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Global warming skeptic and meteorologist Anthony Watts, whose wattsupwiththat.com website has been called the “world’s most viewed climate website,” released a scientific discussion paper yesterday that crushes the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s [NOAA’s] “global warming” data claims. The study, co-authored with

The job of President of the United States is one that every occupant until Barack Obama has taken seriously. Every President prior to Barack Obama understood that the job entailed things like holding press conferences, meeting with members of Congress to

In a sign that the Senate race between Republican Scott Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren has become the most important non-Presidential contest in the country, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined the fray yesterday by endorsing Scott Brown over

This Monday, July 30, 2012 will mark the 47th anniversary of the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid. On that day in 1965, President Lyndon Johnson journeyed to Independence, Missouri to sign the enabling legislation in the presence of former President Harry

Last month, Nevada Congresswoman Shelley Berkley (D-NV) voted against H.R. 2578, the Conservation and Economic Growth Act, which includes provisions that would allow the City of Yerington, Nevada, to purchase 11,500 acres of federal land at fair market value. The

During the month of June, the Obama campaign ran a $12 million deficit. The President’s campaign committee, Obama for America, spent $58.1 million, but it raised only $45.9 million. In contrast, Mitt Romney’s campaign committee, Romney for President, had a

With the Summer Olympic Games set to open in London next week, several unions have announced plans to strike or engage in “industrial actions.” The Daily Mail is reporting that a union representing London area train drivers announced its members are

Yesterday, U.S. Federal District Court Judge Warren Urbom dismissed a case brought by Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning arguing that the Health and Human Services mandate requiring religious employers to provide abortion-related services violated their First Amendment right of religious

I don’t think Mitt Romney’s choice to be his Vice-President will make a significant difference in the outcome of the Presidential election. As I’ve argued since April, this November we’re going to see a conservative landslide. Mitt Romney will be

When Democratic Congressman Shelley Berkley spoke to a crowd of supporters at the Painters Union hall in Henderson, Nevada on Friday, she shrugged aside the serious charges of ethical misconduct being investigated by her colleagues in the House of Representatives.

President Obama’s “War on Coal” has made it so difficult for electricity producers to use that the percentage of our nation’s electricity coming from coal has plunged from 44% last year to 36% this year.  This forced reduction in a

When the House of Representatives launched a formal ethics investigation into the activities of Democratic Congressman Shelley Berkley on Monday, it confirmed what most political observers already knew. Shelley Berkley practices crony capitalism, Nevada style. On October 23, 2008, officials

Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown’s campaign announced yesterday that it raised $5 million in the three months of April, May, and June. This very large amount was $3.6 million less than the $8.6 million the Elizabeth Warren campaign raised during the

Two conservative members of Congress, Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and Diane Black (R-TN), introduced the Religious Freedom Tax Repeal Act of 2012, H.R. 6097, on the floor of the House of Representatives on Tuesday.  The bill, which has 55 additional co-sponsors,

In a June 29 interview with NECN’s Jim Braude on the BroadSide television program, Elizabeth Warren (shown above in this 1950s photograph sitting next to her mother) claimed that her mother’s Native American heritage continued to divide her father’s family

Yesterday, the Elizabeth Warren campaign reported that it had raised $8.67 million in the months of April, May, and June.  In a press release issued several days in advance of the filing of their required quarterly report with the Federal

Ken Aden, the Democratic candidate challenging Republican incumbent Steven Womack in the 3rd Congressional District of Arkansas, withdraw from the race yesterday when it was revealed that he had lied about serving in the Army’s elite Green Berets. Though Aden

A reader at Professor William Jacobson’s Legal Insurrection blog has offered convincing evidence that Elizabeth Warren’s husband, Bruce Mann, also contributed a plagiarized recipe to the infamous Pow Wow Chow cookbook. Subtitled A Collection of Recipes from Families of the

Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes has caught Elizabeth Warren in yet another lie about her false claims of Native American heritage. When Elizabeth Warren’s “Aunt Bea,” Bess A. Reed Veneck, died in 1999 at the age of 98, Ms. Warren was

Chief Justice Roberts’ ruling Thursday in NFIB v. Sebelius is a bitter loss for constitutional conservatives, delivered to us by a judicial Benedict Arnold. Forget the so-called long term victory contained in the commerce clause limitations. There’ s no denying that

Georgetown University law professor Randy Barnett, whom the Washington Post recently referred to as “perhaps the key legal thinker developing the case against the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate,” issued a brief but pointed statement on the Supreme Court’s decision

In a dramatic reversal, the University of Virginia Board of Visitors voted unanimously today to reinstate Teresa A. Sullivan as President of the University of Virginia. It was a stunning political comeback for President Sullivan, who earlier in the month had

Carol Wood, University of Virginia Associate Vice President and University Spokesperson, claimed yesterday in an interview with the Washington Post that the 1991 University of Texas whitewash report into allegations of scientific misconduct made against UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan

Speaking at a Boston fundraiser for President Barack Obama on Monday night, Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, the self proclaimed “intellectual godmother” of left wing “Occupy Wall Street,” launched a shrill attack on Mitt Romney. As Politico reports, Ms.

(Second in a four-part series) When Elizabeth Warren, Teresa A. Sullivan, and Jay Westbrook, co-authors of the 1989 book  As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America, were charged by Rutgers Law School Professor Philip Shuchman with scientific misconduct in 1990, they quickly asked for

This morning, the local Fox affiliate in Boston interviewed Twila Barnes and Ali Sacks, two Cherokee activists who have asked to meet with Elizabeth Warren. To date, Ms. Warren has refused the request. Here’s the full transcript of the interview:

Sometimes a coincidence is just a coincidence. Sometimes it’s more than that. Based on all available current evidence, it appears that Teresa A. Sullivan’s sudden resignation as President of the University of Virginia this past Sunday was most likely unrelated

In 1990, Rutgers Professor Philip Shuchman charged Elizabeth Warren, along with Teresa A. Sullivan (above), the President of University of Virginia who resigned unexpectedly yesterday, and Jay Westbrook,  her two co-authors of the 1989 book, As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit

Harvard Law School hired Elizabeth Warren as a Visiting Professor in the fall of 1992, then offered her a full-time tenured faculty position in February 1993, despite a withering 1990 critique of the academic standards used in the 1989 book

On Friday, Breitbart News caught Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren in one of her many tall tales of family lore, forcing her to walk back her September 2011 story about her maternal grandmother, Bethanie (Hannie) Crawford Reed, through whose ancestral

Last night, in an interview with the Boston Globe, Elizabeth Warren claimed that her parents were forced to elope because her father’s family objected to her mother’s Native American heritage: In the 1930s, when my parents got married, these were

Last night, in a bizarre interview with the Boston Globe, Elizabeth Warren tripled down on her Native American heritage claims, despite extensive debunking of her previous doubling down on those claims and thoroughly documented debunking of her original claims in

A recently discovered video shows Elizabeth Warren telling another tall tale about her family. The day after she announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate, Democrat Elizabeth Warren told the convocation at the University of Massachusetts-Boston: “My grandmother drove a wagon in

Elizabeth Warren’s confession to the Boston Globe late last night that she self-identified as a “woman of color” to Harvard Law School twenty years ago, in 1992, raises some serious questions for both Ms. Warren and her employer, the most