An Inconvenient Truth: Liberal Climate Inquisition Can’t Explain Past Temperature Changes

In the week prior to the administration signing what should constitute an international climate treaty, one think tank, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, was subpoenaed for casting doubt on the agreement’s associated science of climate catastrophe.
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The Left Rejects Painful Truths: Left-Right Differences, Part IV

Here's a difference between Left and Right that is rarely noted despite the fact that it is at least as important as any other and even explains many of the other differences.



At the core of left-wing thought is a rejection of painful realities, the rejection of what the French call les faits de la vie: the facts of life. Conservatives, on the other hand, are all too aware of these painful realities of life and base many of their positions on them.


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You Will Not Like Cuba: Media Hype Sells Product That Does Not Exist

During the early days after the fall of the Berlin Wall, several national media outlets in the United States published articles referring to East Germany as “the most advanced of the Eastern European economies,” vaunting its bright future after communism as the country, we were told, possessed “advanced industries” in optics and a highly productive workforce. Soon afterwards it became clear that the authors of these articles had foolishly believed the lies spread by Communist East Germany’s vaunted propaganda machine.


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Tracking Gov. Kitzhaber's campaign promises

OREGONLIVE.COM, 1/8/2011 by Ryan Kost, The Oregonian - During the campaign for governor, John Kitzhaber made more than a couple promises to the voters. By our count, he made at least 34 of them. Over the next four years, PolitiFact Oregon reporters will be tracking whether he keeps those promises. Read more at Oregonlive... Read More......

Just Make Stuff Up - President Obama’s war on the truth

NRO, 6/12/2009 by Victor Davis Hanson - In the first six months of the Obama administration, we have witnessed an assault on the truth of a magnitude not seen since the Nixon Watergate years. The prevarication is ironic given the Obama campaign’s accusations that the Bush years were not transparent and that Hillary Clinton, like her husband, was a chronic fabricator. Remember Obama’s own assertions that he was a “student of history” and that “words mean something. You can’t just make stuff up.” ∴ Yet Obama’s war against veracity is multifaceted. ∴ Trotskyization. Sometimes the past is simply airbrushed away. Barack Obama has a disturbing habit of contradicting his past declarations as if spoken words did not mean much at all. The problem is not just that once-memorable statements about everything from NAFTA to public campaign financing were contradicted by his subsequent actions. Rather, these pronouncements simply were ignored to the point of making it seem they were never really uttered at all. Read the rest at National Review... Read More......