Wow.  14 hours after the attack Obama gives an interview with one story, but spends the next two weeks telling the public a different one.

Time for new management.

CBS News obtains diplomatic emails that alerted government agencies to the Sept. 11 attack upon U.S. Consulate in Libya

Ah, the glory of government intervention into markets:

"Leonnig reports that 14 green tech firms that Gore invested in received or directly benefited from more than $2.5 billion in federal loans, grants and tax breaks. Suddenly, green tech looks less like a gleaming beacon of virtue and more like corporate welfare, further enriching already affluent investors."

What happened to the golden days of green technology? It’s a tale of disappointed hopes.

Ah, protecting our embassies with unarmed guards.  Hope and change, baby, hope and change.

WASHINGTON/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – The State Department’s decision to hire Blue Mountain Group to guard the ill-fated U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, entrusted security tasks to a litt…

"And I am ultimately responsible for what's taking place there because these are my folks, and I'm the one who has to greet those coffins…"

"Number two; investigate exactly what happened, regardless of where the facts lead us, to make sure folks are held accountable…"

"And number three, we are going to find out who did this and we're going to hunt them down, because one of the things that I've said throughout my presidency is when folks mess with Americans, we go after them."

Dead diplomatic staff: folks
Incompetent State Department Bureaucrats: folks
Islamic terrorists: folks

Heck, from what I can tell from the transcript, Obama couldn't even bring himself to use the word "terrorist" (he could say "act of terror", but apparently the t-word is off limits) http://www.npr.org/2012/10/16/163050988/transcript-obama-romney-2nd-presidential-debate

Transcript and audio of the second debate between President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

Damn all those SUVs that King Arthur and his knights were driving all around Europe!

Mike Mann will have a twitfest on Twitter trying to knock this one down. Data from 91 Northern Hemisphere proxies was used to reconstruct temperature. See reconstruction graph (figure 5) below. Via……

The continuing saga of ad hoc special pleadings when observations don't match predictions…

While the Met Office and others try to spin their way out of their current 16 year flatlining of warming, it is important to remember a few points made in the past. In the much ballyhooed 2008 NOAA……

It'd be nice to see a graph like this over time, but even with just one number in each column, it's illuminating.

A new chart from the minority side of the Senate Budget Committee details the fact that, since January 2009, for every person added to the labor force, 10 have been added to those not in the labor for…