“Nonfarm private employment decreased 23,000 from February to March on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the ADP National Employment Report®. The estimated change of employment from January 2010 to February 2010 was revised down slightly, from a decline of 20,000 to a decline of 24,000.”
“One week after the House of Representatives passed the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats, 54% of the nation's likely voters still favor repealing the new law. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 42% oppose repeal.”
“As I have said over and over and over, the left has one trick that it will use again and again when its back is in the corner: shout ‘racist’ in a crowded country….
YouTube video shows that at least two of the men in the procession were carrying video cameras and holding them above the crowd. They have not come forth with evidence to show that even one person hurled the vile racist epithet…
It’s time for the allegedly pristine character of Rep. John Lewis to put up or shut up. Therefore, I am offering $10,000 of my own money to provide hard evidence that the N- word was hurled at him not 15 times, as his colleague reported, but just once…
Rep. Lewis, if you can’t do that, I’ll give him a backup plan: a lie detector test. If you provide verifiable video evidence showing that a single racist epithet was hurled as you walked among the tea partiers, or you pass a simple lie detector test, I will provide a $10K check to the United Negro College Fund.”
“The U.S. and Russia sealed the first major nuclear weapons treaty in nearly two decades Friday, agreeing to slash the former Cold War rivals' warhead arsenals by nearly one-third and talking hopefully of eventually ridding a fearful world of nuclear arms altogether…
Obama called the pact a step toward ‘the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.’”
“Yesterday AT&T announced that it will be forced to make a $1 billion writedown due solely to the health bill, in what has become a wave of such corporate losses…
Democrats don't like what their bill is doing in the real world, so they now want to intimidate CEOs into keeping quiet.
The consulting firm Towers Watson estimates that the total hit this year will reach nearly $14 billion, unless corporations cut retiree drug benefits when their labor contracts let them.
Meanwhile, John DiStaso of the New Hampshire Union Leader reported this week that ObamaCare could cost the Granite State's major ski resorts as much as $1 million in fines”
“Steamboat Ski Area officials said Tuesday that the federal health care overhaul could cost their business as much as $2 million a year beginning in 2014.”
“President Obama is splintering America. The passage of Obamacare was a historic victory for liberal governance. Yet, its true cost may be that it triggers the eventual breakup of the country…
The bitter debate over Obamacare has exposed the country's profound divisions. We are no longer one nation or one people. Rather, there are now two Americas: one conservative, the other liberal. Increasingly, we no longer just disagree but we despise each other.”
“GM's ‘automobile solution’ for the future, just might fit into an apartment foyer…
The two-wheel, two-seater EN-V, which looks something like an oversized vacuum cleaner, is not just about making vehicles small, lightweight and emission-free, the company says.”
“A protest by hundreds of students led organizers to cancel a Tuesday night speech by American conservative commentator Ann Coulter at the University of Ottawa.
A spokesman for the organizers said Coulter was advised against appearing after about 2,000 ‘threatening’ students crowded the entrance to Marion Hall, posing a security threat…
A protest organizer, international studies student Mike Fancie, said he was pleased they were able to stop Coulter from speaking.”
“Jason Mattera, former Young America's Foundation spokesman, is out with a brand-new book, Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation…
Obama Zombies uncovers the true, behind-the-scenes story of the methods and tactics the Obama campaign unleashed on youth culture. Through personal interviews and meticulous original research, Mattera explains why conservatism's future rests upon jolting the young masses from their slumber, yanking out their earphones, and sparking a countercultural conservative battle against the rise of the ignorant Left.”
“The bond market is saying that it's safer to lend to Warren Buffett than Barack Obama…
The $US2.59 trillion of Treasury Department sales since the start of 2009 have… raised concerns whether the US deserves its AAA credit rating…
While Treasuries backed by the full faith and credit of the government typically yield less than corporate debt, the relationship has flipped…
America will use about 7 per cent of taxes for debt payments in 2010 and almost 11 per cent in 2013, moving ‘substantially’ closer to losing its AAA rating, Moody's said last week.”
“Walgreens… has given notice to the State of Washington that… effective April 16 they will not accept new Washington Medicaid patients.”
1) This post deals with USA temperatures.
2) Click here to address global temperature trends.
3) Click here to reproduce each NOAA graph below.
4) Note the warming bias (about 30%) in NOAA data.
February, 1998-2010
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1) February, 2010 was 2.24 F COLDER than the avg. Feb. of the 20th century!
2) We see a twelve year February COOLING TREND of -4.61 F per decade!
February, 1981-2010
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We see a TWENTY-NINE year February cooling trend of -0.13 F per decade!
Winter, 1998-2010
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1) Winter, 2010 was 1.76 F COLDER than the avg. winter of the 20th century!
2) We see a twelve year winter COOLING TREND of -3.15 F per decade!
Winter, 1987-2010
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NO WINTER WARMING TREND over the last TWENTY-THREE years!
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“46.3% of primary care physicians (family medicine and internal medicine) feel that the passing of health reform will either force them out of medicine or make them want to leave medicine.”
“The use of dogs in High Altitude High Opening missions was pioneered by America’s Delta Force, which trained the animals to breathe through oxygen masks during the jump.”
“There are numerous myths surrounding those who are wrongly labeled ‘deniers’. Most of them can be distilled into six basic accusations:
1. ‘Deniers’ believe the climate has not warmed…
2. ‘Deniers’ are not real scientists…
3. ‘Deniers’ are a tiny minority of scientists…
4. ‘Deniers’ are anti-environmental shills of Big Oil…
5. ‘Deniers’ think CO2 is irrelevant…
6. ‘Deniers’ believe humans have no impact on climate.”
