Fish Wrap: Legislation Requiring Full Discussion Of Scientific Issues Is Bad

Here we go: Darwin Foes Add Warming to Targets Critics of the teaching of evolution in the nation’s classrooms are gaining ground in some states by linking the issue to global warming, arguing that dissenting views on both scientific subjects should be taught in public schools. My first thought when I caught the headline and […]

 

Newsweek Claims “We The People” Are The Problem

Surprisingly, they are actually partially correct Watching your government at work can be an appalling spectacle. Politicians posture and bicker, and not much gets done. It’s gotten so bad–or at least seems so bad–that pundits are beginning to wonder if the system is broken in some fundamental way and to cast about for a big […]

 

Woops! 2001-2010 The Snowiest Decade

Anthony Watts catches an interesting study Now that we have reached the end of the meteorological winter (December-February,) Rutgers University Global Snow Lab numbers (1967-2010) show that the just completed decade (2001-2010) had the snowiest Northern Hemisphere winters on record. The just completed winter was also the second snowiest on record, exceeded only by 1978. […]

 







Cap And Tax May Be Gone, Replaced With “Just Tax, Baby!”

It’s a good thing the Washington Post is there to tell us these kinds of things on a Saturday when most people are not watching: Senators to propose abandoning cape-and-trade Three key senators are engaged in a radical behind-the-scenes overhaul of climate legislation, preparing to jettison the broad “cap-and-trade” approach that has defined the legislative […]

 


GOP Forces Dems To Pull The “Be Nice To Terrorists” Bill

Did you hear about this one Thursday? While you were distracted by the health bloviations, Andy McCarthy found out what the Democrats tried to slip into an intelligence bill The Obama Democrats have outdone themselves. While the country and the Congress have their eyes on today’s dog-and-pony show on socialized medicine, House Democrats last night […]

 


Climate Data Review: Fox Guarding Henhouse

Amazingly, the science is so settled and the data so picture perfect that leading climate alarmists want a do over The two most influential advisory bodies on climate change are planning independent reviews of their research in an attempt to regain public trust after revelations about errors and the suppression of data. The Intergovernmental Panel […]

 


CST – Senator Sanders: You Skeptics Are Like Nazi Deniers, Plus Hurricanes

Collapsing Science Today: Hey, don’t say climate alarmists are over the top or something Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is comparing climate change skeptics to those who disregarded the Nazi threat to America in the 1930s, adding a strident rhetorical shot to the already volatile debate over climate change. “It reminds me in some ways of […]

 


Dan Pfeiffer Asks When GOP Will Post Their Health Plans Online. Seriously?

Again and again and again and again, etc and so on, President Obama has called for bipartisanship (which most of us know is just mule fritter dressing), yet, today, DanPfeiffer, the White House communication director, destroys that same (disingenuous) Obama meme while he himself calls hypocritically for bipartisanship, using the forum of the official White […]

 




CST: Senate Will Attempt To Pass Cap And Tax This Coming Week

Collapsing Science Today: Yes, you did read that headline correctly. And, yes, it was less than a month ago when Obama stood up in front of Congress and the American People and state uncatagorically that the economy and jobs were the top priorities for the government to focus on. A pledge that less time than […]

 



Iraq War To Be Renamed, We Can All Thank George Bush For Staying Strong

Jake Tapper has an exclusive regarding the renaming of Operation Iraqi Freedom, which, perhaps, should be renamed “Operation Bush Was Right” ABC News has learned that the Obama administration has decided to give the war in Iraq — currently known as Operation Iraqi Freedom — a new name. The new name: “Operation New Dawn.” In […]

 


Ezra Klein Trots Out The Left’s Best Argument Against Cross-State Insurance

By best, what is meant is a sad, lame, ridiculous, pathetic, weak, and grasping at straws argument The big Republican idea to bring down health-care costs is to “let families and businesses buy health insurance across state lines.” Jon Chait has some commentary here, but I want to simplify a little bit. Insurance is currently […]