July 3, 2009
Sarah's exit
Could this be true?
Via The Anchoress (who has many more links):
JUST IN -- Sources close to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin tell MSNBC that she is "out of politics for good." As I said...this ambitious woman does not do this unless politics no longer matters. 4:53 PMOn the other hand, Bill Kristal has a contrarian take, and believes it to be a gamble, that could be a shrewd one.
To say the least, the political pundits, especially on the left, are going to have a field day with this story. My own take is that we haven't heard the last of Alaska governor Sarah Palin.
Posted by Richard at 5:26 PM| Comments
Video: Khilafah Conference USA 2009: Hizb ut Tahrir America (Proposes taking over America)
Watch video link below and see that the Islamists in Chicago, the hometown of our islamist supporting president who has no problem with Muslims proposing the taking over of America (Hat tip - Sybil).
Related: Hizb ut-Tahrir: A Threat Behind a Legal Facade?
Posted by Abdul at 12:52 PM| Comments
New GOP ad: 'Where are the jobs!"
It's a good one:
Boehner says: "At a time when Americans are looking to Washington for leadership, the trillion-dollar 'stimulus' isn't working. Americans were promised the 'stimulus' would keep the unemployment rate from going above eight percent. It's now at 9.5 percent, and rising. Where are the jobs?"
HT - Gateway Pundit
Posted by Abdul at 12:21 PM| Comments
'New and disquieting Which-Side-Is-Obama-On Update'
Why in the hell would Barack Obama want to block Iran sanctions at the upcoming G8 summit!
The only answer is that the decision is based upon a much misguided and extremely naive foreign policy. As Rich Lowry wrote at RCC, Obama should have learned from N. Korea:
Obama has gotten a preview of what extending his hand to a clenched fist looks like in North Korea. Six months into the era of Obama's irenic, world-calming diplomacy, Pyongyang has tested a long-range missile and a nuclear device, and announced it's going to weaponize its plutonium stock and proceed with a uranium-enrichment program. Kim Jong Il's family dynasty shows no sign of realizing that the advent of Obama was supposed to change its nature, interests, and behavior.The answer, of course, is that they won't. And we'll have lost valuable time to stop Iran's development of nuclear weapons. Timesonline reports that Dr Mohamed ElBaradei, the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN watchdog, said this week (to the BBC) that it was his "gut feeling" that Iran's leaders wanted to put nuclear weapons within their reach "to send a message to their neighbours, to the rest of the world: don't mess with us".Why will the mullahs?
Not a very promising scenario, from an ideologh hell-bent on world domination.
Related: Obama's Iran Policy is Dead
Posted by Abdul at 12:00 PM| Comments
In the "Who cares" department
A bit of trivia now being passed around the blogs, emails,and forums:
At 5 minutes and 6 seconds after 4 A. M., on the 8th of July this year, the time and date will be : 04:05:06 07-08-09. This will not happen again until the year 3009 !!!!!I know, I know, who the hell cares!
HT - Douglas
Posted by Abdul at 10:47 AM| Comments
WSJ editorial: New evidence points to zero money down, not subprime loans, led to the mortgage meltdown
Uh-Oh; Stan Liebowitz writes that evidence from a huge national database containing millions of individual loans strongly suggests that the single most important factor is whether the homeowner has negative equity in a house -- that is, the balance of the mortgage is greater than the value of the house. This means that most government policies being discussed to remedy woes in the housing market are misdirected:
[...] We are at a crossroads where we can undo the damage to the housing market by strengthening underwriting standards in a reasonable way. But to do so political leaders must face up to the actual causes of the mortgage crisis, not fictitious causes that fit political agendas and election strategies.In other words, we're in deep trouble and headed deeper.
Posted by Abdul at 10:22 AM| Comments
Left now using the bible to promote the green agenda
From spending the last 8 years assaulting Christianity to now, all of a sudden, loving Christianity, the left has no problem lying with their enemy in order to promote their green agenda.
