As for my being obnoxious, if the truth is obnoxious, then I am guilty as charged.

From Maggie’s Farm via Theo Spark, this Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works piece: This latest warning about global warming alarmism follows the declaration that “the political consensus surrounding climate policy is collapsing” by University of Colorado Professor Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. on February 7, 2009. Pielke, Jr., accepts the UN IPCC view of global warming, bluntly called the current carbon trading based policy proposals to address man-made global

Don’t really link to Pamela much, but this is . . . intriguing: This is un-frickin-believable. The financial crisis was deliberate, planned, staged. Who made the run? “Someone threw us in the middle of the Atlantic ocean without a life raft. We are trying to determine which is the closest shore and whether there is any chance in the world to swim that far. We don’t know.” Hello? Senator Leahy?

Accused Mumbai massacre plotter sexually abused/tortured by white woman interrogator. And some Iowahawk: “The number itself is incomprehensible by human minds, and can only be theoretically understood in a fractional parallel universe which we refer to as the DC dimension,” said Brossard. “The best way to understand a stimulus is to imagine a dollar sign followed by a packed string of hexidecimal nanodigits, wound into a triple helix, woven into

Hurricane Paglia has redescended on Salon: Speaking of talk radio (which I listen to constantly), I remain incredulous that any Democrat who professes liberal values would give a moment’s thought to supporting a return of the Fairness Doctrine to muzzle conservative shows. (My latest manifesto on this subject appeared in my last column.) The failure of liberals to master the vibrant medium of talk radio remains puzzling. To reach the

Were it me running the Republican party, I’d give up on being pragmatic and cut the 3 Senatorial defectors loose. Because if they’re willing to vote for this travesty of a “stimulus” package, they are not in any way committed to free enterprise, personal responsibility, or personal freedom — and so letting them dangle as independents, or even join with Democrats, is preferable to watching them provide a veneer of

Geert Wilders may be a bit of an ass, but is he a “security threat” to Britain? The question I have is: Do you care, anymore? I do, because I’ve got friends and family over there. If I didn’t, I don’t know that I’d be any more upset about it than leftists really are about the genocide in Darfur, though. Their name is . . . Related: TNR writer criticizes

Political science! Several commenters have pointed this out: President Obama said in his inaugural address that he planned to “restore science to its rightful place” in government. That’s a worthy goal. But statisticians at the Commerce Department didn’t think it would mean having the director of next year’s Census report directly to the White House rather than to the Commerce secretary, as is customary. “There’s only one reason to have

If this land is your land and this land is my land, then how come I’m the one always stuck mowing the huge bitch? Yeah. That’s what I thought. Pinko.

adopt a wolf. For her. More House of Mirth-a; original House of Mirth-a