Why Taxing Health Care Plans Is A Bad Idea

And interesting report, found via the DU. Even Physicians For A National Health Program think taxing “Cadillac Plans” is a bad idea The health reform bill which passed the Senate in December would impose a 40 percent excise tax on health insurance plans with premiums above $23,000 a year for families and $8,500 for individuals. […]

 


Britain Bans Islamist Groups, Finally Catching A Clue?

For years, Britain has allowed an ever growing population of Muslims, including illegals, who tend to gravitate to radical Islam. Britain has tolerated these radical Muslims, has tolerated those who believe in jihad, terrorism, a worldwide caliphate, and so on. Maybe they are catching a clue that tolerance is not always a good thing The […]

 

Prop 8’s Day In Federal Court Starts Today

I usually avoid discussion of certain issues, such as gay marriage, because they are not really hot button issues with me. Furthermore, while, if pressed, I do not support gay marriage, I do support civil unions, and, this being America, where freedom should reign supreme, and, with a Classical Liberal doctrine of “if it doesn’t […]

 

Is A Mini Ice Age Coming? Plus, Who’s A Climate Scientist?

Frozen food for thought: The mini ice age starts here The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists. Their predictions — based on an […]

 

McDonalds Is Not Loving The Cow Flatulence In Britain

Your Mom asks if everyone else was jumping off the AGW bridge, would you? Apparently, McDonalds answer is a resounding “yes”. Headline McDonald’s seeks to cut cows’ methane emissions Three-year study by burger giant aims to reduce pollution from flatulent livestock So now methane, a natural gas produced, in this case, inside one of God’s […]

 

Judge Tosses Most Evidence Against Gitmo Jihadi Inmate

This is what happens when you take Islamic terrorists caught and questioned on the battlefield and put them into the U.S. justice system instead of military tribunals (or just hold the scumbags till the end of the conflict) A federal judge has tossed out most of the government’s evidence against a tarrorism detainee on grounds […]

 

AGW Today: Everything’s Freezing, But, Where’s The Data?

So, what do we have going on with “climate change?” Cold Iguanas Free-Fall From Trees: Iguanas Go Into Hibernation State In Cold Weather Scotland – Livestock being frozen to death in their thousands Manatee deaths hit record numbers “in part, to cold stress during the winter months of 2008 and 2009.” Cold temperatures impact Florida […]

 

Obama Declares War On Al Qaeda, Continues To Try Terrorists In Civilian Court

Even though Barry is just attempting to look tough, engaged, and in charge, he is mostly just covering his posterior with all his press conferences and speeches. I will give him points, though, as painful as that is, for at least defending himself. One of the things that drove Conservatives nuts during the Bush years […]

 

Climate Alarmists Trotting Out “Experts” To Prop Up Their Failed Science In View Of Gripping Cold

There couldn’t possibly be some collusion going on, could there? MSNBC: Experts: Despite cold snap, earth still warming. Scientists not connecting recent blast of cold weather to climate change ABC News: Experts: Cold Snap Doesn’t Disprove Global Warming. Climate experts say the extreme cold around the world doesn’t disprove global warming The Telegraph: Cold weather […]

 

Terrorists ‘Sploding All Over The Place, Plus Other B+ Fail

No, no, Achmed, you must keep the speed above 50 or we’ll…. ka=boom! Kabul, Afghanistan – Fourteen suspected terrorists died Tuesday night when the bus they rigged with explosives blew up prematurely, police said. The explosion occurred as the suspects were riding the bus in the province of Kunduz, said police chief Abdul Raziq Yaqobi. […]

 

David Price (D-NC): Passing ObamaCare Easier If We Restrict You Morons From Seeing Our Deliberations

OK, that is not exactly what he said, but, if we apply Politicianonics to it, that is what he means There is talk about opening up the House and Senate negotiations on the health care proposal to public hearings. C-SPAN is pushing to broadcast those conferences over its network. Not all legislators like the idea. […]

 


Dems Look To Finalize Health Bill In Secret

Shocking, eh? Democratic leaders are looking to forgo a formal, public conference to merge the House and Senate’s health care overhaul bills, giving Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the White House free rein to hammer out the final measure behind closed doors and thwart Republican efforts to stymie it. Not […]

 

How Cold Will It Be? Think Antarctica

I wonder what the climate alarmist talking points will be about this Friday’s forecast low at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, near where Robert Scott launched his fatal expedition to the South Pole in 1911, is 21 degrees. It will probably be colder in Houston. Forecasters say Houston should see its coldest weather in more than […]

 

AGW Today: Cold Is Destroying A Peruvian Tribe. Can You Guess What Is To Blame?

