Ski resorts break records in 2009

The tiny island of Corsica saw the best snow conditions for 30 years.

Green Delusions Drive World Conflict | Energy & Environment

The Green obsession of the Obama administration and its left-wing constituents is harmful to America's position in a dangerous world. It will hobble domestic economic growth, weakening the financial and industrial strength the country needs to protect itself at home and abroad. It will promote the transfer of productive capacity and wealth to rising rival states like China. It is also driving potential allies like India into an alignment with China and other anti-Western nations based on the perception that the U.S. and Europe want to impose self-destructive liberal nonsense on the rest of the world.

Washington should worry far less about fanciful notions of global climate change and more about the reality of global economic change and menacing changes to the global balance of power. The United States must return to policies that promote growth and provide a framework for alliances that advance mutual progress in world politics, security and prosperity. Green is the color of an extremely bleak future and must be discarded, along with any further participation by the United States in the UNFCCC-Copenhagen process.

Rasmussen Reports™: [More bad news for Obama]

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 29% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -11. That’s the first time his ratings have reached double digits in negative territory (see trends).

These updates are based upon nightly telephone interviews and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. Today is the first update based entirely upon interviews conducted after the President’s prime time televised press conference. The number who Strongly Approve of the President has remained unchanged since the press conference but the number who Strongly Disapprove has gone up by five percentage points (from 35% on Wednesday morning to 40% today).
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The President is now seen as politically liberal by 76%. That’s up six points from a month ago, 11 points since he was elected, and the highest total to date. Forty-eight percent (48%) now see him as Very Liberal, up 20 points since he was elected