Friday, July 18, 2008
Tears for a Terrorist
FrontPageMagazine.com By Stephen Brown and Jacob Laksin
7/18/2008
Pity Omar Khadr. That is the theme of a disinformation campaign being waged by lawyers for the Toronto-born al-Qaeda terrorist, imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay since 2002, when he killed an American soldier with a hand grenade. Designed to win Khadr’s release and to publically discredit the U.S.-run detention facility in Cuba, this campaign received a propaganda boost this week when Khadr’s lawyers released a misleadingly edited eight-minute video, itself part of a seven-hour interview conducted with Khadr in 2003 by Canadian intelligence interrogators, depicting him as a sympathetic victim. The video is indeed pathetic. In it, the junior jihadist, just 15 at the time of his capture, can be seen sobbing and pulling off his shirt when he discovers that the Canadian interrogators did not come to free him. Yet, the video also is incomplete. For instance, one Canadian newspaper has reported that in the same interrogation Khadr can be clearly heard voicing support for jihad—though that compromising detail didn’t quite make into Khadr’s lachrymose video performance. More ...
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Hate speech complaint against Maclean's thrown out
Edmonton Journal (Canada) By Joseph Brean,
Canwest News Service
Saturday, June 28
The Canadian Human Rights Commission dismissed a hate speech complaint against Maclean's magazine on Friday in a decision the complainants blamed on "inappropriate political pressure." Brought by Mohamed Elmasry, national president of the Canadian Islamic Congress, the complaint was the centrepiece of a three-pronged, cross-jurisdictional offence against Islamophobia in the national newsweekly, with columnists Mark Steyn and Barbara Amiel the main alleged offenders. More ...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Canadian Health Care We So Envy Lies In Ruins,
Its Architect Admits
Investor's Business Daily By DAVID GRATZER
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
As this presidential campaign continues, the candidates' comments about health care will continue to include stories of their own experiences and anecdotes of people across the country: the uninsured woman in Ohio, the diabetic in Detroit, the overworked doctor in Orlando, to name a few.
But no one will mention Claude Castonguay — perhaps not surprising because this statesman isn't an American and hasn't held office in over three decades. Castonguay's evolving view of Canadian health care, however, should weigh heavily on how the candidates think about the issue in this country. More ...
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Canada's thought police
A trial is raising questions about the balance between free speech and tolerance.
Los Angeles Times By Jonah Goldberg
June 17, 2008
Mark Steyn, my friend, colleague and arguably the most talented political writer working today, is on trial for thought crimes.
Steyn -- a one-man media empire based in New Hampshire -- was published a few years ago in Maclean's. Now the magazine and its editors are in the dock before the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal on the charge that they violated a provincial hate-speech law by running the work of a hate-monger, namely Mark Steyn. A similar prosecution is pending before the national version of this kangaroo court, the Canadian Human Rights Commission. More ...
The End Of Free Speech
Canadian Case An Omen For America
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Sunday, June 15, 2008
The persecution of Mark Steyn, or why I am glad I’m not Canadian
Daily Inter Lake By Frank Miele
Saturday, Jun 14, 2008
I’ve been called a coward, a moron, a bad journalist, and worst of all a bad writer for having the audacity to express my opinions in this column, but at least I have never been arrested or put on trial for telling the truth.That distinct honor has been reserved for Mark Steyn, the Canadian author who lives in self-imposed exile in New Hampshire.Many of you have probably never heard of Steyn, which is a pity because he is one of the funniest, most insightful and well-rounded social critics since H.L. Mencken. More ...
Obama’s wee small promises
Daily Inter Lake By Frank Miele
Saturday, Jun 07, 2008
I see that Sen. Obama in his coronation speech the other night promised to turn back the waters of the ocean — or did he say he had already done it?
In either case, I am happy to report that we are now living in a new era of peace and prosperity, which only the very cynical among us could doubt. Here are the words of Barack Obama himself, which confirm for all who have ears to hear, that the chains of humanity and nature have at last been thrown aside and mankind can finally claim to be masters of the universe. More ...
Monday, June 9, 2008
O, Stalinoid Canada
American Thinker By James Lewis
June 09, 2008
If you want to look ahead to the United States under Barack Obama and a an expanded Congressional majority for the Democrats, consider Canada. Canada's greatest gift to the contemporary world of letters --- Mark Steyn --- is being persecuted for free speech in his home country. