ESR | July 13, 2009 | The commissars of cool

Cap-n-tax is nothing more than a well-executed piece of Obama's socialist playbook, which seeks to ratify central government administration of the economy by way of regulation and taxation.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: The Next IPCC

Speaking of the role of the next IPCC assessment report, due in 2014, its chair again strongly suggests that the role of the assessment process is to legitimate political decisions:

The group's chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, said he believes governments will look to the report for "validation ... of their own decisions" being made now.

But what if they make bad decisions?

March '09: Missing the Point - Mark Steyn - The Corner on National Review Online

This is the point: The nuancey boys were wrong on Obama, and the knuckle-dragging morons were right. There is no post-partisan centrist "grappling" with the economy, only a transformative radical willing to make Americans poorer in the cause of massive government expansion. At some point, The Economist, Messrs Brooks, Buckley & Co are going to have to acknowledge this. If they're planning on spending the rest of his term tutting that his management style is obstructing the effective implementation of his centrist agenda, it's going to be a long four years.