Obama’s State of the Union Address, with Commentary

OK, I know that by now a lot of you either saw or read though this speech of Obama’s, and so it’s old news. But I’ve seen nobody rip through this thing point by point. I can understand why… with

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Lots going on, today, despite it being a holiday. Let’s get to it.

• It’s about time you did this, Mr. President.  Only one

As regards global warming, my view is essentially the same as yours: Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is a scam, with no basis in science.

Frank Tipler, distinguished mathematical physicist at Tulane University, via William Katz: Urgent Agenda

Hat tip and

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Hope your weekend was a good one. We’ve got lots of ground to cover, so let’s get to this.

• Barack Hussein Obama and George

Boortz, this morning:

Nancy Pelosi has responded to the current Republican debate, which continues in her absence. She is blaming Republicans for failing to “support serious, responsible proposals.” Yeah … wind farms.

Funny he should bring this up. A

Jim Rutttenberg, New York Times, is shocked that John McCain is painting BO as ill-informed, arrogant and out of touch:

WASHINGTON — After spending much of the summer searching for an effective line of attack against Senator Barack Obama

• Yeah, I was out all weekend. So, we made the trip over the weekend, to Fair Haven State Park, which is one of the best in the state. There’s a problem, though with the state Reservation system for their campgrounds;

• CW holds that when the economy is down, movie houses don’t do well. So why’d we have the biggest weekend ever at the movies last weekend? Something isn’t quite up to what the Democrats and their MSM minions are advertising.

Gerson at the WaPo:

There are few things in American politics more irrationally ideological, more fanatically faith-based, than the accusation that Republicans are conducting a “war on science.”

According to Hillary Clinton, the Bush administration has declared “open season on

Hume, last night:

There are strong indications that much the world may soon experience a decrease in surface temperatures. A report by German scientists in Thursday’s issue of the journal ‘Nature’ says shifting Atlantic Ocean currents will cool parts of

Interesting word from basra by way of the London Times:

Young women are daring to wear jeans, soldiers listen to pop music on their mobile phones and bands are performing at wedding parties again.

All across Iraq’s second city

Dan Drezner grew a bit, apparently, over the weekend. He’s still got a long way to go, in this, but the progress is notable.

Remember when I said earlier this week that, “Glenn Greenwald might be a good blogger/collumnist, but

Nigil Lawson at the Daily Mail

First, then, what is happening? Given that nowadays pretty well every adverse development in the natural world is automatically attributed to global warming, perhaps the most surprising fact about it is that it is

The Washington Times, this morning:

Researchers at Harvard say that publicly voiced doubts about the U.S. occupation of Iraq have a measurable “emboldenment effect” on insurgents there.

Periods of intense news media coverage in the United States of criticism about