“NASA’s temperature data is worse than the Climategate temperature data. According to NASA…
Joseph D’Aleo and Anthony Watts have found NCDC completely incredible, having made a practice out of not including cooler temperature stations over time, exaggerating the warming illusion.
Three out of the four temperature datasets stink, with corroboration from the alarmists. Second-sourced, no less.
Anyone know if Japan [the location of only remaining alarmist dataset] has a FOIA?”
“John Adams, in the Defense of the Constitutions (1787), argues for the importance of patriotic education by writing that students and citizens ‘should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.’ A principal means of securing the ‘blessings of liberty’ that the Constitution describes is by educating rising generations about these precious birth rights. In a democratic republic, the primary purpose of education is to cultivate civic and moral literacy among its citizens.”
“These thirty Democratic Congressmen all voted for Obamacare the first time around. But Pelosi cannot count on their votes again as Obama tries to jam the bill through using reconciliation in the Senate. These members are all vulnerable and are frightened of the voter backlash their support for Obamacare has kindled… pick up the phone and call these swing Congressmen. Let them hear from you!”
“Are there enough votes in the House to pass the Senate's health-care bill? As of today, it's clear there aren't. House Democratic leaders have brushed aside White House calls to bring the bill forward by March 18, when President Barack Obama heads to Asia. Nevertheless, analysts close to the Democratic leadership tell me they're confident the leadership will find some way to squeeze out the 216 votes needed for a majority.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has indeed shown mastery at amassing majorities. But it's hard to see how she'll do so on this one. The arithmetic as I see it doesn't add up.”
“[Anthony] Downs laid out a five-stage cycle through which political issues of all kinds typically pass.”
1) A group of experts and interest groups begin promoting [or fabricating] a problem or crisis.
2) Stage one is soon followed by the alarmed discovery of the problem by the news media and broader political class.
3) There comes “a gradually spreading realization that the cost of ‘solving’ the [alleged] problem is very high indeed.”
4) A gradual decline in the intensity of public interest in the problem.
5) “In the final [post-problem] stage,” Downs concluded, “an issue that has been replaced at the center of public concern moves into a prolonged limbo—a twilight realm of lesser attention or spasmodic recurrences of interest.”
“The death rattle of the climate campaign will be deafening. It has too much political momentum and fanatical devotion to go quietly. The climate campaigners have been fond of warning of catastrophic ‘tipping points’ for years. Well, a tipping point has indeed arrived—just not the one the climate campaigners expected.
The lingering question is whether the collapse of the climate campaign is also a sign of a broader collapse in public enthusiasm for environmentalism in general. Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, two of the more thoughtful and independent-minded figures in the environmental movement, have been warning their green friends that the public has reached the point of ‘apocalypse fatigue.’ They’ve been met with denunciations from the climate campaign enforcers for their heresy. The climate campaign has no idea that it is on the cusp of becoming as ludicrous and forlorn as the World -Esperanto Association.”
“The science is settled.”Phil Jones (scientist at the core of the ClimateGate scandal) sez:
“The debate is over.”
“It would be supposition on my behalf to know whether all scientists who say the debate is over are saying that for the same reason. I don't believe the vast majority of climate scientists think this. This is not my view.”
“Among those not affiliated with either major political party, 17% Strongly Approve and 45% Strongly Disapprove.
Fifty-seven percent (57%) believe that passage of the proposed health care legislation will hurt the economy. Just 25% believe it will help.
Sixty percent (60%) of parents believe that textbooks used by their students are more concerned about political correctness than accuracy.
Republicans hold a seven-point lead over Democrats on the Generic Congressional Ballot.”
“It is increasingly clear that the leak of the internal emails and documents of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in November has done for the climate change debate what the Pentagon Papers did for the Vietnam war debate 40 years ago—changed the narrative decisively. Additional revelations of unethical behavior, errors, and serial exaggeration in climate science are rolling out on an almost daily basis, and there is good reason to expect more.
The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), hitherto the gold standard in climate science, is under fire for shoddy work and facing calls for a serious shakeup. The U.S. Climate Action Partnership, the self-serving coalition of environmentalists and big business hoping to create a carbon cartel, is falling apart in the wake of the collapse of any prospect of enacting cap and trade in Congress. Meanwhile, the climate campaign’s fallback plan to have the EPA regulate greenhouse gas emissions through the cumbersome Clean Air Act is generating bipartisan opposition. The British media—even the left-leaning, climate alarmists of the Guardian and BBC—are turning on the climate campaign with a vengeance.”
“Pakistani officials say they've nabbed Adam Gadahn, the treasonous Californian Al Qaeda leader who has long been on Washington's Most Wanted list.
It would be a huge victory in the battle against the terror network, but high level US officials in Washington could not immediately confirm the report.”
“• The CRU controversy and recent revelations about errors in the IPCC’s most recent science assessment cast serious doubt on the validity of EPA’s endangerment finding for greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. The IPCC serves as the primary basis for EPA’s endangerment finding for greenhouse gases.
• Instead of moving forward on greenhouse gas regulation, the Agency should fully address the CRU controversy and the IPCC’s flawed science.”
“In February, Arctic sea ice extent continued to track below the average, and near the levels observed for February 2007.”However, year to date Arctic temperatures are currently trending lower than recent years. And this has probably been a contributing factor in a recent sharp rapid rise in the Arctic sea ice extent.
