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ClimateGate: Britain's Climate Research Unit now says it will release all its data. Does that include the data that have been shredded, deleted and denied publication? In a statement released Saturday by the University of East Anglia, where the CRU is located, it was announced that all unit data, including data that had been denied climate skeptics, would soon be released to prove this is much ado about nothing. Unimpressed by the news is David Holland of Northampton, a grandfather with a background in electrical engineering, who is seeking prosecution of the CRU scientists involved in suppressing and even destroying...

Just when Republicans were feeling a little better about themselves after their gubernatorial victories in New Jersey and Virginia, along comes an incendiary rant from Michael Steele, Republican National Committee chairman. Steele, the first African American to head the RNC, claimed in a recent interview that white Republicans were “afraid” to be in the same room with him — a bizarre nod to the race-baiting tactics of the Left. Steele’s rise within the Republican party suggests just how intellectually and spiritually flaccid modern conservatism has become. It is time to seek guidance outside of its callow and cranky echo chambers....