McCain Falls for a Hoax

It is clear, and sadly predictable that John McCain has fallen for the hoax of anthropogenic global warming,.    Roy Spencer on “McCain’s Assault on Reason:”

John McCain’s global-warming speech on Monday made it clear that there will be

• David will undoubtedly get a smile over James Joyner’s first post on Saturday. Men and women are different… who knew?
• Speaking of James, we had an interesting discussion as regards Rumsfeld, et al, over there, you’ll want to check

It’s amusing to watch this little trainwreck, and some of the comments on it, such as at TalkLeft:

This is the supposed Michigan compromise.

The state party’s executive committee voted today to ask the national party’s Rules and Bylaws

Gerson at the WaPo:

There are few things in American politics more irrationally ideological, more fanatically faith-based, than the accusation that Republicans are conducting a “war on science.”

According to Hillary Clinton, the Bush administration has declared “open season on

Jeff Poor, Business & Media Institute “ Gore Calls Myanmar Cyclone a ‘Consequence’ of Global Warming:”

Using tragedy to advance an agenda has been a strategy for many global warming activists, and it was just a matter of time before

It’s a famous scene from a great movie… Mel Brooks’ “Blazing Saddles”… where Slim Pickens and his band rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers,

• Look, Billy, I’m somewhat sympathetic to the argument, but let’s not lose sight of the fact that they went to this place with the specific goal in mind of pissing off the constabulary. To what end? Don’t tell me

• Yeah, full moon, tonight. And no, I don’t mean the guy with his butt hanging out the window of the Yugo to your left.  It’s been a weird day, already.
• Your first clue, Billy, should have been when the two

• Look, gang, right off the bat… any server that goes down under 4000 hits in a few hours isn’t worth much.  Are we clear on this?
• For those of you complaining about Bush’s Global Warming day speech… Gang, I

• Is there life in Ipse Dixit? It’s moving for the first time in recent memory, and was noticed by a feed I apparently didn’t remember to turn off, years ago.
• Ah, yes, the typical ploy… if you can’t convince

Nigil Lawson at the Daily Mail

First, then, what is happening? Given that nowadays pretty well every adverse development in the natural world is automatically attributed to global warming, perhaps the most surprising fact about it is that it is

• Turns out that the upgrade I’m planning for this weekend, itself needed a few upgrades as a prerequisite. For example, I use an automatic upgrade package, which needed updating. All that’s been done. I must say, WordPress is getting easier

OK, I’ve gotta give Joe Lieberman credit. From Time this morning:

Well, I say that the Democratic Party changed. The Democratic Party today was not the party it was in 2000. It’s not the Bill Clinton-Al Gore party, which was

From the Telegraph, today:

Plans for Al Gore to take the Democratic presidential nomination as the saviour of a bitterly divided party are being actively discussed by senior figures and aides to the former vice-president.

The bloody civil war

It is funny that while Mrs. Clinton has been claiming, albeit with rather dubious success, foreign poliicy experienc she simply does not have, she has not yet claimed experience she does have.   Mrs. Clinton meet with a spy for Saddam