In Kirk’s farewell, a call for return to unity of Kennedy era - The Boston Globe
WASHINGTON - Paul Kirk said a poignant goodbye yesterday to the Senate, invoking the memory of the man he briefly replaced, Edward M. Kennedy, as he implored his colleagues to adopt Kennedy’s bipartisan spirit and get to work on fixing […]

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Christmas Day plot suspect offering ‘good intelligence’ to feds | detnews.com | The Detroit News
Washington –The suspected terrorist federal authorities say tried to blow up an airliner over Detroit is talking again to intelligence officials, the director of national intelligence told members of the U.S. Senate.
“We got good intelligence. We’re getting more,” Dennis Blair said […]

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White House lists some proposed cuts in 2011 budget | Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will propose cutting or changing some 120 items in his budget for fiscal 2011 that will help save $20 billion this year, the White House said on Saturday.
Obama is running deficits of over a trillion dollars a year, in […]

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Noted Commie propagandist and junk historian Howard Zinn has died.

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Kinda sick fun - watching Valerie Jarrett on Meet The (De)Press(ed) trying to explicate how The Obamanation & Co. “…turned the economy around…” in the last twelve months!
Nice “deer-in-the-headlights” empty-headed look she had on her pan at several junctures, especially when she was vainly striving to explain just what The Won intended to actually do […]

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Jules Crittenden » More Bitter Ironies
Yesterday, Seamon served up one of his best-selling Republican Party cookies (“because they are full of fruits and nuts’’), and summed up the jolt delivered by the vote.
Yet another example of the left’s divorce from reality. “The land of fruits and nuts” was originally applied to California, because, in […]

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Today’s WSJ quotes the President: “Never again will the American taxpayer be held hostage by a bank that it too big to fail.”
In one remark, Obama finally reveals himself incontrovertibly to be a liar or a fool, or both.
Surely no can can be such a naif as to believe that they can legislate such […]

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DRUDGE REPORT 2010®
Next Arctic Blast blows even colder…
Persistent cold tightens grip on nation…
CHILL MAP…
Britain’s big snow shuts cities…
Weekend Freeze Looms for Gulf Coast…
Florida races to save crops…
Cold snap spurs power rationing in China…

Man, that global warmening, she’s a beeyotch, eh?

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Hot Air » Blog Archive » Great news: CIA watching the ice melt
The CIA and the State Department managed to fumble the data that would have prevented the bomber from getting on the plane. Eight years after 9/11 and four years after a massive reorganization of the intelligence community, we are no better at […]

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WeckUpToThees!: More relevant than ever
My prognostication failed in one respect: I figured travelers would be confined to their seats for the last 30 minutes of the flight, rather than 60.

Fuz was way, way, way ahead of the game.

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Grim Obama says terror attack ‘dots’ not connected - Yahoo! News
“I will accept that intelligence, by its nature, is imperfect,” Obama said. “But it is increasingly clear that intelligence was not fully analyzed or fully leveraged. That’s not acceptable, and I will not tolerate it.”
Obama never said who, if anyone, in the government might be […]

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A No-Fly List? Count Me In by Jonah Goldberg on National Review Online
According to the latest epidemiological research, airports reside somewhere between no-frills Haitian brothels and Penn State fraternity bathrooms when it comes to hygiene. USA Today recently surveyed the health-inspection records of airport restaurants and found that serious code violations were as commonplace as […]

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The dangers of economic pessimism. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine
My bold prediction for 2010 is that the consensus of the forecasters surveyed by the Philadelphia Federal Reserve, which projects the economy will grow only 2.4 percent in 2010, is too pessimistic, perhaps by half.
My goodness. What would lead this Slate “expert” […]

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Another Black Conservative: Abdulmutallab’s privileged background is another reason why we should not bring KSM to NYC
Many who argue in favor of bringing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed KSM and other Gitmo detainees to America all seem to think that it is merely at matter of keeping them physically locked up, but the true danger lies in […]

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The Most “Responsible” of Democrat Leadership, DRUNK on Senate floor He might not be stoned but he sure sounds like Teddy, without the slurring.

He has the dem points down cold(but not sober). The repugs wouldn’t cave in to the dems so they’re not “bi-partisan”. Of course it takes him several minutes of barely coherent babbling […]

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My Way News - Obama says ‘unprecedented’ deal reached on climate
Shorter take: There is no deal, and there isn’t going to be one. And Barack “No There, There” Obama falls flat on his ass yet again.

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Climategate goes SERIAL: now the Russians confirm that UK climate scientists manipulated data to exaggerate global warming – Telegraph Blogs
Shorter version: They decided that the globe was warming. Then they went out and cherry-picked the data until they could “prove” it.

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Reid’s Office Defends Nixing Of Key Consumer Protection From Bill | The Plum Line
The internet is buzzing today with the news that Harry Reid quietly inserted a loophole in the Senate health care bill that would let insurance companies put limits on medical care for folks struggling with costly illnesses — angering patient advocates, and […]

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Study: Slowdown in warming last year not permanent
Rising temperatures over decades have prompted scientific concern, and the last decade has been the hottest in thousands of years, according to climate records. However, the warming eased a bit last year over North America, and groups seeking to deny climate change seized on that in an effort […]

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Climategate: Phil Jones accused of making error of judgment by colleague - Telegraph
Nothing to see here. Just another major Climategate scammer trying to whitewash a fellow con man.
While climate change sceptics argue the emails are proof scientists have been hiding evidence of temperature decline, Prof Mann said he believed the incident “false controversy” manufactured […]

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Leaked emails won’t harm UN climate body, says chairman | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Pachauri said the large number of contributors and rigorous peer review mechanism adopted by the IPCC meant that any bias would be rapidly uncovered.
“The processes in the IPCC are so robust, so inclusive, that even if an author or two has a particular […]

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Climate change data dumped - Times Online
SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.
It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past […]

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Momentum grows for Copenhagen climate deal | Reuters
PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - World leaders on Friday rallied to a diplomatic offensive to forge a U.N. climate deal in Copenhagen next month and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said an agreement was “within reach”.
Ban, and Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen who will host the December 7-18 […]

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Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Hiding the Decline: Part 1 – The Adventure Begins

From the CRU code file osborn-tree6/briffa_sep98_d.pro , used to prepare a graph purported to be of Northern Hemisphere temperatures and reconstructions.
;
; Apply a VERY ARTIFICAL correction for decline!!
;
yrloc=[1400,findgen(19)*5.+1904]
valadj=[0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25,-0.3,0.,- 0.1,0.3,0.8,1.2,1.7,2.5,2.6,2.6,$
2.6,2.6,2.6]*0.75 ; fudge factor
if n_elements(yrloc) ne n_elements(valadj) then message,’Oooops!’
;
yearlyadj=interpol(valadj,yrloc,timey)

This, people, is blatant […]

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Instapundit: Kill The Bills: Do Health Reform Right.
“Insuring the uninsured is a moral imperative.
Um….why, exactly?

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