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Jerome J. Schmitt
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May 27, 2018
Marjory Stoneman Douglas revelationI am not holding my breath for the CNN Townhall coverage of this local news revelation
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March 8, 2016
What if Hillary had been a purchasing agent?Why cannot we hold our former secretary of state, Hillary R. Clinton, to a standard of conduct that would be routinely expected in the private sector, even among the most middling of middle managers?
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January 23, 2016
Hillary's disqualifying defenseAmericans are beginning to realize that Hillary’s admissions in her defense of her private email server disqualify her from the presidency.
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January 18, 2016
State Department bureaucrats beginning to turn on Hillary?The revelation last week that the State Dept. has discovered thousands of documents highly relevant to the Benghazi investigation can mean only one thing.
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March 16, 2015
Gruber's GraspThe very questionable practices that made millions of dollars for Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber
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August 16, 2012
IRS plagued by ID TheftAnd these are the folks with whom we will entrust confidential medical information under Obamacare?
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June 6, 2012
Thermodynamics of Global WarmingIt's easy to portray a catastrophic global warming scenario when you use the wrong system of measurement.
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June 3, 2012
The Commodore and the Commerce ClauseHow the commerce clause unleashed free market competition from state-greanted monopolies, only to be hijacked by Obama to enforce a federal monopoly
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April 27, 2012
Gore and the Democrats' Green Graft MachineWith the Solyndra, First Solar, Sunpower, Fisker, and related Obama administration Department of Energy scandals, President Obama is following a trail blazed by Vice President Al Gore in the mid-1990s.
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April 15, 2012
More pseudoscience 'proves' Republicans are scary conservativeNews brought to you by two government-backed institutions.
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March 30, 2012
Public radio embraces retracted story on AppleThursday's MARKETPLACE program on public radio includes a report by Kai Ryssdal in which he cites approvingly the totally discredited report by Mike Daisy about working conditions in Apple factories in China.
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February 21, 2012
Germany surrenders on Solar PowerSolar power a complete failure, even by the Greens' own logic.
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February 15, 2012
American solar cell pioneers bankrupted by Obama's DOEExisting market participants, companies that may have long pioneering track-records in the industry, suddenly must face vastly subsidized competition from the likes of Solyndra.
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January 17, 2012
Where were the liberal politicians?Another taxpayer rip-off under the noses of the usual suspects.
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December 23, 2011
DOE must release climate dataImagine if the NIH sponsored research at Yale Medical School, and then the federal agency allowed the professors to decide that the clinical data was proprietary, withheld from the public indefinitely on behalf of the university and its pharmaceutical interests.
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December 19, 2011
Holder's 'State-of-Mind' Defense Wasn't Adequate for Scooter LibbyNo one died when Scooter Libby was convicted of obstructing justice.
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December 12, 2011
AP Report on Heating Costs Forgets Global WarmingThe MSM is quick to cite Global Warming dogma at any opportunity EXCEPT when it actually is relevant to explaining the story.
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November 19, 2011
How Newt Could Make Amends on AGWHis thoughtless participation in promoting the Global Warming hoax was, in my mind, rank political opportunism of the worst kind, causing me to dismiss his presidential candidacy.
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September 13, 2011
Did NREL sanction the Solyndra 'Investment'?Did the Obama administration exercise elementary due diligence in vetting the Solyndra loan guarantees it issued?
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September 4, 2011
Will Solyndra's creditors be treated like Chrysler's Bond Holders?Will President Obama on behalf of taxpayers apply the same "rationale" he used with Chrysler's reorganization against Solyndra's creditors?
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February 16, 2011
Epic Green Failure (updated)Total failure of a taxpayer-subsidized $300 million "cellulosic ethanol" renewable energy plant in Georgia.
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February 1, 2011
The energy technology breakthrough the media won't tell you aboutBecause the media is pushing uneconomical "green" technologies, you probably haven't heard of the discoveries which promise to make electricity cheaper
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January 24, 2011
Climate Change Legal BoondoggleTrial lawyers and their academic abettors are salivating over the potential lfor "hundreds of billions of dollars" in legal claims for compensatory losses due to climate change
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March 15, 2010
Arctic Sea Ice GrowsThis should be encouraging news for all those alarmed that the ice-caps might be melting.
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January 21, 2010
Mass. Reverberations on EPA regulation of 'Green House Gases'Three electorally-endangered Senate Democrats have already jumped ship on the liberal agenda on Global Warming
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July 10, 2009
Union Wages make Obama's Energy Efficiency Program InefficientPaying union labor $50-60.00/hour to caulk windows makes Obama's "Weatherization Program" too costly to ever pay off as an "energy efficiency measure".
