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Who Will Profit From the Wars in Iraq and Syria? William Hartung, Stephen Miles If there's one thing we should have learned over the past 13 years of war, it's that war is good business for those in the business of war. Unfortunately, while profits for the Pentagon's contractors increase, so...

Apparently not. I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt regarding his refutation of global warming, but when he bundled it with some rightwing rant about Obama's birthplace and Obama's religion and Obama is trying to destroy the country etc etc etc, I realized it's all of a piece...

Including what you just posted.

So what was untrue?

I'm troubled that this latter possibility receives such short thrift in many of the articles in the BAMS volume. Indeed, a quote by UK scientist Myles Allen in theNew York Times' coverage of the BAMS findings encapsulates the hubris by some climate researchers: "If we don't have evidence, I...

If a Tree Falls in the Forest, But No Scientist Says So... Michael E. Mann Recently, the highly respected Bulletin of the American Meteorology Society("BAMS" to those in the know), published aspecial issue consisting of a couple dozen articles investigating the potential impact climate change...

A recent article by Larry Bell in Forbes went over the now-familiar ground of denying the consensus on climate change. He criticized the Doran and Zimmerman study for having too small a sample size and for asking vague questions (although, as I will discuss below, he is forgiving of similar...

A recent article by Larry Bell in Forbes went over the now-familiar ground of denying the consensus on climate change. He criticized the Doran and Zimmerman study for having too small a sample size and for asking vague questions (although, as I will discuss below, he is forgiving of similar...

In a sane world, it would end fiscal austerity too... Ryan Cooper New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) is infamous as the guy whose underlings caused an epic traffic jam on the George Washington Bridge as part of some weird political punishment. In time, though, he will be known as the guy...

Quick reader.

The rich like to believe that they have enough money to insulate themselves from all this, such as the water/food issue. But there are some things that no amount of money will fix (unless they have plans to move to another planet).

U.S. foreign policy Example: Conservative foreign policy is dictated by a small cabal of bloodthirsty conquistadors. These people are called “neo-conservatives.” Some people claim neoconservatives have no uniting vision; in fact, the basis of neo-conservativism is a belief that imperial...

Basically everything about slavery Example: Recently convicted felon and conservative columnist Dinesh D’Souza’s book, “The End of Racism,” provides some great examples of rewriting race. D’Souza says of slavery, “No free workers enjoyed a comparable social security system from birth until...

Conservative hero Ben Carson is worried about American teenagers joining ISIS. But it’s not because of “radical Islam.” It’s because of new high school history standards. American’s right wing, you see, is terrified of history because it is always sentimentalizing it. Many of its arguments rely...

Cross-posted Water is the new oil: How corporations took over a basic human right LINDSAY ABRAMS When you talk about human rights, not to mention human necessities, there’s not much more fundamental than water. The United Nations has even put it in writing: it formally “recognizes the right...

A Bad Week for the NRA John Feinblatt The NRA wants people to believe that its agenda -- guns for anyone, anywhere, anytime -- is as American as apple pie. Only, the American public isn't buying it. This week, gun lobby extremism went down to defeat in a number of venues, in a number of...

Water is the new oil: How corporations took over a basic human right LINDSAY ABRAMS When you talk about human rights, not to mention human necessities, there’s not much more fundamental than water. The United Nations has even put it in writing: it formally “recognizes the right to safe and...

Conservatives etc think global warming is nonsense. Democrats etc don't. As for what to do about the drought, suggestions are welcome.

It'll be interesting to see how Conservatives react to food prices over the next few years.