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Daniel Henninger on Climategate: Science Is Dying - WSJ.com about 7 hours ago
- For three centuries Galileo has symbolized dissent in science. In our time, most scientists outside this circle have kept silent as their climatologist fellows, helped by the cardinals of the press, mocked and ostracized scientists who questioned this grand theory of global doom. Even a doubter as eminent as Princeton's Freeman Dyson was dismissed as an aging crank.
- This has harsh implications for the credibility of science generally. Hard science, alongside medicine, was one of the few things left accorded automatic stature and respect by most untrained lay persons. But the average person reading accounts of the East Anglia emails will conclude that hard science has become just another faction, as politicized and "messy" as, say, gender studies. The New England Journal of Medicine has turned into a weird weekly amalgam of straight medical-research and propaganda for the Obama redesign of U.S. medicine.
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- - Global warming enlisted the collective reputation of science. Because "science" said so, all the world was about to undertake a vast reordering of human behavior at almost unimaginable financial cost. Not every day does the work of scientists lead to galactic events simply called Kyoto or Copenhagen. At least not since the Manhattan Project.
  - I don't think most scientists appreciate what has hit them. This isn't only about the credibility of global warming. For years, global warming and its advocates have been the public face of hard science. Most people could not name three other subjects they would associate with the work of serious scientists. This was it. The public was told repeatedly that something called "the scientific community" had affirmed the science beneath this inquiry. A Nobel Prize was bestowed (on a politician).
  - Surely there must have been serious men and women in the hard sciences who at some point worried that their colleagues in the global warming movement were putting at risk the credibility of everyone in science
Cheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project - NYTimes.com on 2009-07-12
- In the eight years of his vice presidency, Mr. Cheney was the Bush administration’s most vehement defender of the secrecy of government activities, particularly in the intelligence arena. He went to the Supreme Court to keep secret the advisers to his task force on energy, and won.
- Democrats in Congress, who contend that the Bush administration improperly limited Congressional briefings on intelligence, are seeking to change the National Security Act to permit the full intelligence committees to be briefed on more matters. President Obama, however, has threatened to veto the intelligence authorization bill if the changes go too far, and the proposal is now being negotiated by the White House and the intelligence committees.
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- - demand an investigation of the unidentified program and why Congress was not told of it
  - Mr. Hoekstra, the intelligence committee’s ranking Republican, said he would not judge the agency harshly in the case of the unidentified program, because it was not fully operational. But he said that in general, the agency had not been as forthcoming as the law required.
American Thinker: Revolution on 2009-06-28
- we can see clearly what's been happening in the United States during the last three decades. While conservatives have been working to improve our democracy and our free-market economy, liberals have been working to replace our democracy with a dictatorship, and our free-market economy with a command economy controlled by the government. The liberals couldn't say this aloud, because if they did the American people would have tossed them out of office on their ears. So the liberals worked covertly, feigning support for democracy and for the free market while working diligently to undermine both.
- They have judged that our public education system is so degraded that only a few Americans are left who even understand what a democracy is, and how the free market actually works.
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- - They are convinced that the majority of Americans are too frightened by the current recession to care about preserving the principles that made us the most powerful, productive and innovative country the world has ever known.
  - Once our courts are presided over by judges who will reach verdicts based on how they feel about an issue
  - the law will be whatever the judges wish it to be; the rule of law will become an empty phrase rather than the architecture of our civilization.
  - One indicator of the Obama administration's real objective: When some banks that had taken federal money attempted to repay their loans, the Treasury Department refused to accept repayment and step aside. This shows the government's goal isn't to prop up the banks, but rather to control them.
  - This revolution won't be stopped, and our country won't be rescued, by the Republicans in Washington.
  - most of them are careerist hacks who've been playing footsie with the Democrats for too long; with very few exceptions they lack the intellectual firepower to articulate the present danger, and the political courage to stand up to this Administration and really fight.
