http://www.conservativecabbie.com Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:46:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.conservativecabbie.com/2010/03/12/open-post-12th-march/ Gallup have a poll out showing that Americans are becoming more and more sceptical about global warming. Via Liberal Conspiracy: “Gallup’s annual update on Americans’ attitudes toward the environment shows a public that over the last two years has become less worried about the threat of global warming, less convinced that ... http://www.conservativecabbie.com/2010/03/12/losing-the-argument/ This is the progressive way. Yesterday, the Senate Parliamentarian, ie the person who judges the rules by which the Senate can act, ruled that the Democrats could not pass a reconciliation bill 'fixing' those aspects of the Senate healthcare bill that House Democrats didn't like. Instead, the Senate Bill would ... http://www.conservativecabbie.com/2010/03/12/if-you-dont-like-a-rule-break-it/ Harry Reid's wife and daughter were involved in a car accident yesterday. Whilst their injuries aren't life threatning, they certainly sound serious: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife and daughter were hospitalized Thursday after their minivan was rear-ended by tractor-trailer truck on an interstate in suburban Virginia, authorities said. Reid's wife, Landra, ... http://www.conservativecabbie.com/2010/03/12/this-is-sad/ This is a good article from a Reagan biographer, Steven Hayward, not so much for what it says about Palin, but the insight it gives into Ronald Reagan. Moreso than the article (which should be read first), is this interesting subsequent question and answer session that Hayward conducts with his ... http://www.conservativecabbie.com/2010/03/11/would-reagan-vote-for-palin/ Sullivan takes Scott Rasmussen to task for saying this: One of the more amazing aspects of the health-care debate is how steady public opinion has remained. Despite repeated and intense sales efforts by the president and his allies in Congress, most Americans consistently oppose the plan that ... http://www.conservativecabbie.com/2010/03/10/andrew-sullivan-takes-on-reality-and-loses/ David Brooks wrote an article in the NYT comparing the Tea-Party movement to that of the American New Left movement in the 60's. There are many differences between the New Left and the Tea Partiers. One was on the left, the other is on the right. One was bohemian, the other ... http://www.conservativecabbie.com/2010/03/10/analysing-the-tea-party-movement/ Well I'm not obviously, but if I was and I was presented with a census that asked me what my race is, I would ignore the usual suspects of "white" or "black" etc and call myself "other - American": Fully one-quarter of the space on this year's form is taken up ... http://www.conservativecabbie.com/2010/03/10/i-am-an-american/ Here is a Vanity Fair piece on David Cameron. To be honest, I neither care about the views of Vanity Fair, or in any great way David Cameron. But there was a sentence I found interesting: There are, in both countries, three political directions, a toxic right, a statist left, and ... http://www.conservativecabbie.com/2010/03/10/the-three-ways-of-politics/ Again apologies for me absence - things for me to deal with. http://www.conservativecabbie.com/2010/03/10/open-post-46/