Posted by Abdul at 10:07 AM| Comments
He should have anticipated this before he supported "The One"
Now, Colon Powell says he's "concerned" (video) about Obama's spending. Shouldn't he have thought about Obama's socialist-Marxist background before he supported and voted for him?
Or perhaps he was less concerned then about Obama's background and campaign rhetoric, and more concerned about Obama's race.
Posted by Abdul at 10:01 AM| Comments
AIM: 'How the Obama revelution came to America'
A damned good read, and an important one for every freedom-loving American:
[...] There are ten easy steps toward a progressive-socialist-Marxist civil society: change the popular consensus; destroy Christianity, the traditional family, and existing social mores; transform the culture; install a radical Left mind-control; attain political power; impose strict control of the military and law enforcement; restrict freedom; socialize the economy; erase American sovereignty; and embrace a world without borders.Take the time to read it all, then pass it around to others. America, as our founders intended it to be and as we've known it, is disappearing before our very eyes. And we're letting it happen through our ignorance and naivety. After reading the piece, think about what Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress has been doing from Obama's first day at the White House. It fits the article's content like OJ's glove.[...] Perceptions are being shaped through a combination of propaganda, disinformation, denial and deceit by the radical left, which has seized control of the Democrat Party. The model is based on Antonio Gramsci's ideas to first prepare the "masses" for a change in political power by transforming American culture.
The "real" Obama is the "chosen one" for the far-Left progressives-socialists-marxists. Disciples of the Gramsci Left supported Obama's campaign with millions of dollars to fund a massive propaganda and disinformation campaign. In the end, however, Obama was exposed as a puppet of the far Left, an agent of influence for the Gramsci formula of transforming American culture and leading hard-working Americans toward a comfortable embrace with socialism-Marxism.
HT - The Patriot Room
Posted by Abdul at 9:36 AM| Comments
More on the Walpingate - Americorps IG scandal
Walpingate is not going away, and the fire is being stoked by the White House's refusal to release documents concerning its actions:
Key Republicans in both the House and the Senate are accusing the White House of giving "incomplete and misleading" information to investigators probing the president's abrupt firing of AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin. In return, the White House is hinting that documents concerning its actions in the Walpin affair may be protected by executive privilege.It stands to reason that if the Obama administration has nothing to hide about its firing of Walpin and what he was investigating that caused his firing, then it should have no problem releasing the requested documents.Both developments are part of an escalating conflict between GOP lawmakers and the Obama administration. Republicans are deeply skeptical of the White House explanation for the June 10 firing of Walpin, a tough investigator who had been probing misuse of AmeriCorps money by Sacramento, Calif., mayor -- and prominent Obama supporter -- Kevin Johnson. And the administration seems determined to conceal its dealings with AmeriCorps and the organization that oversees it, the Corporation for National and Community Service.
On the other hand, we're not talking about documents related to national security, only those that could embarrass the White House (or worse). So there's no justification for the WH to invoke executive privilege.
Posted by Abdul at 9:15 AM| Comments
Obama's Keynesian "pump priming" of the economy
... doesn't work.
And we're indeed now further down the road toward Weimar America.
Posted by Abdul at 9:03 AM| Comments
July 2, 2009
Under UK socialized medicine, Disabled children wait up to two years for wheelchairs
And the Democrats want this kind of care for our children?
The NHS was told today to stop relying on charities to fill funding gaps after figures revealed many trusts would not pay the full cost of electric wheelchairs for disabled children.Freedom of information figures obtained by the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign found children were subject to a postcode lottery in terms of equipment.
Statistics from 54% of NHS trusts in England and Scotland revealed that disabled children in England are forced to wait five months on average for a wheelchair.
The worst performing primary care trust (PCT), East Lancashire, in the north-west of England, had an average wait of two years for an electric wheelchair.
Posted by Abdul at 5:11 PM| Comments
AIM: The Green Nazi Hell and America's Future?
