Welcome to yet another thrilling edition of the only newspaper column in America that hasn't lied about serving in Vietnam, Hobnobbing With Dave!

Item:  So this is why libertarians never win elections…

Well, Sarah Palin can celebrate now:  the leftwing news media has discovered a new boogeyman to hound, and his name is Rand Paul, the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky.  Though nominally a Republican, Mr. Paul is in fact a libertarian, as is his father, Texas Congressman Ron Paul.  While libertarian views tend to be technically correct about what the Constitution actually says, those GOP voters in Kentucky who nominated Mr. Paul for this senate seat are about to find out exactly why it is that the Libertarian Party seldom fields candidates who can actually win elections.

Libertarianism is all about telling people what the government cannot do for them.  Like it or not, the truth about America is that most voters want to know what the government can do for them, and base their voting decisions accordingly.  In a poll released just after last Tuesday's primary vote, Mr. Paul led his Democrat opponent by more than 20%.  You can bet that the leftist news media will make sure that gap closes quickly – helped along by the foot-in-mouth disease that Mr. Paul inherited from his father – and that what ought to be an easy Republican win in November will instead become a nail-biter at best, and possibly even a Democrat win.

Item:  Blumenthal is the left's latest gold medalist.

So a Democrat politician is revealed to be a bald-faced liar, and liberals rally around him in support.  What else is new?  From Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to Al Gore to John Kerry to Barack Obama, American liberals have made it obvious for a long, long time that bald-faced liars have real political potential as far as they're concerned.

The latest winner of the liberal gold medal for creative prevarication is Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who has now been starkly revealed to have repeatedly lied throughout his political career about having served in Vietnam.  Were he a Republican, Mr. Blumenthal would not only be removed as the Party's nominee for higher office, he would be hounded from the AG's job by the leftwing news media.

But because he's a Democrat, the reaction from the news media has been a round of perfunctory reporting on the matter that will soon die away, and a statement from the Obama Administration that its support for Blumenthal has not changed.  Knowing this would be the case, Blumenthal last week responded to the revelation of his serial lying with a statement that he would not allow his record to be attacked.

His "record" is that of a bald-faced liar, which makes him the perfect liberal candidate for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut.

Item:  The Great Climate Fraud Morphs into the Great Species Fraud.

If you thought that the death of Global Warming as a viable driver of government policy means you can relax a little bit, think again.  As is always the case with the world socialist movement – the driver behind Al Gore's Great Climate Fraud - the death of one political fraud only gives birth to the next.  As of Friday, May 21, we know what that next fraud will be.

On Friday, the United Nations leaked excerpts from its soon-to-be-published fake study on endangered species, and in the process made it obvious that this will be the next great cause of world socialism.  For those who closely followed the political drivers of the Great Climate Fraud, it will come as no surprise that this Great Species Fraud will advocate that the UN report will advocate:

• "...a whole sale revolution in the way humans do business, consume, and think about their lives." And
• "…massive changes to the way the global economy is run."

In other words, like the Great Climate Fraud, the Great Species Fraud will be little more than a concerted attack on the free market industrial economies of Western Europe, and more importantly, the United States of America.  The devolution of market-based economies to the socialist model – with ever-increasing influence of the UN and other world government organizations – has been the singular focus of socialists around the world since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989.

The collapse of the Great Climate Fraud changes nothing in that regard, and the frightening fact of the matter is that this kind of thinking completely dominates the Democrat Party at the national level, and pervades the senior leadership of the Obama Administration.

So while we should all celebrate the death of fake climate "science" as a driver of government policy, we mustn't kid ourselves that the world socialist movement has died along with it.   These people are like zombies – they just keep coming back from the grave to try to strangle us.

Some Stuff to Consider

First a disclaimer:  In my entire adult life, I have never engaged in a birthday party ticklefest with other full-grown men.  Just in case anybody was wondering.

Seriously, you almost have to feel sorry for Congressman Massa.  He is obviously a very confused individual who cannot bring himself to publicly admit to his sexual orientation.  His interview with Glenn Beck is one of the most skin-crawlingly uncomfortable episodes I can remember witnessing.  The reality that Mr. Massa actually thinks anyone believes a word he said is a very sad indicator of his utter lack of fitness for serving in congress.  Then again, being abjectly out of touch with reality appears to place him right in the mainstream of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

But enough of that sad and sorry spectacle.  On to more important matters...

Professor Mark J. Perry, at his excellent Carpe Diem blog, contrasts the economic performance of California and Texas.  One state is heavily unionized and dominated in government by mindless leftist cretins.  The other is a right to work state dominated in government by low tax conservatives.

