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• Rick Santorum’s Romneycare Smack Down
  I think I am an inch away from endorsing Rick Santorum if he keeps this up. I am sure my endorsement will put him over the top, but that aside, Santorum has really been standing as the only actual conservative left in the race at this point. His latest triumph occurred in Minnesota where he raked Romney over the coals for Romneycare — something that not enough people are doing.
  
  
• Hypocrite Of The Day
  Barack Obama whined about PACs unduly influencing our electoral process, yet when his donors are turning their collective backs on him, he does what he criticized others for and campaigned on putting an end to.
  
  
• Fox News Now Worth $12.4 Billion
  Last month Fox News celebrated its tenth consecutive year as the number one cable news channel. Now comes a report that shows just how that ratings success has translated into huge financial gains for the channel’s owner, News Corp.
  
  
• OWS & the planned “endgame” for the U.S.
  Are you baffled by the wording, timing and bipartisan support of recent legislation such as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the Expatriation Act, SOPA, PIPA and ACTA? Are you concerned over the enhancement of domestic security measures that appear to be targeting and incrementally ripping away the rights of law abiding American citizens? Are you concerned about the evolving DHS “domestic extremist” definitions? Have you wondered about the true origins of the financial crises and what appears to be a quickening of events in all sectors of our lives? How about the origins of the current “Occupy Movement?” When and why everything started? Who and what is to blame? If so, you’re not alone.
  
  
• The U.S. Constitution’s Last Chance in 2012
  The prime suspects on the Department of Homeland Security’s domestic watchlist—that is to say, Americans who revere their founding documents, love their God-given liberty, and cherish their constitutionally-protected right to defend those documents and that liberty by any civilized means at their disposal—have had it tough recently. One of their nation’s two leading political factions has made plain its intention of destroying those documents and rescinding that liberty.
  
  
• Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and the Curious Case of Evolution
  According to scientists, about 4 billion years ago, a soupy mixture of non-living protein based enzymes spontaneously and miraculously sprang into a form of life known as prokaryotes. From this soupy goop, man did come, evolving first into a monkeyish form with an affinity for climbing trees, scavenging for food, and busy racing to the top of the food chain. Fast forward a couple of billion years to the current state of American politics, and the argument that man is speeding down the highway of de-evolution possesses more credibility than it does kookiness.
  
  
• Wind Power Not Reliable
  Wind turbines are extraordinarily unreliable because wind speeds are so inconsistent;  the average output of a turbine is only about a quarter of its capacity (known as the ‘load factor’). Also, due to the vagaries of the wind, wind turbines are unpredictable. This means that, in order to guarantee a continuous supply of electricity, alternative sources of power have to be kept permanently on standby or ‘spinning reserve’, ready to step in at a moment’s notice to make up for the lack of supply from the wind farms.
  
  
• Will The Pope Absolve Fidel Castro?
  Pope Benedict XVI will visit Cuba in March. Two of Italy’s top newspapers are reporting that Fidel Castro will avail himself of the visit to confess his sins and be accepted back into The Catholic Church, which excommunicated him in 1962.
  
  
• Obama’s rhetorical storm
  The Obama administration is absolutely furious at Russia and China. The two UN Security Council permanent members’ move on Saturday to veto a resolution on Syria utterly infuriated US President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN Ambassador Susan Rice. And they want us all to know just how piping mad they really are.
  
  
• David Brock Out of the Closet, Again
  It has been apparent for some time that ex-conservative David Brock has been masquerading as a “media critic” while at the service of the Democratic Party. But the head of Media Matters has officially dropped the mask of media critic by creating a so-called Democratic “Super PAC” devoted to re-electing President Obama, adding Democrats to the Senate Democratic majority, and taking back the House of Representatives from the Republicans.
  
  
• It’s the Fourth Quarter in America
  It’s the fourth-quarter. One team is standing on the sidelines beaten and battered trying to figure out if it can pull off a miracle come back. It’s the fourth-quarter in America, too. Just last month 1.2 million formerly employed people disappeared into the black hole of a political unemployment equation – never to be counted again. This isn’t a game to those millions of Americans who are out of work or under employed – this is their life. But the other team doesn’t see it that way. To them it’s about winning at all costs – even if it means playing outside the rules.
  
  
• Global Warming Engine Unexpectedly Slows
  Preliminary reports from the Energy Information Administration’s “Annual Energy Outlook” (which will be fully published in April) suggest that any carbon crisis may not be quite as imminent as thought. Not so long ago, the EIA predicted [US] carbon emissions levels would rise by 37 percent between 2005 and 2025. The EIA — get this – now thinks that [US] CO2 emissions in 2025 will be 6 percent lower than they were in 2005. The difference between 37 percent growth and 6 percent decline is 43 percent. That is about the level of accuracy you could expect from a blind monkey throwing darts at a wall.—Walter Russell Mead, Via Meadia, 3 February 2012
  
  
• Obamacare Awakens a Sleeping Giant
  It is a rare moment indeed when faith denominations of all stripes unite together in common cause, and it is rarer still when that cause is a political one, with a sole piece of legislation as its principal target. But when that law eviscerates the very foundation of religious liberty in America as protected under the First Amendment, it should not be surprising that Catholics and Jews, charismatic evangelical Christians, and mainline Lutherans alike find common cause in defense of their liberties.
  
  
• Chinese collapse coming?
• ‘U.S. will work with Israel in preventing a nuclear Iran’, said Obama
  President Barack Obama stated on Sunday that the United States will cooperate with the Israeli government in preventing Iran from joining the world’s “nuclear club.”  But Obama quickly noted that a diplomatic solution to this nuclear crisis is still his goal.