By PAUL KRUGMAN   Published: November 29, 2009 If you’re looking for a job right now, your prospects are terrible. There are six times as many Americans seeking work as there are job openings, and the average duration of unemployment — the time the average job-seeker has spent looking for work — is more than [...]

Nov 29, 2009 Jonathan Leake, Environment Editor SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over [...]

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November 30, 2009   by Bruce Bialosky The Bush era careened into the Obama era and the world cheered. That is what we are told over and over again. The world has become a more welcome place for Americans. We have become less belligerent and the world has breathed a heavy sigh. That is indisputable, [...]

November 29, 2009   by Salena Zito INDIANA, Pa. – Turn the corner onto Philadelphia Street in this small Western Pennsylvania town, and you might be on the main street of Bedford Falls, the mythical town in Frank Capra’s Christmas classic film, It’s a Wonderful Life. “This is a town where you hear people tell [...]

November 29, 2009   by Austin Hill I’m not an attorney. For better or worse I didn’t go to law school, but rather, I instead went to graduate school to study philosophy. But you don’t need to be an attorney – or a philosopher – or the Attorney General or the President of the United [...]

By George Will (Archive) · Sunday, November 29, 2009 DENVER — Inside the green neon sign, which is shaped like a marijuana leaf, is a red cross. The cross serves the fiction that most transactions in the store — which is what it really is — involve medicine. The U.S. Justice Department recently announced that [...]

Nov 29, 2009 By C. Edmund Wright The Alaska Governor is far more than someone who appeals to the (conservative) base, she is someone who can make the base appeal to America. This compact yet comprehensive diagnosis was made in the early hours of the Palin Derangement Syndrome (PDS) outbreak, when Sarah Palin was first being [...]

Nov 29, 2009 By James Lewis It is an interesting exercise to question all the assumptions of American foreign policy for the last sixty years — that is, for as long as we’ve provided the defense umbrella for Europe, the free countries of Asia, and for our allies in the Middle East, including Egypt and [...]

Nov 29, 2009 By J.R. Dunn The East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU) revelations come as no real surprise to anyone who has closely followed the global-warming saga. The Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) thesis, to give it its semi-official name, is no stranger to fraud. It would be no real exaggeration to state that it [...]