Sept. 11 Defendant Seeks a Trial, and a Platform

NY Times "Mr. Fenstermaker, a criminal defense lawyer practicing in Manhattan and Brooklyn who represents Mr. Ali pro bono, is an outspoken critic of the campaign against terrorism and has had a contentious relationship with the government." h/t to Neal Boortz

Lieberman Digs In on Public Option

WSJ "Stubborn, he means, in opposing any health-care overhaul that includes a "public option," or government-run health-insurance plan, as the current bill does. His opposition is strong enough that Mr. Lieberman says he won't vote to let a bill come to a final vote if a public option is included."

For you dedicated researchers: The WSJ Guide to ObamaCare

Wall Street Journal You may want to take your laptop into the bathroom with you.

Lethal Weapon; Islamist Perfidy or Western Naivety?

By Raymond Ibrahim "And there it is: From an American president who publicly defines his mission by quoting a jihadi-related verse, to American-Muslim leaders who publicly pray for the subjugation of non-Muslims (in the middle of an NYPD auditorium, no less), it is clear that the ultimate threat comes more from Western carelessness and indifference — in a word, naivety — than it does from active Islamist machinations. In short, Islamists peddling misleading interpretations for the word “jihad” is but the very tip of the iceberg."

Global WarmingGate: What Does It Mean?

Pajamas Media "The emails suggest the authors co-operated covertly to ensure that only papers favorable to CO2-forced [man-caused global warming] were published, and that editors and journals publishing contrary papers were punished. They also attempted to “discipline” scientists and journalists who published skeptical information."

Remember those hacked emails in the Climate Research Unit? Read 'em here!

Elegant Chaos "On 20 November 2009, emails and other documents, apparently originating from with the Climate Research Unit ... If real, these emails contain some quite surprising and even disappointing insights into what has been happening within the climate change scientific establishment. Worryingly this same group of scientists are very influential in terms of economic and social policy formation around the subject of climate change. " The global warming fraud Exposed "Consider this amazing admission by Kevin Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and a lead author of the 2001 and 2007 IPCC Scientific Assessment of Climate Change: "

From Germany: Obama’s Amateurish Middle East Policy

Die Zeit, Germany h/t to Watching America "The fact is, the president now stands before a Middle East rubbish heap larger than it was when he first took office. His image in Israel is at an all-time low and, even in the Arab world, his popularity has suffered."

What's with "Friday news dumps"?

By Karl Rove "Every modern White House has put out news on contentious issues late on Friday in the hope that doing so will bury it, or reduce the amount of critical scrutiny it would otherwise receive. What is unusual is the degree to which this White House has relied on this tactic.".... "Friday night network television news and Saturday newspapers and cable coverage are traditionally less seen or read. By Sunday morning, a Friday announcement is often considered old news. Monday is the first opportunity White House correspondents get to ask the president's press secretary on camera about whatever was released Friday. By then there is almost always other news occupying the headlines."

President Obama’s Foreign Policy: An Assessment; by John Bolton

Imprimus "Here at home, the Obama administration has gravely impaired our capability to gather human intelligence by declassifying hundreds of pages of documents that explain our interrogation techniques—information that is now probably in al-Qaeda training manuals."...."We need a president who is going to provide us with leadership in international affairs—not one who believes that America should simply come home. And we need a president who believes that the best place to defend our interest is overseas rather than in the streets of America."

What Americans Need to Know About the Copenhagen Global Warming Conference

Heritage "Abstract: In December, the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will meet in Copenhagen to work on a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol. U.S. negotiators should refuse to sign any climate change treaty that does not include meaningful participation by China, India, and other major developing nations or that would harm the U.S. economy or threaten U.S. sovereignty."

The Death Blow to Climate Science

CanadaFreePress Someone hacked in to the files of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) based at the University of East Anglia. A very large file (61 mb) was downloaded and posted to the web. Phil Jones Director of the CRU has acknowledged the files are theirs. They contain papers, documents letters and emails. The latter are the most damaging and contain blunt information about the degree of manipulation of climate science in general and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in particular. (Emphasis added)

WaPo reports on East Anglia CRU e-mails, global-warming controversy

Hot Air "Global-warming advocates routinely criticize skeptics for not having enough peer-reviewed work rebutting their findings. If they’re conspiring to block the publication of such research, that undermines their argument and their scientific credibility. One of their nemeses explains the significance:"