In the last few years school boards and state legislatures in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Tennessee have introduced a requirement that science teachers acknowledge in their classroom instruction that the theory of AGW isn’t “settled” science and that climate skepticism is a valid scientific position. Los Angeles Times reporter Neela Banerjee, who like so many MSM reporters starts with the assumption that AGW is an incontrovertible fact, and that skeptics are self-evidently wrong, opens her news report by begging the question with a false equivalence:

A flash point has emerged in American science education that echoes the battle over evolution, as scientists and educators report mounting resistance to the study of man-made climate change in middle and high schools.

The National Center for Science Education uses the same “argument” to defend AGW against these climate-change-denying snake-handlers:

Long a leader in the fight to defend the teaching of evolution in public schools, the National Center for Science Education now sees creationist-like tactics being used in the attack on climate education.

The inconvenient truth for the warmists, of course, is that belief in AGW is itself an article of faith to many of its proponents, as evidenced by their countless attempts to suppress the heretical views of modern-day Gallileos through browbeating, censorship, and propaganda.
Remarkably, the LA Times’s Banerjee blames the states’s long overdue pushback against the warmists’s politicization of classroom science on — wait for it — the politicization of science:

Although scientific evidence increasingly shows that fossil fuel consumption has caused the climate to change rapidly, the issue has grown so politicized that skepticism of the broad scientific consensus has seeped into classrooms.

In his New York Times opinion column “What’s Race Got to Do With It?“, smug urban liberal Lee Siegel proves once again that no group of people is more obsessed with race, and insistent upon making it an issue, than putatively non-racist Democrat supporters:

“There has yet to be any discussion over the one quality that has subtly fuelled (Mitt Romney’s) candidacy thus far and could well put him over the top in the fall: his race.”

Let the race-baiting discussion begin:

“The simple, impolitely stated fact is that Mitt Romney is the whitest man to run for president in recent memory.”

Hold on a second, aren’t Romney’s opponents also whi…

“It’s true that Mr. Romney’s opponents are all white as well. But each is tainted in his own way. Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich appear soft on Hispanic immigration, and Mr. Gingrich is hardly the standard-bearer for the invincible nuclear family.”

Let’s assume for a second that this is true, that holding a moderate position on immigration and/or having a personal history of divorce or adultery taints your whiteness and renders you less white. Isn’t it at least possible that Romney, by virtue of being a Mormon, would be less likely to divorce or commit adultery not because he’s white per se, but rather because Mormons, as a grou…

“(Mormonism is) a religion founded by whites, for whites, rooted in a millenarian vision of an America destined to fulfill a white God’s plans for earth.”

Damning stuff indeed. In the photo of Romney and his large extended family, perched prominently atop the article right under the headline “What’s Race Got To Do With It?”, not a single non-white is to be seen; Romney, you see, represents an “evangelical fantasy” that Obama’s presidency is merely “a tear in the white space-time continuum.” As the man “who will wrest the country back from the…man with the intolerable outsider color”, Romney offers nothing less than –

“…the white solution to the problem of a black president.”

Absolutely. What other problem could white Americans conceivably have with the disastrous presidency of this unqualified feckless, quasi-communist community organizer, other than that he’s black?

”Let’s kill all the lawyers” – William Shakespeare
“In 2011, finance, insurance, and law were the three primarily white-collar professions that managed to shed workers, even as the rest of the economy trudged forward through a slow recovery.”