the assault on reason

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• The New Socialism

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 148
  Spot-on analysis by Charles Krauthammer : Socialism having failed so spectacularly, the left was adrift until it struck upon a brilliant gambit: metamorphosis from red to green. The cultural elites went straight from the memorial service for socialism to the altar of the environment. The objective is the same: ...
  7 hours ago

• A Tale Of Two Recessions

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 148
  Newsbusters’ Candance Moore spots Newsweek searching for the proverbial silver lining of the Oba-recession : Newsweek writer Kathleen Deveny found a strange way to spin the current economic recession as a blessing in disguise. In a column published Friday called “ Unemployed Families Need to Man Up ,” ...
  13 hours ago

• Hey, I’m Sure The Hasslein Curve Can Account For This

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 148
  As Michelle Malkin writes, what’s a decade among friends — such as top scientist Al Gore? Al Gore is on his ClimateGate whitewash mission — and, as usual, ManBearPig isn’t going to let inconvenient facts get in the way of his eco-crusade. He talked with Slate magazine’s John Dickerson and ...
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• Al Gore: ManBearEmo

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 148
  The self-inflicted assault on Al’s reason is now complete : In his almost 30 years of crusading against global warming, Al Gore has worn a variety of hats. In roughly chronological order these include: congressman, senator, author, vice president, traveling evangelist, filmmaker, investment adviser, and Nobel ...
  2 days ago

• Obamanomics In Action

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 148
  As Jonah Goldberg writes, building on themes he explored in-depth in his must-read Liberal Fascism , “ O ne of the great frustrations of the libertarian-minded Right is how Republicans got stuck being ‘the party of big business’” : This identification allows self-described progressive Democrats to run ...
  2 days ago

• Springtime Comes Early This Year

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 148
  But then, it seems like it’s always Springtime for Hitler on the port side of the U.S. Senate. In 2004, former Sen. John Glenn (D-OH) said of the Republican convention that year: Kerry surrogates were also out in full force Friday, taking issue with many of the specific attacks leveled at the Democratic nominee ...
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• The Washington Post Hits An “Emotional Dead Spot”

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 148
  Tim Graham writes at Newsbusters, “As Greens Slip in Climate Polls, WaPo Diagnoses ‘Emotional Dead Spots’ in ‘American Brains’” : On Tuesday, The Washington Post’s Health & Science section was headed by a story contending global warming skeptics need a psychologist . David Fahrenthold’s piece ...
  2 days ago

• Less Than Zero

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 148
  “‘Facing a clock some say* has ticked down to zero , today 192 nations came together to take on a potential global catastrophe,’ a dire ABC reporter Bob Woodruff ominously intoned from Copenhagen on Monday’s World News with ‘Saving the Planet?’ on screen.” Huh. I thought things started from zero ...
  3 days ago

• ClimateGate: Turning The Amps Up To 11 — Maybe 12

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 148
  Yesterday, I noted that in response to ClimateGate, the left wants to see the global warming scare tactics cranked to #11 — as if those amps haven’t been playing the same chord for ages : As I noted in last week’s “Hide The Decline” edition of my Silicon Graffiti video blog, in what turned out to be, ...
  3 days ago

• Harry Reid: The Evil Of Banality

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 148
  Back in August we collated some of the “wit” and “wisdom” of “The Quotable Harry Reid” : On Iraq: “This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything” – April 19, 2007 On the importance of energy diversity during the early stages of an economic recession: “Coal makes us sick, oil ...
  3 days ago

• In Any Case, The Goal Is That The Rest Of Us End Up There, Too

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 148
  Wow — what to make of this: at Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government.com, Joel B. Pollak asks, “Was Democrats’ Health Care Strategy Written In Federal Prison?” Robert Creamer used to be the leader of Citizen Action/Illinois. He also founded its predecessor, Illinois Public Action, in which Ms. Schakowsky ...
  3 days ago

• Welcome Back To The Decade That Never Ends

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 148
  The parallels are indeed ominous: The reincarnation of Jimmy Carter in the White House? Check . A feckless, asleep at the wheel foreign policy and neutered military? Check . Ridiculous male fashions? Check . Granola-environmentalism? Check-aroonie . And this just cliches it : Remember the dreaded 55 ...
  3 days ago

• Life Imitates Frank Burns

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 148
  Reactionaries, then and now: as the M*A*S*H character once said, “Individuality is fine, as long as we all do it together”: 56 newspapers around the world “to Sing As One About Copenhagen” , including, in the US, the Miami Herald .
  4 days ago

• ClimateGate: From Russia With Love?

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 148
  Dan Riehl spots the legacy media catching up on suspicions as to who may have caused ClimateGate : Was Russia behind the Climate email disclosures ? Suspicions were growing last night that Russian security services were behind the leaking of the notorious British ‘Climategate’ emails which threaten to ...
  4 days ago

• More From The Shivering Seventies

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 148
  Forbes’ Garry Sutten explores “The Fiction Of Climate Science” , with a particular emphasis on the “global cooling” obsessions of the 1970s: Many of you are too young to remember, but in 1975 our government pushed “the coming ice age.” Random House dutifully printed “THE WEATHER CONSPIRACY … ...
  4 days ago

• Bicontinental Blacklisting

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 148
  Three examples, on two continents of one very punitive strain of political correctness at work: In the USA, “North Dakota Democrats Want To Punish Insurance Company For Speaking Out Against Obamacare.” In England, “Twenty-Eight Years on TV, Then Blackballed for Challenging AGW.” Meanwhile, in Canada, ...
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• The Question That Answers Itself

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 148
  Ann Althouse slams the New York Times’ Clark Hoyt for the Gray Lady’s lack of Interest over ClimateGate , and along the way asks: Drastic, mindboggingly expensive policy changes are proposed based on this science, making this potentially the biggest fraud in history.  Why isn’t the NYT on fire trying to ...
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• When Religious Worldviews Clash

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 148
  In Copenhagen, it’s free prostitutes si! Christmas trees no : Participants in the COP15 climate summit should not be subject to Christmas symbols such as fir trees, says the foreign ministry. Although the COP15 climate conference is set to take place during the Christmas season, the Foreign Ministry believes ...
  4 days ago

• Meanwhile, Even Further To The Left Of The Times

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 148
  Commentary’s Jonathan Tobin spots more than a little nervousness about ClimateGate at the far left’s house organ, the Nation: How does [ the Nations Christopher Hayes ] explain this refusal of so many Americans to accept the dogma that is repeated endlessly in the media and throughout the culture almost ...
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• The Gray Lady Attempts A Little Global Cooling On ClimateGate

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 148
  In the old days of the newspaper industry, as portrayed by such films as The Front Page, His Girl Friday, and Citizen Kane, newspapers would frequently take relatively minor stories in the scope of things and build them into EARTH-SHATTERING EVENTS by way of screaming cover all-caps headlines (sort of like I did ...
  4 days ago

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