Global Warming Alarmists Release Bogus Report

California may ban conventional lightbulbs by 2012
Trees take on greenhouse gases at Super Bowl
Advocates of troop surge about-face in Congress
GOP fears war could help Dems for years
Millions in Iraq reconstruction aid wasted, investigators say
Lawsuit accuses black officials of violating whites’ voting rights
GOP, Democrats Clash Over Spending Bill
Democrats Move Leftover Spending Measure
Immigration Application Fees to Rise By 80 Percent
Once a Dream Fuel, Palm Oil May Be an Eco-Nightmare
Venezuela’s Congress Grants Chavez Special Powers to Remake Country
Tie CEO pay to performance, Bush says in State of the Economy speech



Gingrich:  The Threat of a Nuclear Iran
Jeffrey:  Is Iran Winning in Iraq?
Milloy:  Beware the eco-industrial complex
Saunders:  See no dissent, call it science
Sanders:  Of nuts, Chicken Little and global warming
Thomas:  Aquarius sunset
Washington Times:  Missile defense and the Democrats
WSJ:  Executive Camp
Kesler:  After the Thumping
Stossel:  Big, Big Government
Williams:  Property Rights

Political Correctness Strikes Again!

Iranian President’s Setbacks Embolden His Domestic Critics
‘Global war curriculum’ seen in Iran’s schools
ASU student objects to sensitivity exercise
London Prison Changes Direction of Toilets in Respect to Islamic Law
‘Black-Face’ College Party Causes Controversy
Louisiana GOP Blasts Sen. Landrieu For Katrina Terror Remark
GOP Right Sees Lemons in White House Race
Republicans Block Congressional Pay Hike
Kennedy, GOP engage in war of words on tax cuts


Miniter:  Not So Big or Easy
Rubenstein:  Critic Behind the Curtain
Sowell:  A Deep Moral Rot
Prelutsky:  In praise of oil
Gaffney:  Driving While Defeatist
Cain:  Diversity Distraction

Kerry: US a 'pariah'

John Kerry Slams His Own Country At Davos
Protest Focuses on Iraq Troop Increase
Coin Shortage Means a Penny Could Be Worth 5 Cents Soon
A Culinary and Cultural Staple in Crisis
Huckabee Announces Presidential Bid
Iranian Reveals Plan to Expand Role in Iraq
Miami Plans Castro Death Party in Orange Bowl
Perdue to go to Washington to testify on Peach Care funding


Steyn:  Old U.S.S.R. made Old Europe look new
D’Souza:  Giving radical Islam its start
Washington Times:  Tehran’s useful idiots
Fields:  Prophesies of doom
Wisse:  Gliberalism
Hentoff:  Squashing the First Amendment
Greenberg:  The Truth About Clarence Thomas
WSJ:  Very, Very Big Corn
Shirley:  A Conservative Crackup?
Sen. Inhofe:  America Needs a Stable, Diverse and Affordable Energy Supply

Edwards, Bono Hypocrisy

Venezuela’s Chavez says U.S. ambassador could be expelled if he keeps ‘meddling’
U.N. says Iran plans nuclear development
Pelosi in Iraq to see for herself how war is going
Troops Authorized to Kill Iranian Operatives in Iraq
Scared Smithfield workers stay home
Edwards Home County’s Largest
Bono, Who Preaches Charity, Profits From Buyouts, Tax Breaks
Alien hiring fine fails on Hill
Sharpton:  Step up or I’ll run in ‘08



Washington Times:  Commonsense immigration enforcement
Lyons:  Untie military hands
Goldberg:  The Body Democratic
Charen:  Demoralized
Gizzi:  Will Un-‘Fairness Doctrine’ Haunt Talk Radio?

Osama-Obama Wants Socialized Health Care

Gas Station To Offer ‘Terror-Free’ Oil
MLK Party Causes Uproar on Texas Campus
Overlooked:  Dems Stop Smoking From The Verve Pipe?
Spellings stands firm on ‘real school choice’
GOP renews ‘amnesty’ defiance
Ethanol Industry Gets a Boost From Bush
Budget Office Forecasts Drop in U.S. Deficit
Paid Sick and Take-Care-of-Your-Neighbor Days to Be Mandatory in San Francisco
Obama calls for universal health care within six years
New York Plans Official City Condom
Tancredo:  Abolish Race-Based Caucuses


Washington Times:  The president’s address
Huggins:  Boost military spending
Washington Times:  Dubious ‘successes’ in Iran
Coulter:  I Am Woman, Hear Me Bore
Lips:  The State of Federal Education Policy
Chapman:  Bush’s Bogus Cure for Oil Addiction    

Bush's State of the Union: More Big Government

Officials net 761 illegal immigrants
ICE:  More Than 700 In Custody After SoCal Sweep
Aliens ask wrong people in van about work
Kerry won’t run for president in ‘08
N Korea helping Iran with nuclear testing
Iran:  Israel, US will soon die
Officials fear war in space by China
Senate Rejects Minimum Wage Bill
Bush pushes voucher proposal over Democrats’ objection
Transcript:  President Bush’s State of the Union Address
Transcript:  Sen. Webb’s Democratic Response to Bush’s State of the Union Address



Washington Times:  Congressional representation
Heck:  Energy bill ripple effect
Samuelson:  Blindness on Biofuels
AJC:  Social Security, Medicare won’t fix themselves
Du Pont:  A Spending Sham
Schulz:  Addicted to Big Government
Payne:  Fuel Folly
Rep. Hensarling:  Time for GOP to Get Back to Basics
Rep. Boehner:  Common Ground on Fiscal Responsibility
Sherk, Hederman:  Who Earns the Minimum Wage?  Suburban Teenagers, Not Single Parents    

State of the Union Address Tonight

Reports:  Russia Fulfills Iran Missile Deal
Experts:  Ahmadinejad’s Days May Be Numbered
Ahmadinejad:  U.S. Claims ‘Ridiculous’
Clinton Bid Heralds Demise of Public Financing
Death Knell May Be Near for Public Election Funds
Black Caucus:  Whites Not Allowed
Republican Opposition to Iraq Plan Grows
Thwarted Al Qaeda in Iraq Plot Would Have Smuggled Terrorists Into United States on Student Visas
Bush to Seek Cutback in Gas Consumption
Ethanol Production Booming on Demand
Getting Hydrogen Cars To Live Up to Their Hype
Study:  Geothermal energy could meet large part of U.S. power need
Senate’s wage bill still exempts Samoa
Bank of America Profit Rises 47%
White Atlanta Suburbs Push for Secession


Kelly:  Is the Surge Already Producing Results?
Thomas:  The Hillary Factor
Sowell:  The ‘Greed’ Fallacy
Macon Telegraph:  Permit communities to decide
USAToday:  Bush seeks balanced budget, 6 years and $3 trillion late
Portman:  Deficit halved 2 years early
D’Souza:  The America terrorists never see
WSJ:  Hillary Takes a Pass
Rep. Paul:  Can U.S. Achieve Peace in the Middle East?
Rep. Price:  Democrats’ Unconstitutional Power Grab
Williams:  Fearmongering
Edwards:  The Conservative Consensus:  Frank Meyer, Barry Goldwater, and the Politics of Fusionism

It's Official: Hillary Joins 2008 Race

Chavez to U.S.:  ‘Go to hell, gringos!’
N.M. Governor Enters White House Race
Clinton:  ‘I’m in to Win’ White House
Will Hillary be cheated once again?
Rush of Entries Gives ’08 Race Early Intensity
Gingrich:  2008 Run Would be Last Resort
Climate scientists feeling the heat
Storm Hits Weather Community Over Climate Expert’s Global Warming Claims
Snow falling across Tucson
Rare Snow Storm Surprises Arizona
Toyota plans ultra-inexpensive car
Iran’s guards start wargame to test missiles
Strategist:  Iran believes it could destroy Israel with a single nuke
Iran bars 38 U.N. nuclear inspectors
Group of Senators Petition FCC to Deny Station License for ‘Free Speech’ Host
Support grows to make English official
Bush proposals find little success



Novak:  Student Loan Scam
Malkin:  Destroyed - NOT
D’Souza:  What they know that isn’t so
Lambro:  At minimum, a bad deal
Rahn:  Collapsing Venezuela
Bookman:  Perdue pours out more hypocrisy
Smith:  Don’t expand the harm of alcohol
WSJ:  Ban’s Reform Call
Cain:  A Strange Way to Seek a True Leader
Caruba:  The Ethanol Debacle

More UN Scandal

AMS Certified Weatherman Strikes Back at Weather Channel Call for Decertification
Freeze puts squeeze on citrus prices
Abdullah to Haaretz:  Jordan will develop nuclear power
Shorter State of the Union will stress common ground
House Approves Page Program Overhaul
Fed Chief Warns That Entitlement Growth Could Harm Economy
U.S. State Department Reveals North Korea’s Misuse of U.N. Development Program Funds and Operations
Tax Fugitive:  ‘Show Us the Law, and We’ll Pay’
Armed Man Guilty of Tax Evasion Barricades Himself in New Hampshire Home
Republicans elect Martinez to party’s top post



Washington Times:  The changing health-care debate
Washington Times:  Pandering on the Hill
Krauthammer:  A Plausible Plan B
Milloy:  Asbestos Fireproofing Might Have Prevented World Trade Center Collapse
Kirkpatrick:  United Nations Dictator’s Program
WSJ:  U.N. Cash for Kim
Ham:  Big Orange CEOs Under Fire in Congress
Limbaugh:  The Un-Fairness Doctrine:  Unevening the Playing Field, by Law
Buchanan:  See the Superpower Run
Noonan:  ‘My Fellow Americans…’

Snow in Malibu--Global Warming?

Weather Channel Climate Expert Calls for Decertifying Global Warming Skeptics
Pelosi May Create Global Warming Panel
30th Anniversary of snow in South Florida
Snow Snarls Traffic On I-5 And In Malibu!
It’s winter for a day as snow dusts parts of L.A.
Bernanke:  Fiscal action needed as America ages
5 down, 1 to go on Dems’ House agenda
House Dems target special breaks for Big Oil Thursday
Oil Prices Dip Below $50 for First Time Since May 2005 on Inventory Data
Radicals vs. moderates:  British Muslims at crossroads
Senate plans vote against troop surge
Gates:  Iranians ‘Overplaying Their Hand’
Al-Maliki Blames Strengthened Insurgency on U.S. Refusal to Provide More Equipment, Arms to Iraqis
Another boy dies copying Saddam Hussein’s hanging
Perdue hints veto of Sunday booze sales
Zogby:  Iowa Democrats Prefer Edwards



McCaslin:  Inside the Beltway (Reyes Flip-Flop)
Arends:  McCain no longer rocks in Granite State
Lambro:  Slippage showing
Washington Times:  Democrats’ taxing energy policy
Bauer:  Beyond Roe
Novak:  The GOP in a Quagmire
Medved:  The youthful candidate is passing with the years
Feeney:  No Social Security for Illegal Aliens
Rassam:  Somalia Bombings Show Why We Must Destroy Al-Qaeda in Iraq

Socialized Medicine Strikes Again!

Castro surgery seems to have been botched:  experts
Bush to outline global warming policy in State of Union
Ice Storm Leaves Thousands Without Power
Colo. Lawmaker Considers Run For President
Obama Starts ’08 Bid, Reshaping Democratic Field
The big question about Barack Obama
Rebels Reportedly Kill, Eat Two Gorillas in Congo
Iran shoots down U.S. spy drone amid growing military pressure
Senate votes to end secret ‘earmarks’


de Borchgrave:  Back to the future?
Gregg:  Chavez’s holy war
Bradley:  Global warming policy perils
Williams:  Trade Deficits:  Good or Bad?
Stossel:  Losing Sleep Over the Trade Deficit?
WSJ:  Hugo and Mahmoud
McClay:  After Bush
Sowell:  Dems Imperfect
Farah:  Presidents Must Obey Law, Too

Fairness Doctrine Coming Back?

