memeorandum: Bombshell? NASA revises recent U.S. temperatures downward … (Allahpundit/Hot Air)

3:50 AM ET, August 10, 2007

Top Items:

1998 no longer the hottest year on record in USA — Here's a story of scientific investigation and discovery I'm proud to have had a small part in. — Regular readers may remember that I posted about a climate station in Detroit Lakes MN last week, surveyed by volunteer Don Kostuch …

Discussion: michellemalkin.com, small dead animals, The Daily Gut, Moonbattery, Biased BBC, Clayton Cramer's BLOG, Climate Audit, Power and Control and Macsmind

Michael Asher / DailyTech:

Blogger Finds Y2K Bug in NASA Climate Data — Years of bad data corrected; 1998 no longer the warmest year on record — My earlier column this week detailed the work of a volunteer team to assess problems with US temperature data used for climate modeling.

Discussion: NewsBusters.org, Flopping Aces, Secular Blasphemy, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Sister Toldjah, Wake up America, Tim Blair and PoliPundit.com

Steve McIntyre / Climate Audit:

A New Leaderboard at the U.S. Open — There has been some turmoil yesterday on the leaderboard of the U.S. (Temperature) Open and there is a new leader. — A little unexpectedly, 1998 had a late bogey and 1934 had a late birdie. (I thought that they were both in the clubhouse since the turmoil seemed to be in the 2000s.)

Coyote Blog:

Breaking News: Recent US Temperature Numbers Revised Downwards Today — This is really big news, and a fabulous example of why two-way scientific discourse is still valuable, in the same week that both Newsweek and Al Gore tried to make the case that climate skeptics were counter-productive and evil.

Discussion: American Thinker, A Blog For All and QandO

Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Bombshell? NASA revises recent U.S. temperatures downward …

Discussion: Coyote Blog, Blue Crab Boulevard and TigerHawk

White House:

President Bush Discusses American Competitiveness Initiative During Press Conference — THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, thank you. When I came into office in 2001, our nation was headed into a recession. So we cut the taxes across the board. And hardworking Americans have used this tax relief …

Discussion: NewsBusters.org, Los Angeles Times, The Democratic Daily, First Draft, Crooks and Liars, The Atlantic Online, The Carpetbagger Report, Done With Mirrors, Ezra Klein, AMERICAblog and michellemalkin.com

Matt / Think Progress:

In A Three Minute Monologue, Matthews Gushes Over Bush's 'Great Neo-Conservative Mind' — Immediately following President Bush's press conference today, MSNBC's Chris Matthews spent three unbroken minutes fawning over the president's "powerful rendition" of his "philosophy" without uttering a single critical word.

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns and Money

Media Matters for America:

Matthews: Where have all the "big, beefy" "every-way big guy" Democrats gone? — While discussing the Democratic presidential candidates on the August 8 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, host Chris Matthews asserted: "I don't see a big, beefy alternative to [Sen.] Hillary Clinton [D-NY] — a big guy.

Discussion: Booman Tribune and Attytood

Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
Bush: No Tax Cut for Corporations

Discussion: Think Progress, Firedoglake and AMERICAblog

Washington Post:

Romney's Cash Beckons Iowans To Straw Poll — As thousands of Republican activists prepare to descend on Ames, Iowa, tomorrow for the straw poll meant to gauge support for the GOP's presidential contenders, the event has all the markings of a historic mismatch.

Discussion: Oliver Willis

New York Times:

Romney Pushed on Conservative Credentials — Mitt Romney is undergoing the stiffest test yet of his effort to win over conservatives wary of his ideological credentials. — In the days leading up to the Iowa Straw Poll in Ames on Saturday, Mr. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor …

Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Hundreds of buses to arrive in Ames

Discussion: CNN Political Ticker and eyeon08.com

Eric Lipton / New York Times:

Earlier Terrorist Screening to Begin for Flights Into U.S. — By early next year, passengers on flights bound for the United States will have their names checked against terrorist watch lists before departure, instead of after takeoff, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced Thursday.

Suzanne Gamboa / Associated Press:
Gov't to step up immigration enforcement

Discussion: On Deadline

Mike Allen / The Politico:
Bush to order new crackdown on U.S. border

Discussion: New York Times

Kevin / Pundit Review:

Charges finally dropped against Haditha Marine Justin Sharratt — Congratulations to the entire Sharratt family. — We have had the pleasure of speaking with Justin's father Darryl on Pundit Review Radio twice in recent weeks. In the first interview, we provided a detailed overview …

Discussion: Let Freedom Ring and Agence France Presse

Dan Whitcomb / Reuters:
Charges dropped against 2 Marines in Haditha case

Discussion: A Blog For All

Associated Press:
Marine's Charges Dropped in Iraq Deaths

Discussion: Associated Press, BLACKFIVE, Sister Toldjah, michellemalkin.com, QandO, Wake up America, Neptunus Lex, Outside The Beltway, protein wisdom and UrbanGrounds

Agence France Presse:

US public sees news media as biased, inaccurate, uncaring: poll — More than half of Americans say US news organizations are politically biased, inaccurate, and don't care about the people they report on, a poll published Thursday showed. — And poll respondents who use the Internet …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Wizbang

Pew Research Center:

Internet News Audience Highly Critical of News Organizations — Views of Press Values and Performance: 1985-2007 — Summary of Findings — The American public continues to fault news organizations for a number of perceived failures, with solid majorities criticizing them for political bias …

Discussion: Hot Air and Brendan Nyhan

Horses Mouth:

Okay, this is getting serious. The media carnival about alleged war critics Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack "suddenly" expressing optimism about the surge is now threatening to balloon into something much larger than those two, a meme much more grotesque and Frankenstein-like. Call it a Franken-meme.

Discussion: ABCNEWS, Think Progress, Wake up America, The Carpetbagger Report, Firedoglake and The Newshoggers

Josh White / Washington Post:
Analyst Urges Patience on Iraq, Seeing Chance for Some Gains

Discussion: The Influence Peddler and QandO

Ryan Sager / Latest Politics:

The Gay Debate — Stay tuned here for some liveblogging of the first-ever gay-issues debate, being held by the Democrats in Los Angeles and carried on the LOGO network... [You can watch live on the Logo Web site here.] — 9:01: Margaret Carlson is moderating.

Discussion: Classical Values

Gay Patriot: Live-blogging the Logo Debate

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:

Progressive For Racist Smears? (Update: Progressive Wises Up A Little Late) — Note: the site in question is now Not Safe for Work or family viewing. See Update III. 5:15 — Now safe; see update IV. — It doesn't take long for provocateurs to crawl out of the woodwork to attack candidates, especially in stealth attacks.

Discussion: Middle Earth Journal, Hot Air, Sister Toldjah, The Moderate Voice, Riehl World View, Liberal Values, Blue Crab Boulevard, Israpundit, Lonewacko, Redstate, Power Line, Iowa Voice, Public Secrets, QandO and National Review

Andrew Roth / Club for Growth:

The 2007 Club for Growth RePORK Card … These scores reflect the percentage of YES votes on 50 anti-pork amendments, which are itemized at the bottom of the page. Four House members were not included on this scorecard: — 1. Jo Ann Davis (R-VA-01) - recovering from surgery and thus did not vote

Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Instapundit.com