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THERE IS NO EVIDENCE CARBON EMISSIONS CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING |
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Written by Dr. David Evans
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 |
I devoted six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian Greenhouse Office. When I started that job
in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty
good: CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the old ice core data, no other suspects.
The evidence was not
conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to
act quickly? Soon government and the scientific community were working together
and lots of science research jobs were created.
We scientists had
political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly
important and useful (well, I did anyway). It was great. We were working to
save the planet.
But since 1999 new
evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main
cause of global warming, and by
2007 the evidence was
pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main
cause of the recent global warming.
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THE REAL OBAMA IN AFGHANISTAN |
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Written by Capt. Jeffrey S. Porter, USMC
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 |
[Last Saturday, July 19, Barack Hussein Obama paid a brief
visit to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan on his way to Kabul. US Marine Battle Captain Jeffrey S. Porter
wrote a brief eyewitness account in an
email to his family and friends, which To The Point is able to publish here.]
Hello everyone,
As you know I am not a very political person. I just wanted
to pass along that Senator Obama came to Bagram, Afghanistan for about an hour
on his visit to 'The War Zone'. I wanted to share with you what happened. He
got off the plane and got into a bullet proof vehicle, got to the area to meet
with the Major General (2 Star) who is the commander here at Bagram.
As the Soldiers were lined up to shake his hand he
blew them off and didn't say a word as he went into the conference room to meet
the General.
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WHO DO YOU GET WHEN YOU COMBINE NARCISSISM AND MEGALOMANIA? |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 |
In a news conference Wednesday (7/23) in Sderot, an Israeli
city subject to frequent rocket attacks by Palestinian terrorists, Sen. Barack
Hussein Obama addressed the doubts many Israelis have about his commitment to
their security.
"In terms of knowing my commitments, you don't have to
just look at my words, you can look at my deeds," Mr. Obama said.
"Just this past week, we passed out of the Senate Banking Committee, which
is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran, as a way of
ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear
weapon."
Sen. Obama is not a member of the Senate Banking, Housing
and Urban Affairs Committee. He had nothing to do with the advancement of the
bill he referred to.
Barack Hussien Obama has the thinnest resumé of any
major party candidate for president in history, and this isn't the first time
he's tried to pad it. But his false claim in Sderot goes beyond puffery.
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TALL, SLENDER, INCOMPREHENSIBLE, AND SIMPLISTIC |
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Written by Tony Blankley
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 |
Watching Obama glide through his foreign trip so far, nervous Republicans
and other patriots have to hope that American voters will not view Obama
through the eyes of a Hollywood casting director. That's because one could not
cast a man who visually can portray a worldly statesman better.
We all must envy his ability to effortlessly drape his tall, imperially
slender form in gilded Louis XV chairs in foreign palaces. Mixing just the
right combination of worldly bonhomie and serious mien, his
presentation (conveniently presented to the world with video but no audio)
make, by comparison, Henry Kissinger, FDR and Winston Churchill all look like
clumsy provincial oafs.
The visual is everything in his campaign, for when he does submit himself to
the occasional press interview, his actual words read in print must make his
handlers as nervous as his visual images make Republicans nervous.
His discussion of his Iraq policy is almost
incomprehensible, and his understanding of the world stunningly simplistic.
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HALF-FULL REPORT 07/16/08 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 17 July 2008 |
So many of you have said they miss the Half-Full Report
during our summer schedule that I figure I better change the schedule rather
than give the HFR a summer hiatus.
So here we go, although with so many goodies to choose from,
where do we begin? Let's start by
trying to decide who gets this week's prize for being The World's Most
Wonderful Hypocrite - Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh or the Editors of
the New Yorker Magazine.
Is there a single person possessing a three-digit IQ on the
entire planet who actually believes New Yorker editor David Remnick's claim
that his cover cartoon of Obambi as a Moslem imam, Mrs. Obambi as a Black
Panther, and them fist-bumping in America-hating admiration of Osama bin Laden
is a satire?
...Nonetheless, When it comes to sheer straightforward
look-you-in-the-eye hypocrisy, India's leaders leave the guys at the New Yorker
in the dust. In lyrical words full of glowarming
pieties, they've just announced India will be increasing its CO2 emissions by
twenty times in the coming years.
...There's even happier glowarming news. The world's most fascist scientist, the
founding guru of global warming and Algore's mentor, James Hansen, may be about
to get what he deserves.