How To Use The Best 40 Features of iPhone 3.0 : iSmashPhone on 2009-06-23
- Email up to 5 photos at a time
- Go to photos
  Tap the arrow on the bottom left
  Select the photos you want to share
  Press share
  Send the email with the automatically attached photos
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- - Shake to undo and redo typing
  - Shake to shuffle
  - you can copy text from an app or a Safari web page, and paste it into Notes or Email
  - Hold a word until the magnifying glass appears
    Release
    Options "Select" and "Select All" appear
    Pressing select or select all brings up the blue markers.
  - The iPhone's iTunes store can now access movies, TV shows, podcasts, and music videos.
  - you can now increase the speed at which an audiobook is played
  - will be shown in "Recents" and in "Voicemail"
CQ Politics | New York Court Ruling Gives Hope To GOP on 2009-04-23
- Tedisco’s campaign has challenged hundreds of absentee ballots it claims were cast by voters whose primary residences are outside the district. His attorneys have argued such votes are ineligible and are threatening the integrity of the election.
  
  The Murphy campaign has responded that New York state law allows voters to cast ballots in any district where they have a residence, even if it is secondary, as long as they do not vote twice.
Townhall.com - Printer Friendly on 2009-04-19
- Those of conservative bent ardently hope for a second American Revolution; those of the left wish desperately for a second French Revolution.
- “All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness.”
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- - The purpose of the government is to secure these rights.
  - The purpose of the government is to make laws benefiting society, not to restrict itself from encroachment upon the rights of the individual.
  - The American Revolution was followed by peaceful governance because it granted power -- and responsibility -- to the individual.
  - The French Revolution, by contrast, was bloody and tyrannical. The lead advocate for the rights of man was Robespierre, to whom the individual meant little.
  - The supremacy of the “general will” over individual rights, Adams stated, would bring “horrible ravages.”
Townhall.com - Printer Friendly on 2009-04-19
- But Obama does not believe in individual upward mobility. He would penalize it, tax it, regulate it, inveigh against it and disincentivize it. We will be like salmon swimming upstream to mate. We will overcome the currents, the waterfall, the rocks and the predators, and will grapple our way up the stream. Then, at the top of the waterfall, will stand Obama the Bear, waiting to scoop us up and have us for dinner.
Townhall.com - Printer Friendly on 2009-04-19
- By the time Obama leaves office, you will not be able to exchange dollars for any sound currency in the world without permission from the U.S. government. The price of gold will be well over $2,500 per ounce
- Producing huge amounts of inflation while severely restricting the most productive sectors of our economy is a recipe for catastrophe.
Mortal Remains by Jonah Goldberg on National Review / Digital on 2009-04-18
- “Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion.”
- Government intrusions “on the individual should be purely negative in character. It should attend to national defense, safeguard the individual in his civil rights, maintain outward order and decency, enforce the obligations of contract, punish crimes belonging in the order of malum in se [evil in itself] and make justice cheap and easily available.” Such a regime would amount to a government by and for the people, not a state in which the citizens are mere instruments of the statists.
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- - He openly embraced the idea that he couldn’t change anything. History was driven by forces too large to be affected by politics or punditry. Any revolution would result only in a new crop of exploiters and scoundrels eager to pick up where the deposed ones left off.
  - “Nock made the essential point: ransack the past for your values, establish a coherent worldview, depend neither on society nor on government insofar as circumstances permitted, keep your tastes simple and inexpensive, and do what you have to do to remain true to yourself.”
  - Nock was content with failure, his heirs are not.
Principles in Practice: On April 22, Celebrate Exploit-the-Earth Day on 2009-04-17
- environmentalism is an anti-human ideology
- using the raw materials of nature for one’s life-serving purposes—is a basic requirement of human life.
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- - Capitalism is the only social system that recognizes and protects each individual’s right to act in accordance with his basic means of living: the judgment of his mind.
  - The basic principle of environmentalism is that nature (i.e., “the environment”) has intrinsic value—value in and of itself, value apart from and irrespective of the requirements of human life—and that this value must be protected from its only adversary: man.
  - according to environmentalism, if nature affects nature, the effect is good; if man affects nature, the effect is evil.

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