Climategate Inquiry Glosses Over The Facts

(Below is an article my husband wrote for the Washington Examiner, direct link here. I have copied it in full because like my husband, it is very, very good.)

When the Climategate e-mails were released last year, the evidence of misconduct by the scientists involved was so strong that the climate establishment was forced to commission a series of tribunals. Yet the conclusions of those inquiries are as specious as the science they were supposed to investigate. By asking the wrong questions -- or not asking them at all -- they have failed to advance the climate debate one iota.

The Climategate scandal began when an unknown party released thousands of e-mails taken from the servers of the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (UEA and CRU). The e-mails appeared to show the world's leading paleoclimatologists manipulating data to mislead, interfering with the peer review process and conspiring to delete e-mails in order to avoid freedom of information requirements.

Paleoclimatology -- the study of past temperatures -- is central to claims of unusual recent temperature. Most important is the "hockey stick" -- a graph of historic temperatures that shows a sharp increase in recent years.

The tone of the Climategate inquiries was set by Britain's parliamentary inquiry. With an election looming, the parliamentary committee could only hold one day of hearings, and found that the scientists involved had not attempted to mislead people.

Yet the hearings did not include testimony from the most severe critics of the hockey stick graphic, such as Canadians Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, who could have explained exactly why the e-mails did suggest impropriety.

The parliamentary inquiry was also assured by the UEA that the quality of the science would be reviewed by another inquiry to be headed by Lord Oxburgh. Yet Lord Oxburgh's panel handed down a short report which did not examine the quality of the science at all.

The panel simply reviewed a selection of CRU papers -- selected by the UEA itself -- and pronounced itself satisfied that the scientific process was fair and proper. The chairman of the parliamentary committee, Labor legislator Phil Willis, told the BBC he "could not believe" this "sleight of hand."

Yet this cursory review suggested deeper problems. In his review of the hockey stick itself, according to the Guardian newspaper, the panel's statistician David Hand said that the scientists had used inappropriate statistical methods. Hockey stick co-author Michael Mann of Penn State University dismissed this as a "rogue opinion."

The final review, conducted by former bureaucrat Sir Muir Russell, was compromised from the start. Its chief scientist, while purporting to be independent, was a former staff member of the CRU. Once again, it failed to interview the chief critics.

This panel did not examine the other e-mails on the CRU server, as it was supposed to do. It cleared the scientists of perverting the peer review process simply because their efforts did not succeed, thereby ignoring their clear intent as expressed in the e-mails.

Further, the inquiry failed to ask the most basic questions of the CRU scientists, such as whether Professor Phil Jones had actually deleted inconvenient e-mails. Britain's freedom of information office said that the Cimategate e-mails provided the most cogent evidence imaginable that there had been efforts to avoid FOI requirements, yet the Muir Russell review did not investigate this appropriately.

Even this inadequate investigation, however, found that the way the hockey stick graph was handled was misleading. Imagine what it -- and the parliamentary committee -- would have found if there had been some witnesses for the prosecution.

Those who hope that these inquiries exonerate global warming science are engaging in wishful thinking. The Climategate e-mails are still there for all to read and the questions they raise remain unanswered. Until there are answers, Climategate rolls on.

Salad Spinner Centrifuge - Brilliant!

Salad Spinner Centrifuge: A Cheap, Ingenious Health Care Tool I am thrilled that these two young women invented a life-saving diagnosis device for the third world using a common kitchen tool. Let's hope these two go on to great things!

