State Department Report Says Keystone Pipeline Will Have No Impact on Carbon Emissions, Clears Way For Approval…

Now it's up to the Man With The Phone.

Weasel Zippers   "There will be a freakout of epic proportions on the left if the Obama administration approves this."

(CNN) — A long-awaited environmental report by the government on the proposed Keystone oil pipeline indicates the project would have negligible immediate impact on overall carbon emissions.
The report released Friday by the State Department is considered crucial to the Obama administration’s eventual decision on whether to move forward with the project.
The pipeline that would transport oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast has been a political football, pitting the oil industry and its Republican backers against environmentalists and liberal Democrats who complain it bolsters the especially dirty fossil fuel production from the tar sands of northern Alberta.

Full article.

 

The Poison of Postmodern Lying; When truth is relative, political expediency becomes the truth.

And the Constitution becomes nothing more that a list of suggestions.

Victor Davis Hanson  "All presidents have, at one time or another, fudged on the truth. Most politicians pad their résumés and airbrush away their sins. But what is new about political lying is the present notion that lies are not necessarily lies anymore — a reflection of the relativism that infects our entire culture."
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"For that matter, the “law” that requires a president to enforce legislation passed by Congress is likewise a construct. If ignoring bothersome laws — whether the individual mandate and timetable of Obamacare, or federal immigration law — serves a greater social justice, then such dereliction also becomes “truth.” Blindly enforcing legalistic details of the law that are deemed no longer in the interest of the people would be the real lie, or so the reasoning goes."

 

Charles Krauthammer: How to debunk the ‘war on women’

WaPo   "What is it about women that causes leading Republicans to grow clumsy, if not stupid? When even savvy, fluent, attractively populist Mike Huckabee stumbles, you know you’ve got trouble. Having already thrown away eminently winnable Senate seats in Missouri and Indiana because of moronic talk about rape, the GOP might have learned. You’d think."
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"Yet there is a very simple, straightforward strategy for seizing the high ground on abortion in a way that transcends the normal divisions and commands wide popular support: Focus on the horror of late-term abortion — and get it banned."

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"What was her 11-hour filibuster about? Blocking a state law whose major feature was outlawing abortions beyond 20 weeks. Make that the battlefield. Make Davis explain why she chose not just to support late-term abortion but to make it her great cause.

"Stay away from the minefield of gender politics. Challenge the other side on substance. And watch them lose."

 

State Dept. Webcast Features Guest Who Called Clarence Thomas, Condi Rice 'Uncle Toms'

Weekly Standard   ... "The host of the webcast, rapper and State Department Music Ambassador Toni Blackman, will be joined by Pras Michel, a founding member of the hip hop group the Fugees, to discuss "how rap and hip hop have increased social awareness of the African-American experience — and raised even broader issues in contemporary society."  Some of Michel's more inflammatory comments in the past raise questions about the appropriateness of his appearance with the U.S.'s music ambassador on a government-sponsored webcast representing America to the world.

" ... But he saved his harshest words for some well-known black conservatives as he contrasted them with then-presidential candidate Barack Obama:

Somebody said to me you only like Obama because he's black. Well I can think of a couple black people I wouldn't vote for. I'm not into black power. And on the other end of the spectrum, you got the Uncle Toms, the Clarence Thomas, Condoleezza Rice ... I'm not into that either. Obama is a uniter. He's perfectly comfortable with the skin he's in. He's not gonna sell out. That's a man of great principle.

This happens when an agency is run by the left, people who appreciate cartoons like this one:

 

Ann Coulter takes MSNBC's Chris Matthews to task for racial double standard

Examiner.com  "In her new book, "Mugged: Racial Demagoguery From the Seventies to Obama," Ann Coulter takes MSNBC's Chris Matthews to task for his double standard on race, according to an interview published by Newsbusters on Thursday."
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"Thanks in part to Matthews and other liberals, Coulter says that America is "right back to the '70s and '80s again where people feel that they should be walking on eggshells about anything they say about Obama."

"Worse yet, Coulter told Newsbusters that liberal Democrats are stirring "racial fires" in order "to get Obama reelected.' "

George Will; Four words in the ACA could spell its doom

Washington Post   "Someone you probably are not familiar with has filed a suit you probably have not heard about concerning a four-word phrase you should know about. The suit could blow to smithereens something everyone has heard altogether too much about, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (hereafter, ACA)." Heretofore, "Obamacare"
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"The four words that threaten disaster for the ACA say the subsidies shall be available to persons who purchase health insurance in an exchange “established by the state.” But 34 states have chosen not to establish exchanges."

Dinesh D'Souza was Right about Obama

comicallyincorrect.com

By Ed Lasky  "To dispel concerns that he is anti-Israel Obama has repeatedly boasted of his knowledge of Judaism and his dedication to fighting anti-Semitism. They were, like much of what he has says, not quite true.

"When Barack Obama began his presidential campaign, concerns were raised when it was discovered that Jeremiah Wright,  the man he called his "moral compass" and the pastor of his church,  was a severe critic of Israel and anti-Semitic as well ("them Jews"). The tip off to me came when Wright told New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor that when Obama's "enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli" to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, with Farrakhan, a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell."

Watch these workers' faces as they realize what ObamaCare does to them

Investors.com  "To millions of Americans, however, ObamaCare has been just a word. Now, however, every single day thousands of Americans learn the details of ObamaCare's impact on their family, lives and wallets. It's not pretty."
 

... "Since not one single Republican member of Congress voted to pass ObamaCare, its ownership resides solely with Democrats. Which is why you do not hear many of them bragging about that position." ... 

Emphasis added, TD

"Obama is already a lame duck. But whether he talks about his plan or not, these voters will have the opportunity to express their opinion in just 277 days.
If they want to keep their congressional Democrats, they can. If not, they'll have other choices. Period."

The plight of the people above is not the concern of the liberals who voted for this Obama supporter:  

 

The fog is beginning to lift.

President ignores ObamaCare horror stories as human, financial costs pile up  ... "But despite the questionable claims of easier access and more people enrolling in the ObamaCare exchanges, the ugly truth is the horror stories are piling up and, sooner or later, ObamaCare’s cheerleaders will have to confront the overwhelming evidence indicting them for repeatedly lying to the American people." ...

Thanks, Mr. President, but I think we'll do better without you over here.

http://terrellaftermath.com/
 

In Landrieu Races, Obama Helps and Hinders  "Sen. Landreau's "success will ultimately come down to her ability to retain enthusiasm among those blacks while attracting moderate white Democrats who increasingly vote Republican, many of whom are furious about the Affordable Care Act. “Senator Landrieu has supported President Obama’s agenda 97 percent of the time,” her likely opponent, Representative Bill Cassidy, wrote in an email.

 

"While Ms. Landrieu, 58, has largely kept her distance from the president, she is taking any help she can get from her colleagues."...