POLITICAL SCIENCE

Their efforts to politicize science are at once the most amusing and most alarming trait of liberals.

On June 6, the National Academy of Sciences issued a report on climate change.  It "represented a unanimous decision that global warming is real, is getting worse, and is due to man," said CNN reporter Michelle Mitchell.  "There is no wiggle room."

Dr. Richard Lindzen of MIT, one of the 11 scientists who prepared the report, said this wasn't true: 

"We are quite confident that (1) that global mean temperature is about 0.5 degrees Celsius higher than it was a century ago; (2) (more…)

BILL KELLER BELONGS IN JAIL FOR TREASON

The battle of Midway Island was the turning point of the Pacific War.  Victory at Midway was possible because the U.S. had broken the Japanese naval code.  The Chicago Tribune spilled the beans in a story that ran under the headline: "NAVY HAD WORD OF JAP PLAN TO STRIKE AT SEA."

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was furious.  He knew that if the Japanese read the story, they'd suspect their codes were compromised, and change them. 

The president "initially was disposed to send in the Marines to shut down Tribune tower," wrote Harry Evans.  "He was talked out of that, then (more…)

THERE’S ALWAYS A MOSQUE

Some day we will be forced to deal fully with the war we are in, and when that happens we're going to discover a lot of very nasty problems about the future of America.

One of them has to do with, of all things, the First Amendment. Consider this story from Wednesday's (June 21) London Times:

AN AMERICAN al-Qaeda operative who was a close associate of the leader of the July 7 bombers was recruited at a New York mosque that British militants helped to run.

British radicals regularly traveled to the Masjid Fatima Islamic Centre, in Queens, to (more…)

HACKING WINDOWS UPDATES

Microsoft has just issued 12 security advisories and updates for them for products from PowerPoint to Windows to Exchange Server. If you still don't have automatic updates turned on, start Windows Update now.

One critical bug wasn't, and won't, be patched for Windows 98. If you hadn't already got the message, it's time to move on from that operating system. Microsoft no longer supports it, Windows 98 Second Edition, or Windows Millennium.  It's time for a new operating system. 

If your computer won't support Windows XP, it's time for a new computer.  As unreliable as those operating systems have always (more…)

YES, THE MEDIA WANT US TO LOSE IN IRAQ BUT THEY MAY NOT SUCCEED

Dan Rather's 44-year relationship with CBS News came to an unceremonious end this week.  This should remind us that of the many differences between the Vietnam war and the war in Iraq, the three most important are talk radio, Fox News, and the Internet.

Mr. Rather must think his fate unfair. He was in effect fired when the documents on which he based an expose of President Bush's National Guard service were shown to be clumsy forgeries.  But Walter Cronkite, who told a much bigger lie, is still an esteemed figure at CBS.

The one great similarity between Vietnam and (more…)