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A COUPLE of days before Al Gore was awarded his Nobel Peace prize, Michael Burton, an English High Court judge and apparently a fine film critic, ruled that Al's Oscar-winner An Inconvenient Truth was prone to "alarmism and exaggeration" and identified nine major factual errors. For example, the former vice-president predicts a rise in sea levels of 6m "in the near future". "The Armageddon scenario he predicts," declared Burton, "is not in line with the scientific consensus." I'll say. The so-called scientific consensus of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggests rising sea levels across the next century of somewhere...

I’ve been catching up on the GOP debate. Thank God for TiVo. After a half dozen of these, I just can’t stomach any more of the Tancredo, Hunter, Brownback triumverate. *Bub-boop!* Tonight, of course, marked the first debate for Fred Thompson. He fit right in. Which is hardly a complement. He was shaky with his talking points — visibly straining to remember the script about “Islamic fascism”. He looked vaguely dyspeptic when he was speaking, and more or less catatonic when it wasn’t his turn. The top lighting gave the bags under his eyes an uncanny resemblance to steamer trunks....

<p>So, should viewers of Tuesday's Republican presidential debate expect an exchange of views between the candidates - or between the candidates and one of the event's moderators?</p> <p>It's a fair question, given the jaw-dropping comments Thursday evening from MSNBC blowhard - and scheduled debate moderator - Chris Matthews.</p>

In 2004, at the height of the Dan Rather Memogate story, I wrote in National Review: “Across the media universe the questions pour out: Why is Dan Rather doing this to himself? Why does he drag this out? Why won’t he just come clean? Why would he let this happen in the first place? Why is CBS standing by him? Why ... why ... why? “There is only one plausible answer: Ours is a just and decent God.” Well, God has not forsaken us. Dan Rather seems divinely inspired to crash more times than a Kennedy driving home from an...

In 1997, the National Association of Social Work (NASW) altered its ethics code, ruling that all social workers must promote social justice "from local to global level." This call for mandatory advocacy raised the question: what kind of political action did the highly liberal field of social work have in mind? The answer wasn't long in coming. The Council on Social Work Education, the national accreditor of social work education programs, says candidates must fight "oppression," and sees American society as pervaded by the "global interconnections of oppression." Now aspiring social workers must commit themselves, usually in writing, to a...

Saw this ad on Dallas Craigslist and thought everyone would find it interesting & amusing. ---------------------------------- Reply to: fellowship@moveon.org Date: 2007-09-10, 10:15AM CDT MoveOn is starting a fellowship program, to give talented up-and-comers a chance to work on the biggest issues in the progressive movement. Rising stars of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply for this 5-month, full-time, paid position. Details or to apply: http://www.moveon.org/fellowship MoveOn Fellows will work alongside our top campaigners to end the war in Iraq, stop the climate crisis, win the '08 election and make their mark on other high-profile issues. The program will start with...

he Vast Left-Wing Establishment Kossacks, with help from the Republican party, flex their muscles in Chicago. By Byron York Today more than a thousand Kossacks — adherents of the left-wing website DailyKos — are gathering for their annual convention in Chicago. It’s the second YearlyKos, in circumstances far different from the first, held in June 2006 in Las Vegas. Back then, it was possible to say — I said it lots of times — that the DailyKos had backed dozens of Democratic candidates in various races around the country, and nearly every one of them had lost. The left-wing netroots...

Comedy Central has ordered "Lil' Bush: Resident of the United States," a cartoon satire that re-imagines President George W. Bush and key executives in his administration as elementary school misfits. The title character is surrounded by close pals like Lil' Cheney, who grumbles unintelligibly, and Lil' Condi, who pines for Lil' Bush and does his homework for him. "Bush" is not without its risque moments. When Lil' Bush's school serves falafel instead of hot dogs for lunch in one episode, he and his pals torture the cafeteria employees with methods made famous during the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Six episodes...

Politically biased U.S. Customs agents lay in wait for Rush Limbaugh to arrive at Palm Beach International Airport. They eagerly pounced on him and spread the word far and wide that he had committed a crime that was not a crime at all. That's what Limbaugh says happened when he arrived back in the United States last week, after a trip to the Dominican Republic. He told his national radio audience Wednesday that U.S. Customs agents were waiting to spring a trap for him and embarrass him in the national media. According to Limbaugh, when he got back from three...

Here is another informative schematic from Jennifer Verner: Readers are encouraged to Google the groups and individuals listed to find out just who William Goodfellow is, and what those "secret prison" articles penned by his wife Dana Priest are really all about.

