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  • Daily scoreboard

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 6
    1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. The United States was at peace with that Nation and, at the solicitation of [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 4:59pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Saudis: Investigate Climategate

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    What happens when scientific data has been tampered with? You recalibrate. You recalculate. And you investigate. Why is it that only some 14th century throwback dictatorship — the House of Saud — is calling for an investigation into Climategate? Are the American media and the world’s democracies so vested in this [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 3:07pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Poetic justice for Al Gore

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    Nobel laureate, Grammy winner, star of an Oscar-winning film and runner-up in the 2000 presidential election Al Gore has a new book out — Our Choice — about his exploits as a junk scientist. Evidently, he is now a junk poet as the book contains this poem: One thin September soon A floating [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 1:22pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Buffalo, W.Va., will ship its engines to Toyota in Japan

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    I always suspected that an auto plant in West Virginia would do well. Appalachians ran the auto mills up north for many years. Having a plant in West Virginia would mean the auto workers would not pine to go back to West Virginia. It took Toyota to figure this out — [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 11:00am EST
    by Don Surber

  • AP: “A workshop on government openness is closed to the public”

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 6
    I realize that every administration is accused of being the Wonderland of Alice fame, but this one seems to go out of its way to be Wonderland. Consider this story from the Associated Press: WASHINGTON — It’s hardly the image of transparency the Obama administration wants to project: A workshop on government [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 10:39am EST
    by Don Surber

  • How the White House social secretary stole Christmas

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    In a profile of the poor beleaguered White House social secretary Desirée Rogers (“a woman who, like Icarus, flew too close to the sun”) Sheryl Gay Stolberg of the New York Times wrote: But Washington is a city that likes its traditions, and Ms. Rogers has raised a few eyebrows by [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 9:34am EST
    by Don Surber

  • Ratgate Update

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 4
    TV chef Gino D’Acampo won the British reality show “I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here,” but his next gig may be three years in prison for serving his fellow contestants rat risotto. Oh, not because he fed them rat. Because he and fellow contestant Stuart Manning killed the rat. Australian [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 9:11am EST
    by Don Surber

  • Obama lie of the day

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    At his jobs summit, President Obama said: “I mentioned that I was in Asia on this trip thinking about the economy, when I sat down for a round of interviews. Not one of them asked me about Asia. Not one of them asked me about the economy. I was asked [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 7:59am EST
    by Don Surber

  • NYT: Charities chisel Uncle Sam out of taxes

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    The New York Times sent reporter Stephanie Strom after those tax-guzzling charities. Why by collecting $300 billion a year from donors to provide social services, those charities are cheating the federal government out of $50 billion — money that could be used for, well, social services. Yes, the editors at the [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 6:55am EST
    by Don Surber

  • A fantastic campaign video

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 5
    He gets it. Lee Zeldin is a captain in the Army Reserves (Airborne) — JAG — passed the New York Bar exam at 23 (isn’t that one of the most difficult Bar exams in the country?) — married — twin daughters and he is running for the state Senate in Suffolk [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 11:37pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Why they fell for the global warming hoax

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    They called us Global Warming Holocaust Deniers — sneered at us, snarked at us, and snubbed us. None of them bothered to read “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” I have no time for paybacks or saying I told you so. But pay attention to why they fell for this billion-dollar hoax which almost became [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 9:05pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Tennessean: “Is Islam a threat to America?”