Guess which state has a vastly more healthy economy?  The only drawback to this is that many of the cretins fleeing California for greener pastures are coming to Texas, which is seeing more than 1,000 people move within its borders every day.  Shit, they've already ruined formerly wonderful places like Montana, New Mexico and Colorado - can't they leave the Lone Star State alone?

We have been saying for some time that this Administration and Democrat congressional leaders are attempting to transform America from a constitutional democracy to a strong-arm fascist form of government.  Nowhere has this reality been more starkly borne out than in this morning's report by Mark Tapscott at the Washington Examiner that San Fran Nan is now planning to create a "rule" that will allow her to "deem" the senate healthcare bill to have been "approved" by the House without first requiring the House members to actually take a vote on the bill!

This is an extraordinary perversion of the legislative process, even for a shameless creep like Pelosi, who has made a career out of perverting the process in the House.  These people - Pelosi, Obama, Reid, et al - are literally a threat to the very existence of this country.  Wake up, folks, before it's too late.

On the Great Climate Fraud front, it should come as a surprise to no one that the reliable fellow travelers in the tired, dying, dinosaur leftist news media are beginning to rally to one final push in defense of Pope Al Gore and his minions in the Church of Global Warming.  See this USA Today puff piece as today's prime case in point.

These people will not go down without a fight, and their bones will continue to rattle long after they are buried.

A Nation Recoiling From the Politics of Frivolity

Is America rinally recoiling from the politics of frivolity?


We’ve written a great deal about the Great Climate Fraud in recent months, as the cultish Church of Global Warming (CGW) has entered its inevitable decline in credibility with the scientific community, policymakers and the public at large. The revelation last fall of hundreds of emails detailing an organized commission of outright fraud by some of the leading fake “scientists” who have promoted the Warmist religion has had the same effect on the CGW as the revelation of emails detailing an organized effort to manipulate U.S. natural gas markets had on Enron a decade ago.

Citizens in the United States, Great Britain and across the free world have begun recoiling at the idea that they’ve been had by a bunch of two-bit charlatans. Ok, make that a bunch of trillion dollar charlatans, but charlatans they are. In the most recent Pew survey on public attitudes towards major issues, the percentage of Americans who believe human activity is the cause of climate change fell to an all-time low 34 percent. Climate change ranked 21st out of 21 issues surveyed in terms of public concern, with just 28 percent still laboring under the belief the matter is cause for major congressional action.

Politicians with those kinds of numbers keep themselves busy looking for other lines of work. Public policy issues with that low level of public concern seldom become the subject of successful legislation to address them. Thus we have simultaneously seen over the last few months the collapse of leftist efforts to enact cap and trade legislation targeting carbon dioxide, as well as growing bipartisan congressional opposition to efforts by the Environmental Protection Agency to severely hamstring the economy by implementing command and control regulation over carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases”.

What is happening here is that the public is beginning the process of rejecting the politics of frivolity. And frivolity is exactly what the CGW and really environmentalism in general have become.

Over the past 30 to 40 years in America, many good and positive things have been accomplished in the name of environmentalism, since the implementation of major pieces of legislation like the Clean Air Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Endangered Species Act. Automobiles no longer belch out plumes of black smoke as they run down the road; the emissions from coal-fired power plants have been dramatically reduced, although they are still the dirtiest things around; emissions from oil refineries have been cut by a factor of 9 and more; cities no longer are allowed to flow their sewage into the nation’s waterways; important and significant animal species like the Whooping Crane and the Bald Eagle have been brought back from the brink of extinction. All of these and more were good and worthy goals that were worth taking on, and the nation is a much cleaner and safer place as a result.

But, with the fall of the Soviet Union and the resulting de-legitimizing of world socialism, the worthiness of the environmental movement in general began to change, as leftist activists of all stripes came to the conclusion that the best way to advance their radical agenda was under the guise of “environmentalism”. Suddenly, beginning in the early 1990s, proposals for listing species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) moved away from species, like the Whooping Crane, whose very existence was truly threatened, to animals like the Sage Grouse native to Wyoming and Colorado, which literally exist in the millions (and even have an open hunting season dedicated to them), but whose listing under the ESA on the grounds of decreasing habitat would result in massive economic and societal disruption.

Environmentalist activities under the Clean Air Act (CAA), the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) began to take on a similar profile of proposing “solutions” designed to cause maximum cost and economic disruption possible. Under NEPA, the EPA can require the conduct of hugely costly environmental impact studies whenever a citizen raises concerns about almost any potential environmental impact that could allegedly result from some economic activity. Such studies typically cost millions of dollars and can take years to complete. These NEPA provisions have been systematically used by radicals around the country to delay and increase the cost of all manner of infrastructure projects. In Texas these tactics have been used to dramatically increase the time and cost of major highway project on I-35 north of Waco and I-45 north of Houston. One seven mile stretch of road on I-35 has now taken more than 14 years to reconstruct, and is still unfinished.

