January 5, 2021

The Election Steal Should Motivate Georgia Runoff Voters, NOT Discourage Them

It’s easy to understand Donald Trump’s disappointment and anger as he witnesses the overthrow of his transformational presidency.  What he managed to build in just three quarters of a single term, against all odds, battling an unprec...

November 12, 2020

Concede Nothing -- There IS No ‘President-Elect’ Yet

The media continue to build upon the shaky foundation they poured on Saturday when they prematurely called the 2020 Presidential Election for Joe Biden. Rising from the traditional “nothing to see here” to the admonishing “all votes...

November 7, 2020

American Coup Victims Will Not Go Quietly

This was a Coup.  It lacked, at least for the moment, the spilled blood often associated with a classic coup d’etat but make no mistake about it – this was a coup.  A record number of Americans fought an unusual number of ha...

April 11, 2020

My Long Goodbye to S. Fred Singer

The first time I laid eyes on climate science pioneer Fred Singer was in a scenic elevator at the Marriot Marquis in NYC, in March of 2008.  The hotel was hosting the premiere International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC), and I was there to...

March 20, 2020

Coronavirus Update

With nearly 3,000 new cases reported this morning, and a total of 9,415 cases reported, the U.S. has moved up 3 spots to the # 5 position in a single day. Notice the swell from D 11-15 to D 6-10 to L5D, in addition to the 76.91 L5D%. I’ll...

March 16, 2020

COVID-19: The numbers tell the story

Updated. By merging datasets recently made available by the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control, and Johns Hopkins University, I've gathered some truly fascinating trend statistics on the global penetration of COVID-19 t...

March 16, 2020

The numbers story continues

I have been merging the data sets from the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control, and Johns Hopkins University to tease out insights that might otherwise be missed. This post updates my first piece using the merged data, adding the n...

February 28, 2020

More than Just the 'Anti-Greta'

When climate alarmists first presented their poster-child advocate, then-15-year-old Greta Thunberg, she was taken by realists with the appropriate grain of salt.  While the MSM rushed to gush all over this "brave" little girl who...

February 23, 2020

Quoth the Raving: 'How Dare You?'

- Satire-   “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity” -- Edgar Allen Poe    Once upon a late-night dreary, as I typed a complex query, Plotting climate response to rising atmospheric CO2, ...

February 5, 2020

History will remember President Trump’s purely partisan impeachment and bipartisan acquittal

Monday, in a pathetic last-ditch effort to sway even a single Republican’s vote, Lead House Manager Adam Schiff predicted that “History will not be kind to Donald Trump,” and warned his captive Senate audience:   ...

February 12, 2019

Phony 'Justice' through Phony Climate Policy

Would you be surprised to learn that of the five goals pronounced in the so-called “Green New Deal,” three of them focus on some form of social or economic “justice?”  Or that the two that don’t instead use language...

February 2, 2019

Climate Alarmists Reduced to Recycling Discredited Attacks on Skeptics

In their tireless effort to silence rational opposing opinion and force premature action to a climate crisis of their own making, Alarmists are ratchetting the doomsday scenarios up and the “time to act” window down.  But high on the...

January 16, 2019

It's Climate Alarmists Who Remain in Denial

It's hard to believe that we're just shy of ten years since contents of the so-called "Climategate" folder revealed the fraudulence of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) scare.  Yet, somehow, Climate Alarmists continue...

November 29, 2010

Climate Alarmist Wants WWII Style Rationing to Save Planet

A group of scientists who apparently didn’t get the “Kyoto is Dead” memo are calling upon fellow alarmists attending the Cancun climate summit to take much tougher measures to cut carbon emissions. One is actually calling for leader...

November 19, 2010

Freezing Citizens to Death to Stop Global Warming

A leading U.K. fuel poverty charity is predicting deaths to skyrocket this winter as over 5 million homes struggle to pay rising fuel bills.The Express is reporting that energy prices “have soared more than 80 per cent in the last five years,...

November 18, 2010

IPCC Expert admits UN goal is Wealth Redistribution

One need read no further than the U.N. International Climate Accord [PDF] ultimately shot down at Copenhagen’s climate summit last year to understand the organization’s international wealth redistribution goals.  The failed treaty ac...

November 17, 2010

Climategate: One Year and Sixty House Seats Later

It’s been one year to the day since hero or heroes still unnamed and unrewarded bestowed upon the world a virtual dossier, the contents of which should have ended the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) debate abruptly and evermore.  Remark...

June 24, 2010

Japanese Told More Sleep Means Less Global Warming

It appears that global warming madness has reached new heights in the land of the rising, yet somehow non-climate-driving, sun.  In an effort to reduce the nation’s carbon dioxide emissions by 25 per cent from 1990 levels within the next d...

June 20, 2010

Heartland Conference Establishes Post-Climategate Consensus

“New scientific discoveries are casting doubt on how much of the warming of the twentieth century was natural and how much was man-made, and governments around the world are beginning to confront the astronomical cost of reducing emissions. Eco...

May 29, 2010

Are Climate Alarmists losing the Mainstream Media?

In the past week, two mainstream media giants have apparently recognized that the debate over manmade global warming is far from over.On Monday, the NY Times broke with years of blatant warmist bias in reporting that Climate Fears Turn to Doubts Amon...

May 26, 2010

Joe Romm exploits Gulf Coast misery and Obama's legacy to push his Warmist nonsense

Joe Romm warned Barack Obama in today’s Salon that “[t]here's a clear link between the BP spill and global warming.”  No, the Climate Progress alarmist isn’t suggesting that either the grossly exaggerated sea level rise o...

May 18, 2010

ICCC 4 Opens with a Climategate Surprise

It’s Heartland’s fourth International Conference on Climate Change and the first since the November revelations of fraudulent behavior by leading AGW-preaching climate scientists at Britain's Climate Research Unit (CRU).  And at its ...

May 15, 2010

The Heartland Climate Conference Smear Campaign Begins

For the fourth time in the past three years scientists, economists and policymakers are gathering to explore both the causes and consequences of “climate change,” and the cost and effectiveness of currently proposed “remedies....

April 27, 2010

Report: Save the Whales and They'll Save Us from Global Warming

Need more proof that Global Warming is the problem to environmentalists’ solutions?  Take a whiff of this.  Researchers from the Australian Antarctic Division have announced that increased whale excrement in our oceans could help figh...

March 31, 2010

Dem Senator admits few lawmakers understand Cap and Trade

Senator Jay Rockefeller told a group of constituents yesterday that 9 in 10 legislators have absolutely no idea how Cap and Trade actually works. That’s quite an admission, particularly considering that 219 – all but 8 of them Democrats -...

February 23, 2010

Desperate Democrat Warmists Deep in Denial

On the very same day that the EPW minority released a report [PDF] citing “unethical and potentially illegal behavior by some the world's leading climate scientists,” the ruling majority promised “to make policy based on [the same...

February 17, 2010

Olympic Gold Seekers Hindered by Green Foolery

You may have heard that the men’s 500-meter speedskating event was delayed for over an hour at Monday night’s Olympics.  What you probably didn’t hear was exactly why irate skaters, coaches and fans were forced to sit around wa...

February 16, 2010

Evidence of Climate Fraud Grows, Media Coverage Doesn't

Newsbusters' Noel Sheppard lets the mainstream media have it for completely ignoring this weekend’s game-changing revelations from Climategate conspirator Phil Jones while jumping all over the ejection of director Kevin Smith from a Southwest A...

February 14, 2010

Climategate's Phil Jones Confesses to Climate Fraud

By now, Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) should require no introduction, so let’s get right to it.  In a BBC Q&A and corresponding interview released Friday, the discredited Climategate c...

February 12, 2010

First Time Ever -- Snow on Ground in All 50 States

The storm that just dumped enough snow on the Florida Panhandle to force the closing of the University of West Florida has brought the official count of states with the white-stuff on the ground to a full 50.  Patrick Marsh at the National Ocean...

February 10, 2010

Crippled By Blizzard, DC Announces New Global Warming Agency by Phone

On Monday, the nation’s capital was still digging out from the weekend’s record snowfall that would effectively shut down the federal government for days.   Making matters worse was the awareness among DC residents that their sh...

February 8, 2010

Droughtgate: Study Finds IPCC had Temperature - Drought Connection Backwards

Add another to the growing list of IPCC outrages.  As I mentioned in last week’s IPCC: International Pack of Climate Crooks, in Chapter 9 of Assessment Report 4’s (AR4) Working Group One (WG1) Report, the IPCC claimed that manmade CO...

