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Even his allies feel let down by the president’s lack of progress both in Asia and at home. even one previously friendly newspaper noted dismissively: “Obama goes to China, brings home a T-shirt.” Nor was the steady decline in the president’s approval ratings ... The real problem may be Obama’s friends — or rather, those among his formerly most enthusiastic supporters who are now having second thoughts. The doubters are suddenly stretching across a broad section of the Democratic party’s natural constituency. ... anti-war liberals depressed by the debate over troops for Afghanistan; and growing numbers of blue-collar workers who...

An environmental group is seeking to stop three logging projects on several thousand acres in northwest Montana, arguing that the timber sales would harm the area's fledgling grizzly bear population. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed a federal lawsuit Monday to block the projects in the Kootenai National Forest, which are designed in part to reduce fire danger and provide commercial logging opportunities.

When Rupert Dickinson, the chief executive of one of Britain's biggest property firms, left his BlackBerry behind in London while on a business trip to Ireland, he simply ordered one of his staff to get on a plane and deliver the device to him. For Dickinson's then head of sustainability, Tim Nicholson, the errand was much more than an executive indulgence: it embodied the contempt with which his boss treated his deep philosophical beliefs about climate change. In a significant decision today , a judge found Nicholson's views on the environment were so deeply held that they were entitled to...

This is a new short Finnish documentary about the climate change scam. It is worth watching, every minute of it. The movie is exposing the intricate web of deception based on political, material and power grab interests which created the greatest scam in the entire history of the humankind. See how global warming scientists are behaving like con-men and distort, misinterpret and fake temperature records in order to keep their government research grants and their nice six figures incomes coming. See how these scientist-scam artists are refusing to provide the raw data they used to create the famous "hockey stick"...

A neighbor's complaint has one lifelong hunter shaking his head after the police spoke with him about a deer hanging from a tree in his front lawn in Bow. Every year since he was 13, Henry Ladd Sr. has hunted deer, moose, bear and whatever else the forest provides. And each year, like clockwork, Ladd has hung the catch in front of his home, where it was gutted and drained of blood before the meat was cut.

Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care. The news media swoons in admiration. The public is likewise smitten, except for a few patriots who circulate disturbing rumors on the Internet about the leader's origins and intentions. The leader, undismayed, offers assurances that are soothing, if also just a tiny bit condescending: "Embracing change is never easy." So, does that sound like anyone...

No description needed. I bet a whole bunch of people who voted for Obama are thinking "I sure the hell hope I'm not just left with change after Obama's done with me." The hopium is wearing off and like a really bad hangover, waking up is often a very unpleasant but sobering process. Only crazy idiots continue to get hammered and keep going through this self-induced punishment and somehow expect 'next time it'll be different.' It won't. Wake up. Sober up. Don't be stupid like this again. We're taking back the country in 2010. "NY23!" It starts here! This is...

The tale of the turbulent year since Barack Obama's historic election win is told by his evolving political theme: once he promised "Change We Can Believe In" and now he warns that "change is hard". On November 4, 2008, Obama bathed in the adoration of a crowd of tens of thousands in a Chicago park, after beating Republican John McCain to the presidency in an election that promised to reshape his nation. They chanted "Yes we can" on that clear hope-filled night in Obama's hometown, and tears streamed down thousands of cheeks as the president-elect proclaimed America was still a...

U.S. Sen. John McCain said Friday that Americans are in the toughest times he can remember and that President Barack Obama hasn't brought the change in Washington that he promised. The Arizona Republican spoke at a town hall Friday to a couple hundred people at Mesa's Central Christian Church, reiterating many of the same arguments he's made in recent similar events. McCain took to the stage with standing ovations and an aim to address key issues affecting Arizonans, such as the economy, health care reform, the war in Afghanistan, among other things.

An amazing piece of Street Theatre has been planned for this year's Village Halloween Parade... and all you patriotic New Yorkers are invited to participate -- as zombie followers of Obama! This is a follow-up to last year's successful skit, "Zombies for Obama," led again by artistic director Reynolds Butler. Parading up Sixth Avenue this October 31 will be a group of Obama-worshiping zombies, chanting "Hope... Change... Hope... Change..." and led by an outrageous and wonderfully offensive Barack Obama. You can participate in several ways: •March as a zombie follower of Obama •Blog about the event to increase publicity •Videotape...

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"Climate Change" is good. It brings the 4 seasons. "Global Warming" gave us the nothern states and Canada. Now the FACTS are, the Climate has been in a cooling cycle for 12 years now. Here in central California at 7:45 A.M. this morning the air temperature was 5 degrees above freezing or 37 F. Carbon tax that morons.