Obamacare 07-19

Obama Flip-Flops on the Individual Mandate (Again)

Rationer-in-chief. The appointment of a new health-care tsar angers Republicans

It Depends on What the Meaning of “Tax” Is

The Truth About Obamacare, Continued

As Massachusetts health 'reform' goes, so could go Obamacare

The president’s wooden-headed interpretation of our Constitution

The Lie Is Up, Ohio GOP Congressman Warn Governor Strickland

First lady makes push for health reform

Big Union/ACORN/Leftie Groups 07-19

No, George W. Bush Did Not Whitewash the New Black Panthers

Clarity and the New Black Panther Party

Video Proof: The NAACP Awards Racism–2010

Why the Left Shouldn’t Defend the New Black Panther Dismissal

Is NAACP blind to Farrakhan & Co.? The Nation of Islam is built on racism and lies

Unions ‘Own the Democratic Party’

Union Goons In Action

To Protest Hiring of Nonunion Help, Union Hires Nonunion Pickets Jobless Recruits Get Minimum Wage 'To March Around and Sound Off'

In Economic Woes 07-19

Stimulating waste. How politicians use tax dollars for self-promotion

It Depends on What the Meaning of “Tax” Is

Comparing Pay in the Federal Government and the Private Sector

Job creation is essential to recovery

CBO Warns the Nation; Is Anyone Listening?

Enjoy paying bill for president’s PR

RICO Law Made to Combat Mafia Used in BP Lawsuits

Re: Republicans and Spending YouCut is a terrific idea.

Surveying the Wreckage

The End of Wishful Thinking

Easy Credit, Hard Landing

IG report says Obama GM, Chrysler moves needlessly accelerated job losses

Reality gap: U.S. struggles, D.C. booms

Cameron Raids Dormant U.K. Accounts as Minister Attacks Banks

Bad Politician Bad 07-19

President Obama Job Approval

Dems Start to Panic As Midterm Reality Sets In

Independents turning away from Obama, Dems

Is California Irredeemably Blue?

Poll: D.C. elites a world apart

Dems Headed for Potential State House Disaster

Vet Snub Shocks Families

Justice Integrity Project: 'No' on Kagan

Obama lawsuit invites fortified state militia

Institutionalized Gangster Government

Who’s defending states’ rights?

Lott confirms he's a paid tool of the Washington Establishment

Enjoy paying bill for president’s PR

RICO Law Made to Combat Mafia Used in BP Lawsuits

A Dangerous Disaffection

Cameron Raids Dormant U.K. Accounts as Minister Attacks Banks

Daily Round-Up 07-19

DOJ Scandal: How Politico & WaPo Memory-Hole a Story They Wish Would Go Away

GENERAL BAD BEHAVIOR

Kagan's Shariah Problem

Growing Number of Prosecutions for Videotaping the Police

RICO Law Made to Combat Mafia Used in BP Lawsuits

African Christians vs. Islamists

Spy Swap or Spy Flop?

Pity the Postmodern Cultural Elite

Justice Integrity Project: 'No' on Kagan

Feds haven't treated spill like national disaster




JUNK SCIENCE

Is Climategate Over?

EPA’s Environmental Justice Tour

A Climate Absolution? The alarmists still won't separate science from politics.

Obama’s Michigan trip highlights misguided federal push for ‘green’ auto batteries that cost and pollute more than market-driven competitors

UK Facing Blackouts from Obama Energy, Environment Policies

Badass Petroleum



MEDIA BIAS

DOJ Scandal: How Politico & WaPo Memory-Hole a Story They Wish Would Go Away

How the L.A. Weekly Surpassed the Los Angeles Times

Calling New York Times: Congressman John Lewis was NOT 'Showered With Hateful Epithets Outside the Capitol' Last March

Michael Moore Caught Lifting Other’s Work

Wa Po’s Silence on New Black Panthers Story

Olbermann executive producer leaves show

Without Warning, Olbermann Announces Two-week Vacation On Air



FIGHTING CORRUPTION

I know my local ABC store hates it but I still think its a good idea too. Virginia Privatizing Alcohol Sales?

Daily Round-Up 07-18

Media Winner of the Week: N.Y. and N.J. senators take on a not-so-dying terrorist

So Much For the Commerce Clause Challenge to Individual Mandate Being “Frivolous” AND here is the pdf of the Virginia complaint.

Donald Berwick’s Motto? Rationing for Thee, but not for Me

Firms cancel health coverage. With cost rising, small companies turning to state I told you so.

Obamacare Should Be Repealed, but That Should Be Just the First Step

The Flight of the Money: Where Has It Gone?

Sovereign Debt Series Summary

Dodd-Frank and the Non-Delegation Doctrine

Dividends and Capital Gains by Age Group: Seniors Rule

Govt watchdog criticizes handling of car dealers



Think Progress and the Eighth Circle of Hell

Regulating the “New York Times Algorithm”

This is a hilarious example of lefty ignorance and idiocy from the Washington Post. Breath-taking in its depth of stupidity and breadth of hypocrisy.

The Ancien Regime Isn’t Going Out Without a Fight

From Ted Nugent - Department of Injustice. Enforcing the law is a crime in Obamaworld

Note to Democrats: Obama's "Just Not That Into You"

The end of the popularity contest

Leading by Example, Then and Now

National Tea Party News Headlines for Saturday July 17

The Congress of the Vengeful Narcissists

We Love Pixar: What I Learned From ‘Monsters Inc.’

Get Rid of BS

A Personal Witness: One Nation Under God

From No Sheeples Here. Read the whole thing and watch the video too. I didn't have the same reaction as Carol did but I agree that American values, as envisioned by our greatest founders, sprang from a firm belief in God.

Several months ago, perhaps as far back as last Veterans Day, I came across a stirring painting by artist Jon McNaughton. The title of his painting is “One Nation Under God”.

As I often do, I saved the web address so I could refer to it at a later date. Being dutiful to my hard drive’s memory, I began deleting data that was no longer pertinent. When I opened one document in particular and clicked on the link I had saved, I was once again moved by what I saw and decided to share this artist’s beautiful and heartwarming labor of love.

Marshall on TV

A very good friend of mine has a son who is trying to lose weight. So they made it a family project. They filmed Marshall playing, cooking healthy meals and discussing portion control. And posted the videos on YouTube and Facebook so that friends and family could send Marshall encouragement.

Well, this caught the attention of CNN. Marshall, Alex and Jordan were on earlier this month and will be on again this afternoon at 4:20pm. Try to check it out, this is an inspirational story of family support and a kid's determination to get healthy.

I'm proud of the whole family.

Oh and by the way, Alex has fought City Hall in her town and won regarding Urban Chickens. Rock on Alex!

Bracing For A Big Tax Hit

This came to me in an email from a friend and it is well linked so I am posting it here. It is pretty awful.

In just six months, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect. They will hit families and small businesses in three great waves on January 1, 2011:

First Wave: Expiration of 2001 and 2003 Tax Relief

In 2001 and 2003, the GOP Congress enacted several tax cuts for investors, small business owners, and families.

These will all expire on January 1, 2011:

Personal income tax rates will rise. The top income tax rate will rise from 35 to 39.6 percent (this is also the rate at which two-thirds of small business profits are taxed). The lowest rate will rise from 10 to 15 percent. All the rates in between will also rise. Itemized deductions and personal exemptions will again phase out, which has the same mathematical effect as higher marginal tax rates. The full list of marginal rate hikes is below:

- The 10% bracket rises to an expanded 15%
- The 25% bracket rises to 28%
- The 28% bracket rises to 31%
- The 33% bracket rises to 36%
- The 35% bracket rises to 39.6%

Higher taxes on marriage and family. The “marriage penalty” (narrower tax brackets for married couples) will return from the first dollar of income. The child tax credit will be cut in half from $1000 to $500 per child. The standard deduction will no longer be doubled for married couples relative to the single level. The dependent care and adoption tax credits will be cut.

The return of the Death Tax. This year, there is no death tax. For those dying on or after January 1 2011, there is a 55 percent top death tax rate on estates over $1 million. A person leaving behind two homes and a retirement account could easily pass along a death tax bill to their loved ones.

Higher tax rates on savers and investors. The capital gains tax will rise from 15 percent this year to 20 percent in 2011. The dividends tax will rise from 15 percent this year to 39.6 percent in 2011. These rates will rise another 3.8 percent in 2013.

