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George Will hits a global warming home run.
In a campaign without peacetime precedent, the media-entertainment-environmental complex is warning about global warming. Never, other than during the two world wars, has there been such a concerted effort by opinion-forming institutions to indoctrinate Americans, 83% of whom now call global warming a “serious problem.”
Anatole Kaletsky in Times, UK.
We are constantly told by politicians, journalists and business experts that we live in an era of unprecedented change — a dizzying period of technological and geopolitical revolutions, in which every year brings some new and astonishing upheaval for which our nervous, insecure societies are totally unprepared. What nonsense.
Cafe Hayek posts on an insult to the president.
A new Anne Frank has emerged. Contentions has the story. Then NY Times with more about the 13 year-old Czech poet.
The first sign that things aren’t quite right comes when Jews are required to wear a badge, a black and yellow star of David, on the outside of their clothes. And yet 13-year-old Petr Ginz remains wryly amused, writing in his diary: “When I went to school, I counted sixty-nine ‘sheriffs.’ †…
… The book also includes pictures of Petr and his family; a handful of his drawings and paintings; excerpts from Vedem, the weekly magazine he founded in Theresienstadt; and even two poems — one about Prague and one, both angry and satiric, about the restrictions the Jews increasingly had to endure. One verse, as translated by Ms. Lappin, begins:
And especially the outcast Jew
must give up all habits he knew:
he can’t buy clothes, can’t buy a shoe,
since dressing well is not his due. …
Lotsa Duke stuff.
First from Rocky Mountain News.
The most remarkable fact about the Duke lacrosse fiasco is not that it took nearly a year for obviously flimsy charges to be dropped against the players. …
… No, the most astonishing fact, hands down, was and remains the squalid behavior of the community of scholars at Duke itself. For months nearly the entire faculty fell into one of two camps: those who demanded the verdict first and the trial later, and those whose silence enabled their vigilante colleagues to set the tone. …
Dittos from Fred Barnes and Charles Krauthammer.
Then we hear from K. C. Johnson, the Brooklyn College prof who ran the Durham In Wonderland blog.
John Fund has a look.
Then Howie Kurtz.
There’s a lot going on the last couple of days–MSNBC booting Imus, McCain’s big speech on the war, Fred Thompson’s cancer, Larry Birkhead prancing before the cameras, and, oh yeah, the Duke sexual assault charges were dropped.
I hope that last one gets plenty of coverage, even though it’s been clear for some time that the case had fallen apart. As long as we’re talking about how the Rutgers women were unfairly disparaged as “ho’s,” consider the nightmare that the three Duke lacrosse players have lived through.
But in all the coverage you read and see about the clearing of these young men, very little of it will be devoted to the media’s role in ruining their lives. I didn’t hear a single television analyst mention it yesterday, even though two of the players’ lawyers took shots at the press.
It was an awful performance, no question about it. …
Great stuff from Overlawyered.