What’s The Difference Between “Bridgegate” And Obama’s IRS Scandal?

John Podhoretz discusses at the NY Post Why Bridgegate made headlines but Obama’s IRS scandal didn’t Most government scandals involve the manipulation of the system in obscure ways by people no one has ever heard of. That is why George Washington Bridgegate is nearly a perfect scandal – because it is comprehensible and (as they […]

 

Maryland Officials Knew A Year In Advance That Obamacare Website Was A Disaster

Say, I wonder whether the problems and negligence surrounding the Maryland Exchange website will be a national story, where media dig into just who knew and when they knew, and what Governor Martin O’Malley (D) knew, and publish breathless reports, where we see crazy op-eds about the end of his career. Or will this just […]

 

We’ve Become A Nation Of Weather Wimps Or Something

I’m not quite sure how this helps the “climate change” narrative, as hyper-Warmist Seth Borenstein pushes the cult (AP) We’ve become weather wimps. As the world warms, the United States is getting fewer bitter cold spells like the one that gripped much of the nation this week. So when a deep freeze strikes, scientists say, […]

 

Staff Of Sen. Mark Udall Applied Inappropriate Pressure Over Cancellation Notices

And Udall apparently knew about it. Fortunately, most of the media has applied a collective yawn over this abuse of power. Lane closures are more important cause Republican governor (Fox News) Democratic Colorado Sen. Mark Udall is under fire following reports that his staff pressured the Colorado Division of Insurance to walk back its claims […]

 

San Fransciso Warmists Want Warming Labels On Gas Pumps

Yes, I did intentionally type “warming”, not “warning” (San Fran Chronicle) Buy a pack of cigarettes, and a printed warning from the surgeon general will remind you that smoking causes cancer. Obviously, you’ve chosen to smoke anyway. But perhaps one day you’ll look at that message, printed on the pack, and resolve to change your […]

 

Is The Washington Post Suggesting Christie’s Firing Of Key Advisors Was A Bad Thing?

Here’s the headline of the article Firing of Stepien deprives Christie of a key counselor Like many of you, I’ve watched and been involved in politics for a long time. I’ve watched the media let their biases loose. It’s hard to pinpoint the exact time. Some say it was when Walter Cronkite declared the Vietnam […]

 

Conservative Group Tells Obama Comprehensive Immigration Bill Is An “Awful Idea”

The schizophrenic president, who bounces from subject to subject as of The Utmost Importance daily, is making a push to get the Senate’s comprehensive immigration reform, ie, a giant bill which most haven’t read and don’t understand and will make all sorts of unexpected changes, passed (Fox News) A group of House Republicans is rejecting […]

 

Unshockingly, Democrats Blame Big Business For Obamacare Rollout

I’d like to say this is a 100% idiotic attempt to deflect blame, but there are enough business haters out there for it to partly work (Politico) Democrats taking heat back home for Obamacare’s rocky online rollout say don’t blame them – blame Big Business. Facing an onslaught of constituent frustration over problems with online […]

 

NY Times: Polar Vortex Is Nothing New, But It’s Still A Sign Of Climate Change

Here’s award-winning Princeton University Physicist Dr. Will Happer “Polar vortices have been around forever. They have almost nothing to do with more CO2 in the atmosphere,” Happer said in an exclusive interview with Climate Depot. There’s “no evidence of any unusual or unprecedented changes in the latitude or speed of the North Atlantic jet stream […]

 

Chris Christie: You’re Cold-Hearted If You Don’t Support Helping Illegal Aliens

Remember, this is the guy who has a good shot at being the 2016 Republican presidential candidate, someone the GOP insiders, and liberal media, supports (CNN) Flanked by Hispanic leaders, students, and immigration reform advocates, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie celebrated the signing of his state’s so-called DREAM Act on Tuesday, hailing the new law […]

 

Good Grief: Cold Weather Events More Likely Cause “Climate Change”

These people are simply nuts (The Hill) Global warming may be contributing to the “polar vortex” causing frigid temperatures across most of the nation on Monday, according to some climate change researchers. While it seems counter-intuitive, the research argues that plunging temperatures could come from changes in the jet stream caused by climate change. Rutgers […]

 

Chicago’s Gun Sales Laws Struck Down As Unconstitutional

Finally, someone standing up for the Constitution and the people turned into unarmed victims thanks to Chicago’s gun-grabbing liberal politicians (Fox News) A federal judge on Monday overturned Chicago’s ban on the sale and transfer of firearms, ruling that the city’s ordinances aimed at reducing gun violence are unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Edmond E. Chang […]

 

Polar Vortex Blamed On, You Guessed It, Climate Change

Is it ironic that this article is written by Dr. Susan Brooks Thislethwaite, Professor of Theology, Chicago Theological Seminary, and appears in the Huffington Post religion section? It’s certainly spew on your monitor funny Cold as Hell: The Chilling Effect of Global Warming Hell is normally depicted as a “lake of fire,” as in Revelation […]

 

Senator Ron Johnson To Sue Obama Admin Over Congressional Exemption

We can quibble to our heart’s content over the word “exemption”, but at the end of the day the Office of Personnel Management decision violates the text of the law (Wall Street Journal) On Monday, Jan. 6, I am filing suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin to make Congress […]

 

Obama’s Post-American Smart Power Leads To Middle East Power Vacuum

Unsurprisingly, this has led to an even stronger Islamist movement and a more open spread of the Islamists (It’s been a while since Islamists has been defined. The term covers the hardcores, those who are interested in jihad, in forcefully spreading a hardcore version of Islam, in Sharia law. And before any liberal claims “Islamaphobia!!!! […]