February 4, 2010

IPCC: International Pack of Climate Crooks

Unquestionably the world's final authority on the subject, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's findings and recommendations have formed the bedrock of literally every climate-related initiative worldwide for more than a decade. Likewise, ...

January 22, 2010

Climategate: CRU Was But the Tip of the Iceberg

Not surprisingly, the blatant corruption exposed at Britain’s premiere climate institute was not contained within the nation’s borders. Just months after the Climategate scandal broke, a new study has uncovered compelling evidence that ou...

January 14, 2010

Antarctica and the Myth of Deadly Rising Seas

On Monday, scientists from the Norwegian Polar Institute reported that they'd measured sea temperatures beneath an East Antarctic ice shelf and found no signs of warming whatsoever. And while the discovery's corollaries remain mostly blurred by the f...

January 10, 2010

Lessons to Be Learned in the Climate Alarm Zone

When the SyFy channel unlocked the door to this year’s annual New Year’s Day marathon with the key to imagination, my two teenage sons finally accepted the invitation to accompany me inside. So you can imagine how the World Wildlife Fund...

December 19, 2009

The High Price of Ben Nelson's Low Vote

Democrat Ben “Dover” Nelson, who had previously threatened to join a GOP filibuster of the Senate Health Care Bill, proved today that everything has a price – including a man’s values.  The Nebraska Senator just accepted ...

December 7, 2009

Dismissing Climategate, EPA Moves Forward on CO2 Regulation

To surprisingly tepid applause, EPA head Lisa Jackson just announced that she has signed “two distinct findings regarding greenhouse gases under section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act.”  One was of course the anticipated Endangerment Fi...

December 6, 2009

Understanding Climategate's Hidden Decline

Close followers of the Climategate controversy know that much of the mêlée surrounds an e-mail in which Climate Research Unit (CRU) chief Phil Jones wrote about using “Mike’s Nature Trick” (MNT) to “hide the decli...

November 25, 2009

CRU's Source Code: Climategate Uncovered

As the evidence of fraud at the University of East Anglia's prestigious Climatic Research Unit (CRU) continues to mount, those who've been caught green-handed continue to parry their due opprobrium and comeuppance, thanks primarily to a dead-silent m...

November 22, 2009

CRU Files Betray Climate Alarmists' Funding Hypocrisy

It seems that while scientists who accept funding from oil companies are branded as bought-and-paid-for shills, those financed by renewable energy interests remain unchallenged authorities in their fields. Words can’t adequately express my asto...

November 21, 2009

The Evidence of Climate Fraud

A folder containing documents, data and, e-mails purportedly "hacked" from Britain's Climate Research Unit (CRU) may be smoking-gun proof of a worldwide conspiracy to exaggerate the existence, causation, and threat of global warming. And th...

November 5, 2009

Boxer Goes Nuclear on Climate Bill

In an unprecedented show of partisan arrogance, the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee just sent S. 1733 (the Kerry-Boxer climate bill) to the floor of the Senate with not a single Republican member present.As EPW procedural rules prohibit ...

November 4, 2009

Boxer Ostensibly Breaks Climate Bill Committee Rules Two Days Running (Update 2)

Apparently, rules don’t apply to zealots-with-gavels convinced they were put on this planet to secure its salvation.Lacking a single occupied Republican seat in the room, Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee chair Barbara Boxer (...

November 2, 2009

Correction: Gore Did Not Predict 220 Foot Sea Level Rise in 10 years

Last Tuesday, Arab Internet services company Maktoob.com posted the article Gore beats climate change drum in Dubai, which covered the speech our favorite greenhouse gasbag gave that day to the Leaders in Dubai Business Forum.Here’s a portion o...

October 30, 2009

Gore Gone Wild: Predicts 220 Foot Sea Level Rise in 10 years (Important Update)

Important Update: [11/02/2009 14:30 EST]As the original article on which we relied for Al Gore’s quotes proved to be incorrect, this post has been withdrawn.Please see full correction at: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/11/correction_g...

October 27, 2009

Halloween Scare: More Americans believe in Ghosts than Manmade Global Warming

That’s right – while only 36% of Americans believe the living and breathing can warm the planet, 37% believe the dead and gone can stick around and haunt houses.  And what’s truly scary about these figures is the inverted lesso...

October 22, 2009

Poll finds nearly 2 in 3 Americans are Manmade Global Warming 'Deniers'

According to a Pew Research Poll released today, the number of Americans believing there to be “solid evidence that the earth is warming” has dropped 14% since last year.  And the biggest drop – 22% -- was among those iden...

October 14, 2009

CBO Says Climate Bill Will Hurt Not Help Economy

Today, the director of the Congressional Budget Office warned the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that proposed climate change legislation would impose "significant costs" on America's GDP and employment.  That’s no...

October 10, 2009

BBC asks 'What Happened to Global Warming?'

Good question – and one not often posed by the mainstream media (MSM).Truth is, most humans are entirely unaware of the inconvenient truth that global temperatures peaked in 1998.   And that ignorance is by no means accidental. ...

October 6, 2009

UN Quietly Scrubs Embattled Graph from Climate Report

In yesterday’s article, UN Climate Reports: They Lie, we discussed the problems associated with a chart that appeared in the UN’s most recent climate report.  One such issue was that the graphic, which claimed to establish a “c...

October 5, 2009

UN Climate Reports: They Lie

For years, claims that UN climate reports represent the consensus of the majority of international scientists have been mindlessly accepted and regurgitated by left-leaning policy makers and the media at large.  But in the past week or so, it...

July 14, 2009

Clearly It's Al Gore Who's In Denial

In the past we’ve questioned former Vice President Al Gore’s honesty (Gore's Deceptive Rolling Stone Interview); his use of intimidation tactics and character assassination to promote his lies (Gore's Grave New World); his proclivity for ...

July 10, 2009

Report Blames Heavy Rains on Warming Despite Record Cold

A report published yesterday by the National Wildlife Federation blames recent US “heavy storms and major floods” on the higher concentrations of atmospheric water vapor brought on by manmade global warming.  Have any of these guys b...

June 26, 2009

A Desperate Obama Tries to Sell Cap-And-Tax as a Jobs Bill

With the head count still short of the 218 required to pass the Waxman-Markey cap-and-tax bill in the House today, president Obama hit the airwaves yesterday to tell perhaps the greatest lie yet about the proposed law.  That it will create jobs....

June 26, 2009

Cap-And-Tax Passes House Despite Last Ditch 300 Page Switch (Updated)

The largest and most wasteful tax-hike in the history of this republic just passed the House by a vote of 219 to 212.  And while 44 wise Democrats crossed party lines to vote against it, 8 Republicans actually forgave an unforgivable 3AM airdrop...

June 25, 2009

A Lame Liberal Media Response to a Lame EPA Response to Cover-up Allegations (Updated)

Yesterday, in Obama's EPA Makes a Mockery of Due Process, I commented on an accusation by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) that the EPA may have suppressed the results of an internal climate study to further the green agenda.  And whil...

June 24, 2009

Obama's EPA Makes a Mockery of Due Process

Surely climate alarmists enjoy enough unfair advantage over their rational counterparts, what with the mainstream media shamelessly suppressing the findings of the latter for political purposes. But now there’s compelling evidence that alarmist...

June 17, 2009

Did ABC Fabricate Projections of an Underwater Southern Florida? (Updated)

Yesterday, the White House released an over-the-top climate report, meant to bolster waning public support (through fear-mongering) for the administration’s disastrous carbon taxation scheme.  But as overly-alarming as was the document its...

June 15, 2009

WSJ Publishes Nutty Global Warming Geoengineering Plan

Can you imagine anyone being loony enough to declare an unproven solution to an unproven problem to be “enormously risky” and certain to “lead to troubling unforeseen consequences” and “international tension,” and ...

June 8, 2009

Heartland Conference has Aussie Senator Questioning Climate Hype

An Australian Senator, whose vote will be crucial to passing his country’s proposed emissions trading legislation, has expressed serious doubts concerning manmade global warming after attending last week’s Heartland climate conference....

June 7, 2009

ICCC Three Brings Climate Reality To Washington DC

A mere twelve weeks had passed since he gaveled the close of the second International Conference on Climate Change in NYC.  Yet last Tuesday found Joseph Bast already delivering the opening speech to its follow-up event, again featuring an elite...

May 29, 2009

Study Finds Even Climate 'Alarmed' Americans Don't Want Cap-and-Trade

Eighteen percent of Americans have been so “alarmed” by climate alarmists that they’d strongly support any and all policies that would reduce carbon emissions.  Any, that is, except cap-and-trade.  In fact, while the group...

