SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.
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UN-Scientific Method: Climate Researchers "Dumped" Raw Temperature Data?!?
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Climate change data dumped: SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years. The UEA’s ...
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The Climate Change Hoax
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Spencer: Top 10 Annoyances in the Climate Change Debate
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From Dr. Roy Spencer’s blog (with WUWT apologies to Roy and Wayne and Garth) My Top 10 Annoyances in the Climate Change Debate by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Well, maybe not my top 10…but the first ten that I thought of. 1. The term “climate change” itself. Thirty years ago, the term “climate change” would have meant natural climate [.
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WaPo ClimateGate Cartoon: 'Did Al Gore Invent Climate Change?'
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The Washington Post Saturday published a syndicated cartoon that addressed the seriousness of the growing ClimateGate scandal while marvelously bashing Nobel Laureate Al Gore. This came a day after associate editor Eugene Robinson said the e-mail messages obtained from the British Climate Research Unit damage the "consensus" concerning ...
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GPs 'should offer climate change advice to patients'
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Doctors should give patients advice on climate change, a leading body of medical experts has claimed.
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Oh, The Horrors Of Climate Change!
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Now I am convinced we need to spend trillions of dollars on CO2 : Global warming is giving French vintners a new potential headache: In a few years, champagne could be going head-to-head with British bubbly. A leading organization in France’s fabled wine industry sounded the alarm Friday about the ill-effects of rising temperatures on the ...
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TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian state radio says the country's parliament has approved a bill earmarking $20 million to support militant groups opposing the West.
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Iran MPs allocate millions to probe US, British 'abuses'
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TEHRAN Iran's parliament approved a 20-million-dollar budget on Sunday to expose alleged US and British human rights abuses, state media reported. The sum will be spent on "alerting the international community to numerous human rights abuses by these two countries and supporting progressive movements standing against illegal acts of the US and ...
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Envoy: Moscow still committed to deliver S-300 missile to Iran
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Iran's Ambassador to Moscow Mahmood Reza Sajjadi in Moscow on Friday evening said that the Russian officials have told him they still honour a contract to deliver S-300 missiles to Iran.
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Iran approves building 10 uranium enrichment sites
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UPDATED: TEHRAN -- The Iranian government approved a plan Sunday to build 10 new uranium enrichment facilities, a dramatic expansion in defiance of U.N. demands it halt the program. The decision came only two days after the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency censured Iran, demanding it immediately stop building a newly revealed enrichment facility ...
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Iran gives go-ahead to build 10 new nuclear plants
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Government orders work to begin on five sites, with locations for a further five to be found, state TV reports The Iranian government has approved the construction of 10 new uranium enrichment plants, according to state TV, in a further escalation in the diplomatic battle over the country's nuclear capability. The Iranian nuclear agency has been ...
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That'll Show 'Em!
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You almost have to laugh at the way the media cover the "international community's" kicking of the Iran can down the road. The board of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which a few days ago acknowledged that its policy toward Iran had "reached a dead end," has passed a resolution criticizing Iran for flouting U.N. resolutions and ...
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International Diplomacy -- Still Working Great -- By: Jonah Goldberg
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From the AFP : TEHRAN — Parliament speaker Ali Larijani warned world powers Sunday that Tehran could "seriously decrease" its cooperation with the UN atomic watchdog after it demanded Iran halt work on a second nuclear plant. Larijani told the conservative-dominated parliament that Washington and other members of the P5-plus-1 group, who are in ...
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Er, what? Minnesota’s other embarrassment jumped back into the news today when Jesse Ventura told the LA Times that MS-NBC bought out his contract and kept him off the year for being … too critical of George Bush. No, I’m not kidding:
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You cannot invade, adviser told Blair
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Then attorney general's hitherto unpublished letter, written eight months before invasion, given to Chilcot inquiry into Iraq war Tony Blair was told by his government's most senior legal adviser that an invasion of Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein would be a serious breach of international law and the UN charter. Lord Goldsmith, then attorney ...
