John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Dec 5, 2009, 1:41 pm
Warner Todd Huston at Big Government did the work on this one. I’m basically just rewriting his post a bit. Here’s the NY Times, circa 2002, under President Bush. The headline is Unemploy...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Dec 5, 2009, 1:01 pm
Saw this on Hot Air headlines this morning. It’s interesting because it reinforces the audio clip I posted a few weeks ago. But it’s also interesting because it offers some private insight...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Dec 5, 2009, 2:46 am
More than two years ago a commission assembled to look into the matter determined that a warning on the morning of Cho’s massacre could have saved lives. Now it turns out that, while the admini...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Dec 4, 2009, 2:46 pm
Gateway Pundit publishes the work of an unnamed group of researchers: GLSEN’s stated mission is to empower gay youth in the schools and to stop harassment by other students. It encourages the forma...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Dec 4, 2009, 1:02 pm
Yesterday I noted that the California Energy Commission and Google had collaborated on a new map/video which shows the effect of a 4+ foot sea level rise on San Francisco in the year 2100. I noted tha...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Dec 3, 2009, 12:23 pm
From the Sacramento Bee: In 2100, Fisherman’s Wharf would become Fisherman’s Bay, the baseball diamond at AT&T Park would flood and two major Bay Area airports would better serve seaplane...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Dec 3, 2009, 11:26 am
I’m not a big fan of Wanda Sykes, and I really, really don’t like celebrity sex scandals…but I had to laugh at Sykes’ early take on the Tiger Woods affair. And since this aired...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Dec 3, 2009, 10:22 am
Keith alerted me to this one: The Lord, it appears, is not only always with us – He can also help make sure we’ve got a nicely ironed shirt at the same time. Or so reckons Mary Jo Coady,...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Dec 2, 2009, 10:00 pm
Tips to make your holidays a little jollier… Click here to view the embedded video. …sage advice sent by my happily married cousin (of some 25+ years) in Colorado. Related posts:How to ...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Dec 2, 2009, 4:38 pm
From a less-than-impressed Der Spiegel: Just minutes before the president took the stage inside Eisenhower Hall, the gathered cadets were asked to respond “enthusiastically” to the speech...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Dec 2, 2009, 11:53 am
Let’s just do bullet points today, shall we? Phil Jones steps down pending an investigation. Sounds like he’ll be back as soon as the heat is off. Michael Mann is also being faux-investig...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Dec 2, 2009, 10:55 am
From Doug Ross’ Journal: Last month at the Renaissance Group’s Arlington conference there were only three speakers: • Dr. Martha Kanter, our esteemed US Under-secretary of Education, spoke...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Dec 1, 2009, 10:22 pm
Both the House and Senate versions of the healthcare reform bill would require employers above a certain size to provide health insurance for their workers or face some sort of penalty. The House bill...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 30, 2009, 12:30 am
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it: In today’s Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer takes great pains to paint a bleak picture of health care reform as “monstrous,...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 29, 2009, 11:52 am
From the we-didn’t-see-this-coming department: Iran’s government has approved plans to build 10 new uranium enrichment plants, according to state media. The government told the Iranian n...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 27, 2009, 1:06 pm
Strange bedfellows, as you’ll see in a moment. First up, Charles Krauthammer whose column today takes this line: The bill is irredeemable. It should not only be defeated. It should be immolated...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 27, 2009, 12:37 pm
I’ll miss him when he’s gone. Hah!: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei said Thursday that his probe of allegations that Iran was trying to produce nuclear a...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 26, 2009, 1:28 pm
Wanted to put this on the main page. If you’ve seen the e-mails but aren’t sure what the context is, read this. You get a string of e-mails in sequence along with commentary and the e-mail...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 26, 2009, 12:11 am
Gateway Pundit linked to this story about Sunstein’s new book: In his recently released book, “On Rumors,” Sunstein specifically cited as a primary example of “absurd” a...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 25, 2009, 5:09 pm
Related: One turkey pardoned. Related posts:Religion of Throat Cutting Strikes AgainArkansas Pot Calling Texas Kettle BlackDoomsday Called Off
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 25, 2009, 4:34 pm
From the Register: The six-foot artificial tree, which was adorned with tags seeking toy donations to ‘Operation Santa Claus,’ was removed Monday after a member of the public complained a...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 25, 2009, 12:11 pm
From one form of statistical malfeasance to another. This chart shows the cost of the Democrats health reform proposal (Senate flavor): Looking at the green vs. blue brackets you’ll see how the...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 25, 2009, 11:54 am
This piece at American Thinker is a must read. Author Marc Sheppard digs into some of the computer code used to produce global warming trends. It’s not very reassuring stuff: In 2 other program...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 23, 2009, 9:06 pm
Here’s Simon Denyer, the Washington Bureau Chief for Reuters, recounting an interview with President Obama earlier this month: Barack Obama, America’s “rock star” president, g...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 23, 2009, 12:26 pm
There’s a piece in the Herald-Sun that has a helpful run-down of some of the more obnoxious Climate-Gate e-mails. What’s striking about these are not just the climate scientists desire to ...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 23, 2009, 11:57 am
