Holder facing liberal backlash over AP records grab

While Attorney General Eric Holder's Capitol Hill appearance Wednesday was marked by a heated argument with his chief Republican critic, more and more Democrats are joining the fray -- in a sign that the Justice Department's seizure of journalists' phone records may trigger a bipartisan challenge to his leadership. Read more at Fox News... Read More......

FOX: Justice Department secretly obtained AP phone records

The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news. ✧ The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, for general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP. It was not clear if the records also included incoming calls or the duration of the calls. Read more at Fox News... Read More......

Romney Would be Insane to Release More Tax Returns, Unless....

John Nolte: Romney should go on offense and make a deal with Obama and the corrupt media:

I'll give you three years of tax returns if Obama will release the names and addresses of the tens of thousands of undisclosed donors from the 2008 campaign who reportedly donated upwards of a couple hundred million dollars. There are alarming reports that a whole lot of that was foreign money. John McCain disclosed all the information on all his donors, Obama needs to do the same. ✧ If you want another year, Barack Obama needs to... [and it goes on]

Read all of John Nolte's article at Breitbart's Big Government... Read More......

Video: Dr. Tim Ball on the CRU emails

From the Corbett Report (via Anthony Watt) - Retired climatologist Dr. Tim Ball was interviewed to discuss the significance of the recently leaked emails and documents from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University. These emails reveal stunning behind-the-scenes details, and Dr. Ball shares his insights on what they show. Of interest is what he has to say about the Wegman report.

Other resources:
Anthony Watts: Watt's Up With That?
Steve McIntyre: Climate Audit
Marc Morano: Climate Depot
Real Climate (defends email conversations)
AIM: Andrew Revkin Spins 'ClimateGate' - The New York Times reporter and Dot Earth blogger is so intellectually invested in the environmental movement that he simply cannot report bad news about the movement’s extremists without spinning it.
FOX News, 11/24/2009 - Why You Should Be Hot and Bothered About 'Climate-gate'
WSJ/Opinion Journal, 11/30/2009 - The Climate Science Isn't Settled: Confident predictions of catastrophe are unwarranted by Richard S. Lindzen Read More......