May 29, 2009

Alarmist Scientists Compare Climate Change to Thermonuclear Warfare

A London meeting of 60 scientists, including 20 Nobel Laureates, has issued a global warming manifesto which actually compares itself to the Einstein-Russell manifesto on the worldwide threat of H-bombs. And they’re quite serious.Attendees of t...

May 10, 2009

Sykes Hopes Limbaugh's Kidneys Fail - Obama Laughs

Speaking at last night’s annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, comedienne Wanda Sykes repeated the liberal lie that Rush Limbaugh hopes the country fails, and added that she hopes it’s Limbaugh’s kidneys that fail....

April 30, 2009

Global Warming Ruled a Religion by British Judge

A fired British executive is suing his former employer on the grounds that he was unfairly dismissed due to religious views – his belief in global warming.  According to the Independent:“In the first case of its kind, employment judg...

April 30, 2009

Biden advises family to stay off Airplanes and Subways (Updated)

Moments ago on NBC’s Today Show, Vice President Joe Biden was asked what he’d advise his family about flying to Mexico during the current swine-flu outbreak. Biden told Matt Lauer that it had nothing to do with Mexico, he wouldn’t w...

April 28, 2009

UK's Guardian Fabricates America's Climate Change Apology

In an atmosphere of seemingly endless America-blaming apologies spewing from the Obama administration, a British newspaper apparently figured no one would question the one they invented yesterday.  They were wrong – Hey, US environment cor...

April 24, 2009

Global Warmists' Sly Polar Disorder

If there’s one thing climate alarmists have become quite good at, it’s retrofitting both their computer models and the climate phenomena those models predict whenever they fail to do so correctly. And whether projecting increases in tempe...

April 22, 2009

Earth Day Surprise: Inhofe Joins Boxer and Kerry on Global Warming Bill?

Today, outspoken climate skeptic Sen. James Inhofe co-introduced legislation to direct the EPA to research how reducing the emission of “a dangerous pollutant” might “improve public health and reduce global warming.”  Wha...

April 21, 2009

Movie Honors Holocaust Hero Robbed of Nobel Prize

Sunday night, CBS aired the Hallmark Channel presentation of The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler, the amazing story of the Polish Roman Catholic nurse and social worker who smuggled thousands of Jewish children to safety from the Warsaw Ghetto...

April 21, 2009

Wanted: GOP Leader -- Basic Grasp of Current Issues Preferred

For those not convinced that the greatest challenge facing both Conservatives and the Republican Party is that of leadership, check out this video of John Boehner’s appearance on Sunday’s This Week.   Wow.While the House Minorit...

April 19, 2009

It's Alternative Media That's Cooling Global Warming Hysteria

The latest Rasmussen poll reports that the lowest number of voters ever polled -- one-in-three -- believe that global warming is caused by human activity.  That’s an astonishing figure, especially considering the all-out green propaganda a...

April 17, 2009

The Planet Cools While Romm Burns

According to blogger Joe Romm of Climate Progress, websites and writers daring to question greenhouse gas orthodoxy are guilty of endangering the "health and well-being of countless billions of people."  And in a surprisingly erratic r...

April 10, 2009

Obama Science Chief: Shoot at Global Warming, not ICBMs

Can you imagine anyone proposing more decisive action against climate change than incoming nuclear missiles?  Particularly when the action proposed to combat the speculative former is, itself, wildly hypothetical while both the threat of and the...

April 5, 2009

No Wonder Climate Alarmists Refuse to Debate

When you hear the names Al Gore and James Hansen in the same sentence you immediately assume the subject to be manmade global warming panic.  But there’s another distinction which links these two – they both steadfastly refuse to def...

April 2, 2009

Dems Failure to Fast Track Cap-And-Trade a Terrific Omen

Yesterday, a genuine bi-partisan coalition (twenty-six Democrats and forty-one Republicans) denied cap-and-trade legislation a filibuster-and-amendment-proof path through the Senate.  The move effectively prevents overzealous legislators th...

April 1, 2009

Justice For Ted Stevens: Now what about his Senate seat? (Update 2)

In a decision coming five months too late to prevent a potentially hijacked federal election, the Justice Department has decided to drop all charges against former Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska.  U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder claims that the mo...

March 28, 2009

Earth Hour: Fool's Day Arrives Early

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March 24, 2009

More Global Warming Scare Mongering From Obama

Barack Obama sat with a group of reporters yesterday and attempted to exploit the suffering of North Dakota’s Red River Valley flood victims to help sell his bogus energy plan.  Apparently taking a cue from Al Gore while heeding Chief of S...

March 22, 2009

Lord Monckton Spring Cleans Global Warming Hysteria

Friday morning in New York City witnessed a burst of snowfall welcoming the vernal equinox and G. Gordon Liddy welcoming Christopher Monckton, Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, to his radio show to discuss global warming hysteria.  Following...

March 21, 2009

Kids Are Being Taught That Carbon Kills Polar Bears

California’s KQED has a story about elementary school children being taught that manmade “Mr. Carbon” is giving the Earth a global warming “fever” and killing “lovable” polar bears.  Of course, the San F...

March 20, 2009

Capping & Trading on Obama's $250,000 Lie

In explaining their tax plan, the President and his minions continue to repeat two crucial figures: 95 and 250,000.  The first is the percentage of Americans the Obudget purportedly provides tax relief to and the second is supposedly the minimum...

March 20, 2009

More Global Warming Alarmist Child Abuse?

The headline reads Polar bears' melting habitat melted girl's heart and the story beneath it doesn’t get any less exploitive.  So who’s the villain here? Today's TwinCities.com tells the tragic tale of Michelle Bergh, a 9-year-old gi...

March 15, 2009

The Clear and Cohesive Message of the International Conference on Climate Change

“There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Eart...

March 11, 2009

NYT Writer Deceitfully Claims Climate Conference Disharmony

You’d expect a gathering of over 700 reputable scientists, economists, and policy makers tackling an issue as topical and media-hyped as global warming to be big news.  And you know it would be, had the goal of their discussions and presen...

March 10, 2009

Second Dispatch from the ICCC Climate Sanity Front

Monday – March 9th – NYC.  There were over half a hundred presentations made at the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change today, and here are some quick picks from just a few of them.Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior ...

March 9, 2009

US Public Schools Teaching Children Pro-Islamic Propaganda

Christianity was started by a young Palestinian named Jesus and the 9/11 murderers were not Islamic Fundamentalists but simply a generic "teams of terrorists."  That's the caliber of politically corrected crap many of our children are ...

March 9, 2009

First Dispatch from the Climate Sanity Front

Sunday – March 8th – NYC.  For the next 2 ½ days, I will be assuming the role of your humble correspondent at this year’s International Conference on Climate Change – where the only alarm I expect to hear will...

March 6, 2009

Gore's Gruesome New Prize (Updated)

To celebrate the 100th birthday of the late Dr. Roger Revelle, the oceanography institute he once directed is today presenting an award in his name to his most famous disciple – Al Gore.  And, while this charlatan should never seriously be...

March 4, 2009

Frustrated Warmists Pull Another Cool Fast One

Continued global cooling has forced clamoring climate alarmists to move the goal posts – again. A study released yesterday confirms that global temperatures have remained flat since 2001 “despite rising greenhouse gas concentrations...

March 3, 2009

NRO Writer Predicted Yesterday's DC 'Gore Effect' last December (updated)

It's hard not to crack a smile watching wild-eyed protesters carrying placards decrying the evils of planet-cooking coal in hands fighting the onset of frostbite.  Of course, a March blizzard lends no more evidence that the planet is cooling tha...

February 27, 2009

Carbon Regulation: One Scientist's Unscientific Dream?

There's an understandably growing unease about the likely prospect that the Obama administration will soon choose to regulate CO2 as a pollutant.  But that disquiet would likely turn quickly to rage if more people knew the truth about the scient...

February 17, 2009

Has NASA's Hansen Finally Lost His Mind?

Even the realization of Al Gore's dream of "capping" carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants wouldn't satisfy NASA's James Hansen.  He wants to shut them all down, despite the untold human misery such hysterical action would inev...

February 14, 2009

NY Honor Killer's Muslim Sympathy Site Yanked

The website of a New York TV network whose aim is to improve American perceptions of Islam was shut down this morning, two days after its founder admitted to the beheading of his wife.  And while that irony might bring a momentary smile, another...

February 10, 2009

Obama Drops Warming Hype for News Conference

Last night, Barack Obama promised the nation that the so-called "stimulus package" would "create or protect" 4 million jobs that "America desperately needs," and offered a few examples.  But there was a curious omis...

February 5, 2009

Save The Children (From Global Warming Propaganda)

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the Future - Adolf Hitler, 1935No regime in modern history exploited propaganda as diabolically and successfully as did the Third Reich, thanks, in large part, to its focus on those most vulnerable to their id...

