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All the books that I have seen about the science and economics of global warming, including the two books under review, miss the main point. The main point is religious rather than scientific. There is a worldwide secular religion which we may call environmentalism, holding that we are stewards of the earth, that despoiling the planet with waste products of our luxurious living is a sin, and that the path

Most Effective Interrogator: Elderly Woman Who Reads Children’s Books to Detainees Saturday night trippy Love between the ugly is the most beautiful love of all The comment to this beautiful cover of Rundgren’s Love of the Common Man makes my heart ache This looks ripe for abuse I always get a thrill when this happens

The Associated Press reports: BAYAMON, Puerto Rico – Barack Obama told veterans Saturday that he can’t understand why Republican John McCain opposes legislation that would provide college scholarships to people who have served in the U.S. military. “Now, let me be clear: No one can dispute John McCain’s love for this country or his concern for veterans. But here’s what I don’t understand. I don’t understand why John McCain would

TIME magazine’s profile of Michelle Obama reminds us of a standard Barack Obama claims to observe: The latest strike came from the Tennessee Republican Party, which posted a YouTube ad ridiculing Michelle’s now famous “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country” remark. That prompted Barack Obama to throw down a gauntlet of his own. “I would never think of going after somebody’s

Sounds like someone needs a hug! At least it wasn’t his blogging finger… Speedy recovery, Major! (h/t Insty.)

Glenn Greenwald (a/k/a “Rick Ellensburg,” “Thomas Ellers,” “Ellison,” “Wilson” and “Ryan”) is outraged over the fact that AT&T is lobbying for immunity from lawsuits brought by those upset that the telcos cooperated with the government in intercepting international phone calls after 9/11. Perhaps his new hosts at the ACLU will remind Greenwald and his sock-puppets that lobbying is a constitutionally protected activity under the First Amendment, part of the right to

your aphrodisiac toad venom. Ingestion of aphrodisiac toad venom of the genus Bufo can lead to complaints of chest and abdominal pain and even death. That is all. UPDATE:  Hahahahahahahahahahahaha 

Newsweek has a new poll which they believe supports the claim that Barack Obama’s race may well explain his difficulty in winning over white voters. Mind you, the magazine’s claim is based on the poll showing Hillary Clinton doing better with white voters, while being forced to admit that John Kerry and Al Gore did no better than Obama is doing at the moment.  The possibility that Clinton is doing

Hillary Clinton cited the June 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy to explain why she was still in the persidential race, with the resulting flap getting plastered all over the mediasphere.  She quickly apologized for the implication that she was sticking around in case Obama got shot. The irony here is that in case after case after case after case after case after case after case after case after case, it has been Obama,