Second Wave: Obamacare

There are over twenty new or higher taxes in Obamacare. Several will first go into effect on January 1, 2011. They include:

The “Medicine Cabinet Tax” Thanks to Obamacare, Americans will no longer be able to use health savings account (HSA), flexible spending account (FSA), or health reimbursement (HRA) pre-tax dollars to purchase non-prescription, over-the-counter medicines (except insulin).

The “Special Needs Kids Tax” This provision of Obamacare imposes a cap on flexible spending accounts (FSAs) of $2500 (Currently, there is no federal government limit). There is one group of FSA owners for whom this new cap will be particularly cruel and onerous: parents of special needs children. There are thousands of families with special needs children in the United States , and many of them use FSAs to pay for special needs education. Tuition rates at one leading school that teaches special needs children in Washington , D.C. (National Child Research Center) can easily exceed $14,000 per year. Under tax rules, FSA dollars can be used to pay for this type of special needs education.

The HSA Withdrawal Tax Hike. This provision of Obamacare increases the additional tax on non-medical early withdrawals from an HSA from 10 to 20 percent, disadvantaging them relative to IRAs and other tax-advantaged accounts, which remain at 10 percent.

Third Wave: The Alternative Minimum Tax and Employer Tax Hikes

When Americans prepare to file their tax returns in January of 2011, they’ll be in for a nasty surprise—the AMT won’t be held harmless, and many tax relief provisions will have expired. The major items include:

The AMT will ensnare over 28 million families, up from 4 million last year. According to the left-leaning Tax Policy Center, Congress’ failure to index the AMT will lead to an explosion of AMT taxpaying families—rising from 4 million last year to 28.5 million. These families will have to calculate their tax burdens twice, and pay taxes at the higher level. The AMT was created in 1969 to ensnare a handful of taxpayers.

Small business expensing will be slashed and 50% expensing will disappear. Small businesses can normally expense (rather than slowly-deduct, or “depreciate”) equipment purchases up to $250,000. This will be cut all the way down to $25,000. Larger businesses can expense half of their purchases of equipment. In January of 2011, all of it will have to be “depreciated.”

Taxes will be raised on all types of businesses. There are literally scores of tax hikes on business that will take place. The biggest is the loss of the “research and experimentation tax credit,” but there are many, many others. Combining high marginal tax rates with the loss of this tax relief will cost jobs.

Tax Benefits for Education and Teaching Reduced. The deduction for tuition and fees will not be available. Tax credits for education will be limited. Teachers will no longer be able to deduct classroom expenses. Coverdell Education Savings Accounts will be cut. Employer-provided educational assistance is curtailed. The student loan interest deduction will be disallowed for hundreds of thousands of families.

Charitable Contributions from IRAs no longer allowed. Under current law, a retired person with an IRA can contribute up to $100,000 per year directly to a charity from their IRA. This contribution also counts toward an annual “required minimum distribution.” This ability will no longer be there.

PDF Version Read more: Six Months to Go Until The Largest Tax Hikes in History

Now your insurance is INCOME on your W2's......

One of the surprises we'll find come next year is what follows - - a little "surprise" that 99% of us had no idea was included in the "new and improved" healthcare legislation . . . the dupes or dopes, who backed this administration will be astonished!

Starting in 2011, (next year folks), your W-2 tax form sent by your employer will be increased to show the value of whatever health insurance you are given by the company. It does not matter if that's a private concern or governmental body of some sort. If you're retired? Therefore, your gross will go up by the amount of insurance you get.

You will be required to pay taxes on a large sum of money that you have never seen. Take your tax form you just finished and see what $15,000 or $20,000 additional gross does to your tax debt. That's what you'll pay next year. For many, it also puts you into a new higher bracket so it's even worse.

This is how the government is going to buy insurance for the 15% that don't have insurance and it's only part of the tax increases.

Not believing this??? Here is a research of the summaries.....

