Signal Distinction

Clippers
“It takes about a second and a half to change a clip,” said Frank Jezioro, a former special agent with the Office of Naval Intelligence and now director of the state Division of Natural Resources. (NYT, 1/23/2012)

Someone with seemingly expert knowledge weighs in on the gun magazine capacity issue. And we draw an entirely logical conclusion that limiting the capacity to 10 or 7 or 5 would have saved exactly 0 lives in Newtown. Maybe we ought to look elsewhere for the answer to school shootings. Hint, hint.


Eligibility
Rhode Island, the only state in New England that has not legalized gay marriage, began taking up the matter this week. The State House is expected to pass a bill Thursday that would allow anyone to marry “any eligible person regardless of gender.” But the measure faces resistance in the State Senate and its fate is uncertain. Teresa Paiva-Weed, a Democrat who is the Senate president, opposes same-sex marriage but has said she would allow a vote on it in committee. (NYT, 1/23/2013)

So as Liberals have defined things and just to be clear, Rhode Island Senate president Democrat Paiva-Weed is a bigot and a homophobe.

Also bigots and homophobes: many Rhode Island Latinos:

The Faith Alliance brought out hundreds of opponents at a hearing last week that lasted more than six hours; many were Latino members of Pentecostal churches. (NYT, 1/23/2013)


Starting Point
For starters, let's address the three horsemen of the climate apocalypse that Mr. Obama mentioned.

Historical analysis of wildfires around the world shows that since 1950 their numbers have decreased globally by 15%.
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The world has not seen a general increase in drought. A study published in Nature in November shows globally that "there has been little change in drought over the past 60 years." 
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Measured by total energy (Accumulated Cyclone Energy), hurricane activity is at a low not encountered since the 1970s. (Bjorn Lomborg, WSJ, 1/23/2013)

Lomborg - who believes that we should reduce carbon dioxide because it causes global warming - tends to be one of the more rational commentators on the topic. 

Witness (from the same article):

When innovation eventually makes green energy cheaper, everyone will implement it, including the Chinese. Such a policy would likely do 500 times more good per dollar invested than current subsidy schemes. 


Shortly
Mrs. Clinton is a short-timer at State, so her main goal is to escape the Benghazi debacle without permanent wounds. Her adoring press will make sure of that. (WSJ, 1/23/2013)

Mission accomplished. The Liberal press teed up Hill's long-awaited testimony by producing polls that showed her popularity on a par with Mahatma Gandhi and then concluded (articles written before she testified) that she had done a bang-up job standing up to Republicans.