The Ugly Beast Returns - Jonah Goldberg - The Corner on National Review Online

Imagine if someone wrote an op-ed saying that we need a planetary ban on abortion. Feminists would get their dresses over their heads in outrage about such a naked assault on "reproductive freedom." But here is a woman in a very prestigious Canadian newspaper arguing, in effect, that every country in the world should force women everywhere to have an abortion if they already have a child.

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SEN. JAMES INHOFE ON CLIMATEGATE. And talk of potential criminal liability.

Kerry-Lieberman-Graham-Boxer-Waxman-Markey » The Foundry

The bottom line: Adding a new Member of Congress or two to sponsor cap and trade legislation doesn’t change the outcome. This is not a jobs bill, nor is it an economic stimulus or a pollution reduction bill. It’s a net jobs destroyer that will cost American consumers in terms of higher energy prices and lost income for years to come. And the public isn’t buying it no matter how it’s sold.

The day Abbott saw the sceptics’ light | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Tony Abbott’s road to Damascus passes through Beaufort, in Western Victoria. Here’s a nice account of how Abbott came to out himself as a sceptic and damn the global warming theory as “crap” - a conversion which brought him the Liberal leadership, and which gave his party new hope

GISS “raw” station data – before and after « Watts Up With That?

This raises a number of questions. for example: Why is data truncated pre-1900? Why did the slope change? The change appears to have been fairly recent, within the last month.