memeorandum: Rick Sanchez Asks Scientist ‘Nine Meters In English Is?’ (Noel Sheppard/NewsBusters.org)

10:30 AM ET, February 28, 2010

Top Items:

We Can't Wish Away Climate Change — It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.

Discussion: Althouse, RedState, NewsBusters.org, Left Coast Rebel, Maggie's Farm, Another Black Conservative, Jules Crittenden, MyDD, Silent Running, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, DISSENTING JUSTICE, Economist's View, The Page, Gateway Pundit, The Lonely Conservative, Climate Progress and American Conservative …

Gene J. Koprowski / Fox News:

You Can Call Him Al ... But Al Won't Call You Back — Al Gore won a Nobel Prize and an Oscar for his film, An Inconvenient Truth. But in the last three months, as global warming has gone from a scientific near-certitude to the subject of satire, Gore — the public face of global warming — has been mum on the topic.

Discussion: NewsBusters.org, Fausta's Blog and protein wisdom

The Note:

Pelosi and the Tea Party ‘Share Views’ — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she has much in common with the Tea Party. The speaker now says she shares views with movement she dismissed last summer as being “Astroturf” — her suggestion that the grassroots of the Tea Party were a creation of the Republican Party.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, The Swamp and Taylor Marsh

Frank Rich / New York Times:

The Axis of the Obsessed and Deranged — No one knows what history will make of the present — least of all journalists, who can at best write history's sloppy first draft. But if I were to place an incautious bet on which political event will prove the most significant of February 2010 …

Discussion: Osborne Ink and Prairie Weather

Mark Silva / The Swamp:
TEA Party's power: ‘Really in charge’

Discussion: CNN

Ashley Southall / The Caucus:

Van Jones to Glenn Beck: ‘I Love You, Brother’ — Van Jones is back on the scene for a second act, and he's got a peculiar affection for the Fox TV host whose persistent attacks helped bring down the curtains on his post with the Obama administration. — On Friday night, Mr. Jones, once a …

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Left Coast Rebel, Think Progress, Another Black Conservative, American Conservative …, The American Conservative, HotAirPundit, Raw Story and New York Magazine

Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:

Rick Sanchez Asks Scientist ‘Nine Meters In English Is?’ — CNN's Rick Sanchez Saturday actually needed someone to explain to him what nine meters measures in feet. — As tsunamis approached Hawaii following the 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile, CNN rushed in a scientist to discuss …

Discussion: Breitbart.tv, Gawker and Pajamas Media

Times of London:

Gordon Brown on course to win election — GORDON BROWN is on course to remain prime minister after the general election as a new Sunday Times poll reveals that Labour is now just two points behind the Tories. — The YouGov survey places David Cameron's Conservatives on 37% …

Discussion: thetorydiary, UK Polling Report, Harry's Place, MyDD and Marbury

Jim Galloway / Political Insider:

John Linder announces retirement from Congress — U.S. Rep. John Linder was first elected to Congress in 1992/AJC file. — U.S. Rep. John Linder, the Republican from Gwinnett County, this morning announced that he would retire from Congress after 18 years.

Discussion: CNN

Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
John Linder to retire

Discussion: MyDD

Elizabeth Landau / CNN:

Liberalism, atheism linked to IQ — (CNN) — Political, religious and sexual behaviors may be reflections of intelligence, a new study finds. — Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at the the London School of Economics and Political Science correlated data on these behaviors with IQ …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Liberal Values, Big Journalism, Outside The Beltway, Sense of Events, Neptunus Lex, NewsBusters.org, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, JustOneMinute, The Political Carnival, alicublog, Time, No Sheeples Here, Jules Crittenden, Hullabaloo, American Conservative … and The Mahablog

New York Times:

Wary Centrists Posing Challenge in Health Care Vote — WASHINGTON — The future of President Obama's health care overhaul now rests largely with two blocs of swing Democrats in the House of Representatives — abortion opponents and fiscal conservatives — whose indecision signals …

Discussion: The Note, CNN, ABCNEWS, Washington Monthly, The Caucus, The Strata-Sphere, The Impolitic, The Greenroom, Betsy's Page, The Daily Dish, Swampland, New York Times, Riehl World View, The Page, RedState and The Hill

Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:

Barack Obama: “We Can't Control Nature” (Video) — Barack Obama on the Chilean earthquake, “We can't control nature.” — Agreed. — So, quit pushing that non-existent global warming junk science crap. Thank you. — Hat Tip Randy Porter

Discussion: The Other McCain and Weasel Zippers

ABCNEWS:

Chile Earthquake: Tsunami Watch Heightened After 8.8-Magnitude Quake — Three Americans Missing, Dozens Dead in Quake 64 Times Stronger Than Haiti's — U.S. Officials have been unable to reach at least three Americans working with the U.S. Embassy in Chile after a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Chile early this morning.

Discussion: LGBT POV

Wall Street Journal:
Chile Suffers Massive Earthquake

Discussion: New York Times

Michael C. Bender / Post on Politics:

Crist says he would not scrap Dem health care reform, can't identify part worth keeping — Gov. Charlie Crist, a Republican U.S. Senate candidate, told The Palm Beach Post editorial board on Friday that, unlike many Republicans in Washington, he didn't think President Obama should scrap his health care reform proposal: