Do we want socialized medicine?

I live in The Land of Fruits and Nuts, Palm Springs area of Southern California. Last year my cardiologist informed me that he would no longer accept my HMO. When I asked my primary doctor for a cardiologist referral I was told that it wasn't possible. I would have to have a cardiac episode in order to see one and that could only be done in an ER.

I recently had need for an Urologist. He said, I would need minor surgery to correct a urinary problem. I was also told that he would not accept my HMO as of April 1, 2007. My primary had to refer me to a HMO Urologist. When they contacted me I was told that I couldn't be seen until April 24, 2007. This is for the initial visit. How long the waiting list for surgery is I do not know at this time. I was also told that this Urologist is the only Urologist accepting HMO in the entire Coachella Valley (Palm Springs Area.)

World ends, Democrats’ constituency hardest hit
The Washington Post recently reported on the recent death of a 12-year-old boy from a tooth infection that spread to his brain. The Post attributes his death to racial and socioeconomic disparities in access to healthcare. Yet his tragic death was not because he was of particular ethnicity or socioeconomic status. He died because he was a victim of government healthcare.

Due to the federal government’s outrageously low reimbursement rates and bureaucratic labyrinth, the boy’s family was unable to find a dentist that would accept the government coverage. The number of medical providers who refuse Medicare or Medicaid patients is far greater than most consumers realize, because many physicians don’t like being handcuffed by excessive government bureaucracy and artificially low government-reimbursement rates that cause a financial loss on nearly every medical procedure.

Hillary Clinton has promised to bring her government healthcare program to the unwashed masses. If she or other liberals are successful in socializing healthcare, look for more Americans to suffer and die from the tender mercies of a massive government bureaucracy. Patriot Post

Is this what you want Health Care For All ?
Schwarzenegger does - Hillary and the Liberals do. Here's A Short Course in Brain Surgery 5:30

"Problems with our health care system are leading some to fall prey to proposals calling for a nationalized single-payer health care system like Canada’s or Britain’s...
Some of our politicians hold up the Canadian and British nationalized health care systems as models for us.
You can bet that should we ever have such a system, they would exempt themselves from what the rest of us would have to endure.
There’s a cure for our health care problems.
That cure is not to demand more government but less government.
I challenge anyone to identify a problem with health care in America that is not caused or aggravated by federal, state and local governments."
Walter Williams

Why is the woman smiling?

You anti-American anti-War Socialist Liberals believe this:
Vice President's Remarks to the Republican Jewish Coalition Leadership
There is a third myth about the war on terror, and this is one that is perhaps the most dangerous. Some apparently believe that getting out of Iraq before the job is done will strengthen America's hand in the fight against the terrorists. This myth is dangerous because it represents a complete validation of the al Qaeda strategy. The terrorists do not expect to be able to beat us in a stand-up fight. They never have, and they're not likely to try. The only way they can win is if we lose our nerve and abandon the mission -- and the terrorists do believe that they can force that outcome. Time after time, they have predicted that the American people do not have the stomach for a long-term fight. They've cited the cases of Beirut in the '80s and Somalia in the '90s. These examples, they believe, show that we are weak and decadent, and that if we're hit hard enough, we'll pack it in and retreat. The result would be even greater danger for the United States, because if the terrorists conclude that attacks will change the behavior of a nation, they will attack that nation again and again. And believing they can break our will, they'll become more audacious in their tactics, ever more determined to strike and kill our citizens, and ever more bold in their ambitions of conquest and empire. The White House
Why is Bella Pelosi smiling?
She just passed a bill to raise taxes and secure defeat in Iraq.

