Everything I Know Is Wrongtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-249092009-04-23T15:00:00-05:00Jumping into the pool with Demosthenes and Locke.TypePad"Global Dimming" is back!tag:typepad.com,2003:post-659390652009-04-23T15:00:00-05:002009-04-23T15:01:56-05:00In 2005 I blogged about a trial balloon released by the formerly esteemed, but now very in-the-tank pro global warming magazine Science. They called their new idea "global dimming." The idea was that pollution, rather than causing global warming—as they...SeanCrackpots Calling the Kettle Blacktag:typepad.com,2003:post-656679812009-04-17T15:23:25-05:002009-04-17T15:23:25-05:00Jonah Goldberg, fed up with the ignorance of leftist crackpots calling the kettle black, knocks down the top five complaints he hears from liberals. As for me, after hearing from ignorant authoritarian statists all of my life that conservatives are...SeanSt. Paul Minnesota Tea Party Photostag:typepad.com,2003:post-655537932009-04-16T12:00:00-05:002009-04-16T12:29:33-05:00I went to the Tea Party in St. Paul yesterday. They estimated that there were about 10,000 people in attendance. Capitol police estimated that there were about 2000. The Pioneer Press said, "hundreds." I would have guessed about 6,000. Local...SeanThe Limbaugh Challengetag:typepad.com,2003:post-648190132009-03-30T08:00:00-05:002009-04-02T09:00:34-05:00Over the lunch table yesterday afternoon my friend Tim and I talked about how liberals say they hate Rush Limbaugh even though they have never heard his show. Then, in the LA Times of all places, there is this: LA...SeanWhatever happened to "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism?"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-648182392009-03-30T07:00:00-05:002009-03-30T07:00:00-05:00Alan Colmes is irrelevant. And a lightweight. And peevish. But he has a "great idea": Clomes - Leave My President Alone Leave Obama alone. Stop it. Stop it now. We’re not headed toward communism. We’re not becoming a socialist nation....SeanGore leaves the lights on...tag:typepad.com,2003:post-648174152009-03-30T06:00:00-05:002009-03-30T14:16:40-05:00...during Earth Hour. Nashville Post President of the Tennessee Center For Policy Research Drew Johnson takes a Saturday drive by Al Gore’s during the time most environmentalists went dark: I pulled up to Al’s house, located in the posh Belle...SeanUS Government Argues it has Right to Ban Books and Films.tag:typepad.com,2003:post-647249752009-03-27T12:00:00-05:002009-03-27T12:16:25-05:00The McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act is bearing more poison fruit. Not that that comes as a big surprise to anyone who has paid the least attention to the legislation. Before it was passed its opponents, of whose number I...SeanA Letter From My Congressmantag:typepad.com,2003:post-635903592009-03-03T11:00:00-06:002009-03-03T11:00:00-06:00A form letter, and a little lukewarm toward the end ("I believe both parties..." , etc.), but he voted against it. Good on him. Dear Sean: Thank you for letting me know of your opposition to the so-called stimulus bill....SeanAm I a Racist Coward?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-632292052009-02-23T09:00:00-06:002009-02-23T09:00:00-06:00Apparently.SeanSmirky McChimptag:typepad.com,2003:post-630743872009-02-19T15:45:38-06:002009-02-19T15:45:38-06:00All of the hoopla about the New York Post's chimp cartoon being offensive makes me laugh. It brings the hypocrisy of liberals into high relief. Their outrage is manufactured. Crocodile tears. Anyone who has read a left-wing blog, or the...SeanTinkle-Down Economicstag:typepad.com,2003:post-626792012009-02-11T10:00:00-06:002009-02-11T13:07:04-06:00President Obama, if his recent comments are to be credited, would have us believe that any government spending at all can be called "stimulus" providing only that it is sufficiently large. NYT Transcript of Obama Press Conference And so when...SeanThe Path Less Traveledtag:typepad.com,2003:post-626779292009-02-10T22:10:51-06:002009-02-10T22:10:51-06:00Newt Gingrich has penned a brief instruction manual for the conservative movement, "Where does the conservative movement go from here?" The Washington Times The conservative movement has a simple and almost certainly successful future if it does three things: 1....SeanSlap on wrist deemed to harsh for Joe the Plumber snooptag:typepad.com,2003:post-589264682008-11-23T00:06:33-06:002008-11-23T00:06:33-06:00Ohio Capitol Connection Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) Director Helen Jones-Kelley was found to have acted improperly both in her authorization to use ODJFS confidential databases to search for information on "Joe the Plumber" and in her...SeanWith family like this...tag:typepad.com,2003:post-589261882008-11-22T23:45:39-06:002008-11-22T23:45:39-06:00...Who needs enemies? Huffington Post Newt Gingriche's sister, Candice, in a HuffPo, um, well, editorial? leaves civility at home and excoriates her brother for not embracing California's Prop 8. Using tried and true left wing practice, she attacks her brother...SeanGlobal Warming traps over 200 whales in ice.tag:typepad.com,2003:post-589253162008-11-22T22:35:33-06:002008-11-22T22:35:33-06:00Perhaps those poor, poor polar bears stranded without ice to walk on can cross the sea on the backs of the over 200 whales trapped in the Canadian Arctic by winter ice. AFP At least 200 narwhal whales in Canada's...SeanSlicker than Teflontag:typepad.com,2003:post-589244742008-11-22T21:42:04-06:002008-11-22T21:42:04-06:00No, not a politician. New Scientist is reporting that a new material has been discovered by accident. New Scientist A superhard substance that is more slippery than Teflon could protect mechanical parts from wear and tear, and boost energy efficiency...SeanColeman's lead rebounds to 167tag:typepad.com,2003:post-589231982008-11-22T20:35:10-06:002008-11-22T20:35:10-06:00Ten minutes ago the Star-Tribune updated their estimate of the state of the Coleman-Franken re-count from 115 to 167. Star-Tribune The incumbent Coleman entered the recount with a 215-vote edge over Franken, a comedian and author. That lead had dropped...SeanInhofe: Roll Back the Bailouttag:typepad.com,2003:post-586095002008-11-17T10:00:00-06:002008-11-17T10:00:00-06:00Senator James Inhofe has called for legislation requiring congressional approval of any further spending of the $700 billion bailout money. Language in the bailout bill, as passed, has given Secretary Paulson sole discretion over how the money is spent—with zero...SeanWhitman: Republican Party Prisoners of Social Fundamentaliststag:typepad.com,2003:post-585109242008-11-14T11:00:00-06:002008-11-14T11:00:00-06:00Christine Todd Whitman, co-chair of the Republican Leadership Council and former head of the EPA, in a Washington Post Editorial today says that the reason Republicans were swept out of office all across the country is that they are held...SeanWell maybe not just a guy in the neighborhoodtag:typepad.com,2003:post-584905062008-11-13T21:01:20-06:002008-11-13T21:01:20-06:00Bill Ayers has come out of whatever cave he has been hiding in. Sun-Times Ayers, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, adds few new details about his relationship with Obama in the afterword to Fugitive Days: Memoirs...Sean