 

Al Qaeda Captures Fallujah, Proclaims It An Islamic State

It’s a good thing “Bin Laden is dead and Al Qaeda is on the run“. Otherwise I’d be worried about the spread of Islamists and al Qaeda specifically (Washington Post) A rejuvenated al-Qaeda-affiliated force asserted control over the western Iraqi city of Fallujah on Friday, raising its flag over government buildings and declaring an Islamic […]

 

Bundle Up: Record Breaking Global Warming Cold On The Way

Following on the heels of 1,000 new cold records set around Thanksgiving, and 2,000 cold and snow records during the early part of December, and yet another big snowstorm hitting the North East, and a big blast of cold on Thursday through Friday, well, “climate change” will do its thing again, all because you, yes, […]

 

Bummer: Antarctica Rescuers Having Trouble With All That Globull Warming Ice

Yesterday, Anthony Watts noted that the Australian ship, Aurora Australis, was having lots and lots of trouble with all that climate change ice, and had slowed to a crawl, with no open water in sight. Well, there’s a problem with the Chinese vessel, too (Fox News) An Australian icebreaker carrying 52 passengers who were retrieved […]

 

First Spike In Use Of Obamacare Expected Next Week

And here’s where the 1971 Ford Pinto meets the road (The Hill) The number of people seeking to use their new ObamaCare coverage for the first time is expected to spike next week. Representatives from healthcare companies, trade groups, and the Obama administration told The Hill that many who obtained new coverage under the law […]

 

White House: We’ll Decide Whether Someone Is Hurt By Contraception Mandate

No, really (Politico) The Obama administration Wednesday said the Affordable Care Act contraceptive coverage regulations are fair — and they don’t really hurt the Denver-based religious organization that got a temporary New Year’s Eve reprieve from Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. “We defer to the Department of Justice on litigation matters, but remain confident that […]

 

Here We Go: Another Climatologist Prognosticates That World Will Warm Faster Than Feared

You do have to admire the stick-to-it-ness of Warmists, who are more dogmatic than followers of Charles Manson and Jim Jones, Heaven’s Gate Church or Westboro Baptist nuts (Telegraph) As the planet marked its fourth hottest year on record, a study published in the journal Nature found increasing levels of carbon dioxide will lead to […]

 

2014: Annual New Year’s Prediction Challenge For Climate Alarmists

Happy New Year’s! Welcome to 2014, and the 4th year of my prediction challenge, which virtually no Warmists will take. And one year closer to End Of Life As We Know it. 2150 and 2200 are fast approaching, the primary dates that the climate alarmists always want to use to denote when Earth is going […]

 

Happy New Year! Obamacare’s Only Going To Get Worse

HHS Head Kathleen Sebelius thinks it’s going to be a great year for the “Affordable” Care Act….because she kinda has to (Fox News) Sebelius acknowledged there could continue to be hiccups going into 2014. “There always are,” she said. “People change plans every year.” But she predicted a relatively smooth transition and said she doesn’t […]

 

What Say To A Dip In The Frigid Atlantic To “Fight Climate Change”?

Why yes, yes, these people are bat guano insane (WCSH) Mainers are jumping into the frigid ocean to raise money to support the state’s largest environmental advocacy group’s fight against climate change. The Natural Resources Council of Maine is holding a 5-kilometer race on Tuesday at 11 a.m., followed by a cold-water ocean plunge at […]

 

Good News: NSA Bugs Your iPhone

Is there anything domestically that the NSA isn’t bugging, other than carrier pigeons? Maybe the NSA is just into selfies? (Zero Hedge) Following up on the latest stunning revelations released yesterday by German Spiegel which exposed the spy agency’s 50 page catalog of “backdoor penetration techniques“, today during a speech given by Jacob Applebaum (@ioerror) […]

 

“Climate Change” In Numbers: Doom Is Right Around The Corner Or Something

Salon’s Lindsay Abrams puts together an interesting list that is supposed to Prove Climate Change or something, and we’re all supposed to deduce that it is the fault of Mankind (probably you, dear reader, for refusing to use LED lights for your Christmas displays and not using carbon neutral present wrapping) and that Doom is […]

 

EJ Dionne: Obama’s 2013 Wasn’t That Bad, Ya Know!

He thinks 2011 was worse 2013 wasn’t as bad as you might think “Has this been the worst year of your presidency?” It was a heck of a way for President Obama to wrap up 2013. In asking the question at the president’s year-end news conference, Julie Pace of the Associated Press captured several things […]

 

Obamacare Supporters Really Psyched Over 1 Million Picking A Plan

And by Obamacare supporters, I mean the Major Media, who are thrilled with an Associated Press report (Washington Post) A December surge propelled health care sign-ups through the government’s rehabilitated website past the 1 million mark, the Obama administration said Sunday, reflecting new signs of life for the problem-plagued federal insurance exchange. Of the more […]

 

Team Obama Refuses To Allow Small Road Through Wildlife Refuge

A road that would give people access to medical care (via The Lonely Conservative) (CNS News) Environmental priorities have trumped the medical concerns of a small Alaskan community. After four years of study, the Obama administration has decided on that the isolated community of King Cove, Alaska may not build a 22-mile, single-lane gravel road […]

 

Obamacare Contraception Mandate Loses In Federal Court

Why? Because it’s “in the public interest” to follow the Constitution (Daily Caller) A federal district court judge in Houston ruled Friday in favor of two Baptist universities seeking relief from the Obamacare contraception mandate. “The religious organization plaintiffs have shown a sincerely held religious belief that the court cannot second-guess,” reads the decision handed […]