Nightly News Diggs 12/15/09

Image Digg of the Day:
The Cost of Our National Debt in Pictures

Research and Polling:

• The Autopsy: More Fallout from Climategate - (Hockey Stick over Time)
• Rasmussen: 52% Oppose Further Regulation of U.S. Financial System
• Rasmussen: 50% Agree Afghanistan Is A 'Just' War
• RCP: ABC/WaPo: Obama Approval Slips to All Time Low

News Articles:

• Wattsupwiththat: DOE sends a 'litigation hold notice' regarding Climategate
• Daily Mail: Understaffed Maternity Wards Sinking Into Chaos In The U.K.
• Dick Morris: U.S. Halfway to Kyoto goals - with no Government Regulation
• CNSNews: Obama Likely to Sign $1.1T Omnibus with 5,224 Earmarks
• Big Government: ACORN’s Federal Lobbying Shenanigans

Opinion Articles:

• Daily Express: Climate change: 100 reasons why CO2 is not the cause
• Times Online: Symbolic gestures won't deter Iran
• Conservative Brawler: The Left and Cutting the Minimum Wage

Nightly News Diggs 12/14/09

Image Digg of the Day:
I’d like to thank the academy

Research and Polling:

• Rasmussen: 51% in IL Oppose Prison for Guantanamo Terrorists In IL
• CBS: Just 37% Call Global Warming High Priority

News Articles:

• Times Online: Inconvenient truth for Al Gore: North Pole sums don't add up
• ABC: Sign at homeless camp: 'Welcome to Obamaville'
• NY Times: Goverment tapping of social networks on the rise
• Fox News: Several States Ease Restrictions on Gun Laws
• The Hill: Ron Paul introduces bill to rescind House pay increases
• Fox News: Senate Poised to Advance $1.1T Spending Bill
• Newsbusters: Olbermann, Furious at Selective Editing, Selectively Edits
• Times Online: Secret document exposes Iran's nuclear trigger
• D.C. Examiner: D.C. hands out $15M in bonuses despite recession, budget gap
• AP: Lieberman resists Medicare buy-in plan
• WTOP: Feds owe Uncle Sam $3B in unpaid taxes
• AP: Democrats plan nearly $2 trillion debt limit hike
• Nashville Post: Rep. Bart Gordon Will Not Run For Re-Election
• D.C. Examiner: AmeriCorp official lied about First Lady link to IG Firing
• Bloomberg: Congress Sends Obama Measure With 12% Budget Increases
• USCG: Coast Guard seizes 6,000 pounds of cocaine
• Politico: White House to Reid: Cut deal with Lieberman
• Fox News: Homegrown Terror on the Rise in 2009

Opinion Articles:

• TWS: From Awful to Worse: Harry Reid's Medical Malpractice
• Reuters: Why The Recession Is Not Officially Over
• Forbes: Reviving Federalism

And a bit of social media levity: If Obama Truly Embraced Social Media...

Nightly News Diggs 12/11/09

Image Digg of the Day:
Congressional Smash and Grab

Research and Polling:

• Ipsos: Most Americans Do Not Blame Global Warming on Human Activity
• Wattsupwiththat: Solar geomagnetic activity is at an all time low

News Articles:

• USA Today: Average Federal worker pay $30,000 over private sector
• AP: New climate draft has gaping holes at UN talks
• Daily Mail: Muslim men who force wives to wear the burkha not welcome France
• Left Lane News: Obama Administration to Announce $30B Auto Bailout Loss
• D.C. Examiner: AARP draws political fire
• Telegraph: Carbon trading fraudsters pocket €5bn
• Politico: Max Baucus gave girlfriend $14K raise

Opinion Articles:

• The Daily Beast: The Senate's Scary Health Care Deal
• Townhall: The New Socialism-Charles Krauthammer
• NRO: When Cornered, Make Up Things About Your Opposition
• TS: Al Gore Gets Cranky When Confronting Inconvenient Truths
• WSJ: Eliminating the Death Tax

Nightly Video Diggs 12/10/09

Sorry for the lateness of this. I was sick for the past few week. I am happy to bring back the Nightly Video Diggs. Especially since we are moving ever closer to voting on an unconstitutional health insurance reform bill. Here are some of the videos I Dugg today. If you see some out there that you want to share let me know. The more the people know the more they want to keep a limited government.

