A French Infantryman's view of American Soldiers (Unsubstantiated)

WorldAffairsBoard ( Translated From the French)"And combat ? If you have seen Rambo you have seen it all - always coming to the rescue when one of our teams gets in trouble, and always in the shortest delay. That is one of their tricks : they switch from T-shirt and sandals to combat ready in three minutes. Arriving in contact with the ennemy, the way they fight is simple and disconcerting : they just charge ! They disembark and assault in stride, they bomb first and ask questions later - which cuts any pussyfooting short."H/t to Paul Van Alstine.

Video: Jack Webb Schools Obama on Democracy....

Weasel Zippers Interesting. But we regret the language you will see elsewhere in this link. Be advised.

It Has Begun… Green Activists Want a Ban On Soft Toilet Paper

Gateway Pundit "Time to roll off the big number: If each American family would buy one recycled roll just one time, it would save 400,000 trees, allegedly. The problem, though, is that each time paper is shredded during the recycling process, its fibers get shorter. The shorter the fiber, the less soft the tissue. And Americans, though indicating in surveys that they embraced green initiatives, also said they don’t want to sacrifice comfort."

Global warming and the 'settled science' baloney

Claude Sandroff in AT "To appreciate how unsettled global warming science really is, the book Unstoppable Global Warming, Every 1,500 Years, by S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery is an indispensible and relentless handbook. Published in 2007 and stuffed with over 500 references, it shatters almost every common global warming myth." ...."What these books remind us is that whenever the phrase "settled science" enters a policy debate, especially when complicated planetary effects are involved, an instinctive shudder should rifle through our nervous system. Because almost always that loaded phrase masks an attempt to prematurely force conclusions and end all further argument. Those who want the science settled in a flash are those who will benefit most once the science is settled. Either that or they have something to hide or protect. Settled science is dangerous science."

Glen Foden Cartoon

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Mass insanity in Copenhagen

Toronto Sun "Whatever they've agreed to has nothing to do with cooling our planet. It has everything to do with some of the world's most corrupt dictators and regimes extorting billions upon billions of dollars from the developed world -- us -- which they will then spend not on reducing their own greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), but in any way they please. "

Sen. Ben Nelson to announce support for health-care bill

WaPo h/t to Drudge "Democratic leaders spent days trying to hammer out a deal with Nelson, and worked late Friday night with Nelson on abortion coverage language that had proved the major stumbling block. But Nelson also secured other favors for his home state. Asked if he was prepared to support the bill, Nelson said, "Yeah." "

'Duplicitous and Shameful' Democrats vote to send poor kids to inferior schools.

WSJ "The waiting is finally over for some of the District of Columbia's most ambitious school children and their parents. Democrats in Congress voted to kill the District's Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provides 1,700 disadvantaged kids with vouchers worth up to $7,500 per year to attend a private school." ...."A federal evaluation earlier this year said the mostly black and Hispanic participants are making significant academic gains and narrowing the achievement gap. But for the teachers unions, this just can't happen. The National Education Association instructed Democratic lawmakers to kill it."

Obama and the Malleability of History

Victor Davis Hanson "President Obama has given a number of major speeches touching on world affairs since he announced his bid for the presidency. All have invoked historical examples — usually for moral purposes, but often at the expense of both literal and figurative truth."

The Long March From California to Copenhagen

Victor Davis Hanson ...."We are still in a great public debate between capitalism and socialism, and individual freedom versus statism — odd since hundreds of millions worldwide have escaped poverty the last 30 years due to the spread of Western-inspired free markets.".... "Nowhere is there a better example of the collective effort than in California. Politics don’t matter here; both Republicans and Democrats embrace statism, high taxes, and growing entitlements." "As California goes, so goes the nation" now has an ominous new meaning. Picture taken by Tunnel Dweller, Nov, 2009 along I-5 , San Joaquin Valley

War Is Too Serious to Involve Liberals

Frank J. Fleming , Pajamas Media "As for why, that just gets us back to the fact that liberals are terminally unserious people, and any time the country is focused on war, it just reminds everyone how pointless liberals are. When liberals took control of this country with two active wars and an economy in shambles, what was their focus? The health care “crisis.” "

Dead Wrong Durbin

Andrew C. McCarthy "The main worry in this situation is the class of prisoners known to be dangerous based on foreign intelligence information and confessions that can’t be used in court. Those detainees are being held indefinitely under the laws of war. We have held millions of enemy prisoners on this basis throughout our history. But this war is the first in which federal judges, abetted by legislators like Senator Durbin, have been given the power to second-guess the judgments of our professional war-fighters, taking it upon themselves to decide who is an unlawful enemy combatant..."