A word of caution about all those “czars” and other extra-constitutional actions of President Obama:

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins. – William Pitt

I done told and I done told you:

Natural forces as opposed to human activity are largely responsible for temperature fluctuations, according to a new study the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) released today as Congress prepares to vote on global warming legislation.

Internal email messages show the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suppressed the report and silenced the author because the scientific evidence did not square with the Obama administration’s agenda of regulating carbon dioxide, CEI claims. The EPA has become overly reliant upon outdated information from the United Nations and has ignored major new scientific developments, the censored study concludes.

“While we hoped that the EPA would release the final report, we’re tired of waiting for this agency to become transparent, even though its administrator has been talking transparency, since she took office,” said CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman.

New scientific data highlighted in the report shows that ocean cycles and solar cycles are probably the most important factors behind temperature fluctuations. Moreover, satellite information now indicates there is little chance of endangerment from greenhouse gases, according to the report.

Some of the major developments overlooked by EPA official include a continued decline in global temperatures, an emerging consensus that hurricanes will not be more frequent or intense and new studies that demonstrate water vapor will have a moderating influence on temperature.

Going forward, CEI has called upon the EPA to independently analyze the science and to become more transparent in its own reporting.

We can see why this was suppressed – the vote yesterday in the House would have swung overwhelmingly against if an official report came out last week or so showing that the whole concept of anthropogenic global warming is invalid. Al Gore is wrong, liberals – I know, I know; its hard to believe that a hack politician with no science training at all could be wrong on something like global warming, but there it is. I’m sure that Al Gore will get right on it and revise his “consensus”.

It is full steam ahead into liberal-land, boys and girls…and the fact that none of the problems liberalism proposes to fix actually exist doesn’t penetrate the liberal mind. They’re going to fix it, anyway. We’ll be many years undoing the damage Obama and his Democrats are creating.

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Geesh:

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. has backed off his plan to investigate wrongdoing by the liberal activist group ACORN, saying “powers that be” put the kibosh on the idea.

Mr. Conyers, Michigan Democrat, earlier bucked his party leaders by calling for hearings on accusations the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN) has committed crimes ranging from voter fraud to a mob-style “protection” racket.

“The powers that be decided against it,” Mr. Conyers told The Washington Times.

You are the “powers that be”, you fool – either investigate fearlessly, or get out. We need men and women with courage in Congress, not the likes of you.

As noted in NRO’s The Corner:

The stink surrounding the Pelosi-Waxman-Markey cap-and-tax bill has become vomit-inducing overnight. Representative Waxman has decided to replace the 1091-page bill with a 300-page bill that will be debated for no longer than three hours today. So your elected representatives will have virtually no time to debate the merits of an economy-spanning bill they will not have had time to read. Speaker Pelosi and her sidekick Waxman are displaying nothing more than complete contempt for the democratic process.

If you’re as utterly disgusted by this as I am, you can send a message to Pelosi and her cronies by telling your Congressmen to vote against this bill. You can e-mail them, call them (202-225-3121), or text the National Taxpayers Union on 54608 and they will help.

Get busy.

UPDATE: House Minority Leader Boehner is reading all 300 pages inserted last night…hurrah for Boehner! Good man!

UPDATE II: Passage may depend on vote of Stoner-American caucus.

UPDATE III: Well, Nancy and her fellow fascists managed to shove it through – but only with 219 votes. This will not stand.

Representatives Bono-Mack (R-CA), Castle (R-DE), Kirk (R-IL), Lance (R-NJ), LoBiondo (R-NJ), McHugh (R-NY), Reichert (R-WA), Smith (R-NJ) – you should switch to Independent or Democrat to save us the trouble of forcing you out of the party; to vote for this soak-the-poor, fascist nonsense puts you beyond the pale.

Remember how the deformed frogs were proof of mankind’s devastation of the environment? Well, not quite:

Scientists think they have resolved one of the most controversial environmental issues of the past decade: the curious case of the missing frogs’ legs.

Around the world, frogs are found with missing or misshaped limbs, a striking deformity that many researchers believe is caused by chemical pollution.

However, tests on frogs and toads have revealed a more natural, benign cause.

The deformed frogs are actually victims of the predatory habits of dragonfly nymphs, which eat the legs of tadpoles.

