Climategate, aka the Mother of all Global Warming Oops Moments, has generated some of the more pleasing headlines we’ve read in a while. A sampling:
Global Warming E-mails Scandal Show Scientists May Have Cooked the Facts
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Global warming headlines of the day
Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:43pm EST by Mark Landsbaum
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Pay-to-pray in national health care?
Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:32pm EST by by Alan Bock, Register editorial writer
Number of comments: 3As the Senate begins fairly serious debate on the health insurance proposal put forward by majority leader Harry Reid today, the forecast is for hundreds of amendments. One possible amendment that hasn’t gotten too much attention is from Christian Science leaders who want an amendment reimbursing Christian Science practitioners who [...]
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Significance of Climategate
Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:23pm EST by by Alan Bock, Register editorial writer
Number of comments: 5I’m still holding my options open as to whether the revelations in various e-mails at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit completely undermine the theory of human-induced climate change. But the more that comes out the worse it looks. The revelation that all kinds of climate data [...]
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Loretta makes national news
Posted: November 30, 2009, 1:20pm EST by by Alan Bock, Register editorial writer
Number of comments: 2Well, if you consider the Politico.com site national news. It is national on the Internet and it’s run fairly seriously with a lot of print-experienced reporters. A lot of us political junkies visit it regularly.
Anyway, they built a little puff story out of anticipation as to what marginally [...]
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White House gatecrashers: how big a deal?
Posted: November 30, 2009, 1:08pm EST by by Alan Bock, Register editorial writer
Number of comments: 17I’m fascinated by all the huffing and puffing over the Virginia couple who crashed Obama’s first state dinner last week. All right, there’s some legitimate concern about somebody who had not been pre-screened getting close enough to the president to shake his hand (horrors! a president shaking an unscreened [...]
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Peer reviewed global warming studies? Or buddy system?
Posted: November 27, 2009, 2:05pm EST by Mark Landsbaum
Number of comments: 8One of the most damning of the e-mails to emerge from Climategate has been this one from Phil Jones of the UK’s Climate Research Unit talking about scientific papers he didn’t like (emphasis ours):
“The other paper by MM is just garbage – as you knew. De Freitas again. Pielke [...]
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Some global warming comments on Climategate
Posted: November 27, 2009, 1:29pm EST by Mark Landsbaum
Number of comments: 2It’s difficult to absorb the wave after wave of revelations and comments on Climategate, but here are a few snippets:
“The case is blown to smithereens and this whole theory should be destroyed and discarded and Copenhagen conference should be closed,” said UK astrophysicist and non-zealot Piers Corbyn, in [...] -
Bruin statue pranked?
Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:36pm EST by Brian Calle
It looks like the UCLA Bruin is wearing a little cardinal and gold. There must be a football game this weekend. Darn vandals.
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Steve Greenhut guest hosts on KFI AM 640 Sunday Night 7-10pm
Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:02pm EST by Brian Calle
Number of comments: 8Steve Greenhut will be guest hosting a radio spot on KFI AM 640 this Sunday night from 7pm-10pm.
This is a chance to call in and rib him a little.
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Israel legalizes medical marijuana
Posted: November 25, 2009, 4:28pm EST by by Alan Bock, Register editorial writer
Number of comments: 1Israel’s ministry of health has been ordered to complete, within four months, a detailed set of regulations for medical marijuana, with an emphasis on making it genuinely available to patients. They’re still fixated on making sure it isn’t available to “recreational” users, but this is certainly progress — [...]
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Dumb presidential tricks
Posted: November 25, 2009, 4:04pm EST by by Alan Bock, Register editorial writer
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What’s going on with the (un-bowed) Obama?
Posted: November 25, 2009, 4:01pm EST by Mark Landsbaum
Number of comments: 17We don’t want to read too much into this, but what’s the deal with the President. The picture in our paper shows Barack Obama entirely veritcal when he greeted the India Prime Minister.
No bow. What’s up with that? Should Manmohan Singh be offended? What’s Japan and Saudi [...]
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At what point is entire global warming scenario corrupted?
Posted: November 25, 2009, 3:35pm EST by Mark Landsbaum
Number of comments: 18Some defenders of the revealed information from the U.K. Climate Research Unit leaked e-mails essentially say, “Oh, you’re taking things out of context,” or “It’s only a little piece of the big picture, which is really still is valid, trust us.”
