Thursday, January 15, 2009

The American Spectator : The Cavalcade of Cant
Protecting the country from non-existent threats while exposing it to real ones is likely to define the incoming administration. So it is appropriate that Hillary Clinton, in her opening remarks before the Senate on Tuesday, identified as an "unambiguous security threat" something that doesn't even exist -- catastrophic global warming.
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In all the talk these days about scams and bogus claims at the expense of shareholders and taxpayers, why doesn't the global warming activism of opportunistic CEOs and pols receive any scrutiny? It belongs to this age of fictions and dubious collusions between government and business.
First Day With A Low Colder Than -10 In Chicago In More Than A Decade - cbs2chicago.com
If the high fails to reach zero, it would be the first time since Feb. 3, 1996, when the high was -5.
Protesters label Redford an enemy of the poor - Salt Lake Tribune
Hollywood's Sundance Kid is hurting poor people.

So say some East Coast ministers and conservative activists, who took to the streets in front of a downtown Salt Lake City theater on the eve of Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival to accuse the actor of holding down low-income Americans with his opposition to oil and gas drilling near national parks in Utah.

The protesters, led by the Congress of Racial Equality's national spokesman Niger Innis, suggested Redford should "relinquish his wealth" and live like a poor person. They complained that the filmmaker's anti-drilling stance could lead to higher energy prices for inner-city residents, forcing them to accept a lower standard of living.

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