1. “Hockey Stick” Graph Creator Mann to Be Investigated by Penn State 28 minutes ago   permalink

“Hockey Stick” Graph Creator Mann to Be Investigated by Penn State
Gatewaypundit.firstthings.com

In November 2005, Representative Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) requested that the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) convene a panel of independent experts to investigate Professor Mann’s seminal 1999 reconstruction of the global surface temperature over the past 1,000 years. The resulting 2006 report of the NAS panel ( . ...

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“Hockey Stick” Graph Creator Mann to Be Investigated by Penn State Mann to be investigated by Penn State University review   —  This statement was released by Penn State here. Oddly, while mentioning the NAS report, there is no mention of the Congressional commissioned Wegman report, which you can see here full report (PDF). Or for a quick read the fact-sheet (PDF).

2. 'Climategate' university performs data U-turn 11 hours ago   permalink

'Climategate' university performs data U-turn
Www.telegraph.co.uk

Leading British scientists at the University of East Anglia, who were accused of manipulating climate change data - dubbed Climategate - have agreed to publish their figures in full.

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East Anglia to Make Climate Data Public A Climate Scientist Who Engages Skeptics   —  UPDATED below with insights from Mike Hulme at the University of East Anglia, which was the source of the disclosed files.] I’ve been in touch all week with Judith Curry, a seasoned climate scientist at Georgia Tech with a particular focus on hurricanes and warming. She has no skepticism about a growing human influence on climate. But she ...

Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs
East Anglia to Make Climate Data Public WaPo ClimateGate Cartoon: 'Did Al Gore Invent Climate Change?'   —  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 ...

3. 4,000 at St. Louis Tea Party-Let Off Some Steam! HUGE SUCCESS!!! 4 hours ago   permalink

4,000 at St. Louis Tea Party-Let Off Some Steam! HUGE SUCCESS!!!
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Today St. Louis Tea Party had a kick off to the holiday season Tea Party to let off some steam and listen to some fantastic speakers. If you missed the even the livestream is available to watch here.

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4. Heritage Foundation's Ernest Istook Runs Circles Around Testy Ed Schultz Parroting Party Line 38 minutes ago   permalink

Heritage Foundation's Ernest Istook Runs Circles Around Testy Ed Schultz Parroting Party Line
Jack Coleman / NewsBusters.org blogs

If you aren't familiar with liberal radio host and MSNBC action hero Ed Schultz, you are about to encounter the quintessence of the man. Schultz made the mistake of allowing a guest on his radio show Tuesday who knew what he was talking about. And as the conversation proceeded between Schultz and former Republican congressman Ernest Istook of ...

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Heritage Foundation's Ernest Istook Runs Circles Around Testy Ed Schultz Parroting Party Line Conservative Asks Lib 'Are You Literate? Do You Own a Newspaper?'   —  Have you ever been in an argument with a liberal and got so frustrated by the non sequiturs being uttered that you wanted to ask, "Are you literate? Do you own a newspaper?" Well, on Wednesday, conservative talk radio host Michael Graham did exactly that to liberal talker Laura Flanders. Appearing on MSNBC's "The Ed Show," ...

5. The Holder Justice Department twists the law ACORN's way 39 minutes ago   permalink

The Holder Justice Department twists the law ACORN's way
Power Line

The Holder Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration can lawfully pay Acorn for services provided under contracts signed before Congress banned the government from providing money to the group. Here is the Office of Legal Counsel memo reaching this conclusion. OLC analysis is tortured. Congress stated: "None of the funds ...

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Justice Dept. Says Acorn Can Be Paid   —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration can lawfully pay the community group Acorn for services provided under contracts signed before Congress banned the government from providing funds to the group.

6. TV CALIBRATION: The Easy Route. 1 hour ago   permalink

TV CALIBRATION: The Easy Route.
Pajamasmedia.com

"Glenn also has a rather dry sense of humour, which I'm guessing not enough people pick up on." -- Andrea See

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MARK STEYN: Major Nidal Hasan Had An Enabler.   —  "Glenn also has a rather dry sense of humour, which I'm guessing not enough people pick up on." -- Andrea See

7. How peace wasn't given a chance 4 hours ago   permalink

How peace wasn't given a chance
Www.theaustralian.com.au

IT was the moment the Palestinians might have had a state, with a capital in East Jerusalem. For a single moment, the dove of peace hovered hopefully over the Middle East.

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8. Not economist, just wrong 47 minutes ago   permalink

Hotair.com

Al Gore, apparently not content with the job of cleaning the Climategate mess, is now opining on GDP accounting. Surely a broader accounting of economic activity will enhance economic policy and decision-making. We commend the work of Professor Joseph Stiglitz and the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress for ...

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9. Another conversation with Scott Fenstermaker 3 hours ago   permalink

Hotair.com

We have a new reader at Hot Air.  After posting the previous e-mail conversation between me and Scott Fenstermaker, the defense attorney representing two of the Guantanamo Bay detainees, the comment string prompted Scott to start up another conversation, this time with more details about his allegations of misconduct by the ACLU and the Office ...

