When you find something as cool and entertaining, while at the same time educating as the above video, it warms the little heart’s cockles.

When you hear about insanity like a North Carolina academic officer proposing that American History be taught only from 1877 onward you want to bang your head against a wall, repeatedly — or maybe, bang her head against a wall, repeatedly would be more like it — metaphorically, of course.

“We are certainly not trying to go away from American history,” Rebecca Garland, the chief academic officer for North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, told Fox News. “What we are trying to do is figure out a way to teach it where students are connected to it, where they see the big idea, where they are able to make connections and draw relationships between parts of our history and the present day.”

As the North Carolina curriculum stands now, ninth-grade students take world history, 10th-graders study civics and economics and 11th-graders take U.S. history going back to the country’s founding.

Under the proposed change, the ninth-graders would take a course called global studies, focusing in part on issues such as the environment. The 10th grade still would study civics and economics, but 11th-graders would take U.S. history only from 1877 onward.

Glen Beck is right — the Left is truly trying to disengage our youth from the Founding Fathers and the principles and beliefs they brought to this great country — and it all begins in the public schools. So, you say, “What can I do?”

GET INVOLVED!

Support the Tea Party Movement and their activities in your area. Donate to candidates that you believe in. Join with others of like mind, such as The Kitchen Cabinet PAC, (which yours truly does the web work for,) and FreedomWorks.org.

GET INVOLVED!!!!

Need I say it again?

Walter Russell Mead at The American Interest Online site writes in The Death Of Global Warming:

The global warming movement as we have known it is dead. Its health had been in steady decline during the last year as the once robust hopes for a strong and legally binding treaty to be agreed upon at the Copenhagen Summit faded away. By the time that summit opened, campaigners were reduced to hoping for a ‘politically binding’ agreement to be agreed that would set the stage for the rapid adoption of the legally binding treaty. After the failure of the summit to agree to even that much, the movement went into a rapid decline.

The movement died from two causes: bad science and bad politics.

After years in which global warming activists had lectured everyone about the overwhelming nature of the scientific evidence, it turned out that the most prestigious agencies in the global warming movement were breaking laws, hiding data, and making inflated, bogus claims resting on, in some cases, no scientific basis at all. {,,,}

Mead isn’t a denier, in fact he seems to strongly believed in AGW, but is facing the reality that Al Gore and the Holy Order Of Global Warming Hysteria blew it big time. “Bad science and bad politics” indeed. Mead follows up that one with one today about the Liberal Media’s total lack of coverage of the collapse of AGW due to all that bad data, manipulated data, false data and cover-ups galore.

Readers of The New York Times have no idea that any of this is happening (although this story in today’s paper hints that President Obama is retreating from the goal of a comprehensive climate bill). Those who get their news from the three old news networks haven’t heard about it. It’s likely that even key members of the Obama administration haven’t realized the full dimensions of the problem they face.

The word here is denial: there’s too much intellectual, political and moral energy invested in the climate change movement for liberals to pay attention to the dots, much less to connect up the whole dismaying picture. It looks very much as if reporters or (more likely) editors were so invested in climate change that they assumed that the initial charges were less consequential than they have turned out to be. They therefore failed to understand the effect of the cascading charges and revelations on American politics. Skeptics up, Obama down, cap-and-trade dead. Since they couldn’t see that, they failed to think through the consequences of cap and trade’s death for the global climate change process.

One lesson from this: the secret weapon of American conservatives is the liberal media. Had American liberals known what was coming, they could have taken some steps to limit the damage. But they didn’t see it coming because the media they rely on lacks the insight and the instincts to recognize a major story in time.

It’s fun when even the Looney Left is starting to “get it”! To all you AGW hysterics out there — Anthropogenic Global Warming Is DEAD! Crap & Tax is a FARCE.

Deal with it . . .

[H/t: Ace -- don't miss the Puppeh Cam!]

An editorial from Mortimer Zuckerman, chairman and editor in chief of U.S. News & World Report and publisher of the New York Daily News, trustee of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Washington Institute for Near East Studies, and the International Institute of Strategic Studies. (That’s what ya call major “chops”!)

Uh, Mort’s really not very happy with The Obamessiah!

He’s Done Everything Wrong

Obama punted on the economy and reversed the fortunes of the Democrats in 365 days.

He’s misjudged the character of the country in his whole approach. There’s the saying, “It’s the economy, stupid.” He didn’t get it. He was determined somehow or other to adopt a whole new agenda. He didn’t address the main issue.

This health-care plan is going to be a fiscal disaster for the country. Most of the country wanted to deal with costs, not expansion of coverage. This is going to raise costs dramatically.

In the campaign, he said he would change politics as usual. He did change them. It’s now worse than it was. I’ve now seen the kind of buying off of politicians that I’ve never seen before. It’s politically corrupt and it’s starting at the top. It’s revolting.

Five states got deals on health care—one of them was Harry Reid’s. It is disgusting, just disgusting. I’ve never seen anything like it. The unions just got them to drop the tax on Cadillac plans in the health-care bill. It was pure union politics. They just went along with it. It’s a bizarre form of political corruption. It’s bribery. I suppose they could say, that’s the system. He was supposed to change it or try to change it.

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I don’t consider it a triumph. I consider it a disaster.

One business leader said to me, “In the Clinton administration, the policy people were at the center, and the political people were on the sideline. In the Obama administration, the political people are at the center, and the policy people are on the sidelines.”

I’m very disappointed. We endorsed him. I voted for him. I supported him publicly and privately.

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I hope there are changes. I think he’s already laid in huge problems for the country. The fiscal program was a disaster. You have to get the money as quickly as possible into the economy. They didn’t do that. By end of the first year, only one-third of the money was spent. Why is that?

He should have jammed a stimulus plan into Congress and said, “This is it. No changes. Don’t give me that bullshit. We have a national emergency.” Instead they turned it over to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi who can run circles around him.

It’s very sad. It’s really sad.

He’s improved America’s image in the world. He absolutely did. But you have to translate that into something. Let me tell you what a major leader said to me recently. “We are convinced,” he said, “that he is not strong enough to confront his enemy. We are concerned,” he said “that he is not strong to support his friends.”

The political leadership of the world is very, very dismayed. He better turn it around. The Democrats are going to get killed in this election. Jesus, looks what’s happening in Massachusetts.

It’s really interesting because he had brilliant, brilliant political instincts during the campaign. I don’t know what has happened to them. His appointments present somebody who has a lot to learn about how government works. He better get some very talented businesspeople who know how to implement things. It’s unbelievable. Everybody says so. You can’t believe how dismayed people are. That’s why he’s plunging in the polls.

I can’t predict things two years from now, but if he continues on the downward spiral he is on, he won’t be reelected. In the meantime, the Democrats have recreated the Republican Party. And when I say Democrats, I mean the Obama administration. In the generic vote, the Democrats were ahead something like 52 to 30. They are now behind the Republicans 48 to 44 in the last poll. Nobody has ever seen anything that dramatic.

Hell’s still frozen over — Pigs are flyin’ higher than ever! Quick, somebody get me some ice — I see an Eskimo comin’ . . .

[H/t: Ace]

Last night, Scott Brown did the seemingly impossible by winning the Massachusetts’ Senate Seat that had been virtually “owned” by the Kennedys for over half a decade century. [Thanks for catchin' that, Sebaneau!] Democrats nationwide are in shock. The bluest of blue states is showing a bit o’ reddish purple this AM, oh ya betcha! True to form, the LA Times has barely mentioned this race — those pathetic souls that rely on the LAT for their news must be having a South Park moment today screaming out loud: “What the Hell was that?”

Brown looked good last night during his acceptance speech, giving the deceased Ted Kennedy a warm tribute, having fun teasing his daughters, taking swipes at the Obamessiah for his maligning of Scotts 200-thousand-mile GM pick-em-up truck during the President’s pathetic fly-in campaigning for Coakley this last weekend. Drudge is featuring this headline: NOW… WILL HE RUN FOR PRESIDENT? It’s way too early for that kind of reaction, but I have to admit that I was telling the fam last night that he did look presidential — hmmmm, a state office holder elected to the US Senate running for President before his first term has barely started; could never happen! Wait, Yes. It. Can. Cause. Yes. It. Did. (Sorry about all that excess punctuation, got carried away just a touch.)

