So much for that.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
And Probably Proud Of It
Barack Obama says he’s pretty lost when it comes to the math stuff.
Why am I not surprised?
[Update a while later]
More non-news: Biden and Obama are financially illiterate.
Well, duh.
My Time Of Not Taking Colin Powell Seriously
…has definitely come to a middle.
Economists
Did they doom the Obama presidency?
Neo-Keynesianism was never what it was cracked up to be. It was never really anything but an excuse for growth in government spending.
[Via Instapundit, who has the usual graphs]
The Media Continues To Shore Up A Failed Presidency
A view from across the Pond.
Gene Expression
Happy tenth bloggiversary. I just had my eleventh.
Libertarian Law Professors
Why they tend to support Romney.
I wonder what proportion of law professors are libertarian. A pretty small one, I’d guess.
And clearly Democrats are hostile to libertarianism, whereas Republicans tend to be much more tolerant of it, as he notes. This is why the “liberaltarianism” bubble a few years ago was always a mirage.
The War On Women
…by ObamaCare.
Michael Mann’s Non-Exoneration
An analysis by Chris Horner.
[Update early afternoon]
Some thoughts from Ken at Popehat on the plaintiff’s legal prospects:
Yesterday the other shoe dropped and Mann sued NRO, CEI, Steyn, and Simberg in D.C. Superior Court for libel and intentional infliction of emotional distress (or, as I prefer to call it, Butthurt in the First Degree). The Legal Times has posted the complaint. I’ve reviewed it, and have some initial thoughts.
First, the complaint seems almost calculated to support likely conservative narratives about it. It’s very heavy on arguments by authority, citing the National Science Foundation and Columbia Journalism Review and Discovery Magazine and others for its propositions that the defendants are simply wrong in their criticisms of Mr. Mann. It fairly drips with righteous indignation over the existence of persistent global warming deniers. Global warming skeptics have been asserting that the scientific establishment is hostile to any dissent on global warming; this complaint isn’t going to dispel that impression.
Nope.
Mann-Made Lawsuit
[Afternoon update]
I, Mark Steyn, National Review and CEI have been named. It’s four separate suits. I may be setting up a legal defense fund.
[Update a while later]
Here’s the story, at Fox News.
Legal Times has a story, too, as well as Ron Bailey at Reason. Also, Scientific American.
[Update a while later]
For those unfamiliar with the background, here are a couple articles at Forbes about the climate-gate whitewash.