There has never, not even once, been a case of an environmentalist alarm proven correct over time. Its all just a bunch of lies which, unfortunately, has that kernel of truth that polluting is a bad thing – extrapolating from that, environmentalists have cooked up one blatant lie after another…and now we’re set to enshrine the biggest of the environmentalist Big Lies into law via Obama’s “soak the poor” energy tax…a device designed for no other purpose than to get average Americans out of their cars, turning off their air conditioners and becoming the helpless, little proles the Powerful wish us to be.

Well, we’re on to them – the Tea Party movement shows that the people are awakening from their slumber…for the moment, they have the power, but only for the moment.

…will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks:

The tough economy and tight labor market have tarnished the luster of a bachelor’s degree for young college graduates seeking employment.

New monthly survey data from the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston finds that during the first four months of 2009, less than half of the nation’s 4 million college graduates age 25 and under were working in jobs that required a college degree. That’s down from 54 percent for same period last year.

”I’ve never seen it this low and we’ve been analyzing this stuff for over 20 years,” said center director Andrew Sum.

Advice to college kids: move in to hard sciences – that MBA or degree in Feminist Theory just isn’t going to cut a lot of ice…you just will have to learn to do something useful in the making, mining or growing industries.

It just can’t be sustained, liberals:

The government checks keeping Candy Czernicki afloat are fast running out. The reason? U.S. states obligated to pay benefits to the swelling ranks of jobless Americans are piling debt onto strained budgets.

Fifteen states have depleted their unemployment insurance funds so far, forcing them to borrow from the U.S. Treasury.

A record 30 of the country’s 50 states are expected to have to borrow up to $17 billion by next year, said Rick McHugh of the National Employment Law Project, a nonpartisan advocacy group.

“We are setting the stage for big pressures for states to restrict eligibility and benefit levels,” McHugh said. “Those type of restrictive actions undercut the (Depression-era program’s) economic and social stability purposes.”

This is the time you liberals want to impose a “soak the poor” energy tax (disguised as a “cure” for the hoax of anthropogenic global warming, no less) and a massive, new spending initiative to socialize our health care system…we can’t do it. We don’t have the money. Blame whomever you like – no matter where you lay the blame, the fact remains that we are bankrupt, as a nation. Only a massive reduction of spending to cover only the most important tasks of national security, aid to the poor and other such programs can be sustained at the moment. Everything else has to go – including your desire for a global warming fantasy and health care a la Sweden.

Either that, or you can just keep on (and I know you will) and we’ll have 15%+ unemployment by middle of next year, and then November will come.

The news story:

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday called the U.S. president inexperienced, compared him unfavorably to President George W. Bush and suggested he apologize for “interfering in Iran’s affairs.”

“Do you think that this kind of behavior is going to solve any of your problems? It will only make people think you are someone like Bush,” the semiofficial Fars news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.

“You are at the beginning of your way and you are gaining experience, and we do not wish the scandals of the Bush era to be repeated during your term of office,” the Iranian leader said.

President Obama, who has been in office for five months, has been treading a careful line on Iran, which has seen two weeks of street demonstrations following a disputed presidential election there.

To be entirely fair to President Obama, we have to treat this CNN story with care – after all, we learned post-liberation in Iraq that CNN trimmed its reporting about Saddam in a pro-Saddam manner in order to retain access…there can be no doubt that something similar to this is happening in Iran, today. Thus, this might be part of some careful script of the Iranian government to provoke a certain response in the United States.

But, that aside, the lesson to be learned here is that the United States is the whipping-boy of all regimes in the world that are bent on evil. It is the nature of things – as the beacon of liberty in the world (and, liberals, that beacon never has been, is not and never will be such liberal utopia’s as Germany, Canada and Sweden – it is and always will be the United States of America…unless you get your way) thugs of all types around the world perceive us as the primary enemy. This is because of what we are, not because of what we do…be President Bush calling Iran part of the “Axis of Evil”, or be Obama kowtowing to Islamist thugs by carefully referring to Iran as the “Islamic Republic of Iran”, its all the same…because there is even the remotest chance that America will come down on the side of domestic freedom-fighters, the thugs see us and act towards us as an enemy.

In the end, the US might as well come down hard on the side of freedom fighters – even at some considerable risk – because we might as well be damned by thugs for doing what they fear most, when we’re going to be damned by them no matter what. By doing the right thing – all the time – we will always place ourselves in a stronger position. Additionally, the more we clearly come down on the side of liberty the more encouraged will be all freedom-fighters, and thus the pressure for liberty will continually increase around the world.

We have to rush health care reform through? Well, perhaps we shouldn’t:

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. – Benjamin Disraeli