1. Obama's Strike Three: The Iranian Bomb 3 hours ago   permalink

American Thinker

Three strikes and you're out. Obama has blown two so far, and he's got one chance left when it comes to national security. What will happen if in the next twelve months or so the suicide-preaching fanatics of Tehran explode a nuclear bomb, as they obviously are dead-set on doing? What will happen if Israel tries a preemptive strike? What if the ...

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Obama's Strike Three: The Iranian Bomb Obama dings Las Vegas — again   —  The Hill, a Washington, D.C., publication, quoted Obama warning an audience in New Hampshire against the danger of wasting "a bunch of cash in Vegas."

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Obama's Strike Three: The Iranian Bomb Obama Job Approval   —  RCP Average: Democrats, Obama Health Care Plan

2. WONDERING WHY REUTERS WITHDREW ITS “BACKDOOR TAXES” STORY. 1 hour ago   permalink

WONDERING WHY REUTERS WITHDREW ITS “BACKDOOR TAXES” STORY.
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"Glenn also has a rather dry sense of humour, which I'm guessing not enough people pick up on." -- Andrea See

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JIM GERAGHTY: An Incorrigible Way Of Counting Unemployment.   —  "Glenn also has a rather dry sense of humour, which I'm guessing not enough people pick up on." -- Andrea See

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Backdoor taxes to hit middle class   —  NEW YORK (Reuters.com) --The Obama administration's plan to cut more than $1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade relies heavily on so-called backdoor tax increases that will result in a bigger tax bill for middle-class families.

3. Leaked climate change emails scientist 'hid' data flaws 15 hours ago   permalink

Leaked climate change emails scientist 'hid' data flaws
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Professor Phil Jones, who was director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and a professor of environmental sciences at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. Photograph: University of East Anglia

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STEYN: Change of Climate   —  You have to assume that America's dying monodailies are now actively auditioning for state ownership. How else to explain the silence of the massed ranks of salaried "environmental correspondents" on the daily revelations emerging from the fast disintegrating "scientific consensus" on "climate change"? You get livelier coverage from the Chinese ...

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Strange case of moving weather posts and a scientist under siege   —  In the first part of a major investigation of the so-called 'climategate' emails, one of Britain's top science writers reveals how researchers tried to hide flaws in a key study

4. "Ban on tobacco use in Seattle parks is intolerant and disingenuous" 1 hour ago   permalink

Theshark / Sound Politics

So writes Noel Merino in a Times op-ed. I agree. And I'll continue to enjoy my occasional cigar from the comfort of a park bench until the nannies take my Maduros "from my cold, dead hands"....

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"Ban on tobacco use in Seattle parks is intolerant and disingenuous" Ban on tobacco use in Seattle parks is intolerant and disingenuous | Guest columnist   —  The proposal to ban smoking and other tobacco use in Seattle parks is unnecessary and intolerant, writes guest columnist Noël Merino. She argues the Seattle Board of Park Commissioners should reject the idea.

5. Obama and Education: Pork You Can Believe In 3 hours ago   permalink

American Thinker

It's been a tough year for President Obama's legislative agenda. His centerpiece proposals have likely died while generating intense ideological rancor. Almost predictably, he now falls back on the apple pie and motherhood issue of education to elicit a legislative consensus and maybe, if lucky, enact something tangible. It's admittedly a tough ...

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Obama and Education: Pork You Can Believe In Poll: Many Republicans Believe Obama is Racist Socialist Who Was Elected by ACORN   —  Markos Moulitsas and Research 2000 have attempted to take it, and the results are up now. Among them: - Only 24 percent of Republicans say that ACORN definitely did not “steal the 2008 election.” Twenty-one percent say the community group did; 55 percent are unsure.

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Obama and Education: Pork You Can Believe In President Obama and the National Debt - Spending More We Don't Have   —  The President recently announced he would freeze certain types of federal spending in an effort to save approximately $250 billion over the next 10 years. Over that period, deficits are projected...

6. Lost: I'm pissed. 1 hour ago   permalink

Slate Magazine

I knew that the detonation of an H-bomb, which closed Season Five of Lost, would be a noisy act to follow. But I never expected the show's creators, always eager to retrace their own steps, would revisit the blast twice in the debut episode of the final season. [ more ... ] Lost - Television - Drama - Arts - Programs

7. Monckton meets The Castle 1 hour ago   permalink

Monckton meets The Castle
Deltoid

After discovering the cure for the common cold Christopher Monckton has taken up constitutional law . "If by some miss chance the ETS scheme proceeds any further and actually gets passed into law, the next thing that will happen is that the courts will call it in and it will be declared unconstitutional and that would bring the Government down,''

8. Pelican 2 hours ago   permalink

Pelican
Little Green Footballs

Compare Electricity Prices in your area. Texas Electricity is deregulated; you have the right to choose Texas Electric Rates from among many Texas Electric Companies.

9. Kos' Supposed 'Non-Partisan' Pollster a Barking Moonbat 4 hours ago   permalink

Bluto / The Jawa Report

Research 2000, which conducted this caricature poll to help DailyKos' Marcos Moulitsas sell books smearing Republicans as "American Taliban" bills itself as "non-partisan," yet, oddly, features a post by Moulitsas on its website. Perhaps Research 2000 uses the progressive definition...

