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It will go up here at BizzyBlog on Thursday (link won’t work until then) after the blackout expires.
Also, see this item from yesterday: “Explaining Santorumentum.”
William McGurn, in today’s Wall Street Journal:
When Barack Obama was campaigning for president in 2008, he declared that marriage is between a man and a woman. For the most part, his position was treated as a nonissue.
Now Rick Santorum is campaigning for president. He too says that marriage is between a man and a woman. What a different reaction he gets.
The Associated Press’s Seth Borenstein, his wire service, and most of the globaloney-advocating establishment press have a problem.
Peter Gleick, described in a related UK Guardian story as “a water scientist and president of the Pacific Institute,” said last week that he “obtained” documents from the Heartland Institute about its strategy to, in part and in Borenstein’s words, (from his 1,000-word dispatch), “teach schoolchildren skepticism about global warming.” Now, Gleick has admitted that he stole them (Gleick’s description: “I solicited and received additional materials directly … under someone else’s name”). Oops. It get worse for Borenstein and the wire service on at least two levels.
First, Heartland claims, with others’ support, that a key two-page “2012 Heartland Climate Strategy” memo Gleick posted is a fake. Heartland’s contention seems reasonable to cap-and-trade supporter Megan McArdle at the Atlantic. McArdle listed seven good reasons to doubt the memo’s authenticity and followed that enumeration with a “section-by-section analysis of what makes me uncomfortable.” Friday afternoon, Ross Kaminsky at the American Spectator wrote that “all evidence so far supports Heartland’s emphatic assertion that the document is a forgery.” There is heavy suspicion is that Gleick himself wrote it.
A really bad idea: $1.4 billion in tax increases.
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Note: This column went up at PJ Media and was teased here at BizzyBlog on Sunday.
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During his first hour today, Rush mentioned the reaction of Peter King at Sports illustrated in King’s “Monday Morning Quarterback” collection to a paragraph in the magazine’s cover story on Jeremy Lin, the New York Knicks’ point guard who has broken through from obscurity to phenom during the past two weeks. What King wrote is indeed an interesting giveaway of what I believe is a common but unsupportable media perspective, namely that students at and graduates of elite upper-echelon universities like those in the Ivy League are presumptively free of overt racism, because, well, they’re all so enlightened.
Uh, no. As Pablo S. Torre reveals in said cover story:
Climate scientist Peter Gleick admits he leaked Heartland Institute documents
Peter Gleick, a water and climate analyst, says he was blinded by his frustrations with ongoing attacks on climate scienceA leading defender of climate change admitted tricking the libertarian Heartland Institute into turning over confidential documents detailing its plans to discredit the teaching of science to school children in last week’s sensational expose.
From Elk River, Minnesota (HT Daryn Kagan):
3:15 PM, Feb 14, 2012
In Sherburne County, Minnesota Elk River is the county seat.
In Elk River, Holt Avenue and 5th Street Northwest is the love seat.
Rules are here. Possible comment fodder may follow later. Other topics are also fair game.
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Friday, Mass Resistance leader and Mitt Romney’s Deception author Amy Contrada tore apart Mitt Romney’s CPAC speech piece by piece.
In the speech (quoting Amy’s opening list), Romney made patently false claims in the following areas:
There I was, standing near the front of the room on the stage right side of the Georgetown Elementary School multipurpose room Friday night, guarding my spot for recording Rick Santorum’s upcoming speech, when up came ORPINO (Ohio Republican Party In Name Only) Chairman Kevin DeWine.
DeWine, to what I believe was the surprise of most, came down from Columbus for Santorum’s speech. Someone pointed him out to me shortly after his arrival.
He sought yours truly out; I was going to leave him alone. The event wasn’t about him, or me, or us.