DAILYCALLER.COM 7 Hours Ago Scientist tells senators: Global warming not causing extreme weather by  Michael Bastasch Tweet In a Senate hearing Thursday, environmental scientist Roger Pielke of the University of Colorado said it's "incorrect" to claim that global warming is spurring more extreme weather disasters. "It is misleading and just plain incorrect to claim that disasters associated with hurricanes, tornadoes, floods or droughts have increased on climate timescales either in the United States or globally," Pielke said in his testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. "It is further incorrect to associate the increasing costs of disasters with the emission of greenhouse gases." "Hurricanes have not increased in the U.S. in frequency, intensity or normalized damage since at least 1900," Pielke added. "The same holds for tropical cyclones globally since at least 1970." Senate Democrats pointed to the i...

 WEASELZIPPERS.US 4 Hours Ago Democrats Officially Run Detroit Into The Ground, City Files For Bankruptcy Courtesy of the Democratic party. Via  WaPo : Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in the nation's history Thursday afternoon, capping a long decline that left the nation's automaking capital bleeding residents and revenue, while rendering city services a mess. The nation's fourth-largest city in the 1950s with nearly 2 million residents, the city has seen its populaton plummet to 700,000 as residents fled increasing crime and deteriorating sevices, taking their tax dollars with them. The five-decade slide has left the city owing creditors some $19 billion and under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager. The manager has been negotiating with creditors from bond holders to pensioners to forge a plan to restructure the debt. But an agreement proved elusive as pensioners objected to benefit cuts and bond holders and insurers pressed the city to sell ...

 NEWS BUSTERS 3 Hours Ago Yet Another Federal Court Rebukes Obama for Unconstitutional Appointments, Nets Fail to Report by  Ken Shepherd Back in May  I noted  that the Big Three broadcast networks failed to report on the Third Court Court of Appeals issued a  ruling invalidating  an Obama recess appointment that was made when the Senate was technically in session. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals made  a similar ruling in late January. Well, yesterday, a third federal court, this time the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, rebuked the president for unconstitutional recess appointments, as  Tal Kopan of Politico reported here . Yet once again, the liberal broadcast news media showed absolutely no interest in the development, censoring the story from their July 17 evening newscasts and July 18 morning news programs. Back in May I observed that were George W. Bush the president, the media most certainly would have covered the court's rebuke and weave...

 HOTAIR.COM 3 Hours Ago Rasmussen: Just 21% think Zimmerman should be charged with a hate crime posted at 7:21 pm on July 18, 2013 by Allahpundit Unlike  yesterday's poll , I don't have the crosstabs for  this one . But if barely one-fifth of likely voters is backing Holder up, how much does it matter how the numbers break out? Most Americans don't believe George Zimmerman was motivated by racism and do not believe he should be charged with a hate crime for shooting black teenager Trayvon Martin. But as with nearly every question regarding this case, there is wide racial disagreement. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 24% of all American Adults believe Zimmerman's actions that led to Martin's death were motivated primarily by racism. Fifty-four percent (54%) think the Hispanic Neighborhood Watch volunteer was chiefly motivated instead by a concern about burglaries in the neighborhood. Twenty-two percent (22%) are not sure. Hard to believe ...

 YOUTUBE 11 Hours Ago ISSA: 'We can now debunk the theory that Cincinnati was the source of IRS targeting' http://Issa.House.Go​​v ​ ISSA: 'We can now debunk the theory that Cincinnati was the source of IRS targeting' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpwWWifmIA8 John Hames

 PJMEDIA.COM 2 Hours Ago Rep. Trey Gowdy Tells Janine Turner that Congress Will Find Out Who Ordered the IRS to Target Conservatives by  Bryan Preston Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) appeared on the  Janine Turner Show  Thursday to discuss the day's hearing into the IRS abuse scandal. Gowdy sits on the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee. Turner interviewed him shortly after the conclusion of today's hearings. Gowdy noted that today's hearing featured two IRS employees from the Cincinnati office, which IRS official Lois Lerner blamed for the agency's abuse of Tea Party and conservative groups. The two witnesses, Elizabeth Hofacre and Carter Hull, both testified that the orders in the scandal came from Washington, and were never explained to them or the other IRS officials who worked in the Cincinnati office. Gowdy also assured listeners that both the IRS and Benghazi scandals are moving ahead despite the fact that both have been crowded out of the news lately by o...

 WEASELZIPPERS.US 5 Hours Ago Jesse Jackson: "Boycott" Florida As An "Apartheid State" Here comes the patented race baiter shakedown. Via  Breitbart : As a response to the Trayvon Martin case and Florida's stand your ground law Jessie Jackson is calling for a boycott of the state: "No doubt, the inclination is to boycott Florida, stop conventions, to isolate Florida as a kind of apartheid state…" Jesse Jackson: "Boycott" Florida As An "Apartheid State" http://weaselzippers.us/2013/07/18/jesse-jackson-boycott-florida-as-an-apartheid-state/ John Hames

 THEGATEWAYPUNDIT.COM 44 Minutes Ago Charles Barkley: "I Agree" With the Zimmerman Verdict – "Black People Are Racist Too" (Video) by  Charles Barkley NBA great Charles Barkley told CNBC's  Closing Bell  today and said he agreed with the Zimmerman verdict. "I agree with the verdict." From the Video:  Charles Barkley AGREES With Zimmerman Verdict, Attacks Blacks for their Own Racism – July 18, 2013 – NBA legend Charles Barkley appeared on CNBC's Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo Thursday afternoon and shared his incredibly diplomatic views on George Zimmerman's acquittal. "I agree with the verdict," Barkley told Bartiromo. "I'm sorry that young kid got killed, but they didn't have enough evidence to charge him." Barkley went on: "Racism is wrong in any, shape or form," Barkley said.  "A lot of black people are racist too. I think sometimes when people talk about racism, they say only white people are ra...

Thursday, July 18th  Another Obama Scandal While many Americans have been trying to wrap their heads around what really happened in Benghazi, how the NSA is allowed to track every move a person makes on the Internet, who authorized the IRS to target and harass conservatives, and why the Obama administration would inject themselves into the George Zimmerman case, they may have missed the story about the Department of Homeland Security creating a US customs pre-clearance facility in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). That’s right: A plan hatched by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the UAE places ...

Thursday, July 18, 2013 Transcript & Audio:   Here's How to Get a Free Case of Two If By Tea with Your Tumbler Purchase "Nothing happening in this country is because conservatives are in charge. This country is in a state of decline, a state of decay. This country is rotting from the inside out, and we don't have any say. We don't control anything. We don't. Conservatives don't control anything in government. Zero. Conservatives don't even have any hold on the GOP." -Rush   Transcripts, Rush 24/7 Audio Now at RushLimbaugh.com: Republicans S...

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