Hugh Hewitt is asking, “Do You Think Dean Barnett Is Smiling?” Well, I bet he is. Hugh then puts Brown’s win into sharp focus:

The voters knew exactly what was on the line and they voted, decisively, against Obamacare. “It will raise taxes. It will hurt Medicare. It will destroy jobs. It will run us deeper into debt,” Brown declared about Obamacare in his speech. “And we can do better!”

“No more closed door meetings. No more backroom deals. No more hiding costs. No more trillions in debt for our children to pay.”

“We need to start fresh.”

That’s the message of the Massachusetts Miracle. Democrats ignore it at their political peril. If the president, the Speaker and the Majority Leader try a jam down, a political tsunami that is already forming will sweep ashore and destroy the Democratic Party for a generation.

They are celebrating in their own special way over at Ace! Michelle Malkin warns that even with 41 Senate votes for the GOP, the battle over Obamacare isn’t yet won, in fact, it’s just really started:

The nutroots are cranking up the pressure on congressional liberals to cling to the most radical form of Demcare and “fight harder for change.” What part of Coakley/Obama’s epic fail doesn’t the party in power understand?

Tea Party activists must stay vigilant and crank it up even louder to warn of the coming big government perils.

Not at all comforting, that one! The Anchoress has some interesting insight into one of Brown’s acceptance speech remarks and then an observation plus tons of links:

When Brown said, “I’m nobody’s senator but yours,” I thought: he is a very clever guy – he is alluding to an Irish song, “Nobody’s Darling but Mine…” and his Boston audience would have recognized that; you could tell by the roar that they appreciated it. Brown knows who he is talking to. Coakley never did.

Starting tomorrow, you’re going to hear Democrats talking less about healthcare and more about “jobs, jobs, jobs.”

Chris Matthews got all apoplectic over the Scott win while MS-NBC’s Keith Olbermann lost his mind as usual, basically saying that the Brown win means that Massachusetts is now a racist state because they’ve elected someone that will derail the agenda of the first black President, or something absurd like that. Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has this to say about the Olbermann/Fineman exchange:

Pickup trucks are now racist? I’m curious; do the people who make trucks also qualify as racists? How about the truck manufacturers that advertise on NBC and MS-NBC? I wonder if they like the implication that pickup trucks and the people who buy them are really latent haters and bigots. Maybe someone should let them know about it, huh?

Dems and their cadre of sycophantic supporters in the MSM — gotta luv ‘em! Here’s a pic o’ Scott in his beloved truck. Enjoy

Scott Brown Drivin’ His “Obama-Mocked” GM Pick Up Truck!

Oh, BTW — Happy One Year Anniversary to President Obama for his first year in office. Hope ya enjoy the next three ’cause they’re gonna be fun!

Heh!

Possibly this Isabel Melendez — the community activist from Lawrence?

Michelle Malkin is keeping a running link fest of voter fraud incidents and allegations.

Over at American Digest Vanderleun breaks down what he sees as the margin that Scott Brown needs to overcome the cheating that most certainly is happening, and the recount shenanigans that are certain if he doesn’t win by double digits.

Dems — if they don’t cheat . . . no way they can win!

[Update: Dems in good ol' California are gettin' . . . er, ah, nervous.]

This broke yesterday, just in case you missed it. Seems like those dire “Scientific” predictions that the Himalayan glaciers are all gonna melt away due to Global Warming were a bit less than scientific, in fact, this bombshell that has fueled the Global Warming hysteria for years was based upon a short phone call to an obscure Indian scientist who was speculating out his ass because there had been NO formal research done to back up said speculation!

Say what? From the UK’s Times Online:

A WARNING that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it.

Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a benchmark report that was claimed to incorporate the latest and most detailed research into the impact of global warming. A central claim was the world’s glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035.

In the past few days the scientists behind the warning have admitted that it was based on a news story in the New Scientist, a popular science journal, published eight years before the IPCC’s 2007 report.

It has also emerged that the New Scientist report was itself based on a short telephone interview with Syed Hasnain, a little-known Indian scientist then based at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.
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Hasnain has since admitted that the claim was “speculation” and was not supported by any formal research. If confirmed it would be one of the most serious failures yet seen in climate research. The IPCC was set up precisely to ensure that world leaders had the best possible scientific advice on climate change.

Professor Murari Lal, who oversaw the chapter on glaciers in the IPCC report, said he would recommend that the claim about glaciers be dropped:

Go read it all. Ain’t it grand that our Obamessiah and his HarryPelosi lawmakers want to followup Obamacare with Cap & trade Crap & Tax legislation to tax the livin’ bejeesus out of all of us to stop the Global Warming that ALL, most, some, a few, well, maybe one or two, real-live-actual climate scientists actually, really, well maybe just a little bit believe.

Mostly they are just trying to keep that Global Warming grant money rolling in. Ol’ Big Al Gore just wants you to buy his Carbon Offsets so that he can light up that big ol’ mansion of his.

BTW — it’s balls off the brass monkey freezin’ in Boston. That won’t stop the Brown voters! Maybe we’re gonna get a pass on both Obamacare and Crap & Tax?

Go Scott Brown!

Republican Scott Brown is leading the polling in tomorrow’s Massachusetts’ special election for the Senate seat previously held by Teddy Kennedy. Real Clear Politics is showing the Republican poll having him up by ten and the Democrat poll having him up by five over rival candidate Massachusetts’ Attorney General Martha Coakley.

Coakley has run an abysmal campaign so far — her ear is so totally made out of tin — and the more you learn about her actions as a district attorney and as the Attorney General, the more you’d like to see this one run out of town on a rail. A little tar & feathers would be a nice touch!

The Brown campaign learned much from the Minnesota race “won” by the Demwit Al Franken and have called for legal volunteers to help monitor the voting, clamp down on voter fraud and report any intimidation.

Next This week, Massachusetts’s citizens will head to the polls to vote in a historical election. Close elections draw intense scrutiny, and ensuring the accuracy and credibility of the process is crucial. For that reason, the Scott Brown campaign is assembling a volunteer legal team to ensure that no voters are disenfranchised and that all ballots are accurately counted. The citizens of Massachusetts deserve a fair and honest election.

On Election Day, we will need lawyers in a variety of tasks, including legal research of compliance issues that arise; witness interviews, preservation of evidence, and preparation of witness affidavits to document any voting irregularities; and monitoring of polling places, courts, and city halls.

You can sign up at the link below. We will contact you with further information, including a conference call training session.

Please do not wait, Election Day is January 19th! [Tomorrow!]

Sonja Brown is mobilizing her Kitchen Cabinet PAC to help with the phone calls from concerned conservatives to voters in Massachusetts. If you have some time today and wish to personally participate, go there and follow the link and you can be all good to go in minutes. As Sonja reminds us:

Spend ONE HOUR Talking To Voters in Massachusetts encouraging them to protect the economy from Obama Care. If elected, Massachusetts Senate candidate Scott Brown will be the missing 41st vote needed for Republicans to BLOCK Obama care.

Time is short and Democrats are marshaling all of their machinery to stop the surging Brown candidacy.

The Kitchen Cabinet alone, could make 10,000 phone calls in the next 24 hours.

Conservative women and their families ARE the majority in this country. Let’s Act Like It!

The Dems are running plenty scared on this one. Obama even put some more of his diminishing aura on the line yesterday coming in to a rally for Coakley — and for his efforts to a less than full crowd, the Mighty ‘O’ got something he’s not used to, yet — Obama was heckled!

OK Massachusetts’ voters — time to stand up against Obamacare and the ever escalating tidal wave of deficit. Time to enact some real Hope & Change! Time to elect Scott Brown and put a Republican in the people’s seat! Time to take away the cloture-proof 60th Democratic Senate vote!

