Is civilization doomed because of man-made global warming? You’ve been told your carbon footprint could lead to skyrocketing temperatures, melting ice caps, dying polar bears and “superstorms.”
Click below to watch each segment of the KUSI Special Report, Global Warming: The Other Side
read the rest here… Global Warming: The Other Side | KUSI – News, Weather and Sports – San Diego, CA | Coleman’s Corner.
The White House has agreed to concessions in its health care legislation aimed at sparing union workers the bulk of a new tax.
We have seen tremendous progress over the last couple of days,” said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, signaling an easier path for the legislation in the union-friendly House.
read the rest here… Obama, Dems cut deal to exempt union health care from taxes | Washington Examiner.
I’ll start with the least likely…
#6–Union blues
The left is nearly as angry as the Right, calling the Reid bill a bailout for the insurance industry. The unions are upset about the tax on their so-called “Cadillac” health care plans and want that removed. The Left has held the coalition together with a “live together, die alone” motto, but politics changes with the wind. And the Left knows the winds are changing. I list this first because it is the least likely. But it is still possible.
#5–One Democrat Senator can’t make it to the floor to vote.
Despite the backroom deals and dirty tricks, as we understand it there will be one more final cloture vote in the Senate. Rules require 60 votes to invoke cloture. If one Democrat Senator can’t make it to the floor, for any reason (health, accident, death etc.) they don’t have 60 votes.
#4–The Cornhusker Kickback kicks back.
Arnold Schwarzenegger told California’s members of Congress to vote NO unless their state also gets the Cornhusker Kickback. Now Dems are scrambling to give every state a kickback. The more talk about kickbacks and the more uncomfortable everyone is with this entire fiasco.
#3–Abortion issue divides Democrats.
Rep. Bart Stupak has already voiced his opposition to Nelson’s compromise and says he has the votes to stop any abortion-funding ObamaCare bill. An equal number of House Democrats have vowed to torpedo any final bill that includes Stupak’s amendment. One group must blink for ObamaCare to pass.
#2–Three House Democrats change their votes.
Abortion is just one of the issues dividing Democrats. Rep. Cantor has identified 34 House Democrats who are facing a very difficult vote based on three issues: abortion, Medicare Advantage, and state budget crises. It is now an election year. The pressure is building. If three members feel enough heat to switch their votes, ObamaCare fails.
#1–The Massachusetts Miracle.
The Bay State’s special election next week to fill the late Sen. Kennedy’s seat is now a tossup in some polls, and Republican candidate Scott Brown has pledged to be the 41st vote to block ObamaCare. If Brown is seated before the final ObamaCare vote, game over. There is already talk that if Brown wins, Democrats will stall his election certification in order to keep him from casting the deciding vote.
The special election is next Tuesday (1/19), before any final votes will be cast on ObamaCare. If a Republican takes Teddy Kennedy’s seat, I say all bets are off. Democrats from coast-to-coast will suddenly get a lot more nervous about voting for ObamaCare. Unlike old king Belshazzar in the book of Daniel, they won’t need a prophet to interpret the “handwriting on the wall” — vote now for ObamaCare and get defeated in November.
read the rest here… SIX WAYS TO DEFEAT OBAMACARE…. OBAMA’S DIRTY BACKROOM DEAL THIS WEEK… ELECTION ON THE 19TH – Patriotic Resistance.
THE much-anticipated trial to determine the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8 is scheduled to begin this morning in the case of Perry v. Schwarzenegger. What’s at stake in this case, filed in federal district court in San Francisco on behalf of two gay couples, is not just the right of California voters to reaffirm the definition of marriage as only between a man and a woman, but also whether marriage may be otherwise defined in any state.
The entire premise of this litigation is disquieting — that traditional marriage is nothing but “the residue of centuries of figurative and literal gay bashing,” as David Boies, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, has written. According to the plaintiffs, there is just no rational basis for government to privilege marriage between a man and a woman. Thus, in their minds, Proposition 8, which was supported by more than seven million California voters, could have been adopted only as a result of “animus,” as the complaint puts it, toward gays and lesbians.
read the rest here… Op-Ed Contributor – Stacking the Deck Against Proposition 8 – NYTimes.com.
Our deeper incompetence stems from an inability to recognize the proper limits to our own virtues; to forget, as Aristotle cautioned, that even good things “bring harm to many people; for before now men have been undone by reason of their wealth, and others by reason of their courage.”
Thus we reject profiling on the commendable grounds that human beings ought not to be treated as statistical probabilities. But at some point, the failure to profile puts innocent lives recklessly at risk. We also abhor waterboarding for the eminently decent reason that it borders on torture. But there are worse things than waterboarding—like allowing another 9/11 to unfold because we recoil at the means necessary to prevent it. Similarly, there are worse things than Guantanamo—like releasing terrorists to Yemen so they can murder and maim again (and so we can hope to take them out for good in a “clean” Predator missile strike).
read the rest here… Bret Stephens: Airport Security and Our Incompetent Civilization – WSJ.com.
The most ambitious of the tea party events planned is a 20-day, 42-city road trip that is scheduled to start in March — a cross-country caravan tour called the “Tea Party Express III.” Organizers are encouraging supporters to get in buses and join them at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s hometown of Searchlight, Nev., on March 27.
The caravan then will go across the country stopping in cities like Little Rock, Ark., Springfield, Ill., Davenport, Iowa, Detroit, Erie, Pa., and Boston. The final stop is Washington, D.C., on Tax Day, April 15.
read the rest here… FOXNews.com – Tea Party Movement Poised for Strong Start in 2010.
Type a few words into the search field on Google’s home page and the engine automatically returns a helpful list of popular, similar searches for the words you’ve typed in so far — a convenient way to find the right information.Enter “Christianity is” and you’ll find results that, while offensive, at least indicate common discussions on the Internet. Likewise, type “Judaism is” and Google suggests other, potentially offensive searches such as “Judaism is false” and “Judaism is not a race.”But type “Islam is” into the search engine and Google’s auto-results pane mysteriously vanishes, leading some to conclude that Google, whose mantra is “don’t be evil,” is censoring its search results.
read the rest here… FOXNews.com – What’s Islam? Don’t Ask Google.