Much like the repressive nonsense we're now seeing in Congress and the White House, the Nazis were undoubtedly far more interested in using environmental laws to restrict Jews, capitalism and private property, than their own national socialist agenda.
Posted by Abdul at 5:03 PM| Comments
WaPo "selling access" to Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper's own reporters and editors
Is this even legal? How can the Washington Post sell access to what they refer to as "those powerful few"?
And to think that I thought Obama and Congress were already bought and paid for. Now it appears that they and the WaPo are taking it up to a whole new level of corruption in politics and journalism.
Posted by Richard at 11:04 AM| Comments
Further evidence that cap-and-trade represents the largest intrusion of government meddling in the private sector in the history of the country.
If you thought your home belongs to you, think again.
And we're talking about a bill that was voted for that didn't even exist when our politicians cast their vote.
Posted by Richard at 10:55 AM| Comments
US Soldier Believed Captured In Afghanistan
We can only pray that he's treated humanely, but in our hearts we all know how Islamists treat their prisoners:
From The Washington Post:
In a statement issued from U.S. military headquarters in Kabul, officials said "we are exhausting all available resources to ascertain his whereabouts and provide for his safe return."Two questions come to mind: The incident occurred at a Marine base so the missing man a soldier or a Marine? Also, why would a member of the U.S. military simply "walk off" the base when he had to know that the danger of being captured was significant? Of course, regardless of the branch of service and the circumstances of his leaving the base, every American should be praying for this man. It is certain that his treatment under the Taliban will constitute genuine torture - far different than the "harsh treatment" at GITMO that has been condemned as torture by the Left in the U.S.The soldier was not part of the large-scale assault launched on Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan early Thursday. That operation, which involves about 4,000 troops from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, was encountering only light resistance, officials said. But the military expects the Taliban to respond more harshly once troops move into towns and began patrols.
Military officials in Afghanistan, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the situation, said the missing soldier appears to have walked off his base into an unsecured area.
A U.S. official in Afghanistan said the soldier's absence was discovered when he did not show up for morning formation. It is highly unusual for a U.S. soldier to leave a military base unaccompanied by other American troops.
Agence-France Press reported that a commander of the Taliban's hard-line Haqqani faction claimed Thursday that his militia had captured the soldier in the Yousuf Khail district of Paktika province. The area is along the porous border with Pakistan. That report could not be independently confirmed.
"Our leaders have not decided on the fate of this soldier." the AFP quoted the Haqqani commander, identified only as Bahram, as saying. "They will decide on his fate and soon we will present video tapes of the coalition soldier and our demand to media."
HT - DrewM
Posted by Richard at 9:35 AM| Comments
Former Iranian president says regime committed "coup" against the people
As Ed Morrissey notes at Hot Air, the Iranian mullahs may have expected the opposition movement to die out by now, in some cases literally, they got a big shock today from within their ruling class. A former president of Iran, has apparently switched sides and joined Mirhossein Mousavi in demanding new elections, and did so in "a bold, lengthy statement Wednesday on his Web site."
Clearly, although violently repressed, the opposition's pursuit of significant political reform isn't over, despite what we might otherwise believe, given the abandonment of coverage by the media in order to report on what they consider more important events - such as 24/7 coverage of Michael Jackson's death.
Posted by Richard at 9:19 AM| Comments
Steve Emerson on How Islamists Work the System
Steven Emerson, a leading authority on Islamic extremist networks and their activities, from violent jihad to stealth jihad, spoke on June 4, 2009, to the Middle East Forum in New York City about the future of jihad. His words point to a bleak future for the West unless we wake up and recognize this danger immediately.
