No further gun restrictions - better

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Wednesday January 30, 2013 · 12:34 PM PST

2013/01/30 · 12:34

It may be that the better, progressive policy response to gun violence at this time would be to stay away from any further restrictions on the types of guns and ammunition that can be sold legally. The uncertainty of the effectiveness of such restrictions and the certainty regarding the impact that this discussion has on our political culture leads me to this conclusion. ...

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Thursday April 22, 2010 · 11:11 AM PDT

2010/04/22 · 11:11

In an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal on April 22, 2010, Richard Lindzen, a leading climate change denier, wrote the following:

In mid-November of 2009 there appeared a file on the Internet containing thousands of emails and other documents from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Great Britain. How this file got into the public domain is still uncertain, but the emails, whose authenticity is no longer in question, provided a view into the world of climate research that was revealing and even startling.

In what has come to be known as "climategate," one could see unambiguous evidence of the unethical suppression of information and opposing viewpoints, and even data manipulation.

Emphasis added.

This statement has been shown to be false by two independent panels.

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Friday December 18, 2009 · 7:10 AM PST

2009/12/18 · 07:10

Given the stalemate in the Senate, it's time to use the nuclear option.

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"An irresponsible statement by an ignorant man"

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Sunday August 23, 2009 · 9:43 AM PDT

2009/08/23 · 09:43

In the spring of 1915, Allied forces, led by Britain but including many Australian, New Zealand and other Commonwealth (ANZAC) troops, conducted a disastrous campaign to capture the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey. A significant footnote in an account of the conclusion of the battle, including the dismissal of the British commander, Hamilton, describes how Rupert Murdoch's father, an Australian journalist, fabricated a scurrilous charge against the British soldiers.

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Friday August 14, 2009 · 9:56 AM PDT

2009/08/14 · 09:56

We are wasting far too much energy on the "birthers" and "deathers". It is fun to debunk such outrageous claims, but our message gets lost in the process, especially on something like end-of-life counseling that is not core to reform.

Let's get back to doing what Bruce Bartlett is doing over on Daily Beast.

Leading conservative economist Bruce Bartlett writes that the Obama-hating town-hall mobs have it wrong—the person they should be angry with left the White House seven months ago.

Bartlett details the reality of Republican failure by contrasting the Bush years with the Clinton years. And this is from a guy who identifies himself as having invented supply-side economics!

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