“Trust us.” You’ve gotta love it. Why would anyone cook [...]
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Gold hits new high, dollar hits new low
Posted: November 25, 2009, 2:34pm EST by by Alan Bock, Register editorial writer
Number of comments: 4This might not be the most appropriate item for the day before Thanksgiving, but we do well to face facts. Gold hit a new high today of $1,189 an ounce (India bought a bunch), and the dollar hit a 15-month low. Should we be thankful to see evidence that [...]
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Activist blogger jailed in China
Posted: November 25, 2009, 2:17pm EST by Brian Calle
The Chinese blogger and activist known for his efforts to help victims of the Sichuan earthquake in 2008 has been sentenced to three years in prison this week.
We have become accustom to the Chinese government’s free speech-squelching antics and authoritarian policies and this is another example.
Chinese authorities claim that blogger [...]
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Audio recording: ACORN spokesperson claims California Attorney General investigation outcome will be favorable
Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:51pm EST by Brian Calle
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Another Gitmo official quits
Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:36am EST by by Alan Bock, Register editorial writer
Number of comments: 1Even though Phillip Carter is a former WaPo staffer, this story on him resigning as asst. SecDef for detainee affairs doesn’t even pretend to try to dig for possible deeper reasons for the resignation, contenting itself with the official boilerplate about “personal and family reasons.” Whatever the reason — [...]
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Forces in Afghanistan
Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:18pm EST by by Alan Bock, Register editorial writer
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Then there’s the global warming “data”…
Posted: November 24, 2009, 4:51pm EST by Mark Landsbaum
Number of comments: 6Jonah Goldberg at National Review Online makes another point about the unfolding story of the global warming scandal unearthed in those hacked (stolen?) documents. There’s more than e-mail…
“Although the e-mails are open to interpretation, there is also a lot of computer code included that is being waded through. [...]
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Worst Republican Maldonado wants to be best second fiddle
Posted: November 24, 2009, 4:27pm EST by Mark Landsbaum
Number of comments: 15Sen. Abel Maldonado, rated by the California Republican Assembly as the least Republican-acting state legislator and rated by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association as the worst Republican in the Senate when it comes to taxes, told us a few minutes ago he’s delighted to be selected to be leuitenant governor [...]
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All global warming critics have a say, unless they disagree
Posted: November 24, 2009, 4:02pm EST by Mark Landsbaum
Number of comments: 1Ever wonder why the mainstream press has fawned over and uncritically accepted the global warming scare stories? Since the leak (theft?) of thousands of documents revealing what’s been going on behind closed doors, it’s become clearer what role the press has played.
Jonah Goldberg sums up nicely:
“The elite press [...]
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Gov. Sanford hit with ethics charges
Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:46am EST by by Alan Bock, Register editorial writer
Number of comments: 2South Carolina Republican Gov. Mark Sanford, he of the Argentine firecracker affair, has now been hit with 37 ethics violation charges, most of them somewhat connected to the way he conducted the affair — misuse of campaign funds, violation of airplane travel rules and the like. These are civil [...]
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What’s behind the global warming closed-door policy?
Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:06am EST by Mark Landsbaum
Number of comments: 1Global warming true believers have insisted for decades the “science is settled” and great minds have figured out we’re headed to global catastophe based on their best calculations.
Then the internal communications hit the fan with the leak (or theft) of hundreds of documents previously seen only by those great minds [...]
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Lou Dobbs considering presidential run
Posted: November 23, 2009, 5:22pm EST by by Alan Bock, Register editorial writer
Number of comments: 10According to this item Lou Dobbs is considering a presidential run, presumably as some kind of Independent, but his wife will make the final call. It seems a curious quest to me. Why do it if you have little or no chance to win — unless he really thinks [...]
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Buying votes for health care
Posted: November 23, 2009, 5:12pm EST by by Alan Bock, Register editorial writer
Number of comments: 19It’s been fairly widely reported that moderate Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana got $300 million in increased Medicare benefits, much defined so it will go to Louisianans, as a partial inducement to vote for closure on the Senate health bill Saturday night. Less well known is that a [...]
