
Senator Kit Bond Calls For Hearings On Truther Van Jones
Things just keep getting worse and worse for Twoofer Van Jones U.S. Senator Kit Bond, ranking member of the Green Jobs and the New Economy Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today called for a Congressional oversight hearing probing the fitness of a senior White House official. In a letter to Senator Bernie Sanders, Chairman of...
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Two Huge Stem Cell Trials Are In The Works. Guess Which Type
This is some pretty good news Osiris Therapeutics Inc, which is developing a drug to treat a rare condition that affects bone marrow transplant patients, is poised to unveil results from a late-stage trial that could pave the way for the first approved drug in that indication and instill investor confidence in the company. GvHD is a potentially fatal disease...
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Cass Sunstein, Obama's Dr. Frankenstein
Is there any limit to the nutballs in the Obama administration? We have many tax cheats. We have a Truther. We have race baiters and people who push euthenasia. Plain racists. Climahysterics. Militant envirowackos. And all sorts of other wackos. Now we get Cass Sunstein, President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), has...
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UN's Ban Ki-moon Goes Chicken Little Yet Again
Apparently, Ban Ki-moon isn't reading what his own IPCC scientists have been writing as of late. In his world EVERYBODY PANIC! U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Thursday for swifter work on a new climate treaty to fend off what he said could be economic disaster with a surge in sea levels of up to 2 meters (6.5 ft) by...
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Steny Hoyer: "There's No Way I Can Vote For This Craptacular Health Bill"
Of course, he didn't actually say that, but, that is the meaning A participant at the town hall meeting that was held in Waldorf, Md., asked Hoyer if he believed the health care bill would cause a "tax increase or an increase to the deficit?" "Neither," Hoyer replied. "The fact of the matter is, though," he added, a moment later,...
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AGW Today: Wildfires And Blackouts And Wartime, Oh My!
You could also substitute "moonbat" for wildfires, if you want It was bound to happen. That is, someone was due to blame the catastrophic wildfires in California on global warming. Rep. Linda Sanchez, the Democratic congresswoman from California's 39th Congressional District, appeared on MSNBC's Sept. 1 "Andrea Mitchell Reports" and did just that. She told the show's fill-in host Tamron...
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White House Has Plan To Data Mine Social Networks
Ah, remember the good old days, when people on the Left flipped out and lied about a program to monitor communications from overseas to known and suspected Islamic terrorists without a warrant? Remember when the left pitched hissy fits over the the Bush administration gathering information about phone call patterns from the telecoms, which included simply names? Remember when they...
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John Kerry: Climate Change Is The Next 9/11
After flirting with Barking Moonbat status since losing the 2004 presidential election, Waffles Kerry has officially joined the club John Kerry has written an op-ed for the Huffington Post comparing the inaction in response to a heating planet to the inaction of President Bush before September 11th. Kerry reaches deep into the bag of global warming hysterics to uncork this...
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Patriotic Haters: Nancy Pelosi, Glenn Greenwald, And Joe Klein
The first two are definitely not a surprise, eh? Let' start with Madame Pinch Face If you've ever been stuck on hold with a congressional office in the past, at least you've been able to enjoy some good patriotic music, as opposed to the lilting tones of generic smooth jazz that have been driving elevator users insane for decades. For...
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Is Prostate Cancer Screening Going Overboard?
That's the question that ABC News, as well as others, are asking, after a new report has come out Routine screening for prostate cancer has resulted in more than 1 million U.S. men being diagnosed with tumors who might otherwise have suffered no ill effects from them, U.S. researchers said on Monday. They said prostate cancer screening is a double-edged...
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Sierra Club Pitches Hissy Fit At US Chamber Of Commerce Over Climate Trial
The Chamber has the Sierra Club running like the little Nancy girls all liberals are with their Climate Trial idea. The Sierra Club now has a petition calling for companies to resign their memberships in the Chamber if they do not drop the idea. This is the letter that will be sent (well, email, probably) to Chamber members as with...
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Jim DeMint Fires Up The Base, And Annoys NY Times Liberals
If the NY Times keeps up these kinds of stories about Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), they will turn him into a star in the Republican Party: Fighting Health Care Overhaul, and Proud of It Senator Jim DeMint, the South Carolina Republican who predicted that President Obama's effort to overhaul the health care system would become his "Waterloo," is doing his...
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CIA Morale At Minus 50
It's a shame that the Washington Post doesn't say what pages of the print version their Internet article appear on, as the NY Times does, because this is rather important information, which was listed at the bottom of the Internet front page under "other news" Morale has sagged at the CIA following the release of additional portions of an inspector...
