Year: 2008

Frying Fish While Rome Burns

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Keriann Hopkins is reporting for CNS News that the current gap between what's been allocated to pay Medicare and Social Security benefits and what's needed is $41 trillion. With the number that high, one would expect the relevant Capitol Hill ...
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Results and Implications

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Steve McIntyre is lampooning the current state of climate science. Read the comments for extra digs at scientists who cry "consensus" but won't release their (often public-funded) data, plus the usual good discussion. P.S. Dittos to Indur Goklany's comment #10 ...
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In Making Hurricane Predictions, NOAA Aims for Broadside of a Barn

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With the news today of the formation of the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2008 season, David Ridenour comments on NOAA's 2008 Atlantic hurricane forecast: NOAA may have finally figured out a way to get its Atlantic hurricane forecast right ...
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Washington Post & Other Papers Lose 27th Amendment to the Constitution

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Nearly two years ago on Newsbusters, I floated a proposal that newspapers require their editorial and other writers to police themselves for accuracy by requiring them to turn in footnotes with their copy. The process would force writers to check ...
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He Joins the Military, Then Refuses to Deploy

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David Ridenour writes this about Army sergeant Matthis Chiroux, a six-day Afghanistan veteran and current activist with Iraq Veterans Against the War who for political reasons has refused an order to be recalled to active duty, instead calling a press ...
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Drill

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To burst the oil bubble, just use a drill, says David Ridenour, in an op-ed piece at least two dozen newspapers (another example here and here) have now run on their commentary pages. A version of the piece (various papers ...
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Global Warming Computer Models Lead to Rise in Insurance Rates

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If the global warming theory doesn't pan out, do you suppose the companies in this story will refund the extra premiums they collected? Hat tip: Benny Peiser ...
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Congressional Liberals Having Their Cake and Eating It Too, by Kevin Martin

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"Let them eat cake." It's a phrase attributed to Marie Antoinette, the excess-addicted wife of French King Louis XVI, after being told the poor didn't have enough bread to eat.  While some scholars think someone else said it, there is ...
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Secure Their Livelihoods, Secure Their Votes, by Reece Epstein

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Imagine not having a bank account.  Imagine all your money is hidden in a sock drawer. Imagine arriving home one day to find the door ajar.  You've been robbed!  You run to the sock drawer, but your savings are gone ...
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The Civil Rights Shakedown: Myth or Reality? by Deneen Borelli

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Al Sharpton is making headlines again, but it's not for one of his crusades. Instead, Sharpton, his National Action Network (NAN), and several major corporations that have donated to NAN have been subpoenaed in recent months by federal investigators. While ...
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