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Rush Limbaugh Is STILL A Big Fat Idiot!

According to this article on the CNN web site, Rush Limbaugh spoke Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington DC, where he continued to display his deliberate confusion over the founding documents of our government. According to that CNN article, Rush said this:

We love and revere our founding documents, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. We believe that the preamble of the Constitution contains an inarguable truth, that we are all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, freedom — and the pursuit of happiness.

For the record, here is the actual preamble of the Constitution of the United States of America:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Rush was confusing the Constitution with the Declaration of Independence, whose text includes the words Rush attributes to the Constitution:

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

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What To Do About Global Warming

It is a fact that the Earth is undergoing a period where our climate is getting warmer and warmer. It is also a fact that this is not a new thing, but that the climate on Earth has gotten warmer and colder at various times in the past. No sane person should dispute either of those two statements.

What is disputed by scientists is to what degree human activity contributes to global warming. This scientific dispute makes it impossible to produce a valid cost-benefit analysis of what changes in human activity need to take place, at what cost, and for what benefit.
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