10/12/09 interesting articles from the interwebz

1. The biggest news of the day is the slow melt of the glaciers of journalistic support for the pseudo science of anthropogenic global warmening. Today Drudge has the following links above the fold
   • BBC: What happened to global warming?
   • US CHILL MAP…
   • Montana cold breaks records…
   • Record Cold temps in Idaho threaten potato crops…
   • Austria: Earliest snowfall in history set to break records…
   • Man has microphone cut off after asking about ‘errors’ in Gore film…
   • Video…
   • Soros says aims to invest $1 Billion in green tech…
   • Greenpeace activists clamber on to Houses of Parliament in climate change protest…
   • Energy crisis postponed, new gas rescues the world…
2. Obama didn’t win the 2009 Nobel in Economics. In a shock development felt worldwide, some economists won it instead (NYT)
3. Argentina’s media clampdown continues
4. Time Magazine thinks we should blog about Education!
   • Few things in France can provoke heated debate faster than moves to tinker with the country’s vaunted public-education system, which embodies republican values that date back to the French Revolution. It’s especially true when the changes involve an …
   • Successful Schools Avoid False ChoicesEducation Week News (subscription)
   • Education Secretary Criticizes Education CollegesInside Higher Ed
   • Community must be involved with education in HarrisburgThe Patriot-News – PennLive.com
   • Hartford Courant -Examiner.com -Torrington Register Citizen

5. Insurance Industry projects $4000 per year per family in added costs for health insurance. White House throws tantrum. Memeorandum links. White House promises to hold breath until it turns blue. (That last sentence was wishful thinking)
6. Top on memeorandum: White House bites the hand that feeds it. Calls gay activists the “Internet left fringe.”
   • BREAKING FROM NBC: White House official calls gays part of “Internet left fringe”  —  UPDATE FROM PAM: … And let me just add that if we’re all insignificant children who don’t understand politics, and who the White House doesn’t worry about, then why did a White House official feel the need …
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7. Democrats set to ratchet up personal attacks, dirty tricks in 2010.
8. Obama’s Safe Schools Czar wrote that killing someone for calling you names was “not aberrant behavior”
9. Obama White House has already planned to put severe restrictions on “sport fishing.” That means you going fishing with your kid in fresh or salt water.
10. Lindsey Graham backs “cap and trade making electricity too expensive for ordinary people to afford it” bill