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Foreclosures don’t seem to increase crime
Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:48pm EST by by Alan Bock, Register editorial writer
Number of comments: 1Tim Cavanaugh at Reason bursts another doomsayers’ myth — that an increase in foreclosures will increase crime and violence. On the surface it seems a reasonable conclusion — empty houses will invite vandalism, maybe even squatting and turning foreclosed houses into heroin “shooting galleries, etc., etc., and as Tim [...]
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Need a reason (or several) not to socialize health care?
Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:36pm EST by Mark Landsbaum
Number of comments: 8If this pending socialized health care bill becomes law, or some other version of ObamaCare, what will it mean? The CATO Institute lists just a few of the remifications:
1. Eight of 10 of the most recent major medical innovations (like MRIs and hip replacements) came from the U.S. [...]
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Just how much global warming fraud has there been?
Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:21pm EST by Mark Landsbaum
Gget a load of these comments in light of the data dump of inside, confidential information from the U.K.’s climate research center at East Anglia:
Charlie Martin at Pajamas Media blog says there are at least three scandals:
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More questioning of drug war
Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:59pm EST by by Alan Bock, Register editorial writer
Number of comments: 1The redoubtable scholar John McWhorter, bouncing off another killing in the Bronx, calls on Obama to end the drug war in the New Republic, though he suggests 2014, midway into the second term, would be good timing. Much as I would prefer yesterday, he might be shrewd politically. Meantime [...]
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Did U.S. media miss the boat on Obama’s trip?
Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:42pm EST by by Alan Bock, Register editorial writer
Number of comments: 5James Fallows, an old journalistic hand now living in Tokyo and blogging for the Atlantic, thinks the U.S. media that proclaimed Obama’s recent Asian trip a rank failure because of not getting concrete agreements and concessions from various Asian c0untries got it pretty wrong. Although Fallows is usually worth [...]
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New York Times reports on the global warming ‘hacking’
Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:33pm EST by Mark Landsbaum
Number of comments: 11No one’s more surprised than we are to find that the New York Times, no less, already has acknowledged the global warming oops of the year:
“Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who [...]
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Good summary of the global warming hacked info
Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:02pm EST by Mark Landsbaum
Number of comments: 3As folks worldwide are pouring over the data broken free from the clutches of those who would keep it secret, we’ve come across a pretty good summary of the data that reveals how global warming alarmists may have cooked the books to make their case (and protect their research grants) [...]
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Global warming fraud oops-ing itself into oblivion?
Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:07pm EST by Mark Landsbaum
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Big-screen TV fights back
Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:47pm EST by Mark Landsbaum
Number of comments: 1As we noted today, California’s nannies have ordered us no longer to buy and sell TVs they don’t like, even if we do like them and don’t mind paying to run them. Thanks so much Big Brothers, and you know who you are.
Well, despite the fearful likelihood that [...]
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Gov. Arnold “No taxes” Schwarzenegger?
Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:49am EST by Mark Landsbaum
Number of comments: 6Have we heard this before? Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger - the enabler of last January’s historic tax increase - says now he is opposed to tax increases to close the state’s (latest) budget deficit.
Memo to the governor: Where was that conviction a few months ago?
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Mother of all Global Warming Oops Moments?
Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:21pm EST by Mark Landsbaum
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Really rethinking Asian policy
Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:19pm EST by by Alan Bock, Register editorial writer
Number of comments: 10Responding to Obama’s Asian trip Doug Bandow did a piece consistent with what he’s been saying a long time (he did a book advocating military withdrawal from Korea in 1996) on what kinds of policy changes might ensue if we really rethought our policies in line with changed circumstances. [...]
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UC raises student fees 32%, met with protests
Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:17pm EST by Brian Calle
Number of comments: 20Just a few minutes ago, at the University of California Board of Regents meeting being held today at UCLA, the board formally approved a 32% fee hike for students in the UC System. The Regents claim they have no other choice because the state is facing huge budget shortfalls next [...]
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Speaking of good news: Pay cuts are OK, Brown says
Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:45pm EST by Mark Landsbaum
Some days the good news just keeps comin’. Attorney General (soon to be governor?) Jerry Brown says the state Constitution permits the California Citizens Compensation Commission to reduce legislators and other elected officials’ salaries in the middle of their terms.
