It seems to be a replay of the venerable Lee Harvey Oswald game plan, Blame the Right and a Climate of Hate. Daniel Pipes noted this in a 2007 column. Since then, Prof Kathryn S. Olmsted of UC-Davis, in her 2009 book Real Enmemies, has pointed out that the follow-on conspiracy theorists were overwhlemingly old lefties anxious to show Oswald as the patsy of some elaborate conpsiracy. Will we have this to look forward to with Loughner? Mark Greenfield

The IPCC's 1997 2500 scientists claim repeated by Secretary Browner has long since revealed as fraudulent. Most were not scientists, and many of those that were, were left out of the IPCC drafting process, with drastic material added after they had signed a far more limited statement.
The University of East Anglia was described a generation ago as conferring degrees in village idiocy, leading to a Monty Python sketch.

Odd that Andrew Roberts, a reviewer of Buchanan's book on foreign policy history for the Wall Street Journal, should be paraded by Tyrrell as a scholar. Roberts, a biographer of Lord Salisbury, criticized the short book as neglecting Civil War diplomacy. If you look at the index, it is indeed a short passage, although Buchanan actually spent 8 pages on the controversies with Britain, extensively negotiated by none other than, er, Lord Salisbury. (I have more recently cricitized Roberts' handling of British titles and political corruption in the WSJ.)
Recall that National Review dug up Prof. Andrew Racevich of Boston U, Col. US Army ret., to maintain that Buchanan's book was a "knock-off" of one two years earlier by Prof Walter...

Despite potshotting at Buchanan's statements with their minor inaccuracies, his critics nimbly evade the points that he does occasionally make. If Buchanan missed the many killings of Jews from the June 1941 invasion of Russia (largely by the SS Einsatzgruppen under the so-called commisar order), rather than his kick-off date of Jan. 1942, that does not invalidate his point that they did not occur in "1940".
Tyrrell from time to time has flourished his old freind Luigi Barzini, Jr., who became privy to some of the early Churchill-FDR correspondence through his Italian links. What was Barzini's response as a journalist to the sudden appearance of accurate NEWS? Find the leak and help plug it! Made up of journalists and historians...

The future Professor Sowell was in a Marxist funk in the 1930s, so perhaps it escaped his notice that the primary mechanism by which private public transit systems were shut down was not through "Politicians" and their "imposing costs" and preventing "fare incrases needed", but rather by the buying up of their Depression-depressed shares by a consortium of GM, Firestone, and various Standard Oil units, the better to sell cars, ties and gasoline.
Waldo Unherd, NYC