Politics: February 2008 Archives

Clayton Cramer: Idaho: Global Warming Nonsense

An astrophysical perspective on a global-warming resolution coming before the Idaho legislature: "Pretty obviously, if, as some astrophysicists claim, the warming we experienced from the late 1970s to a couple of years back, is primarily the result of solar output changes, we're going to burn an enormous amount of money, impoverish a lot of people--and accomplish nothing."

TIME: Rush Limbaugh Talks to TIME

What makes Rush Limbaugh tick, and what he gets about talk radio and his role that lesser lights overlook: "And most of my audience is there not because I have Pied Pipered them to where they believe. They already believed what they believe -- I just came along and validated it. When I started in '88, there was CNN, the three networks, your magazine and Newsweek and US News and the newspapers. That was it. I started in '88 and I was the first so-called national voice espousing conservatism and people glommed onto it because finally, 'Somebody who agrees with me!'"

The American Spectator: Rejecting National ID

Virginia may join the states' rebellion against the unfunded mandate called REAL ID. "REAL ID isn't about national security. It isn't about illegal immigration. It isn't about identity fraud, or even cold medicine. It's about Washington politics. Federal bureaucrats want to coerce states like Virginia into building a multi-billion dollar system for identifying, tracking, and controlling law-abiding citizens."