News of the Week for January 26th<\/sup>, 2014<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Machine gun tourism in Sin City<\/a> Revealed: Dispirited Obama \u201cShocked\u201d He Couldn\u2019t Get Gun Control Passed After Newtown Massacre<\/a> Smith & Wesson to stop selling guns in California due to microstamping law<\/a> <\/p>\n Green Fade-Out: Europe to Ditch Climate Protection Goals<\/a> Pollution from Chinese Manufacturing Choking US West Coast<\/a> Guy Who Got Stuck in Antarctic Ice Receives Award for Super-Accurate Global Warming Model<\/a> ‘Secret dealing’? Emails show cozy relationship between EPA, environmental groups<\/a> Global Warming Scientist To Be Cross-examined Under Oath <\/a> Greenpeace disappears a founder, much like \u2018The Commissar Vanishes\u2019 in Soviet Russia<\/a> Why Aren\u2019t Global Surface Temperature Data Produced in Absolute Form?<\/a> <\/p>\n Hacking expert reveals how he cracked Obamacare site in under 4 minutes<\/a> An Obamacare Website Failure Even Bigger Than Washington\u2019s <\/a> New executive overreach: Obama may relax U.S. sanctions on Iran \u2014 without action from Congress<\/a> Swedes buy insurance to skip long health queues<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In first, Iranian warships en route to Atlantic<\/a> <\/p>\n A-listers fete First Lady at secret b-day bash<\/a> Sen. Vitter announces bid for Louisiana governor<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nBob Irwin, owner of The Gun Store in Las Vegas, considers himself the pioneer of machine gun tourism.<\/p>\n
\nDavid Remnick, author of the new nearly 17,000 word profile of President Barack Obama in the New Yorker, revealed in a podcast interview this week that a dispirited Obama told him that he misread the \u201cmoment in political history\u201d and was shocked he could not get gun control measures passed in the wake of the December 2012 Newtown, Ct., Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in which a lone gunman killed twenty children and six adults.<\/p>\n
\nD.C. passes emergency bill to postpone the firearm law until 2016<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nThe EU’s reputation as a model of environmental responsibility may soon be history. The European Commission wants to forgo ambitious climate protection goals and pave the way for fracking — jeopardizing Germany’s touted energy revolution in the process.<\/p>\n
\nBillowing across the Pacific Ocean from China and landing on the western shore of the United States are significant quantities of toxic air pollutants, including sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, and black carbon. Ironically, a great deal of that air pollution is caused by the production of goods inside China for export to the United States.<\/p>\n
\nYou know, this makes absolute sense in a kind of bizarro dreamworld kind of way<\/p>\n
\nNewly disclosed emails suggest senior policy officials at the Environmental Protection Agency and environmental groups are working closely to kill the Keystone XL pipeline, critics say. <\/p>\n
\nIn the off chance you morons don\u2019t regularly stalk the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in search of noteworthy cases, Professor Michael Mann of Penn State filed suit in 2012 against, among others, National Review and Mark Steyn for something Mark wrote and NR published on its website (full disclosure \u2013 I am an occasional contributor to several publications, including NRO\u2019s Bench Memos). As NR\u2019s capable lawyers have confirmed, there seems to be no case here.<\/p>\n
\nOn our Friday Funny, which pointed out that Dr. Michael Mann labeled Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore as a \u201cgarden variety troll\u201d, we thought it was funny that Dr. Mann couldn\u2019t make the connection to who he was labeling. But then, something funny happened on the way to the forum; we discovered that Greenpeace had been actively erasing Dr. Moore from their history page.<\/p>\n
\nThe title question often appears during discussions of global surface temperatures. That is, GISS, Hadley Centre and NCDC only present their global land+ocean surface temperatures products as anomalies. The questions is: why don\u2019t they produce the global surface temperature products in absolute form?<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nDavid Kennedy, the hacking expert that shook the country this week with his congressional testimony about the security failures of HealthCare.gov, explained Sunday how he was able to penetrate the site.<\/p>\n
\nOregon, a state of 4 million people at the forefront of \u201cprogressive\u201d health reform, isn\u2019t being touted by liberals these days as a model. That\u2019s because Cover Oregon, its state-run health-care exchange, is the worst in the country, so bad that officials there may decide soon to unplug it and hook up to the faltering federal exchange.<\/p>\n
\nLike the man said, he\u2019s got a pen and a phone and he\u2019s not going to wait around for the legislature just because the law says he has to.<\/p>\n
\nOne in ten Swedes now has private health insurance, often through their employers, with some recipients stating it makes business sense to be seen quickly rather than languish in national health care queues.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nKhark helicopter-carrier warship and Sabalan destroyer said heading west in historic trip, no military objective mentioned<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nBeyonc\u00e9 and Stevie Wonder played a top-secret 50th birthday party for Michelle Obama on Saturday night at the White House.<\/p>\n