Reported here four days ago.
Saturday, February 20, 2016
January 2016 was warmest January in satellite record since 1979 but warming pause extends to 18yrs & 8mos
So says Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, here:
The sharp el Niño spike is just about to abolish the long Pause in global temperatures – at least for now. This column has long foretold that the present el Niño would be substantial, and that it might at least shorten if not extinguish the Pause. After all, theory requires that some global warming ought to occur.
This month, though, the Pause clings on. Though January 2016 was the warmest January in the RSS satellite record since 1979, the El Niño spike has not yet lasted long enough to end the Pause. That will happen by next month’s report. The RSS data still show no global warming for 18 years 8 months, notwithstanding record increases in CO2 concentration over the period.
America's metropolitan elite expresses nothing short of naked disdain for the working class
Clive Crook, here:
I'm a British immigrant, and grew up in a northern English working-class town. Taking my regional accent to Oxford University and then the British civil service, I learned a certain amount about my own class consciousness and other people's snobbery. But in London or Oxford from the 1970s onwards I never witnessed the naked disdain for the working class that much of America's metropolitan elite finds permissible in 2016.
Limited government: One Supreme Court justice down, two to go
The wrong one is down, mind you, but the Founders' Court had only six members, not nine (eight) as now, according to The Weekly Standard in "Eight is Enough (for Now)".
A Donald Trump administration, in addition to closing the Department of Education, could easily save some dough and restore some probity to the court by not appointing a ninth justice, nor an eighth nor a seventh should the opportunity arise, er .... fall:
"An even-numbered Court seems to be more conducive to judicial restraint."
He'd just have to make sure to appoint if another justice with common sense dies.
As polls open in South Carolina, Real Clear Politics poll average projects Trump in first with 31%
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| The massive SC House GOP poll, incidentally, has an MoE of 2.0, not 2.9: With its 4% undecided, look for Trump to win it with 28-30% at worst |
Marco Rubio's treatment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement is nothing short of disgraceful
The ugly details are reported here.
Friday, February 19, 2016
The division in the Tea Party between religious conservatives and libertarians is starkly evident in South Carolina
Data from the SC House GOP poll of 3,500 likely voters shown tonight at Real Clear Politics indicates the Tea Party in South Carolina is evenly divided between religious supporters of Ted Cruz and nationalist supporters of Donald Trump (establishment candidates Bush and Kasich hardly register):
In South Carolina Trump is capturing the libertarians and independents Rand Paul once hoped to bring together
Data from the latest SC House GOP poll of 3,500 likely voters shown at Real Clear Politics:
Rush Limbaugh tries to undermine Trump emphasizing today that Trump backtracked on the-Bush-lied charge
But examine the transcript at length from last night's townhall when Trump addressed the Iraq war and you'll see Trump is sticking to his guns:
QUESTION: So - so do you think - do you think the president of the United States, George W. Bush, lied to the American people?
TRUMP: Well, look, I'm not going to get your vote, but that's OK. Let me just (inaudible). QUESTION: I'm just giving you another shot at it.
TRUMP: Let me - let me tell you something. I'll tell you it very simply. It may have been the worst decision - going into Iraq may have been the worst decision anybody has made, any president has made in the history of this country. That's how bad it is, OK?
Limbaugh's been under a lot of pressure from callers this week accusing him of stilted coverage which has showcased Trump at the expense of Cruz and the others. The last couple of days have suddenly featured more self-conscious attempts to show Rush's independence by including less than flattering coverage of Trump. It's not very convincing.
Limbaugh knows Ted's a losing proposition, but isn't all-in for the popular and undoctrinaire conservative Trump, whom Limbaugh customarily calls a non ideological candidate. The absence of that is what is holding Limbaugh back.
Rush Limbaugh doesn't get it that Trump turned the idea of a healthcare mandate on its head in last night's townhall remarks
When Trump said last night (transcript here) "Well I like the mandate" he didn't mean the individual mandate in Obamacare. Trump may not even have been aware that that's what Anderson Cooper was talking about.
Instead, Trump has his own idea in his head which means that there ought to be a mandate which applies to the government, not to the individual, which states that it is government's responsibility to provide healthcare to people who can't afford it and would die without it:
"I don't want people dying on the streets and I say this all the time."
"The Republican people, they're wonderful people. They don't want people dying on the streets."
"[T]here's going to a group of people at the bottom - people that haven't done well. People that don't have any money that won't be able to be care of [sic]. We're going to take care of them through maybe concepts of Medicare."
"You cannot let people die on the street, OK?"
"That's called heart. We gotta take care of people that can't take care of themselves."
That's all that's going on there, folks, despite what Ted Cruz partisan Rush Limbaugh is telling you in the show opener today. The mandate's in the "we're going to" and the "cannot" and the "gotta" in those statements.
Capisce?
Ralph Peters (ahem) rips Tim Cook a new one (ahem) for being such a queen (double ahem)
There's gotta be at least four in-you-endos in there.
Sorry, I just couldn't resist.
Here:
"Tim Cook is acting like Hillary Clinton - above the law, better than the rest of us."
Patrick J. Buchanan: Trump is rising because he's repudiating the Bush clan's anti-conservative policies
Patrick J. Buchanan, here:
“In the GOP nomination race, the chickens of a quarter century of Bush Republicanism have come home to roost,” Buchanan told Breitbart. “Trump’s triumphs to date are due to his recognition of, and identification with, the Middle American revolt against Bush family ideology and policy, and what it has produced.” ... “After the judges and tax cuts, what is there about Bush that is conservative? His foreign policy is Wilsonian. His trade policy is pure FDR. His spending is LBJ all the way. His amnesty for illegals is Teddy Kennedy’s policy… In smearing as nativists, protectionists and isolationists those who wish to stop the invasion, halt the export of factories and jobs to Asia, and stop the unnecessary wars, Bush is attacking the last true conservatives in his party.”
The True Born Sons of Liberty called on Republicans to repudiate the Bushes in July 2011 here:
A Credible Republican Candidate For President in 2012 . . . will be first and foremost the one who forthrightly repudiates the legacy of George W. Bush.
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Governor Nikki Haley, not a natural born citizen who took down the Confederate flag, endorses not a natural born citizen Marco Rubio for president
Or: anchor baby endorses anchor baby, which won't fly.
From another story here:
Haley’s parents moved to South Carolina in 1969; she was born in January 1972. In those days, it took at least five years to be naturalized. So it’s evident Haley’s parents weren’t U.S. citizens at her birth. Thus she is ineligible to the offices of president and vice-president. For both, the Constitution says one must be a “natural born Citizen” of the United States, a deliberately higher standard than simple citizenship. ... Haley doesn’t make the cut. Neither do Cruz, Rubio, Jindal, and nor did—yes—Barack Obama. My question for the future: was Columba Bush a U.S. citizen when George P. was born?
Marco Rubio was frequently absent for high profile Florida 9/11 committee meetings just like he's absent in the US Senate
It's not a bug. It's a feature. Expect that also if elected president.
WaPo reports here:
Rubio did not give the job the attention that legislative leaders expected. He skipped nearly half of the meetings over the first five months of the panel’s existence, more than any of his colleagues, according to Florida legislature records. He missed hours of expert testimony and was absent for more than 20 votes — prompting the state House speaker who had given him the assignment to express concern, the committee’s chairman said.
Laugh of the Day: It used to be just a rhetorical question to ask "Is the pope catholic?"
Now it's a legitimate one.
Rush Limbaugh, just now.
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