January 29, 2009

Obama: Heat as I say, Not as I Do

A piece in yesterday's New York Times featured a photo of an Oval Office meeting last week during which President Obama had removed his suit jacket.  And while the Times was quick to point out how this break with centuries old tradition was a si...

January 28, 2009

Gore Sings Same Old Song to Sympathetic Senate

Al Gore addressed a friendly Senate Foreign Relations Committee today to help sell both Obama's cap-and-trade plans and American commitment to the pending Copenhagen emissions reduction treaty.  Of course, he also retold a number of his formula ...

January 26, 2009

Inconvenient Truth Stranger Than Fiction

At the height of his 2007 media canonization era, I wrote a satirical column about rumors of a Broadway version of Al Gore's mankind stinks anthem -- Earth in the Balance - The Musical.   So you can imagine my delight in discovering that a ...

January 25, 2009

Climate: Change You Can't Believe In

Barack Obama campaigned for the White House on a promise he'd deliver "change you can believe in."  And the popular totals suggest that 52% of voters believed indeed. But according to a recent Rasmussen Poll, there's one change that on...

January 17, 2009

Obama Talks Global Warming to Shivering Crowd

In the first speech of his "whistle-stop" tour to Washington, Barack Obama talked global warming to a crowd of shivering Philadelphians who braved 18 degree (sub 10 degree wind-chill) temperatures on their journey to the 30th Street Train S...

January 8, 2009

Relax, Burris says he 'don't have no money'

Anyone the least bit concerned of possible impropriety in Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's selection to fill the very vacant Senate seat he is accused of auctioning to the highest bidder can breathe a big sigh of relief.  Yesterday, former Illino...

January 7, 2009

Gaza: Another Jihadist Ploy to Fuel Worldwide Anti-Semitism

Recent protests against Israel's long overdue response to six months of its cities' continual barraging by Hamas missiles have displayed a far more dangerous anti-Semitic tone than did precursors.  In fact, despite the claims from many on the Ar...

January 1, 2009

A Global Warming Howler for the New Year

Move over city and highway MPG.  Smog ratings - you're yesterday's news.  Beginning today, those shopping a new ride in California will face a new standard in town -- something called a "Global Warming Score."No kidding.Pursuant t...

December 9, 2008

Melting Ice: The Good, the Bad, and the Unbelievable

Following years of warnings that melting ice will magnify global warming, perhaps to an irreversible "tipping point," scientists are now crediting melting ice with slowing the very same process.  Really.Remember all the furor over trap...

December 3, 2008

Bill Clinton Puts Global Warming Threat Ahead of Terrorism

Just days after 10 terrorists -- likely Islamic extremists -- butchered more than 170 people -- including 6 Americans -- in Mumbai, Bill Clinton listed terrorism second to last in a list of challenges the world faces.  Speaking at Tuesday's...

November 26, 2008

When Warming Ideologues Attack

It's still uncertain whether Heidi Cullen, who once wrote that the American Meteorological Society should pull the certification of any weatherperson daring to question AGW, will be a casualty of last week's Weather Channel employee purge.  But ...

November 24, 2008

Did NBC Risk Employee Lives in a Green Agenda Stunt?

NBC's Ann Curry aborted her quest to find proof of global warming at the peak of Tanzania's Mt. Kilimanjaro.  But at about a half mile shy of her goal, she did find proof that sub-zero degree temperatures and thin, low oxygen concentration air m...

November 20, 2008

Obama Out-Gores Gore at Climate Summit

Barack Obama managed to say all the wrong things at this week's Governors Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles -- without even showing up.  The President-elect appeared to the green faithful on Tuesday in the form of a mammoth video image, and o...

November 14, 2008

Why Hillary will be our Next Secretary of State

Was there a deal struck months ago to get the Clintons on board?  Perhaps -- But that's not what makes this a sure thing.Both Obama and Clinton aides have been ducking questions ever since rumors that Hillary was being considered for State began...

November 2, 2008

Hey Barack: Share Share is not always Fair

During a Thursday stump speech in Sarasota, Fl, Obama suggested that people wanting to keep their hard-earned money rather than hand it over to the taxman are "selfish."After explaining how changing "our tax code" to take even mor...

October 31, 2008

Has Obama Overplayed the Race Card?

How ironic that the same Senator sponsoring the Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act of 2007 (S.453) would not only tacitly condone, but actually participate in racial intimidation to advance his presidential prospects.  Oba...

October 28, 2008

Strengthening Mac's 'Fear The Redistributor' Message

John McCain's use of his opponent's past words to expose the Socialism in his current dreams would be far more effective a vote-swayer were he to make clear why a President Obama might prove uniquely capable of realizing his Leftist vision.  Wha...

October 19, 2008

How Obama Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the R-Bomb

Barack Obama once expressed a fear that his opponent would first attack his lack of experience and then "mention he's black."  Of course, that was before he fully appreciated the inpenetratable political suit of armor his black skin re...

October 11, 2008

Jury Bias Freed OJ -- Now He Cries Jury Bias

O.J Simpson's attorneys are planning to appeal the verdict that found their client guilty of all 12 charges, including armed robbery and kidnapping with a deadly weapon.  And the reason they insist the Juice was unfairly judged was -- are you si...

October 6, 2008

More Gore Sham Shock and Awe

Any guesses where Al Gore points the blame for the June floods and tornadoes that ravaged Iowa?  Yep!As reported by the Des Moines Register, the world's most famous Chicken Little told attendees of a Saturday night Democrat fundraiser in that ci...

October 2, 2008

Senate 'Bailout' Bill a Bizarre Blend Indeed

Call it what you will, but the $700,000,000,000 credit rescue Bill that passed the Senate last night is one strange piece of lawmaking.  Take one part Monday's failed H.R. 3997 and soften it to liberal pleasure. Now add it to a mental health par...

October 1, 2008

Wrecks, Lies and Barney Frank

Democrats have a lot to hide about their role in creating the current financial crisis and are doing their best to appear blameless with charges directed elsewhere.Within hours of the fall of their affirmative-action-lending-policies house-of-cards, ...

September 26, 2008

Who's Really Injecting Presidential Politics?

At a Capitol Hill press conference this morning, Harry Reid first insisted Barack Obama's "principles of fairness" be considered in any negotiations, then had the gall to blame yesterday's breakdown on John McCain for "injecting presid...

September 25, 2008

They're Launching America's First Carbon Cap-And-Trade Program Today?

Did you know that a 10 state coalition is holding our nation's first ever carbon allowance auction at 9:00 AM EDT today?  Or that the same states will be imposing a mandatory cap-and-trade program on their electric plants beginning next month?...

September 11, 2008

Global warming infects British jury

Need more proof that climate alarmism breeds insanity? Yesterday, six Greenpeace activists, on trial for criminal damage to a power station, were exonerated by a British jury on the grounds that "the threat of global warming is so great that cam...

September 4, 2008

The Pathetic Attempt to Wrongly Wright Sarah Palin

Having failed in their attempts to label Sarah Palin a Nazi sympathizer, lefties are now working to safeguard their crucial Jewish voting block by fabricating a Jeremiah Wrightish problem for the Republican VP candidate.During last night's post-speec...

September 2, 2008

More on Palin, Buchanan and the Jewish Vote

This Palin is anti-Israel smear campaign from Rep. Robert Wexler actually began just hours after Friday's Veep announcement, when The Nation's Christopher Hayes dusted off a nearly decade old AP story naming then Wasilla Alaska Mayor Sarah Palin amon...

August 28, 2008

Did Bill Cut A Clever 11th Hour Deal?

The last time I witnessed an abrupt 180o  even approaching the magnitude of last night's from Bill Clinton was when Frank Pentangeli suddenly recanted all previous accusations against Michael Corleone at a Senate Committee hearing.  Of cour...

August 27, 2008

Feeling Bill's Pain - And Anticipating his Retribution

You've really got to feel Bill Clinton's pain.   Already peeved over what he perceives as myriad "dissings" by the Obama camp upon himself and his family, he arrived at last night's Democratic National Convention only to be d...

July 31, 2008

Obama Energy Plan: Fill Tires Not Oil Tanks

It appears we can add automobile fuel efficiency and oilfield recovery forecasting to the already extensive Areas of Obama's Sudden Expertise list.Speaking Wednesday at a Springfield, MO campaign event, Obama explained the folly of opening restricted...

July 22, 2008

Unrepentant APS softens but doesn't remove offensive Monckton disclaimer

A controversial disclaimer the American Physical Society added days after publication to a scientific paper they had solicited from Christopher Monckton was toned down sometime yesterday in response to the considerable outrage it had sparked.By now y...