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Michaele and Tareq Salahi, who snuck in to Obama's first state dinner last week, reportedly seeking six-figure fee The couple who gatecrashed Barack Obama's first state dinner last week have begun touting around their story to TV networks in reported search of a six-figure sum. Michaele and Tareq Salahi, the socialites who gave the secret ...
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A dearth of private sector experience in Obama's cabinet
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After all, Barack Obama thinks that raising capital gain taxes will not harm economic growth; he taunts bankers with the prospect of pitchforks coming towards them; he condemns "greedy" doctors; who thinks imposing massive costs for each additional hire (think health care, think rules and regulations); he trumpets cap and trade as a ...
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Defending Obama…Again
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I caught a lot of flack from my Republican friends for my post blaming the FY2009 deficit on Bush instead of Obama. Well, I must be a glutton for punishment because I can’t resist jumping (albeit reluctantly) to Obama’s defense again. I’m venting my spleen for two reason. First, FoxNews.com posted a story headlined “Obama [.
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Time's Joe Klein Blames Obama's Drop in the Polls On...The Media!
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The mistakes President Obama has made in recent months that have led to his plummeting poll numbers aren't his fault. According to Time's Joe Klein, it's all being caused by -- and I quote! -- " the media's tendency to get overwrought about almost anything ." Yep. After withholding from the public material information about Obama last ...
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"Unprecedented" dearth of private sector experience in Obama administration
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Take a gander at the "huge discrepancy in experience outside of government of Obama's advisors," and remain slack-jawed as you are reminded that most of his insiders all hail from Chicago and know only of Chicago-style, far-left politics: As Ed Lasky points out , "Can we be surprised that Barack Obama would chose a Cabinet so unreflective of ...
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Amateur Hour at Oblunder's House
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The inmates are surely running the asylum. See, 'Tareq Salahi, Gate-Crasher at White House State Dinner, Tied to ATFP, America-Bashing Palestinian Group Calling for Power-Sharing With Hamas!" And, "Did Hollywood Today Plagiarize American Power on Tareq Salahi's Palestinian Ties?" President Barack Obama meets with DC socialites Michaele and Tareq ...
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Council speak
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The Council has Spoken. For complete results and commentary, see here. Council Submissions First placewith 2 1/3 points! - The Razor - Obama The Weak Horse Second place with 2 points - Mere Rhetoric - Obama: We're Giving Iran More Time Because Of Their "Unsettled Political Situation" Non-Council SubmissionsFirst place with 2 1/3 points! - The ...
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IN THE MAIL: From Michael Ledeen, Obama’s Betrayal of Israel….
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IN THE MAIL: From Michael Ledeen, Obama’s Betrayal of Israel.
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A Saturday Obama-Bashing From The Times
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The NY Times editors picked one of the least-trafficked Saturdays of the year to bash Obama's ineptitude in the Middle East: We were thrilled when President Obama decided to plunge fully into the Middle East peace effort. He appointed a...
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Olbermann Suggests ‘Tackiness’ in Palin Visiting Ft. Hood Like Dallas Cowgirls, Tries to Dismiss Book Sales
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Twice in the past week, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann has on his Countdown show tried to dismiss the popularity of Sarah Palin’s book Going Rogue by mentioning discounts like Newsmax’s promotion that offers the book for $4.97 to new subscribers. Olbermann first raised the issue on the Thursday, November 19, show, as he mentioned rumors of high ...
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President Obama’s Strategic Miscalculations
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Fred Barnes, a Conservative political commentator for Fox News and the editor of the Weekly Standard magazine, wrote a straight factual piece in the Wall Street Journal that details Why Obama Isn’t Changing Washington. To start with, Barnes reviews the president’s statements when campaigning for office: “Change must come to ...