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The 2010 Comprehensive Daily Kos/Research 2000 Poll of Self-Identified Republicans   —  As I've mentioned before, I'm putting the finishing touches on my new book, American Taliban, which catalogues the ways in which modern-day conservatives share the same agenda as radical Jihadists in the Islamic world. But I found myself making certain claims about Republicans that I didn't know if they could be backed up. So I thought, "why don' ...

10. Star Of David In Gaza Field Causes "Stir" 3 hours ago   permalink

Star Of David In Gaza Field Causes "Stir"
Stable Hand / The Jawa Report

Is there nothing the evil Juice will stoop to?Satellite photograph shows 60-meter Jewish symbol carved into Palestinian land. Click image to enlarge Too funny.....heh...

11. Arianna Huffington AKA "Media Matters after a few drinks" 3 hours ago   permalink

AMERICAN DIGEST

Professor Beck schools Arianna ("Zsa Zsa") Huffington to a fare-thee-well: Next step, find someone who will flame Huffington hairless.

12. Predators pound terrorist camp in North Waziristan 11 hours ago   permalink

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A swarm of unmanned US aircraft pounded an al Qaeda camp today in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. Five unmanned US strike aircraft, likely the Predators and Reapers, are reported to have fired 18 missiles at a camp and vehicles in the village of Datta Khel, a known al Qaeda and Taliban stronghold. This is the largest ...

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Not News: al Qaeda Planning Attacks   —  I'm not sure if a single thing said by Panetta actually qualifies as news. 1) We've known al Qaeda wants to attack us since well before 9/11. 2) We've known they try to recruit people who can more easiy get...

13. Cobb Explores King Solomon's Mines 4 hours ago   permalink

AMERICAN DIGEST

Cobb takes a look at this Hollywood warhorse and goes someplace unique: In the genre of "wow check out these weird African animals and tribes" flicks, I'm not very savvy. And for the sake of stating the obvious, you can clearly see why the African nations involved did their best to get whole villages decked out and put all in frame for the sake ...

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Cobb Explores King Solomon's Mines King Solomon's Mines   —  I've never seen The African Queen but now I know who this Alan Quartermain dude is supposed to be, and I can see how much better we had it with Indiana Jones. But this review is about a black thing. A small one, though.

14. Family Research Council Spokesman: Gay Behavior Should Be Outlawed 5 hours ago   permalink

Little Green Footballs

Tonight on the Chris Matthews show, in a discussion about the proposal to repeal the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, “senior fellow” Peter Sprigg of the far right religious group Family Research Council openly said he wants to see “gay behavior” outlawed. Wow. [Video] (Hat tip: ...

15. 'Hardball's' College Tour with John McCain 5 hours ago   permalink

'Hardball's' College Tour with John McCain
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE:  Senator McCain, you‘ve always been a very vocal critic of torture.  So why did you sign the Military Commissions Act—or vote for the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which many people say increases the president‘s power to detain and torture suspected terrorists.

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16. Slate adds in-page comments to our articles and blogs. 6 hours ago   permalink

Slate Magazine

Today we're making one of the most important—and overdue—changes to Slate in many years: We're adding in-page comments to Slate articles and blog posts. We've always known that Slate's intelligent, engaged readers—yes, I'm talking to you—are an extraordinary group, but we haven't done a very good job involving you in the site. Whenever ...

17. Iran's Leader: Feb. 11 To Be ‘Demise’ of ‘Capitalist System’ 8 hours ago   permalink

Iran's Leader: Feb. 11 To Be ‘Demise’ of ‘Capitalist System’
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(CNSNews.com) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Feb. 11 would mark the demise of “the liberal capitalist system,” adding that its champion, America, was on the decline and that Iran and its Islamic Revolution were on the rise.

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Ahmadinejad predicts the end of American civilization... Thug-In-Chief: "Iran will deliver telling blow to global powers on Feb. 11"   —  Nine days to Armageddon, Infidels Well, maybe not Armageddon. But certainly this represents an uptick in the saber-rattling from the Thug-In-Chief. "'Iran will deliver telling blow to global powers on Feb. 11,'" from PressTV, February 1 (thanks to all who sent this in): Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the...

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Ahmadinejad predicts the end of American civilization... Iranian Parliament Speaker: Hey, all Islamic states should have nuclear technology!   —  Larijani: Man of peace Just think how peaceful the world would be in that event! "Iran's speaker urges Islamic states to possess nuclear energy technology," from Xinhua, February 2 (thanks to Twostellas): Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said on Monday that the Islamic states should possess technology to produce...

18. Fragile, pushed out and paying a price 7 hours ago   permalink

Seattletimes.nwsource.com

"I'll get a room and a TV," says Jeri Ringseth, right, as husband Gary visits her at a Tacoma hospital in April 2009. At this point, day 62 of her stay, she's been told she's moving to her third adult family home. Her previous home wouldn't take her back.

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19. First “The Kennedy Seat, Next “The Schumer Seat”? 8 hours ago   permalink

First “The Kennedy Seat, Next “The Schumer Seat”?
Jimmie / The Sundries Shack

A year ago, I suggested that Kirsten Gillibrand’s Senate seat should not be the target for Republicans in 2010. Why take down someone who could, with some finessing, become an occasional ally... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]

20. We Got Mail! 8 hours ago   permalink

Little Green Footballs

Since I began to break ranks with the right wing noisemakers, I’ve been receiving an average of five hate mails every single day , often more. Sometimes it’s the same person over and over. Once someone sent me more than three dozen emails in about 10 minutes before I blocked his IP address from the site. Sometimes it’s from a ...