Apparently, self-interest is the best explanation. Examples range from the petty - Noonan, an attractive, successful woman, is threatened by Palin, a younger, attractive, succesful woman; or Noonan doesn't want to be dropped from the DC party circuit; to the bizarre - she might be considered to write a weekly column for the failing New York Times; to the traitorous - Obama's campaign has approached Noona for the job of press secretary in the Obama administration.

Read more at Pajamas Media » Even Female Conservative Pundits Embrace Palin Bashing.

I think we saw a lot of elitism surface during Huckabee's campaign, and it's getting worse now. Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing a lot of these "conservative" elites retire.

In fact, right now Obama's outspent McCain 1.8 to 1, so he should be enjoying a lead of 30 point lead in the polls. I guess blatant socialism is a hard sale…

What can we conclude…? First, that the values of the cultural left are an important source in alienating Muslims worldwide. Second, that Muslims don't reject modernity or the West: rather, they embrace what may be termed "1950s America" while rejecting the libertine values of the 1960s. Third, America can build alliances with traditional Muslims by showing them the face of traditional America, so that they see that Hollywood values aren't necessarily American values. Finally, left-wing groups like International Planned Parenthood and Amnesty International should stop pushing feminism, gay marriage and libertine values in the Muslim world.

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You must know the Who. You don’t go to the problem for the answer. You must move from the problem to the answer. Our answer is Jesus. The question is: Do we believe what He did was enough?

–Lisa Bevere

For the first time, I feel like we deserve to win more than they deserve to lose.

Bill Whittle writes amazing essays. Read "Proud of the GOP" on National Review Online.

The disappearance of sunspots has caught most astronomers by surprise and defied almost all predictions, though one observatory seems to have gotten it right. In 2005, a pair of astronomers from the National Solar Observatory (NSO) in Tucson wrote a paper predicting that within 10 years, sunspots would disappear entirely. But their peers laughed at the two astronomers, and Science refused to publish their paper on the grounds that it was too controversial. In the end, “consensus” stifled scientific debate, and the NSO astronomers were ignored.

The scientific community is paying attention now, however. Some climate scientists believe that the sun’s “dynamo” (the process that creates its magnetic field) might be idling. As the sun’s dynamo slows and sunspot activity decreases, the sun’s magnetosphere is reduced, affecting cloud formation and climate modulation on earth. A long absence of sunspots has happened three times in the past 1,000 years: the Dalton, Maunder and Sporer Minimums. The Maunder Minimum coincided with the 400-year Little Ice Age, during which Europe and North America endured bitterly cold winters that devastated agriculture.

If we are indeed entering another solar minimum on the scale of the Maunder Minimum, we can expect severe global cooling to follow, stressing both the agriculture and energy industries. The practice of harvesting corn for use as fuel ethanol will likely become a distant memory, and the United States’ short-sighted energy policies could mean there won’t be enough heating oil, natural gas and electricity to go around in the severest of winters. We hope it won’t come to that, but if it does, at least Al Gore will be where he belongs: out in the cold.

From The Patriot Post.

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