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It's official! Global warming is a fraud!

This is an amazing story. While one has to frown on the means by which this information was obtained (hacking into an institute's e-mail system), still the contents are just so appalling that one has to take notice. In the e-mails the "scientists" (these guys really don't deserve the title) talk about how to fudge data to make global warming look worse than it is.


Update... Michelle Malkin also has a great post on this story.
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Repealing Obama-care

Ramesh Ponnuru has a post on NRO saying that Republicans should vow to repeal Obama-care if it does end up going through. I agree with this 100%. I think it is very defeatist to say that if it is voted in that it is all over. A lot of the provisions wouldn't even go into effect until 2013 so there should be a robust effort to repeal it (though, admittedly, it would be better to stop it now).
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Pulling defeat from the jaws of victory in the Colorado Governor's race

I just heard on the radio that Tom Tancredo is going to run for the Republican nomination for Colorado Governor. What a bonehead! I don't think too much of Tancredo. He is the worst kind of loud mouthed, speak first - think later politician. I think he gives Republicans a bad name. He has a lot of fans though. I don't know that his running will definitely lead to Bill Ritter getting re-elected but by running he will make it into a slug fest for the nomination with the infinitely better qualified Scott McInnis and thus make it harder for McInnis to pivot and focus on Ritter or, heaven forbid, if Tancredo wins I don't think I could even vote for him. Why do Republicans have this amazing talent to pull defeat from the jaws of victory?
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Bringing KSM to a civilian court??? Outrageous and insane.

I have just been disgusted by the news that the Obama administration is going to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other jihadists in a civilian court in New York City. This action will turn into a circus and worse it will make NYC even more of a target than it already is. Who would want to serve on that jury? or be the judge? Their lives will be in danger.

This just seems like an incredibly stupid political decision too. I just can't see anyone (other than the 10 or 15% of the public who are hard leftists) being happy with this decision. I think Obama's poll numbers will take a BIG hit as Americans become aware of this pathetic and dangerous course of action.
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A leftie being honest in calling for statism

While most on the Left seek to obfuscate their efforts to expand governmental control, here is a column from The New Republic that is quite honest in analyzing the Left's effort to expand that state. It is well written and covers the history pretty well albeit from the perspective of someone who wants to expand government. I just can't understand that mind set, but this article at least give some insight into it.
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Rich Lowry's take on the passage of Pelosi's health care bill

Rich Lowry has a great column on the passage of Pelosi's health care bill. He has some really great lines in there. Some of my favorites:

" The late conservative columnist Robert Novak liked to say that God had put Republicans on the Earth to cut taxes. Democrats believe they were put on Earth to nationalize health care. "

and

"She (Pelosi) is adept at doing well those things that shouldn't be done at all." (with reference to the way she rushes legislation through and strong arms members of her caucus).

and with regards to the Stupak amendment removing government funding for abortions, Lowry points out that Obama has always said that there was no government funding of abortion in Obama-care so it was ironic that: "Pro-choice Democrats threw a fit protesting the removal of the abortion funding that was supposedly never there."
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Building a space elevator

Here is an article on research on building a space elevator. It is good that they start the article with a quote from the 1979 Arthur C. Clarke novel "The Fountains of Paradise". That was the first that I had ever heard of the idea. It still seems pretty tough to do, but if it could be done it would REALLY open up the space frontier.
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Putting the House vote on health care in perspective

I've been pretty bummed out since hearing that the House passed the monstrosity that is Pelosi-care. I saw this post on NRO and it puts things in perspective a bit. I hope he's right and that this bill will die in the Senate.
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Hooray for Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell!!!

Wow! I am so psyched that Chris Christie won in New Jersey! It was kind of almost a foregone conclusion that McDonnell would win in Virginia and it is great that he won by such a wide margin, but I'm especially glad to see that Christie won over the corrupt Jon Corzine. Good bye and good riddance Mr. Corzine! It is a bummer that Hoffman did not work in the New York district 23 race, but it does put the lie to some of the non-stop chest thumping coming from Rush Limbaugh and some of the other talk show hosts. I mean it is important to have a solid set of conservative values, but there has to be some reaching towards the middle and the fact that Hoffman lost demonstrates that.  I think it is also significant that in McDonnell's race he downplayed the social issues... I think that is really the way to go.
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Junk Science from the White House

There's a good column here which details several decisions from the White House which are clearly political in nature and which contradict scientific evidence... so much for Obama's proclamation that he would "restore science to its rightful place".  He should have said that he would restore liberal-approved science policies to their "rightful place".
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Peggy Noonan on the short-sightedness of our leaders

I haven't been too thrilled by Peggy Noonan in the last year or so. She has a good column out now though. She talks about how our current leaders (and she can't even really say that the blame is on Obama and the Democrats) keep on piling on regulations and taxes as if America can take anything and maybe (probably?) it can't.

I like that she pointed out the stupidity of New York politicians:

"This week the New York Post carried a report that 1.5 million people had left high-tax New York state between 2000 and 2008, more than a million of them from even higher-tax New York City. They took their tax dollars with them—in 2006 alone more than $4 billion.

You know what New York, both state and city, will do to make up for the lost money. They'll raise taxes."

I think she has some good points... America is on the brink and the Democrats appear more than willing to push the country off the cliff.
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Thomas Sowell describes Obama's radical agenda

The totality of Obama's agenda is really scary when laid out point by point as Sowell does in this piece.
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Why the American public doesn't want Obama-care

Here is a good opinion piece by Arthur Brooks detailing why so many aspects of Obama-care are antithetical to American values and desires. Things like taking responsibility for one's own actions, being fiscally responsible, promoting an individual's desire to make choices vs. those choices being made by some government bureaucrat- these are all things that the American public value and desire and they are taken away by Obama-care. Let's hope it can be stopped.
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Interesting Popular Mechanics post on the Augustine report

Popular Mechanics has a good post with some significant points from the Augustine report indicating that the gap between retirement of the Shuttle and the activation of an Ares 1/Orion capability would be more like 7 years. Yeesh. That is too long of a gap.
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The final Augustine panel report on NASA's manned space flight options

The Augustine panel released its final report on manned spaceflight options for NASA. It seems that there is still plenty of confusion about what to do next. Here is some discussion from spacepolitics.com.
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