“’A Triumph for Pelosi.’ That’s how the Associated Press described [Friday’s] vote by the House to demand a U.S. retreat from Iraq, and in the perverse calculus of Capitol Hill we suppose it was. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has demonstrated she can pile on enough pork to bribe enough Democrats to cobble together a bare, partisan majority to ”send a message“ that has no chance of becoming law. Congratulations. ‘Today is an historic day,’ Ms. Pelosi said on the House floor. ‘The new Congress will vote to end the war in Iraq.’ But of course the bill does nothing of the sort. If she truly wanted to end the war, the Speaker and her fellow Democrats could simply have used their power of the purse to refuse to fund it. But that would have meant taking some responsibility for what happens in Iraq, which is the last thing Democrats want to do. So they have passed a bill that funds the war while claiming it ends the war. The bill’s ‘benchmarks’ and deadlines certainly have nothing to do with achieving victory in Iraq, or assisting General David Petraeus’s campaign to secure Baghdad. They are all about the war inside the Democratic Caucus. On the one hand, they appease the antiwar left by pretending to declare the war illegal if certain goals aren’t met by Iraqis or U.S. forces. But on the other, they allow ‘moderates’ from swing districts to claim they are nonetheless ‘supporting the troops.’ Acts of Congress don’t get much more cynical than that.” —The Wall Street Journal

They own defeat, it's worse than that.
They can't permit victory politically. They simply cannot.
They are so far out now from over the edge that even if there is victory, they can't even lay any claim to it or even say that they had a role and played any assistance in it. It's not that they're wedded to it now. For their political future, we must lose, and they must bring that about and all you need to do is see this smiling picture of Nancy Pelosi announcing this vote victory last Friday in the House of Representatives.
The main thrust of that bill is to quit, to give up and lose by March 31st of 2008, and there she is just smiling like she's never been happier.
~ Rush Limbaugh

Bush: Here's the bottom line: The House and Senate bills have too much pork, too many conditions on our commanders, and an artificial timetable for withdrawal. And I have made it clear for weeks, if either version comes to my desk, I'm going to veto it. It is also clear from the strong opposition in both houses that my veto would be sustained. Yet Congress continues to pursue these bills, and as they do, the clock is ticking for our troops in the field. Funding for our forces in Iraq will begin to run out in mid-April. Members of Congress need to stop making political statements, and start providing vital funds for our troops. They need to get that bill to my desk so I can sign it into law. Transcript
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EVOLUTION OF DEMOCRACIES

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will contiue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years,
these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;


2. From spiritual faith to great courage;


3. From courage to liberty;


4. From liberty to abundance;


5. From abundance to complacency;


6. From complacency to apathy;


7. From apathy to dependence;


8. From dependence back into bondage."

Alexander Tyler, Cycle of Democracy (1770)

The quote from "Alexander Tyler" is very likely fictitious. His name was actually "Lord Woodhouselee, Alexander Fraser Tytler," and he was a Scottish historian/professor who wrote several books in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Whatever its origin, we were at number 6 last November.
If we continue to vote for socialist Democrats we will soon be at number 8.
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Soldier burned in effigy stirs outrage

These are the people that support the Democrats in Congress.

HOW TO TREAT TERRORIST DOGS

HOW TO TREAT TERRORIST DOGS
The capture last week of Shiite insurgent leaders believed responsible for the murder of U.S. soldiers in Karbala last January is good news.
As far as it goes.
But we wonder:
Why weren't these savages simply shot on the spot like the rabid dogs they are? They should have shot the bastards.
Aside:
In Kansas, law-breakers really do have to pay for a life of crime.

Officials at the Marion County Jail will soon begin charging inmates room and board - to the tune of $11.75 a day.

In addition, they will be charged for medication and health care when needed, and $25 to $40 an hour for transportation.

"If it gets expensive enough, maybe they won't want to come back and see us again," said Prison Commission Chairman Randy Dalke.
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HamNation: Better Living Through Lefty Activism

Today, an instructional video on how to love the earth the lefty way.
You know, through high-volume carbon offsets and
killing polar bears. And, what with Gore in town refusing to take any binding Earth-saving pledges, it's a good week for this lesson.

Quotes From The Left

With friends like Chavez …

Barbara Walters recently scored an exclusive interview with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. Here’s part of how she described the experience to Robin Roberts on Good Morning America:

Roberts: "Barbara, fresh off the plane. He is a very passionate man that's very apparent."

Walters: "Yes, but, you know, when you meet him, when you see him in the navy blue suit and not the red shirt that he's in, um, he's passionate about his dislike for George Bush. He does like this country and he's passionate about his feelings about America. And he feels that with a new President, that we can be friends. He cares very much about poverty. He's a socialist. What he's trying to do for all of Latin America, you know, they've been trying to do it for years, is to eliminate poverty. But this is not the crazy man that we have heard."