Here's an excerpt from a summary by David Rusin at Middle East Forum:
[...] Emerson noted that Obama's downplaying of the Islamist threat exemplifies the "unraveling of the consensus that started to develop about the dangers of radical Islam" after 9/11. This threat goes well beyond terrorism, extending to a nonviolent, stealth jihad of "infiltrating or subverting or intimidating ... or changing the American system by affecting our values, such as freedom of the press and freedom of speech."Emerson isn't the only leading authority on Islamic extremist networks and their activities that believes stealth jihad is Islam's greatest weapon. In a recent piece at Front Page Magazine, Pipes wrote:In his view, stealth jihad is just as dangerous as violent jihad, if not more so, because it is mostly legal and operates below the radar. Emerson lamented that "Americans don't seem threatened by anything less than the act of violence," even though prominent Islamists like cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi speak of conquering America and Europe via proselytizing, conversion, immigration, and ultimately the ballot box.
Emerson argued that terrorist attacks on the scale of 9/11 are "counterproductive" for Islamists, as they bring unwanted attention to their agenda and disrupt the more promising strategy of stealth jihad. However, he maintained that intermittent acts of violence, such as the fatwa against Salman Rushdie and the murder of Theo van Gogh, help Islamists get their way by promoting fear among Westerners.
Unfortunately, the elites do little to illuminate the true perils of Islamism. The media continue to facilitate Islamists by whitewashing their aims and legitimizing radical groups that pretend to be moderate. He also noted that while the FBI deserves credit for finally cutting ties with CAIR, the government is ever more reluctant to use the term "Islamic terrorism." As Emerson explained, "If you can't identify the enemy by who he is, you can't expect to defeat him."
Emerson concluded by emphasizing that the threat from both violent and stealth jihad is real and shows no signs of abatement, pointing to a Muslim Brotherhood memo from nearly twenty years ago that outlines plans for "destroying the Western civilization from within." "Unless we act and recognize this danger immediately," Emerson warned, "the future is bleak.":
[...] On the practical level, terrorist groups are evolving. Several of them - specifically in Algeria, Egypt, and Syria - have dropped violence and now work within the political system. Others have taken on non-violent functions - Hezbollah delivers medical services and Hamas won an election. If Ayatollah Khomeini and Osama bin Laden represent Islamism's first iteration, Hezbollah and Hamas represent a transitional stage, and Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, arguably the world's most influential Islamist, shows the benefits of going legitimate.And as Reliapundit notes at Astute Bloggers, they already have an ally in the White House (and we already have stealth jihadists in Congress)But if going the political route works so well, why does Islamist violence continue and even expand? Because they are not always practical. Rita Katz of the SITE Intelligence Group explains: "Engaged in a divine struggle, jihadists measure success not by tangible victories in this life but by God's eternal benediction and by rewards received in the hereafter."
In the long term, however, Islamists will likely recognize the limits of violence and increasingly pursue their repugnant goals through legitimate ways. Radical Islam's best chance to defeat us lies not in bombings and beheadings but in classrooms, law courts, computer games, television studios, and electoral campaigns.
Posted by Richard at 8:25 AM| Comments
Salim Mansur: Muslim on Muslim Violence: What Drives It?
In responding to a comment to a previous post titled "The Islamic Mein Kampf (Video)," written back on January 31, 2007, I referenced a Salim Mansur piece on Muslim violence that appeared in the Torunto Sun about that time but has since been removed from the web by most sites and was difficult to find (my link at my previous post no longer works).
Fortunately, I found it in a pdf version at mafhoum.com, and am re-posting the piece in hopes it doesn't disappear again. In his piece, Mansur points out that although Christians have their own history of violence, the intensity and persistence of Muslim violence against Muslims - the intra-Christian violence is now an exception when it occurs and not the norm - requires an explanation. Muslims need to confront their record on this matter, if they are going to break out of this cycle, by acknowledging the problem, understanding what are the sources of such violence, and then engaging in that brand of politics which will guide them into a democratic future and allow them to construct an alternative vision of Islam than the one that has been so destructive and counter-productive in the making of their history:
Mansur's point about the need for Muslims to construct an alternative vision of Islam than the one that has been so destructive and counter-productive in the making of their history, applies not only to Muslim on Muslim violence, but Muslim on non-Muslim violence, as well. It is a worthy read for Muslims and non-Muslims alike, and provides historical context that applies to what we're seeing throughout the world:
Muslim on Muslim Violence: What Drives It?
