From your “liberal” New York Times: But haven’t I read economists saying that a bill that small will make almost no dent in unemployment? Is that sort of thing the only hope for bipartisanship? It depends on what you mean by bipartisanship. Nothing is stopping Mr. Obama and Congressional Democrats from adding more Republican ideas [...]

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The BBC has it in for fat people. It’s not that the new organization merely reports on the findings of various studies purporting to explain obesity; nor that they pass on this information without question or challenge. They do those things, certainly, but it’s the way these articles are written the show such incredibly smug [...]

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According to Gawker, CNN president Jon Klein put the kibosh on Lou Dobbs’ promotion of the “birther” conspiracy theory. In an e-mail sent to Dobbs and the rest of the news network, Klein forwards an explanation from the Hawaii Health Department he contends “seems to definitively answer the question” of the origins of Barack Obama’s [...]

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Carl Zimmer takes issue with George Will’s “see no evil” approach to global warming and the Washington Post’s mamby-pamby fact-checking: Will ignores the fact that climate change is a noisy, long-term process. Today it is cooler at my house than it was yesterday. That does not mean that next week I will wake up to [...]

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A new poll by the Pew Research Center reports yet another huge gap between the American scientific community and the public at large. According to the NYTimes, the main areas are “climate change” (a euphemism for “global warming” as poor in content as “enhanced interrogation techniques” is to “torture”), evolution, and the value of research [...]

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