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The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

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The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

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I’ve been waiting to write about this because apparently one of the leaked docs may be a forgery, but the fund-raising documents are all on the up and up:

One of Heartland’s fund-raising documents lays out the group’s plans to spend $100,000 per year to develop a curriculum for schools that would call basic climate science into question. (“Principals and teachers are heavily biased toward the alarmist perspective,” one Heartland document laments.”) A senior fellow at Heartland confirmed these general details to Brad Johnson of ThinkProgress. We’ve already seen battles over the teaching of evolution in public schools around the country. It wouldn’t be surprising to see local fights over climate science next.

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  4. 4.

    MattF

    If there is a concrete Bobo-Exxon connection, the NYT will be very, very, very unhappy about that. But it’s hard to believe that Brooks would do anything quite so stupid.

  5. 5.

    Amir Khalid

    “David Brooks on Shale Gas.”

    Does shale gas work on your voice like the gas you use to inflate toy balloons?

  6. 6.

    Lee

    From the LGF link:

    Please be advised that the Confidential Memo is fake. … Furthermore, Heartland views the malicious and fraudulent manner in which the documents were obtained and/or thereafter disseminated,….

    Hey dumbasses you just admitted that the documents are real.

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    cmorenc

    Query when the GOP-controlled HOR will get around to conducting hearings on possible perjury by Climate-Scientists e.g. in writing federal grant applications to study global-warming related issues. Seriously! There is a meme in right-wing circles that climate change is a hoax created simply to get research funding. There was quite a lot of rumbling from influential climate-change denialist ranks a year or so ago about pursuing scientists conducting research that produced evidence confirming anthropocentric warming; but they haven’t (yet) seriously followed up on it. Perhaps they decided to bide their time until after the 2012 elections, when they hoped they would control White House and both houses of Congress, and they could simply get away with shutting down climate research altogether.

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    Jewish Steel

    Peter Hitchens calls climate scientists* “warmists.”

    *actually, like a lot of wingers, he thinks there’s such a thing as climate change advocates. And, I suppose there are. They’re called scientists.

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    Commenting at Balloon Juice Since 1937

    Is Brooks on the shale gas again? I thought there had been an intervention.

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    patrick II

    Heartland is trying to raise at least $200,000 to make sure that it has its “Climate Change Reconsidered” report ready as soon as the IPCC releases its next big assessment in 2013. Skeptics are getting better at rapid response.

    I appreciate the way a rebuttal to a published document is prepared before the document is published. It is tough to do point by point rebuttal to facts found so far only in their imagination, but I am sure they are up to it.

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    RSA

    @Jewish Steel:

    actually, like a lot of wingers, he thinks there’s such a thing as climate change advocates. And, I suppose there are. They’re called scientists.

    See also heliocentrists, evolutionists, and moon-not-made-of-green-cheese-ists.

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    MosesZD

    My daughter’s chemistry teacher is a climate change denialist. She’s got a PhD in Chemistry and yet exhibits classic Dunning-Kruger…

    Of course, what I’ve read is that in technical things, high levels of education make you more susceptiple. Just because you’re an expert in one thing doesn’t mean you are in something unreleated…

    Of course, I’m not surprised. She also leads the Christian Fellowship Club and the Young Republicans Club…

    I’d bet money she’s a creationist. Denialism, religiousity, creationism and Republicanism have a huge over-lap…

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