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    The Nashville newspaper, the Tennessean, headlined a lengthy story today, “Is Islam a threat to America?“ That is not what it explores. The story is about the people who think Islam is a threat to the USA. The newspaper cited a group called Act! For America. From the story, “Rabbi Saul [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 6:29pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Daily scoreboard

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 7
    1. Democratic Senator Robert C. Byrd was against the United States Senate convening on Sunday before he supported it. When Republicans held a Sunday session, he said they should be put unto death. What a maroon. People get to see him for what he is. GOOD. 2. The Associated Press: “Sarah Palin poked fun [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 4:59pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Today’s proof of global warming

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    Maybe I should say tomorrow’s proof. Sacramento is expected to get its first snow in 7 years and to hit a record low of 27 on Monday. The records go back 160 years. This would be only its fifth snow in 33 years, when it had a whole two inches of [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 3:48pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Romney: TARP is a slush fund

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    Mitt Romney was on CNN’s State of the Union show today to discuss the economy that President Obama has wrecked. He pointed out that Obama promised 8% unemployment for $787 billion — and delivered 10% unemployment. (CNN’s John King used White House graphics to minimize the blame and the damage done.) The [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 2:40pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Ex-KGB blew the whistle on Climategate

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    “An investigation by The Mail on Sunday has discovered that the explosive hacked emails from the University of East Anglia were leaked via a small web server in the formerly closed city of Tomsk in Siberia. The leaks scandal has left the scientific community in disarray after claims that key [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 12:29pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Soldiers snub Britain’s prime minister

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 5
    British Prime Minister Gordon Brown tried to visit with his injured troops in the hospital. They refused to meet with him. The Times of London reported: “More than half the soldiers being treated at the Selly Oak hospital ward in Birmingham either asked for the curtains to be closed or deliberately avoided [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 11:29am EST
    by Don Surber

  • New York Times hides the decline

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    The New York Times editorial board is in denial. In an editorial today, the board tried to blow off Climategate — mainly by failing to note that academicians (they cannot be described as scholars or scientists after this) wanted to “trick” the public and “hide the decline.” It was a valiant [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 9:25am EST
    by Don Surber

  • What he thought of Congress

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 9
    Via the National Journal, Peter Hart (a famous pollster) was in Philadelphia conducting a focus group on Congress (this is a real story, not a set-up for a joke). Hart asked his group to write down the first word that pops in their head when he said, “Congress.” One man’s answer [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 8:37am EST
    by Don Surber

  • The difference between East Anglia and a real school

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    People send me stuff. I post the good stuff. From my correspondent: “A succinct reasons as why science isn’t run by consensus. Nor should cheaters be tolerated.” As to any graduates of the University of East Anglia who may be offended, I suggest you get your money back. Professor Phil Jones [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 7:22am EST
    by Don Surber

  • Palin speaks in D.C.

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    Sarah Palin gave an 11-minute speech before Washington’s Gridiron Club at its Winter Dinner. Politico billed it as: “a moment somewhat akin to Karl Marx touring the New York Stock Exchange or Charles Darwin lecturing at a creationists’ convention.” Um, the Gridiron Club is supposed to be peopled by journalists. Her co-star [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 11:58pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Game show stunt could lead to 3 years in prison

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    “I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here” may turn TV chef Gino D’Acampo into “I’m A Felon Get Me Out Of Here.” It is a British reality show in which celebrities see who can survive challenges in the jungle. This contest was set in Australia. D’Acampo won. Early in the show [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 10:00pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • WVU gets the Gator Bowl bid

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 6
    Gator Bowl chairman Brian Goin announced West Virginia University will be in the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida, on January 1: “The Gator Bowl has a great tradition with West Virginia University. We were waiting on the outcome of (the West Virginia-Rutgers game) and also keeping an eye on the [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 8:58pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Beauty queen Republicans

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    Sarah Palin is not the only beauty queen grandmother in the Republican party. Sue Lowden was Miss New Jersey 1973 (and the Miss America runner-up) and she is in the Republican Party primary challenging Democratic Senate Majority Leader. Why does the Republican Party attract beauty queen grandmothers? I have a theory [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 8:47pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Daily scoreboard

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    1. The sister-in-law and the aunt of the wife of Edwin Ortiz in the Miraflores district of Lima, Peru, beat him up. In public. OK, so he was going to married to another girl in a televised mass matrimony ceremony. City official Julio Hincho said: “Everyone was hauled off to [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 4:59pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Climatologist “scientist” calls a skeptic an a-hole

