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    Global warming: Mostly hot air, after all these years
    The past few months have not been good to the still-infant discipline of climate change alarmism — that strange amalgam of pseudo-science, crystal ball gazing, and mass hysteria that was formerly known as global warming alarmism until it became apparent a few years back that the globe had in fact stopped warming, and the alarmists decided that the term “climate change” was a more effective way of describing what the rest of us call “weather.”

    For around a decade now — since around the time, coincidentally, that the warming stopped — the alarmists have had things pretty much their own way, dominating the debate with ever more dramatic predictions of impending doom as man-made CO2 emissions heat up the planet, and managing for the best part to keep a lid on dissent, thanks to an unlikely, and decidedly unholy, alliance of organizations and individuals with a vested interest in upping the fear factor.

    This alliance includes politicians who see climate change as a new way of persuading citizens to give them more power; corporations who play on our concern and guilt to sell us anything from eco-friendly washing powder to flex-fuel SUVs; scientists keen to get their hands on a share of the $5 billion handed out by governments and NGOs each year for climate change research; and the legions of bureaucrats employed to draw up regulations and run the globe-trotting climate conference circus.

    Then there’s the lavishly funded environmental lobby; socialists who see climate change as their last, best hope of undermining free-market democracies and cutting the United States down to size; and a media which understands that “World Ends Tomorrow” stories get more viewers than “Everything Likely to Be Just Fine” stories, and whose members tend to side with the leftist, anti-American crowd.

    Beyonce’s new brand of pedophilia chic
    If you thought the soft-porn image of Disney teen queen Miley Cyrus—wearing nothing but ruby-stained lips and a bedsheet—in Vanity Fair magazine was disturbing, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

    Pop diva Beyoncé Knowles, 27, and her fashion designer mother have launched a girls clothing line that makes Miley’s bare-backed glam session look like a Shirley Temple photo shoot.

    Obama: Why Hamas thinks I'm cool
    Word that Hamas has endorsed Barack Obama has finally leaked into the mainstream press, mostly in the form of reporters and pundits denouncing John McCain for suggesting that the endorsement might be something voters should keep in mind. Obama himself was sufficiently concerned to give an interview on the subject to Atlantic magazine. Predictably, his supporters (e.g., the New York Times) portrayed the interview as disposing of the issue, much as Obama's speech on race supposedly disposed of the embarrassment posed by his anti-American minister.

    Obama and Hamas - 2
    After first denying that Hamas supports him and attacking John McCain for bringing it up, Barack Obama now says he understands why Hamas supports him.

    . . . "It's conceivable that there are those in the Arab world who say to themselves, 'This is a guy who spent some time in the Muslim world, has a middle name of Hussein and appears more worldly and has called for talks with people, and so he's not going to be engaging in the same sort of cowboy diplomacy as George Bush,'" Obama said in an interview with The Atlantic.

    "That's a perfectly legitimate perception as long as they're not confused about my unyielding support for Israel's security," Obama said.

    Now why in the world would they be confused about that?

    The stupid party strikes again: 'The Change You Deserve'
    Conservatives have spent the entire campaign season eviscerating Democrat candidates who've tattooed themselves with the empty "change" slogan. So what do the brain-dead strategists and p.r. market wizards of the GOP go and do?

    Wrap themselves in "change."

    What about self-preservation? What about sovereignty? What about consistent adherence to constitutional principles?

    Nope. We get more insipid "change."

    The crack research staff at GOP HQ somehow missed that "Change You Deserve" is the marketing slogan for Effexor, an anti-depressant. Brilliant.

    A conservative Soros? Horrors
    Liberals are trying to pre-empt our 527s in this election cycle by targeting their fire on one of the best-funded conservative organization’s financial backers. Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson is operating casinos in Vegas and Macao, and his acumen in doing so has made him the twelfth-richest man in the world. He’s also involved in the funding of Freedom’s Watch, which the Left just knows is going to launch dirty-pool campaign ads in the general election season.

    Jimmy Carter: Still the Hamas PR agent
    Here’s Jimmy Carter shilling for Hamas again, with an article in the Guardian that lets his mask slip a little more than usual: Jimmy Carter: A human rights crime.

    The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world. An entire population is being brutally punished.

     
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