On page 25 of 29: TITLE IX REVENUE PROVISIONS- SUBTITLE A: REVENUE OFFSET PROVISIONS-(sec. 9001, as modified by sec. 10901) Sec.9002 "requires employers to include in the W-2 form of each employee the aggregate cost of applicable employer sponsored group health coverage that is excludable from the employees gross income."

Joan Pryde is the senior tax editor for the Kiplinger letters. Go to Kiplingers and read about 13 tax changes that could affect you. Number 3 is what is above.

People have the right to know the truth because an election is coming in November.

Random Round-Up 07-17

President Obama Job Approval

Your Rights Online: US Gov't Orders 73,000 Private Websites Offline on Friday July 16, @02:23PM

Senator Grassley discovered massive waste in HHS vaccine program as administration stonewalls

The Ku Klux Klan, Terrorist Wing of the Democratic Party

PJTV Video - Pundits Gone Wild: The Megyn Kelly Smackdown, and the Larry King Tongue-Loesching



The Bitter Fruit of Obamacare

Lost in Taxation The IRS's vast new ObamaCare powers.

Obesity Rating for Every American Must Be Included in Stimulus-Mandated Electronic Health Records, Says HHS

Feds to Monitor Obesity as White House Promotes Obama Cook to Senior Position

Warning: Media Coverage Will Vary Depending on President


Obamaland Pension Meltdown Update

Uh-Oh Keeping the Foreclosure Crisis in Front of Us

PJTV Video - The Intellectual Ghetto: Marginalization in the Media



The NAACP vs. the Tea Party

The Global Warming Guessing Game

Why Do Drug Companies Support Harry Reid?


Obama ‘Disses’ the Federal Courts

PJTV Video - Panthergate: Should the Inspector General Investigate the Department of Justice?

Trial mystery: How did Blagojevich get elected?

As far as I am concerned, Obama's "truthfulness" was always in doubt. Blago trial produces no bombshells but casts doubt on Obama’s truthfulness



A vote of no confidence

Obama: GOP blocking unemployed, small business aid

PJTV Video - Financial Regulation: How to Kill Jobs in 2,300 Pages or Less

Reason.tv: All Charges Dismissed! John Stagliano Reacts Outside the Courthouse


Seizing on Good Week, Obama Takes Another Vacation Despite GOP Criticisms

Obama Has Shot 41 Rounds of Golf as President

The New York Times does it again



Biggest turnout yet for CA Tea Party

PJTV Video (VodkaPundit - he's so dreamy) - THE WEEK IN BLOGS: Everybody Hates Keith, Plus Blondes Unite Against Obama ... and for Beer!

Ban on deep-water drilling adds insult to injury

Philly to Continue Sharing Arrest Records With Immigration Officials

The Flight of the Money: Where Has It Gone?

Unions (Not the Tea Party) Now AstroTurfing, MSM Silent


Is that really so hard? Wall Street Outsmarts Congress Again



23% Say U.S. Government Has the Consent of the Governed

No, actually it’s because private markets do many things better than government

Franken’s Felony Vote News Blackout

The White House and the Black Panthers: How the Media’s Pro-Obama Bias Hurts America



Europe: What Future?

Obama's the "most" racial president



The Radicalism of the Anti-Arizona Suit, Cont

Business preps for ‘Supreme Court’ battle over consumer Czar

What Women Don't Want

Top Ten Most Left-Biased American Journalists



CBS's Giles Tells Tea Party's Loesch 'Shut Your Mouth', Asks King to Cut Her Mike

Former Hillary Clinton Finance Chairman Gets 12 Years for Ponzi Scheme, NYT Buries Story

Keith Olbermann, we salute you: We watch, because we’re paid to AND Tucker Carlson Calls Olbermann 'Sad,' 'Tormented,' 'Despised;' Olbermann Responds



One Last Depressing Point

Don't worry, this will cheer you up (or horrify you) Plastic Surgery's Epic Fails!

Great Essay by Zo

I really enjoy AlfonZo Rachel and this piece here is well worth a read. Enjoy.

