Copenhagen – In a strange twist, a Washington snowstorm is forcing Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, to make an early departure from a global warming summit here in Denmark. Pelosi told CNN that military officials leading her Congressional delegation have urged the 21 lawmakers to leave Copenhagen several hours earlier than scheduled on Saturday. The Speaker […]
Iranian troops have seized an oil well in Iraq The takeover of an Iraqi oil well by a group of armed Iranians who crossed the border was a violation of Iraq’s sovereignty, a government spokesman has said. Iraqi spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the seizure in an area of disputed territory demonstrates the need for a […]
Posted by Erick Erickson We can only hope the Senate Republicans learned their lesson today. As so many of us have tried to tell Mitch McConnell for weeks and weeks and weeks, the Senate GOP must throw everything they can at killing the health care bill. Instead, we have seen the Senate Republicans working collaboratively […]
Like just about every other big, international conference, from world trade to human rights, it appears the Copenhagen climate summit has ended in a complete fiasco. BBC: Negotiations at the UN climate summit have been suspended after the African group withdrew co-operation. African delegations were angry at what they saw as moves by the Danish […]
HERE are the 100 reasons, released in a dossier issued by the European Foundation, why climate change is natural and not man-made: 1) There is “no real scientific proof” that the current warming is caused by the rise of greenhouse gases from man’s activity. 2) Man-made carbon dioxide emissions throughout human history constitute less than […]
While the wizards of smart are convening in Copenhagen, attempting to solve what they perceive to be the biggest global societal ill – anthropogenic climate change, one of the things that likely won’t be discussed is the possibility of the opposite occurring, global cooling. But AccuWeather’s chief hurricane forecaster, Joe Bastardi warns it is a […]
When Laure Cuccarolo went into early labor on a recent Sunday night in a village in southern France, her only choice was to ask the local fire brigade to whisk her to a hospital 30 miles away. A closer one had been shuttered by cost cuts in France’s universal health system. Doctors, trade unions and […]
The House passed the most “ambitious restructuring” of federal financial regulations since the New Deal on Friday, this is certainly a direct hit at free world capitalism. The sprawling legislation would give the power hungry government new powers to break up companies that threaten the economy, create a new agency to oversee consumer banking transactions […]
