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There was tremendous attention to the Democratic primary. We followed Senators Obama and Clinton for months. It takes the Audactiy of Hope (no one notices) for Obama to completely re-invent himself in the matter of weeks. Obama has been flipping all over the place. Democrats respond (as they always do) with what I call the “I know you are, but what am I” defense.

Obama has flipped on every major issue: Talking to Iran, NAFTA, the DC Gun Ban. These are not minor issues and nothing has happened that would have made him rethink his position…except for the fact that he is the general election now.

Democrats respond with John McCain has flipped on the Bush Tax Cuts and off-shore drilling. Only an unthinking person (liberal) could find equivalence here. McCain flipped on the Bush Tax Cuts years ago…before he was running in the general election. He stressed his position over and over in the Republican primary. He wanted spending cuts along with the tax cuts. He didn’t get the spending cuts…that doesn’t mean he wants to repeal the tax cuts. He is no economic genius, but he knows that a tax increase right now is the last thing this economy needs. Obama can’t get past his redistribution plan to see that.

John McCain also changed his mind on off-shore drilling. In this case, he has changed his mind like a lot of Americans. As long as gas was relatively cheap, most Americans thought we should not drill off-shore. Many people have change their position on off-shore drilling because the gas is at $4 per gallon and rising. As the world changes, so does John McCain’s position. That’s a good trait. Obama is still giving us energy slogans from the Jimmy Carter years. He has learned nothing in the last 30 years.

Obama has changed positions for political reasons. John McCain has changed position because circumstances changed. There is a huge difference there. Obama has said that his past statement were “unartful”. Most of the time he just says nothing and he lets the MSM paint him as pragmatic. What a joke.

The latest flip-flop is just an outright lie. He has worked for years against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. He has either voted against it or held it up in committee while working as a state senator. Now he wants us to believe that he would vote for the bill if he had a chance. This is one time that he was actually successful, in a liberal, creepy kind of way. His success stopped the bill in Illinois that protected babies. (It was passed after he was elected to the Senate). This protection has nothing to do with a right to chose, it did not say the mother had to take the baby. It is not about protecting the mother. The baby is already out. It’s not about a classification (fetus or infant)….it is an infant without question. This bill is about proteting Roe versus Wade, which is more important to Obama then babies.

Jill Stanek was a registered nurse in the Labor & Delivery Department at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois (Barack Neighborhood). She has fought Obama for years on this issue. Check out her blog (LINK) for the full story, or listen to Bill Bennett interview with Jill this morning (LISTEN).

In the couple of weeks since Hillary dropped out, Obama has proved that he has no shame. He will lie about his record and his position to get elected. He is not a moderate. He has been rated more liberal than Senator  Bernie Sanders (the only socialist in the Senate - LINK). His new found moderation is nothing but a hoax wrapped in a nice smile and eloquent speeches.

Have you ever reviewed your kids math? Most parents may be scared away because it has been years since they looked at a math text book. They may not have been very good at algebra in the first place. I’m not in that position. I have an engineering degree. I took almost as many math courses as I did engineering courses.

Michelle Malkin (LINK) sent out a warning months back about a text book that many schools are using. Everyday Math teaches your kids in very strange ways.

My son then came home with this horrible book this year. Many of the questions are absurd. At one point, he needed help with an algebra problem. The problem is, he has no knowledge of algrebra. He was in 5th grade. We contacted the teacher and she told us that he was to use trial and error to figure out the answer.

Trial and error is not math!

USA Today has an article on our teachers. (LINK)

American education schools set exceedingly low expectations for the mathematics knowledge that aspiring teachers must demonstrate

There are many statistics that point to the overall low standards for teachers and math is the bottom of the shallow barrel. Can teachers be excited about teaching a subject that they barely grasp?

It is no wonder that test grades are falling and American companies are begging for more H-1B Visas.

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Will enviornmentalist ever be satisified?

“Our effort will be to produce coal-fired power stations which satisfy Greenpeace”, Colin Gubbin, chief consultant for The McCloskey Group (LINK)

I got news for you Colin…that aint gonna happen.

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Prince Charles has converted his Aston Martin to run on fuel from wine (LINK). Prince Charles is just what the world needs. I man born into wealth and privilege holding himself out as an example to us little people. I’m thinking about spending the college money I have saved for my kids on converting my beloved F150 so that it runs on Budweiser.

The UN sponsored IPCC report that claims Global Warming is man-made has 2,500 scientist is a hoax. Only because the were pressured, the UN has finally released comments from the reviewers. (LINK)

A total of 308 reviewers commented on the SOR, but only 32 reviewers commented on more than three chapters and only five reviewers commented on all 11 chapters of the report. Only about half the reviewers commented on more than one chapter. It is logical that reviewers would generally limit their comments to their areas of expertise but it’s a far cry from the idea of thousands of scientists agreeing to anything.

So of the 2,500 scientiest, most of them only commented on their area of expertise…ot on global warming.

An example of rampant misrepresentation of IPCC reports is the frequent assertion that “hundreds of IPCC scientists” are known to support the following statement, arguably the most important of the WG I report, namely “Greenhouse gas forcing has very likely caused most of the observed global warming over the last 50 years”.

In total, only 62 scientists reviewed the chapter in which this statement appears, the critical chapter 9, “Understanding and Attributing Climate Change”. Of the comments received from the 62 reviewers of this critical chapter, almost 60 per cent of them were rejected by IPCC editors. And of the 62 expert reviewers of this chapter, 55 had serious vested interest, leaving only seven expert reviewers who appear impartial.

Two of these seven were contacted by NRSP for the purposes of this article - Dr Vincent Gray of New Zealand and Dr Ross McKitrick of the University of Guelph, Canada. Concerning the “Greenhouse gas forcing …” statement above, Professor McKitrick explained “A categorical summary statement like this is not supported by the evidence in the IPCC WG I report. Evidence shown in the report suggests that other factors play a major role in climate change, and the specific effects expected from greenhouse gases have not been observed.”

Dr Gray labeled the WG I statement as “Typical IPCC doubletalk” asserting “The text of the IPCC report shows that this is decided by a guess from persons with a conflict of interest, not from a tested model”.

The Global Warminging scare mongers are in trouble. Their main talking point is a hoax.