Nobel Prize

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Where’s My Nobel?

President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Price this morning.

I’ve no idea why.

Actually, I do.

He’s not George W. Bush.

No, that really is the reason: I’m not being the least bit flippant or cynical.  The Left in this country did a thorough and enthusiastic job of painting the former President as a monster and a warmonger, and of course, Northern and Western Europe were glad to accept that picture.

So, now we’ve got a more “cosmopolitan” Chief Exectutive, a man who pushed the Camelot image to the hilt in his campaign and promised to “reach out” to the world, and the navel-gazing Norse progressives couldn’t be happier.

After all, he buys fully into their pet environmental policies, soundly echoing previous winner Al Gore.  He wasted no time in going on a world tour to apologize for our supposed failures as a country, going so far as to bow deferentially to Saudi princes. 

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Junk science and propaganda

Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize today. He joins such great historical figures as Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Lech Walesa and Martin Luther King.

I, for one, am incensed.

Gore was awarded the prize largely for his work on An Inconvenient Truth, a visually appealing movie filled with distortions and lies. It is a piece of irresponsible, fear-mongering propaganda masquerading as science.

Is this what science has been reduced to? For that matter, is the Nobel Peace Prize now so cheap and easily given on political merits?