Post Carbon: Penn State "clears" Mann in Climate-gate probe - Juliet Eilperin

Myron Ebell, a global warming skeptic who directs Energy and Global Warming Policy for the libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute, noted that the Penn State ethics review only interviewed one of Mann's critics, MIT climate scientist Richard Lindzen.

"It has been designed as a whitewash," Ebell wrote in an e-mail. "To admit that Dr. Mann is a conman now would be extremely embarrassing for Penn State. But the scandal will not be contained no matter how many whitewash reports are issued. The evidence of manipulation of data is too obvious and too strong."

Flashback: Juliet Eilperin and the ‘Saudia Arabia of bias’ « Green Hell Blog

...consider this: Juliet Eilperin’s husband works on climate issues for the Center for American Progress, a global warming-alarmist activist group.

Wouldn’t it be nice if every activist group owned its own Washington Post reporter?

Lindsey Graham: The Tea Party Movement 'Will Die Out' | TPMDC

Graham better hope the Tea Party movement dies out in time for 2014, the next time he is up for re-election. A Public Policy Polling (D) survey from May found that among South Carolina Republican primary voters, only 40% approved of Graham, with 45% disapproving. And when asked whether they would support Graham or a conservative primary challenger, 57% would go for the challenger to only 32% for Graham.

If the Tea Partiers are still around in 2014, they'll remember these new quotes.