Tom Nelson: Patrick Carroll, retired Environment Canada meteorologist: "the IPCC theory of anthropogenic warming is a hoax that is rapidly falling into disfavour among atmospheric scientists" Patrick Carroll, retired Environment Canada meteorologist: "the IPCC theory of anthropogenic warming is a hoax that is rapidly falling into disfavour among atmospheric scientists"
The Agitator » Blog Archive » New York Times Aghast that Wired Would Talk Honestly About Drug Use New York Times Aghast that Wired Would Talk Honestly About Drug Use Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 10 Zen Monkeys has the details on a dust-up between the Gray Lady and Wired magazine in which the former got a case of the vapors over a short piece in the latter that honestly discussed the benefits and drawbacks of "brain power" drugs like nicotine, Adderall, caffeine, cocaine, and methamphetamine. I hope Wired has learned a lesson, here. Apparently, anything short of parroting ONDCP talking points about illicit drugs and off-label use of prescription drugs is irresponsible journalism. There’s no room for nuance, truth, or honesty here. Only scorn and moral absolutism.
Mark Hemingway on Newsweek, Barack Obama & Joe Lieberman on National Review Online Newsweek has a piece this week on Barack Obama — titled “His Jewish Problem: A Myth?” — that is an absolutely Herculean feat of water-carrying for the Illinois senator. But before tackling the factual problems, the article’s biggest problem needs to be addressed — Newsweek aids and abets the Obama campaign’s decision to slander Joe Lieberman:
Power Line recent statements by the CIA director and yesterday’s article in the Wall Street Journal by Frederick and Kimberly Kagan point to what a lot of people are feeling: that we’re on the cusp of a major victory against Al Qaeda in Iraq.
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Victim’s escape Journalism in this country is three quarters dead. Reporters are either stupidly uninterested in the facts of a story, like the Daily News reporters, or else, like Eligon of the evil New York Times, they have a leftist agenda to downplay and relativize non-liberal realities, such as a black man’s 19-hour sexual abuse and torture of a white woman.
2blowhards.com: We got suckered… The beneficiaries of the agreement with China fall into two groups: multinational companies that moved to China and the financial institutions that financed those investments, trade flows, and deficits.