A Sampling of Media Bias Highlights

The media’s frantic pace of contrived scandals has peaked with their latest attempt at conjuring ‘The Bush Watergate” Story

Now it’s the flap over fired federal prosecutors … with zero hindsight.

Because hindsight would have revealed ….

In April 1993 then-Attorney General Janet Reno fired all 93 federal prosecutors …. And she gave them 10 days to hit the road.

But when “reporting” on the dismissals of eight prosecutors on Bush’s watch, neither ABC nor CBS mentioned it. Even in interviews with Attorney General Gonzales, ABC, CBS, CNN, FNC and NBC all failed to mention Reno’s “March Massacre” of 1993.

Pelosi-an ‘anti-Catholic’ Catholic for Promoting 'Culture of Death'

Unfortunately you won’t find this kind of reporting in the mainstream media:

On MRC’s daily Cybercast News Service for Monday, a former congressman is quoted as saying Speaker Pelosi promotes "the culture of death."

Madame Speaker is called "maybe the most dangerous leader in the long campaign by anti-Catholics within the Church who mislead Americans.” The story points out that she has advocated “every type of abortion … as a matter of public record” and that she “led the charge for federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research.”

No wonder, then, that a Catholic priest in Pelosi’s home diocese in San Francisco called on her in an open letter to: “… stop calling herself Catholic and receiving the Eucharist because 'you are fooling yourself and many good Catholics.'"

The Good News is Good but the Bad News is All We Get
Two media polls of the Iraqi people were released over the weekend and showed significant percentages now say life is better than it was under Hussein, despite the war and insurgent terrorism.

But if you got that news from the mainstream media on Monday, the spin you got was almost totally pessimistic.

It was “a sobering report…” with “fewer than half” saying things were better, asserted ABC’s Charles Gibson.

NBC anchor Brian Williams led with what he said were “the numbers of great importance to all Americans:” the numbers of Americans and Iraqis killed.

Couric stayed true to form opining that “… there is no end or victory in sight, thousands of Americans are dead.”

But the biggest giveaway that they were ignoring the positive came from Couric when she stressed the leftist line that Iraq was in a “civil war.” According to both polls, the folks who actually live there think not. Fifty-six percent of Iraqis in one and 61 percent in the other said their country was not in a civil war.
Fight Media Bias.org

Operation Iraqi Freedom on Cavuto

Melanie Morgan:
A segment on Your World with Neil Cavuto, which showcased the defeat of the congressional measures that would have cut off support for our troops serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom. That defeat came on the day that our historic national pro-troop caravan arrived in Washington, D.C.

MAF Caravan on Cavuto 5:26

Read Melanie Morgan's inspirational call to action. She outlines the progress that has been made in the pro-troop movement the past several weeks and explains what needs to be done next.
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Gathering of Eagles Video New

Gathering Of Eagles Photo Album
Gathering of Eagles

Gathering of Eagles Viet Nam Memorial

Read an accurate account of this weekend's Gathering of Eagles pro-troop rally in Washington D.C. in Canada Free Press.
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1984

HALF-MIL HITS ON 'NET AD THAT HAMMERS HILLWASHINGTON - A scathing parody of Sen. Hillary Clinton exploded across the Internet yesterday, as more than 500,000 people viewed a re-edited Apple computer ad that casts the former first lady as an oppressive overlord.

The YouTube film, created by someone known only as "ParkRidge 47," splices a giant black and white Big Brother image of Clinton delivering campaign platitudes to brainwashed masses - until a blond female athlete chucks a sledgehammer at her droning image.

"On Jan. 14, the Democratic primary will begin. And you'll see why 2008 won't be like 1984," goes the tagline - before trumpeting BarackObama.com.

The film is a reworking of a Macintosh computer ad that aired during the 1984 Super Bowl.

Sen. Barack Obama's campaign denies creating the film, which has the hallmarks of a professional production, and Clinton's camp wouldn't comment.

The blogosphere was abuzz about ParkRidge47.