And now it's time for us to retire to a quiet table off in a
corner of the barroom where we can talk and not be overheard. This will be between just you, me, and
bottle of Famous Grouse.
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DEMS AND OIL |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008 |
On July 15, President Bush announced he was lifting the
executive branch moratorium on offshore drilling. In the 24 hours that
followed, crude oil futures plunged $9.26 (6.3 percent), the biggest oil price
decline in 17 years.
Oil prices fell again yesterday (7/16) when the Bureau of
Land Management overrode the objections of environmentalists and opened 4.9
million acres of land in Alaska to oil exploration.
Now reflect on these words.
"Coal makes us sick, oil makes us sick, it's global warming, it's
ruining our country, it's ruining our world, we've got to stop using fossil
fuel," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) said last month.
No, Harry, it's Democrats who are ruining our country. What we've got to do is throw you and your
ilk out of office.
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OBAMA THE MILQUETOAST FLIP FLOPPER |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Tuesday, 15 July 2008 |
During his eight years in the Illinois state senate, Barack
Hussein Obama voted "present" 130 times. That's an astounding
12-13 times a year in which he said, in effect, "I'm here, but I'm not
going to take a stand on this issue."
Given that record of bold leadership, I'm surprised Sen.
Obama acted as he did on the legislation Congress passed July 9 to renew the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Sen. Obama had pledged to filibuster FISA if it contained a
provision to provide retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies which
cooperated with the government, and then reneged on that promise.
The FISA flip flop is the latest of er, ah, "pivots" Sen. Obama has made recently on campaign
finance, NAFTA, gun control, the death penalty, and abortion. Now get ready for the Mother-of-All-Pivots
he is about to make on the Iraq war.
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GOOD NEWS AND CRITICAL QUESTIONS FROM TUSCANY |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Tuesday, 15 July 2008 |
Villa Santa Colomba, Sienna,
Italy.
Robert Mundell,
who was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 1999, has been holding a small,
annual conference here in Tuscany at an exquisite castle he purchased several
decades ago and restored.
His wife, Valerie, is a charming
hostess and an accomplished organizer of the conferences. The castle is the
family's principal residence, though Dr. Mundell continues to teach one
semester each year at New York's Columbia University, where he is a professor
of economics.
To get fresh ideas about the
current global economic problems of the day, Dr. Mundell invites not only
academic economists to his conferences but also central bankers and other
financial and business professionals to obtain a variety of perspectives.
Some of the questions discussed at the conference will be
found below, and you may wish to think about them yourselves. But first, the
good news is that...
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ENTITLEMENT VERSUS ENTERPRISE |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
There is one polarity of behavior that, more than any other
single issue, connects virtue and happiness together in such a way that it
fuels much of our public and political debate.
It connects what I have to say from my field of psychology with the
global political issues that are the overall focus of To The Point as a
whole. This is:
Entitlement versus
enterprise.
This week our 10 year-old son Jesse is in a tech camp at UC
Santa Cruz. Every morning when I drop him off and every afternoon when I pick
him up, we drive through a crowd of UC service workers who are picketing for
higher wages, more benefits, and "guaranteed step ups," which I take to mean a
guaranteed increase in their position and pay, based on time spent on the job
and regardless of their performance.
They have signs that say - literally - that they are treated
as slaves, and they walk back and forth through the crosswalks, slowing down
traffic, and chanting "the people, united, will never be defeated," and other
greatest hits from the left-wing protest theme book.
It's been a great opportunity for Jesse and me to talk about
the difference between entitlement and helplessness on the one hand, and
enterprise and effectiveness on the other.
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OBAMBI WITHOUT A TELEPROMPTER |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
The media has had a lot of fun ridiculing John McCain's
inability to deliver a good speech while reading from a teleprompter - while
idolizing Hussein Obambi's mastery of the technology.
The media refuses to focus on the obverse: that McCain is far better than Obambi at
extemporaneous speaking and answering spontaneous questions from an
audience. This is why Obambi refused
McCain's offer to hold a series of "town hall" debates and discussion across
the country. McCain would wipe him out.
Last May, TTP suggested - in Is Obama On Drugs
- that the cause of Obambi's many extraordinary gaffes and speaking errors
could be stimulant drug use, either of amphetamines or cocaine.
With this in mind, have a look at what Hussein Obambi is
like without a teleprompter. He is lost
without one. His thinking gets so
confused that it's truly hilarious.
Drugs or straight, this guy's brain is not wired together right.
