The New York Times finally acknowledges that global warming has plateaued and grudgingly bows to the obvious:
The slowdown is a bit of a mystery to climate scientists.
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But given how much is riding on the scientific forecast, the practitioners of climate science would like to understand exactly what is going on.
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After setting off a storm of criticism from abortion rights groups upset that a Democratic president had sided with social conservatives, the Obama administration said it will comply with a judge's order to allow girls of any age to buy emergency contraception without prescriptions.
I did a post this morning confessing to a certain ambivalence about leaks and leakers. Then on the way back from lunch, I heard Rush Limbaugh also express mixed feelings. He had a different spin, though:
An unprecedented amount of data collected on average, ordinary, every day Americans and everybody else. And as I say, it matters who the people are who are collecting the data.
An idea that was pretty silly to begin with gets pushed to the silliest extreme:
Waste and duplication, today's example:
The problem is that the U.S. government has at least 15 official definitions of the word “rural,” two of which apply only to Puerto Rico and parts of Hawaii.
Good lord -- the partisan divide is reaching even into the crib:
Breaking news from the most transparent administration in Amercan history:
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, and top officers from each branch of the military will comment on legislation meant to stem a rise in sexual assault cases.
