Attacks on Scott Rasmussen and Fox News show a disturbing attitude toward dissent.
JAN 14, 2010
By PATRICK CADDELL AND DOUGLAS E. SCHOEN
Polling is both an art and a science, but recently it’s also become a subject of political intimidation.

One shot was fired by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Dec. 8, when he dismissed Gallup’s [...]

Posted 12/29/2009 06:50 PM ET

Fiscal Follies: While Americans are distracted by the holidays and a failed terror attack, Washington is giving another blank check to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Say, isn’t this how we got into trouble before?
When Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two bankrupt, government-sponsored mortgage companies, were first bailed out in [...]

Dec 11, 2009
by Mike Flynn
A Stanford Professor has used United Nation security officers to silence a journalist asking him “inconvenient questions”  during a press briefing at the climate change conference in Copenhagen.
Professor Stephen Schneider’s assistant requested armed UN security officers who held film maker Phelim McAleer, ordered him to stop filming and prevented further [...]

By Michael Barone (Archive) · Thursday, December 10, 2009
“Knowledge is becoming more specialized and more dispersed, while government power is becoming more concentrated,” writes economist Arnold Kling in his new book, “Unchecked and Unbalanced.” “This discrepancy creates the potential for government to become increasingly erratic and, as a result, less satisfying to individuals.”
“Less satisfying [...]

Science is on the credibility bubble.
Dec 2, 2009
By Daniel Henninger
Surely there must have been serious men and women in the hard sciences who at some point worried that their colleagues in the global warming movement were putting at risk the credibility of everyone in science. The nature of that risk has been twofold: First, that [...]

By Jacob Sullum (Archive) · Wednesday, December 2, 2009
In 2006, Congress passed a law that instructed the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve Board to write regulations aimed at preventing “unlawful Internet gambling.” But Congress did not define “unlawful Internet gambling,” and neither did the regulators.
Instead, IT issued rules requiring financial institutions to adopt [...]

About those emails and ‘peer review.’
Nov 27, 2009
The climatologists at the center of the leaked email and document scandal have taken the line that it is all much ado about nothing. Yes, the wording of their messages was unfortunate, but they insist this in no way undermines the underlying science. They’re ignoring the damage [...]

A U.N. critic has her credentials stripped.
Nov 20, 2009
As part of our public-service reports on the workings of your favorite world body, allow us to introduce you to Anne Bayefsky. The Toronto native is an expert on human-rights law and an accredited United Nations observer. She is also a friend of Israel, which makes her [...]

Violent Islamic Web sites pose a clear and present danger to the U.S.
Nov 18, 2009
By Daniel Henninger
If it accomplished nothing else, the Obama administration’s announcement last Friday to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in lower Manhattan blew the Nidal Hasan murders out of the news. The KSM fiasco deserves all the attention it [...]

By Hans Nichols

Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama’s outgoing communications director, Anita Dunn, renewed her attacks against Fox News as she praised the “investigative journalism” of Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and said MSNBC isn’t a biased cable news network.
She criticized Fox for using edited footage of a rally to make it appear that opposition [...]