News of the Week for May 18th<\/sup>, 2014<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Clay Aiken’s Democratic rival dies suddenly<\/a> Clay Aiken’s Opponent in Congressional Race, Keith Crisco, Dies<\/a> How Big a Wave?<\/a> Eric Cantor\u2019s tea party opponent in Va. primary may be picking up momentum<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Discrepancies between Benghazi emails released to Congress, watchdog group<\/a><\/p>\n Shinseki ‘mad as hell’ about VA allegations, but won’t resign<\/a> VA Undersecretary Resignation<\/a> Seventh VA office finds secret wait list \u2014 with over 200 veterans on it<\/a> <\/p>\n Racist ThinkProgress Asserts Colion Noir Must Have Been Manufactured By The NRA<\/a> <\/p>\n If You Still Need Proof the EPA Is a Rogue Agency, Last Week Provided Plenty <\/a> Michael Mann Is A Liar and a Cheat. Here\u2019s Why.<\/a> John Holdren: The Scientist Who Cried Wolf <\/a> Environmentalist Billionaire Made His Fortune From Asian Coal Mines <\/a> The Climate Mafia Strikes<\/a> Scientists in cover-up of \u2018damaging\u2019 climate view \u2013 full article<\/a> Global Warming Defector Alleges Journal Rejected Publication of His Article In Order To Suppress “Unhelpful” Findings<\/a> Climate Change Debate: A Famous Scientist Becomes a Skeptic<\/a> Rep. Keith Ellison says \u2018communities of color\u2019 hardest hit by climate change<\/a><\/p>\n Cornell hypes on methane as a \u2018climate boogeyman\u2019<\/a> University of Queensland threatens lawsuit over use of Cook\u2019s \u201997% consensus\u2019 data for a scientific rebuttal<\/a> World’s top climate scientists told to ‘cover up’ the fact that the Earth’s temperature hasn’t risen for the last 15 years<\/a> Scientific Authoritarians<\/a> <\/p>\n NHS to give sex change drugs to nine-year-olds: Clinic accused of ‘playing God’ with treatment that stops puberty<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Phantom Menace<\/a> Chinese general tours U.S. carrier as maritime tensions fester<\/a> <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Election 2014<\/h1>\n
\nSinger Clay Aiken’s chief rival for the Democratic nomination for Congress died unexpectedly Monday.<\/p>\n
\nClay Aiken\u2019s opponent in the Democratic primary for North Carolina\u2019s Second Congressional District seat, Keith Crisco, died today, according to the company he owned, Asheboro Elastics Corporation.<\/p>\n
\nThe big question for 2014: Will we see a GOP ripple \u2026 or a tsunami?<\/p>\n
\nThere was a time when House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) sympathized with the tea party\u2019s frustration with Washington.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obama Scandals<\/h1>\n
\nUnder withering criticism, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki told a Senate committee on Thursday that he was “mad as hell” about allegations of deadly waiting times and coverup at VA hospitals but he doesn’t plan to resign.<\/p>\n
\nAn undersecretary at the Department of Veterans Affairs resigned Friday, a day after he testified at a Senate hearing on the wait times at VA hospitals. The resignation of Dr. Robert Petzel, the department’s undersecretary for health, was announced in a statement from VA Secretary Eric Shinseki.<\/p>\n
\nYesterday, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki declared himself \u201cmad as hell\u201d over the allegations of wait-list fraud in Phoenix, where 40 veterans passed away before accessing medical assistance while the office falsified records. Shinseki also pronounced himself saddened by the consequences of the VA\u2019s failures, and pledged to get to the bottom of them \u2014 and allegations at five other offices that arose from other whistleblowers<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nIf you listen to the assertions made by ThinkProgress\u2019s Jessica Goldstein, Colion Noir was manufactured by the NRA virtually overnight in an effort to con minorities into supporting gun rights.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nThe House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing last week at which it was revealed that one senior civil servant at the Environmental Protection Agency spent much of his office time watching pornography over the Internet. The career employee admitted to the EPA\u2019s Inspector General\u2019s Office (OIG) that he spent two to six hours a day watching porn videos. This included four straight hours at a site called Sadism Is Beautiful, according to news reports.<\/p>\n
\nMichael Mann is one of the most partisan advocates for the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming theory. He is controversial for several reasons: he invented the \u201chockey stick\u201d graph, which was intended to show that recent warming trends were unprecedented, and has since been exposed as a hoax that misrepresents historic temperatures. He has fought bitterly to prevent his own emails from being discovered in litigation, even though he is a public employee whose research is lavishly funded by taxpayers. He has participated in some of the dishonest \u201ctricks\u201d\u2013their word\u2013by which climate alarmists have kept billions of dollars in government money flowing their way.<\/p>\n
\nWho is John Holdren? If you\u2019re Jonathan Chait, the answer seems to be: I don\u2019t really know.<\/p>\n
\nIt\u2019s a safe bet that environmentalist billionaire and big-time Democratic donor Tom Steyer has a bigger carbon footprint than you do<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019ve been referring to the climate campaigners here as the \u201cClimatistas\u201d to chide their cult-like resemblance to the romantic Sandinista sympathizers of the 1980s, but it should not be forgotten that the real Sandinistas were a pack of nasty thugs. Likewise, the climate establishment behaves more like the Mafia today, telling any scientist or academic who might consider any departure from orthodoxy: \u201cNice little scientific career you have here; shame if anything were to happen to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nUh oh, another \u201cclimategate\u201d like moment is upon us as the law of unintended consequences kicks in.<\/p>\n
\nLennert Bengtsson, a meteorologist, recently announced that he had defected from the global warmist camp to the skeptical side of things.<\/p>\n
\nMeteorologist Lennart Bengtsson has long been considered a cool head in the often heated conflict over global warming. In an interview, he defends his decision to join an organization that is skeptical of climate change.<\/p>\n
\nThrough the years, we keep hearing that methane, much like Trenberth\u2019s missing heat, is going to jump out and get us.<\/p>\n
\nWow, just wow. Not only have they just invoked the Streisand effect, they threw some gasoline on it to boot. It\u2019s all part of the Climate McCarthyism on display this week <\/p>\n
\nLeaked United Nations report reveals the world’s temperature hasn’t risen for the last 15 years
\nPoliticians have raised concerns about the final draft
\nFears that the findings will encourage deniers of man-made climate change<\/p>\n
\nThe case for skepticism about climate scientists.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nTreatment with controversial drugs is for youngsters trapped in wrong body
\nMonthly drug injections into the stomach stop puberty and may do harm<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nHow an unproven, widely mocked technology scared the Soviets into ending the Cold War.<\/p>\n
\nA top Chinese general toured an American aircraft carrier on Tuesday at the start of a U.S. visit expected to expose tensions over territorial disputes between Beijing and U.S. allies in the South and East China Seas.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n