By Salim Mansur(Salim Mansur is a professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario and a syndicated columnist in Canada and the United Kingdom. A Muslim native to Calcutta, India, and a noted Islamic scholar, Prof. Mansur has written extensively on Islamic extremism and the challenges facing contemporary Islam.)
Posted by Richard at 7:30 AM| Comments
July 1, 2009
RCP: CBS, Helen Thomas Challenge Gibbs On "Controlled" Town Hall Meeting
An interesting exchange (video) that appears to indicate a developing frustration among the media over the phony town hall meetings in which the White House knows in advance the questions that will be asked.
More discussion at Hot Air.
Posted by Richard at 3:41 PM| Comments
Pakistan Nukes At Risk
Apparently we're becoming less safe by the day, as we learn from Human Events that Taliban and al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan's western frontier have ties to elements of the Pakistan army and Inter-Services and through these ties the Taliban terrorists now know where some of Pakistan's nuclear weapons are stored.
[...] A U.S. official downplayed the chances that Taliban or al Qaeda can steal nukes, saying Pakistan has effective controls. Any knowledge the terrorists have on the arsenal is not sufficient to allow them to gain access, the official asserted to HUMAN EVENTS.Why is that I don't find the administration's assurances to be less than comforting![...] Obama administration officials have gone out of their way to assure the nation that Pakistan's nukes will not fall into the hands of Osama bin Laden.
Add in Iran and N. Korea, and one should surmise that we are indeed becoming less safe with each passing day since Obama came to office.
Posted by Richard at 10:30 AM| Comments
They're playing 'Monopoly' in California
As Hugh points out at Wizbang, while the private sector has, during the last eighteen months, severely reduced spending, increased savings and paid off debt, state and federal governments have exploded in size, government debt has skyrocketed and government savings is upside down. The situation has become so bad in California that the state has run out of cash and - unable to reach a legislative solution - is printing IOU's to pay bills.
The question for all of us is, given our federal governments spending under the Obama administration and the current crop of politicians in Congress, isn't this where the federal government is heading?
Posted by Richard at 9:11 AM| Comments
When money is no object
As the L.A. Times notes in its "A Road Map or a Road to Ruin?," it is indeed remarkable what (our free-spending) Congress can do when money is no object:
... as the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure demonstrated when it put out a blueprint for a reauthorization bill to govern the nation's spending on transportation. It's a cornucopia of goodies that's getting strong reviews from interest groups, mainly because it gives them nearly everything they've been asking for: Environmentalists get a new bureaucracy to encourage green projects, public transit agencies get a big influx of cash, high-speed rail enthusiasts get new trains, and states get billions in additional money to build and improve roads, bridges and highways.We're talking $500 billion on top of the $11.4 trillion (see chart) national debt - plus earmark spending, we already have (with trillions more in the Obama-policies pipeline). Has America lost its collective mind and will we continue to allow our politicians to continue taking us down this "road to ruin" - as the LAT piece suggests?There's just one small detail that has been left out -- so far, the committee hasn't identified a way to pay for any of this. And the price tag is breathtaking: $500 billion over six years, a 53% hike over federal transportation spending in the previous six.
Related: Bush Deficit vs. Obama Deficit in Pictures
Posted by Richard at 8:01 AM| Comments
Video on Obama administration's suppression of "inconvenient" EPA report
We;ve previously posted on the report that was an inconvenient truth the EPA did not want released at an inconvenient time - the day before the House was to vote on a controversial energy bill destined to be the largest tax hike in American history. Today, Dan Spencer has posted this YouTube video that provides a perspective of the event vs. what Obama said about science in his usual "soaring rhetoric" during his December 20, 2008 weekly address:
Because the truth is that promoting science isn't just about providing resources - it's about protecting free and open inquiry. It's about ensuring that facts and evidence are never twisted or obscured by politics or ideology. It's about listening to what our scientists have to say, even when it's inconvenient - especially when it's inconvenient. Because the highest purpose of science is the search for knowledge, truth and a greater understanding of the world around us. That will be my goal as President of the United States - and I could not have a better team to guide me in this work.As we now know, as in the case of so many of his other statements and promises before and after his election, those were indeed, as Spencer notes in his piece, just words. There's no substance or core belief, he says what he thinks we want to hear at the time.