July 19, 2008

The American Physical Society Owes Lord Monckton an Immediate Apology

The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley has penned a letter to the President of the American Physical Society demanding that an offensive disclaimer to one of his papers be removed from the APS website or justified to his satisfaction. And he's also expec...

June 20, 2008

CBS Pulls Unvetted Story Blaming Earthquakes on Global Warming

CBS News and the Associated Press were quick to regurgitate claims that global warming has increased the intensity of earthquakes fivefold in the past 20 years. But had either taken the time to investigate, they would have discovered that both the so...

June 13, 2008

The Climate Alarmist Manifesto

Just as class struggle forms the nucleus of Marxism, so does it sit at the very core of the Left's climate alarmism.  At a glance, the regressive nature of fiscal Carbon control schemes, be they taxation or cap-and-trade, would appear to be anti...

June 9, 2008

Congress Fiddled With Warming While Earth Cooled

Last week Democrats tried to kill the economy in the name of solving a problem that doesn't exist. Republicans should hang this bill around their necks in every district where an incumbent voted for the woefully misnamed and deservedly DOA Climate Se...

May 22, 2008

Gore Celebrates Israel's 60th With Whoppers

After delivering a scientifically inept global warming lecture in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, greenhouse gasbag Al Gore presented Israel with a 60th birthday gift of custom tailored, regionally-targeted Globaloney. As adaptable to his surroundings as a...

May 22, 2008

How much have the Democrats cost you at the pump?

Senator Chuck Schumer claims that coercing Saudi Arabia to increase oil production by 1 million barrels a day would drop the per barrel price by $25, saving Americans 62 cent per gallon at the gas pump. Yet, somehow, that same amount of oil coming fr...

May 19, 2008

Are 32,000 Scientists Enough to Question Global Warming 'Consensus?'

The National Press Club in Washington will today release the names of as many as 32,000 American Scientists who reject not only Kyoto-style greenhouse gas limits, but the very premise of manmade global warming itself.On Saturday, Lawrence Solomon wro...

May 16, 2008

Bush's 'Appeasement' Comments Honored Ailing Israeli Leader

What the "outraged" Democrats and mainstream media are completely ignoring in Bush's "appeasement" words used in yesterday's Knesset speech is that they addressed concerns originally raised by Ariel Sharon.Shortly after the 9/11 a...

May 15, 2008

Broaching That Other Off-Limits Obama Topic

When it comes to Barack Obama, only one subject infuriates the swooning mainstream media more than his father's race -- and that's his father and stepfather's religion.  Why, the very mention of Barack's early Islamic training -- or even his Mus...

May 15, 2008

Protecting Not Polar Bears But Warmist Power

In a move climate realists have dreaded for months, the polar bear was listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act yesterday.  Despite increasing numbers in recent decades, Ursus maritimus now distinguishes itself as the firs...

May 9, 2008

Matthews: Whites Seeking 'Permission' to Vote Against Obama

During yesterday's installment of his Hillary Must Go Show, Chris Matthews smugly suggested that white people are just itching for any excuse not to vote for Barack Obama.  The haughty Hardball host is no stranger to racial swordplay -- but Wedn...

May 7, 2008

Gore's Myanmar Words as Inopportune as they were Repulsive

Thirty days after Steve McIntyre caught NASA cooking climate history again - this time in a feeble attempt to somehow conceal the alarmist-embarrassing  downward trend since 1998 -- Al Gore shamelessly portrayed Saturday's Myanmar cyclone catast...

May 5, 2008

Are Global Warmists Pulling a Cool Fast One?

Mounting evidence of lower temperature trends despite rising atmospheric CO2 levels is becoming a real problem for the greenhouse gas crowd.  And reports that the cooling appears to follow a period of dormant solar activity aren't likely to ease...

April 30, 2008

NASA Confirms Natural Climate Shift

NASA has confirmed that a developing natural climate pattern will likely result in much colder temperatures.  Of course, the climate alarmists' favorite dubious data source was also quick to point out that such natural phenomena should not confu...

April 29, 2008

No, It's Not All Wright

Last go round, the media and other apologists insisted we were overreacting to out of context "snippets," misrepresentative of Jeremiah Wright's 30 years of preaching.  Yesterday's disgraceful showcase at the NPC shredded all such pret...

April 25, 2008

Newt's Global Warming Surprise

My esteem for the political intellect of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is second to no one's.  That said, by appearing in the latest Al Gore propaganda commercial, he joins a disturbingly growing number of ostensibly green-turning Re...

April 17, 2008

The Inanity of Obamanomics

When Barack Obama repeated his call to nearly double the capital gains tax rate last month, most observers wrote it off to fiscal naivety.  But during last night's debate, the Democrat frontrunner let slip that his motives were more socially tha...

April 7, 2008

BBC folds, then folds again

The BBC appears to have serially caved-in to global warmist activism. There was much online discussion this weekend about a Friday BBC global warming / La Nina related article suddenly changing its wording and with it -- its apparent balance.  T...

April 3, 2008

Al Gore's Global Warming Therapy

On the surface, Sunday's 60 Minutes puff piece did little more than cheer the pending rollout of Al Gore's all-out 300 million dollar green media blitz.  But on a deeper level, it also provided disturbing new insight into just what drives this m...

March 28, 2008

See Fit to See 'Fitna' Now

Fitna, the film short that Islamists and their western cheer-leaders worked so hard to hide, is now playing. Catch it while you can.  While not quite a fountain of revelation, especially to AT readers, it does a nice job of linking passages of t...

March 27, 2008

NBC's Equivalence Even Less Moral than Obama's

Last week we witnessed a veritable doubletalk double feature when first a presidential candidate compared the incomparable to excuse rabid racism bordering sedition; then a major television network analogized reality with fiction to garner sympathy f...

March 19, 2008

2008: Arthur C Clarke's Odyssey's End

Science Fiction writer extraordinaire Sir Arthur C. Clarke died Tuesday at the age of 90.  The great majority who’ll recognize his name only as the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey were unfortunately denied the wonder of his myriad other re...

March 16, 2008

Are the Obamas Among Wright's Wrong Congregation?

Much has rightly been made of Wright's tirades, but somehow less of the agitated anger of his congregants.  Watching the telling videos, perhaps overplayed on Fox but undeniably underplayed elsewhere, the vision of many black Trinity United Chur...

March 11, 2008

Client Number Nine's Troubling Number Two

Eliot Spitzer's sordid saga is quickly unfolding into a classic lesson on the perils of hypocritical self-righteousness.  But it also teaches the importance of the often underrated choice a leader makes in selecting his second in command.In a ye...

March 6, 2008

NY Climate Conference: Journey to the Center of Warming Sanity

If you rely solely on the mainstream media to keep informed, you may not have heard that the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change concluded in New York City on Tuesday.  And if you have heard anything -- this being primarily a forum o...

March 1, 2008

Navy Ship Honors 9/11 Victims and Heroes

Today the Navy christens the USS New York, an amphibious transport dock ship sporting a bow-stem forged from over 7 tons of steel salvaged from ground zero.The ship, which is now 70% complete and is the fifth of the NY pedigree, is 684 feet long and ...

February 29, 2008

Here Come the Green Car-Jackers

No amount of energy efficiency will ever do the trick -- the only way to save the planet is to surrender your car altogether. That's the conclusion reached by a group of Australian energy experts from last week's partial release of Professor Ros...

February 28, 2008

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Inevitability

Double Candidates Clinton have each complained of the double standard they perceive in the media's kid gloves treatment of the current frontrunner.  To hear them tell it -- be it a slip, a gaff, or any other offense, minor or major, Obama invari...

February 26, 2008

Black Hillary Supporters May Be Receiving Death Threats

There's mounting evidence that at least some of Obama's faithful intend to see a black American president sworn in next year -- no matter what it takes.  Earlier this month, popular black author and talk-show host Tavis Smiley disclosed death th...

February 25, 2008

Was an Academy Award intended to help Obama?

Many will wake up this morning quite surprised that Michael Moore's much touted and morning line favorite Sicko failed to pick up the Best Documentary OscarTM last night. Perhaps they shouldn't be.Sure, Moore's completely over the top repudiatio...

February 19, 2008

A President's Day Superdelegate Super Sale?

While shoppers took advantage of longer store hours and bargain prices this Presidents' Day, the Democrats' two candidates were probably doing some shopping of their own.  But it isn't an HDTV, a new couch, or even the latest hot fashions that O...

February 15, 2008

Sun Days Will Never Be the Same

Yet another climate expert concurs that, while solar activity normally fluctuates in 11-year cycles, we now appear to be at a cold standstill. And his research adds voice to growing concerns that Sun cycle 24's late start may have a chilling effect o...

February 13, 2008

A Super Delicate Super Delegate Dilemma

First-rate as it is, our one-man one-vote system can't promise majority contentment in every election.  You needn't reflect back any further than the 2000 Presidential race to evoke the unpleasantness, racial and otherwise, ignited by a popular ...

January 31, 2008

Rudy Could Pave McCain's Road to the Whitehouse

Pundits will surely attribute the gradual rise and swift freefall of the long-time Republican frontrunner more to a lengthy rap-sheet of liberal social misdemeanors than a flawed campaign strategy.  No matter -- as the new favorite, getting...

January 22, 2008

Bill Clinton dozes during MLK Speech: media dozes, too

The New York Post has video of Bill Clinton sleeping through portions of Sunday's MLK commemorative service at the Convent Avenue Baptist Church in Harlem.  Considering that no one watching could possibly miss the narcoleptic ex-prez's performan...

January 17, 2008

Pelosi: The Very Model of a Modern House Speaker

For all her fanfare as the first female Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi hasn't exactly taken the country by storm. Since taking the gavel:She failed to get her $35 billion increase to the children's health insurance program (CHIP) off the flo...

January 16, 2008

Democrats and Conspiracy Theories

Anyone surprised by the rumors of New Hampshire Primary election-fixing flowing through the leftie blogosphere since last week doesn't fully appreciate the Moveon.org/Daily Kos mindset.  But when Bill Maher suggested on Friday night's Real Time ...

January 16, 2008

Nevada Newspaper's Nose-Holding Obama Endorsement

In what must be the strangest endorsement of at least this campaign cycle, Nevada's largest circulating daily newspaper has just given the nod to Barack Obama as the Democratic candidate for president.  But there's neither cause for cheer nor an...

January 11, 2008

Is America Ready For a Failed Obama Candidacy?

Rather than relieving racial tensions, might an Obama candidacy instead intensify them?Iowa Caucus results quickly shifted many Democrats' sense of Hillary's inevitability to one of Barack's providence.  The smooth-talking senator's surprising h...

January 5, 2008

HuffPo Writer Suggests Right Might Kill Obama

In the midst of all the media gushing over Obama's Iowa upset Thursday night, allusions to Bobby Kennedy's 1968 "united country" campaign were bound to resurface. But a front page piece at HuffPo Friday suggested another possible similarity...

December 24, 2007

Chris Matthews' Alternate Universe

Dispatch from the people who live in glass houses front -- during his annual "let's laugh at this year's gaffes" fest, Chris Matthews ultimately managed to out-gaffe the competition.On yesterday's show, Chris and friends had a blast dissect...

December 21, 2007

A Harried Screed from Harry Reid

First, he dismissed Roll Call's assertion -- that the majority of "airdropped earmarks" in recent legislation favored committee members and vulnerable incumbents -- as just "somebody's news article."  Then, literally seconds ...

December 14, 2007

Bali Finale Papers Pit Vision Against Precision

On the very day Al Gore arrived in Bali with a petition avowing "support for a visionary global treaty to end the climate crisis," another petition (of sorts) was released attesting that any such efforts would prove "ultimately futile....

December 13, 2007

What if Aqsa Parvez was strangled with her own hijab?

It seems everyone but the Mainstream Media is talking about the 16-year-old Canadian girl whose father strangled her for refusing to wear the traditional Muslim head scarf.  Of course, with friends reporting that Aqsa Parvez often conveyed deep ...

December 10, 2007

How Green Was My Bali

Planet saving green superheroes flew off to the climate carnival in Bali Monday last week boldly sensing a new sweltering wind at their backs. And, while recent events certainly served to bolster their optimism, the folly of both their cause and -- w...

December 10, 2007

Islamophobia Legislation: Who'll protect us from the protected?

The International Islamophobia Conference of Muslim "thinkers and scientists," meeting in Istanbul to fight misperceptions about and injustices against their benevolent "religion of peace," ended Sunday.  Declaring Islamophob...

December 4, 2007

Jack Cafferty calls Republicans the Party of Macaca and Katrina

Anyone familiar with CNN's Jack Cafferty knows he's no stranger to foot in mouth disease.  For those who haven't had the displeasure, try this witty analysis of Dick Cheney's interview on Fox News from February of last year:"Well, I obvious...

November 30, 2007

Global Warmists Exploit the Holocaust

When Ellen Goodman likened climate skeptics to holocaust deniers last February, she raised more than a few eyebrows.  Yet, hers was not the first reprehensible use of that fetid analogy, nor, unfortunately, would it be the last.  In truth, ...

November 30, 2007

Weapons Grade Uranium Seized Day after Nuclear Warning

The very day after Canada's Defense Minister warned of a dirty bomb or nuclear device entering North American ports in a cargo container, Slovakian police thwarted the sale of enough weapons grade uranium to prove him right.On Wednesday, Peter Mackay...

November 21, 2007

Matthews plays Fantasy Hardball over McClellan 'Bombshell'

By now you've likely heard your fill of the MSM's overreaction to excerpts of former White House spokesman Scott McClellan's forthcoming book which were released on Monday. But unless you managed to sit through last night's Hardball, you missed the s...

November 21, 2007

Beneath Contempt -- even by Jihadist Madman Standards

Today's Australian is offering new details almost too horrific to believe about last month's attempt to kill former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto as she emerged from exile.  It appears that the "suicide bomb" that killed 170 ...

November 15, 2007

Gore's Deceptive Rolling Stone Interview

In case any doubt remains as to who deserves the title of undisputed Globaloney Champion of the World, Al Gore's Rolling Stone interview should put the question to rest. Interviewed in the magazine's third 40th Anniversary Issue of the year, self-pro...

November 12, 2007

Mind Games of the Big Green Scare Machine

Lord, what fools these mortals be - ShakespeareWith each passing day, Americans are increasingly behaving as though Al Gore's mantra "the debate [over man-made global warming] is over" were true.  Warming folklore is deserving of incre...

November 6, 2007

Green is Universally Silly (and Irresponsible)

This sweeps week began with NBC pushing an "Earth Friendly" beverage cup during the Cowboys/Eagles Sunday Night football game and shipping Matt Lauer and Ann Curry off to "the ends of the Earth" (Greenland and Antarctica, respecti...

November 2, 2007

Dog throws himself to the Sharptons

Nobody ever accused bounty hunter and reality TV star Duane "Dog" Chapman of having the sharpest fangs in the pack, but yesterday he proved that while this dog can certainly hunt, he can also bark too loudly, and then foolishly sit up and b...

November 1, 2007

Come on Cosby: It's Time to Come Clean about AIDS

As a longstanding fan of Bill Cosby, it pains me to criticize a man whose comedy and politics have been overwhelmingly constructive. But in the matter of AIDS, he needs to be a bit more forthcoming. A report published Monday by University of Arizona ...

November 1, 2007

Countdown to Cyber Holy War?

DebkaFile, the Israel-based military intelligence website, is reporting that they intercepted Arabic language website announcements on Monday declaring an imminent "cyber jihad on the west," and warns that:"On Sunday, Nov. 11, al Qaeda...

October 30, 2007

The Dumbest Thing Said about Global Warming Last Week

In a week which witnessed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and CNN's Anderson Cooper blaming the California wildfires on global warming to promote their political agendas and doomsday documentary, respectively, one might not expect to uncover any du...

October 11, 2007

Let's hope Rudy has the last laugh on Hillary Care

"If we do Hillary care or socialized medicine, Canadians will have no place to go to get their health care."That line from former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani drew plenty of laughs at Tuesday's Republican debate.  Sure, Michael Mo...

October 4, 2007

Britain to Give Gore Film a 'BS' Rating

A British truck driver who sought to stop the documentary An Inconvenient Truth from "brainwashing" his children appears to have won a partial victory.  Although the film will, indeed, be shown in 3,500 schools, teachers will be requir...

September 25, 2007

Al Qaeda Targets Our Schoolchildren

While Democrats prepare witless campaign slogans blaming Republicans for millions of children not protected by health insurance, al Qaeda's blatant threat to exterminate 2 million American kids remains unheeded.  And it will likely continue to b...

September 21, 2007

Stupid media tricks: Al Kamen division

In his final section of this morning’s In The Loop column, WaPo’s Al Kamen decided to have some fun with words he lifted from yesterday’s presidential news conference:Send In the IRS Bushism of the midweek. From yesterday's news con...

