UH-OH. RUSSIANS CONFIRM confirm that UK climate scientists manipulated data to exaggerate global warming.

Raining on the environmentalists' parade.

MARINES PINNED DOWN BY A SNIPER. U.S. Marines, pinned down by a sniper on top of a building decided that they'd had enough. They marked his location with a smoke grenade and called for close air support.



The aircraft was an F-16 from the 192nd Fighter Wing of the Virginia Air National guard.

F-16 ... $21 Million
Smoke grenade ... $1.16
Camcorder from Best Buy ... $249.99
Audio track on this clip ... Priceless

LANGUAGE WARNING: Rough language -- not for youngsters.

CONGRESSMAN DROPS EFFORT to award Tiger Woods the Congressional Gold Medal.

I can’t understand why: the decoration is awarded to an individual who performs an outstanding deed or act of service to the security, prosperity, and national interest of the United States.

Hasn’t Tiger been doing just that - one woman at a time?

[Update] Tiger Woods named "Athlete of the Decade" by the Associated Press. Well, yes, if you consider sex a sport.

THE VALUE OF LIFE: the “quality-adjusted life year.”

In a paper entitled “Cost-Effectiveness and Disability Discrimination,” the director of the Division of Medical Ethics at the Harvard Medical School, Dan Brock, argues “prioritizing health care resources by their relative cost-effectiveness can result in lower priority for the treatment of disabled persons than otherwise similar non-disabled persons.” He says that type of system not only “implies that disabled persons’ lives are of lesser value than those of non-disabled persons,” but it also “conflicts with equality of opportunity; it conflicts with fairness, which requires ignoring (some/most) differential impacts of treatment; it wrongly gives lower priority to disabled persons for equally effective treatment; it conflicts with giving all persons an equal chance to reach their full potential; and, it is in conflict with giving priority to the worse off.”

Coming soon to a clinic near you.

FROM A WEEK AGO: “Democrats would allow older Americans starting at age 55 to buy into Medicare, the popular program for the aged.”

Medicare is not “a popular program for the aged,” it’s the only game in town. And I’m not looking forward to playing.

Thankfully, Senator Lieberman killed it.

OOPS! Another of those pesky unintended consequences.

MILWAUKEE – Cities around the country that have installed energy-efficient traffic lights are discovering a hazardous downside: The bulbs don’t burn hot enough to melt snow and can become crusted over in a storm — a problem blamed for dozens of accidents and at least one death.

This is a minor violation of the “Three Laws of Unintended Consequences.”

If you want to consider what a major violation would look like, you need only consider the probable outcome if ObamaCare passes ....

”THE STRONGEST ARGUMENT for a government of limited powers is that you should never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”