Update on the reported hacking of 160 MB of internal files and emails from Hadley-CRU, the Climactic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, as reported earlier in the day by RedState diarist dpayton.

According to Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, the validity of the emails has been confirmed by Dr. Phil Jones at the CRU, author of some of the emails. Taken at face value, some of the content would suggest that staff at the CRU has been actively “fudging” the data, the better to support their Global Warming assumptions conclusions.

Given the Hadley-CRU’s status as one of the leading repositories of climate data, allegations of data manipulation could be particularly damaging to their integrity, and to the Global Warming religion cause in general.

The careful reader may recall that the Hadley-CRU is the same center involved earlier this year in the “The Dog Ate My Raw Data” controversy, previously blogged in these pages.

It’ll go back up, of course. But then, it’ll also go back down. And it’s the 44% disapproval that’s the really interesting bit.

Some-bo-dy’s lo-sing in-de-pen-dents….

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

Rust never sleeps, ladies and gentlemen:

Nearly two years into the recession, opinion about which political party is responsible for the severe economic downturn is shifting, according to a new national poll.

A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday morning indicates that 38 percent of the public blames Republicans for the country’s current economic problems. That’s down 15 points from May, when 53 percent blamed the GOP. According to the poll 27 percent now blame the Democrats for the recession, up 6 points from May. Twenty-seven percent now say both parties are responsible for the economic mess.

(H/t: Yid with Lid & Hot Air) And to quote Solomon Short: Rome didn’t fall in a day, either. So keep reminding people about just who’s been in charge of the purse strings since January of 2007, and the whole blessed government since January of 2009. Every little bit helps, and we’ve still got a year to correct the historical record.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

You tell me. It’s certainly looking how I’d imagine a bicoastal outbreak would look. Guess the next Romero flick will go with a zombies-as-the-’funemployed’ metaphor, or something else suitably heavy-handed.

Via Instapundit.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

PS: It is no doubt rude of me to point out that this outbreak video represents two years’ worth of a Democratic-controlled Congress, and one year’s worth of a Democratic-controlled government. At least, I hope that it is, seeing that we were promised an unemployment rate at least two points below the one that we’re having now. My being allowed to be rude seems like a bare minimum in the realm of recompense.

If this were the Bush girls it would be wall to wall news

“Alexandra Forbes Kerry was arrested and then released on $5,000 bail, Los Angeles Police Department officer Norma Eisenman told Fox News.”

A federal judge on Wednesday afternoon ruled that former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson can stay out of jail pending the appeal of his conviction. Appeals generally take about a year to complete but could take longer.

U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III of Alexandria, Va. said Jefferson’s challenge to his conviction is “substantial of question appeal that could result in a new trial or reversal.”

Jefferson will be kept under electronic monitoring and restricted from traveling outside the country.

Source.

Another entry in the Democratic party’s War on Science:

Mr. Gore apparently thinks that we live on the surface of Sol; as Ed Morrissey notes, this temperature range is more accurate for stellar cores than for terrestrial ones. Ed also notes that this is unlikely to destroy Gore’s credibility, which is a conclusion that I reluctantly share. If his acolytes have swallowed everything else that the man says, they’ll swallow this, too…

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

*Surprisingly apropos.

This make so much sense it’s not even funny. Barack Obama is borrowing money, which you’ll have to pay back in the form of higher taxes, in order to fund a study on whether to tax you more.

I can save some trouble by providing the conclusion now: you need to pay higher taxes!

How can the Al Qaeda now-alleged terrorists possibly get a fair trial when the Chief Law Enforcement Officer in the land, President Barack Obama, thinks you’re guilty? I’m just a simple caveman lawyer, but I thought if a governor opines on the guilt of a defendant that that would result in a mistrial of some sort? Isn’t there an argument that the President can prejudice the judicial system and cause an unfair trial?

If that’s true is Obama sabotaging the whole trial?

National Review’s John Miller has written a thriller set in 1861, about a plot to assassinate President Lincoln. It sounds like a great read.

Learn more about it over here.