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Accusations of abuse against our troops & the ICC
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I have a bad feeling that we are going to be seeing a lot of folks claiming that our forces have roughed them up. First of all it is right in the al Qaeda training manual. They are told to start whining early and often that they were tortured or otherwise abused. We saw last week that the guys scarfed up by our SEALs complained about a fat lip. ...
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My brother was Charles (Chic) Burlingame, captain of American Airlines Flight 77, which was hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. Now I am one of the organizers of a rally being held at noon this Saturday in Foley Square to stop President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and members of Congress from bringing sworn enemies ...
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You simply cannot read this article without laughing. The Arab boycott has actually protected most Israelis from losing any money over Dubai’s credit implosion. Thanks to the Arab boycott of Israel, which partially included Dubai, few Israelis have been exposed to the country’s financial crisis. Few Israelis export to Dubai, and it ...
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Thanks to Arab boycott, Dubai meltdown skips over Israelis
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Thanks to the Arab boycott of Israel, which partially included Dubai, few Israelis have been exposed to the country's financial crisis. Few Israelis export to Dubai, and it seems very few have business connections with the government's Dubai World development arm, which has asked for a six-month moratorium on interest payments on its $59 billion ...
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The New American Foreign Policy ..we eschew ANYTHING construable as bullying
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Except to our allies, of course ... Caroline Glick: The day after Netanyahu bowed to US pressure and announced a total freeze on Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria for ten months, Yediot Aharonot reported that the Obama administration now wants Israel to release a thousand Fatah terrorists from prison. The Americans also want Israel to ...
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The Blood Libel Against the Jews Gets Fierce: Chavez Spews Incitement to Kill Jews, Charges Israel aims to "terminate the Palestinian people"
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This is Ahmadinejad's boy, Chavez (whom Obama backed in the Honduras coup). The strategic axis of evil in our Southern Hemisphere becomes more emboldened and fierce as the leader of the free world abandons good and embraces evil. Brazil, Venezuela, and Bolivia are all scapegoating the Jews. It's just like the 1930's. The tiny Jewish people are ...
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Obama Admin Calls For Return To Israel’s 1967 Borders
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More red meat for the hate Israel crew from the hate Israel crew. On the 25th, Hillary Clinton and the State Dept. released the following Today’s announcement by the Government of Israel helps move forward toward resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We believe that through good-faith negotiations the parties can mutually agree on an ...
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Central bank guarantees Dubai debt
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Abu Dhabi-based regulator tries to reassure foreign investors ahead of markets reopening by offering extra liquidity The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates said today that it would "stand behind" Dubai's disastrous finances. The UAE central bank said it would guarantee the loans made by both local Arab banks and crucially, western ...
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Stocks face Dubai, jobs and Ben's Act II
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dubai, jobs data, Black Friday results and a chance for Congress to throw fireballs at Fed chief Ben Bernanke: The U.S. stock market's path to glory is fraught with peril this week.
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Is The US Using Israel To Pull China's Leg?
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In an article for Foreign Policy, Steven A. Cook--a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations--writes that when all is said and done: Israel is not going to attack Iran to stop its nuclear program.According to Cook:A recent poll designed to gauge prevailing Israeli views of the United States demonstrated that ...
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The Dubai Mess
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I’ve read this article twice, and I simply do not understand the relationship between debtor nations and the real estate speculators at Dubai. Anyone want to fill me in?
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The aspiring reality-TV stars who finessed their way into a state dinner are trying to cash in on their notoriety.
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LBJ White House Tapes
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From the latest release from the LBJ Library, hear President Johnson’s October 1968 calls on Vietnam, the presidential campaign and creating a permanent army training base in Louisiana. Some of the participants in these calls include presidential candidates Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon and George Wallace. Throughout the program, historian ...
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Because they symbolize a "political-religious claim to power" -- which, of course, they do. "Exit polls show Swiss will accept minaret ban: TV," from AFP , November 29 (thanks to Inexion): GENEVA -- Exit polls show that Switzerland will accept a far-right call for a blanket ban on the construction of minarets, Swiss public television reported ...
