Assault on Reason

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• “Intellectuals Cannot Operate At Room Temperature”

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  Found via Sissy Willis , back in 2004, Thomas Sowell was interviewed by the American Enterprise Institute: There’s something Eric Hoffer said: “Intellectuals cannot operate at room temperature.” There always has to be a crisis–some terrible reason why their superior wisdom and virtue must be imposed on ...
  20 hours ago

• All The Goracle’s Men

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  Found via Kate of Small Dead Animals (who has tons of posts on ClimateGate, including this introductory primer ), Tim Blair explores the secret machinations of “the Warmergate plumbers.”
  21 hours ago

• Well, That’s One Way To Hide The Decline

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  At Hot Air , Ed Morrissey explores “Weird Science”, as he spots East Anglia CRU throwing out their raw data : When would scientists expecting the world to take them seriously throw out the raw data on which their conclusions are based?  Probably at the same time that they e-mail each other to launch ...
  21 hours ago

• Climategate: The Destroyer Of Worldviews

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  Spot-on analysis by the Anchoress : In a nutshell, Climategate is a destroyer of world-views. As someone who has always maintained that the AGW hype was a matter of politicians and grifters seizing an opportunity to use unsettled science as a means of getting filthy rich while imposing harsh measures ...
  1 day ago

• “It Would Be Nice To Wear Their Smug Grins Away”

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  As Jim Treacher writes, “ Climategate is a story about computer hacking in much the same way Watergate was a story about parking garages”, as the bloggers at The Pool Bar dive into the email list itself: The files and e-mail exchanges from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at University of East Anglia ...
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• Metaphors In The Balance

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  At the Huffington Post, naturally enough (and from the start of the month, prior to ClimateGate), “ Al Gore Explains How Call For Climate Change Action Is Similar To Civil Rights Movement (Video)” Uh-huh. I thought it was the equivalent of the Holocaust : In his 1992 book Earth in the Balance , he wrote ...
  2 days ago

• The Brief Reign Of Acid Rain: The Original “Hide The Decline”

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  On Wednesday, Hugh Hewitt posited to Mark Steyn : Mark, I want to close by going up to 30,000 feet, beginning with Rathergate and the attempt to steal the 2004 presidential election with fake documents, through this one. Again and again, we find the left shading, falsifying, simply inventing narratives that they ...
  3 days ago

• “Note The Circular Logic Employed Here”

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] Robert Tracinski of Real Clear Politics writes: Note the circular logic employed here. Skepticism about global warming is wrong because it is not supported by scientific articles in “legitimate peer-reviewed ...
  4 days ago

• Dispatches From The House Of Sulzberger

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  Last week, when we produced our “Pinchurian Candidate” video, we noted that New York Timesmen such as Frank Rich, had developed quite an idiosyncratic use of language; dubbing conservative Republicans in upstate New York “Stalinists” for wanting to replace a candidate who had run afoul of an incredible ...
  4 days ago

• Eyes Wide Shut

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  Dennis Prager spots “ The Silver Lining of the Left in Power” : There may be a major silver lining for conservatives and for America’s future thanks to the foreign and domestic policies of President Obama and the Democrat-controlled House and Senate: For the first time in their lives, millions of Americans ...
  6 days ago

• Can I Get Both On A Two-Sided T-Shirt?

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  Just in time for the Pan-Winter Solstitial Holiday Celebrations Christmas: The “Hope Is Fading” T-Shirt The “Hide The Decline” T-Shirt Are these products Motivators or Demotivators ? As they say in the NFL, you make the call! (And speaking of Christmas, and the war on thereof, the more things ...
  6 days ago

• All Your Emails Are Belong To Us

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  Somebody set up us the decline! [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] (Hat tip: Elizabeth Terrell )
  6 days ago

• All The News That’s Fit To Bury

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  Seeing as they each impact key pillars of what today passes for liberalism, there seems to be more than a few connections between the recent ACORN stings by Giles, O’Keefe and Breitbart, and the recent hacking of the emails of the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit, or “Global WarmingGate” , as ...
  1 week ago

• The Bears Are Who We Thought They Were

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  Back in September, we referenced the World Wildlife Federation’s botched advertisement associating global warming with 9/11 ; this ad by the appropriately named “Plane Stupid” attempts to do much the same. What else does one think of when watching bodies fall from the sky in an urban environment filled with ...
  1 week ago

• Everything Is Seemingly Spinning Out Of Control

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  As the Gray Lady would say, climate changes*; women , children , minorities , dogs , email , and the earth’s core hardest hit. (Headline via the cool, objective journalists at AP .) *Or not.
  1 week ago

• The Man Can Bust Our Music!

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  Then: Shut Up And Play Your Guitar, as Frank Zappa used to say. Now: shut up and call your attorney, as Gibson Guitar Corporation’s Nashville manufacturing plant runs afoul of the eco-police, and gets raided : Federal agents from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and local police today seized wood, guitars, ...
  1 week ago

• Might Want To Sweeten The Pot, Fellas…

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  The Competitive Enterprise Institute believes that it has finally come with the scratch big enough to tempt Al Gore to finally debate global “warming”: [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] Say, this video, borrowing from an old Saturday Night Live ...
  1 week ago

• An Inconvenient Bedtime Story

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  “Why did they do all this, daddy?” “To stop global warming, honey”: [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] (H/T: Theo Spark ; related thoughts here .)
  2 weeks ago

• Al Gore And The Original Assault On Reason

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  Dubbing Al Gore “The Thinking Man’s Thinking Man”, Newsweek has yet another of its unintentionally ironic headlines.  (At least we think the irony is unintentional, although Conquest’s Third Law is always a potential factor.) And while we won’t say a word about the inherent sexism in the headline ...
  2 weeks ago

• WWF: Gotta Exploit Someone

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] Rush Limbaugh: “World Wildlife Fund Exploits Children in Propaganda Video.” Hey, it’s progress of a sort: at least they’re not exploiting 9/11 this time around. For a look at another ad that exploits kids ...
  2 weeks ago

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