Now that the Climategate e-mails have found him out, he’s singing a different tune. The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information. Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused […]
Over at The Weekly Standard, Matthew Continetti demonstrates that the Old Gray Lady is in bed with the Obama administration. Let's play a game. Let's say you conducted a poll with a fellow news organization. The poll found that the president's approval rating had fallen to 46 percent. The poll found that 56 percent of […]
I hate to say “I told you so…” No. That’s a lie. I love to say “I told you so.” President Barack Obama said he is “agnostic” about raising taxes on households making less than $250,000 as part of a broad effort to rein in the budget deficit. Obama, in a Feb. 9 Oval Office […]
The headline requires an explanation. When I see stuff like this, I think to myself: “DeGaulle of these people.” On Larry King Live last night, Vice President Joe Biden said Iraq "could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of […]
We heard that refrain a lot during the eight years George W. Bush was president. Leftists marching in parades were patriotic when they carried banners stating: “We support the troops when they shoot their officers.” Code Pink and their cohorts were patriots when they blocked the entrance of the Marine Corps recruiting office in Berkeley, […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning “fact-check” Web site Politifact.com has done it again. When last we criticized one of their findings, Politifact.com rated this statement by Rep. Mike Pence “half-true”: "To use money from the TARP fund in the manner that is being discussed by the White House and congressional Democrats would be a violation of the law." […]
Remember when the repeated mispronunciation of a common word was an indicator of below-normal intelligence? Don’t expect similar snark from the punditocracy.
I know it’s unsporting to pick on high school students, but if you’re going to write a letter to the editor of the local paper, [second letter] you better be able to take it. Today we have Adrienne Dickinson suggesting that the Supreme Court ruling in the Citizens United case will result in the return […]