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NewsBusted – 11-333 – Video
Topics in today’s show: – Millions of Americans watched the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. – Prior to Thanksgiving, President Obama issued Presidential pardons to convicted drug dealers. – Last week, the Congressional Super Committee was unable to reach agreement on America’s debt crisis. – All the major Republican candidates debated last week in Washington DC. […]
Confessions of a Light Bulb Addict
By Claudia Rosett Please don’t think this is easy for me. I’m one of those crazed Americans who can’t walk into Home Depot, Target or my local grocery store right now without wanting to grab one of those king-sized shopping carts and stuff it to the gunwales with 100-watt incandescent light bulbs. Maybe it’s the […]
Desperate Middle East Regimes
By Alan Caruba The world hasn’t seen this much turmoil since the years leading up to World War II. By contrast even the collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1991 did not cause this much uncertainty. The Middle East currently holds the greatest prospect for a hot war as Iran and its close ally, […]
Give Thanks for American Exceptionalism
By Star Parker The Pew Research Center has provided some timely food for thought as we enter our traditional holiday season. According to a recent report comparing attitudes in Europe and America, only 49 percent of Americans now feel that American culture is superior to others. This is down from 60 percent in 2002. For […]
Government Dole for Grumpy Trolls? Time to End Energy Subsidies
By Nicolas Loris The Grumpy Troll Restaurant and Brewpub is one of over 22,000 companies that received $16,000 cash grants from the federal government to install solar panels on their roofs as part of the 1603 Treasury grant program, a 2009 stimulus bill provision that provides cash grants to help foot the bill of renewable […]
Climate Change Australia – I’d Rather Believe Warmist Flannery Than My Own Eyes
By Andrew Bolt They tell me people are flooded out up in Moree and Wee Waa, in northwestern NSW. Can’t believe it. Dams in Canberra and Brisbane have filled? Must be a lie. The Murray-Darling Basin Authority’s storages at 87 per cent, after last summer’s floods? Don’t believe that, either. No, I believe instead the […]
Senators to Obama, DHS: Stop Ignoring Illegal Alien Sanctuaries
By Jim Kouri, CPP. With a Justice Department fiercely focusing on taking legal action against state laws that help to combat illegal aliens and crimes they commit, a group of U.S. Senators is asking the Obama Administration to stop ignoring local ordinances that undermine federal laws by offering undocumented aliens sanctuary. Two cities were recently […]
EPA Wants to Regulate CO2 but Ignores Vital Information
By Nicolas Loris Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson (pictured) recently announced that her agency would proceed with twice-delayed regulations targeting power plants that emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Mrs. Jackson’s decision ignores three vital pieces of information that should make it easy for Congress to prevent unelected bureaucrats from regulating CO2: […]
Green Power Could Mean Mega Blackouts
By Andrew Bolt One slight problem with solar and wind power is that it doesn’t work some times, and other times it works only too well: ‘Unstable’ renewable energy sources increase the risk of ‘supra-regional’ electricity blackouts with multi-billion pound consequences, insurance giant Allianz has warned. Solar panels and wind turbines are a “volatile” source […]
Latest Climategate Emails: BBC ‘In Cahoots With Climategate Scientists’
By Tom Blumer Imagine if it were discovered that free-market think tanks were caught vetting scripts of Fox News programs, intervening to prevent free-market sceptics from receiving air time, and consulted with the network about how it should alter its programing in a free-market direction. The howls of outrage would be loud, long and unrelenting […]
2012
A Dry Bones Cartoon You’ve probably heard the ridiculous idea that because the Mayan calendar supposedly ends in 2012, some people believe that the world will end in 2012. If not: check this idiocy out by clicking here. Read More by Yaakov Kirschen at Dry Bones . http://drybonesblog.blogspot.com/
NBC Spaces Out: Confuses Present-Day Rocket with 1960s-Era Booster
By Matthew Balan NBC’s Tom Costello made a gaffe of planetary proportions on Saturday’s Nightly News as he reported on the launch of NASA’s latest Martian rover. The correspondent identified the rocket, which blasted the unmanned Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) probe into space for its eight month-plus journey to the fourth planet, as a “Saturn […]
Climate Change Australia – What Happened To Global Warming’s “Permanent Drought”?
By Andrew Bolt Australian Greens Party leader Senator Bob Brown in 2006 warned of a permanent drought, thanks to global warming: From melting polar ice to the spectre of permanent drought in previously productive farmlands, the (World Meteorological Bureau’s) report makes clear that climate change is not just a future threat, it is damaging Australia […]
Sunday Music – Borrowed Tune
November 27, 2011 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is ‘Borrowed Tune’ from Canadian singer/songwriter Neil Young. This video was posted to You Tube by azcarf44 When you like music so much, it’s always a difficult thing when someone asks who your favourite band or singer is. There is just so much good music down through the years that naming just […]
The Threat of a Global Financial Collapse
By Alan Caruba At present, the amount of the annual Gross Domestic Product, $14 trillion—the value of all the goods and services that generate income—is exceeded by the nation’s debts. America is presently $15 trillion in debt and it grows daily. In a November 21 Wall Street Journal interview, Erskine Bowles of the presidential advisory […]
The War on Police
By Cliff Kincaid Rather than being victims of police brutality, a new video shows that Occupiers at UC Davis knew they were going to be pepper sprayed and didn’t mind it. Indeed, the new video evidence indicates that the entire confrontation with the police was staged for the benefit of the media, which took the […]
Melissa Harris-Perry: Pilgrims Were Illegal Immigrants, Indians 99 Percenters
By Jack Coleman Did you know the Pilgrims were not only illegal immigrants, but part of that reviled economic elite known today as the one percent? At least according to Tulane professor and MSNBC contributor Melissa Harris-Perry. Here’s Harris-Perry on Al Sharpton’s radio show earlier this week reaching for new heights in revisionism (audio) – […]
Climate Change – Missing Caribou Herd Found, Warming Alarmists Lost
By Andrew Bolt Associated Press in 2009 blames global warming for roasting a herd of caribou to death: ON THE PORCUPINE RIVER TUNDRA, Yukon Territory — Here on the endlessly rolling and tussocky terrain of northwest Canada, where man has hunted caribou since the Stone Age, the vast antlered herds are fast growing thin. And […]
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