What are the depths of Peter Gleick’s depravity in the Heartland global warming smear attack? [UPDATED]

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 21st at 03:30 PM  | 

[UPDATE: The preliminary steps of removing Peter Gleick from positions of authority and respect have begun: he's 'resigned' from his position with the National Center for Science Education, and his scientific ethics task force chairmanship(!) for the American Geophysical Union.  One wonders whether groups like the MacArthur Fellows Program and NAS will insist that Gleick cut all ties from them, as well.  Nobody's really expecting | Read More »

Is Gov. Steve Beshear (D, KY) extorting campaign contributions?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 1st at 07:00 PM  | 

(Via Instapundit) That’s the rather bombshell allegation being made today; the gist is that Rodney Young (a retiring psychologist for the Department of Juvenile Justice has reported that his colleagues were the target of an attempt to extort $500 contributions to Steve Beshear’s re-election campaign, with the threat that they could lose their jobs if they did not so contribute.  The major argument against this | Read More »

The *true* John Conyers scandal.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 26th at 11:00 AM  | 

Background: back over Thanksgiving weekend John Conyers III (the son of Rep. John Conyers) reported a theft of computers and concert tickets from the car that he was using.  The problem?  John Conyers III was using the car unlawfully: it was leased to his father’s Congressional office as an official vehicle, and Conyers was not using it in an official capacity.  And it wasn’t anything | Read More »

Rangel stole $400K for legal defense.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 14th at 10:10 AM  | 

Yes, “steal.”  Rep. Charles Rangel was not allowed to use money from his leadership PAC to pay his legal bills, it beggars belief that he did not know that he was not allowed to use money from his leadership PAC to pay his legal bills, and yet he did it anyway.  If we can’t call the deliberate diversion of money that was raised and allocated | Read More »

Charlie Rangel (D, NY) gave money to Democrats on Ethics Committee.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  September 2nd at 10:30 PM  | 

(Via @vermontaigne) Three of them.  Need I add that Charlie Rangel is currently under investigation by that committee? Charlie’s “angels” on the committee include Congressmen Ben Chandler of Kentucky, G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina and Peter Welch of Vermont. All have received donations from Rangel. Two of them – Chandler (KY-06, R+9*) & Butterfield (NC-01, D+9) – are apparently keeping it, too.  Considering that Rep. | Read More »

What? In what alternate universe is there a “cloud” over Rangel?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 17th at 10:30 AM  | 

The Democrats have made it clear that they don’t give a tinker’s dam about Rep Rangel’s numerous ethical lapses, as even this Politico article makes clear (via Instapundit):