September 19, 2007

Why Barack, not Jesse, is the First Potential Black President

Jesse Jackson has accused Barack Obama of "acting like he's white" for what Jackson proclaims the presidential hopeful's inappropriate response to the Jena Six case.If "acting white" means not running on a racial divide platform, ...

September 17, 2007

Al Gore, the Next Bob Fosse?

No need to look over your shoulder just yet, Pacino.  Last night's Emmy did not give Al Gore his second major entertainment award but only his first.  Sure, the AP joined Reuters and other overly eager sources in misstating that fact:"...

September 16, 2007

Global Warming's Polar Opposition

Need more proof that the Big Green Scare Machine is spoon-feeding you cherry-picked non-science to further their AGW alarmist agenda? Try this.While news of Arctic ice shrinking to its lowest level on record is being screamed everywhere, like here an...

September 14, 2007

Nominate Olson - Then Stand Up and Fight

To Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer, Ted Olson is an unrepentant Republican, uniquely unqualified to succeed outgoing Alberto Gonzalez as U.S Attorney General.  To Lanny Davis, he's an independent thinker perfect for the job.  And to George Bus...

September 11, 2007

Joe Zawinul: Mr. Gone

Jazz pioneer Joe Zawinul died today at age 75.  On the day we commemorate the horror that 19 savages unleashed upon our nation it may not seem so great a loss - but it is.  And on this day we remember the misery man might visit upon hi...

September 10, 2007

Dems Step on Third Rail to Vilify Petraeus

Weeks of franticly subverting the long-awaited Petraeus Iraq progress report have seen Democratic leaders demoting a four star General to Bush marionette and left-wing hacks attacking his very credibility, and, collaterally, that of the American mili...

September 10, 2007

Move Over, Move On: The Nation adds Bush to Traitor List

John Nichols, who accused General David Petraeus of betraying the truth and the troops on Friday, today expanded his feral accusations and even added the Bush administration to his fantasy Benedict Arnold list.Blogging for The Nation on today's House...

September 6, 2007

NSA Style Eavesdropping Thwarts 9/11 Anniversary Terror Attack

It appears that the very methods of phone call monitoring the Democrats have made their life's mission to impede have once again saved the day.A plot to destroy American targets in Germany by a terror cell linked to the Islamic Jihad Group was foiled...

August 25, 2007

Jesse Jackson drops the "R" bomb on London

After bullying London's mayor into apologizing for his city's role in the transatlantic slave trade more than two centuries ago, Jesse Jackson did what he does best - demand money.At Thursday's memorial commemorating the 200th anniversary of the abol...

August 24, 2007

Global warming alarms not worth their salt

Two years ago scientists warned that the North Atlantic Ocean had become much less salty over the past 50 years due to global warming.  This year, scientists warn that the North Atlantic Ocean has become more salty over the past 50 years due to ...

August 17, 2007

Why Would Anyone Trust NASA's Climate Data Now?

Last week's disclosure of a critical temperature data revision by NASA climate experts under cover-of-darkness poses as many questions as it answers.  With worried alarmists scurrying to either dismiss the restatement's relevance or ignore it al...

August 17, 2007

Global climate models fail yet another reality check

Once again, computer-driven climate simulations have fallen short when measured against real-world scientific observations. That's right -- the very same climate models, on which  warming "experts" the likes of the UN's Intergovernment...

August 9, 2007

Al Gore Slings Bogus Borrowed Charges

Mr. Gore went to Singapore and peddled a phony story, one he appears to have borrowed without attribution. Echoing nearly verbatim Newsweek's recent Hillaryesque hokum that there exists a vast right-wing corporate Global Warming conspiracy, the Delph...

August 9, 2007

Revised Temp Data Reduces Global Warming Fever

1998 was not the hottest US year ever.  Nor was 2006 the runner up.Sure, had you checked NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) website just days ago, you would have thought so, but not today.  You see, thanks to the efforts of S...

August 3, 2007

Casualties of Anti-War

Warfare is the Way of deception - Sun TzuThe left's anti-war forces sustained heavy casualties earlier this week. And, judging from both strategy shifts and painful screams heard throughout the liberal blogosphere, many of the fallen were high value ...

August 3, 2007

House Dems Dirty Tricks Force Republican Walkout (updated)

In what just might be the dirtiest trick ever played in the House of Representatives, last night Democrats tried first to reverse the outcome of an unfavorable vote, then made it disappear altogether.According to Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA)'s website, wh...

July 31, 2007

The Fantasy of an Informed Electorate

In his LA Times op-ed this morning, Jonah Goldberg posed an interesting question -"Immigrants have to pass a test to vote; why not all citizens?"Jonah's text and title choice maintain that most Americans are Too uninformed to vote, having n...

July 30, 2007

The NAACP's Michael Vick Double Standard

In stark contrast to its position on last year's Duke non-rape case, the NAACP has urged the public not to judge Michael Vick before he has his day in court.In a news conference early this morning, Atlanta NAACP President R.L. White charged that the ...

July 28, 2007

Obama Calls Hazleton Ruling a Victory

Sen. Barack Obama called the voiding of a Pennsylvania town's illegal immigrant crackdown law a "victory for all Americans."Hazleton, PA passed the Illegal Immigration Relief Act in July of 2006 in an effort to confront escalating violent c...

July 26, 2007

John Doe Intimidation is Dead - Long Live the King

In what must be celebrated as a major victory for both sanity and safety, the Improving America's Security Act of 2007 will, indeed, include liability protections for citizens reporting suspicious activity they fear may be linked to terrorism. As you...

July 20, 2007

More NY Times NIE LIEs

Not surprisingly, the New York Times exploited Tuesday's release of the latest National Intelligence Estimate as yet another opportunity to nourish their "we're less safe because of Iraq" minions.  In a Wednesday article entitled 6 Yea...

July 11, 2007

Solar Deniers Attempt to Eclipse Global Warming Documentary

On the very day before the British documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle is to hit Aussie TV screens, the Royal Society has published the work of 2 scientists who claim to have disproved its core position - that the actions of the sun, not hum...

July 1, 2007

Bald Eagle No Longer Endangered - Malaria Victims Still Are

You've probably heard that the American bald eagle has just been removed from the federal list of protected species.  While this comeback is certainly wonderful news for our revered national bird, those spreading the story are exploiting its opp...

July 1, 2007

Leahy's Unintelligently Timed Intelligence Concerns

Britain is in its highest state of alert following three failed car bombings in London and Glasgow. Tensions are running full-throttle worldwide and particularly in the United States as we prepare to celebrate the birth of our nation. Anticipating th...

June 29, 2007

Manmade Global Warming: The Real Assault on Reason

In the opening chapter of The Assault on Reason, its seldom reasonable author accuses the Bush administration of exploiting people's fears "to short-circuit debate and drive the public agenda without regard to the evidence, the facts, or the pub...

June 21, 2007

Seasons of the Global Warming Sun

During today's Summer Solstice, the Sun will attain its highest point north of the celestial equator. In the Northern Hemisphere, Sol will work its light and warmth wonders on its orbiting child longer than on any other day of the year, while those l...

June 15, 2007

Gun Bill controls Gunmen not Guns

Responding to the murder of 32 Virginia Tech students and faculty by madman Seung-Hui Cho in April, the House all but unanimously passed a bill (HR 2640) Wednesday aimed at preventing the similarly deranged from purchasing firearms.  Under its u...

June 9, 2007

NRA foe Jefferson ordered to surrender his Guns

When Rep.William Jefferson was arraigned on a boatload of corruption and racketeering charges on Friday, he was ordered to surrender his firearms.  Apparently, while the Louisiana Democrat stores his FBI-marked bribe money in his freezer in Wash...

June 7, 2007

Kyoto and the G8: A Day Late and a Euro Short

Later this year, China will overtake the United States as the world's leading emitter of greenhouse gases (GHG).  At that time, some of the pressure to accept egregious UN-based Kyoto-style protocols will shift eastward from Washington to B...

April 14, 2007

Above the law?

Rumors that New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine was not wearing a seatbelt during Thursday night's crash that left him critically injured have been confirmed. In no way should this diminish our sympathy and concern for the governor's injuries, nor our ho...

April 6, 2007

UN feared today's global warming report media panic

Believe it or not, the specter of media overreaction to this morning's IPCC Working Group 2 Summary for Policymakers was actually dreaded by one of the committee's leaders.  The executive director of the U.N. Environment Program spoke out on Wed...

April 5, 2007

SCOTUS Emits Scare Pollution

The Supreme Court of the United States has arrogantly ruled that the second most vital gas to sustaining life on Earth is a "pollutant."  In doing so, five of nine Justices did the same dirt to climate science Monday that twelve OJ jur...

