12-17-08

Richard Fernandez: US News and World Report reports that the Daily Kos has declared Bernard Madoff Public Enemy Number One for impoverishing all of its favorite charities. The previous post pointed out that “activists” have a curious relationship with money. They don’t make it, but they need to spend it. They need what they loathe. What can I tell you?

Victor Davis Hanson: Lala Land

Ed Morrissey: Remember that global-warming wet kiss from the AP to climate-change activists and Barack Obama earlier this week? Even scientists who believe in global warming couldn’t quite believe their eyes. They called the report by the Seth Borenstein a “polemic” and wondered when research stopped being a requirement for science reporters.

TigerHawk: One picket line we would not cross…I think more Americans would be socialist if our labor actions were like this:…Paris is now being accused of showing such philistine ingratitude to its life models that scores went on strike yesterday, taking to the streets to pose naked in freezing temperatures to shame the state.

A.J. Strata: This is how fanatical political positions, and Bush Derangement Syndrome, created a traitor. Bottom line: (Thomas Tamm) Tamm did more for our enemies than he did for America or its Constitution.

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