Florida’s Adoption Double Standard: What Say the GOP?

From James Richardson’s new blog, the Skepticians (via HotAir):

Is the fight to preserve the traditional American family … one to, as its proponents argue, protect children, or is it means by which to silence the “radical gay agenda” in the United States through institutionalized shame? Cindy Lederman, a Miami-Dade circuit judge, is convinced it’s the latter.
Lederman’s landmark ruling, a [...]

Kyoto Not Working? Replace It With A New “Global Treaty” and Police It

Another reason to thank George W. Bush.  The US never got involved with the Kyoto deal that stunk from the word “go.”
Some news via Michelle:
Stephen Hockman QC is proposing a body similar to the International Court of Justice in The Hague to be the supreme legal authority on issues regarding the environment.
The first role of [...]

National Monument to Out Of Control Government Spending To Be Christened Tomorrow

After six years of building and spending, the new U.S. Capitol Visitor Center in Washington DC will officially open tomorrow.  The final bill is more than 8.5 times the proposed cost to taxpayers, and completion is one month shy of being 4 years behind schedule.  
…What was proposed as a $71 million project in the early 1990s [...]

CNN: Now They Tell Us!

Via Newsbusters.org:
CNN is warning Americans that already making Barack Obama into one of America’s greatest “heroes” may not be a good idea. Despite the fact that Barack Obama has yet to take office, despite that he has yet to really do anything to earn that status, CNN is saying that “already, he’s being compared to [...]

Ludacris Getting Out the Vote for the Dems

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is campaigning for Saxby Chambliss in the close Georgia senate race today.
In response, Ludicris, the Obama Campaign “poet laureate,” is holding a rally for Democrat senatorial candidate Jim Martin.  
Is this really the Dems’ strategic get-out-the-vote plan?  Is this the man that they figure appeals to the Democrat voters in Georgia?  If I [...]

They Have Fatheads in Bollywood Too

Shame, Shame.  And everyone knows your name.

On the evening of Nov. 26, the biggest names in Bollywood walked the red carpet at the Bombay premiere of “The President Is Coming,” a comedy about six 20-somethings vying to win the right to shake hands with President Bush.
Among those in attendance at the star-studded premiere Wednesday evening [...]

A New Bailout on the Horizon: The Fourth Estate

Mortgage companies.  Banks.  Automakers.  All begging for and getting fat federal bailouts in the name of being essential to our society and economy.  Too big to fail.  Too important to fail.  
So which industry is the next most important to the fabric of our society?  Healthcare?  Agriculture?  Technology?  
How about the newspaper industry?
From BristolToday via [...]