Netroots Rising: How a Citizen Army of Bloggers and Online Activists Is Changing American Politics
The Corner (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Mark Steyn update his earlier post with an email from a reader: A quibble. You say "It's not just the e-mails." But, if similar e-mails had been released for a business, wouldn't the authors be getting subpoenas to appear before SEC and congress and state attorneys-general? Sigh. I know, different rules for us and for them. But, how can anyone read the e-mails and not assume they are evidence...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Jonah, your reader is right. It's not just the e-mails, which are open to "interpretation", but the computer code, which isn't : Plots (1 at a time) yearly maps of calibrated (PCR-infilled or not) MXD reconstructions of growing season temperatures. Uses “corrected” MXD - but shouldn’t usually plot past 1960 because these will be artificially adjusted to look closer to the...
Gay Patriot (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Sometime late last summer shortly after John McCain announced he had tapped Sarah Palin as his running mate, a reader e-mailed me a comment from Andrew Sullivan where that former conservative had kind things to say about the then-Alaska Governor. ”Even Sullivan likes her!” ran the e-mail.* Soon thereafter not only would he drink the Democratic [...]
The Corner (Free subscription) | yesterday
On the Warmergate scandal, the Settled Scientists seem to be settling on Phil Jones, head of the Climate Research Unit, as the designated fall guy. George Monbiot in The Guardian : It’s no use pretending this isn’t a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia could scarcely be more damaging. I am now convinced that they...
The Corner (Free subscription) | yesterday
The approval numbers of renowned moron Sarah Palin and global colossus Barack Obama are about to meet . Oh, my. Maybe the White House should call in the Climate Research Unit to (as the settled scientists say) " hide the decline ".
The Corner (Free subscription) | yesterday
The view from post-"reset button" Europe. A headline from Der Spiegel : Obama's Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World Stage This presidency is shaping up as a tragedy - for America, and the world.
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
I'm surprised this man didn't go mad. It's a remarkable and sobering tale : A man thought by doctors to be in a vegetative state for 23 years was actually conscious the whole time, it was revealed last night.
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The paper's position on those revelations of "climate change" shenanigans I wrote about earlier: The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here. (Please note: This policy does not apply to Republican candidates showing any signs of life in the...
The Immoral Minority (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Andrew Sullivan has decided now that Sarah's book is out, and we have versions of events from her own ghostwriter's mouth, it is time to take the Trig pregnancy story mainstream. But knowing full well that the American press is too timid to touch the story he goes to the UK. Really? The British press has more balls than the American press? I am ashamed. Take one story that every mother will relate...
American Power (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Dave's Noon's so completely whacked that I was simply going to ignore his latest effort to salvage any netroots relevance he may have once enjoyed. He's failing miserably in his attempt, naturally, which is too bad, since he proved long ago his total epic academic fail as a historian (see, " David Hoogland Noon, Abominable Academic Wretch "). It turns out that Professor Noon took issue with...
The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
By GottaLaff Via Greg Sargent , a great excerpt from Sully: [H]ere’s Andrew Sullivan on why the Cheney clan is waging a death struggle against transfering Gitmo detainees to U.S. soil : What Cheney fears, I suspect, is that Gitmo will be shut down, that history will record it as the lowest point in US human rights ever, that the Cheney family will be tarred as the brand that destroyed America’s...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
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American Power (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
There's lots of debate on the procedural moves in the Senate to start the floor debate and amending process for the Democrats' ObamaCare monstrosity. Here's how the Los Angeles Times explains things: Without a vote to spare, Democrats pushed their healthcare legislation over its first obstacle on the Senate floor Saturday, as the chamber voted to begin formal debate on a sweeping measure to guarantee...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
It all depends on how you look at it. From The Boston Herald : In an embarrassing blow to the movement to combat global warming, hackers have posted hundreds of e-mails from a world-renowned British institute that show researchers colluding to exaggerate warming and undermine skeptics. From The Guardian : The alleged emails illustrate the persistent pressure some climatologists have been under from...
Political Animal (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
THREADING A VERY SMALL NEEDLE.... There's been plenty of talk about a public option compromise for months. And every time is seems a negotiated deal will satisfy various contingents, conservatives insist they'll need a little more. Brian Beutler reported last...
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