Daily Archives: August 9th, 2007 «

 

NASA corrects climate figures: Warmest year on record is 1934

Posted by: ST on August 9, 2007 at 11:04 pm » 16 Comments

Via Michael Asher at the Daily Tech Blog (emphasis his): My earlier column this week detailed the work of a volunteer team to assess problems with US temperature data used for climate modeling. One of these people is Steve McIntyre, who operates the site climateaudit.org. While inspecting historical temperature graphs, he noticed a strange discontinuity, or "jump" [...]

 

Confronting media-aided myths: Barack Obama is no political “outsider” – and other Dem candidate news

Posted by: ST on August 9, 2007 at 9:07 pm » 3 Comments

Last December, when the hype over a potential Obama presidential candidacy was reaching fever pitch, I wrote about the ‘moderate’ myth surrounding the Illinois Senator. In that post, I noted that the media’s painting him as a ‘middle of the road’ candidate didn’t square at all with his actual record, a record put him solidly [...]

 

Caught: Far left Democrat creates fake Fred Thompson website

Posted by: ST on August 9, 2007 at 6:33 pm » 5 Comments

Originally, it welcomed you to the KKK. Captain Ed has multiple updates that note how many times the site owner has changed the redirection of the site since he’s been caught, but here’s how it all started: It doesn’t take long for provocateurs to crawl out of the woodwork to attack candidates, especially in stealth [...]

 

Haditha: Murder charges dropped for another Marine (MORE: CHARGES AGAINST *THIRD* MARINE DISMISSED)

Posted by: ST on August 9, 2007 at 2:30 pm » 10 Comments

Thanks to ST reader Sev for the tip. Via AFP: Murder charges against a US Marine accused of killing three Iraqi civilians during an alleged massacre in Haditha two years ago have been dropped, the military said on Thursday. A statement released by the Marines at their Camp Pendleton base in southern California revealed that [...]

 

Thursday open thread

Posted by: ST on August 9, 2007 at 10:51 am » 12 Comments

Slow news day so far …

 

Still think CAIR is a ‘moderate’ Islamist organization?

Posted by: ST on August 9, 2007 at 9:17 am » Comments Off

… dedicated to being a “leading advocate for justice and mutual understanding”? Think again. We “understand” alright, CAIR. Hat tip: LGF

 

Population information: ‘Minorities’ are now the majority in some counties in the US

Posted by: ST on August 9, 2007 at 9:05 am » 4 Comments

The NYT reports that so-called “minorities” are now the majority in 1 in 10 counties in the US: In a further sign of the United States’ growing diversity, nonwhites now make up a majority in almost one-third of the most-populous counties in the country and in nearly one in 10 of all 3,100 counties, according [...]