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With the Copenhagen climate talks starting next week, climate-gate keeps getting worse. There is no precedent for so many academics engaging in coordinated efforts to distort research for political ends. The problems go well beyond deleting e-mails to prevent their disclosure from a Freedom of Information Act request. The UN …

1. Public Relations: All year it appeared that seemingly smart and savvy public figures might have mistakenly fired their public relations firms to “go rogue,” a la Sarah Palin. Problem was, while Palin’s strategy improves her public image, it was clearly an ill-advised disaster for others: – Florida Congressman Alan …

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:52:54 +0000 – By Glenn BeckHost, “Glenn Beck” Hello America, As some of you may remember, I was less than a fanof Barack Obama during the primaries and general election. If I don’t make it onto his Christmas card list, I guess I’ll have to learn …

The genius of Maya Lin’s design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial — “The Wall” — is the visitor’s overwhelming sense of loss. The names of the dead, on 140 black granite panels, appear infinite in number. It has been 32 years since The Wall was dedicated. It has become a …

Every generation has its generational markers. For those of the World War II era, December 7, 1941, stands supreme, but the events of June 6, 1944, rank a close second. Seventy years ago on that day, 156,000 Allied soldiers, supported by many more sailors, airmen and marines, embarked on the …

There’s an old saying in Washington, that the most damaging scandals are marked by a “drip, drip, drip” of new information, with new revelations emerging week by week until the scandal finally reaches a critical mass. But with the last two weeks of IRS revelations, culminating in this week’s news …

The Broadway musical “Annie” is enjoying another revival on Broadway. The show opened during the Carter administration when America was in need of some optimism. “The sun’ll come out tomorrow,” sang Annie, and with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, for a while, it did. Now we’re back in …

I was in the East Room of the White House on August 9, 1974, standing along the wall while Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States, said farewell to the staff. After his maudlin and rambling remarks, I shuffled, zombie-like,with the rest of the White House staffers, just behind …

Democrats who cheered the toppling of statues of American heroes such as Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt in 2020 are suddenly deeply concerned that the Trump administration is seeking to curate the Smithsonian museums to better express American exceptionalism. Please, spare us. Take Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota …

With the president’s address on energy security today as he continues to take flak for his energy policies and fuel prices creep toward $4 a gallon, his supporters have stepped up efforts to defend the president in anticipation of the 2012 election cycle. Their tactic is straight forward: deflect blame …