NC Media Watch: Prop 23 Update: 60 Minutes Admits Unemployment is Actually 22% in California

This is a jaw droping admission by CBS and 60 Minutes just before the election. The Democrats will be spinning and spinning these numbers and demanding a retraction from Scott Pelley.

- Bishop Hill blog - Political science

It is remarkable to see two such prominent academics demonstrating such a remarkable lack of familiarity with simple logical thinking: they allude first to the floods in Pakistan, then say that they cannot be connected to climate change and then state that they represent "a stark warning".

Peter Foster: The solar robber barons | FP Comment | Financial Post

Anybody with half an economic brain could have seen that the universal policy urge to subsidize green energy was going to lead to both massive oversupply and unsustainable drainage of the public purse. Meanwhile we should remember that the whole green energy thrust is likely based on scientific sand.