- In the Land of Denial on Climate Change – NYTimes.com.
- The American Spectator : Packing Heat — A politically motivated global warming denial hit piece although not nearly as bad as the Pure Fabrication, Lies and Global Warming Denial Propaganda from Non-other Than Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government that I wrote about last night.
- Tonight’s Republican Debate: The 19th Century or the Stone Age? | NationofChange. — Robert Reich’s on tonights Republican debate: “Tonight a bevy of Republican presidential hopefuls hope to emerge as finalists. Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann will battle for the right-wing nut Tea Party finals. Mitt Romney and John Huntsman will position themselves for the moderate right-wing finals…” and waxes how Republican seemed locked in time, a time period we experienced some 90 years ago just before the Great Depression.
- Perry Tales: Rick Is Not Who He Says He Is | NationofChange — Jim Hightower. “…Here’s a particularly revealing stat that the Perry pixies don’t want us to see: On his watch as governor, Texas added more minimum wage jobs than all the other 49 states combined.”
- U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics Minimum Wage Workers in Texas – 2010.
- Romney Lays Out Comprehensive Jobs, Economic Program | NationofChange Romney has apparently written put together a 151 page report detailing his proposed economic program (while Rick Perry has managed to string together 5 or 6 sentences) and this article looks like brief overview and intro (I haven’t read Romney’s full report yet).
- How the Tea Party changed the climate debate – Ezra Klein – The Washington Post Interesting,…Ezra klien writes: “The Yale Project on Climate Change Communication released a new survey today finding that the bulk of climate skepticism on the right comes from a relatively small slice of conservatives — and even their beliefs are more nuanced than one might suspect.The Yale survey divvied up respondents into Democrats, Republicans, independents, and Tea Partiers. Self-identified Tea Party types make up just 12 percent of the country, but they tend to be the fiercest global-warming deniers: “Majorities of Democrats (78%), Independents (71%) and Republicans (53%) believe that global warming is happening. By contrast, only 34 percent of Tea Party members believe global warming is happening, while 53 percent say it is not happening.”…”Interesting statistics I did not know about.
- Top 10 Reasons Why Green Jobs Are Vital to Our Economy | ThinkProgress
- Crazy Wingnut Screed of the Day | Dispatches from the Culture Wars Ed Brayton points out another example of Andrew Breitbart’s wing nut right partisan publishing.
- Andrew Sullivan Asks: Did Osama Win on 9/11? – The Daily Beast
- 2% of Welfare Recipients Fail Drug Tests in Florida | Dispatches from the Culture Wars. — Ed Brayton: “You may remember that Gov. Rick Scott of Florida instituted drug testing for all welfare recipients in that state on the premise that it would save the state money by not having to pay benefits to those who were on drugs. And guess what they found out? Welfare recipients use drugs at a lower rate than the rest of the population — and by a pretty significant margin…”
- Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult | Truthout — “…To those millions of Americans who have finally begun paying attention to politics and watched with exasperation the tragicomedy of the debt ceiling extension, it may have come as a shock that the Republican Party is so full of lunatics. To be sure, the party, like any political party on earth, has always had its share of crackpots, like Robert K. Dornan or William E. Dannemeyer. But the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital center today: Steve King, Michele Bachman (now a leading presidential candidate as well), Paul Broun, Patrick McHenry, Virginia Foxx, Louie Gohmert, Allen West. The Congressional directory now reads like a casebook of lunacy…”
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