From On High

• It's Come To This

  Where once thousands were employed, this part of Virginia now looks for someone to kick in a few thousand ... dollars:
  Railroading groups join to woo tourists
  By Jenny Kincaid Boone
  
  Tourism gurus have a plethora of options for marketing the Roanoke Valley and its surrounding areas as a [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:18am EST
  

• Quote of the Day

  From Charles Krauthammer:
  Finally, there's the moral logic. It's not as if [Attorney General Eric] Holder opposes military commissions on principle. On the same day he sent KSM to a civilian trial in New York, Holder announced he was sending Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, (accused) mastermind of the attack on [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:05am EST
  

• Like a Ping Pong ball

  This was our foreign policy two weeks ago:
  
  US vows to get tough on Karzai
  
  This is our policy today:
  
  A softer approach to Karzai
  
  Two weeks from now?
  
  If I were Karzai, I'd be finding a new "ally."' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:59am EST
  

• Obama Embarrasses Us All

  
  
  This is humiliating:
  Obama in China: A wake-up call!
  By David Gergen, AC360
  
  Barack Obama has recently been reading up on the presidency of John F. Kennedy. Coming home from China, he might well focus on Kennedy’s first summit overseas with the leader of [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:32am EST
  

• I Learn a New Word

  Intaxicaton
  Noun: intaxication  in-täx-sə-ˈkā-shən
  
  1. Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:15am EST
  

• Frightening

  Go to "The Decline: The Geography of a Recession" to see an evolving map depicting the spread - by county - of the effects of the 2006 Democratic takeover of Congress (and later of the White House) on the economy.
  
  This should give you nightmares. [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:09am EST
  

• I Learn Another Word

  Palinoia
  Noun: palinoia pā-ly-noi'-uh
  1. A psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution by Sarah Palin.
  Palinoia
  by Megan McArdle, The Atlantic
  
  Y'all well know that I really don't like Sarah Palin.  In fact, more than one of you has yelled at me about this.  And I find the whole schtick' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:07am EST
  

• Giving New Meaning To a Word

  Watchdog
  Noun: watchdog wŏch'dôg'
   1. What Obama's Stimulus Watchdog ain't.
  Watchdog Urges Caution on Claims of 640,000 Stimulus Jobs
  By Michael Cooper, New York Times
  
  Washington — The government watchdog overseeing the federal stimulus program testified Thursday that he could not vouch for the Obama administration’s recent claims' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:05am EST
  

• Global Non-Warming Gaining Mainstream Attention

  Hey, Al.  Want an inconvenient truth?
  Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out
  By Gerald Traufetter, Der Spiegel
  
  Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:49am EST
  

• These People Have a Screw Loose

  From the lunatic asylum:
  ‘Climate change pushes poor women to prostitution, dangerous work’
  By Joseph Holandes Ubalde, GMANews.TV
  
  Effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines to risk dangerous jobs, and sometimes even into the flesh trade.
  
  Suneeta [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:38am EST
  

• How They've Changed Their Tune

  Whereas in 2006, Democrats were admonishing young Americans to "study hard, do their homework, and make an effort to be smart," or they'll be forced to go into the military, today the Democrats see those in uniform differently.  Now that Obama's in charge, they're useful tools:
  
  "You'" [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:32am EST
  

• We Love Her In The Heartland

  Truly a phenomenon:
  Palin's Gold Mine
  by Duff McDonald, The Daily Beast
  
  Going Rogue is going gangbusters, and it looks like both Palin and her publisher, HarperCollins, are going to make some serious money off of it.
  
  A HarperCollins insider told The Daily Beast that the book sold' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:26am EST
  

• Sad

  But also rather revealing when it comes to the pandemic that could kill millions.
  
  Two months ago:
  
  Swine flu ‘could kill millions’ and cause anarchy in poor nations, UN warns
  
  Today:
  
  NY teen dies of complications from swine flu
  
  When bad news can [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:58am EST
  

• When There's Nothing Else Making News ...

  ... give 'em crap like this:
  
  10-year-old refuses to pledge allegiance until gays can marry
  
  A ten-year-old.
  
  He's probably still grappling with the whole Santa Claus concept too.
  
  We care about this why?' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:38am EST
  

• Food For Thought

  To adapt a line delivered by Shakespeare's Queen Gertude:
  
  You, o liberal, doth protest too much, methinks.
  
  David Darsanyi on the hatred being spewed at Sarah Palin:
  The Palin Experience
  Denver Post
  
  These days, where you fall on the crucial issue of Sarah Palin tells the rest [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:31am EST
  

• This Is The Guy Who Thinks The Globe Is Warming

  Al Gore:
  
  "... but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, 'cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, and the crust of the earth is hot ..."
  
  John Derbyshire:
  
  "The temperature at the surface of'" [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:06am EST
  

• ObamaCare, As Viewed By a Health Care Expert

  Jeffrey S. Flier, writing in the Wall Street Journal:
  As the dean of Harvard Medical School I am frequently asked to comment on the health-reform debate. I'd give it a failing grade.
  
