From John Hinderaker at Powerline, estimating that 27% of Democrats are totalitarians:

Rasmussen Reports asked likely U.S. voters whether the government should criminally prosecute those who don’t go along with the global warming scare. This was the precise question:

Should the government investigate and prosecute scientists and others including major corporations who question global warming?

In response, 27% of Democrats called for prosecuting global warming realists. (Remarkably, 11% of Republicans did, too.) Happily, 63% say the debate on global warming is not yet over, while 68% oppose criminal prosecutions. So that 5% difference must represent people who are in favor of freedom of speech.

No wonder that, as Rasmussen also notes, only 20% of Americans say that we enjoy “true freedom of speech,” while 73% “think instead that Americans have to be careful not to say something politically incorrect to avoid getting in trouble.” These are sad times for those who value liberty.

This story is paired at Drudge with this: Antarctic Ice is Growing, Even Hit a ‘Record,’ But Evening News Shows Hype Melting Arctic Instead.

Media outlets predicted an “ice-free” Arctic time and again, and so far have been wrong. But with all the panic about melting glaciers, or sea ice, or ice at the poles the media have reported, one would imagine good news about increasing ice would at least get some attention.

Not from the broadcast networks anyway. In the past year, they’ve ignored data showing increasing ice in Antarctica, presumably because it did not fit perfectly with their climate agenda, instead choosing to hype melting Arctic ice repeatedly.

The media is the message, or the absence of the message. Americans with their round-the-clock news coverage may be among the most poorly informed people on the planet.