Daily Archives: February 4, 2012

The One Book You Should Read: An Act Of Self Defense

If you’ve been reading my site for long, you know I do not really do book reviews. The entire category for Books is only 24 posts long, and most aren’t actually reviews of books I’ve read. And I read a lot. I average 1-2 books a week, and, yes, mostly fiction. Primarily science fiction and […]

Useful Idiots Launch Anti-Iran War Protests

I guess we could term this a pre-protest, since President Bush, er, Obama, isn’t even at the stage of threatening war against Iran (WTVD Raleigh) Rising tensions with Iran spawned anti-war protests in the Triangle. About two dozen protesters gathered outside the federal courthouse in downtown Raleigh Friday. The protesters in Raleigh joined people in […]

If All You See…

…is an island that will tip over from a trace gas, you might just be a Warmist

Santorum 45-Obama 44, Obama Approval At 20% With Undecideds

This should make R.S. McCain pretty happy (via Hot Air) (Rasmussen) The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 26% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14 […]

Excitable Andy Revkin And NY Times: You Tea Partiers See UN Black Helicopters In Green Projects

It’s like all you Tea Partying climate realists are conspiracy nuts or something (via Tom Nelson) Said story: Activists Fight Green Projects, Seeing U.N. Plot Across the country, activists with ties to the Tea Party are railing against all sorts of local and state efforts to control sprawl and conserve energy. They brand government action […]

Surprise! Harry Reid, Democrats, Say No To Any 2012 Or 2013 Budget Bill

This is getting rather repetitive (Washington Examiner) “Let’s see it,” a frustrated Sen. Jeff Sessions said on the Senate floor Monday afternoon.  “Let’s bring it forward.” By “it,” Sessions meant a Democratic proposal for a 2012 federal budget. In recent days Sessions, the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, has been asking, pushing, pleading, […]

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