Clinton was born in Park Ridge, Ill., in 1947. article

Mystery Creator of Anti-Clinton Ad ID'd
He's gotta know there's a special spot waiting for him at Fort Marcy Park.
Thanks Pero
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Gathering of Eagles--30,000 strong [Update]

Garhering Of Eagles Photo Album

Michelle Malkin Gathering of Eagles
On Monday, March 19, 2007 at 10:00 AM Eastern (7:00 AM Pacific),
C-SPAN 2 will broadcast LIVE the "Win in Iraq" ad campaign news conference hosted by Move America Forward. We invite you all to watch the news conference which will show the new print and television ads, and will feature individuals who just completed the cross-country "These Colors Don't Run" pro-troop caravan.

You can watch the news conference LIVE, via the Internet at this address:
http://www.cspan.org/ and click on the C-SPAN 2 stream
(scroll down the main page to find it).

International ANSWER and all the anti-war/anti-military crowd FAILED! They said they'd have over 100,000 people marching and guess what? They had less than 5,000. Jane Fonda was a no-show, recognizing the disaster they had on their hands.

Meanwhile, our historic "These Colors Don't Run" national pro-troop caravan was met by thousands of motivated people who were not going to remain silent any longer. And then it all culminated in the giant "Gathering of Eagles" pro-troop/pro-veteran event that rocked Washington, D.C. with patriotism, support for our troops and pride in our nation.

Now we step up our efforts in a way that will put George Soros and those in the anti-war crowd on the defensive.

Watch the ad, then send it on to everyone you can. We're not going to back down - we're going to persevere and prevail... for the good of our troops and for the good of our nation. ~ Melanie Morgan - Move America Forward

"Choice is Clear"

Gathering of Eagles--30,000 strong
By Michelle Malkin · March 17, 2007 05:35 PM
Michelle has the best round-up of coverage with pictures.

A pure, grass-roots effort, the Gathering of Eagles' volunteers matched the massive Soros-funded anti-war machine sign for sign, chant for chant, and marcher for marcher. The contrast was most stark right before the entrance to the Memorial Bridge, where Eagles gathered with a field of American flags--while anti-Bush, 9/11 conspiracy nuts wrapped themselves in a figurative blanket of yellow "Out of Iraq" placards. Several of the vets shouted, "Yellow! How appropriate!" in between spirited chants of "U.S.A! U.S.A!" While the classless Cindy Sheehan ranted profanely, the Eagles raised their voices in polite, but roaring disapproval and raised their American flags in answer to the ANSWER socialists' Che banners and peace pennants.

Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry
Gathering of Eagles 4:11

Clinton resurrects vast, right-wing conspiracy

Hillary Clinton has hit the campaign warpath in earnest, and is again reverting to the Clinton team’s old playbook. Speaking to Democrat municipal officials in New Hampshire, Clinton resurrected her notion of “a vast right-wing conspiracy.” She was speaking of the conviction of three Republican operatives on criminal charges of “telephone harassment” for repeated prank calls to Demo phone banks, allegedly to hinder organizers’ get-out-the-vote effort during the 2006 congressional election campaign. “To the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s credit, they sued and the trail led all the way to the Republican National Committee,” Clinton said. “So if anybody tells you there is no vast, right-wing conspiracy, tell them that New Hampshire has proven it in court.”

New Hampshire Democrat Party chairwoman Kathy Sullivan wasted no time in echoing Clinton’s sentiment. “People think we’re paranoid when we talk about the vast, right-wing conspiracy, but there is a real connection of these groups—the same names keep popping up,” crowed Sullivan. “They are the most disgusting group of political thugs that I have ever seen.”

The Democrats have forgotten more about thuggery than Republicans will ever know. Consider the four Milwaukee-area Kerry-Edwards campaign workers who were sentenced to four to six months in jail for slashing the tires of twenty-five vans rented by Republicans to take voters to the polls in the 2004 election. Speaking of letters he received from Milwaukee residents, Judge Michael Brennan told the defendants, “They see you tampering with something they consider sacred, and that’s the ballot box.” It is no small detail, of course, that two of the four convicted felons are sons of Milwaukee’s Demo elite, namely former acting mayor Marvin Pratt and sitting U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore.