Spencer has more on the suppression of the report that was especially inconvenient for Obama's cap and trade push.
Related: (Shocker) Dems Cap & Tax Bill Requires All Homes to Meet Eco-Standards Before They Can Be Sold (If you were thinking of selling your home, you might as well forget about it. Under the new democratic cap and trade legislation all US homes will have to meet strict government eco-standards before they can be sold.)
Posted by Richard at 7:29 AM| Comments
Krauthammer on Obama administration's support of Honduran leftist dictator-want-a-be (Updated)
Krauthammer on the Obama administration's defense of leftist Honduran President Zelaya, a man who was ousted by the country's Attorney General, Congress, and Supreme Court - because he was trying to strong arm his way to an illegal referendum to make himself Presidente for life: "Whenever you find yourself on the side of Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, and the Castro twins, you ought to re-examine your assumptions" (Hat tip - Nice Deb):
It appears that our leftist dictator-want-a-be just can't help but defend another leftist dictator-want-a-be, and has no problem being in the company of other leftist despots like Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, and the Castro twins, and the Honduran leftist despot and now former President Manuel Zelaya. Every American should be against military-backed coups, but in the case of Zelaya, the country's Attorney General, Congress, and Supreme Court were involved in what appears to be a necessary action due to illegal and unconstitutional acts.
More commentary at Nice Deb.
For an opposing (decidedly leftist) view, check out The Field.
Related:
Stand With President Roberto Micheletti and the Democratic Government of Honduras
WSJ on Obama's abandonment of democracy
Judging a president by the crowd he hangs out with (Updated)
Posted by Richard at 6:40 AM| Comments
June 30, 2009
WSJ on Obama's abandonment of democracy
Joshua Muravchik, writing at the Wall Street Journal, addresses Obama's absolute abandonment, "both rhetorical and practical, of any kind of emphasis on democracy and human rights as US policy goals" (HT - Ace):
[...] The most surprising thing about the first half-year of Barack Obama's presidency, at least in the realm of foreign policy, has been its indifference to the issues of human rights and democracy. No administration has ever made these its primary, much less its exclusive, goals overseas. But ever since Jimmy Carter spoke about human rights in his 1977 inaugural address and created a new infrastructure to give bureaucratic meaning to his words, the advancement of human rights has been one of the consistent objectives of America's diplomats and an occasional one of its soldiers.Read it all ...This tradition has been ruptured by the Obama administration. The new president signaled his intent on the eve of his inauguration, when he told editors of the Washington Post that democracy was less important than "freedom from want and freedom from fear. If people aren't secure, if people are starving, then elections may or may not address those issues, but they are not a perfect overlay."
[...] In early April, former New York Times correspondent Joel Brinkley summed up the administration's initial performance:
Neither President Obama nor Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has even uttered the word democracy in a manner related to democracy promotion since taking office more than two months ago. The State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor has put out 30 public releases, so far, and not one of them has discussed democracy promotion. Democracy, it seems, is banished from the Obama administration's public vocabulary.
At a glance, Obama's motives seemed readily apparent. Former State Department official J. Scott Carpenter observed that it was "obvious and understandable" that "the Obama administration wanted to distance itself from the tone and perceived baggage of the Bush administration." But there were two reasons why this explanation did not satisfy.
