June 22, 2012 – 9:05 am
Let me be clear: I mostly support Obama’s use of drone strikes against Islamist terrorists around the world. It’s one of the few things on which I agree with him. Actually, it’s more like agreeing with Joe Biden, who recommended using more strikes and less troops in regards to the surge in Afghanistan. The United […]
April 21, 2012 – 11:08 am
I’d forgotten about this story, which I saw a few days ago at a different news outlet, till I was perusing the blogroll, and saw it over at the Lonely Conservative (Fox News) The upcoming United Nations environmental conference on sustainable development will consider  a breathtaking array of carbon taxes, transfers of trillions of dollars […]
April 5, 2012 – 4:39 pm
As usual, Obama has been a bit too preoccupied with stuff, like golf, vacations, campaigning, impugning the Supreme Court, campaigning, to do the job he voluntarily ran for (Politico) Faced with the prospect of United Nations regulation of the Internet, the United States has yet to appoint a leader for an upcoming battle with other […]
March 15, 2012 – 8:29 am
Yeah, too bad they have no legal jurisdiction over the United States, but, it makes for nice theater (Fox News) The controversy over requiring voters to provide photo IDs has reached the world stage. The United Nations Human Rights Council is investigating the issue of American election laws at its gathering on minority rights in […]
February 4, 2012 – 8:30 am
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 […]
January 30, 2012 – 7:29 am
Sustainability was one of the ideas the United Nations and the extreme environmentals and Warmists ran up the flag pole about a year and a half ago as a way of replacing what they had been attempting to do with “climate change,” namely, put massive amounts of control over people and private businesses, economies, along […]
December 11, 2011 – 8:17 am
So, the official part of COP17 in Durban, S.A., is over, and the delegates are taking fossil fueled flights (in lots of private planes) home. What did they accomplish? Basically, they kicked the can down the road (AP) A U.N. climate conference reached a hard-fought agreement Sunday on a far-reaching program meant to set a […]
November 3, 2011 – 9:00 am
Yet another breathless report from the United Nations (which is going to be holding it’s latest conference in the lovely vacation spot of Durban, S.A., at the end of the month, of which Anthony Watts writes “I’m not sure what it celebrates, perhaps they are celebrating being given prepaid tickets and receiving a salary plus […]
October 17, 2011 – 8:18 am
Some very interesting, and disturbing, information from the Competitive Enterprise Institution’s Christopher Horner, via Watts Up With That? Although this is seedy and unlawful at any time, it also goes in the ‘bad timing’ file. Or it’s good timing, depending on one’s perspective. Just as a brand new book further exposes the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel […]
October 6, 2011 – 8:47 am
Obviously, Democrats have a problem with this (CNS News) U.S. House Republicans fired another shot across the bow of the United Nations Wednesday, advancing a bill to defund a U.N. agency accused of complicity in China’s coercive population control policies. By a 23-17 vote along party lines, the House Foreign Relations Committee approved a bill, […]
