Monthly Archives: May 2013

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Immigration Bill Mandates Biometric Information On All Adult Americans

Everyone should Tweet Marco Rubio and ask him what this is all about (Wired) The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system. Buried in the […]

CO2 Passes 400ppm, Global Climate Shrug Shoulders

Warmists have been anticipating CO2 hitting the CO2 mark with glee, much like they anticipated death milestones during the Iraq war (well, at least while Bush was president), and now they get their wish (NY Times) The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists […]

Strange: Most Media Spent Little Time On Benghazi Hearings

Well, you’ve already been treated to the E-trade baby and his shocked face, so I’ll spare you (MRC) Wednesday’s congressional hearings on the September 11 terrorists attacks in Benghazi provided a stark contrast between Fox News Channel and MSNBC. From the time the whistleblower testimony began at 11:36am through their conclusion after 5pm, FNC devoted […]

If All You See…

…are non CFLs using vast amounts of power causing the world to burn, you might just be a Warmist The blog of the day is Nice Deb, with a post on SEAL Team 6 families going after the government.

Why The New Star Trek Doesn’t Interest Me

You can call me a Trekkie. I grew up constantly watching repeats of the original Star Trek. I loved the Next Generation. Deep Space Nine. Voyager. Most of the movies, especially The Wrath Of Khan. I’ve moved on from reading the books, but, when they first started being published, I read them religiously, either buying […]

Obama’s Completely Separate OFA Still Trying “Climate Change” Campaign

Most polls typically find “climate change” to be low on the priority scale for Americans, with things like jobs, the economy, making government more efficient, and so many other issues taking precedence. If you’re just discussing real environmental issues, the care for the issue rises. Throw in “climate change”, it drops. So, of course the […]

Obama’s Wonderful DOE Green Programs Spent $26 Billion On Less Than 3,000 Jobs

Don’t worry, Obama’s cool with this, it’s Someone Else’s money, and he can always get more (Institute for Energy Research) Without much fanfare, the Department of Energy (DOE) recently updated the list of loan guarantee projects on its website. Unlike in 2008, when Barack Obama pledged to create 5 million jobs over 10 years by directing taxpayer […]

Gang Of 8 Throws GOP A Bone On NewShamnesty

This begs the question: if Conservatives have to be thrown a bone to attempt to get their support for the immigration reform bill, wouldn’t that mean that the bill is extremely Democrat friendly? This is starting to look more and more like Obamacare: have a couple of popular provisions, such as a 13 year waiting […]

Obama Pivots To Jobs Again, Goes To Texas, Learns Nothing

Question: what happens when a POTUS who is economically illiterate heads to a state that is doing much better than the United States as a whole? He asks how they’re doing it? Brother, you forget who’s (unfortunately) POTUS (Politico) President Barack Obama doesn’t have that much to show for the first four months of his […]

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