Uh Oh! Mickey Kaus writes that if Brown wins tomorrow, the House will pass the Senate bill as written and then it’s game over — Obamacare for everybody!

You know, with the unions having to eat Obama’s “Cadillac tax” on their health care, just like the rest of us.

Still, tomorrow’s gonna be exciting! Go Brown! Go get ‘em!

An open letter to the Democrats in power in Washington D.C.

November 2, 2010 — the most important election in my lifetime!

I’ve taken some time off from blogging to do a slew of dinners, including roasting two ducks and last night preparing an abbreviated version of Thanksgiving dinner — call me dog tired!!! I’m also enjoying Glenn Beck’s book, Arguing With Idiots plus trying to catch up on work — now, that’s something to be thankful for — Oh, ya betcha!

Our Obamessiah, er, uh President, is back from Hawaii, reluctantly it seems, so with him getting back to work making our lives more complicated and expensive, I might as well get back to this.

On the Global Warming front, it’s being estimated that this winter might be the worst in a quarter of a century, over in Iowa the field of dreams might need some diggin’ out as they are having temps 30 degrees below normal, ice is slowing energy production at a New Jersey nuclear power plant, good ol’ Miami, Florida is having their coldest winter in a decade.

It’s not just in this hemisphere either. Seoul, Korea is having the most snow they’ve seen in 70 years, while China shivering like they havent’ for the past 40 years.

Must be all that Global Warming, huh Al?

OK — well, at least it’s a start . . . wishing all a wonderful 2010!

If like me you think this pre-Christmas move by Obama is totally FUBAR, then you’ll want to go over and read what Mark Tapscott has written today at the Washington Examiner:

Some distressing civil liberties questions must be asked about an ever-lengthening list of decisions, proposals, and observations by President Obama.

To begin, Obama is the first president to give an international law enforcement organization like Interpol free rein within the territorial confines of this nation, presumably not excluding the arrest and exportation of Americans to be charged with crimes under international law.

Put simply, this means the Constitution is no longer the supreme law of the land in America. Thanks to Executive Order 12425 , which Obama signed Dec. 16 without explaining why, the supreme law of the land is now arguably whatever Interpol says it is, most likely as directed by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, in conjunction with the United Nations.

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So tell us, Mr. President, why do you think Interpol should operate with no accountability and no transparency in our country? Is this what you had in mind in your 2008 presidential campaign when you said “we’ve got to have a civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the U.S. military?

Pentagon generals and admirals answer to the president and Congress. Under Obama, Interpol answers to no American.

In his update, Mark tells us that when asked by the NYT about this executive order White House spokesperson Christina Reynolds replied, “there is nothing newsworthy here.” The White House is still not answering any inquiries on this.

Yesterday Mark’s opinion piece outlined what is most disturbing about this executive order 12425:

There are multiple reasons why this Obama decision is so deeply disturbing. First, the Obama order reverses a 1983 Reagan administration decision in order to grant Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organization, two key privileges. First, Obama has granted Interpol the ability to operate within the territorial limits of the United States without being subject to the same constitutional restraints that apply to all domestic law enforcement agencies such as the FBI. Second, Obama has exempted Interpol’s domestic facilities — including its office within the U.S. Department of Justice — from search and seizure by U.S. authorities and from disclosure of archived documents in response to Freedom of Information Act requests filed by U.S. citizens. Think very carefully about what you just read: Obama has given an international law enforcement organization that is accountable to no other national authority the ability to operate as it pleases within our own borders, and he has freed it from the most basic measure of official transparency and accountability, the FOIA.

2010 is shaping up to be the most important election in my lifetime. If the Democrats keep control of both houses of Congress through 2012 there might not be enough of the republic left to matter anymore.

You’re not being asked to go out in the streets and die for your freedom like the Iranian protesters are doing today, just to go out and campaign vigorously for what’s right and then vote responsibly, and to encourage your family and friends to do the same.

If you don’t, then that first option may no longer be just an option . . .