December 31, 2008 by Jeremy.

That is kind of the going thought right now in the state of Illinois. Just two days ago you could not find one person in the state of Illinois that wanted the current governor to appoint someone to Obama’s empty Senate seat. Both parties wanted (at one point) the seat filled by other means.

Now, however, the tide has changed and Race may win the day.

Jesters don’t pick up the race card in a nationally televised news conference and slam it into the face of every Democrat in the U.S. Senate, a palm heel strike to the tip of the nose, leaving all of them watery-eyed, their lips stinging.

Yet that’s what Blagojevich—aided by former Black Panther-turned-Daley-machine-functionary Bobby Rush—did at that stupendous news conference in Chicago on Tuesday. That’s when the governor appointed Democratic empty suit Roland Burris, an African-American, to fill the Senate seat vacated by Obama.

On Tuesday, Rush was obviously quite ill, but he was not mentally unstable. He was certainly strong enough to use the angry race language of the 1960s as he stood next to Burris and Blagojevich. Rush warned that no sitting Democrat would go on record for long to bar an African-American from taking the seat.

“I would ask you to not hang or lynch the appointee as you try to castigate the appointer. Roland Burris is worthy,” Rush said.

Hang? Lynch?

Isn’t that the old politics of race that Obama was to have transcended for us?

Check the whole story out here.

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December 12, 2008 by Jeremy.

POZNAN, Poland - 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.  Set for release this week, a newly updated U.S. Senate Minority Report features the dissenting voices of over 650 international scientists, many current and former UN IPCC scientists, who have now turned against the UN. The report has added about 250 scientists (and growing) in 2008 to the over 400 scientists who spoke out in 2007. The over 650 dissenting scientists are more than 12 times the number of UN scientists (52) who authored the media hyped IPCC 2007 Summary for Policymakers.

FULL STORY

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December 2, 2008 by RBuffordTJ.

Take a moment and watch the video linked below

Fred Thompson on the Economy

See…..yes we can!  We can watch the economy grow knowing that the ‘new’ Washington is still firmly under the guidance of ‘old’ Washington.  Sleep good knowing the same people who got us into the mess are going to lead us out of it.  Its kind of the blind leading the blind.  What a heart warming story that would make.

Bufford

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