By: Chip
TheMCJ…the most unhinged, foaming-at-the-mouth reaction to the news that I’ve seen so far comes from a certain pompous Episcopal gasbag from Washington, DC. Ladies and gentlemen, Bishop John Chane is freaking bent
By: Chip
Right Wing News: Obama’s selection of Warren is flipping out the left side of the blogosphere, which is generally appalled by people who hold mainstream Christian beliefs.
CBN…The Brody File: Liberals and gay activists aren’t happy with Barack Obama for choosing pro-life and prop 8 supporting pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at Obama’s inaugural. But pro-life readers seem to be equally upset at Rick warren for agreeing to it.
Mark Steyn: The exciting transition from a Bob Gates Pentagon to a Bob Gates Pentagon apparently doesn’t do it for American progressives. The cries of “We wish you a Hopey Changemas!” have stilled as the big day approaches. The poignancy of this column is almost more than the reader can bear.
James Taranto: Amid all the gloomy economic news, the New York Times brings us an encouraging report on social trends…The problem of illegitimacy and broken families had seemed intractable for decades, but the Census Bureau has been able to make a significant dent in it, at virtually no cost to the taxpayer, merely by redefining the word parents.
By: Chip
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.
By: Chip
Gateway Pundit: Troops Thank President Bush…Digital Video and Imagery Distribution System (DVIDS) is an excellent source of US military video and photos. Today DVIDS posted an amazing video of President Bush’s visit with the troops in Iraq. Once again, this is something you will never see in the US mainstream media.
Don Surber asking and answering: What’s the latest on the gay penguins at Polar Land in Harbin, northern China? Well, the other penguins in the colony passed Prop 8 which kept them from adopting eggs. But humans got all PC so the zookeepers gave the gay penguins some eggs. Doesn’t this prove that gay is natural? It also proves that being anti-gay is natural.
NY Post: He’s the Grinch who stole . . . everything…Accused mega-swindler Bernard Madoff.
Jules Crittenden: It began at dawn on Dec. 16, 1944, 64 years ago today, with rapid assaults through the Ardennes forest, as the Germans blitzed one last time, hoping to split the Allied armies and take Antwerp.
Victor Davis Hanson: Blame Bush, Obama — or Us?
By: Chip
US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works: The UN global warming conference currently underway in Poland is about to face a serious challenge from over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe who are criticizing the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore.
Strategy Page: Pakistan is being forced into a corner, where the choices come down to civil war with their Islamic conservatives and radicals (about a third of the population), or war with India, which could escalate into a nuclear conflict that Pakistan would lose. The civil war would be messy, but the government would almost certainly win it.