5/19/08)

Malformed progeny of the Socialist International are intent upon bastardizing civilization.

The Nightmare We Call Our Schools

  EdukShun item by Alan Caruba (5/19/08)

A friend of mine recently wrote to me saying, “My wife is retiring in June after thirty years of teaching. A high school degree means nothing. No Child Left Behind is an even bigger joke. It is a scary situation that could lead us to third world status, but we are prepared for that since we already teach English as a second language.”

Saving Arctic Plant Species from Climate Change

  GreeenIsm item by Dennis T. Avery (5/19/08)

The Norwegian government is building its high-tech new Global Seed Vault on the Arctic island of Svalbard to protect the world’s plant varieties in case of global climate change. Meanwhile, outside the Svalbard vault, the island’s own hardy Arctic plants are demonstrating that Mother Nature knows how to keep her species alive through natural adaptation to the earth’s naturally radical climate cycling.

Obama Furious with the Truth - again

  Elections item by Sher Zieve (5/19/08)

Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama is furious - or feigning fury - with the truth again.  This time it is over a statement made by President George W. Bush.  The statement made by the president to Israel’s parliament last week included chastising those who continue to call for some types of appeasement to the world’s enemies and included the warning:  “As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is - the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Teach Your Kid How to Sense BS

  EdukShun item by Doug Giles (5/14/08)

“One of the most salient features of our culture is there is so much bull----.” Harry G. Frankfurt, Princeton philosophy professor How many of you have met the book smart 4.0 magna cum laude lady who, in regard to street smarts, is a magna dumb loopy chick? What about the poor honey who is neither book nor street smart? What a shame, eh? My goal for my girls is for them to own the twain. My wife and I push our daughters to academic excellence; we insist that they strain their brains so they won’t sound like Paris Hilton when they open their mouths.

Gunsmoke and The Rifleman

  MSM item by Bruce Walker (5/14/08)

My wife and I find almost nothing to watch on television.  Even Fox News is repetitive, covering the same stories that are easily available on the Internet in greater depth over and over again.  The political correctness that permeates all contemporary shows is just plain offensive.  The silliness of other new programming makes Romper Room seem sophisticated.  Perhaps, most of all, it is the self-absorption of the endless stream of models, pretty boys, and celebrities that makes watching most television less interesting than watching paint dry on walls.

Obama’s Excremental Economics

  Bird-Brain Flu item by Thomas E. Brewton (5/14/08)

As prolongation of the 1930s Depression and stagflation in the 1970s demonstrated, Senator Obama’s announced policies are a prescription for economic disaster.

Monday, May 12, 2008

Slaves to the Welfare State

  Progressivism item by Thomas E. Brewton (5/12/08)

New Orleanians born and bred in the welfare-state seem honestly believe that they are not required to do anything to help themselves.

McCain and the La Raza card

  Republicrats item by Offsite (5/12/08)

The news this week that John McCain will attend the national convention of La Raza is beyond disturbing.

Saturday, May 10, 2008

‘McCain Talks Tough on Judges But Can He Be Trusted?’

  Elections item by Tom Fitton (5/10/08)

Senator John McCain gave a speech recently on the need to appoint judges that interpret laws rather than legislate from the bench. There was a lot to like about what he had to say on judicial activism. McCain said, “The moral authority of our judiciary depends on judicial self restraint,” and railed against the “systematic abuse” by judges who push their liberal agendas through judicial fiat. He also took issue with “Senate obstructionism” practiced by liberals who are blocking the president’s judicial nominees. The speech seems designed to help McCain firm up his conservative base.

Obama Agrees to PROTECT Union Corruption, not Eliminate it

  Elections item by Warner Todd Huston (5/10/08)

So, Barack Obama claims he is a reformer. He claims he wants to clean up Washington D.C. He acts as if he just wants the truth told to the people. Well, here is some truth. According to the Wall Street Journal(1) Barack has promised the Teamsters that if they give him their support he will kill the current Federal oversight agency that was created to root out union corruption in the workplace. 

Obama and Ahmadinejad: Trust But Don’t Verify

  Elections item by Aaron Goldstein (5/10/08)

Should Barack Obama be elected President of the United States this November then we can expect him to climb aboard Air Force One and fly to Tehran to initiate a conversation with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

CBS Slights Limbaugh any Credit for ‘Operation Chaos,’ Also Talk of Riots With Obama Loss

  MSM item by Warner Todd Huston (5/7/08)

It’s amusing how far some people will go not to give someone credit for something they have done especially if that deserving someone happens to be an ostensible political enemy. In this case we find CBS discussing Republican crossover voters in these primaries, the network newser telling us how crossovers will “skew primary results,” and then they tell us who is responsible for egging on these crossovers. Now, for those of you in the know, you’d automatically assume that CBS is talking about radio host Rush Limbaugh who has been carrying on his “operation chaos” program to encourage Republican voters to re-register as Dems to vote for Hillary, right?

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Communists, the Media, and the Democratic Party

  Demercrats item by Cliff Kincaid (5/6/08)

Tom Hayden, who cheered for a communist military victory in Vietnam, is calling attention to Senator Hillary Clinton’s old ties to communists. But Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein, formerly of the Washington Post, wonders if Hillary’s comments on Senator Barack Obama’s ties to communist terrorist Bill Ayers constitute McCarthyism.

Obama Hitches his Wagon to the Radical Feminist Agenda

  Femi-Nazis item by Carey Roberts (5/6/08)

Barack Obama has a habit of hanging out with flamethrowers who espouse radical causes. There’s Obama’s long-time associate, former Weatherman William Ayers, who once boasted, “I don’t regret setting bombs...I feel we didn’t do enough.”

Economic Equality: The Cancer that Killed Freedom

  Progressivism item by JB Williams (5/6/08)

For more than 200 years, America reigned as the worlds most productive, prosperous, powerful and generous nation on earth. Like all nations, America is nothing more or less than the sum of its people and their belief system.

Monday, May 5, 2008

I Still Don’t Believe Obama

  Elections item by Aaron Goldstein (5/5/08)

When the now infamous Reverend Jeremiah Wright video surfaced in March, I found myself unable to believe Barack Obama.  (1). I found it hard to believe that Barack Obama had never heard Reverend Wright utter a negative word about America.  I found it hard to believe that Barack Obama would title one of his autobiographies from one of Reverend Wright’s sermons and then not know what he actually preached.