GOP Attacks on Stimulus Wind Power Money: Hot Air - TIME

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has borrowed a populist Democratic theme for its latest round of attack ads, featuring red flags, menacing-sounding songs, and Asian calligraphy fonts to accuse vulnerable House incumbents are outsourcing jobs to you-know-where.

"Tim Walz helped create jobs in China!" "Mike McIntyre: Jobs in China, not North Carolina." The brassiest spot ends with a cartoon image of Cultural Revolution-style upraised fists: "He's created massive debt here, while he created renewable energy jobs over there. Barron Hill: For Indiana, or China?"

Healthy-livin’ First Lady treats herself to burger and fries in Milwaukee « Hot Air

Seriously, though, her weakness for burgers and fries is well known by now. Who cares if she’s sneaking out of the White House to hit Five Guys every other day? She keeps a vegetable garden and supports cap and trade. Live and let live, wingnut!

WWF Caught In Another Big Lie : Polar Bears Doing Just Fine | Real Science

Despite findings by World Wildlife Fund and others that polar bears with triplet cubs have been declining in recent years, anecdotal sightings from guides this summer included surprisingly ”frequent sightings of polar bear mothers with triplets,”

The Reference Frame: Some climate insanity for the weekend

While most people with at least traces of rational thinking or common sense have largely seen through the nonsense of "climate disruption", the AGW crusaders reacted in a simple way: they began to write bigger insanities than ever before, hoping that the low-to-nonexistent quality of their arguments can be compensated by their "intensity".

- Bishop Hill blog - Pursuit of Fox

Given that the report was so embarrassingly short, for the SMC to put forward a series of people who were willing to describe the investigation as thorough suggests strongly that they are a propaganda outfit rather than a body that helps journalists get at the truth. One commenter at CA suggests that SMC is the "public relations arm of establishment science" in the UK. That may well be right and journalists might do well to consider that possibility when they are fed stories by Fiona Fox and her chums.