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The U.S. House narrowly passed the cap-and-trade bill late Friday, and it didn’t take long for Georgia’s own Congressman Paul Broun, R-Flat Earth, to be singled out as the nuttiest of the naysayers.

Why, you ask? Because of statements like this, made from the well:

“The idea of human-induced global climate change is one of the greatest hoaxes perpetrated out of the scientific community.”

So, Nobel Prize-winning economist and NYT columnist Paul Krugman, what was your take on Broun’s remarks?

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Which bearded man do you worship? Choose wisely — your soul and your investment portfolio are at stake.

All you liberals out there better be careful the next time you type in the URL of your favorite news outlet.

Type in www.nytimes.com and you gain access to the latest ravings by Nobel Prize-winning Bolshevik Paul Krugman.

But accidentally type in www.nytiems.com on your iPhone keypad and you’re transported to www.bibledesk.com, a self-proclaimed “mega-site” containing countless pages of highly eccentric religious information. 

Even the most hardened, godless NYT reader would find it difficult to resist this sales pitch on the website’s homepage:

There are app. 10,285 prophecies in the Bible and every one up to this time has come true without one single exception?

Then the site seemingly walks you through each and every one of those 10K Biblical prophecies. My own favorite chapter is “Antichrist moves into the temple in Jerusalem — he proclaims that he is God— he exalts himself.”

Good stuff. I think we’re all guilty of, um, self-exaltation on occasion.

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Rupert Murdoch’s influence? Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal op-ed page featured this jaw-dropping editorial, which reads as if they’d picked up an Onion piece by mistake.

The treatment President Bush has received from this country is nothing less than a disgrace. The attacks launched against him have been cruel and slanderous, proving to the world what little character and resolve we have. The president is not to blame for all these problems. He never lost faith in America or her people, and has tried his hardest to continue leading our nation during a very difficult time.

Maybe the WSJ edit board decided to rewind after the election by smoking peyote.

(HT to Nobel laureate Paul Krugman.)

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Atlanta’s auto-mania gets another thump on the head today from NYT columnist Paul Krugman, who compares our commuting habits unfavorably to those of Berliners:

Greater Atlanta has roughly the same population as Greater Berlin — but Berlin is a city of trains, buses and bikes, while Atlanta is a city of cars, cars and cars.

The famed economist goes on to observe that Americans will never be able to build a master race until we give up some of our costly dependence on gas-guzzlers – or something like that.

It’s interesting that Krugman picks the German capitol because I had the same epiphany when I first visited there in 1999. We were staying in the former East Berlin, where the neighborhoods are mostly composed of five- and six-story blocks of flats surrounding a central courtyard where cars are parked.

Strolling around my first morning in Berlin, after riding the highly efficient subway system and watching the locals ride by on bicycles or in modern buses, I turned to my then-fiancee and said, “We’re in a real city.”

She’s been practicing her Deutsch ever since.

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