The divide grows deeper every day, both sides seething with contempt and even hatred for the other side. No good can come from this. In my more benevolent moods, I sometimes find myself seeking a more radical approach to coping with the next 3+ years. I offer these suggestions, which I myself have decided to try: Pray for Obama. Pray--not only that he will not carry out his socialist agenda, but that he will do the right thing. Pray that he will not only do the right thing, but that he will be an extraordinarily good president. Pray that he...

Last week, climate skeptic Lord Christopher Monckton spoke to an audience of over 700 in St. Paul. The event also featured the national premiere of a new documentary from the Cascade Policy Institute titled “Climate Chains.” The source link will take you to the Youtue video of his presentation at Bethel and it has been updated with the slides he references. This is an amazing speech! Pass it around to all your freinds family and schools! The movie that preceded his speech, Climate Chains was just released here: ClimateChains.com Information on the treaty that Lord Christopher Monckton is referencing can...

While exiting the Constitutional Convention, Ben Franklin was asked by a bystander, “What have you given us, a republic or a monarchy?” His answer: “A republic, madam, if you can keep it.” This year the celebration of America’s independence comes at a time when we are in danger of failing to keep that Republic. The continued troubles of auto makers, insurers, and banks in the wake of bailouts shows that throwing money at noncompetitive companies, choked with bad debt and overburdened by labor contracts, is not the answer. What our leaders have done, in the guise of economic stewardship, is...

WASHINGTON — With the clock running out and deep differences unresolved, it now appears that there is little chance that international climate change negotiations in Copenhagen in December will produce a comprehensive and binding new treaty on global warming. The United States and many other major pollutant-emitting countries have concluded that it is more useful to take incremental but important steps toward a global agreement rather than to try to jam through a treaty that is either too weak to address the problem or too onerous to be ratified and enforced. Instead, representatives at the Copenhagen meeting are likely to...

The Report by Ari Bussel “What many could not understand was how an army which even some German generals considered the strongest in Europe could be defeated so quickly and easily. So staggering were the losses – 90,000 dead, 200,000 wounded, more than one and a half million taken prisoner – …” This is the story of France in 1939 (as told by Don & Petie Kladstrup in 2002). “The most important arena where we need to act … is in the arena of public opinion, which is crucial in the democratic world. We must continue to debunk this lie...

These are my notes for Climate Change Justice from the Georgetown Law Journal and written by Eric A. Posner and Obama's Regulatory czar Cass R. Sunstein. I tweeted them on Twitter, so they are in abbreviated form. Sunstein: p1 Intro: US must reduce production of greenhouse gasses cuz we are a wealthy nation & other nations are poor Sunstein: p1 Intro: "Corrective justice"= existing “stock” of greenhouse gas is from past actions of the US. Thus, US should reduce it. Sunstein: p1567 para 2: w/ their emissions, US & China committing tortious acts against other nations & regions Sunstein: p1567...

"Shepard Fairey has now been forced to admit that he sued the AP under false pretenses by lying about which AP photograph he used to make the Hope and Progress posters," Kasi said. "Mr. Fairey has also now admitted to the AP that he fabricated and attempted to destroy other evidence in an effort to bolster his fair use case and cover up his previous lies and omissions." Kasi said the AP would continue to "vigorously pursue its countersuit alleging that Fairey willfully infringed the AP's copyright in the close-up photo of then-Sen. Obama."

In what may be the ultimate job rating, 43 percent of voters say that they would vote to re-elect President Obama if the 2012 election were held today, down from 52 percent six months ago, from April 22-23, 2009. Obama's job approval rating comes in at 49 percent this week. That's down just one percentage point from late September, but it marks a new low approval for the president -- and the first time the Fox News poll has measured his approval below 50 percent.

Senate committee winds up health-care debateThe Finance Committee, the last congressional panel to consider a reform bill, plans to vote next week. October 2, 2009: 7:49 AM ET WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Senate Finance Committee completed debate on proposed health-care legislation early Friday. The Finance Committee was the last congressional panel to consider a health-care reform bill. It finished its work at 2:18 a.m. ET and plans to vote next week, after the bill's final language has been made public and the Congressional Budget Office has provided final cost figures. Unlike several health-care reform proposals championed by House Democrats, the...

How's that stimulus bill working for you? Its not working for most of us. The U.S. labor market weakened in September as 263,000 payroll jobs were lost and the unemployment rate rose a tenth of a percentage point to a 26-year high of 9.8%, the Labor Department reported Friday. It marked the 21st consecutive month of job losses. Since the recession began in December 2007, 7.2 million jobs have been lost and the unemployment rate has doubled. Details of the report were almost universally dismal, with the number of unemployed people rising by 214,000 to 15.1 million. Of those, 5.4...

The unemployment rate for September moved up to 9.8% and job losses were revised upward in August to boot. From CNN.com Employers cut more jobs from their payrolls in September, as the long-battered U.S. labor market took an unexpected turn for the worse, according to a government report Friday.

