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PBS’ Ifill continues support of Obama White House

“Take that, Bibi.” – Gwen Ifill

Since I am not a fan of what the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (PBS) reports as “news,” I learned of the most recent Obama administration pandering of Gwen Ifill, co-anchor of the PBS NewsHour, in a newspaper account.

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Ifill during an interview with Obama. (pamellageller.com)

When it became known that the president had secured the required Democrat support in the Senate to ensure the Iran deal could not be blocked by opponents, Ifill, in what was described as a digital spiking of the football, tweeted “Take that, Bibi.” The reference, of course, to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who addressed Congress in opposition to the deal. Continue reading →

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kramerontheright view on climate change supported

“If only the president had consulted the history of Glacier Bay … he would have found a different story. It is a historical fact that the glacier in Glacier Bay began its retreat around 1750 … (and) by the time Capt. George Vancouver arrived there in 1794 the glacier still filled the bay. When John Muir visited in 1879 he found that the glacier had retreated more than 30 miles … and by 1900 Glacier Bay was ice-free.” – Patrick Moore*

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President Obama continued to spew his alarmist views on climate change during his visit to Alaska’s Glacier Bay, where climate change has been naturally taking place for thousands of years. (todayszaman.com)

So wrote Moore in a piece in today’s Wall Street Journal, “Obama’s Half-Baked Alaska.” He followed with, “All of this happened long before human emissions of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, could have had any impact.”

It supports the statement I made in my Sept. 1, post, “The CO2 myth,” that “Temperatures and CO2 levels of today have been recorded in years before the invention of the combustion engine,” and that “even if we were to stop all transportation and shut down our industry, it would not have any impact on global warming.” Continue reading →

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Hillary stupid? I’ll stick with liar and untrustworthy

I made fun of Hillary Clinton’s amateurish campaign logo in my June 20, 2015 post, “Hillary Clinton honest and trustworthy?” and predicted it would be used by creative cartoonists.

The accompanying cartoon with Hillary wearing a T-shirt was the creative work of one of my favorite editorial cartoonists, Michael Ramirez, whose work appears regularly in Investor’s Business Daily.… read more

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The C02 myth

The Environmental Protection Agency and its environmental advocacy groups continue to perpetuate the myth that C02 needs to be controlled because it is the primary cause of trapping the sun’s heat and causing the planet to warm.

And, they claim that the United States produces 25 percent of the carbon dioxide pollution from fossil-fuel burning, the largest share of any country.

President Obama’s EPA has embarked on a $655 billion Clean Air Plan to cut C02 emissions by 32 percent in the next 15 years, and he is currently on an 11-day climate change tour to shame us for ignoring our carbon footprint.

While I agree that there has been a negligible warming, and human behavior may contribute to it, but we have been told by the government that the Clean Air Plan will most likely not have a measurable effect on the warming. Continue reading →

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Global warming? Follow the money

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President Obama, the Grand Poobah of Climate Change, checks the air for warming. (Eathan Miller/Getty Images)

As President Obama embarks on his 11-day climate change tour, the Wall Street Journal claims “global warming is expected to emerge as a key issue.”

WSJ bases its prediction on a Pew Research Center report finding that 74 percent of American adults say there is “solid evidence” of global warming, and that 46 percent believe the warming trend is “mostly due to human activity.”

You can expect to hear that its “proven science” backed by hundreds of leading scientists, supported by the majority of Americans. And count on him to scoff at deniers. Continue reading →

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It’s time to bow out gracefully, guys

“I’m retiring because my time is up.” – Dave Hickey

It’s time for Jim Gilmore, George Pataki, Lindsey Graham, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee and Rick Perry to gracefully bow out of the 2016 Republican presidential race. They’re barely registering in the polls, and probably wouldn’t even if Donald Trump’s candidacy wasn’t skewing things.… read more

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Disappointment with tech reporter over Fiorina

While I am cynical about the media, I still expect reporters covering the presidential candidates to dig for facts and fairly report their findings, so when I read Jon Swartz’s critical USA Today piece on Carly Fiorina, I was disappointed.

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GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina has not shied away from questions concerning her firing at HP. Too bad Hillary Clinton has been unwilling to fess-up with her failure in Benghazi. (irritant.blogspot.com)

Disappointed primarily because Swartz was a Silicon Valley high tech reporter and I expected more from him. While he wrote that he “had a front-row press seat in the early 2000s, covering the corporate soap opera over Fiorina’s bid to merge HP with Compaq Computer Corp. in a $24 billion deal,” he revealed his business naïveté’ in his criticism of Fiorina’s record at HP.

Experienced business reporters and analysts know that layoffs are common during merger/acquisition actions and they often lead to sour grapes comments from those no longer required by the resulting company. And stockholders, too, often are displeased with what’s happening to their stock.

However, Swartz chose to cite the 30,000 resulting layoffs and the stockholder showdown as a negative qualification for the presidency; what you would expect from a less-experienced reporter. Continue reading →

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“Mistake” and “sloppy” becomes “careless”

The liberal Democrat water carriers are at it again; this time to defend Hillary Clinton.

Remember back in 2004 when it was revealed that Sandy Berger, President Bill Clinton’s national security advisor, had stolen classified documents from the National Archives? It was called “a mistake” and “sloppy.”

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Despite Sandy Berger’s theft of classified documents during the Bill Clinton era, Hillary hired him as an advisor during her 2008 campaign. (freerepublic.com)

Theft of Top Secret documents is a Federal crime that is supposed to carry extremely serious penalties, but the water carriers for the Clinton administration claimed “a mistake” in most instances is not a crime, and certainly being “sloppy” isn’t a crime.

Berger had stuffed documents critical of the Clinton administration’s approach to terrorism in his pants and socks and hid them under a construction trailer near the Archives, later to be retrieved. The theft was an attempt to keep the information from the 9/11 Commission and eventually the American public. He later pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge and was fined just $50,000. Continue reading →

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The French know the meaning of bravery and honor

France is often the butt of jokes, especially when it comes to their military, but they stepped up and did the right thing Monday at a time when America would have dropped the ball.

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The French wasted no time to present their highest honor for bravery to the three Americans and one Brit, shown here with French President Francois Hollande. (voanews)

Three courageous Americans and a Brit were honored in Paris yesterday as they were presented France’s highest honor for bravery for preventing a terrorist blood bath on a high speed train between Belgium and France.

None other than French President Francois Hollande presented Legion d’Honneur medals to Americans Spencer Stone, Alex Skartatos and Anthony Sadler and Briton Chris Norman at the Elysee Palace in Paris.

That was a far cry from the ordeal victims and families endured after the Nov. 5, 2009 shooting at Fort Hood. It took six years of letter-writing and even legislation to honor the 10 soldiers killed and 26 wounded with a Purple Heart, and Defense of Freedom Medals to two civilians, one who was killed and another wounded. Continue reading →