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This wreck of a column has to be the most stunningly incompetent thing ever written in the Wall Street Journal. I realize that is a very high bar, and I realize that as someone with a bit of tech savvy I am perhaps more aware of the multiple botched declarations involved, whereas the usual Journal economic pronouncements are perhaps ever-so-slightly more subtle in their incompetence, but the dishonesty of the thing is very nearly awe-inspiring.
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Amanda at Think Progress pointed out Monday that The Wall Street Journal’s Op-Ed was hosting a column by John Woo, the apologist for torture who was a Justice Department lawyer from 2001-03 and now parks his butt at the Americ... Read Post

Last Friday, the Wall Street Journal published an Op-Ed from 16 scientists and engineers titled No Need to Panic About Global Warming. It was excremental, going so far as to compare climate scientists with discredited Lysenkoism. On... Read Post

Pay to the order of John Paulson (@elliottjustin/twitpic) Reactions from conservatives and the financial sector are picking up, perhaps because they realize this thing isn't just going away on its own. Significantly, much of the rea... Read Post