The Times

Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson hits back at the climate change fanatics in the Times

The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

“The reason we use carbon-based energy is simply that it is far and away the cheapest source of energy, and is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. Switching to much more expensive energy may be acceptable for us in the developed world. But in the developing world, there are still tens of millions [...]

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A headline squawking “Lesbian parents better at raising children” flew around the English-speaking world last week, having been released by the Times of London.

eChurchWebsites Blog (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

Jennifer Roback Morse – MercatorNet Spin cycle: the lesbian parenting story that wasn’t – How an event about building character in children became headline advocacy for gays. A headline squawking “Lesbian parents better at raising children” flew around the English-speaking world last week, having been released by the Times of London. No doubt this thrilled the gay [...]...

Eugenic Arguments in the Times

Left Brain/Right Brain (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago

Today’s Times carries an article that suggests that people with learning difficulties should not be allowed to have children because it would cost to much to support them. The children would suffer and some of these parents are also autistic “which will make loving and consistent parenthood extremely difficult.” The article is confused and wrong in [...]

Sports of The Times: Jets’ Sanchez Needs Time to Learn to Be an N.F.L. Quarterback

New York Times (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago

Mark Sanchez began his career with the Jets riding high, but as the season has progressed, the highly-touted first-round draft pick has struggled mightily and the Jets must decide what to do.

What ever happended to the good times the tax-cutters promised us?

Blog For Arizona (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I am going to repost this essay by Sam Pizzigatti posted at Campaign for America's Future in its entirety. Sam makes essentially the same economic arguments I have made in several posts over the last couple of...

Not All Mobile Shopping Times Are the Same, Says Gomez

Wireless and Mobile News (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Mobile web shoppers may be stalled and take as much as four seconds longer on some retailers' mobile web sites than others. The latest Gomez study compares and ranks the mobile web performance of the nation's top retailers. Between November...

Books of The Times: The Voice That Helped Remake Culture

New York Times (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Terry Teachout’s eloquent and important new biography restores Louis Armstrong to his deserved place in the pantheon of American artists.

Gadgets that let you move with the times

Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

For those on the go, here are our portable picks - you won't want to leave home without them. Simon Tsang reports.

Meteor turns night into day with bright explosion over South Africa — Signs of the Times News

Yahyasheikho786's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

“What people saw last night was almost certainly a meteor,” Claire Flanagan an astronomer at the Johannesburg Planetarium said. People saw a bright “greenish, bluish” light heading towards Pretoria at about 11pm on Saturday night. “It moved over the Gauteng Province towards Limpopo… it travels very fast and was about 90 kilometres up,” said Flanagan. The...

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Clamour Of The Times [The base image...

Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | yesterday

Clamour Of The Times [The base image of a half-eaten computer is Copyright © 2007 Petr Sládek. It is reproduced here under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 and the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License]As the world and her mouse now know, a server used by the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has been hacked into, and many files, including...

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Marks Spencer discount voucher from The Times

Save more money with us (Free subscription) | yesterday

From Saturday 21-Nov till Friday 27-Nov, the Times newspaper will have voucher for everyone to get discount at M&S foods. Save £3 when you spend £10 or more on meat and poultry Save £3 on any wine over £6, save £5 on any champagne. Save £3 when you spend £10 or more on flowers Half price chilled desserts Save [...]

Books of The Times: Vile Heroes and High-Seas Swagger

New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

“Pirate Latitudes” has unremarkable ambitions, standard genre flourishes and the stiff, uncomfortable tone of early work.

In the times of flood

Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday

Online edition of India's National NewspaperMonday, Nov 23, 2009Tamil NaduIn the times of flood — Photo: M.Sathyamoorthy Helping hand: Khadi Board Minister K. Ramachandran distributing food packets on behalf of the TMMK and Qurbani Trust to flood affected persons in Udhagamandalam on Sunday. Stories in this SectionArchivesFeatures: Stories in this SectionArchivesFeatures: The Hindu Group: Group...

Sign Of The Times of the Day: This Seattle-based panhandler is...

The Daily What (Free subscription) | yesterday

Sign Of The Times of the Day: This Seattle-based panhandler is apparently some sort of local celebrity. I’m not sure he’s the first person to come up with the “family killed by ninjas” meme, but he does seem to dominate this Flickr pool dedicated to most kickass homeless sign outside of “ spaceship broken, need parts .” [ h/t .]

SIGN OF THE TIMES: Federal Clerkship Applications Hit Record High….

Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

SIGN OF THE TIMES: Federal Clerkship Applications Hit Record High.