  In discussions with dozens of health-care leaders and economists, I find near unanimity of opinion that,' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:54am EST
  

• How's That War Strategy Coming, Barry?

  Obama visits Great Wall, "inspired by its majesty"
  [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:40am EST
  

• A Challenge To Tom Perriello

  In response to one of my posts the other day that took 5th District Congressman Tom Perriello - Democrat - to task for having voted Washington's interests rather than those of his Southside district, subject ObamaCare, I received the following press release from one of his potential opponents in the' [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:10am EST
  

• Big News

  Senator James Webb came out Monday in opposition to that egregious cap-and-tax bill that Representative Boucher and so many other Democrats in the House voted for a few months ago.  This is great news for the coalfields of Virginia. Perhaps the legislation is truly dead.
  
  The report:
  Jim Webb [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:43am EST
  

• And They Criticized Bush's Foreign Policy

  What a mess we've gotten ourselves into:
  Hit the Reset Button on Obama's Foreign Policy Agenda
  By Lauri B. Regan, American Thinker
  
  To Barack Obama, human rights abuses only occur in Guantanamo Bay and by CIA interrogators, not in the gulags of North Korea or work camps across China.' [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:25am EST
  

• This Seems To Be Par For The Course

  News headline:
  
  Jobs 'Saved or Created' in Congressional Districts That Don't Exist
  
  Big deal.
  
  With each passing day, we're learning that the jobs "saved or created" don't exist either. So I ask you: Why should the congressional districts that they weren't saved or created in [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:17am EST
  

• Ya Gotta Do What Ya Gotta Do

  Want to protect yourself from swine flu?
  
  Retail stores all out of face masks?
  
  Try Fruit-of-the-Loom!
  
  
  
  Try not to use someone else's.
  ' [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:15am EST
  

• Food For Thought

  In 1967 the Israeli army defeated those of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria in six days.
  
  In 2003 George Bush defeated the armies of Saddam Hussein in 41 days.
  
  In 1982 Margaret Thatcher defeated the Argentinians in the Falklands War in 42 [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:36am EST
  

• Tongue In Cheek?

  Or blissfully unaware that he's trashing the notion that the government is soon to require that all Americans purchase health insurance.
  
  I can't honestly tell by reading this, but the author is a former reporter and editor for the rabidly anti-gun Washington Post.  So his motive - and thought' [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:25am EST
  

• Headline Of The Day

  Japan expert to ABC: Yes, Obama’s bow made him look like an idiot
  [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:16am EST
  

• What Climate Change 'Consensus'?

  This is rather startling:
  AMS Survey of Weathercasters on Climate Change
  By Bill Murray, ABC 33/40 Weather Blog
  
  A survey of weathercasters’ feelings on global warming was published in this month’s edition of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. It had some interesting findings. There were 121 respondents. [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:12am EST
  

• Jim Moran, Virginia's Idiot-in-Residence

  Why northern Virginia puts up with this twit, I don't know:
  Jim Moran: Daniel Pearl’s family is un-American
  By Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
  
  That’s certainly the conclusion one can draw from two stories over the last couple of days.  Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA), who pushed Barack Obama to bring' [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:09am EST
  

• Hope. Change.

  Watch as Americans are beaten in the streets of Ft. Lauderdale by leftist goons:
  
  
  
  
  For those of you who think we aren't becoming a third-world country, watch twice.
  
  Hat tip to Powerline.' [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:50am EST
  

• Fascinating

  History comes alive:
  Israel displays coins from ancient Jewish revolt
  By Michael Barajas, Associated Press
  
  Jerusalem (AP) - Israel displayed for the first time Wednesday a collection of rare coins charred and burned from the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple nearly 2,000 years ago.
  
  About 70 coins [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:34am EST
  

• Did The Stimulus Save or Create ANY Jobs?

  This is getting to be embarrassing:
  Porkulus job fables in Michigan
  By Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
  
  The latest media reporting on the fraudulent nature of White House reporting on jobs “saved and created” comes from the blue state of Michigan. The Detroit Free Press reported yesterday that Michigan has [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 5:08am EST
  

• Bucking The Trend

  Is it any wonder that employers are fleeing this country like never before?
  
  
  
  If that's not bad enough, the Democrats in Washington have vowed to make the disparity even worse by raising U.S. corporate tax rates even higher.
  
  While the rest of the [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:01am EST
  

• Say What?

  New York Times columnist Paul Krugman won a Nobel in economics.  That means he must be a really smart guy.
  
  One wonders.
  
  Today, in his column entitled, "World Out of Balance," he argues against the Chinese maintaining a weak currency policy.
  
  Is that worse than [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:44am EST
  

• Any Bets?

  My money says the environmentalists here in Virginia will be up in arms:
  Winds of change off Virginia coast
  By Cory Nealon, Daily Press
  
  Virginia officials announced Wednesday that they will pool resources with Maryland and Delaware to develop offshore wind energy.
  
