Barack Obama and Teddy Roosevelt are in some ways two peas in a pod. Mr. Obama’s new-found interest in TR should concern Americans not because, as Glenn Beck claims, Roosevelt was a “progressive” but because TR was an Obama-style foreign policy naif whose international missteps spawned geopolitical hell for decades after he was gone.
Roosevelt was a racist thug and shameless self-promoter who, like Barack Obama, won the presidency by pretending to be someone he was not. As James Bradley damningly documents in The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War, TR was perfectly willing to lie, cheat, steal and order the commission of war crimes to achieve his political objectives. [click to continue…]
What didn’t they know and when didn’t they know it? It’s becoming harder and harder to find scientists with an ounce of common sense. After scaring the entire Pacific Rim out of their homes over the weekend with dire warnings of a massive tsunami that never materialized…
Hundreds of thousands of people fled shorelines for higher ground Saturday in a panic that circled the Pacific Rim after scientists warned 53 nations and territories that a tsunami had been generated by the massive Chilean quake.
It was the largest-scale evacuation in Hawaii in years, if not decades. Emergency sirens blared throughout the day, the Navy moved ships out of Pearl Harbor, and residents hoarded gasoline, food and water in anticipation of a major disaster. Some supermarkets even placed limits on items like Spam because of the panic buying.
… the oceanographers responsible for the uproar are circling the wagons, insisting they will do it again next time because (not unlike a certain group of global warming alarmists) they just can’t help themselves.
It’s a pretty sure bet that a scientist named “Dai Lin Wang” is not familiar with the story of the Boy Who Cried Wolf. But what about King You of Zhou, the Chinese emperor who made a habit of amusing his favourite queen by lighting warning beacons and fooling his nobles into thinking that nomads were about to attack? Judging from this statement reported by AP and ABCNews, King You did not figure in Dai Lin’s education, either:
“It’s a key point to remember that we cannot under-warn. Failure to warn is not an option for us,” said Dai Lin Wang, an oceanographer at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii. “We cannot have a situation that we thought was no problem and then it’s devastating. That just cannot happen.”
Dr. Dai, you and King You are a pair. We’ll keep this in mind the next time you broadcast a tsunami warning. Global warmists, take note.
As now President Obama contemplates the “nuclear” option in pursuit of comprehensive health insurance reform, he and his Senate Democrat buddies might do well to remember what they were saying as senators, in 2005, when Republicans — then in the majority — discussed doing an end-run on the filibuster. Their earnestness comes across as comical. This video is solid gold. Definitely worth the five minutes it takes to watch it.
Fascades have a way of embarrassing their creators. The Berlin Wall lasted roughly thirty years and fell with a crash after it became obvious that communism is an empty hoax. So it is with Anthropogenic Global Warming (“AGW” for short), the (un)scientific equivalent of the Berlin Wall. U.K. media sources reported yesterday that Climategate’s godfather, East Anglia University’s Dr. Phil Jones, has now admitted that the globe isn’t any warmer today than it was fifteen (or fifteen-hundred) years ago and, even if it were warmer, he couldn’t find the data in his chaotic office to prove it. So much for the hard science behind big GloWo. [click to continue…]
Somewhere along the road to the White House, Barack Obama lost sight of the true nature of his employment relationship with American people. He works for them, not the other way around. The attitude du jour was brilliantly captured by Obama’s declaration, in January 2009, “I won!” and Nancy Pelosi’s inimitable, partisan echo, “Yes, we won the election!” Kind of like, “Mission accomplished!” (Flashback video below.)
Obama’s oversight came home to roost, Tuesday, in Massachusetts, where the country’s most blue state told Obama in essence, “You and your cronies can go to hell.” So much for “I won.” For thinking Democrats — Jim Webb, Evan Bayh and Barney Frank come to mind — Tuesday was a wake-up call. Not so for Mr. Obama who made it clear Wednesday night that he still doesn’t get it.
His interview with George Stephanopolous was remarkable for its arrogance and tone-deafness. Strangely, Mr. Obama expressed “regret” that during his first year, he and his staff were
… so busy just getting stuff done and dealing with the immediate crises that were in front of us that I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people about what their core values are and why we have to make sure those institutions are matching up with those values.
Howard Dean has had a nutjob reputation for a long time. In the aftermath of Scott Brown’s Massachusetts win, Dean is living up to his reputation. Observe:
With a bit of help from an old pickup truck and a Hail Martha campaign visit by Mr. Hopenchange himself, Scott Brown has brought change to Massachusetts and Washington that we can all believe in. Where to begin breaking down this astounding political revolt? We could start with the proposition that Martha Coakley epitomizes today’s Washington Democrats. Intellectually shallow, arrogant, out-of-touch with real people and supremely confident that socialism, high taxes and a spineless foreign-policy will somehow magically add up to economic recovery and peace in our time. [click to continue…]
What didn’t they know and when didn’t they know it? It’s becoming harder and harder to find scientists with an ounce of common sense. After scaring the entire Pacific Rim out of their homes over the weekend with 
