George Will: When a Politician Says the Climate Debate Is Over, He's Losing It

Conservative columnist George Will appeared on Fox News Sunday where he was asked to respond to President Barack Obama’s attribution of most severe weather to the effects of climate change. Will insisted that the repeated refrain from climate change activists, that the “debate is over” surrounding anthropogenic global warming, is an admission that the debate is not only ongoing but that those activists are losing.

“I am one of those who are called ‘deniers,’” Will said. “The imputation is that I deny climate change. It’d be impossible to state with greater precision the opposite of my view, which is of course the climate is changing. It’s always changing.”

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“When a politician, on a subject implicating science,” he continued, “says, ‘the debate is over,’ you may be sure of two things; the debate is raging and he’s losing it.”

Will added that the debate presently underway is over “how much wealth are we going to forego creating” to have “zero discernable impact on the environment.”

Source: Mediaite
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Dinesh D'Souza maligns Israel as bad guy in debate with Bill Ayers

Just recently I pointed out how the Obama administration’s prosecution of Dinesh D’Souza was an example of how Obama is using U.S. government and law enforcement agencies to hound his political opponents. While that is true, it doesn’t remotely mean that D’Souza is right about everything, or much of anything. When he and I debated at CPAC 2007 and on several radio shows, he stuck steadfastly to the dogma that Islam was a religion of peace, without remotely succeeding in establishing it, or being able to specifically name any of the “conservative Muslims” with whom he was advocating an alliance.
D’Souza embodies the abysmal and truly dangerous ignorance of the mainstream Right about Islam, jihad, and related issues — including, as you can see here, Israel. He hasn’t the faintest idea that Israel is on the front line of the global jihad or that the claim that it is an apartheid state is an invention of pro-jihad propagandists designed precisely to bamboozle and intimidate people like D’Souza into thinking that Israel is tainted and that his support for the Jewish State should be tentative at best.
There are far too many people who think like D’Souza, or worse, in the leadership of the Republican Party — which is why that party has been so spectacularly feeble and clueless in its response to Obama’s increasingly open support for Islamic supremacist forces both at home and overseas.
“Dinesh D’Souza Gets Israel Wrong in Acclaimed Debate with Bill Ayers,” by Sam Levine in PJ Lifestyle, February 3:
After their anticipated debate at Dartmouth College, Dinesh D’Souza and Bill Ayers took questions from the audience.
D’Souza’s answer to an audience member’s question about Israel was unfortunate (see 1:31:31 of the debate).
The audience member libeled Israel as an apartheid state, accused it of codifying into law discrimination against Arabs, then asked the debaters why the United States supports such a country.
The answer to this question is obvious.
Israel is not an apartheid state.
More than 1 million Arabs live in Israel and have full civil rights. Arabs constitute 10 percent of the Israeli parliament, and one sits on the Israeli Supreme Court. Arabs make up a large portion of the student population at elite Israeli universities where Arabs teach and have full tenure. The only place where Arabs have freedom of speech and association is in Israel.
Hundreds of gay Palestinian Arabs have actually fled to Israel because of fear for their lives due to their sexual orientation.
Meanwhile, Palestinian President Abbas states openly that not a single Jew will be allowed in a future Palestinian state. In Saudi Arabia women are not allowed to drive. In Iran gays are hanged. There is plenty of apartheid in the Middle East, but it is not happening in Israel.
But did D’Souza mention any of this? Nope.
Instead, he tacitly agreed that Israel is an apartheid state by not challenging that accusation in his answer, and ranting on about how much different Israel is than the United States.
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One Weird Trick For Winning The Income Inequality Debate

President Obama has talked quite a lot about inequality lately, most recently in his State of the Union address. Progressives have gone after him for it, with some arguing that he’s distracting from jobs and others suggesting he isn’t talking about inequality enough. But they’re wrong on both counts: inequality really is a winning issue, and Obama’s couching of it in terms of “equal opportunity” makes the argument stronger, not weaker.
While the conservative backlash has been predictable, Obama’s emphasis on inequality has prompted some backlash from those arguing that the main problem today is jobs rather than inequality. Is this a fair criticism? It’s certainly true that in the short run jobs does look like the most serious problem. To boot, as Jared Bernstein and Mike Konczal have pointed out, there are few programs that would have more of a positive effect on inequality than achieving full employment.
So should we be talking mostly about jobs and stimulus and turning down the volume on inequality? Paul Krugman dissents, rightly arguing that progressives must “face up to an awkward political reality: moderate populism has a broad popular constituency, Keynesian macroeconomics doesn’t.”
A recent Pew poll bears out Krugman’s point. Sixty-five percent of Americans said the gap between the rich and everyone else in the US has been increasing the last 10 years, and by a 60-36 margin, respondents said the economic system in the country unfairly favors the wealthy, as opposed to being fair to most Americans. Americans think inequality is both unfair and getting worse.

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