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10. Re: Avoid the Malls -- By: Jonah Goldberg 14 hours ago   permalink

Re: Avoid the Malls -- By: Jonah Goldberg
() / The Corner on National Review Online

Mark - Indeed, it is a brutal challenge, and one I think I cannot meet. I am an awful singer. I did Karaoke with some Fox news guys in New Orleans a few months back (working on a story, I swear) and the universal consensus was -- as I already knew -- I am a horrible singer. Really, just plain awful. Even among pundit types I am terrible. And I've ...

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11. ObamaCare’s Cost Could Top $6 Trillion 12 hours ago   permalink

Www.cato-at-liberty.org

Congressional Democrats are using several budget gimmicks to disguise the cost of their health care overhaul, claiming the House and Senate bills would cost only (!) about $1 trillion over 10 years.  Now that critics have begun to correct for those budget gimmicks, supporters of ObamaCare are firing back.

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12. China Jails Environmentalist Wanted in U.S. 6 hours ago   permalink

China Jails Environmentalist Wanted in U.S.
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DALI, China — Justin Franchi Solondz, an environmental activist from New Jersey who spent years evading charges of ecoterrorism in the United States by hiding out in China, was sentenced to three years in prison by a local court on Friday on charges of manufacturing drugs in this backpacker haven.

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13. Graphic Novel Review: Iron Man: With Iron Hands by Stuart Moore, Roberto de la Torre, Carlo Pagulayan, and Steve ... 6 hours ago   permalink

Graphic Novel Review: Iron Man: With Iron Hands by Stuart Moore, Roberto de la Torre, Carlo Pagulayan, and Steve ...
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Iron Man has his iron hands full in this one as past and present collide in a potential nuclear holocaust.

14. Talk Show Host Asks Obamacare Supporter "Seriously, Are You Literate?" 6 hours ago   permalink

Hotairpundit.blogspot.com

Flanders: "That's what they were elected to do, they're a wrecking crew and we can't let them wreck our chances for change" Graham: "How can you say they are ignoring people when only 31% of the people in the latest poll support support this plan and 50% say they don't"

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15. Terrorists Bomb Russian Trains Killing 20+ 8 hours ago   permalink

Rusty / The Jawa Report

ITAR-TASS reports 20 killed, but Pravda puts the number at 39. Some of you may recall that I lived in Russia for a time. My heart goes out to the Russian people. The usual suspects in this act of terror:...

16. Finally: Sneakers for the Stormtrooper on the Go 9 hours ago   permalink

Finally: Sneakers for the Stormtrooper on the Go
Rusty / The Jawa Report

Adidas unravels its new Star Wars line. One guess which pair I'll be getting? Thanks to Flea....

17. Ohio taxpayers footing bill for defense of "Joe the Plumber" attackers 10 hours ago   permalink

Power Line

Last fall, during the peak of the presidential campaign, three Ohio state employees used their positions to target, Samuel Wurzelbacher, aka "Joe the Plumber" by searching state records in the hope of finding material with which to smear him. Ohio's independent Office of the Inspector General investigated the actions of the three employees. It ...

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Ohio taxpayers footing bill for defense of "Joe the Plumber" attackers Taxpayers foot bill for employees being sued by ‘Joe the Plumber’   —  (AP Photo/Moshe Milner, Government Press Office, handout) Samuel Wurzelbacher, known as Joe the Plumber, who is in the region to report for US the conservative pjtv.com Web site and back dropped by spent Hamas rockets, poses for pictures, in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009. Wurzelbacher became famous after campaigning ...

18. Book Review of The Magicians by Lev Grossman 9 hours ago   permalink

Book Review of The Magicians by Lev Grossman
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If you are looking for a book that will virtually transport you to another world where magic really does exist, then read The Magicians.

19. Landmines and the Obama Administration 11 hours ago   permalink

Kenneth Anderson / The Volokh Conspiracy

Where is the Obama administration currently on the Ottawa Landmines Ban Convention?  The question is on the public table with the opening in a few days of the Cartagena Review Conference, the second diplomatic conference to review the treaty. The Ottawa Convention banning landmines was opened for signature in 1997 and entered into force in 1999. [

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Landmines and the Obama Administration White House: State dinner crashers met Obama   —  WASHINGTON (AP) - A reality TV hopeful and her husband who crashed a presidential dinner met President Barack Obama in the receiving line, the White House said Friday, as a "deeply concerned and embarrassed" Secret Service acknowledged its officers failed to check whether the couple was on the guest list.

Greg / Rhymes With Right
Side With the Troops or Side With Iran -- Guess Which Obama Chose   —  If you said the troops, you fail. Barack Obama has sided with Iran's Islamist government over a US court decision intended to provide restitution to the families of Marines killed in the 1983 attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut....

20. Blu-ray Review: Kevin Smith 3-Movie Collection 10 hours ago   permalink

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The Kevin Smith 3-Movie Collection contains Clerks, Chasing Amy, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Smith's directorial debut Clerks is a wild day in of the life at a convenience store. Chasing Amy is Smith's third film and is about the complications that arise when a heterosexual male comic book writer falls in love with a lesbian Jay ...