The Copenhagen Climate Con
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 28th, 2009 5:31 am by HL
Will Climate Scandal Be a Tipping Point?
Kim Strassel, Wall St. Journal
Voter Anger Is Building Over Spending
Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
After engineering an unprecedented spending surge for nearly a year, President Barack Obama now wants to signal that he takes deficits seriously. So this week the White House announced that it is considering creating a commission to figure how to fix the budget mess.Eureka!Well, almost. What seems to concern the president is not the problem runaway spending poses for taxpayers and the economy. Rather, what bothers him is the political problem it poses for Democrats.Last year, Mr. Obama made fiscal restraint a constant theme of his presidential campaign. “Washington will have to tighten…
Reflections Over the Turkey
Suzanne Fields, RealClearPolitics
This is not the happiest Thanksgiving holiday. So many out of work, so many others afraid they're next, and the recession is not receding as swiftly as we were told it would.Yet all these worries pale against the collective remembrance of the fearful hardships endured by the first immigrants to these shores. They spread the first feast of gratitude in the New World. They laid the foundation for the generations who followed to enjoy life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness (and turkey). Receive news alertsWe give thanks for their gifts to us — the right to worship freely and speak our…