Hockey Stick Shyster vs Steyn

Mann-made climate change turns up the heat on Steyn

This will be interesting:

Michael Mann, the professor who created the climate-change “hockey stick”, announced over the weekend his intention to sue National Review over Mark’s Corner post “Football and Hockey“.

You can see the letter from Professor Mann’s lawyer here.

You can see various reactions here, here, here, here and here.

UPDATE: Rand Simberg responds here, as do Discover Magazine, David Appell, Instapundit, the author of The Hockey Stick Illusion, and the excitable lads at Daily Kos.

More globull worming lunacy from a ‘real expert’

Obama stands for the Hoover Dam of regulatory obstruction, the Golden Gateway to dependency. 

In Obama’s “visions,” he builds roads and bridges. In reality, the President of Dependistan has put nothing but roadblocks in the path to opportunity and growth.

That he can build. That’s all he can build.

Obama builds roadblocks, not roads

On the evidence of last week’s Republican campaign events, President Obama’s instant classic – “You didn’t build that” – is to Mitt Romney what that radioactive arachnid is to Spider-Man: It got under his skin, and, in an instant, the geeky stiff was transformed into a muscular Captain Capitalism swinging through the streets and deftly squirting his webbing all over Community-Organizerman. Rattled by the reborn Romney, the Obama campaign launched an attack on Romney’s attack on Obama’s attack on American business. First they showed Romney quoting Obama: “He said, ‘If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.'” And then the Obama team moved in for the kill: “The only problem? That’s not what he said.” Indeed. What Obama actually said was: “If you’ve got a business, you, you didn’t build that. [Interjection by fawning supporters: “Yeeaaaaah!”] “Somebody else made that happen.”Continue Reading

Glenn Beck:

“[The Obama] campaign has gotten to a point that I’ve never seen in my lifetime,” Beck said, “it is becoming a cartoon.”

“You know they’re lying, and they know you know they’re lying, and you have it on tape what they said, and then they take their lies and they tell you, “We didn’t say that.” And they play their lies and say, “See? It doesn’t say that.”