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• Leaked Draft of U.N. Climate Report Suggests Two Decades of Overestimated Global Warming

  January 30, 2013 at 7:29am

  The really juicy part here is the “observed” data is probably constructed from the data set that originally showed temperature decline. AGW alarmists took that data set, fudged the numbers so they got a temperature rise, threw away the original data, and reported that as “observed”.

  They also do their stupid line drawing tricks. Draw a line that fits data from 2000-2010 and you can convince yourself temperature is declining. Where you cut off the temperature data affects where this line is. They cut it off at 1990 for a reason.

• Wilkow and Guests Discuss New Candidate Pledge to Reduce Government Spending

  December 14, 2012 at 7:25am

  Rather than be satisfied with a pledge, I think we should instead push for action, and reward that. Getting a politician to sign a pledge really isn’t that much reassurance. Getting that politician to actually do something, then reward them when it occurs, is much more effective. Regard politicians as dogs who pee on your carpet. That cute look they give you when you explain to them why they need to pee outside is not enough. You need the dog to actually pee outside.

• Is Santa Claus a Democrat or a Republican? These Poll Results May Surprise You

  December 11, 2012 at 4:13pm

  If Santa hands out presents bought with other people’s money, he is a Democrat.
  If Santa hands out presents bought with Santa’s money, he is a Republican.

• Will Republicans Change Relationship to Conservative Media After Election Failure?

  December 6, 2012 at 3:32pm

  I made the mistake this year in thinking that the presidents dismal job performance from an economic standpoint would make it very difficult for him to win. I underestimated how bad state run media is now, with outright false stories being reported across large media outlets being received and believed by legions of Obama voters. I was horribly surprised how well quid pro quo politics works now, or how identity politics trumps objective measures of job performance. I saw similar errors in reasoning in Morris and Rove. The mistake here was overestimating the intelligence of the American voter. Becks more-on trivia and Howard Stern’s man on the street interviews rather than being laughable anomalies apparently were statistically significant samplings of the Obama voter base.

  I suppose this is what you get when you leave education up to teachers union members, or you lack a media presence to undercut and undermine the state run media. Republicans face a huge task in re-educating a largely ignorant and propaganda isolated public.

  It is all very discouraging. Have yourself a Merry little Cliffmas…

• Photographer Claims AZ Gov. Jan Brewer ‘Slugged’ a Reporter After He Asked Her About Manmade Global Warming

  December 6, 2012 at 10:55am

  Kind of ridiculous calling that slugging. That was a tap, more akin to someone putting their hand on your shoulder to get your attention.

  Anthropological Global Warming (AGW) is a theory aimed at explaining world wide temperature changes. Like any scientific theory, its value is objectively measured by (a) how well it models the temperature history, and (b) how well it predicts the temperature future.

  Under (a) we have these clear failings
  -450 million years ago, CO2 was in the 1000′s of PPM (compared with <400ppm today), around 5x higher than today, and we had indisputable glacial periods of 1C cooler global temperatures
  -In the medieval warming period, there was no industrialization, and no real AGW contribution, but temperatures were warmer than today
  -In ice core samples, temperature peaks 800 years before CO2, implying temperature rises releases CO2
  -Atmospheric probes sent up into the layer of the atmosphere where CO2 is measure no temperature rise in that layer, which would occur were it absorbing heat
  -The theory itself recently "evolved" by eliminating CO2 as absorbing IR from the earth, and instead putting CO2s role as a forcing function for increased humidity
  -From 1940-1970 industrialization was strong in the USA, yet temperature was cooling and people were afraid of an ice age

  For (b) we have
  - AGW theory predicted global temperature rise from 2000-2010. The reality was the world cooled over that period.

  The theory does not fit the past or p

• With Young Voters, Republicans Must Give Up on Social Issues or Give Up Altogether, Poll Data Suggests

  December 5, 2012 at 11:25am

  In the early days of the Tea Party movement, the emphasis was upon fiscal conservatism. They accepted everyone from whatever social position who shared this view. They were big tent on social issues, and defined by fiscal issues. The movement took off and gained huge momentum.

  Then as time went on, liberals raged against it and tried to brand its members as social conservatives, Nazis and all sorts of other things it was not. Clearly this worked as far as disinformation goes for those who derive their news from left of center sources, because if you talk to a typical lefty, they regard a Tea Party person as a rabid extreme right wing social conservative who wants to get into your bedroom.

  Democrats did this rebranding because a fiscally conservative block emerging and taking over the Republican party that is very tolerant of social views was extremely threatening to them politically.

  Couple this opposition party rebranding to various politicians piling onto the movement and steering it their way for their purposes, and we see an erosion of the fundamental message of fiscal conservatism that was the rallying cry early on.

  The way for Republicans out of this is to insist upon religious liberty. The government’s involvement in religious matters should be limited to protecting the free expression of religion, and avoiding state sponsored religion. When the Republican party pushes hard for federal bans on abortion, they drive out gen Y types. Obama exploited this.

• Sen. McCain: Hillary Clinton Not Fully Responsible For Libya Security, ‘Buck Stops’ With the President

  October 16, 2012 at 4:01pm

  There is no way Rice said what she did for days and days without White House approval. Hillary’s argument that the president is not responsible for day-to-day operations in embassy security is a distraction from the clear cover up story the WH did put their stamp of approval on, if not create in its entirety. Had Obama came clean and said something like “we deferred to the State Dept recommendation that increased security would cause diplomatic issues in Libya” and had done so early on after the event, I might be more inclined to believe that the secretary of state was at fault here. But because they deliberately covered up the incident to make it appear less inflammatory and fit the narrative of success they were peddling at the DNC, there is cause for concern with the president. Obama is arrogant and believes he is infallible, and therefore blames everyone else around him when his policies fail. As this goes on, expect to see Valerie Jarret or Axelrod get the blame so the big O can still be blameless.

• Another ‘Green’ Failure? Battery Maker That Received $249 Million From Admin. Files for Bankruptcy

  October 16, 2012 at 3:53pm

  I am in the middle of reading Dick Morris’ “Screwed” in which he devotes a large section to China. Morris argues many things regarding China such as (1) free trade is not so free requiring US companies to partner with Chinese companies and transfer their trade secrets to the Chinese partners just to access to the market, and (2) China uses trade deficit dollars to buy US dollars to increase demand on the US dollar and keep it high with respect to the Yuan, which makes Chinese goods cheaper, and widens the trade imbalance. Until Jan 2011 China would then use dollars to buy treasury bonds, owning more and more of our debt.

  Morris argues that consumer demand in the US is flat, but the stimulus projects are aimed at priming the pump and upping demand, when in fact all they do is send money to China via the trade surplus. So we borrow money from China to stimulate jobs in China.

  This battery company, built on stimulus dollars is being gobbled up by a Chinese auto parts maker, where all those secrets financed by taxpayer funds will now be theirs at no R&D cost to China. Not only is our stimulus program wasteful, but it also goes to bolster our enemy in the undeclared trade war with China.

• ‘Wilkow!:’ Market Interference Is Never the Answer

  October 16, 2012 at 7:22am

  Sure would be great if transcripts were available for those of us in situations where watching the video is difficult.

• Obama Campaign Actually Replaces 50 Stars on American Flag With Campaign ‘O’ Logo

  September 20, 2012 at 7:25am

  You know, that 2nd flag looks like an electoral map, with the liberal pacific northwest going Dem, and the rest going Romney.