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Mark Steyn: Cooking the books on climate

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:48:06 +0000

My favorite moment in the Climategate/Climaquiddick scandal currently roiling the "climate change" racket was Stuart Varney's interview on Fox News with the actor Ed Begley Jr., star of the 1980s medical drama "St Elsewhere" but latterly better...

Fausta's Blog found this 38 hours ago on ocregister.com

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If we sacrifice Jerusalem, why defend London?

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:12:00 +0000

Life after pax Americana may hold some unpleasant surprises.

Doug Ross @ Journal found this 15 hours ago on americanthinker.com

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Manufactured failure #4: more on Obama's trip

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:03:20 +0000

3) Below and after the jump, more comments from a US government official who was on the trip and knows first-hand about many of the meetings with foreign dignitaries. Earlier from this person here . About the "humiliating" bow to the Emperor of Japan: "Obama's attitude was, this is an elderly ...

Balloon Juice found this 6 days ago on jamesfallows.theatlantic.com

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News flash: Afghanistan not Germany or Japan

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:13:33 +0000

a 45-page paper by Army Maj. Jim Gant, the former team leader of a special-ops detachment stationed in Konar province. The paper, called “One Tribe at a Time: A Strategy for Success in Afghanistan,” recounts his experiences with organizing “tribal engagement ...

Kathy Shaidle posted 4 days ago from fivefeetoffury.com

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PROTOCOL UPDATE

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:25:20 +0000

Barack Obama: take due notice thereof, and conduct yourself accordingly . . . STORMBRINGER

Vodkapundit found this 8 days ago on theospark.net

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Obama Bows In Japan To Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:35:26 +0000

In a scene that will likely be replayed on Sunday's political talk shows, President Obama bowed deeply to the Emperor and Empress of Japan on Saturday. The president's kowtow to the royal couple came on the second day of his Asian tour and before a private lunch with the pair in Tokyo. An ...

Blogs For Victory found this 13 days ago on huffingtonpost.com

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Japanese Official Puts Down Christianity, U.S. and Europe

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:08:00 +0000

Daisuke Wakabayashi reports on Japanese politics. Talk about awkward timing. As President Barack Obama prepares to visit Japan later this week, a top official in Japan's new ruling party said Christianity was exclusive and self-righteous and that U.S. and European societies with a ...

Gates of Vienna found this 12 days ago on blogs.wsj.com

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Bowing to Mao—you be the judge

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:09:00 +0000

Another non-surprise is that Obama’s defenders have been poring through old footage to find presidential bows similar to Obama’s. They’ve come up with this one from Nixon to Mao (at minute 1:24): I admit that I don’t like it. But it’s a little head bob ...

alicublog found this 12 days ago on neoneocon.com

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Chips in Brains Will Replace Keyboards, Mice, Dial Phones, and TV Remote Controls

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:55:15 +0000

By 2020 say Intel Corp. researchers: [Intel research scientist Dean] Pomerleau said researchers are close to gaining the ability to build brain sensing technology into a head set that culd be used to manipulate a computer. The next step is development of a tiny, far less cumbersome sensor ...

tsteels2 posted 7 days ago from themoderatevoice.com

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US Media Ignores Obama’s Muffed Japan Visit

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:26:32 +0000

The Japanese media has reported that Obama’s recent state visit to their island nation was a big failure, but the U.S. media is mum on the mess that Team Obama made in Japan. He made multiple diplomatic gaffs and this is quite aside from the absurdly low bow that the incompetent president ...

Stop The ACLU found this 6 days ago on biggovernment.com

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Japan accuses Russia of “illegal occupation”

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:18:00 +0000

The Japanese government has adopted a document claiming that Russia “illegally occupies the South Kuril Islands.” Russia’s Foreign Ministry has sent a letter of protest to Tokyo in response.

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS found this 5 days ago on russiatoday.ru

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Laundry list of charges fall on Sanford

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:35:04 +0000

The State Ethics Commission report on Gov. Mark Sanford ’s indiscretions regarding use of state money and campaign dollars was released today, but we’re not sure if this thing is really worth a damn or not. A few of these charges, here or there, might lead to a fine or a stern rebuke from the ...

weswolfe posted 6 days ago from wolfereports.com

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The Nixon bow

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:19:29 +0000

It's been noted that before Obama, President Nixon bowed to the Emperor of Japan, and Life has the image.

PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts found this 10 days ago on politico.com

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Liz Cheney Suggests Dad Dick As 2012 Presidential Candidate (VIDEO)

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:30:44 +0000

In the midst of a discussion of the latest conservative scandal -- an uproar over the fact that President Obama bowed to the emperor of Japan -- Liz Cheney suggested her father take over the office in a few years. Host Chris Wallace pointed out that former Vice President Dick Cheney did not ...

Delaware Liberal found this 13 days ago on huffingtonpost.com

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Get Sick in Another Country

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:51:00 +0000

In case you didn’t see Frontline’s Sick Around the World last week, here’s an opportunity to review this informative one-hour presentation. Washington Post foreign correspondent T.R. Reid visited five capitalist democracies—the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, and Switzerland—to ...

Infidel753 found this 8 days ago on parsleyspics.blogspot.com

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"Hatoyama Vs. Obama -- The Scandal That Nobody Will Report" (Obama in Japan: My Translation)

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:26:32 +0000

--"To tell you the truth, it had to have been the worst US-Japan Summit Meeting in history," a source of ours at the Foreign Ministry revealed to us. --For the first time since he was inaugurated as President of the USA in January, Obama had visited Japan for the first time on January 13th, and ...

Stop The ACLU found this 6 days ago on freerepublic.com

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Juan Williams Loses It… Slams Sarah Palin As Self-Centered & a Bad Mother (Video)

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:24:00 +0000

And, just think, he’s supposed to be the moderate liberal! Juan Williams attacked Sarah Palin personally yesterday on FOX News Sunday saying she was self-centered and a bad mother. The Creative Minority reported, via Free Republic : Disgraceful. Could you imagine if a ...

Doug Ross @ Journal found this 12 days ago on gatewaypundit.firstthings.com

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Changing the climate on Capitol Hill

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:38:44 +0000

As a result, Obama sounded defensive in remarks he made in Japan. Although he said that the United States “has taken more steps to combat climate change in 10 months than we have in our recent history by embracing the latest science, by investing in new energy, by raising efficiency standards, ...

Daily Kos found this 12 days ago on boston.com

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Conor Friedersdorf - Metablog – Discretion is the Better Part of Statemanship

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:21:00 +0000

The latest complaint from Conservative Inc. blogger Dan Riehl is that President Obama — on a visit to Japan — sidestepped a question about the nuclear attack on that country that concluded World War II. Mr. Riehl writes : Asked whether or not the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the ...

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan found this 13 days ago on trueslant.com

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Manufactured failure #6: the wrapup

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:41:16 +0000

ApecShirt.jpg "With Japan, it's a new and untested government. It's the first time in power for their party, and they're finding their sea legs. Everyone understands that. We were not trying to knock them off their uncertain sea legs, particularly in public. Not make them lose face or back them ...

Balloon Juice found this 5 days ago on jamesfallows.theatlantic.com

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