Exclusive: 9/11 Grand Jury Now Hearing Evidence in NYC

NBC New York h/t to Keep America Safe "It is unclear if prosecutors will only seek 9-11 related charges from this grand jury. Some experts say prosecutors could also include terror charges for the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and other past al Qaeda attacks overseas."

CBS and NBC Trumpet UN Predictions About Warmest Decade Since 1850

Newsbusters "...without any regard for ClimateGate disclosures about manipulation of past data and without mentioning, as the AP noted, “the United States and Canada experienced cooler conditions than average.” CBS anchor Katie Couric announced: “At the world climate conference in Copenhagen today, scientists said this decade is on track to become the warmest since records were first kept back in 1850.” "

Feinstein Says It's 'Morally Correct' to Force Taxpayers to Fund Abortion

CNS News "CNSNews.com asked: "So it’s morally right for pro-life taxpayers to have to help pay for plans that cover abortion?" Feinstein responded: "Please. We pay for a lot of things that we may or may not agree with, and taxpayers pay for it, for those things, as well." Feinstein joined the majority of Democrats Tuesday in voting against the Nelson amendment, which was rejected on a 54-45 vote."

Reason TV on why Canadians come to US for surgery

Hot Air "Why does Cheryl Baxter’s story sound so familiar? Baxter needed a hip-replacement surgery, but since she lived in Canada, she had no choice but to wait for a surgical date that never came. Instead of curing her problem with the common surgery, Canadian doctors just gave her painkillers while she waited … and waited … and waited. Finally, as Reason TV reports, Baxter decided to head south for some free-market medicine and an actual cure:"

Four Colossal Holes in the Theory of Man-Made Global Warming

John Hawkins "So, why is it that the people who insist that man-made global warming is occurring right now can't come up with coherent answers to many of the most basic problems with the ideas that undergird their theory?"

NPR pressures [Mara Liasson] over her Fox News appearances

Ethel C. Fenig , AT "The White House campaign against Fox News is bearing some poisonous fruit--censorship. Josh Gerstein of Politico relates how executives at National Public Radio (NPR), which proudly labels itself as "listener supported," exerted pressure on one of its major correspondents to forgo her appearances on Fox News. "

Criminalizing profit?

Rick Moran , AT "Needless to say, such a broad mandate opens the door to political machinations in prosecuting companies and executives who might not toe the Obama party line. After all, if they are going to act before problems "peak," that could be interpreted as just about anything they want to criminalize."

Tiger, Barack, and the Law of Transitivity

By Lisa Schiffren "And while it doesn't matter if another athlete is an adulterer, it matters a lot if the president is revealed to be an inexperienced, excessively ideological, and weak man who is naïve about the world and uncomfortable exercising American power during a time of war. It matters if nothing in his training would have equipped the president to understand what it takes to stimulate job growth, or ameliorate a recession, or to end an overseas conflict successfully." Hat tip to Rush Limbaugh.

Shhh! Don’t confuse Reid with history while he’s playing the race card!

Michelle Malkin "It was the GOP that fought slavery and the Democrat Party that battled to preserve it. It’s the Democrat Party, not the GOP, that boasts an ex-Klansman among its senior leaders. But don’t confuse Harry Reid with history while he invokes slavery to lambaste the GOP for opposing the government-run health care takeover."

Watermelon Marxists

By John Griffing , AT "But as a tool for watermelon Marxists -- green on the outside and red on the inside -- climate change orthodoxy represents an opportunity to achieve age-old dreams of Communist wealth redistribution. Don't take my word for it. Listen to Cass Sunstein, Obama's new regulatory czar and perhaps the most powerful bureaucrat in America:"

Time for Sarah to Grapple

Pajamas Media "Palin must confront her fundamental weakness: conveying to the public that she comprehends and can handle presidential-level problems." Good primer for speech and debate students.

What to Think about Global Warming

Kevin Williamson , NRO "Given the stakes in the global-warming debate ...conservatives should not simply dismiss the Copenhagen talks, even though the revelations of Climategate may tempt us to do so. The debate is polarized, and it is natural to throw one’s lot in with one camp or another — The World Is Ending vs. Global Warming Is a Hoax — but there are more than two propositions to consider. And those propositions are not mostly scientific in character, but political. We should examine them in ascending order of unlikeliness: