For President Barack Obama, this week is all about international affairs. While healthcare is still at the forefront of the domestic debate, Obama will speak at the UN today and at the G-20 summit later this week. While the United States is focused on healthcare, the rest of the world seems to be focused on another issue: global warming.

Now why do you suppose that would be? No great mystery here ... After decades of looking, global warming has developed into the best scheme that the left has been able to concoct to effect the worldwide transfer and redistribution of the wealth.

World leaders are preparing for their climate change/wealth redistribution conference in Copenhagen in December. There is, though, a fly in the ointment.

The first is the US debate on healthcare. The international community is not all that thrilled that Obama decided to push forward on healthcare reform and leave climate change legislation by the wayside. Doesn't the president realize that redistributing huge amounts of wealth from the United States to undeveloped and despot-controlled countries is far more important then whether or not granny is going to get her hip replacement? They don't care about granny. They want our money; and climate change is the best chance they have right now. They're not thrilled that the Senate may not even get to climate change legislation by the end of this year.

The other roach in the ointment may be reports that the earth is actually cooling. While any world leaders attending these summits won't pay attention to this news, the people back home are. For years they've been hearing people like (ahem) your humble Talkmaster telling them that variances in the sun's heat output account for whatever climate change we're experiencing - now they see the data that conclusively shows the earth is actually cooling down, and has been for about nine years now. And ... guess what? They're also learning that solar activity is diminishing! Hmmmmm. Maybe the preachers of hate were right on this one!

Also, for we received some more information last week that we would pay an additional $1,700 a year if cap-and-trade legislation is passed. That went over like a ... er ... let's say like a mouse in a punchbowl.

Stay vigilant folks. The world's nations are congregating in Copenhagen. They want your money. Don't turn your back.

President Barack Obama is chairing a session of the UN Security Council. This is a first for a U.S. President. The session will be about nuclear proliferation and disarmament. The timing is a bit odd considering the announcement last week that the United States will not go forward with its missile shield in Eastern Europe.

This news comes from the Guardian in the UK. Apparently Barack Obama has demanded that the Pentagon conduct a "radical review of US nuclear weapons doctrine" in order to prepare for deep cuts in the country's arsenal. Obama said that the Pentagon's first draft was "too timid" and wants options more "far-reaching" that are consistent with his goal of eventually abolishing nuclear weapons altogether.

Those options include:

• Reconfiguring the US nuclear force to allow for an arsenal measured in hundreds rather than thousands of deployed strategic warheads.

• Redrafting nuclear doctrine to narrow the range of conditions under which the US would use nuclear weapons.

• Exploring ways of guaranteeing the future reliability of nuclear weapons without testing or producing a new generation of warheads.

Don't you feel safer now, folks?

Elections have consequences.

The fallout from Obama's media blitz over the weekend continues. The main issue that Sunday talk show orgy was his interview with George Stephanopoulos over taxes. According to Barack Obama, requiring everyone to carry health insurance ... and making them pay a fine if they don't ... is not a tax increase.

Unfortunately for the President, he was flat out wrong. In fact, the Max Baucus bill being debated in Senate committee probably as we speak says, "Excise Tax. The consequence for not maintaining insurance would be an "excise tax." The Democrat-controlled Senate says it's a tax increase. The dictionary says it's a tax increase. Obama says it ain't so. Hey, PrezBO! Looks like you're really not helping your credibility problem.

We can nail this down even better .. .this from Jake Tapper:

To be more specific, if a taxpayer's modified adjusted gross income is between 100-300 percent of the federal poverty level, "the excise tax for failing to obtain coverage for an individual in a taxpayer unit (either as a taxpayer or an individual claimed as a dependent) is $750 per year. However, the maximum penalty for the taxpayer unit is $1,500."

If a taxpayer's modified adjusted gross income is above 300 percent of federal poverty level "the penalty for failing to obtain coverage for an individual in a taxpayer unit (either as a taxpayer or as an individual claimed as a dependent) is $950 year" -- with a maximum penalty of $3,800.

"Exemptions from the excise tax will be made for individuals where the full premium of the lowest cost option available to them (net of subsidies and employer contribution, if any) exceeds ten percent" of their adjusted gross income.

It's clear ... it's a tax. These penalties will be collected by none other than the Internal Revenue Service. If you fail to pay these "fines," you will be forced to at the point of a gun by the government or thrown in jail. Simple as that.

At first I thought this article was a joke. I really thought that there was no way our government schools have gotten this bad. But I was wrong. Go figure.

The Tucson Unified School District has decided to implement a two-tiered system for student discipline. One tier will be for blacks and Hispanics ... and the other tier will be for everyone else.

The goal of this system is to create a "'restorative school culture and climate' that conveys a 'sense of belonging to all students,' the board is insisting that its schools reduce its suspensions and/or expulsions of minority students to the point that the data reflect 'no ethnic/racial disparities.'"

