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Jonathan Leake / Times of London:
Climate change data dumped — SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. — It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show …
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Christopher Booker / Telegraph:
Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation — Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with the Climategate whitewash, says Christopher Booker — A week after my colleague James Delingpole, on his Telegraph blog …
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No science is possible: CRU has destroyed the original data — The Times of London is reporting in its Sunday edition that the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia has destroyed the original data used to construct the historical climate record that purports to show a temperature increase.
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Robert Mendick / Telegraph:
Climategate: University of East Anglia U-turn in climate change row — Leading British scientists at the University of East Anglia, who were accused of manipulating climate change data - dubbed Climategate - have agreed to publish their figures in full. — The U-turn by the university follows …
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Senate Report Explores 2001 Escape by bin Laden From Afghan Mountains — WASHINGTON — As President Obama vows to “finish the job” in Afghanistan by sending more troops, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has completed a detailed look back at a crucial failure early in the battle against Al Qaeda …
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Tina Moore / NY Daily News:
Bush adminstration could've captured terrorist Osama Bin Laden in December 2001: Senate report — Osama Bin Laden was within military reach when the Bush administration allowed him to disappear into the mountains of Afghanistan rather than pursue him with a massive military force, a new Senate report says.
Nia-Malika Henderson / Politico Live's Blog:
Huckabee: ‘Less than likely’ I'll run in 2012 — Mike Huckabee, the former Republican governor from Arkansas who has his own Fox show told Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday” that a 2012 presidential bid is “less than likely” and depends on whether Roger Ailes, the head of Fox News, keeps liking his show.
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Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
Are We Going to Let John Die? — If Joe Lieberman or other senators came across John Brodniak writhing in pain on the sidewalk, they presumably would jump to help him and rush him to a hospital. — Unfortunately, an emergency room won't help — indeed, the closest E.R. has told him not to come back, he says.
New York Times:
Food Stamp Use Soars Across U.S., and Stigma Fades — A GROWING NEED FOR A PROGRAM ONCE SCORNED Greg Dawson and his wife, Sheila, of Martinsville, Ohio, help feed their family of seven with a $300 monthly food stamp benefit. Center and right, the food pantry in Lebanon, Ohio …
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
America vs. The Narrative — What should we make of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who apparently killed 13 innocent people at Fort Hood? — Here's my take: Major Hasan may have been mentally unbalanced — I assume anyone who shoots up innocent people is. But the more you read about his support …
Jacob Weisberg / Slate:
By January, he will have accomplished more than any first-year president since Franklin Roosevelt. — About one thing, left and right seem to agree these days: Obama hasn't done anything yet. Maureen Dowd and Dick Cheney have found common ground in scoffing at the president's “dithering.”
A Traditional Life Lived:
4,000 at St. Louis Tea Party-Let Off Some Steam! HUGE SUCCESS!!! — Today St. Louis Tea Party had a kick off to the holiday season Tea Party to let off some steam and listen to some fantastic speakers. If you missed the even the livestream is available to watch here. — The weather couldn't have been better.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
PRIORITIZING THE PUBLIC OPTION.... That Americans approve of the idea of a public option is no longer in doubt. After months of polling, we've consistently seen a majority of Americans say they like the idea of a public plan competing against private insurers. The results have bolstered proponents of the idea, on and off the Hill.
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