{"id":3020,"date":"2010-06-08T22:25:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T02:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2010-06-08T22:25:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T02:25:08","slug":"climate-buffoonery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=3020","title":{"rendered":"Climate Buffoonery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Order Zopiclone Online Now if you want to read a well argued rebuttal to the FTC’s proposed meddling in the news business, Jeff Jarvis<\/a> is your man (and I largely agree with him). But if you want to read boilerplate liberal bashing that verges on unhinged hysteria, then the other Jeff<\/a> is your man. Here he is, near the end of that post, reading the tea leaves of Obama’s policies:<\/p>\n

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