A round up of recent reporting and commentary by a few centrist, moderate, and independent bloggers.
Routine in the age of Bush. What routine am I talking about, you ask? Go read the answer at A Newer World.
Michael Linn Jones at the Gun Toting Liberal on the Scooter Libby Trial. A victory for liberals? No, says Michael, everybody loses.
Two Quotes for the Day: one by Jack Grant at Random Fate, the other by Andrew Sullivan at The Daily Dish.
Becky at Preemptive Karma on Gingrich: he’s an adulterer, he’s playing to the (Christian conservative) crowd, talking about asking for forgiveness meaning nothing what he says… but he’s not a hypocrite.
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Nitin Pai at Winds of Change: “Nothing comes in the way of Musharraf’s political survival. Not least the rule of law.”
The Probligo on freedom of the press in the world… an in New Zealand.
And, lastly, a debate link to QandO: “Global Warming (TM) Religion? Big Business? Both?”
McQ links to a video entitled “The Great Global Warming Swindle”…
Oops… What’s this then?
A Leading US climate scientist is considering legal action after he says he was duped into appearing in a Channel 4 documentary that claimed man-made global warming is a myth. Carl Wunsch, professor of physical oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the film, The Great Global Warming Swindle, was ‘grossly distorted’ and ‘as close to pure propaganda as anything since World War Two’.
He says his comments in the film were taken out of context and that he would not have agreed to take part if he had known it would argue that man-made global warming was not a serious threat. ‘I thought they were trying to educate the public about the complexities of climate change,’ he said. ‘This seems like a deliberate attempt to exploit someone who is on the other side of the issue.’ He is considering a complaint to Ofcom, the broadcast regulator.
Heh.
