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Karl Rove is getting the message (from polls) that American voters are upset about reckless government spending. I guess he has never heard of Tea Parties. Better late than never. What seems to concern the president is not the problem runaway spending poses for taxpayers and the economy. Rather, what bothers him is the political…

The Briefing Room which helped break the CRU data dump story (Climategate): Verifying The CRU Files, has a new blockbuster out about climate “science” in New Zealand. NZ’s NIWA accused of CRU-style temperature faking. UPDATE 15:49 NZDT – NIWA’s news release in response to this story appears to have been delayed, and according to a…

No time for a long essay today, as I am about to hit the road along with millions of other cannibalistic turkeys in search of food. Blogging will be spotty to non-existent for the next few days, but with any luck there will be content of one sort or another…. So have fun, enjoy the…

Well not everything. But more than quite a lot. Eric at Classical Values was discussing that with respect to advertising and fads. Including medical and scientific fads. You know the deal. Trust but verify. Before seeing Eric’s post I came across Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. Summary There is increasing concern that most…

We have so much to be thankful for. Not the least of which is abundant energy which makes our lives so comfortable. At ECN Magazine I have reposted an idea I had from November of 2006. The idea is to develop a neighborhood energy source and storage unit along with communications facilities that could be…

From Frank J: Work extra hard knowing your money is going towards getting poor people prison sentences for not buying health insurance. Heh. More here.

The more the CRU Climategate scandal unfolds, the more likely it is to do some serious damage to the Anthropogenic Global Warming scientific bandwagon. Not only has the word “gate” been securely attached to it, it has been likened to Vietnam, and clearly it is the biggest blow the Global Warmists (yes that is a…

And wouldn’t you know it. There is a book due out on 1 December called: The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with “Climate Change” Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History? I think “blunder” is too nice a word. It is looking more and more like fraud. You can…

Iowahawk Geographic ventures into the strange and wonderful ecosystem of the climate researcher: Our very planet depends on them. Yet they remain nature’s most elusive scientific species, inhabiting some of the world’s most delicate and daunting academic environments. But thanks to new breakthroughs in high speed cameras and email files, metascientists are finally beginning to…

Regular readers know that I am not a fan of WorldNetDaily or Alan Keyes, nor am I impressed with the various Birth Certificate conspiracy theories. But sometimes fantasy collides with reality, and when it does, I have to become a patient analyst. At least in terms of free speech, this is still a free country.…

George Monbiot, one of the staunched supporters of the CO2 causes global warming belief, says that based on the ClimateGate revelations the science needs to be re-evaluated. It’s no use pretending that this isn’t a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia could…

It took me a long time to finally come around on this one, but for years I rolled my eyes when I heard feminists kvetching about how the Barbie doll was a sexist icon which was oppressive to women. I studiously ignored the argument that Barbie dolls encouraged the subjugation of women to men by…

Great news for civil liberties: The same day they rejected a gay marriage ballot measure, residents of Maine voted overwhelmingly to allow the sale of medical marijuana over the counter at state-licensed dispensaries. … The shift is widely described as generational. A Gallup poll in October found 44 percent of Americans favor full legalization of…

I don’t know what else to conclude after seeing this, but Chris Matthews is looking downright disenchanted with Barack Obama: Here’s the short YouTube version: And at Daily Kos (which is sounding the alarm over “Chris Matthews anti-Obama rant”), they’ve posted a longer version, in which Matthews details his complaints. It’s too early to tell…

“Instead of science, I’m going with crazy.” In Al Gore’s case, I’d say that’s a distinction without a difference, but why would he say that? Most likely, it’s a Climategate backup plan. Personally, I suspect that “Crazy Al” read Dave’s proposal to give his Nobel Prize to whoever purloined the Hadley CRU files, and he’s…

Not to belabor the point I’ve made enough as it is, but I want to do a little arithmetic with last night’s health care vote. Glenn Reynolds linked the following list of Red State Democrats who voted for cloture last night, and here they are: Alaska – Mark Begich. Arkansas – Blanche Lincoln. Arkansas –…

60-39. This appears to be a good sign. They may not be able to pass anything. The problems with this bill are legion. Let’s cover a few: 1) This will explode the deficit by trillions of dollars. The Medicare cuts are a three-card monte political ploy; they will never be upheld by future Congresses. The…

Anyone who really wants to understand why the release of the Hadley CRU files is so damaging should read this piece about how “Climate change pushes poor women to prostitution.” The “evidence” is so ludicrously thin that I find myself wondering whether it was just decided somewhere by the Powers That Be amongst the AGW…

By now you have all heard that a bunch of formerly secret e-mails and data relating to climate science have been revealed. It is casting serious doubt on the integrity of a number of the big names in the field and also adding to doubt about the size of the role of CO2 in climate…

This is absolutely horrible news: WASHINGTON — Invoking the name of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. There was not a vote to spare. The 60-39 vote cleared…