A flowchart, based on what we know to date, courtesy of FrontPage Magazine's Jennifer Verner: Of course these will need to be updated as more information surfaces.

We all remember Hillary Rodham Clinton's charge of a "vast right-wing conspiracy": the allegation that there were a bunch of right-wingers out to get her husband, hoping to impeach him and dance on his grave. Admittedly, there were many such individuals. Mrs. Clinton also correctly identified certain sources in the food chain. Where she was wrong was her allegation of an organized conspiracy. Now, however, there is a vast left-wing movement to get George W. Bush, an effort never more apparent than on Friday, December 16, 2005, the day after the incredible Iraqi elections.

I heard Rush Limbaugh today saying that Harry Reid holds weekly conference calls with the ultra left wing liberal blogs i.e. Democratic Underground known to us a Dummies, Daily Kos, and others. This is just unbelievable. You have the leader of the democrats in the Senate discussing policy matters with the craziest and most delusional ultra left wing liberals in America. He is pandering to and taking his talking points from the socialists, communists, rabid bush haters, super abortionists, ultra pro-gay agenda, military haters, defeatists, blame America first, and anti-Christians crowds. This is an absolute sign that the have completely...

CANTERBURY, ENGLAND - Conspiracy theory has captured the public imagination. Often we are less interested in what politicians say or do than in attempting to decipher the hidden agenda that motivates their behavior. Every Supreme Court nomination turns into a search for the skeleton in the closet or a trace of a conspiracy. No sooner was Harriet Miers nominated before rumors suggested that President Bush used her as a fall guy whose failed nomination would make it more difficult for liberals to discredit her more conservative replacement. The president may have more than one conspiracy up his sleeve. It has...

Conspiracy theorists can now explore the depths of their paranoia with a new degree course. The University of Derby's sociology department is branching out with a module called Apocalyptic and Paranoid Cultures. Alleged conspiracies like those raised in bestseller The Da Vinci Code, about the Holy Grail, are just one aspect of the module. Course leader Andrew Wilson said: "We need to encourage individuals to think freely and critically in a complex and often contradictory society. "This area of the sociology degree will encourage students to explore official and less widely believed versions of history." Other module themes include 'Princess...

Ed Klein spent an hour with Al Rantel tonight on KABC in Los Angeles. Ed is the best-selling author who has really upset Hillary and her gang of thugs with his blockbuster -- THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARYWARNING: Put garlic around your neck or hold a Crucifix I miraculously managed to get through on the telephone (what are the odds of that?). I asked Ed to comment on the Soros organization called Center for American Progesss, run by John Podesta, and its offshoot Media Matters. Media Matters is responsible for attacking Ed in the press and warning people across the nation...

President Bush's top adviser, Karl Rove, is implicated in a real security breach and should be forced from his job K arl Rove may sleep a little better now that President Bush says that lawbreaking in the Valerie Plame leak -- not just the leak itself -- will be the standard for firing anyone in the White House who disclosed Plame's role as a CIA agent. We're not sure anyone else should. Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, leaked the Plame-CIA information, says Time magazine's Matthew Cooper. But, as pretty much everyone now...

Byron York will be signing copies of his new book, The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy at Borders Books in Tysons Corner, Va. this Wednesday evening.As most of you know, Byron is one of the best reporters in our nation's capital. He is the White House correspondent for The National Review and author of a weekly column for The Hill.When: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 20Where: Borders Books & Music/Tysons Corner8027 Leesburg Pike Vienna, VA703/556-7766Mapquest link.

A FEW MONTHS AGO, Markos Moulitsas, proprietor and founder of the left-wing blog Daily Kos, penned a brief but extremely insightful posting. Under the heading, "Evidence that we live in a different world," Moulitsas pointed to a recent Time magazine poll that showed 79 percent of the American public had never heard of (or didn't have an opinion of) Ann Coulter. Moulitsas wrote, "I'd venture to say that 100 percent of this site's readers know who Anthrax is." Indeed, there is little doubt that the habitués of the Daily Kos, like their hated cousins who read popular conservative blogs such...

Byron York was in Washington covering an anti-war rally for the conservative National Review, and the protesters were members of International ANSWER, a far-left fringe group whose acronym stands for "Act Now to Stop War and End Racism." "There were actually communists there," York recalls. "It was kind of amazing. They were calling each other `comrade.' In 2003, it was almost like `Jurassic Park,' seeing real, living, breathing communists walking around." And it occurred to the Vestavia Hills native that International ANSWER wasn't the only organization opposed to the war in Iraq in general and George W. Bush in particular....