Kucinich:  Congress To Take On FCC
Democrats Pledge to Extend Minimum Wage
Libertarian Files Papers for ’08 Race
Sen. Brownback Brings Back the Flat Tax
Osama-Obama Takes 1st Step in Presidential Bid
AP:  Iran Gets Army Gear in Pentagon Sale
Russian missiles delivered to Iran:  Ivanov
Pit bulls vs. stalwarts in House GOP
Choice of Martinez sparks GOP rebellion
Saddam kin beheaded by hanging
Saudi’s comments send oil reeling
Prices at pump likely to fall more
Burden Set to Shift On Balanced Budget
Mercer official upbeat about enrollment


Sowell:  Another Vietnam?
Barone:  Open field for 2008
Caldeira:  When Being Green Raises the Heat
Dionne:  A Dark Horse’s War Edge
Riedl:  Against Our Interest
Carpenter:  Barack Osama-Obama Is Just Another Liberal
Cain:  Dangerous Democrats vs. the Free Market
Emanuel:  Iranians in Iraq
Washington Times:  Pelosi Democrats and the House GOP
Washington Times:  The Reagan example

New Iraq Plan, HillaryCare Returns

Chavez sworn in for radical new term in Venezuela
Chavez promises a socialist Venezuela as he starts new 6-year term
Sen. Kennedy Seeks Universal Health Plan
GOP hits Pelosi’s ‘hypocrisy’ on wage bill
Rangel rankled by fellow Dem Pelosi
Several in GOP hit Bush ‘blunder’
Lawyer Arrested for Kissing Employee
Deficit Falls to Lowest Level in 4 Years
Senate wants no pension for convicted lawmakers
Bush Going For Broke With Troop Surge
Iraq plan ‘going forward’
U.S. and Iraqis Are Wrangling Over War Plans
Rice vows U.S. back on track for ‘road map’
Military Expands Intelligence Role in U.S.
Cheney admits expanded military spying role inside US
Pentagon Viewing Americans’ Bank Records
Gingrich sees error in pull of voter base
Despite Lessons on King, Some Unaware of His Dream
Biden calls for removal of Confederate flag
Congress Will Get to Five-Day Workweek…Eventually
Mercer leader would like to see national Baptist links


Morris:  Taking Day Off For Football Costs Dems Credibility
Washington Times:  Iran’s deadly subversion
Novak:  Testing Reid’s Ethical Limits
Navarrette:  Social Security is about math, not Mexicans
Col. Hunt:  Another Way Forward?
McCutcheon:  State income tax needs to go away
Pence:  No New Taxes
Maurer:  Let There Be ‘Blight’
Stossel:  Sticking it to low-skilled workers
Medved:  Why Should the Middle Class Fight Tax Hikes on the Rich?
Giles:  The South Sucks?
Blackwell:  Conservative Movement Needs Leaders


My college football bowl picks went 25-7, finishing my season at 299-81 (78.7%).  Now we wait 8 months for next season to begin.

Month in Review

KCCI Poll Shows Vilsack 3rd Among Democratic Hopefuls
Obama strong in new poll
CNN Apologizes for Mistaken Headline
John Edwards Joins Presidential Race
Hillary falls to earth in poll race
In Meetings With Allies, Clinton Hones ’08 Strategy
Pork No Longer Paves the Road to Re-election
U.S. Is Detaining Iranians Caught in Raids in Iraq
Court:  Execute Saddam Within 30 Days
1st Muslim congressman thrills crowd in Dearborn
Speaker celebrates with a four-day party
Protesters disrupt press conference on lobbying reform
Bipartisan Effort to Draft Immigration Bill
New Census Data Shows Low-Tax States Better at Reducing Poverty
Ford Disagreed With Bush About Invading Iraq
Rockets Fall on Israel Despite Ceasefire With Palestinians
New year rings in multitude of new laws in states
AP Poll:  Americans Optimistic for 2007
Poll:  Americans See Gloom, Doom in 2007
Robertson Predicts ‘Mass Killing’


Sowell:  A Dangerous Obsession
WSJ:  The Payroll Tax Trap

The Jeff Scott Show returns today.  There will be another post later this afternoon with links for today’s show.