Taylor declared: "Many in the media have been one-sided, sometimes adding to Obama's distortions rather than acting as impartial reporters of fact and referees of the mud fights." Rather than cleaning up the record, Taylor reported several instances when the media are themselves guilty of perpetuating partisan disinformation.

For Taylor's piece in full: www.nationaljournal.com

Democrats concede on drilling

NHS or the American medical system? A testimony

Heart-ache: Tiny terrorist gives Bush speech thumbs down at the UN; Update: Obama rips UN, Ahmadinejad

A spontaneous gesture of disapproval? Hardly. ABC caught him waving at the White House press corps intermittently to get their attention. He may be a cretin, but he’s a media-savvy cretin.

Update: He must be joking.

Below is a Statement from Senator Barack Obama on President Ahmadinejad’s Remarks

“I strongly condemn President Ahmadinejad’s outrageous remarks at the United Nations, and am disappointed that he had a platform to air his hateful and anti-Semitic views. The threat from Iran’s nuclear program is grave. Now is the time for Americans to unite on behalf of the strong sanctions that are needed to increase pressure on the Iranian regime.

“Once again, I call upon Senator McCain to join me in supporting a bipartisan bill to increase pressure on the Iranian regime by allowing states and private companies to divest from companies doing business in Iran. The security of our ally Israel is too important to play partisan politics, and it is deeply disappointing that Senator McCain and a few of his allies in Congress feel otherwise,” said Senator Barack Obama.

Am I hallucinating or hasn’t this tool made his own willingness to meet with either Ahmadinejad himself or the people who sent him to the UN the cornerstone of his foreign-policy approach?

Obama is in need of a bailout as Biden's gaffes keep piling up.

Richard Lindzen: Climate science: Is it currently designed to answer questions? - Richard Lindzen is not only a renowned climate scientist but also an experienced person who has met many people and understood how many institutions work. In his new, published 35-page paper that is also available via the arXiv, Climate Science: Is it currently designed to answer questions? (PDF) he shows that institutionalized climate science is becoming an inefficient tool to answer scientific questions. (The Reference Frame)

Biden on FDR’s management of the 1929 crash

Via the Standard, here’s the relevant plank of Team Barry’s plan for green jobs:

Develop and Deploy Clean Coal Technology.

Obama’s Department of Energy will enter into public private partnerships to develop five “first-of-a-kind” commercial scale coal-fired plants with clean carbon capture and sequestration technology.

And now here’s the Greasy one, summarily outsourcing those jobs to China. Did I or did I not tell you that the man’s a genius?

Time to ban polling?

Speaker Pelosi would 'save the planet' with higher gas prices - Nancy Pelosi has changed her mind. She'll allow a vote on drilling for America's offshore oil potential after all—sort of.

To paraphrase the old saying, however, "A woman convinced against her will is of the same opinion still." Pelosi's first reaction to the public's drilling demands was, "We've got a planet to save. Nothing less is at stake other than civilization as we know it."

Mrs. Pelosi represents the most liberal city in America, and she wants the U.S. to cut its greenhouse emissions in half by 2050. She's backing cap-and-trade legislation that would literally make gas, oil and coal too expensive to burn.

Don't worry about the oil companies actually doing more offshore drilling under her new bill. The U.S. Geological Survey thinks most of the economically recoverable offshore oil is within 50 miles of the coast. Pelosi's bill would open some Outer shelf areas beyond 50 miles, but it would permanently ban drilling in all areas within 50 miles without the state's approval—and she's offering the states no cut of the oil money to encourage their OK. This bill is just a lie to the American people about encouraging more U.S. oil; it's election-year cover for the House Democrats.

Also remember that the final line of eco-defense is always the courts. In February, the Feds leased 487 parcels for oil exploration in the coastal regions of Alaska's Chuckchi Sea—and the Green movement has already ensnarled all 487 leases in lawsuits. In 1973, faced with the OPEC oil embargo, Congress had to waive the environmental laws to permit the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. (Dennis T. Avery, ESR)

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That's right, the Democrat choice for commander in chief wants to not only slash military spending but dismantle our nuclear arsenal — all so he can pay for his massive new welfare programs.

Didn't hear that in his acceptance speech in Denver? That's because he knows better than to make such an anti-military plan widely known. But he made the little-noticed pledge just before the Iowa caucus to a left-wing pacifist group that seeks to reallocate defense dollars to welfare programs. The lobbying group, Caucus for Priorities, was so impressed by Obama's anti-military offering that it steered its 10,000 devotees his way.