Examples of this sort of abuse of the provisions of these major federal acts are legion, and the public invariably becomes incensed once the abuses are revealed, despite the best efforts of the leftist news media to cover them up. This has never been more true than the last two years, as a nation mired in a major recession begins to realize that it can no longer afford to tolerate such mindless frivolity in the name of “environmentalism”.

Of course, there has never been a more frivolous environmental policy proposal than the current efforts by congress and the EPA to either legislate or regulate control of carbon dioxide emissions. To understand exactly how frivolous such proposals are, all you really need to know is that carbon dioxide makes up only about 4% of all so-called “greenhouse gas” emissions. Of that 4%, human-based emissions amount to around 3.4%, meaning that, in the now-failed Waxman-Markey legislation, congress proposed to cost the U.S. economy more than $2 trillion over 8 years to attempt to marginally reduce what currently amounts to around 13/100ths of 1% of greenhouse gas emissions. Now that the Waxman-Markey bill has failed, the EPA now proposes to cost the economy even more than that under its heavy-handed, Soviet-style regulatory system.

This is rank frivolity that a nation mired with trillion dollar-plus annual budget deficits as far as the eye can see simply cannot afford or tolerate. The recent polling data indicate that most citizens outside of the hard-core radical left have come to that realization. You can expect that shift in attitudes to show up in a big way in this November’s congressional elections.

The frivolity of the liberal zoo has fallen into a state of unrecoverable ill repute.

Hobnobbing With Tex!

Welcome to yet another incredibly enlightening edition of the only op/ed column in America that has been telling you there has been no global warming since 1995 since…well, since 1995, Hobnobbing With Tex!


Item: Dr. Phil is a phraud.

No, not that Dr. Phil (although he’s a fraud as well) – we’re talking about Dr. Phil Jones of London’s East Anglia University. After years of trying to convince the world that the last 50 years constitute the warmest climate period in recorded history, Dr. Phil turned the world of the Church of Global Warming on its collective head over the weekend when he publicly admitted for the first time that the so-called Medieval Warm Period may well have been warmer than current times, and that there has likely been no global warming at all since 1995.

Dr. Jones, of course, is the very same fake “scientist” who for the last decade falsified data in what has now been rendered a failed attempt to literally erase the 500 year Medieval Warm Period from history in his now-infamous “hockey stick” graph that purported to show steadily and moderately fluctuating temperatures for 2000 years leading to a rapid spike upwards since 1950. Real scientists have over the last seven years repeatedly demonstrated not only that the Medieval Warm Period did indeed exist, but also that Dr. Jones’s claim of a recent spike in global temperatures in excess of ordinary historic fluctuations is a fantasy.

But still, Jones was able to persist in propping up his fraud – which formed the very foundation of Church of Global Warming religious dogma – with the help of a compliant, lapdog media until thousands of emails exchanged between himself and a group of fellow fake “scientists” were made public last November. These emails clearly demonstrated a cooperative effort among the global warming alarmist fake scientist community to include fabricated data in their studies, hide real data from the public, and smear real scientists who attempted to publish studies refuting the alarmist claims.

Since then, Jones has found himself under increasing fire from the British news media, and under intensifying scrutiny from his bosses at East Anglia for his obvious academic fraud,  and from the British government for his blatant violations of the British Freedom of Information Act. It appears the warmest place in London these days is Dr. Jones’s office, and he’s attempting to cool things off by finally weaving a little reality into the fantasy world he has made millions of dollars concocting.

One can only hope this latest ruse by Dr. Jones will not have the effect of convincing his bosses and the British government to call off the dogs. Dr. Jones has, along with Al Gore and many others, played a major role in the execution of the most massive fraud in the history of mankind, a fraud that has convinced developed nations around the world to implement wasteful, enormously expensive policies that have cost taxpayers billions upon billions of dollars, and led directly to millions of deaths due to starvation, malaria and other needless causes.

Prison is where such people belong, and the sooner sanity arrives and governments begin the process of putting them there, the better.

Item: Bayh, Bayh, Evan.

It's like deja vu all over again:  The similarities between the first two years of the Barack Obama Administration and the first two years of the Bill Clinton Administration continue to accumulate. Throughout late 1993 and early 1994, the country witnessed a rash of retirements by Democrat members of congress, as those members began to wake up to the mess Slick Willie had made of his first year in office, and realized that Clinton’s then-fading public approval rating was going to harm their own chances at re-election.

