NBC'S Green Fraud

Jonah Goldberg exposes corporate interest in the Global Warming hoax. General Electric, NBC's parent went a bit too far this week and betrayed itself with its in your face promotion of policies that will go directly to its bottom line. GE is one of, if not the largest manufacturer of many technologies that people either don't want (fluorescent lights) or are not cost effective (wind turbines, solar panels). But if they can get the government to force or coerce individuals and businesses to buy this crap through mandates, subsidies and the tax code then voila! An artificial market has been created. It's no different than the current Ethanol Scam whereby Washington subsidizes a fuel that uses more energy than it produces, drives up food prices and is far less cost efficient than petroleum. Too add insult to injury, we also impose high tariffs on imported ethanol, thereby driving the cost even higher.

In the end, individual Americans end up paying for this nonsense through higher prices and lower job and wage growth with no benefit other than assuaging irrational guilt and encouraging the fanaticism of The Church of Environmentalism and Marxism. Strange bedfellows indeed.

Woman Turns Down 150 Marriage Proposals

Fox reports this story from Serbia. Assuming it's true, then A: She's the only woman in town. Or B: She's the only woman in town that doesn't look like George Washington. Or C: She can suck a golf ball through a garden hose.

New Che Guevara Poster

The victims of Che make up the iconic image of this psychopath and coward. Send one to your favorite college student for their dorm room.

Oregon hates kids and are stupid too!

At least that's what the New York Times thinks in another of its typically condescending editorials. Apparently, Oregon voters were dupes of "shameless" tobacco companies who committed the sin of trying to protect their own interests in selling what is for now, a legal product. The Times is even more shameless as self appointed arbiter of who should have a right to speak to the electorate. The real problem they have is that Oregonians may have actually listened to them: "The referendum said a lot about the power of money in any election, and not much about what the public thinks about the issue if given accurate and balanced information." In other words, voters are dopes when they fall under the spell of tobacco money but enlightened when influenced by unaccountable dollars from George Soros and Chinese crooks.

The Times also complains that opponents didn't "win by the urgent health care needs the initiative was meant to address, or the benefits higher cigarette taxes would bring by deterring smoking." Well they should have since that statement doesn't make any damn sense. If you deter people from smoking then how are you going to pay the bill for "urgent health care needs"

New Jersey Stem Cell Dems "stung and puzzled"

The New York Times reports with the usual sympathy for leftist tax and spenders that another attempt at government intrusion has failed. Opponents from the Right to Life crowd used the argument that “Research has not produced one cure. Not one. Question 2 is about taking your tax dollars for something that Wall Street and the drug companies will not invest in. Think about it.” I think about it every time government tries to involve itself in things it has no right to be and no competence. The RTL'ers had another agenda of course but that's not the larger point. If all this research amounted to nothing, supporters of this bilge wouldn't have to pay one dime of consequences for turning NJ taxpayers into venture capitalists. How many of them have their own money at risk in companies already in the Stem Cell Business?

Dems use Frost Kid to Avoid substance on SCHIP

E.J. Dionne calls opponents of expanded SCHIP benefits "Meanies and Hypocrites" for daring to question the propriety of using a kid to flog their stealth socialized medicine incrementalism. Dionne probably had this column written before Dems and this child's useful idiot parents put him on air. They expected the backlash and were prepared to demagogue the issue no matter what it did to this seventh grader's psyche. In short, they set the kid up as they don't care who gets hurt in their neverending quest to make government the most powerful force in American's lives.

The mere fact that Democrats shamelessly exploited this twelve year old is prima facie evidence they can't argue this proposal on its merits; since it has none that most Americans would find sensible or fair. There's nothing new about that of course, since appeals based on emotions and feelings rather than reason is the Left's M.O. for all of their hare-brained schemes.

Muslim Human Rights experts to teach EU

Saudi Arabia plans on lecturing the EU on Human Rights. Among other things, the Saudi Human Rights Commission (the what?) will be voicing their concerns over the abuse of Euro-Muslims and their not being allowed to practice their faith. This from a country where bibles are illegal and the practicing of any faith other than Islam can be a capital offense.

Anti-Gun lunacy kills kids

The Cleveland school shooting shows once again that kids are safer at a gun show or their local shooting range than a public school. If The Children are our "most precious commodity" then why do they have less protection than the day's receipts at McDonalds? Our schools advertise an open door policy for murderous nuts as gun free zones. I doubt even the gun banners would put a sign on their lawn pronouncing that fact.