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June 30, 2009
Zbig: Amadinjehad is a 'Neocon'Hasn't Zbigniew Brzezinski caused enough harm already?
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June 20, 2009
Multiculturalists and IranEvents in Iran present multiculturalists like President Obama with a conundrum.
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February 6, 2009
Icicles in Palm BeachThe coldest temperatures in twenty-years were recorded yesterday in Palm Beach County.
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January 19, 2009
Sanity in CanadaThe Canadian government agrees with Gov. Sarah Palin: William Ayers is a threat to society.
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January 10, 2009
'Wall Street had built a doomsday machine'How Wall Street outsmarted itself. Again.
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January 4, 2009
Gen. Sherman's 'Disproportionate Response'Reviled in the South to this day as a terrorist, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman brought the war home to the civilian population of the Confederacy and ended America's bloodiest conflict.
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December 16, 2008
A jobs bank for Hollywood?What is good for Detroit has got to be good for Hollywood, doesn't it?
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October 6, 2008
It's official: Rezko's talkingAccording to the Chicago Sun-Times, prosecutors have formally requested an indefinite delay in sentencing convicted-felon Anthony Rezko so they may question him concerning political corruption in Illinois.
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September 28, 2008
The 'Marshall McLuhan moment' in the first presidential debateDoes life imitate art? You be the judge.
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September 24, 2008
Corrupted science revealedA prominent insider, MIT Meteorology Professor Richard S. Lindzen, confirms how Al Gore and his minions used Stalinist tactics to subvert, suborn and corrupt a whole branch of science, citing chapter and ver
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September 21, 2008
Newsweek's confused history lessonIn an otherwise interesting article on the American electorate's post-war preference for center-right presidential candidates, Newsweek's Jonathan Darman offers a solecism
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September 20, 2008
Robin Williams' Odious BigotryMost conservatives are perfectly willing to laugh at jokes about Republicans. But when a heavy dose of disdain is mixed in, the humor fades.
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September 9, 2008
No wonder Air America went bankruptOne of the loudest voice in denouncing "torture at Gitmo" now denies that John McCain suffered any discomfort at the Hanoi Hilton.
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September 2, 2008
Palin finds liberal defenders on televisionCould the Palin candidacy be instigating a split in the ordinarily-monolithic liberal mainstream media?
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September 1, 2008
Wealthier than KingsRoyalty lived well through command of menial labor. But the role of labor has changed.
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September 1, 2008
Postcolonial valuesA disturbing incident in Pakistan concerning "traditional", pre-colonial, state-sanctioned Islamic barbarity toward women
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August 30, 2008
Peggy Noonan blasts MSNBC's 'fatuous suck-upping'Peggy Noonan lets loose with hilarious straight talk on Obama and has her co-panelists doubled over with laughter. Except Andrea Mitchell...
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August 21, 2008
Buyer's remorseThis AP headlines says it all: "Democrats to review nominating process"
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August 18, 2008
The Democrats' priorities in a dangerous worldFormer Sen. Tom Daschle appeared on ABC's This Week and revealed the Democrats' mindset on Russia.
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August 15, 2008
ANWR in perspectiveThese illustrations are very revealing about the enormous scale of ANWR versus the miniscule area proposed for oil-drilling:
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August 10, 2008
Climate Impacts Center to shut downAs the Democrats are about to gather in Denver, the famed Climate Impacts Center in neighboring Boulder is being shut down by its parent organization, the National Center for Atmospheric Research
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July 28, 2008
A John Edwards infomercial via PBSJohn Edwards has a new infomercial being broadcast on PBS's "NOW"! Sponsored unwittingly by taxpayers, it was taped before the scandal over his alleged "love child" broke
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July 23, 2008
The Achilles Heel of global warming theoryThe scientific and mathematical details of Viscount Monckton's paper may be beyond the layman; however this paragraph near the end stands out and is comprehendible to all
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July 21, 2008
Sen Lieberman on Obama's trip to Iraq (updated)Sometimes a comment on TV rises to the level of an aphorism.
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July 20, 2008
No nukes on NBC NewsSomething was missing from today's Meet the Press, besides Tim Russert's affability: hard questions.
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July 17, 2008
A revolution in schools?A revolution may be occurring in big city schools. What will Barack Obama have to say about this?
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July 14, 2008
The spread of advanced mathematics (continued)I just learned the astonishing fact that Tenth-Century Pope Sylvester II personally introduced into Western Europe both Arabic (Hindi) numerals and the abacus.