• Breitbart: House Minority Leader Slams Spending "America Is Broke" 
• Ed Shultz Radio: IL Dem: ObamaCare Without Abortions Is A "Return To Back Alleys And Hangars" 
• C-Span: Sen Reid Using Slavery Analogy For Those That Oppose Current Health Care Bill 
• Fox News: From Water Taxis To Fish GOP Highlights Worst Pork Barrel Spending 
• Fox News: NBC's 'Law & Order SVU' Slams Limbaugh, Beck, And O'Reilly 
• Live Action.Org: Planned Parenthood "That's Not A Baby Growing Inside You" 
• MSNBC: Chris Matthews Says Everyone Knows Theres Climate Change. Palin Must Be Smarter Than This... 
• Polijam Blog/CNN: Gore (Lies) Downplays Climategate As Polls Show That People Are Getting Wise 
• C-Span: Gibbs Plays Blame Game After Blaming Others For Playing Blame Game 
• MSNBC: Rep Grayson Tells VP Cheney To STFU 
• Reuters: Obama Even Knows He Doesn't Deserve Peace Prize 
• CNN: Indonesian Statue To Honor Great Citizen; Obama 
• MSNBC: Steele To MSNBC's Barnicle; What Do You Mean 'You People' 
• Fox News: Obama's Revisionist History Lesson About President Reagan
  

Nightly News Diggs 12/10/09

Image Digg of the Day:
US Oil Demand vs. Consumption

Research and Polling:

• Bloomberg: Half now feel less financially secure than in January
• CNN: GOP has erased party popularity gap in Congress, 61% oppose current health care bill
• The Hill: GOP leads Dems among likely voters in generic ballot

News Articles:

• Examiner: Skeptical climatologist responds to climategate scandal
• Politico: Bush closes the gap
• CNS News: Health Care Workers: Most Trusted, Congress: Least Trusted

Opinion Articles:

• Forbes: The Coming Wave Of Debt Defaults
• Heritage: Obamacare is Seriously Unconstitutional

Nightly News Diggs 12/09/09

Image Digg of the Day:

Copenhagen - An Enormous Carbon Footprint

Research and Polling:

• Quinnipiac: Obama approval down to 46%, 52% oppose Obamacare
• RCP: Democratic Party in Free Fall on Economic Issues
• Blogging Stocks: Study Says 63% of Employers Will Cut Health Benefits
• Rasmussen: 53% Say EPA Should't Regulate Without Congressional Approval
• CNN: Just 19% Believe Obama Deserves Nobel
• Rasmussen: Most Americans Oppose Second Stimulus and Bailout Funds
• Qunnipiac: 26% think Obama deserved Nobel, Afghanistain war approval up
• PPP: 44% Would Prefer to Have George W. Bush Back in Office

News Articles:

• Herald Sun: Climategate: Gore Falsifies the Record
• Robalution: Fleet Of Gas Guzzlers At Copenhagen Global-Warming Summit
• Natural Resource Report: USDA: Farm Income Will Drop 34.5 %
• The Hill: Hillary's Pollster, Mark Penn got $6 million from stimulus
• Fox News: Obama threatens 'Command-and-Control' Regulation Over Emissions
• Politiken: Russia behind Climategate?
• Science Daily: Undocumented Volcano Contributed to Extremely Cold Decade
• NPR: For Public, Climate Change Not A Priority Issue
• NY Times: Senate Leaders in Tentative Deal to Alter Public Option
• Detroit News: Obama administration predicts $30B loss on auto bailout
• NY Times: Climate Deal Likely to Bear Big Price Tag
• Politico: Dems to lift debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion
• WaPo: Federal employees earn 2% pay raise
• American Thinker: Revenge of the Computer Nerds
• ABC: Massive TSA Security Breach As Agency Gives Away Its Secrets
• The Hill: Another House Democrat retires ahead of 2010

Opinion Articles:

• Guardian: Copenhagen climate summit in disarray after text leak
• Forbes: The Fiction Of Climate Science
• Telegraph: Nature will decide Earth's future
• WSJ: Business Fumes Over Carbon Dioxide Rule
• Telegraph: Rise of sea levels is 'the greatest lie ever told'
• Cato Institute: Copenhagen — All Pain, No Gain
• Fox News: Global Warming Is Too Big to Fail
• NY Post: Bam's Whiny Blame Game
• NRO: The Real Fat-Cat Party
• WaPo: Sarah Palin: Copenhagen's political science
• Big Government: Climategate Denial

Nightly News Diggs 12/08/09

Image Digg of the Day:
Which One is Really the Endangered Species?

Research and Polling:

• Gallup: Obama's approval drops to 47%, lowest of any president at this point of presidency
• Hot Air: Belief in man-made global warming now under 50%
• Rasmussen: 76% Prefer Free Market Economy
• Marist: Obama Job Approval Plummets to 46%
• Rasmussen: 79% Now Favor Auditing the Fed

News Articles:

• Telegraph: Copenhagen climate summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar wedges
• Politico: 26% think Obama deserves Nobel
• Reuters: CBO: U.S. already $292 bln in the red this year
• BBC: Taliban detainee 'met Bin Laden'
• LA Times: Sarah Palin-Barack Obama Gap Down to One Percent
• Fox News: Ahmadinejad Claims U.S. is Blocking Return of Hidden Imam
• AP: New Obama plans: 'spend our way out' of downturn
• Bloomberg: Moody's Says U.K., U.S. Aaa Ratings Relatively Weaker
• Earth Frisk: Media And Newsweek Global Cooling - Global Warming Scam
• Washington Times: Obama health 'czar' worked at legally troubled health firms
• Web MD: US Cancer Death Rate Continues to Fall
• Telegraph: Global warming 'caused by sun's radiation'
• Telegraph: Climategate: another smoking gun
• National Review: More Falsified Climate Data Discovered
• Fox News: CBO: 10 Million Could Lose Employer Coverage Under Senate Plan
• Newsbusters: Major Media Spread Erroneous U.K. Temperature Data

