Liberal censorship - We know you can burn a book, but can you light a kindle?

When it comes to free speech, he says, “they don’t even hide it anymore. Now they proudly want certain arguments banished from discourse. The next step is book burning. So the question of the day is: Can you light a Kindle?"

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“Is there anything more anti-scientific than scientific truths being determined by petition and demonstration?”
Maybe this reflects a broader trend in which people want to wall themselves off from contrary information — and wall off others as well. Debating a complicated subject like climate change — and, equally important, what to do about it — is difficult. Attempting to silence the other side is the easy way out.

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Uncle Ben said:

Liberals don't like being told the truth about Global Warming, especially by another intellectual from FOX News - (the great) Charles Krauthammer. They're now trying to pressure the Post into censuring his columns!



http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/24/heating-up-climate-change-advocates-try-to-silence-krauthammer/

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CNN: senior media correspondent says there’s no need for journalists to provide a voice to those who question global warming or the threat it poses.
“Let’s begin with an important journalistic statement,” Brian Stelter declared Sunday on his show, CNN’s “Reliable Sources.” “Some stories don’t have two sides. Some stories are simply true. There’s no necessity to give equal time to the ‘other side.’ One of these is climate change. Depending on which study or which expert you consult, between 95 and 97 percent of scientists agree that climate change is happening now, that it’s damaging the planet and that’s it’s manmade. That seems pretty definitive, right?”

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Global warming is back. Not actual global warming, as the decade-long trend of little to no increase in temperatures continues. But the topic of global warming is back in the news. From Secretary of State John Kerry's recent climate comments in Jakarta to the White House's 2014 "year of action" plan on carbon emissions, global warming has garnered more ink and pixels than we've seen in a while.
It's an open question whether this renewed emphasis reflects sincere concern about global warming or is just the Obama administration playing to part of its base prior to the midterm elections. Either way, the White House and the eco-left must be disappointed by polls that continue to show Americans do not share their sense of urgency. Even though many believe some warming exists and is at least partly anthropogenic, the vast majority consider it a low priority. In a January Pew Research poll, climate change was ranked 19th out of 20 items for the president and Congress to address.

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The debate is over.
On Friday, an international panel of hundreds of scientists will issue its fifth (and perhaps final) comprehensive scientific assessment of what scientists now know about climate change. Its central conclusion will be certain and unequivocal — human beings are altering the climate, with impacts starting to occur now.

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jahbrudda said:

But if there were no liberals, who could we ridicule?

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Sand4x105 said:

Damn it... Don't you get it... The Science IS Settled...

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jahbrudda said:

All this talk of consensus and empirical evidence and all we get are opinions, theoretical charts and attitudes.
Maybe the argument is settled.

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UncleBuck said:

yes, we know.

you side with the politically motivated stooges who deny the plain reality of global warming. the same people who used to say that smoking wasn't harmful as long as tobacco companies paid them are now denying anthropogenic climate change as long as exxonmobil and the koch brothers pay them.

that's who you side with.

whereas i side with the overwhelming majority of scientists whose work is repeatable and verifiable and not motivated by bribes from oil companies with preconceived agendas.

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jahbrudda said:

Enough of the small talk, put up or shut up, where is your proof?

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