SOMETHING MISSING HERE – AT 8:52 A.M. ET:  President Obama gave out the Medal of Freedom yesterday, the nation's highest civilian honor, to 15 recipients.

Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama paid tribute to "the best of who we are and who we aspire to be" in awarding America's highest civilian honor Tuesday to 15 people, including former President George H.W. Bush, poet Maya Angelou, baseball slugger Stan Musial and cellist Yo-Yo Ma...

...Other recipients of the medal included Georgia congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis; Natural Resources Defense Council co-founder John Adams; German Chancellor Angela Merkel; investor Warren Buffett; artist Jasper Johns; Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein; humanitarian activist Tom Little, who was killed in Afghanistan; civil rights activist Sylvia Mendez; Boston Celtics NBA legend Bill Russell; nonprofit leader and former Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith; and AFL-CIO chief John Sweeney.

Now, I don't wish to quibble.  These are all fine people, but please notice what is missing.  There isn't a single scientist or engineer on that list.  But there are political people and people being paid back for their political support. 

This is a nation that wins a disproportionate number of the Nobel prizes in science – the real Nobel prizes, as opposed to the fraudulent "peace" prize – and yet not one scientist could be found. 

I think it says something about the values of this administration.  Science is important only when it can be used, incorrectly, to support the business of climate change.

February 16, 2011