Opinion Articles:

• WSJ: Rupert Murdoch: Journalism and Freedom
• Forbes: When Will the Government Bubble Pop?
• RCM: Green Jobs Myths at the White House Summit

Nightly News Diggs 12/03/09

Image digg of the day:
Obama's Commitment to Afghanistan

Research & Polling:

• Rasmussen: 62% Oppose Single-Payer Health Care System
• Harris: In 2 years, belief that C02 leads to global warming down 20%
• Rasmussen: Majority of Americans Doubt Global Warming Science

News Articles:

• Business Insider: Anderson Cooper's Ratings Plummet
• NY Times: Afghans and Pakistanis Concerned Over U.S. Plan

Opinion Articles:

• RCP: We-Don't-Want-to-Talk-About-It-Gate
• USA Today: Mitt Romney: Mr. President, here's how to lift our economy
• National Post: Skeptics score a win against alarmists

Nightly News Diggs 12/02/09

Image digg of the day: An Image of a True Coward

Research & Polling:

• Rasmussen: Number of Democrats Falls to Four-Year Low
• Rasmussen: Just 21% Favor Bernanke's Reappointment As Fed Chairman

News Articles:

• CNN: Australian Senate Votes Down Latest Emission Trading Scheme
• NY Post: The real bottom line on Harrycare: You WILL pay more
• CSM: Iran loses clout in Arab world

Climategate:

• Daily Express: Climate change 'fraud'
• Telegraph: Climategate: it's all unravelling now
• Wattsup with that: Lord Monckton's summary of Climategate and its issues
• Mother Jones: Chuck Norris Calls Climate Change a "Con Game."
• Climate Audit: The Deleted Portion of the Briffa Reconstruction
• Times Online: Climate scientist James Hansen hopes summit will fail

Opinion Articles:

• WSJ:The Afghan Escalation
• Spiegel: Searching in vain for the Obama magic

Nightly News Diggs 12/01/09

We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving Day break! I certainly did! Tonight's list is just to catch everyone up on the salient diggs from the past week...

Image digg of the day: Climate Science

Research & Polling:

• Rasmussen: U.S. Voters' Support For Health Care Plan Falls To New Low
• Gallup: Americans Still Leaning Against Healthcare Legislation
• Rasmussen: 60% Say Passage of Health Care Reform Will Increase Deficit
• Gallup: In U.S., More Support for Increasing Troops in Afghanistan
• Gallup: Obama Approval on Afghanistan, at 35%
• Rasmussen: 55% in New York Oppose Civilian Terror Trials
• Gallup: Americans at Odds With Recent Terror Trial Decisions
• Rasmussen: 71% Angry at Federal Government, Up Five Points Since Sept.
• Rasmussen: 63% Say Political Correctness Led to Fort Hood Massacre
• Vision Critical: Guiliani Surpasses Palin as 2012 GOP Candidate
• Pollster.com: Why Is Rasmussen 'So Different?'

News Articles:

• Bloomberg: Obama's Trumped-Up Job Count Flunks Science Test
• Washington Times: Health bills fail to block illegals from coverage
• WaPo: Iran vows to expand its nuclear program
• Telegraph: Britain criticizes Barack Obama over Afghanistan
• AP: Kentucky Census Worker Committed Suicide
• Politico: Obama Drops Below 50% In Gallup
• The Hill: CBO report predicts hike in insurance costs
• Detroit News: Economy's rebound not as strong as first thought
• WSJ: One in Four Borrowers Is Underwater
• D.C. Examiner: 92,500 jobs 'not really created or saved' by the Stimulus
• WaPo: Unemployment will take 5 or 6 years to normalize
• Bloomberg: Unemployment rose in 29 U.S. states last month
• Politico: Cheney Slams Obama for Projecting "Weakness"

Climategate:

• Examiner: The Hockey Stick was never accurate--and CRU knew it
• Fox News: Hackers Expose Global Warming Conspiracy
• Telegraph: Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation
• Times Online: Climate change data dumped
• WSJ: Climategate: Follow the Money
• WaPo: Climate scientist at center of e-mail controversy to resign
• WSJ: The Climate Science Isn't Settled

Opinion Articles:

• TWS: Obamanomics 101
• WSJ: Obama Can't Take Another Bow
• Politico: 7 stories Barack Obama doesn't want told
• NY Post: Climate-cult con is hard to 'bear'
• Times Online: Taking the private jet to Copenhagen
• WaPo: Nuclear power regains support
• AP: Rising unemployment taxes could hinder hiring