Nicholas Kristof wrote an editorial in the New York Times illustrating the need for Obamacare. John, from Oregon, faced a devastating illness, lost his job, lost his health coverage, and couldn’t find a doctor who would treat him. Michelle Malkin and various readers of the Times have taken the story apart. It turns out that [...]
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Another Bad Example
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Health Care on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Brrr….
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged global warming on December 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So much has been happening on Climategate that I haven’t been able to keep up and blog too. Meanwhile, my Handel concert tomorrow may be snowed out! The high being predicted for tomorrow is thirty degrees below normal. Global warming, my ***!
Here are a few highlights: Phil Jones has stepped down as Director of the [...]
Cultural Differences
Posted in Uncategorized on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I couldn’t help being struck this morning by the juxtaposition of these two stories.
Navy SEALs who captured a most-wanted terrorist are being court-martialed for allegedly giving him a bloody lip in the process. Isn’t assault what the military is, you know, for?
Saudi Arabia has sentenced a TV host to death for witchcraft. He was visiting [...]
“Waterboarding the Data”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged global warming on November 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
That’s how Charlie Martin puts it. He reviews an East Anglia programmer’s notes in detail (in HARRY_READ_ME.txt) as he tries to make sense of the climate models. The upshot: He finds complete confusion, and can’t replicate the research team’s results!
I think there’s a good reason the CRU didn’t want to give their data to people [...]
Climategate and Global Warming
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged global warming on November 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Robert Tracinski and Iain Murray have excellent pieces today on Climategate, the emails from East Anglia University that give us a look behind the curtain at the “scientific” background underlying global warming hysteria. Tracinski, after giving an excellent summary of the issues, says,
This is an enormous case of organized scientific fraud, but it is not [...]
“Hide the Decline”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged global warming on November 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Right, and hold the inconvenient facts, the objectivity of peer review, and the respect for scientific method. The astounding revelation of thousands of emails among global warming scientists casts a shocking light on the use of science as politics. War, von Clausewitz said, is politics by other means. Apparently, the same can be true of [...]
Terror in Texas
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fort Hood, Islam, terrorism on November 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I have refrained from saying anything about the attack at Fort Hood until the facts became clear. It is remarkable how much we have learned about the activities and beliefs of Major Hasan, and how clearly they indicate that his act was an act of terrorism. It is even more remarkable how unwilling the Army, [...]
Twenty Years of Freedom
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Berlin Wall on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Amazement
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Middle East on November 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Hugh Fitzgerald over at Jihad Watch is amazed at the cluelessness of the people in charge of Middle East policy in Washington:
I’m amazed — aren’t you? — that more than eight years after the 9/11/2001 attacks we still have people in Washington who do not have a grasp of Islam, do not understand what Islam [...]
The Power of Faith
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Marxism, Religion on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Another brilliant post from Richard Fernandez, with an outstanding bit in the comments about the importance of religion and the dangers of materialism:
Like Voltaire and perhaps Pascal, I think it is always in a man’s personal interest to claim he is something more than an animal or the equivalent of a barrel of chemicals. There [...]
