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The New York Times wrote a hit piece on Laurence Tribe, based on the idea that he must be wrong and corrupt because he uses arguments the New York Times doesn’t like.

WASHINGTON — Laurence H. Tribe, the highly regarded liberal scholar of constitutional law, still speaks of President Obama as a proud teacher would of a star student. “He was one of the most amazing research assistants I’ve ever had,” Mr. Tribe said in a recent interview. Mr. Obama worked for him at Harvard Law School, where Mr. Tribe has taught for four decades.

Mr. Tribe went on to serve in the Justice Department during Mr. Obama’s first term and has argued in favor of the legal standing of Mr. Obama’s signature health care law and executive orders on immigration.

Which is why so many in the Obama administration and at Harvard are bewildered and angry that Mr. Tribe, who argued on behalf of Al Gore in the 2000 Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case, has emerged as the leading legal opponent of Mr. Obama’s ambitious efforts to fight global warming.

The Obama administration is always angry at anyone who disagrees with them, because they are trying to run a autocracy, not a democracy. Tribe is arguing that Obama’s activities are illegal.

Mr. Tribe, 73, has been retained to represent Peabody Energy, the nation’s largest coal company, in its legal quest to block an Environmental Protection Agency regulation that would cut carbon dioxide emissions from the nation’s coal-fired power plants — the heart of Mr. Obama’s climate change agenda.

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“I feel very comfortable with my relationship with Peabody,” he added. “Somebody wanted my help and it happened to coincide with what I believe.”

But a number of legal scholars and current and former members of the Obama administration say that Mr. Tribe has eroded his credibility by using his platform as a scholar to promote a corporate agenda — specifically, the mining and burning of coal.

In addition to the brief, Mr. Tribe wrote a lengthy public comment on the climate rules that Peabody submitted to the E.P.A. Mr. Tribe’s critics note that his comment, which he echoed in an op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal in December, includes several references to the virtues of coal, calling it “a bedrock component of our economy.”

The comment also has phrases frequently used by the coal industry. The use of such language, Ms. Freeman and Mr. Lazarus suggested, is typical of paid industry advocates but not of impartial scholars.

Anyone who disagrees with the White House is necessarily corrupt

“The best way to evaluate his claims is to treat them as advocacy and not scholarship,” Ms. Freeman and Mr. Lazarus wrote.

Any arguments which disagree with the White House must be thrown out.

Anger from within the Obama administration about Mr. Tribe’s actions is particularly fierce, although officials declined to comment on the record for fear of escalating the situation.

“Whether he intended it or not, Tribe has been weaponized by the Republican Party in an orchestrated takedown of the president’s climate plan,” said one former administration official.

The White House views democracy, Congress and the US Constitution as a weapon against their regime.

Laurence Tribe Fights Climate Case Against Star Pupil From Harvard, President Obama – NYTimes.com

The New York Times doesn’t present any evidence that Tribe’s viewpoint or arguments are incorrect. Their claim is that because he represents someone they don’t like and goes up against the White House, he must be corrupt and evil. The whole point of the Constitution is to protect the rights of those who are unpopular or in the minority.

Power companies should shut down electricity to the New York Times, and let them find out for themselves if Tribe’s argument is correct. Here is my comment, which of course was censored.

The author’s argument boils down to – “any argument made by the opposition is automatically null, void and evil”

This authors’ mentality is straight out of the darkest periods of human history.

Here are a few good ones they let slip through though.

I find it telling the number of people arguing the destructiveness of coal–as if this has anything to do with whether the EPA regulation is constitutional.

Anyone who fights administrative overreach on the basis of the Constitution deserves our admiration and support. Go, Laurence!

It is not surprising that he is attacked personally, since this seems to be the way things are done now but a more specifically responsive discussion of his opinion would have been a lot more interesting and might have been convincing. The attacks limited to personal attacks tend to suggest he may be right.

This will get laughs amongst left winger sheep, “He’s about to be banned from a lot of cocktail parties.” It does not amuse me. I’d prefer the rebel at my parties, much better conversation when there is challenge and controversy.

I’m a left winger, too. But I treasure honest interpretation of the rule of law more than I treasure all the goals of the left if they have to be met by running over that law. This story, you will notice, does not present Mr Tribe’s case, it plays social politics instead. This is laughable, because a simple statement of how Mr Tribe has it wrong would be more powerful than all the outrage over loyalty shifts and innuendo re who he agrees with. That’s the beauty of an ironclad legal argument; it stands above the clamor.

Lacking the specifics I suspect Mr Tribe is probably correct, based on integrity and the social cowing used here as storyline.

