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Archive for March, 2008

Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies That Hurt the Poor

By Roy Spencer | March 27th, 2008

The current frenzy over global warming has galvanized the public and cost taxpayers billons of dollars in federal expenditures for climate research. It has spawned Hollywood blockbusters and inspired major political movements. It has given a higher calling to celebrities and built a lucrative industry for scores of eager scientists. In short, ending climate change has become a national crusade.

Mamet, No Longer a “Brain Dead Liberal,” loves Thomas Sowell

By Sam Schneider | March 12th, 2008

Incredible. In a Whittaker Chambers-level about face, David Mamet, no longer a “brain dead liberal,” gushes about Thomas Sowell:

I began reading not only the economics of Thomas Sowell (our greatest contemporary philosopher) but Milton Friedman, Paul Johnson, and Shelby Steele, and a host of conservative writers, and found that I agreed with them: a free-market understanding of the world meshes more perfectly with my experience than that idealistic vision I called liberalism.

And that’s in the pages of the Village Voice no less (?!) If your mind is not sufficiently blown you’ll want to read the whole thing.


(Mamet and Alec Baldwin)

Roger Kimball says “it gives one faith in human nature”…

Encounter News Digest - Spitzer Edition

By Sam Schneider | March 12th, 2008

Yes, our authors are buzzing about Eliot Spitzer debacle (one NY Times commenter quickly re-dubbed New York’s ‘Elliot Ness’ as ‘Elliot Mess’.) Who isn’t? And yet, even as the shocking revelations pile up, perhaps the most surprising result of this squalid episode, as Fred Siegel observes, is the sudden ascension of soon-to-be governor - and friend of school choice - David Paterson.

Well he doesn’t look blind…

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