Busy Day

From computer issues to taking the kids to the pool to a doctor's appointment, this day has been busy and I will probably not be blogging.

Sorry.

No matter what happens, family first.

PolitiZoid (Talking Feds, Same As It Ever Was)

PolitiZoid does it AGAIN. Awesome1

In Economic Woes 07-15

Congress Sends Obama Sweeping Financial Overhaul Bill. Say goodbye in November.

Obama spends $400K per ‘created’ job

Why President Obama loses by winning

Finance bill favors interests of unions, activists

Payday: Trial lawyers could get major tax cut despite major federal deficit

Drowning in Debt

“Mostly Free” - The Startling Decline of America’s Economic Freedom and What to Do About It

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights demands changes to Democrats’ financial reform bill

PJTV Video - Farewell Welfare State: Mark Levin's Fight for Freedom

Real Joblessness Grimmer Than Gov't Stats

Yeah well a LOT of Americans are "under siege" thanks to Obama's Economy - Obama under siege on economy

AIG Hired To Regulate AIG

Jobs snow-job

Who didn't see this coming? War between Chamber of Commerce and White House spills into open

Three Million Imaginary Jobs The White House says the stimulus worked beyond even its hopes. Seriously.

Spending Can Be Cut. Politicians who tell you democracies can’t slash spending are lying.

PJTV Video (Front Page with Allen Barton) - Life Give You Lemons? Make Lemonade. But Please Buy The Lemons, Otherwise You're a Dirty Socialist

As Obama Kowtows, Unions Eye the Private Sector The unions want more legislation from the Democrats

Why the Obama Stimulus Failed

Recovery Summer: Mortgage applications hit 13-year low, foreclosures spiking

If This is "Recovery Summer," I'd Hate To See "Recession Winter"

Bad Politician Bad 07-15

Will Obama testify? Dispatches from the Blago trial

PJTV Video - PolitiZoid Presents: Talking Feds, Same As It Ever Was

Is Team Obama Contingency Planning for A Republican House?

House Democrats hit boiling point over perceived lack of White House support

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights demands changes to Democrats’ financial reform bill

Goldberg! - Change the People!

Update: From a reader:

I love the example of Abraham Lincoln. Sure Lincoln had to govern through a civil war…but Obama has people who don’t like him! Lincoln couldn’t have survived under these conditions…what a boob.

Was Gibbs 2010 prediction a mistake or a strategy?

Oh goody - Next Up in Washington, a Media Czar?

Obama Gets Battered in 2012 Election Match-Ups

Fox News Poll: Obama Job Approval Down, Few Think Stimulus Helped

From the LA Times - After 18 months of Obama, Americans already feeling fonder of Dick Cheney, less so of Al Gore

African-American Tea Party Candidate Cedra Crenshaw Fights Illinois Democrats to Get on Ballot in Will County

We might call it bribery but they don't - Senate VIP Loans Mount Countrywide Dealt With More Lawmakers and Staffers Than Previously Known AND here.

And by the way, Harry has a bridge to sell you too - Harry Reid: No Illegals Working Construction in Nevada

Congressman Rothman Loses His Cool at Town Hall Meeting


PJTV Video - Raging Donkey: Rep. Ciro Rodriguez Serves Up a "Blue State Special" at Local Restaurant

VDH - A Ten-Step Reset Regimen for the President

Obamacare 07-15

Yet another Obamacare lie exposed - Obama Administration OKs First Tax-Funded Abortions Under Health Care Law

Healthcare (July 2010)

The Coming Obamacare Deficits

Berwick: Bigger Than Kagan If the American people want the health-care world Dr. Berwick wishes to give them, that's their choice. But they must be given that choice.

PJTV Video - Fancy Nancy Story Time: The Healthcare Reform Fairytale and Debt Forever After

Real Health-Care Reform Why America must move away from its third-party-payer system

Obama fiscal commission co-chair pans health bill’s impact on costs

Perceptions Of Overhaul Still Divided Along Partisan Lines Interesting headline when the first sentence of the second paragraph is "Overall, 47 percent disapproved of the law, while 35 percent approved. Seventeen percent couldn't answer the question."