The Times was happy to accept illegal leaks of information damaging to the war on terror. If I’m not mistaken, their writers even won some Pulitzers for breaking the wire-tapping story. They als...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 23, 2009, 7:37 am
From CBS 2 in New York: On Sunday, CBS 2 learned that Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and his four co-defendants will plead not guilty, a controversial courtroom strategy for the 9/11 terror suspects. But app...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 23, 2009, 2:45 am
A decade from now, we will spend more on debt service in one year than the total cost of the Iraq War thus far. From the NY Times: With the national debt now topping $12 trillion, the White House est...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 22, 2009, 7:35 pm
Sorry things are a little slow today. Morgen is out of town, Cindy is ill and I’m facing the last 5 weeks of the semester at grad school. I will pick it up tomorrow. Speaking of pick me ups, my...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 21, 2009, 1:49 pm
There’s no doubt about it now. The shooting was pre-planned and he attempted to co-ordinate it with al Qaeda recruiter al-Awlaki. The Washington Post reports: In the months before the deadly sh...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 20, 2009, 10:37 pm
Part of an e-mail sent from Michael Mann in 1999: Hi Phil, SOrry that you have taken such a negative spin from this. I had hoped it was all resolved pretty amicably, and emphasized to Keith and Tim ...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 20, 2009, 10:30 pm
A letter written by climate scientist Tom Wigley in response to a solicitation from a group of 11 climate scientists who were soliciting support for “immediate control of emissions” prior ...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 20, 2009, 11:16 am
This is a case of grade A media bias. It’s so blatant that only MSNBC could pull something like this and not be ashamed. Remember this video? Click here to view the embedded video. Susan Roesg...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 20, 2009, 10:11 am
From Der Spiegel: The planet’s temperature curve rose sharply for almost 30 years, as global temperatures increased by an average of 0.7 degrees Celsius (1.25 degrees Fahrenheit) from the 1970s...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 20, 2009, 1:29 am
From Time magazine: There can be something thrilling about accountability, so it was nice to see a federal judge declare the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers directly responsible for the destruction of m...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 19, 2009, 9:50 pm
Defense Secretary Robert Gates just exposed David Axelrod as being either ignorant or a liar on the President’s dithering over the decision on more troops for Afghanistan. Here’s Axelrod ...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 19, 2009, 12:13 pm
I liked the ring of that headline and you’ll see how it fits in a moment. But actually, I thought Victor Davis Hanson’s piece on Palin was four stars. Well, three and a half anyway. VDH se...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 19, 2009, 10:50 am
Stealing the clip from Hot Air. Just watch (it’s near the end): That was yesterday. Schumer’s completely on board with Holder now. In fact, his only concern it appears is that NY not get ...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 19, 2009, 9:30 am
From the Guardian: The Cuban president, Raúl Castro, has crushed dissent and continued repression in the country since taking over from his brother Fidel, according to a Human Rights Watch report pu...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 17, 2009, 4:40 pm
Probably not as significant as the study’s authors are hoping: Rivals on the dating scene could make one feel closer to God, according to new research that suggests one’s religiousness ma...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 17, 2009, 2:43 pm
That’s the conclusion of a new study: The CMPA study compares ABC, CBS ( CBS – news – people ) and NBC evening news shows and the first half hour of Fox News Channel&#...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 17, 2009, 10:46 am
This is becoming almost routine: Click here to view the embedded video. Note that the pro-immigration folks are screaming “Amnesty yes, racists no” and “Racists go home” both...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 17, 2009, 10:29 am
From ABC’s Blotter: Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s military superiors repeatedly ignored or rebuffed his efforts to open criminal prosecutions of soldiers he claimed had confessed to “wa...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 16, 2009, 12:06 pm
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services report on H.R. 3962 is only available as a password protected pdf. So it’s possible to read the report, but it’s impossible to cut section of...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 16, 2009, 10:53 am
Robert J. Samuelson writing in today’s Washington Post: There is an air of absurdity to what is mistakenly called “health-care reform.” Everyone knows that the United States faces m...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 15, 2009, 4:54 pm
This was reported Friday, but the video wasn’t broadcast until today. Skip to around 2:45 for the Fox News comments: Click here to view the embedded video. Dunn makes much of a video broadcast...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 15, 2009, 11:51 am
Quote of the day: I am still in a state of shock about Obama-Holder decision to try the world’s most notorious terrorists as civilians… What really bothers me is that these guys are not ...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 14, 2009, 11:27 pm
Remember all the discussion of waterboarding and the “ticking-clock” scenario in which a suspect has information that could save lives? Even some liberals have suggester there may be a tim...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 14, 2009, 12:50 pm
Alter’s latest column is so overloaded with seething animus, it’s almost comical. Here’s the first line: A decade ago, Joe Lieberman was a source of great pride for American Jews. N...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 14, 2009, 2:25 am
Based loosely on the categories created for studying UFO’s by J. Allen Hynek: Jihad Enounters of the First Kind – Disturbing behavior. A soldier who gives a lecture on the proper practic...
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