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It's not technically false, it's just incredibly biased reporting. If you can't see that, then you're completely lost. That article would be fine on an opinion page. When it is labeled news, the reader should expect at least an attempt at impartiality. - Dan G

This is SC. Never admit you were wrong. Ever. Just redirect the thread to something totally unrelated, or accuse the person who pointed out your error of being a bully or arrogant. Jeez, I'd think you would know how this works by now. - Dan G

Nobody. I was quoting the Breitbart news report. Not from the opinion page, from the news. - Dan G

Well, Breitbart regaled us with this unbiased reporting: - Dan G

Yeah, but that's NPR. What do Breitbart and the Blaze have to say about it? Ya know, real news. - Dan G

If the investigation finds she likely broke the law, then of course she should be indicted. What does that have to do with your theory about coin tosses being rigged in six counties across the state of Iowa? Like I said, please never change. Well, you could be a little less predictable, but otherwise I really enjoy your posts. - Dan G

You are awesome. Never change. - Dan G

In the long run those delegates are unlikely to matter. Iowa has 44 Democratic delegates. Candidates need 2,382 delegates to win the nomination. Iowa is only important because they go first. Now that they are done with their early caucus, the state takes it's rightful significance to national affairs: very little. - Dan G

No really. It is bullshit. If you're so sure, please provide a link to a law that says women can't parachute on Sunday in Florida. And no, a link to a clickbait website that perpetuates the myth won't cut it. - Dan G

I like how all your "for the record" quotes are taken from LifeNews.com, a pro-life website. Biased reporting maybe? Nah. - Dan G

For instance, did you know that is an urban myth? - Dan G

Since records were kept, so more like 150 years. Just because the planet was different in the very, very distant past doesn't mean that we can't influence the climate today. Of course there are different reasons that the planet could be warmer or colder during any geologic period. That doesn't mean that man-made effects are not one of those reasons. It is entirely consistent with the very basic facts of thermodynamics that what we are doing to the atmosphere will result in a warmer climate. The science is settled on that. You can debate the extent of influence man is having, but you can't argue with any credibility that man has an influence. - Dan G

So, a best case is that 2015 was only the fourth warmest year on record. How exactly does that support a position that the Earth is not warming? - Dan G

CSM does have some good reporting. When I read their articles I filter for a right bias, but it isn't too blatant. - Dan G

One study used an interesting technique. They recorded all the papers quoted by congressmen in their official statements. The papers were then weighted as being a left supporting paper or a right supporting paper depending on how often it was used as a souce by Democrats vs Republicans. They then looked at a bunch of news sources, and recorded the papers they reported on, or used as a source. The bias was determined by how often a new source relied on a left or right leaning paper. That technique uses the "center" as halfway between congresional Dems and Reps. NPR was slightly left of center in that study. As a matter of fact, most major news sources were left of center, some more than others. Fox was decidedly right of center. Obviously, this technique isn't perfect, but it is interesting. - Dan G

Can you show me a 3rd party source that proves NPR has a liberal bias? Every study I've seen shows them to be just slightly left of center, if not prety much at the center. I know it's a conservative belief that reality has a liberal bias, and NPR reports reality, so maybe that's your problem with them. - Dan G

Most reasonable people would say the statement, "the newest instruments we have are not to be believed," is the same thought as, "the data is wrong." No, you didn't actually type out the letters, "the data is wrong," but that's what you were trying to communicate. - Dan G

How about: it's warming. Period. - Dan G

Yep. They are not only fairly unbiased, but high quality. NPR listeners are at the top of the "most informed" lists in studies I've seen. PBS is very good, too, but holy shit the PBS News Hour can be boring. I usually watch the first 30 minutes, when they cover the major stories. The second half, when they usually dig deep into a specific issue, can put an insomniac to sleep sometimes. - Dan G

Just curious, didn't you grow up in Iran? How did you end up in America? - Dan G

He doesn't understand the difference between voter registration fraud (which requiring ID at the ballot won't affect) and voter fraud. The concepts are way too complicated for some people. - Dan G

If the card doesn't have a renewal requirement, it becomes meaningless. If you're relying on physical confiscation of the card, how does that work for the guy who hides his card, then goes on a killing spree? As soon as he gets out of jail (pardoned by some liberal terrorist Islamofascist, most likely) he just digs up his card and goes to the gun store. Just because they know you have renewed your check ten times doesn't mean they know you have ten guns. If the card expires on a regular basis, renewal doesn't mean anything. - Dan G

The moral concept should always apply. - Dan G

Of course nothing's free. I meant free to the individual. Society in general should bear the cost, just like society in general should bear the cost of voting. I'd be fine with a "cleared" card that is good for some finite length of time (a month or two). Some people could slip through the cracks, but it might ease fears that the government is keeping track of how many guns you own. I'm not really clear on why it matters if the government thinks you own one gun or ten. When Obama comes to take our guns, he's going to take them all anyway, isn't he? - Dan G

I don't think the aggressive posting style has ever been dominated by one side or the other. There have always been assholes of every political stripe. It just seems that lately the asssholes are far outnumbering the non-assholes. New assholes seem to pop up every day. I think some otherwise reasonable posters have been driven to assholism not so much by world events as by the general lowering of the level of discourse here and everywhere else on the net. Why bother typing out a well thought out reply when all you're likely to get in return is third grade name calling? Poopiehead - Dan G