Another Doctor runs for office and against Obamacare - here.

100 Days of Health-Care Reform

Obamacare Is Not Entitlement Reform The recent health-care debate brought to the surface a surprising consensus about what must change to get a better handle on costs: Medicare

Inconvenient truths and stubborn facts

Random Round-Up 07-15

2008 voter-intimidation case against New Black Panthers a political bombshell

Holder’s Hypocrisy Holder will continue to embarrass the nation until he steps down

Civil Rights Commission sends letter to DOJ: We want to talk to your lawyers about the Panthers case

PJTV Video - PANTHERGATE 101: Justice Whistleblower, Black Panthers & the Sanctity of Civil Rights (Members Only)

Congressman Asks Inspector General to Launch Investigation of New Black Panther Case

So much for hope, change and transparency - Democrats block amendment to ensure press access to oil spill

PJTV Video - PANTHERGATE UPDATE: Should the Inspector General Investigate the DOJ?

A Rational Post-Spill Policy That Allows Offshore Drilling

Whatever It Takes: Obama Sidesteps Law to Halt Domestic Energy Production. Twice. The administration has shown no deference to the rule of law while trying to close Yucca Mountain and halt deepwater drilling.

From Disaster to Catastrophe -- What's Obama's Endgame In the Gulf?

All 10,000 Crime Victim Visas Issued

Respecting the Law The rule of law is indispensable for America and its immigration policy

Did Obama Sabotage DOMA?

PJTV Video (Trifecta) - Unions to Kids: We Don't Need No Education

Scholar's libel suit proceeds against Southern Poverty Law Center

Climategate and the Big Green Lie

My Biggest Mistake in the White House Failing to refute charges that Bush lied us into war has hurt our country.

5 Ways the New CAFE Rules Will Change the Way We Drive. They'll certainly make the roads less safe.

NAACP Plays The Race Card Wrongly

Here at BigGovernment.com, you can scroll down to see a long list of respected and prominent African-Americans condemning the NAACP for their bigoted attack on the TEA Party movement. These men and women risk being attacked by the Left for their views and support, yet they've bravely spoken up in defense of of unity over divisiveness and true equality for all. I proudly support their efforts to drag the NAACP out of the mire of leftist victimhood and returned to its admirable origin as an organization fighting for the rights of all Americans.

NAACP Direct Tie to Black Panthers

Ken Blackwell should have been RNC Chair - The NAACP Risks the Ash-bin of History

The National Association for the Advancement of Coddled People

NAACP Uses Teachers For Anti-Tea Party Vitriol

NAACP plays latest race card against tea party

I'm A Liar

I said I would start posting and I couldn't get around to it yesterday. I'm a damn dirty liar. Or rather, I'm a stay-at-home mom with two small children to get resettled after spending 13 days with aunts and grandparents.

But I'm gonna get on it today with at least one round-up post before sorting through the 400+ photos/portraits I took during our annual Beach Week Family Reunion 2010.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

Random Round-Up 07-13

A quick round-up today and then back to our regular service tomorrow. It's been a long day settling back into life after two weeks at the beach.

President Obama Job Approval

Nearly 60% Lack Faith in Obama; More Want Congress in Republican Hands

Team Obama Turns Blind Eye to Voter Intimidation

Eric Holder's Buddy

Smells Like a Cover-up at Obama White House

The Ike Brown Case: Is the DOJ About to Fail Another Race-Based Test?

Lawlessness at the DOJ: Voting Section Told Not To Enforce Purging the Dead or Ineligible from Voting Rolls. It's not just the New Black Panther case: in November 2009, political appointee Julie Fernandes told a packed room of Voting Section employees to simply ignore this provision of the "Motor Voter" law

President Obama and Elena Kagan sabotage DOMA defense

UPDATED: ‘You Want Freedom? You’re Gonna Have to Kill Some Crackers’


Witness said Rahm Emanuel asked him to call Blagojevich to tell him Obama wanted Valerie Jarrett

Liar, liar: Why Obama is failing

Obama faces growing credibility crisis

Confidence in Obama reaches new low, Washington Post-ABC News poll finds

White House, Google violate lobbying pledge

Payback To Big Labor, While Our Cities & States Foot The Bill

Florida may have Arizona-like anti-illegal immigration law by August

New poll to Obama: It's the economy, stupid!