March 29, 2007

Terrorists Targeting Students: The Kids are not Alright

Just months after 9/11, videotapes were confiscated in Afghanistan showing al-Qaeda terrorists training to takeover a school.  Six months later, spokesman Suleiman Abu Gheith boldly declared al-Qaeda's "right" to kill 2 million America...

March 27, 2007

The Imam Scam continues

CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) was handed a victory of sorts on C-SPAN's Washington Journal call-in show this morning.  The subject was the "civil rights" lawsuit CAIR attorneys have filed on behalf of the flying imams, w...

March 21, 2007

Albert in Wonderland (updated)

Mr. Gore went back to Washington today to retell his fantasy that the debate on the science of climate change is over.  In spite of virtually daily news to the contrary, the eco-obsessed former Veep just testified before House panels that the co...

March 20, 2007

Who's on First

Months before last year's midterm elections, the prospect of the nation's 1st Madam Speaker of the House fueled seemingly endless gushing news stories, op-eds, and blog rants.  As we kick off history's 1st 2-year-long presidential election seaso...

March 20, 2007

Solar global warming deniers

"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."    - Mark TwainNo, it's not.  And a report announced yesterday by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory may have provided further evidence of that axiom - particularly in the never-ending deba...

March 17, 2007

Cowardice Most Despicable

To be a terrorist is to be a coward.  Deliberately targeting unarmed civilians is the most craven of crimes.  But when the objective is the bloody death of our offspring, itis even worse. There can surely be no viler plot. Will anyone ever ...

March 15, 2007

Miss Marple on Global Warming

Solar expert Dr. David Whitehouse has submitted a marvelous retort to a fellow "scientist's" scathing criticism of The Great Global Warming Swindle. On Tuesday, George (Moonbat) Monbiot wrote an article for the Guardian which declared that ...

March 14, 2007

AP Global Warming Writer Over the Top - Again

Seth Borenstein  of the Associated Press has written another truly frightening little sci-fi piece entitled Warming Report to Warn of Coming Drought.  The article, which claims to have scooped the findings of the IPCC 4th Assessment Working...

March 2, 2007

They'll Never Stop Saying... Sharia

Rather than solving the problem, many have foolishly allowed Sharia's gradual unchecked spread in the names of diversity and tolerance.  Unfortunately, as this dark-age jurisprudence is totally incompatible with any democratic society, thos...

February 26, 2007

Mitt and the Sins of the Great-Great Grandfathers

Kate O'Beirne put the subject of Mitt Romney's Mormon polygamist heritage into clear perspective in an August blog entry at National Review Online.  Responding to a report that the Massachusetts Governor's great-grandfather had "multiple...

February 23, 2007

As Went the Dodo so Will Kyoto

February has been a tough month for Global Warming doomsayers.  First, their cataclysmic worst-case scenarios were debunked by the IPCC, which cut its own 2001 projections for temperature increase by a third and sea level rise completely in half...

February 15, 2007

Obama, Lincoln and the Reformation of Black History

On the 10th day of this year's Black History Month, C-SPAN's coverage of the State of the Black Union conference was preempted in midbroadcast. The spotlight departed the Hampton University forum to journey to the site of the Old State Capitol in Spr...

February 8, 2007

The IPCC Should Leave Science to Scientists

Of the countless flaws inherent to Pop Science, by far the most pernicious is that, contrary to accepted scientific method, the conclusion precedes any supporting research.  Special interests whose agendas may be furthered by the junk premise th...

January 31, 2007

The Kennedy, Chavez & Chomsky Pipeline

Have you seen the latest Citgo-sponsored commercial for Citizens Energy Corporation?  At first glance you may have mistaken it for a Saturday Night Live sketch and watched it prepared for a good laugh. That is, until you'd realized it was a...

January 23, 2007

Pat Leahy: Canary in a Data Mine

The new chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is demanding he be kept apprised of covert technologies our intelligence agencies use to thwart terrorism. The legislation he's cosponsoring would compel the White House to provide regular reports on...

January 11, 2007

Pelosi: God Bless the Child that's not at Home

The history-making first Madame of the House marketed her recent three day victory-dance as a celebration of children.  As a teaser, the Wednesday morning Catholic Mass at Trinity University was prominently dedicated to the children of Darfur an...

December 21, 2006

The Imam Scam and the Democrats' House of Games

Remember when fear of flying was a normal, human response to an inner doubt that a 3 quarter million pound hunk of metal had any business being 30,000 feet in the air?  Of course, that was before 19 men - all Mideast Muslims - ended their misera...

December 12, 2006

Iran Offers Holocaust Deniers a Friendly Forum

They believe and preach that the 20th century Nazi plan to thoroughly remove the presence of Jews from Europe never actually culminated in genocide.  They espouse statistics vehemently challenging body counts and cite reports questioning the ver...

December 7, 2006

Islamic Wars MMVI: Return of the Shiites

A long time ago in a land far away the Prophet Muhammad, who had united the Arabian tribes under the banner of Islam, died.  The ensuing battles over naming his rightful successor sparked a schism in the Muslim community which endures to this da...

November 17, 2006

Pelosi, Hastings and the Future of House Democrats

There have been but 17 federal officials impeached by the House of Representatives since 1787 when the framers included the process in the U.S Constitution.  Of these were two presidents, one cabinet member, one senator, and one Supreme Court Ju...

October 25, 2006

The Al Qaeda Bomb is Coming – Vote for your Life!

As surely as the future holds another catastrophic earthquake for California, so might it promise a Mushroom Cloud for one or more of our major cities.  This alarming reality makes the outcome of every future national election infinitely more m...

October 11, 2006

The Dusk of North Korea's Sunshine

When North Korea's foreign ministry declared its intention to conduct a nuclear warhead test last week, the U.S response was clear — do so at the expense of your country's future. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, chief U.S. envoy ...

October 6, 2006

Foley's Rehab

A Brief History of Slime Politicians and peccadilloes —— to butcher a lyric from Sammy Cahn without regard for rhyme —— go together like a horse and carriage.  And claiming that the Devil —— or, more accuratel...

September 28, 2006

How to LIE about the NIE

That most wonderful time of the year has arrived. Oh, the joy of election season!  Overpriced, overcooked fundraising dinners; tasteless posters and bumper stickers; sophomoric TV attacks, excruciating debates and, oh yeah — politically mo...

September 15, 2006

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sharia?

Steal a loaf of bread and one or both of your upper extremities will be hacked off at the wrist. Get caught holding hands with your same—sex fiancé and the only thing the two of you will ever share again is a slow, painful, death.  Are you...

July 27, 2006

The Ho Chi Minh Trail to Beirut

A bizarre moral inversion grips most of the world's media, in particular America's legacy press.Those who defend against aggresion are castigated, while the aggressors are celebrated. Modern warfare involves information war, and the strategy and...

July 14, 2006

License, Insurance Card, and Race, Please

Suffolk County, NY, police have announced a pilot program in which officers are recording the race of drivers stopped for routine traffic violations.  The initiative, which requires that officers make a visual determination of the suspect's race...

June 29, 2006

Gore's Grave New World

Imagine, if you can, a modern society in which scientists positing theories contrary to those accepted by agents of the government are declared heretics and swiftly punished.  Ray Bradbury imagined one in his novel Fahrenheit 451, as did Pierre ...

June 27, 2006

Gore's Global Warming Snow Job

Phineas Taylor Barnum, the greatest 19th Century showman and huckster, taught the world that by craftily combining equal parts entertainment, science and sensationalism, our natural sense of wonder and curiosity can be exploited to convince the gulli...

June 13, 2006

Ann Coulter and the Myth of Liberal Tolerance

In the very first chapter of her 2002 book, Slander: Liberal Lies About The American Right, Ann Coulter exposed the duplicitous character of those who 'demand[ed] campus speech codes, an end to 'intolerance,' and 'hate speech' laws' while continually...

May 5, 2006

Green Piece of Junk Science

Kermit the Frog once avowed in song that 'It isn't easy being Green.'аа Well, Kermie, it appears that you're not the only dummy with such problems — Not surprisingly, it isn't easy being Greenpeace either! Greenpeace continues to beat one drum ...

April 27, 2006

Iran a Tough Race

Monday's reiteration by Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that he'll consider withdrawing from the Nuclear Non—proliferation Treaty (NNPT) if the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 'tries to prevent his country from enriching ...

April 17, 2006

Misinformation, Misquotes, Misattributions and Matthews

'Anchorman' Chris Matthews concluded the April 8, 2006 episode of the NBC show which shares his name with these words [emphasis mine]: "Yes an anchor is not simply a newsreader or even someone who decides the news items to be featured and in what ord...