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WHAT IF, MR. BERNANKE? |
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Written by Skye
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Sunday, 13 July 2008 |
What if Fed chairman Ben Bernanke and the other Fed board
members actually believe that the Consumer Price Index means the same thing as
it did in the 1970s?
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (an agency of the Labor
Dept.) calculates the CPI, not the Federal Reserve. If the Fed Governors are
unaware of the changes since then in how it is calculated, it would explain why
they aren't in a panic over the current real consumer inflation rate. It would explain why they really seem to be
certain that we are not in a recession.
It would also mean that unless they wake up from their time
warp, the dollar and our economy are truly doomed.
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ADVICE FROM ST. PAUL TO JOHN MCCAIN |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Sunday, 13 July 2008 |
A Rasmussen poll released Tuesday (7/08)
indicated the approval rating for the Democrat-led Congress has declined by 36
percentage points from last year's "high." Just 9 percent of
respondents said Congress was doing a "good" or "excellent"
job, while 52 percent of us think it's doing a "poor" one. That's the
lowest rating ever.
Much of the dissatisfaction with
Congress is due to its unwillingness to do anything about the soaring price of
gasoline. "Right now, our strategy on gas prices is 'Drive small cars and
wait for the wind'," a Democrat congressional aide tells The Hill
newspaper.
"So why are the Republicans running
scared, and why aren't they going after the 'new Democrat Congress' hammer and
tongs?" wonders Web logger Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit. "Beats me.
Because they're idiots, I guess."
I disagree. Some Republicans in Congress
are crooks, and many are cowards. But few are idiots. For idiocy, you have to
look to the campaign of Sen. John McCain.
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KEEP YOUR FOCUS |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Sunday, 13 July 2008 |
At the To The Point Rendezvous in Colorado Springs last
summer, my family and I visited the Olympic Training Center.
Our kids were a little dumbfounded seeing their parents tear
up over some of the sayings on the walls from the likes of Mary Lou Retton,
Jesse Owens, and other incredible athletes, or being thrilled at seeing some of
the athletes training there.
We tried to explain to them how moving it is to see people
working so hard and keeping such an intensity of focus for years, in order to
accomplish something that means so much to them.
Commitment, devotion, dedication, absorption, flow; these
are all words that describe a state of mind. It is a state of mind that
involves deciding to forgo distraction, to narrow some options, and to make
certain decisions non-reversible. This doesn't happen by itself, it is a state
of mind that you choose, and that you
improve through practice - and it is well worth the effort.
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WEST OF THE DEAD SEA |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 11 July 2008 |
You're lazily swimming in the Mediterranean Sea just off a
beautiful beach. The beach goes on for
miles, lined with resort hotels, and it's crowded with people. Young fit men playing volleyball, beautiful
bikini-clad young women sunbathing, families relaxing under umbrellas, children
making sand castles, multitudes of folks peacefully enjoying themselves in the
sun, the sand, and the gentle sea.
You swear you're at one of Spain's great beaches, like
Valencia, Marbella, or Barcelona. But
you've noticed that a small light plane has flown along the shoreline several
times. Your son asks, "Dad, why does
that plane keep flying by?"
"It's an IDF spotter plane," you tell him. "Watching for a boatload full of Arab
terrorists who might land to machine gun to death as many Jews on this beach as
they can. Stuff like that can happen
here anyplace, anytime. That's life in
Israel."
Nope, we're not in Valencia. We're in Tel Aviv.
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DOES THE DISHONESTY OF THE US MEDIA HAVE NO BOTTOM? |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 10 July 2008 |
The New York Times mentioned in a story June 21 that Mosul,
Iraq's third largest city, was "in the midst of a major security
operation." So what happened?
Marie Colvin of the Times of London had an answer Sunday:
"American and Iraqi forces are driving al Qaeda in Iraq out of its last
redoubt in the north of the country in the culmination of one of the most
spectacular victories of the war on terror."
Al Qaeda was making its "last stand" in Mosul, and
now is done, finished, kaput, said Ms. Colvin, who was embedded with the 2nd
Iraqi Division for Operation Lion's Roar. The victory is so complete that Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki said Saturday (7/05) his
government has defeated the terrorists in Iraq. Defeated. Past
tense.
Not a word about this "spectacular victory"
appeared in the Washington Post or the New York Times Sunday, or on the evening
network newscasts of ABC, NBC, CBS, or CNN.
Well, the New York Times did run a story on the front
page Monday about an "epic battle," but it was about a tennis match
at Wimbledon.
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