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Wednesday, January 02, 2008
John McCaslin :: Townhall.com Columnist
Party With Rich
by John McCaslin
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Our most intriguing New Year's Eve invitation — "celebrate with Ivana Trump and Denise Rich" — came from Niche Media, publisher of Washington's Capitol File magazine.

We've not heard much from Mrs. Rich since the tumultuous close of Bill Clinton's dynasty, when on top of all of his other problems, the outgoing president handed a controversial pardon to her former husband, Marc Rich, the commodities trader who fled the United States in 1983 while being prosecuted on charges of tax evasion and other illegal activities.

Gore to 'spiral'

Former Vice President Al Gore could not have been pleased to read the end-of-the-year editorial on "global warming" this week in Investor's Business Daily.

"If 2007 was the Year of Al Gore, with his movie, Academy Award and Nobel Prize, 2008 just might be the year the so-called scientific consensus that man is causing the Earth to warm begins to crack," opines the newspaper. "The fissures started to show in 2007:

"Prominent French physicist Claude Allegre called Gore a crook and equates Gore's French followers with religious zealots. Weather Channel founder and meteorologist John Coleman said global warming is 'the greatest scam in history.' Gore continued to duck open invitations to debate his theory. More than 400 scientists disputed the global warming claims."

Richard Lindzen, professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told IBD that it will take several years for the climate change scare to finally die, but "the death spiral will begin at some point, and it looks like the spinning will start in '08."

Second coming

Our judges had a difficult time deciding which of "The Best Notable Quotables of 2007," published by the Media Research Center, to highlight because every succeeding press quote was more outrageous and/or humorous than the previous one.

So we will simply publish the very first and the very last quotes from the entire list of 70 quotables:

MSNBC's Chris Matthews: "When I watched President Bill Clinton at Mrs. [Coretta Scott] King's funeral, I just have never seen anything like it. ... There are times when he sounds like Jesus in the temple."

McClatchy News Service headline: "As violence falls in Iraq, cemetery workers feel the pinch."

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Reply # 1
Date: Jan 3, 2008 - 4:52 AM EST
Vic
Good morning, Vic!

I would have to agree with you on the milking of the ecology issue, at least to some extent, before the issue is dropped, but it will only happen whwen more and more degreed scientists publish in professional journals, that's the only place where tripple down anything works.

dDI agree with your prediction about djunk food. Just last week, my little family tooak a week oout to go up to the Smokies, and as it was printed on AOL, that the Tenneseians were the most obese of all the states in the Union, just walking down the streets, or through the supermarkets (we renvted a condo) it was truly unbelievable!!! And they must have the most driving carts at the supermarkets I ever saw, and these were young pepople, just, how else can I say it, fat! It would have served them better to have the exercise of walking through the grocery store. Well, it was written that obesity was becoming one of the nation's most serious diseases. I can believe it.

Not sure about my feeling for gun control. When I joined the Army Reserve, I joined as a contious objector, nevertheless, they made me take shooting training on the M-16 at human-like targets, and that did bother me to tears. Although I did hit the mark every time, and got offered sharp shooting training, I was done with my part of guns completely. I don't think, even in the right situation I could handle a gun to save my own or anyone else's life. But you never really know that, other than instinctively, until the situation arises. And dGod fdorbid they get the gun away from me, or find it before I do. Well, just some ideas.

Anyway, you have a Happy New Year, Vic!
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Date: Jan 2, 2008 - 10:18 PM EST
Tipper is making plans for something...
Look at Tipper's picture. She has lost a lot of weight. Do we suppose Al is planning a run for something?
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