Fast forward to late 2009, and over the last five months or so, we have seen the same phenomenon rising among current congressional Democrats, and for the same reason: President Obama, by dramatically misreading the results of the 2008 elections and pursuing a radical leftist policy agenda, has made a hash of his first year in office, and shows no signs of any willingness to moderate his worst impulses. This has placed the Democrats’ significant congressional majorities in real peril, and many of these senators and congressmen, seeing the handwriting on the wall, are opting for retirement rather than defeat the polls.

Last Friday, Rhode Island congressman Patrick Kennedy announced he would not seek re-election in the wake of polls showing his potential for success in November increasingly unlikely.  Liberals across the country and in the media engaged  in hand-wringing that this would leave congress without a single Kennedy for the first time in half a century.  The rest of the country realized that, given the horrid performance of congress over the last 50 years, this can only be a good thing.
But the latest, and highest-profile retirement came on Monday, when Indiana Senator and former presidential candidate Evan Bayh announced he would not seek re-election to his senate seat this year. Bayh couched his decision in personal terms, claiming it was not motivated by any fear of losing in November. But the truth is that he has been running behind in recent polls to a couple of potential Republican challengers, and has had a difficult time raising campaign funds. With the President obviously intent upon continuing to pursue his radical agenda, it’s pretty apparent that Senator Bayh read the handwriting on the wall and decided to try to preserve his viability for a future presidential run rather than end his career with a loss this November.

Thus proving that, even in the Liberal Zoo, discretion often remains the better part of valor.

Tuesday: This is Funny, Funny Stuff

Hitler weighs in on the climate scandals here. Close the door to your office if you don't want your co-workers to wonder what in the hell you're laughing out loud about.

Al Gore Brainwashed Idiot of the Week Award...

...goes to MSNBC's Contessa Brewer, for her claim that the record setting blizzards pounding the Northeast United States this week are evidence of more "global warming", or something like that.  Seriously, you have to see it to believe it.

Keith Olberman Agonisties

Poor Keith Olberman.  Ok, wait, let me back up.  Keith Olberman can kiss my burnt orange Texas a**.  He epitomizes everything that is bad about the political left in America:  hopelessly ignorant yet cocksure; consistently wrong yet condescending; unable to make the simplest argument based on logic or facts yet smarmy and dismissive when engaging anyone who disagrees; completely unaccomplished in any real-world endeavor yet self-justified in lecturing others.

For exhibiting such a horrid set of personal behaviors, he is of course awarded an hour-long, prime time show on cable television's most biased "news" channel, just as similar oafs like Janeane Garafalo and Al Franken were initially given their own radio talk shows on the now-bankrupt and deceased Air America.  The American left always awards the dimmest bulbs among them - that's how Al Gore became Pope of the Church of Global Warming, after all.

And as always happens when the American left puts one of its most pathological dimwits on full display to the public in the media, the ratings go to hell.  It happened with Air America, it happened with Chris Matthews, who currently hosts the single lowest-rated prime time show on any cable "news" network, it has happened with every leftist radio talk show host who has ever been given a national stage, and it is now happening to Keith Olberman, Rachel Maddow and the rest of the uniformly left-wing prime time contingent at MSNBC. 

It has been obvious for years now that MSNBC cannot hope to compete in any meaningful way with Fox News - Fox now out-draws MSNBC consistently by about a 4 to 1 margin in both total audience and the 18-49 demographic that is so critical to advertisers - so obvious in fact that no one even really bothers to list Fox among MSNBC's ratings rivals anymore, choosing to focus instead on the race for a very distant second place between MSNBC, CNN and even CNN Headline News.  It has been widely reported this week that MSNBC's uniformly leftist prime time lineup has now fallen behind a more balanced CNNHN, an incredible feat of incompetent management rivaled in modern times only by CNN's dramatic fall from grace, and Toyota's quality control process.

The Church of Global Warming Meltdown Continues

The fraud-based bust-up of the Church of Global Warming continued apace last week, even as Scott Brown’s senate election in Massachusetts was grabbing all of the big news headlines.


Early last week, the United Nations’ International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was forced to admit that its longstanding contention that the Himalayan glaciers would be melted away by 2035 was not, as previously claimed, based on a peer-reviewed scientific study. Rather, it was based solely on a single published article, the author of which admitted that his theory was entirely speculative in nature, and which did not in fact include any sort of date by when the glaciers would disappear.

Several months after this outright fraudulent claim was brought to its attention by a group of real climate scientists, the head of the IPCC, Raj Pachauri, in making his admission, claimed that the IPCC did not know the flimsy nature of this information when the decision was made to include it in its own “authoritative” report.

But wait, the story gets better.