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Swiss Vote on Minaret ban
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Women lead Swiss in vote to ban minarets A right-wing campaign to outlaw minarets on mosques in a referendum being held in Switzerland today has received an unlikely boost from radical feminists arguing that the tower-like structures are “male power symbols” and reminders of Islam’s oppression of women. A “stop the minarets” campaign ...
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Swiss appear to back ban on minarets
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Projections from exit polls suggest that voters in Switzerland have backed a referendum proposal to ban the building of minarets, Swiss TV says. The result is not yet official, but the BBC's correspondent in Berne says if it is confirmed, it would be a surprise.
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Swiss Vote to Ban Minaret Construction
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Via the BBC: Swiss minaret vote: Projections suggest ban backed Projections from exit polls suggest that voters in Switzerland have backed a referendum proposal to ban the building of minarets. The result is not yet official, but the BBC’s correspondent in Berne says if it is confirmed, it would be a surprise. The proposal was backed by ...
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Swiss vote to ban minarets
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A large majority of Swiss voters have voted in support of a referendum proposal to ban the building of minarets. More than 57 percent of voters appear to have backed the proposal, put forward by the "right wing" Swiss People's...
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Projection: Swiss vote to ban new minarets
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GENEVA — Swiss voters approved a move to ban the construction of minarets in a Sunday vote on a right-wing initiative that labeled the mosque towers as symbols of militant Islam, projections by a widely respected polling institute showed.
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Minaret ban
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There's been a referendum in Switzerland today to stop the building of minarets. According to early reports, exit poll projections show that the initiative may have succeeded. Whether or not the projections are confirmed, this would be a grossly illiberal...
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CLIMATEGATE AND AN ARMY OF DAVIDS: My Sunday Washington Examiner column is up.
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“Climategate” surpasses “Global Warming” on Google
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Note: title suffix – “autosuggest still blocked” has been removed, see update2 at bottom of story. We’ve had the term “global warming” in the lexicon since well before the Internet became a household tool, certainly well before Google itself. So it is with amazement that I report the rise of a new term, “ ...
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WaPo's Robinson: ClimateGate Hurts G-Warming 'Consensus'
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Washington Post associate editor Eugene Robinson Friday called the growing ClimateGate scandal a "major embarrassment for the scientists involved" that undermines the "consensus" concerning man's role in global warming. Even more concerning to Robinson was that these scientists "seem to be trying to squelch dissent" ...
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At NYT's Dot Earth: Young Scientist 'Disheartened' by Climategate; Core Problems Ignored
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New York Times environment reporter Andrew C. Revkin had a post yesterday that was primarily about an open letter from Judith Curry. Revkin describes her as "a seasoned climate scientist at Georgia Tech .... (who) has no skepticism about a growing human influence on climate." Revkin writes that "Dr. Curry has written a fresh essay ...
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Telegraph’s Booker on the “climategate” scandal
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Excerpts from the Telegraph: A week after my colleague James Delingpole, on his Telegraph blog, coined the term “Climategate” (Note: Delingpole reports via email he got it from WUWT, commenter Bulldust coined the phrase at 3:52PM PST Nov 19th – Anthony) to describe the scandal revealed by the leaked emails [...]
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds: Climategate denial foundering on army of Davids
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Last week a hacker -- or, perhaps more likely, an inside "whistleblower" -- leaked huge amounts of data from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University in Britain. The leaks demonstrated that many "insider" scientists were conspiring to block publication of dissenting views in peer-reviewed journals, while suggesting ...
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ANDREW BOLT: IPCC too “politicised” to survive.
Plus, from Tim Blair, a ClimateGate wrapup….
