Friday, August 28, 2009

Ted Kennedy's Soviet Gambit

Forbes "Kennedy proved eager to deal with Andropov--the leader of the Soviet Union, a former director of the KGB and a principal mover in both the crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the suppression of the 1968 Prague Spring--at least in part to advance his own political prospects."

Update: More Than 700 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims

Senate.gov "The explosion of skeptical scientific voices is accelerating unabated in 2009. A March 14, 2009 article in the Australian revealed that Japanese scientists are now at the forefront of rejecting man-made climate fears prompted by the UN IPCC." How's this for a source?

Did the White House Green Light Lockerbie Bomber's Release?

Fox News "We are only seven months into this new administration. The early indications are not good that we have a seasoned and serious team manning the helm of the ship of state. For the sake of the country we all serve, let's pray they learn quickly."

New Jersey politicians say no to Qaddafi

Arab News "Opposition to his stay in a New Jersey suburb is so strident that the United States now says it is considering barring Qaddafi from staying on property owned by the Libyan ambassador to the UN."

On Health Care, ‘Obstructionist’ Charge a Big Miss

Pajamas Media "But the new definition of bipartisanship seems to be: “We get to write a controversial bill exactly the way we want to, and you get to say ‘yes’ to it.”"

Let's Celebrate Oil's 150th Birthday And The Value It Adds To Our Lives

IBD "Yet today people increasingly label oil a pollutant that damages rather than enhances our lives and, even worse, an addiction — likening our consumption of oil to a junkie's self-destructive heroin habit. This is profoundly ignorant, not to mention unfair to the petroleum industry that tirelessly innovates, year after year, to find more oil and extract it more efficiently."

Video: Beck interviews Limbaugh on the threat to free speech

HotAir "To pull off something like that would require a complacent right and a broad independent middle energized with Hopenchange fever. Thanks to ObamaCare, we now have the opposite."

No more privacy under ObamaCare

American Thinker "So much for the "Constitutional right to privacy" -- your privacy is only important when it serves progressive objectives, but worthless when they want to seize power."

Liberal at Huffpo thinks Mary Jo Kopechne didn't mind dying for Ted

By Rick Moran "Of all the millions of words, tens of thousands of articles, blog posts, and other scribblings by liberals over the death of Ted Kennedy, this may be the most amazingly shallow, myopic, and ultimately self centered sentence ever written. But it does highlight the liberal mindset quite well, don't you think? To left wing fanatics like Lafsky, human life does not belong to the individual, but to the higher cause of the collective good."

Eric Holder’s Hidden Agenda/ Transnationalism

By Andy McCarthy National Review= "But because the administration’s allies in the antiwar bar and the international Left will do the dirty work of getting charges filed, the American media will help Obama avoid domestic political accountability. Meanwhile, Americans who sought to protect our nation from barbarians will be harassed and framed as war criminals. And protecting the United States will have become an actionable violation of international law."

ABC, NBC Won't Air Ad Critical of Obama's Health Care Plan

Fox News "The refusal by ABC and NBC to run a national ad critical of President Obama's health care reform plan is raising questions from the group behind the spot -- particularly in light of ABC's health care special aired in prime time last June hosted at the White House."

Court strikes down reference to God in state law

Link "In an 18-page order, Judge Thomas Wingate said the [Kentucky] General Assembly created an official government position when it passed a law requiring the office to acknowledge “the dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the Commonwealth.”