Former Sen. Conrad Burns has been hospitalized after a stroke.
Oil industry pamphlet has specially photoshopped in fake non-white people.
But don’t dark-skinned South Asians have dark-skinned hands too?
Fox poll: What would President Obama like to do with bailout money: return it to taxpayers or use for his own selfish needs?
For years I hoped that the climate skeptics (and in the past there was still a decent amount of legit scientific skepticism) might have a point since the reality of global warming is so frightening and I have my doubts about the world’s ability to get its act together to do something about it.
Unfortunately, virtually all the skeptics being freaks and eccentrics brought me little solace. Read More
At our office we have one of the cable news channels on at all times. And here I am, late in the day, much of the staff gone, hearing Wolf Blitzer on CNN — part of the on-going coverage of the Climate Change debate and the Copenhagen conference. First we hear Al Gore, discussing the evidence for warming. And after that, the latest from Sarah Palin discussing the science on her Facebook page. That’s the debate. Proud moment.
In my post this morning about science and skepticism, I said that to be the best of my knowledge we’d never detonated a nuclear weapon on the tip of an ICBM. Well, as a couple readers pointed out to me, that’s not true.
It may not technically have been an ICBM, but close enough. It was a Thor Missile, an Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) that went into service in 1958.
The last time it happened was in 1962 (all such tests occurred between 1958 and 1962). The USSR had announced it was ending a three year moratorium on nuclear tests. And in addition to going in for some Cold War tit for tat, the folks running the nuclear program in the US decided to try out a bunch of tests they might never get a chance to again. As TPM Reader JB put it, and as you’re about to see, they did some crazy $#%& with nukes before testing went underground. Read More
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) on Team Obama: “These people are not connected to reality.”
If you’re not familiar with Facebook games, this one may be tough to follow. But for you old fogies, this lastest tactic is more or less the equivalent of the health insurance lobby standing outside the old arcade giving away tokens to anyone who writes a letter to Congress opposing health care reform. Fun stuff.
Sens. Kerry, Lieberman and Graham have released a framework proposal to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 17% by 2020 (no specifics yet). That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.