It's the kind of summer moment that makes you happy to be an American: You've just cracked open a Miller beer, wiped your hands on your Levi's 501s and broken out the good old Rawlings baseball for a few rounds of catch, and all seems right with the world. But what's wrong with this picture? Other than a suspicion that you may have traveled back to 1951, what's amiss is that the brands in question -- yes, even that baseball -- are actually foreign-made. Minyanville takes a look at 10 iconic brands that are as American as Dutch apple pie.

Remember Obama's tax cut calculators, where during the campaign one could go there and see how much he was going to cut your taxes? Guess what? The sites have been taken down.

This section of the 14th Amendment. “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”. Repealed under this provision of Article V of the Constitution: “the Application of the...

I submit that every human, with few exceptions, intrinsically understands the world is not what it is supposed to be. For those of us with a Judeo-Christian perspective, the explanation for the world being “off” is sin, a state of separation from the will and presence of God. However, even if one rejects this theological explanation, they will still acknowledge what it attempts to explain. We have this keen sense that the world is meant to be a certain way, and the way it is falls grossly short of that ideal. Most of us also sense this condition applies, not...

This Jennifer Flowers couldn't even get the president to look at her. Much less get him to help her find a job. The Westchester resident found herself suddenly unemployed only hours before President Obama was due in lower Manhattan Monday to deliver a speech on the economy. Instead of going home to sulk, Flowers decided to ask for a White House bailout. She went to a drugstore near her downtown office and bought a $3.80 poster board and two $1 markers.

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration supports extending three key provisions of the Patriot Act that are due to expire at the end of the year, the Justice Department told Congress in a letter made public Tuesday. Lawmakers and civil rights groups had been pressing the Democratic administration to say whether it wants to preserve the post-Sept. 11 law's authority to access business records, as well as monitor so-called "lone wolf" terrorists and conduct roving wiretaps. ... As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama said he would take a close look at the law, based on his past expertise in constitutional law....

A July 2009 congressional report -- titled “Is ACORN Intentionally Structured As a Criminal Enterprise?” -- accused ACORN of massive fraud, money laundering, and racketeering directed from the highest levels of the organization's management.

Parents do not trust the Educator-in-Chief and his "comrades." You can take Obama from the radicals in Chicago. But you can't take the Chicago radicalism out of Obama. – Michelle Malkin On Tuesday the President of the United States will speak to school children across the nation in a television address. A large number of parents will keep their children home in the belief that this is an inappropriate use of the bully pulpit. But what did they expect from a community organizer whose playbook is Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky? (To understand Rules for Radicals, see my previous...

Riding the wave of change can be fun, but as Obama and his crew are finding out, when the wave doesn't do what you want it to or contain what you think is in it, it ain't much fun.

[snip] Courrielche said officials on the hour-long call -- including NEA Director of Communications Yosi Sergant and Michael Skolnik, political director for hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons -- encouraged the artists on the line to create works of art in their respective fields related to health care, energy and the environment. "What I heard was a well thought-out pitch to encourage artists to create art on these issues," Courrielche told FOXNews.com. "We were told we were consulted for a reason, and they specifically stated those issues as the issues we should focus on, to plant the seed. It doesn't take a...

Japan's Democratic Party has won a resounding general election victory, surpassing the 241 seats required for a majority less than two-and-a-half hours after polling stations closed. The outgoing Liberal Democratic Party had just 57 of the 480 seats being contested and Taro Aso, the prime minister, said he would resign as party leader to take responsibility for the debacle. Photographers are pictured in front of posters of Democratic Party politicians "The result of the election is very severe," he said in a press conference in Tokyo. "I believe this is the judgement of the public and we have to accept...

JAPAN'S Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) picked Taro Aso as its leader a year ago in the hope he would turn around its sagging fortunes and preserve its five-decade grip on power. Instead, he led the conservative, pro-business LDP to a historic defeat in a general election yesterday. Aso said he took responsibility for the loss after media projections showed the LDP had shed two-thirds of its seats in the lower house election, adding the party should pick a successor soon. After Mr Aso became the party's fourth leader in four years last September

The Democratic Party of Japan won the Lower House election by a landslide Sunday and was poised to grab more than 300 seats in the 480-seat chamber. The victory by the main opposition party would end more than half a century of almost uninterrupted rule by the Liberal Democratic Party. It would also usher in DPJ President Yukio Hatoyama, 62, as the new prime minister by mid-September. As of 11:40 p.m., the DPJ-led opposition camp had already secured 296 seats against just 100 for the LDP-New Komeito ruling bloc, early results from Kyodo said. Flush with victory, DPJ executives started...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Millions of Americans have already seen their credit card limits shrink, and millions more face the same fate as lenders prepare for tougher U.S. consumer protection rules. Since the financial crisis deepened a year ago, credit card companies have been closing millions of inactive accounts, cutting credit limits and raising interest rates to cushion themselves from record loan losses. This is just the beginning of the biggest shake-up in the credit card industry in at least 20 years, analysts said. . . . . . Going forward, credit card companies will purge customers rather than risk...

