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Thank You, Glenn Beck, for Exposing Communism’s Evils

Posted on February 8th, 2010 by DagnyTaggart

By Jamie Glazov
Pajamas Media, February 5, 2010

SiberiaThe tortures included laying a man naked on a freezing cement floor, forcing his legs apart, and then an interrogator stepping on his testicles, applying increasing pressure until the confession surfaced. Imagine the consequences of no surfacing confession. Indeed, many people refused to confess to a crime they did not commit.

Daughters and sons were raped in front of their fathers and mothers — for the sake of extracting “confessions.”

These are just some of the delicacies that the Stalinist machinery inflicted on its citizenry in the hope of bringing socialism into earthly incarnation. Alexander Solzhenitsyn has shared much of this horror with us in his Gulag Archipelago [1] — a work, mystifyingly enough, that I had never heard mentioned, except with a few exceptions, by one professor in a lecture or seminar in my entire eleven years studying Cold War history in academia. It was a work that I never saw, again with a few exceptions, on any academic syllabus — and many of my courses concerned Soviet history and American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union. (more…)

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China’s debt bomb

Posted on February 8th, 2010 by DagnyTaggart

By ARTHUR HERMAN
New York Post, February 8, 2010

LIFE CHINA WORKERS‘He who pays the piper calls the tune”: That old saying captures perfectly America’s growing dependence on our No. 1 creditor in the world, Communist China.

By their carelessness Congress and the Obama administration are steadily handing over control of America’s economic and financial future to a handful of Chinese officials and generals in Beijing. Those who think the Chinese won’t use that control if they feel they have to are ignoring history — and the Chinese.

The ancient military strategist Sun Tzu said that the best strategy was to render an opponent’s army helpless even before the battle began. America may still have the biggest and best military in the world. (more…)

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Did You Feel the Earth Move?

Posted on February 8th, 2010 by DagnyTaggart

By Jim Yardley
American Thinker, February 8, 2010

Boston Tea PartyThe earth is shifting under our feet, and the political class, both in elected officialdom and in the unelected punditocracy, appear to be oblivious. They still believe that there are only Democrats and Republicans, and anything else is a “fringe” group. In their view, Progressives and Tea Party members are equivalent in their impact on the major parties. Nothing could be more in error, and nothing works more in favor of the Progressives than having the electorate view them as such.

The Tea Party convention this past weekend was a truly seismic event — not in the sense that it will shake the establishment out of their rigid system of beliefs, but as a moment historians can point to when describing the sea change occurring in the terms of our national debate. (more…)

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Politicizing Intelligence

Posted on February 8th, 2010 by DagnyTaggart

The Obama administration leaks and spins.

Christmas bomberBy Stephen F. Hayes
The Weekly Standard, February 2010

Last week, a little more than 24 hours after the FBI warned senators not to disclose the sensitive information that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was cooperating with the FBI, the White House shared the information with the news media. (more…)

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IPCC’s ‘Disaster Of Biblical Proportions’

Posted on February 8th, 2010 by DagnyTaggart

By Ed Carson
Investors.com, February 8, 2010

While the blizzard battered the U.S. East Coast, across the pond British newspapers continued to uncover more problems with the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 report.

Walter Russell Mead sums it up:

When the glacier story broke, IPCC apologists returned over and over again to a saving grace. The bogus glacier report appeared in the body of the IPCC document, but not in the much more carefully vetted Synthesis Report, in which the IPCC’s senior leadership made its specific recommendations to world leaders. So it didn’t matter that much, the apologists told us, and we can still trust the rigorously checked and reviewed Synthesis Report.

But that’s where the African rain crisis prediction is found — in the supposedly sacrosanct Synthesis Report.

So: the Synthesis Report contains a major scare prediction — 50% shortfall in North African food production just ten years from now — and there is no serious, peer-reviewed evidence that the prediction is true.

But there’s more. Much, much more.

Most scientists likely sincerely fear that we face massive man-made climate change. Yet they have little idea how much temperatures might rise or how that might affect various parts of the world. Warning that something big might happen someday isn’t much of a battle cry. So many scientists seem to have decided that alarming the public, by any means necessary, is justified. Because they knew climate predictions can’t really be proved or disproved, they didn’t question even the most outlandish claims.

The original Climate-gate scandal showed that key researchers appeared to hide and distort key data and try to blacklist dissenters. Now it’s clear that many widely touted predictions had scant evidence or were simply made up. The upshot? Climate scientists and their political allies are going to have a much harder time winning over the public … even if the crisis truly is one of biblical proportions:

Source: Investors.com

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Gerard Alexander: Why are liberals so condescending?

Posted on February 8th, 2010 by DagnyTaggart

By Gerard Alexander
February 7, 2010

Every political community includes some members who insist that their side has all the answers and that their adversaries are idiots. But American liberals, to a degree far surpassing conservatives, appear committed to the proposition that their views are correct, self-evident, and based on fact and reason, while conservative positions are not just wrong but illegitimate, ideological and unworthy of serious consideration. Indeed, all the appeals to bipartisanship notwithstanding, President Obama and other leading liberal voices have joined in a chorus of intellectual condescension. (more…)

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