A Congressman, Held Accountable With Video!

You wouldn’t like United States Congressman Ciro Rodriguez (D-TX) when he’s angry


Obama's Immigration Fakery In 2007, then-Sen. Obama helped derail an immigration bill he claimed to support. He's no more serious about a bipartisan bill today.

Poll: 75 Percent of Americans Blame State Budget Problems on Politicians’ Unwillingness to Cut Spending

Leaked Doc Proves Spain’s ‘Green’ Policies — the Basis for Obama’s — an Economic Disaster. PJM has received a leaked internal document confirming Spain realizes its green failures, just as Obama pushes the American Power Act based on Spain's program.

Ann Althouse rocks it - If you really believed in global warming, you would turn off your air conditioning.

The Greenhouse Protection Racket. Climate policymaking in our nation’s capital is best explained in the lingo of Hollywood mobsters and banditos

The Big Green Lie Exposed

How Can Climate Change Advocates Equate My Skepticism to Holocaust Denial? It's not like the only evidence of the Holocaust was a bunch of scientists pointing to a computer simulation saying what they think would happen to the Jewish population in Europe.

ClimateGate Revisited

Happy World Population Day: Some Environmentalists Halfway Get It

Getting Schooled in Aspen Bill Gates attacks "fraudulent" accounting that hides the cost of teacher pensions.

Labor unions pivot toward midterm elections with jobs campaign

Victory for Louisiana Florists. Licensing Scheme Pruned Back After Florists File Civil Rights Lawsuit

Black Activists Condemn NAACP Resolution Against Tea Party Movement AND The Racism of the NAACP

Michelle Obama to the NAACP: 'Now is Not The Time to Rest on Our Laurels'

Maybe the French Aren’t So Bad After All

Opponents Pack Hearing on Mosque Near Ground Zero

An Economy of Grinds

A decade of spiraling deficits

Drilling ban reissued

The Cost of the VAT

Kagan and ObamaCare The Senate should press her to recuse herself from the state lawsuit.

IWF in the News: 100 Days of Health-Care Reform

Obama and the “S” Word

Obamacare: Forecasts Cloudy for Young Adults

Obamacare: Still Unpopular

Repealing Obamacare and Restoring a Free Market in Healthcare


Felons Voting Illegally May Have Put Franken Over the Top in Minnesota, Study Finds

The Ministries of Truth Weigh In

How Diversity Punishes Asians, Poor Whites and Lots of Others

IRS starts mopping up Congress's tax-reporting mess

The 5 Biggest Threats To America's Future Success

If They Say There's a Big Crowd At the Skeptics' Conference, Should You Believe Them?

Through a Gimlet Eye: Studying the Washington Post Kremlinologist-Style

Obama threatened by Tea Party. White House frets about coming Republican majority

Liberals flunk Economics 101

THE CALIFORNIA ECONOMY ...

In California's current fiscal crisis, there is a serious risk that Jose will have to be laid off.
From an email my husband sent me.

UPDATE - I liked FuzzySlippers' comment so much I'm quoting it below:

heh, that's about right. It's also a good way to visually demonstrate the monstrosity of big government with it's bazillion layers of bureaucracy, waste, inefficiency . . . and it's always teachers and police who are laid off first to save the state or city money (that they then over-pay to people who watch porn all day long instead of doing their jobs).

I'm Home! I'm Home! I'm Home!

I'm back from my Family Reunion 2010. While it was terrific seeing the family, it is good to be home and reunited with my husband and our cat.

Normal business will resume tomorrow. Thank you for your patience.