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Discovery Institute Creationists Thrilled About 'Climategate'
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Another right wing group working overtime to capitalize on the stolen CRU email “scandal:” the dishonest creationist wackos at the Discovery Institute. And as usual, they take the idiocy to a whole new level, claiming that the CRU emails discredit all of modern science . Yes, really. The Sensuous Curmudgeon has a good rundown of ...
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The title of this naive and silly New York Times puff piece is "Three Clergymen, Three Faiths, One Friendship," but from the looks of it, these "amigos" have one faith, not three -- "the spirituality of interfaith relations." At least Sheik Jamal Rahman is honest enough to acknowledge that there is a problem with the "Verse of the Sword" -- ...
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Small Town Fights Islamic Expansionism: Says No to mosque Growth
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America is waking up. Grassroots. People have had enough. Photo: It was standing room only for the Zoning Board of Appeals meeting on Nov. 18 when residents came to protest a proposed parking lot at the Meadowbrook Islamic Center on Eight Mile Road in Northville Township. Northville Township residents protest proposed changes at Islamic center ...
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Ohio Judge Rules for Teenage Apostate...No, not Rifqa
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I only pray Rifqa gets this judge or a fair minded, rational peer... It does show that there are good, decent people who understand the terrible threat and are willing to stand for American rule of law, freedom of religion and against sharia and against the pressure of the unremitting Islamic supremacists. This case gives me hope. Rifqa's court ...
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Filed under: Tiger Woods The 911 made on the morning of Tiger Woods' car crash did not come from Tiger's wife, Elin Nordegren -- it came from a neighbor. Florida Highway Patrol says there was only one call made and it will be released sometime today. We'll put it up on the ... Permalink
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Tiger: I Need a 'Kobe Special'
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Filed under: Exclusives , Tiger Woods Tiger Woods had a "Kobe Special" on his brain hours after what looks like a domestic dispute with his wife, Elin Nordegren -- this according to someone who spoke with Tiger on Friday.During the phone conversation on Friday, Tiger told his friend, "I ... Permalink
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Tiger's Alleged Mistress -- For Gloria's Ears Only
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Filed under: Tiger Woods Rachel Uchitel -- the alleged "other woman" in Tiger Woods' life -- is on her way to Los Angeles to meet with the one and only ... Gloria Allred. We caught up with Rachel outside her NYC apartment early this morning and again at JFK airport. She'll ... Permalink
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Golfing Messiah Faces Adversity
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According to TMZ , the car accident involving Tiger Woods was actually the result of domestic violence in the home. Tiger Woods allegedly got the facial lacerations from his wife who confronted him about a possible affair...Tiger fled in his SUV as she made like Jack Nicholson and pursued the vehicle with his golf clubs. Drowsy from painkillers, ...
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Hold That Tiger
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What would a Saturday be without a Tiger Woods thread? The Times has some coverage of his accident; the most plausible "real" explanation is at TMZ. First, the cover-up, as run in the Times: Tiger Woods, the world’s No. 1-ranked...
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Florida Highway Patrol investigators are scheduled to speak to Tiger Woods and to release a tape of the 911 call made by a neighbor reporting the incident.
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Report: Tiger Woods’ Wife Scratched Face, Caused Crash
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A report on TMZ indicates that famed golfer Tiger Woods’ recent car accident may not have been an accident after all. According to a source, Woods told a bystander that his lacerations did not come from the accident, but from an attack by his wife, Elin Nordegren. Nordegren, upset by reports that Woods was involved in [...]
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National Enquirer: Tiger Woods, Rachel Uchitel In Affair
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The National Enquirer is reporting that they have evidence of a relationship between golf great Tiger Woods and party queen Rachel Uchitel. Uchitel’s alleged relationship with Woods is said to be a possible source of the conflict between Woods and his wife, Elin Nordegren, that may have caused his recent car crash. The Enquirer has not [...]
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For the golfers in our audience
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"As Tiger drove away, [his wife] struck the vehicle several times with the club." Tiger Woods did not suffer facial lacerations from a car accident. They were inflicted by his wife, Elin Nordegren -- according to a conversation Woods had Friday after the accident. Tiger has yet to be formally interviewed by the Florida Highway Patrol -- that ...
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Relatives arrived to look at victims’ remains after a train bombing that was determined to be a terrorist act.
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Russian Train Destroyed by Terrorist Bomb
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The express train carrying passengers from Moscow to St. Petersburg was derailed Friday, killing 30 and injuring at least one hundred. Russian authorities claim that have found a blast crater and chemical residue that indicates the train was targeted in...
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Misunderstanders of Islam suspected in Russia train bomb
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The "rebels," of course, are Islamic jihadists -- holding to the same ideology and belief-system as the Iranians whom the Russians have been foolishly and short-sightedly aiding. "Murder on the Nevsky Express," by Matthew Campbell and Anna Voutsen in the Sunday Times , November 29: The first sign of something wrong as the Nevsky Express raced ...
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White House Party Crashers Linked to Obama’s Radical Pal Rashid Khalidi From Gateway Pundit: From the Polo Contacts Website – “America’s Cup Polo Pre-Event with President-Elect Barack Obama” From Left to Right is: Randy Jackson, better known as a Judge on American Idol – his previous life he was a bass player for the Rock band JOURNEY,
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I Know I Should Stop Watching
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But I have CNN on in the background and I am still seeing breathless commentary about the party crashers at the White House. People are aware that the only thing that happened in the breach is that they were not officially invited, right? You all are aware out there that they went through intense screening [...]
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Born here 57 years ago, the young Spector knew only the fiercest poverty. Her family, she says, was "very, very, very poor," confined to a Cuban ghetto with a common bathroom and a bucket for a shower. She was raised by a single mom, who had a seventh-grade education, and by her illiterate grandmother. Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution did ...
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Video and photos from today's St Louis Holiday Tea Party are in the works. This is a great shot of a foot soldier in the Tea Party's media war. We're building a nation of cameramen!
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UK Madness: Use Of The Word 'Youths' To Refer To 'Youths' Is Banned In Youth Facilities Because They're Troubled, Sensitive Youths...Are They Still Allowed To Call Them Young Punks, Bitches, Thugs?
 
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An unusually common sense piece from Ton Friedman in the NY Times. He takes up a question that many of us would consider common sensical but which most of his compatriots in the media have been willfully ignoring, the terrorist motivation of Nidal Hassan. Here’s my take: Major Hasan may have been mentally unbalanced — I assume anyone who ...
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Thomas friedman deplores the paranoia he feeds
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Thomas Friedman's column today, America vs. the narrative is excellent. He minces no words: Have no doubt: we punched a fist into the Arab/Muslim world after 9/11, partly to send a message of deterrence, but primarily to destroy two tyrannical regimes -- the Taliban and the Baathists -- and to work with Afghans and Iraqis to build a different ...
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Four children ages 2 to 14 were among five people killed when a minivan packed with kids rolled on a Louisiana interstate, and seven others remained in critical condition, state police...
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5 dead, 7 critically hurt in La. road crash
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NEW ORLEANS -- Four children ages 2 to 14 were among five people killed when a minivan packed with kids rolled on a Louisiana interstate, and seven others remained in critical condition, state police said Sunday. None of the 13 children in the van was wearing a seat belt, and all were thrown from the vehicle. The van didn't have enough seat ...
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Democrat leaders Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer said this Monday about those who are protesting against Obamacare: "Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American. Drowning out the facts is how we failed at this task for decades."
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Pelosi: Most Americans Won’t Mind More “Stimulus” Deficit Spending
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Sigh… Building the case for a brand new jobs-creation bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says most Americans would not mind inflating the already-gaping deficit in exchange for more jobs. The California Democrat said on a conference call Tuesday that Americans could “absorb” the hit to the federal budget, and she argued that their ...
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