The Democrat's idea of 'free and open debate' on climate change

Rick Moran, AT "Still, it is interesting to watch as Democrats simply ignore Climategate or treat it as a joke. Perhaps the joke will be on them next year at the polls if they persist in this folly."

Great Dane: Denmark's Parliament's Speaker Expresses 'Serious Doubts' About 'Climate Change'

Newsbusters "Given what has been exposed in ClimateGate, Pedersen is actually giving climate change scientists more of a break than they deserve. It's clear from the e-mails exposed that many of these scientists have made up their minds and have in many cases been pretending to know what they don't really know."

WaPo Puts ClimateGate at the Top of Page One

Newsbusters "But the Post makes sure to emphasize that the side they generally favor are not liberals or activists for government intervention, but "top scientists" and "mainstream scienists" -- just like the Post is a top, "mainstream" paper."

Uncertain Trumpet

Charles Krauthammer "Does he think that such ambivalence is not heard by the Taliban, by Afghan peasants deciding which side to choose, by Pakistani generals hedging their bets, by NATO allies already with one foot out of Afghanistan?"...."Success in war depends on three things: a brave and highly skilled soldiery, ... brilliant, battle-tested commanders such as Gens. David Petraeus and McChrystal, fresh from the success of the surge in Iraq; and the will to prevail as personified by the commander in chief."

Political Cartoons by Glenn Foden

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Obama, the anti-Churchill.

Alinsky Does Afghanistan

Andrew C. McCarthy "If there is one word that captures President Obama’s much-anticipated Afghanistan speech, it is “cynical.” Yes, the speech was also internally contradictory, counter-historical, and premised on fatally flawed assumptions about Islam and the Afghan people. Cynicism, however, is the defining feature of Obama speeches. This one was no different: from its use of the United States Military Academy as a prop to its concluding assertion that “our resolve is unwavering” . . . after the president had spent the preceding 40 minutes in full waver mode. There are two things to bear in mind in considering any Obama speech, and they go double for those that touch on national security..."

Iranian Crackdown Goes Global

WSJ "Tehran's leadership faces its biggest crisis since it first came to power in 1979, as Iranians at home and abroad attack its legitimacy in the wake of June's allegedly rigged presidential vote. An opposition effort, the "Green Movement," is gaining a global following of regular Iranians who say they never previously considered themselves activists. The regime has been cracking down hard at home. And now, a Wall Street Journal investigation shows, it is extending that crackdown to Iranians abroad as well."

Media Portrayal of Men and Women

Wikipedia Anybody besides me ever notice this? Also here:

Morning Joe Guest: ClimateGate Scientists Being 'Swiftboated'

Newsbusters "What happened is not a very big deal, no. And what happened is a tiny piece of a huge, global, independent scientific enterprise which has found for decades that we have a very serious environmental crisis." Another reason I stay away from MSNBC.

Remember those Hollywood blacklists? That was then; this is now

Big Hollywood "By the way, [Matthew] Marsden himself is a big soldier supporter too, and he actually did a parachute jump with the U.S. Army’s Golden Knights (Airborne – all the way, Matt!). Uh oh, I probably just moved him up the New Blacklist about twenty spots by revealing that he doesn’t hold our fighting men and women in sufficient contempt."

Comcast Endorses ObamaCare as Congress Scrutinizes NBC Deal

Newsbusters This should illustrate another principle to go with the crap detector mentioned later in the Tunnel Wall; follow the money.

John Stossel: Who Creates Jobs?

Fox Business "They and the political class can’t imagine a decentralized world where good things happen…without them. But in the real world, that’s exactly how good things happen, and how jobs are created. When government sets simple rules that everyone understands and then gets out of the way, free people create jobs."