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    BBC had skeptic Marc Morano and Climatologist Andrew Watson on. Morano laughs at Watson, which ticked him off. Morano then went into Climategate. Morano: “You have UN scientists turning on UN scientists. This is the upper echelon of the UN and it has been exposed as the best science that politics [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 4:13pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Kerry repeats a proven lie from 2008

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    Democratic Senator John Kerry told a whopper on the Senate floor today: “That’s the senator from Arizona today. Only a year ago, when he was running for President of the United States, this is what the senator proposed. Senator McCain. ‘John McCain would pay for his health plan with major [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 2:08pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Dan Burton stands up for the SEALs

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    The Navy will prosecute the 3 Navy SEALs who are accused of punching a major league terrorist in Iraq, who was responsible for the murder, burning and hanging of four employees of Blackwater in 2004. They deserves medals. Republican Congressman Dan Burton is standing up for the SEALs. He makes a case. [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 1:15pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Graphic of the day

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 2
    It was used to illustrate the Death By 1,000 Papercuts post: “RINO Writers: Biting the Ankles of a Not-So-Big Base.” [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 1:03pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Cartoon of the day

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 3
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 12:24pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Carly Fiorina: About rationing those mammograms, I had breast cancer…

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    Chuck DeVore is the conservative candidate in the race against Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer, so maybe it was unfair in the eyes if some for Republicans to roll out his primary opponent, Carly Fiorina, to deliver the weekly address. I cannot think of anyone better. If you want to deliver a message [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 11:12am EST
    by Don Surber

  • Saudi-Yemeni War II?

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 7
    Saudi Arabia has an 1,100-mile border with Yemen that it fortified in the 1990s. The two nations went at it in 1934. Now WorldTribune.com that the House of Saud called in Jordanian troops to quell a Yemeni Shi-ite rebellion that has spread deep into Saudi Arabia. The Saudi air force is [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 7:55am EST
    by Don Surber

  • Viral of the day

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    People send me stuff. I post what amuses me. [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 6:59am EST
    by Don Surber

  • Tea Party protesters get Pelosi Fever

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 5
    Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi attended the Orange County Democrats’ annual dinner tonight and she attracted hundreds of people — who protested her appearance. She has become an attraction for both parties. Martin Wisckol, Politics reporter for the Orange County Register, reported: “Dory Catalani, a retired teacher from Laguna [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 11:38pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Today’s proof of global warming

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    Today’s proof of global warming is all around. It is pretty and it falls from the heavens. It is called snow. From Tom Pann: ” New Orleans only had 17 events with more than a trace [of snow] since 1850. This makes two years in a row, with a forecast of [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 11:29pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Dem split on Obamacare — or not

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 5
    There are conflicting media reports tonight as the Senate plods through a weekend of health insurance writing. Yummie. From Roll Call: “Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), one of the leading proponents of the public insurance option, warned Friday evening that he is ‘done’ compromising with moderates and will not accept any further [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 8:03pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Man arrested for trespassing on his own land

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    And readers thought the Kelo decision was wrong. On Wednesday, deputies in Douglas County, Minnesota, arrested Jeremy Engelking for trespassing on his own property. Get off your lawn, punk. “Engelking, 27, aimed to hunt deer Wednesday morning when he noticed a pipeline crew on his land. He hopped on his ATV and [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 6:03pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • White House gets testy over Gatecrasher Gate

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    This is being billed by whoever posted the video at YouTube in racial terms — “Gibbs Compares Black Female WH Reporter To His Child” — but White House spokesman Robert Gibbs is an equal opportunity jerk. He is smug, untalented and overrated — in short a perfect representative of [...] [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 3:39pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Landlord evicts Marine who was shipped overseas