Note to the junior senator from New York: If you want to talk about conspiracies to deprive citizens of their right to vote, first pluck the log from thine own eye. patriotpost.us

HildaBeast Launches Web Effort to Oust Gonzales

Hillary Fake Accent and Hypocrisy

From the Desk of: Steve Elliott, President Grassfire.org

Yesterday while in Mexico, President Bush pledged to the Mexican
people that he will "work as hard as I possibly can" to pass an
amnesty bill. Here's what he said:

"My pledge to you and your government, but more
importantly to the people of Mexico, is I will work
as hard as I possibly can to pass comprehensive
immigration reform."

How dare the President make such a pledge to a foreign government!
But it gets worse. The President used the same speech to chide
you and me -- and rebuke us for not supporting his amnesty plan!

"In the debate on migration I remind my fellow citizens that
family values do not stop at the Rio Grande river."

That is not a misprint. The President has apparently so far
downgraded the current illegal alien invasion that he now calls
it a "debate on migration"! Migration? This was no slip of the
tongue. Both President Bush and Mexican President Calderon
used "migration" repeatedly and it certainly fits how the
President views the border crisis.

So our President goes to Mexico and pledges to do everything
he can to encourage the free "migration" of Mexicans to our
country! Even worse -- he wants to totally remove any stigma
of illegality and give tens of millions south of the border
free "migration" rights! And just for fun, he rebukes you
and me along the way! Go here for a full report and to see the new mobile
billboard as it circled the Capitol

Bush: "The United States respects rule of law. But in the debate onmigration, I remind my fellow citizens that family values donot stop at the Rio Grande River, that there are decent,hardworking honorable citizens of Mexico who want to makea living for their families. And so, Mr. President, mypledge to you and your government -- but, more importantly,the people of Mexico -- is I will work as hard as I possibly can to pass comprehensive immigration reform." The Whitehouse.

Probably won't be long before El Presidente Arbusto grants amnesty to
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
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Follow The Caravan Gathering Of Eagles

Gathering Of Eagles Mission Statement PICTURES FROM THE "THESE COLORS DONT RUN CARAVAN" Caravan Route - “THESE COLORS DON’T RUN”
EMail from Move America Forward 3/14/07
Our caravan is rapidly approaching Washington, D.C. and I wanted to share with you some great coverage we've been getting - we've forced the media to cover this event, and we are sending the message across the nation that: "THESE COLORS DON'T RUN."

Here's the latest press coverage, news stories so new we haven't even gotten them up on the Move America Forward website yet.
USA TODAY:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/
ABC Little Rock:
http://www.katv.com/news/
CBS Little Rock:
http://www.todaysthv.com/video/
New York Times Blog:
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/

This is just a sampling of the media coverage we've received in the last 36 hours. Dozens of additional news reports are posted at the
Move America Forward site
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ANTI-WAR ANARCHISTS OUT OF CONTROL! [Update]

Gathering of Eagles: See You There

"These Colors Don't Run" PSA

Anti-war protesters spray paint Capitol building

Anti-war protesters were allowed to spray paint on part of the west front steps of the United States Capitol building after police were ordered to break their security line by their leadership, two sources told The Hill.

Approximately 300 protesters were allowed to take the steps and began to spray paint "anarchist symbols" and phrase such as "Our capitol building" and "you can’t stop us" around the area, the source said.
Read The Report Here

They called it allowing the public (Anarchists) to exercise their First Amendment rights. This has Pelosi and the anti-War Democrats written all over it.

But that's far from the only incident. All across this nation, war memorials and veterans memorials are being desecrated, dishonored and destroyed by anti-war vandals. This week, Move America Forward's Chairman, Melanie Morgan, wrote an expose on the matter. The full details are contained in her shocking column: "Disgracing the memories of American heroes" Read It Here
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Medal of Honor Monument - DESECRATED! -- VERMONT WAR MEMORIAL - VANDALIZED!

