SEA CHANGE - GOP regroups as Cantor set to quit leadership post in wake of primary defeat

FOX News - ERIC CANTOR PLANS to step down as House majority leader at the end of July after suffering a shocking primary defeat to Dave Brat, a Tea Party-backed challenger.

• Cantor primary loss shocks Capitol Hill, could put immigration debate on hold
• THE CANTOR UPSET: How Brat pulled it off
• FOX NEWS FIRST: Cantor's defeat, mythbuster edition
• Meet Brat's 23-year-old campaign manager
• OPINION: Why Cantor lost
• OPINION: Can Boehner survive?

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Climate change data dumped

UK TIMES, 11/29/2009 - SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. ∴ It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years. ∴ The UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation. Read more at the Times Online... Read More......