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Climahysterics Scared Silly Over Chamber Trial Challenge
You know what happens when anyone challenges one of the religious doctrines of the Left? If you guessed "reasoned debate," well, then, you buy me the tequila Global warming deniers seem to be in the same camp as so-called birthers (crazies who believe conspiracy theories that President Obama isn't a US citizen). Both groups believe that there is some vast,...
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Betsy Markey Tells The Truth In Front Of Large Astroturf Audience
I bet Betsy got a few ugly calls from folks like Nancy Pelosi and Rom Emanuel after this little bit of "woops, I told the truth" Some people, including Medicare recipients, will have to give up some current benefits to truly reform the nation's health-care system, Rep. Betsy Markey told a gathering of constituents in Fort Collins on Wednesday. Markey...
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Surprise! There's A Cash For Clunkers Tax
Today's theme is brought to you by the word "consequences." When dealing with Democrats/liberals/progressives, there are always consequences, the majority of which were never considered when calling for and/or implementing legislation/plans. Another case in point (h/t Blogs For Victory) The Cash For Clunkers program is adding to the activity at treasurers' offices all around South Dakota. First, people were asking...
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In The Fight Against AGW, There Are Always Consequences
Simply shocking that there would be consequences, eh? More forests, deserts and grasslands in the U.S. will be used to produce energy under a proposal to cap greenhouse gases, an unintended consequence of efforts to fight global warming, according to a Nature Conservancy report. A bill that boosts energy from wind turbines and biofuels will increase the amount of land...
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Liberals Already Using Senator Kennedy's Passing For Their Agenda
Senator Kennedy has passed on Sen. Ted Kennedy died shortly before midnight Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 77. The man known as the "liberal lion of the Senate" had fought a more than year-long battle with brain cancer, and according to his son had lived longer with the disease than his doctors expected him to....
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US Chamber Of Commerce: Put AGW On Trial. Also, No Nudes!
I guess the science isn't settled The nation's largest business lobby wants to put the science of global warming on trial. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, trying to ward off potentially sweeping federal emissions regulations, is pushing the Environmental Protection Agency to hold a rare public hearing on the scientific evidence for man-made climate change. Chamber officials say it would...
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Peter King Wonders Which Side The Obama Admin Is On
Quite frankly, it would have been nice to see some of this same talk while Bush was President and the Left, included the elected Congress Critters, were going pure, utter barking moonbat A "furious" Rep. Peter King, the hawkish, maverick Long Island Republican, blasted a "disgraceful" Eric Holder for opening an investigation of CIA interrogators and chided his own party...
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Glenn Beck Exposes Obama Advisor Van Jones
Unsurprisingly, some folks have a problem with this, such as the LA Times Glenn Beck used his popular Fox News show this afternoon to attack the background of Van Jones, a White House environmental advisor who co-founded an African American political advocacy group that organized an advertising boycott of his program. During his 2 p.m. PDT show, Beck did not...
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Southern Governors Ask About ObamaCare Costs, Enter Underwear Gnome Episode
What does it say about a United States President and his administration that the best explanation for their ideas and plans can be explained by watching the South Park underwear gnome episode? Well, nothing good. Case in point Governors from across the South told President Barack Obama's health care reform czar Monday they need to know what the program will...
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Next Envirowacko Scare Threat - Reduction Of Oxygen
And, guess who is at fault? New research shows oxygen depletion in the atmosphere has been accelerating since 2003, coinciding with the biofuels boom. Yup, Mankind. The Institute of Science in Society (SiS) which published the research says that climate policies that focus exclusively on carbon sequestration could be disastrous for all oxygen-breathing organisms including humans. Sadly, action to tackle...
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Justice Dept. Recommends Prosecuting CIA Employees
Not shocking in the least. The hard left progressives have been foaming at the mouth to investigate and prosecute CIA employees, along with Bush and people from his administration, of course. So, what are we now getting from the same Justice Dept. that decided to drop a slam dunk case against members of the New Black Panthers? We get more...
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Obama Advises Astroturf Brigade To Get Out There For ObamaCare
Racists. Fascists. Nazis. Mobs. Manufactured outrage. Dupes of Big Pharma. Completely fake. Astroturfed. Just a few of the words used against the people who are out there protesting against government run health system overhaul. Yet..... The outcome of the health-care debate weighed partially on Bird's success (Jeremy Bird is deputy director of OFA), and on the effectiveness of Organizing for...
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