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There is an excellent article on Michelle Malkin’s blog about our country and Cap ‘n Trade. Please, please go to her blog and read the whole thing. There is an embedded video and a follow along power point, if you’re so inclined.

Michelle Malkin » Lord Monckton’s warning to America

Lord Monckton’s warning to America
By Michelle Malkin • October 19, 2009 12:05 AM

Lord Christopher Monckton, former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, spoke at Bethel University in St. Paul, MN last week on the UN Climate Change treaty scheduled to be signed in Copenhagen in December 2009. He was hosted by the Minnesota Free Market Institute.

Minnesota Majority posted the video of his speech, entitled “Is Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty?” He wouldn’t be the first (see here and here).

Well, folks, here ya go.

Read it and weep
American Thinker: How to take down a great power

How to take down a great power
By J.R. Dunn
Unlike Augustus or Caligula, Lucius Aurelius Commodus was not an emperor who made a strong impression on modern consciousness. Until the release of the film Gladiator, a heavily fictionalized version of his reign, most Americans had never heard of him. In the film he comes across as quite a compelling figure thanks to a first-rate portrayal by Joaquin Phoenix

And now coming from a meeting in Buenos Aires, some good news. Read about it here, first, since the MSM isn’t going to report it at all.

Energy crisis is postponed as new gas rescues the world – Telegraph

Energy crisis is postponed as new gas rescues the world
Engineers have performed their magic once again. The world is not going to run short of energy as soon as feared.

Read this and then tell me what you think and what you think our “friends” across the pond think.

American Thinker: Half a president

Half a president
By Steve McCann
President Obama apparently wants to do only half of his job — the part that is the most fun. And he’s got his eyes on a higher position.

Barack Obama has been the number one topic of conversation among many of my friends and associates in London. His incompetence, narcissism and danger to the interests of the United States and its allies in Europe are startling people. I was asked “How does Obama view himself as President?” We happened to be sitting in a hotel which overlooked Buckingham Palace and suddenly the answer to the question came to me.

The whole article is here.

So, this is what we get.

Someone who’s never had a job off the public payroll, has no record of grades from college, no military service etc. Yet, for all of this, he is our leader. May God help us!

Commentary » Blog Archive » Losing Faith in the Commander in Chief

Losing Faith in the Commander in Chief
Jennifer Rubin – 10.02.2009 – 6:15 AM

The latest Fox News/Opinion Dymanic poll is chock-full of bad news for the president. But on foreign policy, the results are nothing short of stunning. On who they trust more to decide the next steps in Afghanistan. 66 percent say military commanders, while only 20 percent say the president. Even Democrats have more faith in the military commanders (by a 45 to 37 percent margin). On Iran, 69 percent say Obama has not been tough enough, including 55 percent of Democrats. Sixty-one percent favor a U.S. military action, if needed, to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons. Fifty-one percent think Obama apologizes for American too much.

Less than a year into his presidency, this is a remarkable and widespread loss of confidence in the president’s handling of national security. This should actually come as no surprise. Neither his rhetoric or his decision-making to date has projected strength. He spent months arguing that we should close Guantanamo and dump the terrorists into the U.S. or into other countries. The voters disagreed. He dithers on Afghanistan, and the voters no longer see him as the best person to set our course. He sends video valentines to the mullahs, delighting in the notion that we can talk them out of their nukes, and waits for Russia and China to climb onto the Obama bandwagon (or Israel to do the dirty work for us). And Americans overwhelmingly see his performance as weak.

In short, Obama has already achieved what it took Jimmy Carter an entire term to attain: the conviction of a large majority of the American people that he is not protecting our interests or performing adequately as commander in chief. He can either stiffen his resolve to confront America’s foes or continue his decline. World events are unlikely to help him–they will only highlight his shoddy performance as our adversaries, seeing exactly what Americans do, begin to test and challenge the U.S. at every turn.

Joe Biden had a single correct insight during the campaign about foreign policy: Obama’s mettle would be tested, and “it’s not going to be apparent that’s we’re right.” For once Biden has proved to be the master of understatement