Popular Technology.net: 500 Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticism of “Man-Made” Global Warming.
Fruits of Liberal Policy
N.J. loses $70B in wealth during five years as residents depart (for lower taxes)
“The wealth is not being replaced,” said John Havens, who directed the study. “It’s above and beyond the general trend that is affecting the rest of the northeast.”
This was not always the case. The study – the first on interstate wealth migration in the country — noted the state actually saw an influx of $98 billion in the five years preceding 2004. The exodus of wealth, then, local experts and economists concluded, was a reaction to a series of changes in the state’s tax structure — including increases in the income, sales, property and “millionaire” taxes.
“This study makes it crystal clear that New Jersey’s tax policies are resulting in a significant decline in the state’s wealth,” said Dennis Bone, chairman of the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce and president of Verizon New Jersey.
via N.J. loses $70B in wealth during five years as residents depart | New Jersey Business – – NJ.com.
Vulnerable Dems seek distance from Obama – baltimoresun.com
Heading into an election season in which Republicans are trying to tie Democrats to Obama’s unpopular policies, Obama’s budget gives his fellow Democrats an unlikely campaign tool — a catalogue of ways to establish their distance from controversial aspects of his administration.
It is a time-tested campaign tactic for politicians to declare their independence of party leaders. But the tactic is particularly important for Democrats this year, because their party dominates Washington, and being an insider is a political liability in an anti-incumbent climate.
read the rest here… Vulnerable Dems seek distance from Obama – baltimoresun.com.
The Death of Global Warming – Walter Russell Mead’s Blog – The American Interest
The movement died from two causes: bad science and bad politics.After years in which global warming activists had lectured everyone about the overwhelming nature of the scientific evidence, it turned out that the most prestigious agencies in the global warming movement were breaking laws, hiding data, and making inflated, bogus claims resting on, in some cases, no scientific basis at all. This latest story in the London Times is yet another shocker; the IPCC’s claims that the rainforests were going to disappear as a result of global warming are as bogus and fraudulent as its claims that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035. It seems as if a scare story could grab a headline, the IPCC simply didn’t care about whether it was reality-based.
read the rest here… The Death of Global Warming – Walter Russell Mead’s Blog – The American Interest.
Investors.com – A U.S. ClimateGate?
E. Michael Smith, a computer programming expert who worked with D’Aleo, said he found “patterns in the input data from NCDC that looked liked dramatic and selective deletions of thermometers from cold locations.” The more he looked, the more he found “patterns of deletion that could not be accidental.”
Stations in places such as the Andes and Bolivia have virtually vanished, meaning, according to D’Aleo, temperatures from these areas are now “determined by interpolation from stations hundreds of miles away on the coast or in the Amazon.” He says it’s as if Minneapolis stopped reporting and its average temperature was extrapolated from readings in St. Louis and Kansas City.
read the rest here… Investors.com – A U.S. ClimateGate?.
Global Warming: The Other Side – Segment 4 | KUSI – News, Weather and Sports – San Diego, CA | Coleman’s Corner
BREAKING NEWS! CLIMATEGATE COMES TO THE UNITED STATES! MEET THE TWO MEN WHO HAVE DUG THROUGH SEVERAL LAYERS OF COMPUTER CODES TO UNCOVER MANIPULATION OF THE WORLD TEMPERATURE DATA 
TO SUPPORT THE CLAIMS OF GLOBAL WARMING.
YouTube – MSNBC’s Schultz- I’d Cheat To Keep Brown From Winning In Massachusetts
Obama, Dems cut deal to exempt union health care from taxes | Washington Examiner
The White House has agreed to concessions in its health care legislation aimed at sparing union workers the bulk of a new tax.
We have seen tremendous progress over the last couple of days,” said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, signaling an easier path for the legislation in the union-friendly House.
read the rest here… Obama, Dems cut deal to exempt union health care from taxes | Washington Examiner.
Not in the Name of Islam? (Muslims Rally against Terrorism in Detroit)
Bret Stephens: Airport Security and Our Incompetent Civilization – WSJ.com
Our deeper incompetence stems from an inability to recognize the proper limits to our own virtues; to forget, as Aristotle cautioned, that even good things “bring harm to many people; for before now men have been undone by reason of their wealth, and others by reason of their courage.”
Thus we reject profiling on the commendable grounds that human beings ought not to be treated as statistical probabilities. But at some point, the failure to profile puts innocent lives recklessly at risk. We also abhor waterboarding for the eminently decent reason that it borders on torture. But there are worse things than waterboarding—like allowing another 9/11 to unfold because we recoil at the means necessary to prevent it. Similarly, there are worse things than Guantanamo—like releasing terrorists to Yemen so they can murder and maim again (and so we can hope to take them out for good in a “clean” Predator missile strike).
read the rest here… Bret Stephens: Airport Security and Our Incompetent Civilization – WSJ.com.