All together now: Hallelujah!
Legislative leaders resisted the Commission’s contention that [...]
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Good (and not-so-good) news from Sacramento
Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:45am EST by Mark Landsbaum
Number of comments: 6Occasionally we get good news from the state’s capital and today is one of those days. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he won’t run for another political office.
We can all breath a sigh of relief. The Terminator has presided over arguably the largest increase in state taxes in history, the [...]
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Mow your lawn! Or cough up $5,000 a day
Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:49pm EST by Mark Landsbaum
Number of comments: 2If you need examples of why giving people power over other people is more problematic than beneficial, consider this item out of Palm Beach, Fla.
“An overgrown lawn could cost a homeowner $1,000 a day,” reports the Palm Beach Post.
The city’s considering quadrupling its fine for long grass in private [...]
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Rosey projections get the state in trouble
Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:17pm EST by Mark Landsbaum
Number of comments: 8We’ve noted repeatedly that one of the budgetary fallacies in Sacramento that’s repeated year-in, year-out is the unrealistic, ever-too-optimistic projection of how much of your money they will be raking in. They don’t seem to learn this lesson. Every year they project the budget will be just peachy because they [...]
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Phantom jobs in phantom congressional districts
Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:24pm EST by by Alan Bock, Register editorial writer
Number of comments: 20A watchdog site led by former GOP staffers called the Frankin Center for Government and Public Integrity has been having great fun with reports on the White House’s recovery.gov site, which purports to track all the jobs “saved or created” by the $787-billion “stimulus” bill passed last January. It [...]
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Doctors and Patients Protest Health Care Overhaul in Los Angeles Saturday
Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:33pm EST by Brian Calle
Number of comments: 2
This Saturday, Doctors for Patient Care, a group that advocates to protect the doctor-patient privilege, is organizing demonstrations in major cities throughout the country. This Saturday they will host a protest in Los Angeles at the Federal Building. Here are the details for anyone wondering:
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S.D. Deputy DA buys medical marijuana
Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:23pm EST by by Alan Bock, Register editorial writer
Number of comments: 4You’ve got to love this one! A San Diego Deputy DA in the county where trying to bust medical marijuana facilities is almost a religion to law enforcement, had to admit in court that he patronized a medical marijuana facility on the advice of his doctor. Video in the [...]
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Claremont Institute Policy Conference in Orange County
Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:59am EST by Brian Calle
Number of comments: 11The Claremont Institute will be hosting a policy conference in Newport Beach on December 5:
Claremont Institute’s California Public Policy Conference at the Island Hotel in Newport Beach, California, on Saturday, December 5, 2009. You will hear candid discussions of state and local government policies – how they impact us and [...]
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Republicans rediscover joys of judicial filibusters
Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:49am EST by by Alan Bock, Register editorial writer
Remember when Bush was president and those nasty, obstructive Democrats sometimes conducted filibusters against his judicial nominees, which would have forced them to get 60 votes? AL Sen. Jeff Sessions was especially outraged back then, calling it “really wrong” to indulge in such “unprecedented, obstructive tactics.”
Well, there’s a Democrat in [...]
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News flash (not really): California’s $21 billion budget deficit
Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:26am EST by Mark Landsbaum
Number of comments: 3We noted a while back that the state’s fiscal smoke-and-mirrors and faux fixes would bring us another $20 billion budget deficit in the coming year. We were wrong. The Legislative Analyst’s Office says it’ll be closer to $21 billion. Read it and weep here.
We’re shocked. Not really.
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Norby Wins in AD 72
Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:35am EST by Brian Calle
Number of comments: 5In the 72nd Assembly race, Orange County Supervisor Chris Norby ended up on top. He was the top vote getter in the election and finished about 16 points ahead of Linda Ackerman.
Now Norby will head to the general election January 12th against Democrat John MacMurray.
Norby’s name recognition and fundraising propensity–not [...]
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More Palintology
Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:39pm EST by by Alan Bock, Register editorial writer
Despite the pleas of some commenters, here are some links to more responses to Sarah and her celebrity book tour. Last hit unless something of substance comes up.
There’s this from an Anchorage Daily News writer on how Palin brought celebrity culture to Alaska, then a rather snarky NYT [...]
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