This article is a perfect example of how far liberals in this country have gone off the tracks. And, I’m not talking about the intellectually honest liberal law professor who actually has the integrity and courage to challenge the massive liberal power block in control of the executive branch, most government bureaucracies, academia and the media. America is starving for intellectually honest liberals like Professor Tribe.

Robert Kennedy Jr. is convinced that Sarah Palin has ruined the snow in Virginia

Palin’s Big Oil infatuation
Los Angeles Times
September 24, 2008

By ROBERT F. KENNEDY Jr.

In Virginia, the weather also has changed dramatically. Recently arrived residents in the northern suburbs, accustomed to today’s anemic winters, might find it astonishing to learn that there were once ski runs on Ballantrae Hill in McLean, with a rope tow and local ski club. Snow is so scarce today that most Virginia children probably don’t own a sled. But neighbors came to our home at Hickory Hill nearly every winter weekend to ride saucers and Flexible Flyers.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Snowfall where he grew up in Virginia has been generally increasing for 115 years, with three of the snowiest years occurring since 2010. (2015 below is estimated) Kennedy’s childhood in the 1960’s was very snowy for a few years, but was the exception, not the rule.

Being a typical progressive, he just wants someone to blame for something.

Five years ago, the National Trust warned that the climate of England could become pleasant, like the south of France.

‘The Met Office are saying that despite the recent concerns about the science, they are very sure about the underlying science. ‘They tell us there is a 50-50 chance we will get a 2C rise. If we pull our finger out we could prevent us moving beyond 2C but we have to act pretty soon‘.

A 2C rise could mean summers in the UK reaching 38C – a climate similar to southern France.

That kind of temperature rise would see the traditional summer deep borders full of herbaceous perennials such as lupins and delphiniums replaced with Mediterranean plans.

National Trust campaign highlights how gardens will look if global warming brings Mediterranean weather to Britain | Mail Online

But now they have become serious about stopping this imminent danger.

Storm as National Trust boss vows to go to war on global warming | Daily Mail Online

I am hopeful that John Cleese will join her in this worthy, and very English venture.

Judy Curry is being attacked by Democrats for being a skeptic. Skeptic Curry predicted 3-10 degrees global warming and 115 degrees in Atlanta

The earth is getting warmer, and scientists conducting research on global climate change  overwhelmingly agree: most of the warming since the mid 20th century has been caused  by humans, primarily through burning fossil fuels such as coal and petroleum. Climate  model projections suggest that average global temperatures could increase from 3 to 10  degrees Fahrenheit by 2100

In the 2080s, the average summer high will probably be 96 degrees in  Atlanta, with extreme temperatures reaching 115 degrees

curry.eas.gatech.edu/climate/pdf/atlanta_rev.pdf

Georgia summers were hotter prior to 1960, and as far as I can tell they haven’t had any legitimate temperature readings above 110 degrees since 1952. One was recorded at Glenville in 2001, but it looks bogus.

The last three summers were all cooler than normal.

When the White House is threatened, they simply issue an indictment to take someone out. They did it with Petraeus, and now with Menendez.

ABC’s Karl: Menendez Indictment Likely to Quell Challenges to Iran Deal – Breitbart

“Nobody is suggesting a connection“

Gavin and Tom didn’t like the cooling in Oklahoma, so they broke out the tampering hockey stick, and made it disappear.

Heidi says that winters in Maine are getting red hot.

Last week Obama threatened to throw Israel under the bus at the UN. This week he is “absolutely committed” to Israel.

Rouhani: we negotiated for nothing less than sanctions removal

Bill Clinton gave us the same once in a lifetime deal with North Korea

Published: October 22, 1994

Oct. 21 — After almost four months of difficult negotiations, the United States and North Korea signed an agreement today to end their dispute over North Korea’s nuclear program

After the signing today, North Korea’s chief negotiator, Kang Sok Ju, described it as “a very important milestone document of historic significance” that would resolve his country’s nuclear dispute with the United States “once and for all.”

He said the agreement, once put into effect, would resolve “all questions of the so-called nuclear weapons development by North Korea” that have raised “such unfounded concerns and suspicions.”

“We have neither the intention nor the plan to develop nuclear weapons,” Mr. Kang said.

At a news conference in Washington, President Clinton said the treaty was “a good deal for the United States.”

“The United States and international inspectors will carefully monitor North Korea to make sure it keeps its commitments,” he said. “Only as it does so will North Korea fully join the community of nations.”

U.S. and North Korea Sign Pact to End Nuclear Dispute – NYTimes.com