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Submitted by Caermon: In a Friday interview with Investigative Magazine's TGIF Edition, CRU director Phillip Jones confirmed [PDF] that the incriminating documents, which have been widely disseminated online, are in fact genuine. (Read More)

Nov 14, 2009

Submitted by Caermon: Do you think ideas don’t matter, that what people believe about themselves and their world has no real consequence? If so, the following will not bug you in the slightest.A new BBC poll finds that only 11 percent of people questioned around the world – and 29,000 people were asked their opinions – think that free-market cap (Read More)

Nov 06, 2009

Submitted by Caermon: FORT HOOD, Texas — A U.S. Army spokesman says the Fort Hood shootings suspect is alive and was not killed by authorities responding to the attack. Lt. Gen. Bob Cone also says the death toll from the attack remains 12 after another victim died. (Read More)

Nov 06, 2009

Submitted by Caermon: WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement officials say the suspected Fort Hood, Texas, shooter had come to their attention at least six months ago because of Internet postings that discussed suicide bombings and other threats. (Read More)

Nov 05, 2009

Submitted by Caermon: Meanwhile, in bleaker moments, scientific authorities have predicted the end of the world and civilization as we know them at the hand of pandemics or environmental catastrophe. And yet we are still here, in defiance of Thomas Malthus’s eighteenth-century warnings about overpopulation and ecologist Paul Ehrlich’s prophesy i (Read More)

Nov 05, 2009

Submitted by Caermon: PASADENA, Calif. -- Winter images of NASA's Phoenix Lander showing the lander shrouded in dry-ice frost on Mars have been captured with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE camera, aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. (Read More)

Nov 04, 2009

Submitted by Caermon: WASHINGTON — Recognizing that a weak economy still needs a government boost, the Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to provide the jobless with up to 20 weeks in additional unemployment benefits and expand a first-time homebuyer tax credit to include a far larger pool of people entering the dormant housing market. (Read More)

Nov 03, 2009

Submitted by Caermon: One of the most important things to remember about socialism – or coercion of any kind – is it fails eventually because human beings have an innate desire for liberty and a strong need for personal property rights. In fact, the origins of government lie in the need of agricultural communities to protect themselves from viol (Read More)

Oct 18, 2009

Submitted by Caermon: FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A sheriff says a Colorado couple’s report that their 6-year-old son was in a balloon that was hurtling away from their home was a publicity stunt. (Read More)

Oct 16, 2009

Huffington Post From Fellow Skeptic Michael ShermerEditor of Skeptic magazine and "Skeptic" columnist for Scientific AmericanDear Bill,Years ago you invited me to appear as a fellow skeptic several times on your ABC show Politically Incorrect, and I have ever since shared your skepticism on so many matters important to both of us: creation (Read More)

Oct 16, 2009

Submitted by Caermon: PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Galileo spacecraft began what would become a 14-year odyssey of exploration 20 years ago this Sunday, Oct. 18. Galileo was humanity's first emissary to orbit a planet in the outer solar system - Jupiter. (Read More)

Oct 15, 2009

Submitted by Caermon: The question of whether President Obama should send more troops to Afghanistan misses the point.What Obama really needs to do is: Invent a time machine, go back to the 2008 presidential campaign and not say, over and over and over again, that Afghanistan was a "war of necessity" while the war in Iraq was a "war of choice." (Read More)

Oct 04, 2009

Submitted by Caermon: There’s a fine line today between sordid sex revelations and the end of a career. What we know so far of David Letterman’s “creepy” affairs, as he himself characterized them, doesn’t cross that line. (Read More)

Oct 03, 2009

Submitted by Caermon: David Letterman, who built his career skewering philandering politicians and show business “weasels” and “boneheads,” finds himself in the middle of his own celebrity scandal, after he admitted having multiple affairs with employees of his production company, Worldwide Pants. (Read More)

Oct 03, 2009

Submitted by Caermon: Hope you bought your last pack of flavored cigarettes by midnight on Sept. 21…or else you’re out of luck. Thank the newly enacted Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. (Read More)

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In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action. Jerry Pournelle