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http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/347400/goebbel-warming

The climate crowd is very partial to Nazi analogies. Self-inducted Nobel Laureate Michael Mann (currently suing National Review and yours truly for mocking his hockey stick) likes to call his opponents “deniers.” Offset baron Al Gore talks of an ecological Kristallnacht.

Yet, when it comes to book burning, they’re happy to be the Nazis — and, like their libricidal predecessors, proud to be photographed in the act.*

Odd.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/05/02/san-jose-state-university-meteorology-decides-burning-books-they-dont-agree-with-is-better-than-reading-them/
San Jose State University Meteorology decides burning books they don’t agree with is better than reading them
by Anthony Watts

From the Fahrenheit 451 department comes this indictment of California’s higher education’s “tolerance” for opposing views. When I first got the tip on this, I thought to myself “nobody can be this stupid to photograph themselves doing this” but, here they are, right from the San Jose State University Meteorology Department web page:

The caption from the SJSU website reads:

This week we received a deluge of free books from the Heartland Institute {this or this }. The book is entitled “The Mad, Mad, Made World of Climatism”. SHown above, Drs. Bridger and Clements test the flammability of the book.

Maybe they just can’t help themselves, note the pictures on the wall.

SJSU_bookfire

http://www.nationalreview.com/node/347250/print Not lately, if ever, had a U.S. president put Americans in physical danger in order to score cheap partisan points. Obama’s just-reversed furlough of FAA employees increased the probability that overstretched, unseasoned, or distracted air-traffic controllers might miscalculate — possibly with fatal results. But what did Obama care? Blaming Republicans was his mission, even […]

https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/347189/print
The Rubio Amnesty
Mr. Krikorian is the director of the Center for Immigration Studies.

When Mitt Romney lost last November, the Republican establishment decided that his moderately hawkish stance on immigration had been a major cause of his defeat. Never mind that his share of the Hispanic vote was within the margin of error of McCain’s 2008 share. Never mind the significant drop in white turnout. There is little elite constituency for a hawkish approach to immigration, and much elite support for lax enforcement and increased legal immigration (Romney actually supported the latter).

So the Republican establishment turns its hopeful eyes, once again, to so-called comprehensive immigration reform. The same senators who pushed such a bill in 2007, prominently including Republicans John McCain and Lindsey Graham and Democrat Chuck Schumer, are at it again. They have devised a plan that would ease the path to legality for illegal immigrants while making some gestures toward enforcement. But a new element this time around is Marco Rubio.

A tea-party favorite (and a favorite of this magazine) who wrested the senatorial nomination from GOP-establishment pick (now Democrat) Charlie Crist, he’s young, telegenic, and the son of Cuban immigrants. Rubio became part of the “Gang of Eight,” four Democrats and four Republicans negotiating a deal that sought to placate a dizzying array of interests, all seeking de facto unlimited immigration but each with a different set of specific concerns. The result of all this is S.744, a sprawling, 844-page measure legalizes most of the illegal population (plus many who were deported and are currently living abroad), promises tougher enforcement in the future, and hugely increases all forms of legal immigration, low- and high-skilled, temporary and permanent.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/347419/cotton-syria-we-have-arm-opposition

REP. TOM COTTON (R ARKANSAS) IS ONE OF THE PROMISING NEW GOP FACES…A VETERAN, SMART, ARTICULATE ETC. BUT SO NAIVE AND WRONG ON THIS ONE IT IS SERIOUSLY DISAPPOINTING…ARMING ANYONE IN SYRIA IS NUTS…THE SO CALLED “REFORM MINDED, PRO-WESTERN REBELS” ARE TERRORIST THUGS….LIKE GIVING SOMEONE CHOLERA TO COMBAT TYPHOID FEVER…..RSK

The United States should arm opposition fighters in Syria and create a no-fly zone over the war-torn nation, Representative Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) said on NBC’s Meet the Press.

Arming the “reform-minded, pro-Western rebels” fighting the Assad regime is “something that should have been done many months ago,” argued Cotton, a former Army officer and combat veteran.

“We have to arm the opposition. I think we also need to move toward imposing a no-fly zone,” he said. “We can stop Bashar al-Assad from killing his own people.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/node/347437/print

“Which leaves us with Mr. Watt, a political creature who would seem odd if he were not so familiar: the race-baiting left-winger funded by Wall Street. Mr. Watt’s top financial benefactor is Bank of America, a firm recently sued by FHFA. (If it has occurred to anybody at the White House that this presents a conflict of interest, they have said nothing about it.) In 2009, about half of Mr. Watt’s campaign funds came from banking and real estate. The usual suspects are well represented: Goldman Sachs, the Credit Union National Association, Wells Fargo, the National Association of Realtors — all make appearances on his top-donors list.”
President Obama keeps telling the country who he is, and the country, to its continuing discredit, refuses to listen. The latest entry in the personnel-is-policy file comes in the form of Mel Watt, an irresponsible racist from the Democratic Socialists of America caucus, whom the president wishes to put in charge of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. On the record of his public pronouncements alone, Mr. Watt is unfit to hold any federal office; given that the FHFA has oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the corrupt government corporations at the center of the 2008 financial crisis, this nomination is particularly worrisome.