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 9
    A landlord evicted a Marine who was deployed overseas, contending the Marine had abandoned his apartment. Don’t worry. There was a happy ending. Lawrence J. Manware, 42, of West Haven, Connecticut, evicted the Marine about 5 years ago. Manware changed the locks and got a new tenant. The state decided to prosecute Manware for [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 2:00pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Baucus: OK, Obamacare is $2.5 trillion

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    Democratic Senator Max Baucus admitted that the $1 trillion-over-10-years figure for Obamacare is not realistic. The actual figure is $2.5 trillion — 2 1/2 times as much. To reach the phony figure, Democrats added 4 years of taxation with 6 years of Obamacare, which greatly reduced the actual cost as the reserve [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 1:21pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Byrd sells out coal

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    Democratic Senator Robert C. Byrd was wrong on civil rights. Byrd was wrong on Iraq (”We have in our hands the equivalent of a Betty Crocker cookbook of ingredients that the U.S. allowed Iraq to obtain and that may well have been used to concoct biological weapons”). And now, Byrd [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 11:59am EST
    by Don Surber

  • 10% unemployment

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    How bad is Obamanomics? This is the cheery headline from the Wall Street Journal: “Unemployment Rate Falls to 10%.” Unemployment remains a full two points about the 8% unemployment that President Obama promised in exchange for a $787 billion stimulus package. The Wall Street Journal reported: “Employment fell in construction, manufacturing, and [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 8:48am EST
    by Don Surber

  • Hatch: Democrats “are so darned stupid”

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    Lefty bloggers are up in arms over Republican Senator Orrin Hatch telling MSNBC: “I don’t know why people on the other side are so doggone stupid that they think the federal government is going to produce jobs. What they’re producing are small-time government jobs. That’s what they’re doing. And it’s [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 11:28pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • 59% think scientists lied about global warming

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    Climategate has scored with the public. Rasmussen reported: “59% of Americans say it’s at least somewhat likely that some scientists have falsified research data to support their own theories and beliefs about global warming. 35% say it’s Very Likely. “Just 26% say it’s not very or not at all likely that some [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 6:53pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Daily scoreboard

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    1. Bill Ayers opposes the Afghanistan War. Finally, someone throws Obama under the bus. The FBI might want to watch this guy Ayers. He has been known to blow up things in the name of peace in the past. But the Scorekeeper does agrees with the unrepentant terrorist’s observation that [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 4:59pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Orszag: Obamacare may take decades

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    Not one year. Not two years. Not 10 years, but it will take our Ivy League-educated, morally superior betters decades to improve the health care system, White House budget director Peter Orszag told reporters. So why are we rushing it through? Because, sweetie, this is not about saving money or saving lives. This [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 3:21pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Al Gore aflyser foredrag under COP15

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    My favorite Danish newspaper, Berlingske Tidende, had some sad news. Climatologist Al Gore has canceled his $1,209-a-handshake appearance in Copenhagen. The newspaper reported: “Berlingske Media må med beklagelse meddele, at Al Gore har aflyst sit arrangement. De over 3.000 læsere, der har købt billet, får pengene retur. “Al Gore har denne morgen [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 2:12pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Obamanomics: $1 trillion in lost wages

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    The “progressive” Center for Economic and Policy Research issued a study that showed Americans will lose $1 trillion in wages through 2012. Of course the press release said: “African Americans and Latinos will be especially hard hit, with the recession causing them wage losses of $142 billion and $138 billion, respectively.” It [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 10:50am EST
    by Don Surber

  • We’re here, we’re for her, get used to it

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    Considering all the free publicity this blog has given her (easily 11 of those 1 million books she sold in 10 days were due to the free ads here) I do not think conservative Sarah Palin will mind my swiping a few photos from her Facebook. The photos show her [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 9:59am EST
    by Don Surber

  • Believers in global warming are the deniers

    —Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    Who are the flat-earthers now? “Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said NASA has refused for two years to provide information under the Freedom of Information Act that would show how the agency has shaped its climate data and would explain why the agency has repeatedly had [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 8:49am EST
    by Don Surber

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