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Here is the text of Newsweek’s 1975 story on the trend toward global cooling. It may look foolish today, but in fact world temperatures had been falling since about 1940. It was around 1979 that they reversed direction and resumed the general rise that had begun in the 1880s, bringing us today back to around 1940 levels. A PDF of the original is available . A fine short history of warming and cooling scares has recently been produced. It is available here. ______________________________________________ There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these...

Cardinal Denounces Proposal to Legalize Abortion in the Dominican Republic Says Supporters of the Measure Are Either "Sick", "Hypocritical", or "Comedians" By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, September 10, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com)--The Cardinal Archbishop of Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, lashed out last week at politicians and groups agitating to legalize abortion in the country. When asked  about a recent proposal to legalize abortion for "therapeutic" purposes, he shot back: "No, no abortion, there is nothing more to say." "No one has the right to kill anyone and some of us are sick, some are hypocrites, some comedians who are...

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Leadership: Democrats are starting to blame the federal government every time their governors get caught unprepared for natural disasters. Nowhere is that more blatant than in the Greensburg tornado aftermath. Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco blamed the feds after the 2005 hurricane that devastated New Orleans. Now Kansas' Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is doing the same. It's become a pattern: Democrats blaming President Bush for their own lack of disaster preparedness.

The GOP Should Dump Its Litmus Test By Michael Reagan FrontPageMagazine.com | February 16, 2007 The philosopher Diogenes is said to have wandered around ancient Greece holding a lantern and seeking to find an honest man. My fellow Republicans, sans lanterns, are now wandering around the political landscape seeking to find the perfect Republican presidential candidate. I don’t know if Diogenes ever found that honest man, but I do know that those Republicans are never going to find the perfect candidate, simply because he does not exist. Some Republicans insist that the only perfect candidate would be a clone of...

Here are the three leading candidates for president in the Republican party, a party based in the South and in the interior, rural in nature, and backed in large part by social conservatives: the senior senator from Arizona, a congenital maverick with friends in the press and a habit of dissing the base of his party; the former governor of deep-blue Massachusetts, son of a Michigan governor, a Mormon who looks, sounds, and comes across as a city boy; and the former mayor of New York, the Big Apple itself, ethnic and Catholic, pro-choice and pro-gun control, married three times,...

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I've noticed a lot of internet disinformation these days begins with the "hard left" and winds up being bruited about by "Libertarians" - who are more like anarchists wearing bowties. Two recent stories, and one popular "Alex Jones Truther" source are examined.

June 29, 2006 -- IMAGINE the out rage, especially from the Left, if President Bush were to hire an Internet guru who had a past as a Web shill for a worthless dot-com stock. Nope, Bush hasn't - but "un-Hillary" 2008 Democratic prospect Mark Warner did just that when he hired Jerome Armstrong and has no plans to fire him, despite new revelations about his past. The Post's Roddy Boyd recently reported that after a Securities and Exchange Commission probe, Armstrong agreed to a December 2003 SEC settlement that permanently bans him from stock-touting. ---snip---- Several Dem activists were startled...

CIA Director Porter Goss abruptly resigned yesterday amid allegations that he and a top aide may have attended Watergate poker parties where bribes and prostitutes were provided to a corrupt congressman.

For those of you who don't know Johnny, he's doing fine. He's at Camp Anaconda, but they call it Mortar-itaville."About 20 people laugh and listen to an update on their friend's second tour in Iraq. A few young men have military haircuts and some of the women have graying hair. Children yell and run past the classroom and down the hallways of the recreation center. Despite the periodic ruckus, all eyes are on Christine Ahrens, who will discuss how to prepare a basic ritual in time for Litha, the pagan celebration of the summer solstice. Litha occurs on June 21...

One day recently, while performing some house-husbandly chores, I tuned in to National Public Radio for diversion. In short order I heard the story of some women who have started "Mistresses Anonymous" to help deal with the pain, rage, and frustration; of those "other women" in our society; then the story of support groups for expectant fathers who feel sympathetic labor pains. This one-two punch, coming on the heels of an invitation from a well-respected college to a "math anxiety" workshop in preparation for a math test and the discovery that I am a likely candidate for Post-Vietnam Stress Syndrome...

Andrew Wakefield prize for preposterous extrapolation from a single unconvincing piece of scientific data With its place at the kernel of Bad Science reporting in the news media, this was bound to be a hotly contested category. Were there any sense in the world, a small army of media studies graduates would be carefully documenting the number of "science" or "health" stories that related to genuine published data rather than overheard rumour, and diligently measuring how closely these stories kept to the facts. In the absence of such quantitative academic work, it was sadly left to our panel to select...

What Happens When Science and Feminism Become Bedfellows One curious thing about scientific pronouncements is that they often seem to accord more with the spirit of the age than fact and reason. Thus, a Nazi researcher in 1930's Germany would analyze data from only one angle and state, “You see, this vindicates our assertion that the Aryans are the master race.” Now, lest you think that such provincial thinking doesn’t plague our enlightened age, I can assure you, it’s alive and well – only the ends have changed.

America's second black president? Posted: March 4, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com One of the most shameful moments of the characteristically shameful Clinton administration was the way the scandal-plagued, amoral president lapped up the notion that he was somehow, inexplicably "America's first black president." It was never entirely clear to the skeptics among us just what it was about Bill Clinton that qualified him for this distinction. Clinton basked in the notion that he was, indeed, somehow "America's first black president." You can imagine why. This was an Arkansas boy who, according to many around him, had nothing...

For those of you who don't have the time or the inclination to read Mona Charen's excellent book, Useful Idiots, yes, the book I recommended to you in this space a couple of weeks ago, you can take the short course: read Arnold Beichman's succinct essay on the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Josef Vissarionovich Stalin. Mr. Beichman covers those useful idiots who could not or would not see the enormity of the famine deliberately caused in the Soviet Union in 1932-1933, somewhere around 5,000,000 lives. Walter Duranty reported it falsely to his useful idiot bosses at the New...

Peace Movements Don’t Prevent Wars Barry FarberTuesday, Feb. 18, 2003 Are you behind the president, in favor of using force to disarm Saddam Hussein, willing to share the risks of combat nationally and personally – and thoroughly rattled by the huge turnouts around the world for the anti-war rallies of Saturday, Feb. 15? Have some therapy. Don't try to dismiss the demonstrators as "the usual suspects." The motleyness of many of them may have indeed inspired an agenda-free 8-year-old in New York to exclaim to his mother, "Mom, this place is filled with freaks!" But drop that line. There were...