<p>"At what point do we run out of money?" President Obama was asked in May. "Well, we are out of money now," he replied. That was when he projected the deficit to be $7 trillion over the next 10 years. Now his administration admits the number likely will reach $9 trillion. We sure are out of money -- and the true deficit number probably is at least another $1 trillion bigger.</p>

Folks, this administration is getting better and better by the moment. What do you mean, you may wonder? While President Obama’s policies continue to destroy the country, they are making more people who once described themselves as liberals or moderates and turning them more and more into staunch Conservatives. But we cannot take this for granted. We have to keep fighting for our ideals and founding principles.

America IS involved in a silent but deadly revolution.

An 18-year-old man was severely beaten with a piece of concrete late Tuesday night, in an assault that’s being investigated by Buffalo police as a possible hate crime. <...snip a few paragraphs...> Witnesses told police that the young man, who is white, was beaten by a group of about 10 to 12 black males ...

This song titled "Black Messiah" seems rather on topic. Especially with the way that Obama and the Dems are trying to stifle honest dissent on "Obamacare".From the Album:"Misfits" Circa 1986 or thereabouts

Finally, Change We Can Believe Inby Tony Blankley (more by this author) Posted 08/19/2009 ETUpdated 08/19/2009 ET Those of us who are self-appointed advocates -- who expend our efforts trying to persuade a few more people to our political point of view -- must sit back in slack-jawed wonder when the great American public makes one of its great roars, as we all have been hearing in town hall meetings across the country.  In the animal kingdom, it is the lion that has the loudest roar. Scientists say it is made as a warning to advertise the animal's presence. Are...

The Democrats don't seem to understand that when Obama adopted the phrase "CHANGE" into his campaign for president it also meant change to his stance on domestic policy, in particular health care reform. It certainly has them confused. Members of Congress are calling the White House during Town Hall Meetings trying to get clarification on answers to questions by angry protesters. "What's our official stance today?" It has even brought about a change in AARP membership...cancellations! .... Right now Obama and his Administration have serious communication problems with their members in Congress along with the American public. The man who...

Just a quick reminder that there are other looming issues out there that can affect us just as surely as socialized medicine will, possibly even moreso. Could it be that the pressure we are putting on Congress over health care is causing some of them to return to a little bit of sanity? Democrat Senators: Cap And Trade Should Be Delayed Until Next Year 84rules August 14, 2009

In a town hall meeting in Portsmouth, N.H., yesterday aimed at “setting the record straight” on health care reform, President Obama again falsely stated the number of uninsured Americans, this time saying it was 46 million, down a million from the 47 million uninsured Americans he falsely said there were in a primetime press conference less than a month ago. The president's claim yesterday that there are 46 million uninsured Americans overshoots the Census Bureau’s official estimate by about 10 million people—a mistake that is more than 7 times larger than the 1,315,809 people that the Census Bureau estimates make...

From an E-mail I received, I did not write this, but it is full of very interesting, thought provoking ideas.Dr. David Kaiser History Unfolding I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books on history that have been published in six languages, and I have studied history all my life. I have come to think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only...

At twenty three years old, I realize that I am still learning about things that many many people know so much about. But this is just on person's opinion of the world as we know it today. About a year ago, I started to pay attention to politics, much because somewhere in me I knew it was going to start to be very important. When Obama won, I couldn't believe it. I voted for the lesser of the two evils that actually had a shot, dragged my fiancee to the polls and he voted for McCain, too. I tried to...

Toronto, Canada — A chorus of voices in the professional world today proclaims that it is impossible to change sexual orientation, particularly homosexual orientation, and that the attempt to change sexual orientation is harmful. A supposed consensus of science is invoked in support of such claims. For example, for many years the Public Affairs website of the American Psychological Association stated: “Can therapy change sexual orientation? No. . . . [H]omosexuality . . . does not require treatment and is not changeable.”¹ Psychologists Stanton L. Jones and Mark A. Yarhouse will announce on August 9, 2009, at the annual convention...

Chris Ann Cleland, a real estate agent from Prince William County, Virginia discusses her disappointment with President Obama. Chris Ann Cleland voted for Barack Hussein Obama because of his promise of hope and change but as reality catches up with the promise Ms. Cleland is forced to reconcile Obama’s words with his deeds. (see story) According to a Gallup poll last week, about 52 percent of Americans approved of Obama's job as president, the lowest number of his tenure. Somashekhar reports that Stephanie Slater, 44,has been disturbed by the large Wall Street bonuses that Obama doesn't seem to be able...