The Rev. Hillary's Tin Ear

Kathleen Parker
RealClear Politics

The growing consensus seems to be that the former first lady's ascendancy as first woman president of the U.S. is less assured than previously thought, thanks in large part to the junior senator from Illinois, Barack Obama.

This is polite talk from the emperor's court. The naked truth is, Hillary has a bigger problem than Obama. Anyone who has heard her speak knows what it is, so we may as well talk about it.

That voice.

In Selma, Ala., last weekend at the "Bloody Sunday'' commemoration, Hillary auditioned for a dual role -- not just Southerner, but Southern preacher in the style of a Martin Luther King Jr. More Hillary Clinton Fake Accent Fart Of The Day

Libby Guilty of Telling the Truth, Being Republican

I Call for Justice

New Union Facts Report Exposes Union Boss Scheme

Union bosses constantly employ ruthless tactics to serve their personal needs. Labor leaders’ most recent grab for power is an attack on workplace democracy in the form of the grossly misnamed Employee Free Choice Act.

If passed at the federal level, EFCA would replace secret-ballot elections with the petition-like “card check” -- a process which exposes workers to fraud, violence, and intimidation. To illustrate how far from “free choice” this bill actually falls, the Center for Union Facts kindly suggests a more accurate name: Criminal Rape of American Principals, or CRAP.

Luckily, honest Americans do not have to take this attack sitting down. Armed with little more than the truth and a video camera, citizens can fight back with the End CRAP commercial contest.

The fight against union corruption starts with basic education.

Labor bosses’ dirty laundry includes deception and intimidation during organizing campaigns, strikes that hurt members more than they help, and spending mandatory union dues on radical left-wing agendas. Despite these corrupt tactics and criminal activities, many people still remain unaware of the true nature of union leadership.

Not anymore.

To show Americans the truth about today's union leadership, the Center for Union Facts challenges young filmmakers to combine facts and humor in a 30 second commercial. Aimed at an audience that assumes -- too often -- union leaders are well-intentioned advocates, the ad should address organized labor’s deception, violence, harassment, intimidation or discrimination from a unique angle. The entrant with the winning commercial will win $5,000 and have his or her advertisement air on national television.

To find out more, go to UnionFacts.com. There you will find a wealth of information about the size, scope, political agendas, and criminal activity of the labor movement and further details about the End CRAP ad contest.
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'In God We Trust' -- a New Coin George Washington Dollar

It would seem the liberals have driven God to the edge.

We now have a coin which has pushed God and our once heartfelt unity to the edge. Does it have anything to do with the constant blatant attack on history and our Christian heritage, revised and disseminated in government schools? Voiding the mention of God in education has affected and influenced millions of children and produced adults with no inkling how they were indoctrinated with a reinterpretation of America’s history.

Does the divisiveness, the political correctness (censorship of all that is true and good), the tolerance (until someone is offended), and banishing Christianity and Christians to the edge of the public awareness -- do these speak to us? Meanwhile debauched entertainment and a mindset of self aggrandizement and propaganda for worldly Humanism has taken God’s place. Add materialism and consumerism to the mix and we have a purposeless nation. Article
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Couric Mulls: Do Deadly Tornadoes 'Have Anything to Do with Global Warming?'

After leading with the terrible toll of deadly "super-cell" storms with tornadoes which struck Missouri and Alabama on Thursday, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric's mind turned to global warming as the potential cause. She asked "CBS News weather analyst" Bryan Norcross, working out of the network's Washington bureau: "Bryan, I understand people have been asking you this all day" -- probably CBS News staffers in the DC bureau --

"Does this have anything to do with global warming?"

Norcross, a "hurricane specialist" for the CBS-owned Miami station WFOR-TV channel 4, rejected the premise: "No, I don't think so. This is just part of this extreme situation we've had this winter -- very warm, very cold -- and so the extreme weather continues and it turns out the United States is just about the only spot in the world that has a lot of these kinds of super-cells, just not normally this time of year."
Posted Thursday night on the MRC's blog, NewsBusters.org: newsbusters.org
Gore Cow Farts x Paul ShanklinMad Cows

Hillary’s College Thesis Finally Revealed

Available to the Public, Hillary Clinton's "Missing" College Thesis
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The Liberal 10 Commandments