With this comes the creation of an "Equity Team" that will ... get this ... oversee the plan to ensure "a commitment to social justice for all students."

OK ... now what does this look like to you? I'm thinking that the Tucson school district will not be allowed to discipline minority students except in accordance with strict quotas. If 60% of the students are black and Hispanic, then only 60% of disciplinary actions can be taken against black and Hispanic students. The other 40% of disciplinary actions must be taken against whites ... regardless of who is committing the infractions.

Let's apply this to crime enforcement in your city. Why knows? Maybe the Tucson idea will catch on and this will come to pass?

Let's say the breakdown in your city is 30% black and Hispanic, and 70% white. Statistics show that about 70% of the violent crimes are committed by the black and Hispanic population. As I understand the Tucson plan, the cops in your city will have to charge 7 whites for every 3 blacks and Hispanics for these crimes. You gotta stick with the ratios, you know.

But wait! There's more! As I understand it, the school disciplinarians in Tucson will also have to treat every infraction based on the color of the infractor. (OK ... I made the word up.) A brilliant example follows. The MF word is a part of black culture; not so much for white culture. Maybe only whites should be punished for uttering that epithet.

Precedence? You want precedence? OK, I got your precedence right here. Several years ago the NBA decided to strengthen the penalties for swearing on the basketball court during a game. Black players asked that the "MF" phrase be exclused because it was a part of their culture and, thus, was not swearing.

Keeps getting stranger and stranger folks.

At the helm of every business, large or small, is someone who had the fortitude and drive to make it happen. Most of the liberals out there would call these people "greedy." They assume that the only reason anyone gets into business is just to make a profit. Meanwhile, what they forget is that those greedy business owners are the ones that create all of their French fry jobs and providing their minimum wage salaries.

So the Kauffman foundation for entrepreneurship came up with a report on some statistics on those evil entrepreneurs. I thought you might enjoy some highlights:

1. The average and median age of company founders when they started their current companies was 40.

2. 95.1 percent of respondents themselves had earned bachelor's degrees, and 47 percent had more advanced degrees.

3. Less than 1 percent came from extremely rich or extremely poor backgrounds

4. 15.2% of founders had a sibling that previously started a business.

5. 69.9 percent of respondents indicated they were married when they launched their first business. An additional 5.2 percent were divorced, separated, or widowed.

6. 59.7 percent of respondents indicated they had at least one child when they launched their first business, and 43.5 percent had two or more children.

7. The majority of the entrepreneurs in the sample were serial entrepreneurs. The average number of businesses launched by respondents was approximately 2.3.

8. 74.8 percent indicated desire to build wealth as an important motivation in becoming an entrepreneur.

9. Only 4.5 percent said the inability to find traditional employment was an important factor in starting a business.

10. Entrepreneurs are usually better educated than their parents.

11. Entrepreneurship doesn't always run in the family. More than half (51.9 percent) of respondents were the first in their families to launch a business.

12. The majority of respondents (75.4 percent) had worked as employees at other companies for more than six years before launching their own companies.

Pretty remarkable people, aren't they? Well, these are the people that are squarely placed in the Democrat's crosshairs when it comes to tax increases.

A couple of versions of this gem have been floating around the internet. Here are two we received. We'll give you both so you can pick your favorite. If you're the creator of either of these, let us know and we'll give you credit.

For coverage of the Atlanta flooding, just graze through the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. And here's a video of a golf course right by the mother ship.

Can anyone figure out what PrezBO is trying to do here? Didn't he tell us that the war in Afghanistan was a war of necessity?

Have you heard this audio by now? The White House using the National Endowment for the Arts (taxpayer funded) to push its agenda.

Boost your economic awareness. This from Arthur Laffer: "Taxes, Depression and our Current Troubles."

Max Baucus changed his healthcare bill in order to appease some of his fellow Democrats.

John Bolton says that Obama is the "Post-American President Who's Above All That Patriotism Stuff"....

Members of Congress have now surpassed corporate CEOs to hold the least favorably regarded profession in the country, according to Rasmussen.

I've been telling you this for a while now ... it is only a matter of time before the government gets a hold of your retirement accounts.

A new Gallup Poll shows that the majority of people believe that government is doing too much.

Here's something for Democrats to consider: Since passing tort reform in 2004, Mississippi has seen the number of medical malpractice claims plummet by 91% from its peak.

Barack Obama has a lot of decisions to make on how to handle Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Your next federal government program ... Cash-for-clunkers for air conditioners.

The Federal Reserve Board has rejected a request by tax cheat Timothy Geithner for a public review of the central bank's structure and governance.

Audits of "green projects" thanks to stimulus funds show waste and abuse. It's government ... what did you expect?

The House is prepared to extend unemployment benefits even more.

SEIU president Andy Stern tells us how he really feels about us right-wing attack dogs!

The White House doesn't have time to bother with ACORN, but it is very concerned about casinos for Indian tribes.

Speaking of ACORN, how would you like to send your child to an ACORN Community High School to learn about social justice?