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July 1, 2008
Wesley Clark keeps diggingIn case you missed it, General Wesley Clark made an exclusive appearance on ABC's Good Morning America today to reiterate his statements about John McCain. He did not back down at all but rather he defended his statements.
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June 27, 2008
Hillary the speculator?Cattle futures speculation earned Hillary Clinton a hundred grand back in Arkansas decades ago. But more recently she has engaged in a different sort of speculation.
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June 5, 2008
Rezoko and Abramoff in the mediaThe media went ballistic when a photo surfaced of Jack Abromofff walking with George Bush....
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June 4, 2008
Daschle losesPerhaps this sidelight got lost in the denouement of the Clinton-Obama primary battle?
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May 28, 2008
Czech President offers to debate Gore on global warmingCzech President Vaclav Klaus has offered to debate Gore on global warming.
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May 21, 2008
'Grantsmanship' Distorts Global Warming ScienceAlmost every day another species of plant or animal is "discovered" to be threatened by global warming. The latest I have seen are moose in Scandinavia.
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May 14, 2008
Carbon 'cap and trade' policies immoralThe carbon "cap and trade" policies advocated by Al Gore and John McCain are an immoral solution to a non-existent problem.
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May 11, 2008
'Won't we eventually stop the Earth from rotating?'Imagine a concept for the perfect "green", safe, sustainable, zero-emissions, invisible (literally) energy technology with potential for limitless power.
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May 6, 2008
60 Minutes plays 'Name that Party'60 Minutes reported on the tragic injustice perpetrated in Dallas on James Woodard, who was recently proved innocent by DNA evidence for a crime for which he was convicted and imprisoned for 27 years.
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May 2, 2008
Biofuels: The lesson for BiomedicineCongressional ethanol mandates have had dire unintended consequences. here are lessons for health care and pharmaceuticals.
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April 28, 2008
Cindy Sheehan too leftist for SF?Apparently, Cindy Sheehan needs to complete a petition-drive in order to get on the ballot to challenge Nancy Pelosi in the next election.
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April 26, 2008
First Journalist in newly-liberated BasraNo doubt multi-cultural leftists will lament that the "authentic" misogynist Muslims have been run out of Basra by their countrymen in the Iraqi Army, but the citizens themselves are celebrating
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April 21, 2008
No Starvation for Fuel!"No Blood for Oil" is a spurious rallying cry on the left, but apparently it is acceptable for the poor in the third world to starve so that American Eco-activists can feel self-righteous about driving "flex-fuel" vehicles.
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April 14, 2008
Rezko mention on 60 MinutesThere was a passing reference to Tony Rezko on last night's 60 Minutes broadcast in a report concerning corruption in Iraq.
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April 13, 2008
NYT reports doubts on global warming/hurricane linkThe NYT reports: "A fresh study by a leading hurricane researcher has raised new questions about how hurricane strength and frequency might, or might not, be influenced by global warming"
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April 3, 2008
Al Gore's syndrome?Premier climate alarmists, like Al Gore, may suffer what could be termed "Global Munchhausen-by-Proxy" Syndrome
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March 29, 2008
Debunking Gore's 'consensus' hoaxA new book by Lawrence Solomon about eminent "deniers" of Climate Alarmism demolishes any notions of consensus.
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March 24, 2008
American media ignores inconvenient science on global warmingAmericans apparently have to look to Australia for truthful accounts of climate research conducted by our own space agency.
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March 14, 2008
Liberals, hegemony and Subic BayThe American left likes to throw around the term "imperialism" and "hegemony" to describe our nation and its policies.
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March 12, 2008
Climate totalitariansVaclav Klaus, the President of the Czech Republic, has lived under Soviet tyranny so he knows first-hand the characteristics of totalitarians. Here's his latest essay: "Climate alarmists pose real threat to freedom".
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January 22, 2008
Will the Ice Caps Melt?Al Gore's prediction that ice caps will melt and raise the sea level 20 feet within a century appears to ignore a certain well-understood law of physics.
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January 10, 2008
Today's uncertain global temperatureAn article in the New York Times by John Tierney reports on the discrepancy between various measurements to the Global Mean Temperature in 2007 from four credible scientific groups.
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January 9, 2008
Liberals and Mathematical ModelsI just don't understand American liberals and their attitude toward mathematical models. The left places inordinate amount of faith in untested models predicting man-made warming of the global climate, while ignoring time-tested mathematical models in another important field.
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December 29, 2007
Gore's Green FiascoAl Gore is quick to level accusations of ulterior motives to anyone who challenges his claims for Anthropogenic Global Warming. Perhaps this is psychological projection
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December 27, 2007
Nothing Better to Worry About?In the course of human history has mankind ever been so healthy, secure and prosperous that national political leaders, scientists and the media elite worldwide could be preoccupied with a theoretical crisis predicted to occur 50 years hence?
