Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
One of the points Mitt raised in talking about trade with China is the fact that China cheats, not just be manipulating currency (which Mitt also mentioned) but also by failing to stop counterfeiting. (I’d be willing to bet that the government encourages counterfeiting, but I don’t have any proof
Continue readingA few days ago, writing with regard to the media’s decision to ignore the standing ovations Newt received during the last South Carolina debate, I asked “If the Press Ignores an Event, Does It Exist?” The press, it turns out, wants to take that experiment in ignoring facts as far
Continue reading(Market Street, by Alfonso Jiminez) Market Street is San Francisco’s main drag. There are other major streets in the City, but Market Street the one that starts just below Twin Peaks and travels diagonally northeast all the way to the Ferry Building. It traverses the Castro District, the outer fringes
Continue readingOne of the many blessings of our American military is that it’s a Constitutional military that has as its Commander in Chief a civilian elected by the American public. (Although history has shown, fairly recently in fact, that the American public sometimes elects bad CinCs.) Because the elected CinC is
Continue readingBy now, all people, young and old, know better than to give their credit card information out over the phone. The thieves, knowing that this well has gone dry, have a new approach, which has them conning you into giving out the card security number. Although this approach has been
Continue readingSome things go out with a whimper. Global warming may well be going out with a bang. The latest news from Russia is the claim that the global warming scientists didn’t just have faulty code and highly massaged numbers. It turns out that they also messed with the underlying data,
Continue readingMy post title is a bit of an exaggeration. It’s not clear that the science is fraudulent. It’s just clear that the scientist is fraudulent: A sweeping California regulation aimed at cutting hazardous pollution from diesel engine exhaust could be derailed after a key state researcher on the project was
Continue readingIn the wake of the emails that an anonymous whistleblower published, those of us who aren’t scientists have been able to figure out that something is very, very wrong with the AGW data. Still, all the science stuff is confusing, especially the bit about “hide the decline.” Thankfully, at American
Continue readingFrom The Weekly Standard: With the release of hundreds of emails by scientists advocates of global warming showing obvious and entirely inappropriate collusion by the authors — including attempts to suppress dissent, to punish journals that publish peer-reviewed studies casting doubt on global warming, and to manipulate data to bolster
Continue readingI just had to laugh. The New York Times report on the hacked climate change documents starts off pretty honestly: Hundreds of private e-mail messages and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate
Continue readingIt’s a story that broke first in Europe, but is making its way here. (I heard about it on NewsFifty, which is constantly adding links.) Here’s the story, briefly: Hadley GRU is one of the major climate change advocacy organizations. Hackers broke into its database and discovered more than a
Continue readingYou know, whether you’re going for success or failure, think big. Right now, the government’s failure rate at Medicare is pretty small potatoes, but think what it can do when it owns the whole system: More than $98 billion in taxpayer dollars spent by government agencies was wasted, much of
Continue readingJack Cashill tells a story I never knew (no doubt because I grew up on the MSM). Roots was a fraud, from beginning to end — but what an important fraud, because it managed to remove Muslims from the slave trade.
Continue readingAs more questions arise regarding Obama’s contribution to his own autobiography, I wondered whether a software program could be written to compare his known writings (which, other than Dreams, are almost non-existent), to Ayers’ prodigious output. Turns out such software already exists and at least one person claims that it
Continue readingTwo examples of the fraud powering Obama to the White House, one in the land of fundraising (and here’s another link and here’s another link, this one from Mark Steyn), and one in the land of voter registration. I gather that federal and state political agencies, afraid of being called
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