KRUGMAN: Republicans Are "UN-American"

American Thought Police
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: March 27, 2011

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The Cronon affair, then, is one more indicator of just how reflexively vindictive, how un-American, one of our two great political parties has become.

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Back in 2009 climate skeptics got hold of more than a thousand e-mails between researchers at the Climate Research Unit at Britain’s University of East Anglia. Nothing in the correspondence suggested any kind of scientific impropriety; at most, we learned — I know this will shock you — that scientists are human beings, who occasionally say snide things about people they dislike.

But that didn’t stop the usual suspects from proclaiming that they had uncovered “Climategate,” a scientific scandal that somehow invalidates the vast array of evidence for man-made climate change. And this fake scandal gives an indication of what the Wisconsin G.O.P. presumably hopes to do to Mr. Cronon.

the rest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/opinion/28krugman.html
via: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/28/960846/-Krugman:-Republicans-are-un-American

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http://nytimes.com/skimmer

Fake outrage is about all you have left. The puzzle is why so many "reputable" news outlets scurry after these ersatz controversies, apparently fearful of appearing to be "biased" in favor of the truth.

http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/people/commentators/#cronon

and we all know the GOP would love to open National/State Parks to drilling and I'm sure they'd love to sell off lands to developers.

Let's face it, WE are the last of the true Americans, fighting for concepts of freedom and fairness that have become too inconvenient for the right to follow.

And not many non-human species would claim them, either. ;-)