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December 21, 2007
Hillary puff pieces on ETLiberal advocates of the "Fairness Doctrine" seem unconcerned that the Hollywood gossip TV show Entertainment Tonight has featured puff pieces every day this week on Hillary Clinton.
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December 20, 2007
Free-range fuel? (updated)Now that the environmental lobby has coerced congress into mandating a six-fold increase in use of ethanol as motor-fuel, will they now decry the increase in acreage devoted to the corn-crop as well as the use of fertilizer and pesticides?
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November 2, 2007
Phony scienceJames Lewis's brilliant essay today reminded me of physicist Alan Sokol's fantastically successful send-up of "Deconstructionism" which occurred over ten years ago.
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September 20, 2007
One More Reason to Distrust Global Warming PredictionsI was astonished to see the assurance with which climatologists writing about global warming report Global Mean Temperature over Land & Ocean as far back as 1880.
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September 6, 2007
The Attorney General Double StandardBoth John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales were pilloried by liberals in the left-wing press
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September 2, 2007
Eclipse of the Red MoonFor those who believe violent leftist movements are relics of the past, here is a reminder that revolutionaries avidly supported by the European Left are still perpetrating violence
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August 31, 2007
Navy exoneration in 'eco-crime'?The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today suspended an injunction that prevented the Navy from employing advanced sonar.
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August 1, 2007
If only humanity were eliminated...Ostensibly, Marketplace is Public Radio's broadcast that concerns business and commerce.
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July 30, 2007
Hyperwhite?A NYT article entitled Who's a Nerd, Anyway? reported on a 11-year study completed at UC Berkeley by linguist Mary Bucholtz, in which she concludes that "nerds" act "Hyperwhite."
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June 16, 2007
A ray of hope in DetroitThis is amazing. The Detroit Free Press reports : A new co-ed Catholic high school in Detroit will use innovative partnerships to put students to work at local businesses, with their salaries going to the school
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May 30, 2007
Find the missing wordsI'd like to draw attention to today's AP article entitled "Miss. Murder Cold Case Under Way."
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May 28, 2007
If this is 'neglect', let's have more of itThe Democrats and the Mainstream Media have told us time and again that the Bush Administration has been neglecting the 'real' war-on-terror in Afghanistan by needlessly diverting scarce resources to the war in Iraq.
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May 27, 2007
Boston Globe misses the markThe Boston Globe "reports" today that any notions of Iraq being the central front for Al-Qaeda are just GOP talking points without any substance, "pointing out that Al-Qaeda in Iraq is not overseen by bin Laden."
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May 24, 2007
Devastating Critique of Climate ModelingThis Website posting from Dr. R.A. Pielke Sr., a bona-fide climate scientist and author of a book on climate modeling, is just devastating to Global Warming alarmists.
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May 21, 2007
Democrats and ApologiesSomewhere in the course of the evolution of the American Left and its party, the Democrats, the offering of formal apologies became an important political ritual.
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May 19, 2007
Mindless reporting in the NYT MagazineThis sentence from James Traub's New York Times Magazine essay demonstrates a complete lack of knowledge on the part of the reporter and the editors:
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May 17, 2007
If you break a CFL light bulb...A quick calculation shows that the 5 mg of mercury in an energy-conserving CFL is enough to fill an average size room (100 cubic meters volume) with the 0.05 mg/cubic meter vapor concentration that is considered hazardous for long term chronic exposure.
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May 7, 2007
Peddling doomsday on public radioPublic Radio's Marketplace is ostensibly a daily program on business and financial news, but its reporting on "climate change" is becoming increasingly exaggerated to the point of absurdity.
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April 18, 2007
Galileo Denied ConsensusIn 1632 Galileo Galilei was accused of heresy for questioning the Aristotelian "consensus model" of the universe which held that the sun and all other heavenly bodies revolve around the earth. He was threatened by the Inquisition with torture for holding these views
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April 12, 2007
Tax code patentsAs an inventor with a few patents to my name, I wrestle with chemistry and physics in attempts to improve on industrial processes and measurement techniques.
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February 28, 2007
Numerical Models, Integrated Circuits and Global Warming TheoryGlobal warming theory is a prediction based on complex mathematical models developed to explain the dynamics of the atmosphere. A good analogue to climate science is found in the semiconductor industry, which should teach alarmists a little humility.
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February 28, 2007
I thought the left hated preventive warWhy declare preventive war on the climate? Global warming hasn't attacked anyone.