Like A Sixties Weekend

Let the Sun Shine
From one of their first meetings, at the King David Hotel on July 23, 2008, when Mr. Obama, then the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, visited Israel, the two men have struck, at most, an intellectual bond. Mr. Netanyahu, as the leader of Israel’s conservative Likud Party, was far more comfortable with the Republican Party in the United States than with Mr. Obama, the son of a Muslim man from Kenya whose introduction to the Arab-Israeli conflict was initially framed by discussions with pro-Palestinian academics. (NYT, 5/19/2011)

Every once in a rare while a brief ray of journalistic clarity appears – like sunlight shining through a dark cloud. So if Obama was schooled by “pro-Palestinian academics” what other doctrines of liberal thought did he absorb?

Let Their People Go
Conditions in California’s overcrowded prisons are so bad that they violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday, ordering the state to reduce its prison population by more than 30,000 inmates. …..The court’s more liberal members — Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — joined Justice Kennedy’s opinion. (NYT, 5/19/2011)

Next up for the little darlings: the right to vote...for the same liberals who freed them! (Victims of their crimes could not be reached for comment.)

Found: The Global Warming Theory of Anything (and Everything)
Caution: It is vitally important not to make connections. When you see pictures of rubble like this week’s shots from Joplin, Mo, you should not wonder: Is this somehow related to the tornado outbreak three weeks ago in Tuscaloosa, Ala, or the enormous outbreak a couple of weeks before that (which, together, comprised the most active April for tornadoes in U.S. history). No, that doesn’t mean a thing. (Bill McKibben, Washington Post, 5/23/2011)

Vermont’s own enviro-alarmist McKibben writes of the recent tornados which apparently were caused by global warming. (The piece is written tongue-in-cheek; hence he IS drawing the connection). Which is where the alarmists are now. It is no longer that global warming is making the planet warmer – they cannot explain what happens when it gets colder – it is that global warming can now explain ANY extreme weather! What a wonderful position to be in; you now have the long-awaited theory of everything. But wait, what is this?

This year is an extraordinary outlier," said Harold Brooks, research meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma…..But when scientists examine the most complete records available and adjust for changes in how tornadoes were reported over time, "we see no correlation between global or US national temperature and tornado occurrence," Brooks said. (The Vancouver Sun, 5/23/2011)