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POPSThe Science Behind Global Warming Is Settled. Sadly, It's Also Been Incinerated
The Dog Ate Global Warming, by Patrick J. Michaels @NRO Imagine if there were no reliable records of global surface temperature. Raucous policy debates such as cap-and-trade would have no scientific basis, Al Gore would at this point be little more than a historical footnote, and President Obama would not be spending this U.N. session talking up a (likely unattainable) international climate deal in Copenhagen in December. Steel yourself for the new reality, because the data needed to verify the gloom-and-doom warming forecasts have disappeared. Or so it seems. Apparently, they were either lost or purged from some discarded computer. Only a very few people know what really happened, and they aren’t talking much. And what little they are saying makes no sense. In the early 1980s, with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, scientists at the United Kingdom’s University of East Anglia established the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) to produce . .
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POPSIsaiah http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%201-2&version=31 Isaiah 1-2
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POPSA preliminary debunking of the Hoover Digest claims about US healthcare You may have seen or seen reference to an article in the Hoover Digest that claims that "Despite serious challenges, such as escalating costs and care for the uninsured, the U.S. health care system compares favorably to those in other developed countries." Here's a preliminary debunking of some of its claims. The † footnote marker in the original points to the following note: † Is health care another piece of "defense of marriage?"
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POPSThe thinking behind the choice For the first time of which I am aware we have a president that suggests the Constitution is not the standard on which to balance the scales of justice, rather one side of the scale needs to be weighed down with empathy. That's kind of elusive and open-ended isn't it?
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POPSRight Wing Extremists Why were we never warned about the left wing loons that have taken over our country. "Rejecting Federal Authority," like in those people who want to restore the 10th amendment to the constitution? Right Wing Extremist, like those who just want to have our boarders protected. I am proud to be a "Right Wing Extremist."
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POPSOur Problem is Immorality I am all too afraid that a historian, a hundred years from now, will footnote America as a historical curiosity where people once enjoyed private property rights and limited government but it all returned to mankind's normal state of affairs -- arbitrary abuse and control by the powerful elite.
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POPSDHS Declares Eaglewings as a possible 'rightwing extremist" OH MY GOD! I never thought I would be on a government watch list. Let alone one calling me a RIGHTWING Extremist. I never thought that defending the Constitution of America was an act or extremism. I never considered that standing up against the wholesale killing of babies was a radical thought. What has happened to our country? Oh yeah I remember Obama!
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POPSFederal agency warns of radicals on right This should strike fear & trembling in the heart of every conservative in America. This is a propaganda piece that is so blatantly racist itself and is designed to make all those who do not support the Liberal viewpoint the enemies of this Country. I could not believe my eyes when I read this.
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POPSWhere Are They Now: The Clinton Impeachment
Elected twice without ever achieving the majority of the popular vote, President Clinton become the only elected president in the history of the U.S. to be impeached, disbarred from practicing law, and accused of rape by a credible witness. As a chief beneficiary of President Reagan's world vision and the high technology boom of the 1990s, President Clinton enjoyed many of the benefits of residing over relative peace and prosperity. Beneath this thin veneer of economic prosperity, however, existed the most corrupt and scandalous administration in history. Consensual sex may be a private matter, but when a sexual relationship influences a public court case involving the President of the United States, the consensual sex becomes publicly relevant. The Clinton administration holds the all-time record for having the greatest number of associates who have: resigned under fire, pleaded the Fifth, fled the country, gone to jail, or died under mysterious circumstances.
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POPSANOMALIST THE ANOMALIST IS A DAILY REVIEW OF WORLD NEWS ON MAVERICK SCIENCE, UNEXPLAINED MYSTERIES, UNORTHODOX THEORIES, STRANGE TALENTS, AND UNEXPECTED DISCOVERIES
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POPSthe washington post undercounts iraq's death count they've always done this.....but it is good to note- guess they aren't stopping this anytime soon so if you are into numbers you may want to times them by 6-10 to get a better perspective of the actual numbers.....or double check sources on these bogus counts
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POPS Keep Your Sunny Side Up by Mark Steyn The Iraq surge (McCain's unique selling point) is a victim of its own success and has dwindled away to an irrelevant footnote, and the front pages are full of a supposed economic catastrophe which the crude rules of politics suggest any fool should be able to hang on the incumbent. Yet Obama still can't open up a solid lead. After all, why would record numbers of viewers watch the vice-presidential debate if the election's already over? Meanwhile, the supposedly damaged Republican brand is proving suprisingly resilient. I see one of the two New Hampshire seats that flipped blue in '06 may return to the red fold next month. Where's the blowout? A lot of the dynamite is well past its sell-by date: Two references last night to Ronald Reagan negotiating with Tip O'Neill. No one remembers who Tip O'Neill is. McCain might as well have been evoking misty watercolor mem'ries of Talleyrand . . . Obama, by contrast, is all future - which is understandable, given his past.
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POPSGFP Researchers Win Nobel Prize Osamu Shimomura (pictured), Martin Chalfie, and Roger Tsien won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on green flourescent protein, a tool that has become ubiquitous in modern biology as a tag and molecular highlighter, vastly improving our ability to understand what goes on inside cells. I wrote about the discovery of GFP back in 2001. Click on the link to see my story, Biotech's Glowing Breakthrough.
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POPSToday's word of the day: Hendiadys A "hendiadys" (fr. Gk. "one through two") is a literary figure in which a pair of concepts in a subordinate relationship are presented as conjoined. Examples: "nice and warm" instead of "nicely warm"; "sound and fury" instead of "furious sound"; "pain and toil" intead of "painful toil"; and so forth. First spotted in Robert Alter's footnote to Genesis 5.29.
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