One must admit to a certain grudging respect for Barack Obama’s handling of questions stemming from his association with impenitent racists such as the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and old-school socialists such as Van Jones. In 2008, Obama was taking a beating in the primaries over his association with the Reverend Wright, the divine who lamented that “them Jews ain’t gonna let him talk to me” after the nation evinced some discomfort with his racist “Black Liberation Theology,” his blaming 9/11 on American “chickens coming home to roost,” his Pearl Harbor conspiracy theories, and his “God damn America!” chants, and who today spends his time worrying about the effects of “white racist DNA.” Ankled by his association with this paranoid racist ranter, Obama responded by lecturing the country at large on racism, a move roughly equivalent to Mark Sanford’s giving a sermon on the seemliest means for exiting a marriage. But the country, or at least enough of the country, was willing to be snookered by Barack Obama.

President Obama continued to offer more of the same, and now serves up a heaping helping of race-obsessed political opportunism in the form of Mr. Watt’s nomination. Mr. Watt, a member of the House representing North Carolina, in 2005 angrily declared that a majority of white voters would never vote for a black candidate, so sick is our country with the plague of racism. Barack Obama was shortly thereafter elected. We suppose he almost had a point — in 2008, Barack Obama in fact did not receive a majority of white votes, which no Democrat has since the party’s shift to the hard left in the 1960s. But Barack Obama was more popular with white voters than any Democrat since Lyndon Johnson, a fact that does not square with Mr. Watt’s libel on the American people.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324695104578416871045535226.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE SUCCESS OF TEXAS UNDER GOVERNOR RICK PERRY….RSK

Texas and California have been competing for years as U.S. growth models, and one of the less discussed comparisons is on energy. The Golden State has long been one of America’s big three oil producing states, along with Texas and Alaska, but last year North Dakota surpassed it. This isn’t a matter of geological luck but of good and bad policy choices.

Barely unnoticed outside energy circles, Texas has doubled its oil output since 2005. Even with the surge in output in North Dakota’s Bakken region, Texas produces as much oil as the four next largest producing states combined. The Lone Star State now pumps nearly two million barrels a day, and Texas Railroad Commissioner Barry Smitherman (who is also oil commissioner) says “total production could double by 2016 and triple by the early 2020s.” The entire U.S. now produces about seven million barrels a day.

The two richest fields are the Eagle Ford shale formation in South Texas, where production is up 50% in the last year alone, and the 250-square mile Permian Basin. Midland-Odessa in the Permian is one of America’s fastest-growing metro areas.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/05/bill_ayers_and_the_culture_of_rape.html

Bill Ayers told a University of Oregon social justice class in 2012 “our fate hinges on our ability to open our eyes.” Well, Bill, rumor has it you are rapist, so let’s open the discussion.

Frontpage Magazine and several other sites published Donna Ron’s account of what happened one Friday night in 1965.

The terms “psychological rape” or “date rape” had not yet been coined but Ms. Ron’s story, the kind the Left are so fond of, suggests Ayers was at most a rapist; at least, a sexual deviant.

So when Ayers talks about women’s rights, or mentions rape as he does in the University of Oregon lecture, he conveniently forgets to mention his own allegedly sordid past with women.

Any woman who has suffered the psychological and physical humiliation of forced sex never forgets. Donna’s ability to remember graphic details after many years is typical of those who have endured sexual trauma.

The young women introducing Ayers to the University of Oregon class probably had no idea they were standing next to a possible sexual predator. If they dismiss Ayers’ history of violence against innocent police officers and his later refusal to renounce his actions, chances are these same young people that Ayers advises to critically examine the world around them, will not care about one young woman who had the misfortune of meeting up with the terrorist.

But in light of the recent University of Wyoming hoax involving Ayers fan and co-plaintiff in a 2010 lawsuit against UW regarding his speaking engagement at the college, Meg Lankers-Simon and her efforts to draw attention to the “culture of rape,” young women at liberal colleges should take a second look at the former Weather Underground terrorist.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/05/radical_islamic_files_reportedly_found_on_bombers_wifes_computer.html Radical Islamic files reportedly found on bomber’s wife’s computer Were they Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s? Or was his wife radicalized as well and participated in the planning and execution of the terrorist attack?   Fox News:   Radical Islamic materials and an al Qaeda magazine were found on the computer of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s […]

http://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/while-hezbollah-arms-un-peacekeepers-in-lebanon-teach-yoga-and-knitting/?singlepage=true The news is full of reports that Israeli air strikes have targeted Iranian-supplied missiles in Syria, which Israeli officials believe were intended for Hezbollah — Iran’s satellite terrorist organization in Lebanon. Midway through a New York Times story on this development comes a reminder that : Hezbollah is now believed to have more missiles […]

http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2013/05/05/syria-attack-shows-theres-no-alternative-to-neutralizing-iran/?print=1 There’s only one way to cut the Gordian Knot of regional conflict in the Middle East, and that is to de-fang Iran–destroy its capacity to make nuclear weapons and destroy the bases of the Revolutionary Guard. Israel’s reported strike on a stockpile of Iranian missiles near Damascus overnight highlights the extent of Iran’s military […]