Wednesday, December 2, 2009
In this final column, I’m sharing with you some random thoughts on various political issues that have made news recently.
1) It’s remarkable that the biggest news story of the year is being ignored by the mainstream media. Evidence of fraud among the most prestigious climate scientists at the esteemed University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit doesn’t appear to be newsworthy.
Here is a sample of the e-mails that were made public:
“I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!”
“I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.”
“The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty we can’t.”
2) Liberals don’t hate Fox News because they slant to the right. They hate Fox News because it is incredibly successful. Fox News has single handedly shattered the liberal news and popular culture monopoly.
I love it when global warming protests are snowed out.
The dangers of political correctness were on display last month at Fort Hood. Not only did Major Hasan’s superior officers admit to suppressing important information due to fear of accusations of prejudice, but the mainstream media refused to blame the shooter’s actions on his Muslim background.
3) I think Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was an indoctrinated radical Muslim that shouted, “Alahu Akbar” as he killed innocent Americans. The shooting was obviously politically motivated, which makes it an act of terror rather than a criminal act.
4) President Barack Obama has misjudged his political capital. In 2008, he successfully linked his opponent to an extremely unpopular president, the economy was tanking, John McCain was incompetent and failed to fire up the base of the Republican Party and he still won by only by seven percentage points in the popular votes. America remains a center-right country despite electing Obama. This is one reason his poll numbers are falling faster than any newly-elected president in history.
5) Democrats claim to be the party of ‘tolerance.’ I have found this to be true — unless you disagree with them.
6) Any government big enough to give you anything you want is big enough to take everything you have.
Never in the history of the world has government control lowered costs or improved efficiency without going bankrupt. Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, the Postal Service, Amtrak, Cash for Clunkers and Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are the first examples that come to mind. What government program would suggest that our health care system would become more efficient?
Conservatives outnumber liberals in all 50 states for the first time in American history, according to an August Gallup poll. This is a new and important trend that favors Republicans in 2010. Now more than ever, the American people are realizing they want limited government. That’s the right idea.
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Compton: Politics inspire rumination
Who numbered these points? Why do some topics get numbered, and others are just tossed in there?
Compton: Politics inspire rumination
I think all Mr. Compton did was Google "conservative one-liners" and paste the results here.
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