Our valiant, courageous press

http://www.worldmag.com/editorialcartoons/

Leftist media in full court press backing warmism  "Everyone knows how fickle the mainstream media is, and how they are ultimately driven to out-scoop each other for ratings gains. If they smell blood in the water of an imminent collapse to this entire so-called crisis, they will turn on each other and promoters like Romm and Gelbspan in a heartbeat, no doubt with yells of being hoodwinked or assumptions that other news outlets had initially checked the voracity of the "warming" science everyone else relies on."

How fiction became news "Pick up a copy of the New York Times or the Washington Post any day of the week when they run an article on Israel and you're apt to find prominent quotes from reporters and columnists of Haaretz, a far-left newspaper with limited circulation that is treated as gospel by Western reporters based in Jerusalem"

http://townhall.com/cartoons/mikelester

 Chicken Littles: AP Report Casts Texas v. EPA Fight as Risking Health of Texans

Cagle Cartoons

"In his report on the escalating dispute between the State of Texas and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, one thing you cannot accuse Ramit Plushnick-Masti of the Associated Press of being is a master of understatement. He claims that "Both sides and conservation groups agree the battle has put the health of Texas residents and the environment at risk."

Really? The only problem is that the AP reporter never found anyone who is currently on the Texas side of the dispute who is saying anything remotely resembling that."....

"Implication: Texas needs to be squashed like a bug."

The beginning of a trend? American companies rethink China

Phil Boehmke "It is just a trickle right now, but as China grapples with its “revolution of rising expectations,” the hard pressed U.S. manufacturing sector could see some real gains. No doubt Mr. Obama will claim victory for each job driven back home by conditions in China."

‘Compliance’: The Word That Sunk a Million U.S. Jobs

Pajamas Media  "Costs not related to the quality of the end product — costs created entirely by overbearing government — have destroyed our manufacturing sector."....
"Politicians have treated business as a painless source of social and monetary benefits for nearly forty years. In the end, regardless of their origin or intent, all costs of doing business must be able to fit into the competition model. A business that can’t recover all its costs must find a way to reduce them — possibly by relocating to where they don’t have those costs."

Neal Boortz: "OFFENDING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS"

Neal Boortz "How about what's offensive to Americans? Here's some advice: Latinos, Hispanics, Mexicans ... whatever ... ought to spend a few momentos worrying about what is offensive to us. Here's a start:"
· Calling yourselves "reconquistadores" and claiming that the Southwestern United States really belongs to Mexico anyway.
· Raising unholy hell when Arizona tries to enforce an immigration law that is much less severe than the laws in effect and being enforced in Mexico.
· Refusing to extradite Mexican murderers who flee to Mexico if they will face the death penalty in America while Mexican border cities and towns are becoming lawless killing fields.
· Marching around with signs saying "we are not criminals" when you broke the law coming here, break the law staying here, and break the law working here. Maybe "criminals" means something completely different in Spanish.

True Wit

http://www.calchronicle.com/

Obama's Ship of Fools foreign policy recalls Ike's Atoms for Peace fiasco

James Carafano  "After swearing to modernize our decaying nuclear arsenal, he subsequently promised that America would never build new nuclear weapons. He pulled out all the stops to push a nuclear arms control agreement with Moscow though the Senate, but has spent virtually no political or diplomatic capital to slow Iran's or North Korea's nuclear programs, nor has he shown any real interest in China's increasingly ambitious military and nuclear programs."
 Washington Examiner  via Heritage

GOP plans assault on health law

Politico  "The new Republican-controlled House plans to schedule a vote to repeal the sweeping health care overhaul before President Barack Obama delivers his annual State of the Union address late this month, incoming House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said Sunday."

GOP agenda may mean more in 2012 than now  "The GOP is promising to use the new Congress that convenes Wednesday to cut spending, roll back President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and prevent unelected bureaucrats from expanding the government's role in society through regulations that tell people what they must or can't do."
Via Heritage

‘Civil Rights’ Gone Wild

National Review"There is no question that schools should not allow bullying or violence of any kind. But it’s ludicrous to launch federal investigations of schools for having dress codes that differentiate between males and females, or to equate such dress codes with “sex discrimination.”....
"One can only hope that the public will soon take notice of the Obama administration’s abuse of its civil-rights enforcement function. Otherwise, the division’s “enlightened” erosion of our culture and our real civil rights will proceed apace."
Hans A. von Spakovsky is a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a former counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Justice Department.

No Bailouts for Government Unions

Heritage   "The problem with government unions is that, unlike the private sector, governments have no competitors. If a union ends up extracting a contract from a private firm that eats up too much profits, that firm will lose out to the competition. But when a union extracts a generous contract from government, there is no check on that spending. Instead of being disciplined by more efficient competitors, the government just pays for higher spending with higher taxes or borrowing."

http://terrellaftermath.com/

File away for future reference; Hillary: Up to her old tricks

Dick Morris  (Nov, 2010) "She always goes for the jugular and loves the politics of personal intimidation and destruction. It is because she is so well suited and adept at this form of political combat that she was instrumental in her husband’s success in beating back the impeachment efforts that stemmed from his lies under oath in the Paula Jones litigation about his affair with Monica.  

http://strangepolitics.com/

"Now she appears to have transformed the diplomatic corps into a spying operation, giving us yet another intelligence gathering agency. But, in doing so, she has undoubtedly alienated our allies and damaged our diplomats’ credibility."

There Oughta Be a Law: Californians Getting 725 New Ones in 2011

La Mesa Patch  "Trans-fats are thing of the past in certain food facilities, for example. And insurance companies can't charge men and women different rates for the same coverage." Here are a few more:

Kiss your 100-watt lightbulb goodbye  "As of Saturday, what used to be a 100-watt light bulb manufactured and sold in California will have to use 72 watts or less. The 72-watt replacement bulb, also called an energy-saving halogen light, will provide the same amount of light, called lumens, for lower energy cost.
"Similar new standards for traditional 75-watt, 60-watt and 40-watt incandescent bulbs will go into effect in California over the next few years, with wattages reduced to 53, 43 and 29 respectively."
Hat tip to Harley Standlee;Placerville, Ca.

Wars of Religion



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 Bruce S. Thornton  "This, finally, is what is at stake in the war against religion: whether the goods we live by and cherish — the dignity of the individual, tolerance, or respect for life — will survive, or whether they all will be swept away by history, or succumb to the materialist logic that makes each of our unique collection of chemicals no more significant or important than those of monkeys or dinosaurs, like them the playthings of chance and force, without freedom or dignity or transcendent worth — always the precondition for the worst horrors humans have inflicted on one another. Driving Christmas into the private shadows is just another signpost on the road to that inhuman and inhumane world."