Professor Richard Lindzen’s Congressional Testimony

Watts Up With That? "Perhaps we should stop accepting the term, ‘skeptic.’ Skepticism implies doubts about a plausible proposition. Current global warming alarm hardly represents a plausible proposition. Twenty years of repetition and escalation of claims does not make it more plausible. Quite the contrary, the failure to improve the case over 20 years makes the case even less plausible as does the evidence from climategate and other instances of overt cheating."

Don't touch my junk

Charles Krauthammer "We pretend that we go through this nonsense as a small price paid to ensure the safety of air travel. Rubbish. This has nothing to do with safety - 95 percent of these inspections, searches, shoe removals and pat-downs are ridiculously unnecessary. The only reason we continue to do this is that people are too cowed to even question the absurd taboo against profiling - when the profile of the airline attacker is narrow, concrete, uniquely definable and universally known. So instead of seeking out terrorists, we seek out tubes of gel in stroller pouches.
"The junk man's revolt marks the point at which a docile public declares that it will tolerate only so much idiocy. "
Remember the villain is not the poor, put-upon inspector at the security gate; it is the oppressive force of political-correctness that suffocates us all.

For the GOP, California is a deep blue hole

LA Times  "The negative overlay both explained and helped determine the fates of the party's candidates in November. As a GOP tide swept the nation, Republicans here lost all statewide offices, with one contest, for attorney general, still unresolved but leaning toward the Democrat. Republicans here also failed to gain any congressional seats and lost a legislative seat."

'Captain Kinetic' receives Military Cross for holding off Taliban's Zulu-style attack with his men using fixed bayonets

UK Daily Mail  "The combat was so fierce that soldiers were ordered to fix bayonets as the insurgents pushed to within just 30 metres of the tiny compound's mud walls.

"Had the patrol base been over-run, it would have been a catastrophic defeat that could have threatened the UK mission in central Helmand.

"But at the end of six weeks of attacks, the soldiers of 5 Platoon, No 2 Company, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards had killed at least 84 of the enemy while barely suffering an injury themselves."

Bristol the Pistol

Jeannie DeAngelis  "How ironic, liberals blaming excessive voting for an "undeserving" contestant being in contention to win the "whole shebang." If the coveted, oversized mirror ball trophy finds a home with Bristol ‘the pistol' way up in Wasilla, Alaska, liberals are the reason. Wasn't it two just years ago that "democracy at work" taught Dancing with the Stars viewers to vote for an unqualified, "ubiquitous" candidate who ended up walking away with the ultimate prize? "

New battle lines in the fog of ObamaCare

American Thinker "An assortment of unions, including the United Federation of Teachers, are among 111 entities receiving ObamaCare waivers, reports the Examiner. Also notable on the waiver list are health insurers Aetna and Cigna."

A Time for Strength‪

National Review  "The current environment requires clear, decisive leadership, and President Obama is not providing it.
"The ruling in the Ghailani case makes clear that President Obama’s decision to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other Gitmo detainees in civilian courts was a mistake and will not work. The Ghailani case was supposed to be the easy one, yet the Obama administration failed. "....
"...we should all have grave concerns about President Obama’s overall approach to national security. His artificial 2011 deadline to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan has led to confusion and a guessing game on the ground about Washington’s long-term intentions."

Terror-trial travesty    "Defense lawyers had argued that Ghailani's disclosures were inadmissible because they were coerced -- and prosecutors were loath to risk having their entire case tossed by the judge.
"Under normal circumstances, that's fine. But this case involved a foreigner making war on America.
"The result: A bloody-handed terrorist will now largely escape accountability for his heinous acts.
"Yes, Ghailani is facing 20 years to life -- but that's only about a month for each of the 224 people he helped kill.
"Team Obama is still trying to figure out what to do about KSM & Co. There's no longer any question: Trying them in a civilian court would invite disaster. "

Carville defiant on Obama comment

CNN  via Lucianne  "Democratic strategist James Carville compared President Barack Obama to his Democratic primary rival and current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Thursday, implying in rather lewd terms that Obama needs to toughen-up.
"And he's not sorry for it."