“The global-warming thrill ride looks to be coming to an end, undone by the same politically motivated serial exaggeration and moral preening that discredited previous apocalypses,” editorialized the National Review, pointing to the “Climategate” e-mails and “embarrassing retractions” from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Predicting future debates about “basic climate sensitivity” and “alternative explanations for observed climate change in the Arctic and elsewhere,” the editorial concluded: “With the collapse of the Kyoto-Copenhagen process and the likely rejection of cap-and-trade in Congress, climate mania may have run its course.”
Meanwhile, the New York Times reported: “The (IPCC) panel, in reviewing complaints about possible errors in its report, has so far found that one was justified and another was ‘baseless.’ The general consensus among mainstream scientists is that the errors are in any case minor and do not undermine the report’s conclusions.”
Sarah Palin has hit upon a crowd-pleasing anti-Obama one-liner, which she delivered this way Friday night in Salina: “We need a commander in chief, not a professor of constitutional law.” Among Republicans, this is a talking point aimed at fortifying the party’s national security credentials in time for the 2010 congressional elections. But when did knowing and respecting the Constitution become a bad thing? Plus, many of the politicians criticizing the Obama administration for its handling of attempted underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab are “unknowing of the facts, and they’re making charges and allegations that are not anchored in reality,” deputy national security adviser John Brennan (in photo) 
“If they can find the dollars to fund a lawsuit, I don’t think they’re in as bad a shape as they say they’re in,” state Rep. Joe McLeland, R-Wichita, 
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