The Guardian’s header Peru’s mountain people face fight for survival in a bitter winter Climate change is bringing freezing temperatures to poor villages where families have long existed on the margins of survival. Now some must choose whether to save the animals that give them a living, or their children Seriously? For alpaca farmer Ignacio […]

 

Effigy Of Obama Hung In Jimmy Carter’s Hometown

I’m waiting for the Typical Liberal “Blame The Right” Fest to start (BBC, which also has video) The US Secret Service says it is investigating after an effigy of Barack Obama was found hanging in the home town of former President Jimmy Carter. TV footage showed the doll hanging by a noose in front of […]

 



AGW Today: No Rise In Atmospheric CO2 In 160 Years

Oh, my, this is going to leave a mark Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere. What? You mean Mother Nature can do […]

 

13 State Attorneys Threaten Lawsuit Over ObamaCare

The question is, is this something they will actually do, and, why are they doing it now? Republican attorneys general in 13 states say congressional leaders must remove Nebraska’s political deal from the federal health care overhaul bill or face legal action, according to a letter provided to The Associated Press Wednesday. “We believe this […]

 

Limbaugh Hospitalized, Left Hopes For His Death

The story: Conservative radio talk host Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu hospital on Wednesday afternoon with chest pains, sources told KITV. Paramedics responded to the call at 2:41 p.m. at the Kahala Hotel and Resort. Paramedics treated him and took him to Queen’s Medical Center in serious condition. He will not be released […]

 

AGW Today: Only Significant In 10-20% Of The World

Uh oh, alarmists. What do you make of this? (via C3) The Hadley Climatic Research Unit (CRU) provides data to the IPCC. They process temperature station data into adjusted averages for 5×5 degree grids covering the world. In November 2009, CRU had various emails hacked and released. A CRU email from Phil Jones to Michael […]

 

Aww, How Cute. The Politico Attempts To Provide Cover For Obama Over Terrorist Attack

We all know that the majority of the people who work in the media are to the Left, but, usually, they craft their prostitution on either the opinion pages, or a little more subtely. But not Josh Gerstein at The Politico, who spreads his legs, showing that the Politico is truly embracing the worlds oldest […]

 

San Francisco Chronicle Wrings Hands Over Backscatter Imagers At Airports

I have a novel idea for those liberal pantywaist bedwetting hand wringers who are worried about invasive measures designed to protect flyers: don’t fly As the federal government begins an inside-out review of airport security after a passenger allegedly sneaked explosives onto a plane last week, attention is turning to a growing debate over a […]

 

Voting Rights Chief In Black Panthers Case Transferred Out Of D.C.

I’m sure the transfer was just routine, and had nothing to do with the case, and this was not about retaliation, right? Right? RIGHT? The veteran Justice Department voting rights section chief who recommended going forward on a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party after they disrupted a Pennsylvania polling place […]

 

AGW Today: Students Say “How ‘Bout Some Balance?”

A student in New York has had enough of the one sided climate alarmism A Rhinebeck High School sophomore is urging the school district to require alternative views be presented by teachers on controversial topics like climate change. Michelle Dewkett said the global warming documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” was being shown in science and English […]

 

cBS News: Presidential Vacations Are Hard!

I bet you didn’t know that presidential vacations are actually interrupted by the news, and having to make decisions and listen to briefings. I know I sure didn’t know that from January 2001 through January 19th, 2009, because the State Run Media never told me. Headline: News Interrupts Obama’s Hawaii Vacation. No, seriously. I’m actually […]

 

Here Come New TSA Restrictions, Yet, They Still Miss The #1 Stopper Of Airline Terrorism

Aren’t you thrilled? In the wake of the terrorism attempt Friday on a Northwest Airlines flight, federal officials on Saturday imposed new restrictions on travelers that could lengthen lines at airports and limit the ability of international passengers to move about an airplane. The government was vague about the steps it was taking, saying that […]

 

Fish Wrap: Debate Shows Obama’s Pretty Much Politics As Usual

The NY Times attempts to pretty much tell us, oh so gently, that Hope-n-change was pretty much all mule fritters, and Obama is nothing more than a typical inside the beltway politician. Were Obama a Republican, the Times would excoriate him for having run as a transformational figure who would do away with all the […]