For one, Obama might have put his own stamp on the issue without turning so sharply away from the goals of human rights and democracy. In 1981, Ronald Reagan came to the presidency with a mandate analogous to Obama's, namely, to undo the works of an unpopular predecessor. At first, Reagan was inclined to eschew human rights as just another part of Jimmy Carter's wooly-minded liberalism. In an early interview, Secretary of State Alexander Haig announced that the Reagan administration would promote human rights mostly by combating terrorism. But soon Reagan had second thoughts: instead of jettisoning the issue, he put his own distinctive spin on it by shifting the rhetoric and the program to focus more on fostering democracy.
In a similar vein, Obama could have faulted the Bush administration for its ineffectiveness in promoting democracy and promised that his own team would do it better. Indeed, Michael McFaul, who handled democracy issues in the Obama campaign, declared after the election that the new administration would "talk less and do more" about democratization than Bush had done. But when McFaul was appointed to the National Security Council staff, he was given the Russia portfolio rather than the job of overseeing democracy promotion. The latter task, which had been entrusted to senior staff during the Bush years, was given to no one.
The other reason why Obama's tack cannot be understood merely by his impulse to be unlike Bush is that his disinterest in democracy and human rights is global. The idea of promoting these values did not originate with Bush but with Carter and Reagan, reinforced by Bill Clinton. Bush's innovation was to apply this to the Middle East, which heretofore largely had been exempted. Repealing Bush's legacy would have meant turning the clock back on America's Middle East policy. But Obama scaled back democracy efforts not only there; he did it everywhere.
Ace has additional commentary.
Posted by Richard at 4:20 PM| Comments
Video: "Suppressed" EPA scientist breaks silence, speaks on Fox News
A case of inconvenient truth that the EPA did not want released at an inconvenient time - the day before the House was to vote on a controversial energy bill destined to be the largest tax hike in American history:
Via Mark Tapscott at The Examiner:
[...] Alan Carlin, the senior EPA research analyst who authored a study critical of global warming that was suppressed by agency officials, has broken his silence and spoken on Fox News about his situation. Carlin told "Fox & Friends" Steve Ducy and Gretchen Carlson that his most important conclusion in the study was that the U.S. should not rely upon recommendations of the UN in making policy decisions regarding global warming.The must-read censored report that the Obama administration and the Democrats don't want you to see can be found here."The most important conclusion, in my view, was that EPA needed to look at the science behind global warming and not depend upon reports issued by the United Nations, which is what they were thinking of doing and in fact have done," Carlin said.
Asked what happened to his study once it was completed, Carlin said "my supervisors decided not to forward it to the group within EPA who had the responsibility for preparing an overall report which would guide EPA on whether to find that the emission of global warming gases would be something that EPA should regulate."
... Carlin has been at EPA for 38 years and until the Fox interview was telling reporters seeking interviews that he was instructed by EPA officials not to speak with them. He almost certainly risks retalitation by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and other Obama appointees within the agency.
Hat tip - The Patriot Room
Posted by Richard at 3:03 PM| Comments
On the MSM and the health benefits of raping small children
What do you hear from the MSM when the gay associate director of Duke's Center for Health Policy is arrested by the FBI and charged with offering up his adopted Black 5-year-old son for sex?
Frank Lombard is the associate director of Duke's Center for Health Policy. The university administrator was recently arrested by the FBI and charged with offering up his adopted 5-year-old son for sex. I tried to contact Frank Lombard over the weekend to probe his expertise regarding the health benefits of raping small children. So far, he's declined to comment.As for the MSM coverage, you can hear a pin drop.University administrator Lombard is accused of logging on to a chat room online and describing himself as a "perv dad for fun." The detective who wisely looked into the suspicious screen name says that Lombard admitted to molesting his own adopted son. All this was before allegedly inviting a stranger to travel to North Carolina from another state to statutorily rape his already-molested adopted son.
And as Kim Priestap notes at the link, this is the same mainstream media that went 24/7 coverage when the white Duke lacrosse players were charged with raping a black stripper even though there was no evidence what so ever and they were later exonerated.