  Common goals include identifying areas to [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:40am EST
  

• Point, Counterpoint

  Point:
  
  Executions are expensive and an ineffective deterrent. Should the death penalty die?
  
  Counterpoint:
  
  Executions are much more cost effective than life imprisonment and make for an extremely effective deterrent with 100% of those assholes executed failing to ever murder or rape again. [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:23am EST
  

• Headline Of The Day

  Not again! Another 10-year climate 'tipping point' warning issued -- Despite fact that UN began 10-Year 'Climate Tipping Point' in 1989! 
  [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:09am EST
  

• Obama's Handlers Provide Another Explanation

  Will this one work?
  
  
  "Is that a penny on the floor?"
  
  Knowing that the federal deficit was exploding, the president saw the opportunity to make up for a portion of it.
  -- Obama spokesman --
  
  No?
  
  How 'bout this one, from [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:58am EST
  

• Is Anyone Surprised?

  War?  What war?
  
  Soldiers fighting and dying where?
  
  Don't bother me.  I'm trying to concentrate on my jump shot.
  Obama and Plummeting Military Morale
  By Candace de Russy, American Thinker
  
  In an act of deep interpersonal significance, as Claudia Rosett observes, the president has not bothered [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:33am EST
  

• While Al Gore Piddles With Global Warming Theory ...

  ... children are dying from AIDS and a lack of food.
  
  Bjørn Lomborg, writing in the Wall Street Journal:
  Konget Mekonen and his wife Mulegata Tesfaye laugh when they are asked what would improve their standard of living. "We need everything," Mr. Mekonen says. "Mainly, we need a hospital" [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:51am EST
  

• Calling Tom Perriello

  Hey, isn't he the 5th District representative who said he voted for ObamaCare in part because it would reduce our health care costs?
  
  Maybe he should come up with a different excuse:
  CMS: House bill increases health care costs 
  By Chris Frates, Politico
  
  Democrats have promised that' [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 4:49am EST
  

• The Question, Again

  Why did AARP support ObamaCare?
  
  It becomes ever clearer that it wasn't because his plan to seize control of our health care system will benefit Retired Persons.
  Study shows ObamaCare would cut Medicare services, providers
  By Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
  
  A blockbuster study by the bureaucracy that manages' [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 4:30am EST
  

• What You May Have Missed

  History is a slippery thing.  It sorta depends on who's telling it.  As was the case with those now famous photos of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin with sundry subordinates who found themselves in his good graces one minute, and in the photo with him one minute, then flushed into the' [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 7:21am EST
  

• So How Was That Martha's Vineyard Vacation, Barry?

  This from the front page of today's Washington Post illustrates in a few words the hypocrisy that we know as being LIBERALISM:
  
  Obama: U.S. must consume less
  
  Odd he wasn't saying that when he took the family to that palatial estate up in Massachusetts where he played [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 7:10am EST
  

• I Don't Get It

  If that Muslim fanatic down at Ft. Hood credits Allah for his decision to murder as many Americans as he could on one bright, sunny Thursday, why do so many boneheaded liberals in this country try their best to discredit his accreditation?
  
  What part of "Allahu Akbar!" don't' [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 6:40am EST
  

• If You Like To See The Mainstream Press Skewered ...

  ... you'll want to read this.  Mark Steyn, at his best, coming to the defense of Sarah Palin.
  
  Though she hardly needs it.' [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 6:30am EST
  

• We Are Winning

  One might ask at this point, why are the world's environmentalists - thousands of them - getting together at all if this be the case:
  World Leaders Agree to Delay a Deal on Climate Change
  By Helene Cooper, New York Times
  
  Singapore — President Obama and other world leaders' [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 6:29am EST
  

• This Is Amusing

  But not.
  
  Michelle Malkin:
  Crikey, is there a single adult in the White House who can teach the commander-in-chief some presidential protocol?
  
  The Left complained that George W. Bush was too much of a cowboy on the global stage.
  
  It’s better than having a waterboy:
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 5:41am EST
  

• Wacked-Out Environmentalist Sees What She Wants To See

  This is beyond idiotic.  It crosses over into the realm of stupid.  New York Times fanatic Elisabeth Rosenthal  is told that the sea turtle population in Costa Rica has declined.  Why?
  
  There can be only one explanation!
  Turtles Are Casualties of Warming in Costa Rica
  
  Playa Grande, [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 7:39am EST
  

• This Isn't Even Surprising Any More

  Obama Declines To Defend U.S.:
  
  Obama Declines To Defend U.S. Bombing Of Hiroshima, Nagasaki
  
  Obama Declines To Defend U.S.. [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 7:24am EST
  

• Quote of the Day

  On Tom Perriello's decision to vote in favor of ObamaCare:
  In a conference call Monday, [5th District Congressman] Perriello said his support for the health care bill was a vote for lower premiums, a reduced national deficit and an elimination of regional disparities in payments to health care providers. [[...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 7:20am EST