Via Rush Limbaugh, the US delegation at the Cancun global warming summit, in draft version of final summit agreement, agrees to as much as 1.5% of GDP transfer of wealth per year to the UN (above and beyond dues) to combat man-made global climate change — though the language of the agreement doesn’t specify that the money go toward combating global climate change. This is money we don’t have. And

Crony capitalism? The hell you say. AJC: The Obama Administration has quietly granted even more waivers to one provision of the new federal health reform law, doubling the number in just the last three weeks to a new total of 222. One of the more recognizable business names included on the newly-expanded list of waivers issued by the feds is that of Waffle House, which received a waiver on November

We figure we’ll just ram this through now. Don’t bother reading it. It’s a big-time cost-cutter, filled to the brim with stuff Americans want. Trust us. Time to vote!

I feel safer already! From the Washington Examiner: Chairman Julius Genachowski is moving forward as rapidly as he dares to add the Federal Communications Commission to the growing list of federal agencies used by President Obama to enforce a radical agenda opposed by the Democratic Congress and an overwhelming majority of voters. Genachowski recently unveiled a revised draft of his 2009 “net neutrality” proposal that would put the Internet under

Diversity! Freedom of speech! This is Obama’s America. Welcome. (thanks to JHo)

“GOP Traditionalists to Lead Panels”, WSJ: House Republican leaders cleared the way for two longtime traditionalist lawmakers to head powerful congressional committees over the objections of some tea-party and conservative activists. Rep. Hal Rogers (R., Ky.), who has sought earmarks throughout his career, is set to become chairman of the Appropriations Committee, which oversees all federal spending. Rep. Fred Upton (R., Mich.), criticized by some conservatives for votes in support

Wacky ultra-right winger Michele Bachmann hates her the black peoples: Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (MN-06) issued the following statement today regarding the Claims Settlement Act, expected to be voted on in the House of Representatives this week: “I urge my colleagues to consider what the Claims Settlement Act truly presents before voting on the bill this week. This legislation includes over a billion dollars to settle the Pigford II discrimination claims

Against: The Club for Growth today declared its opposition to the tax compromise proposal reached yesterday by President Obama and congressional Republicans. “This is bad policy, bad politics, and a bad deal for the American people,” said Club President Chris Chocola. “The plan would resurrect the Death Tax, grow government, blow a hole in the deficit with unpaid-for spending, and do so without providing the permanent relief and security our

Is it possible I underestimated the GOP? James Pethokoukis: Congressional Republicans appear to be quietly but methodically executing a plan that would a) avoid a federal bailout of spendthrift states and b) cripple public employee unions by pushing cash-strapped states such as California and Illinois to declare bankruptcy. This may be the biggest political battle in Washington, my Capitol Hill sources tell me, of 2011. That’s why the most intriguing

Question: When is “rape” and “molestation” rape and molestation? Answer: When it’s labeled as such by erstwhile willing partners schooled in leftist victim politics and contemporary feminist theory — and when the culture in which it happens has been institutionalized to believe that the meaning of an action belongs to the receiver alone. Live by the leftist worldview, die get arrested and held for gender crimes by the leftist worldview.