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Thursday, September 8, 2011

This week's standout NBU stories and users

This week's standout NBU stories and users.

Limbaugh's Official Climatologist Exposed

(Newser) - Wolfgang Wagner, editor of the science journal "Remote Sensing" has resigned, publishing a "blistering" editorial admitting that a recent paper casting doubt on man-made climate change was "fundamentally flawed" and contained "false claims." The paper by Roy Spencer and William Braswell argues that the amount of global warming predicted by... More »

New Poll Doesn't Look Good For Sarah Palin

(Newser) - The results are in and they're a bit shocking. In a poll released by Fox News, only a combined 29% of Republicans said that they either wanted Sarah Palin to run or were unsure about it. That leaves 71% of those polled basically stating that she should not enter the... More »

War Has Evolved Since 9/11

(Newser) - Forget about zombies, the robots are coming. In October 2001 there were 54 remote controlled aircraft in the US military; today there are more than 6,000. "One of the most significant things that has occurred since 9/11 is the shift from... peer-to-peer warfare to a focus on irregular warfare,... More »

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Left's Obama Critique: Clueless, Magical Thinking

(Newser) - In a summer of discontent on the left, a narrative painting President Obama as a weakling turn coat, who refuses to "spend enough" to heal the economy, seems to have stuck. But Johnathan Chait argues in the NYT that the left's criticism over the stimulus is fundamentally flawed: "[I]t ignores... More »

Anti-Israel Activists Disrupt British 'Proms"

(Newser) - A group of 30 pro-Palestinian activists disrupted a classical music concert featuring the Israel Philharmonic by heckling the musicians with anti-Israel comments, and hung pro-Palestinian banners in the concert hall. In a controversial move, the BBC abruptly cut off broadcast of the famed Prom classical program as protestors shouted "Israeli... More »

Governor Brown snubs Amazon's proposal

(Newser) - In the pages of The Sacramento Bee: Amazon.com is offering to bring thousands of jobs to California in an effort to avoid a ballot show down over the state's new Internet sales tax law. Gov. Jerry Brown said this morning that he is against the Internet retailer's proposal. Amazon's... More »