September 25, 2013
Video: Glenn Beck on Harry Reid and 'Tea Party Anarchists'
Beck: Stroke, senile, or Alzheimer's? [rdbrewer]
Donna LaFramboise: Warming Up for Another Climate-Change Report
"At a closed-door meeting in Stockholm this week, each paragraph of a document written by scientists is being projected onto large screens. Delegations from scores of nations participate in the editing: Words will be substituted, emphasis will be added, entire sentences may well be inserted or deleted. After four days of haggling, the media will be summoned...." Haggling. More from James Taranto on cooking the global warming books. [rdbrewer]
New Scientist: IPCC report: World won’t cool at this point without geoengineering
"Much of this week’s report, the fifth assessment of the IPCC working group on the physical science of climate change, will reaffirm the findings of the previous four assessments, published regularly since 1990." [rdbrewer]
Reince Priebus: In a battle between Ted Cruz and Harry Reid, we must stand with Senator Cruz [rdbrewer]
Frank Rich, NYMag: It’s Hard to Hate Rand Paul
And no one knows more about hate than Frank Rich. [rdbrewer]
Holman Jenkins: The ObamaCare Wars Are Just Starting
"This is war—turning sectors of the economy into partisan battlefields is a cost of their agenda that liberals, with their pure faith in 'programs,' never factor in. But wars also have a way of leading to unexpected outcomes." [rdbrewer]
Pakistan quake flattens hundreds of homes as toll rises to 327
"New island up to 100 feet high and 200 feet wide rises in Arabian Sea." Added: It's a half mile from this city: 25° 7'29.59"N 62°19'23.77"E, obviously a place with some weird uplift going on. [rdbrewer]
Timothy P. Carney: Wendy Davis was a media hero and Ted Cruz is a 'grandstander'
"It's sort of hard to believe, but the Washington media is filled with people who maintain that the major mainstream news media in the U.S. does not have a liberal bias." Also from Carney: Cruz pushes Senate to listen to the people. [rdbrewer]
Lois Lerner’s lawyers negotiating with Oversight Committee on immunity
"'The Committee has not made any offer of immunity to Ms. Lerner. The Committee has, however, indicated a willingness to listen to any offers from her attorney about what she would testify to if it was offered....'” Also from TheDC: Priebus sides with Cruz in dispute with McConnell. McConnell responds, "That's okay, because I'll hang out with my pals John 'Charlie Crist Is So Sexy' Cornyn and Lindsey 'Green Jobs' Graham." [rdbrewer]