Plastic Bags, And More Global Warming Style Junk “science”

The Times Online, yesterday, puts some fresh light on plastic bags and those who want them banned:

 Scientists and environmentalists have attacked a global campaign to ban plastic bags which they say is based on flawed science and exaggerated claims.

The Washington Post pumps out pure bilge:

The task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures may be far more difficult than previous research suggested, say scientists who have just published studies indicating

Former Barack Obama adviser Samantha Power was resigned from the Obama campaign for calling Mrs. Clinton a monster.

Given, the Ciintons campaigned on a promise that a vote for one would get two and Mrs. Clinton has claimed foreign policy

Jeff Jacoby:

WHAT DO ethanol and the subprime mortgage meltdown have in common? Each is a good reminder of that most powerful of unwritten decrees, the Law of Unintended Consequences – and of the all-too-frequent tendency of solutions imposed by

Shoveling out today, we caught a foot of snow at least, hereabouts.

Meanwhile, the Kos kids are dealing with a snowstorm of their own… one created by Kos, himself. It’s amazing, what some will do in their fruitless attempt

A wee historical question for Bacack Obama., which American Presidnet freed the slaves, George B. McClellan or Abraham Lincoln ?

Jack Nicholson on freedom:

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Steven King on radical Islamists, video:

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Text:

“I don’t want to disparage anyone

The President, today, by way of the BitsBlog Newsroom:

Unfortunately, Congress recently sent me an intelligence authorization bill that would diminish these vital tools. So today, I vetoed it. And here is why:

The bill Congress sent me

(Chicago Sun-Times)-He was “the man behind the curtain” whose pervasive influence in the Blagojevich administration stacked state boards and lined his pockets, prosecutors charged Thursday as they opened their highly anticipated corruption case against Tony Rezko. But lawyers for

Rochester Rocks, 13-WHAM.

Obama’s Weak in Review, RCP

Man bites Dog, George McGovern, WSJ:

Nearly 16 years ago in these very pages, I wrote that “‘one-size-fits all’ rules for business ignore the reality of the market

• Snowing in Rochester at the moment. Nothing newsworthy about that, particularly, except that the line of snow as this is being written runs from north and east of here to the south southwest, all the way down to New Orleans.

Hume, last night:

Two Ohio Democrats tell The Politico newspaper that superdelegates in the state are banding together to get what they want – withholding their endorsements from Obama and Clinton until they receive what is called a concrete proposal

Both the Clinton and Obama campaigns have looked in the mirror and saw a monster. Gerri Peev, Scotsman:

HILLARY Clinton has been branded a “monster” by one of Barack Obama’s top advisers, as the gloves come off in the

You will doubtless recall Hillary’s “Daisy” ad, where she raises the question about who is going to answer that 3am phone call.  Obama released a response ad last week, too.

But in a rare bit of honesty, the New

• It strikes me as amusing indeed that the plan that Hillary Clinton is using to win the Democratic Party primary is the very same plan Al Gore used back in 2000, in his attempt to win the election.  Namely, challenge

Much is being made just now, of the possiblity of the DNC making a ‘do-over’ in Florida and Michagan.  If I considdered oward Dean a principled man, I’d suggest he wouldn’t do it on the basis of principle. But these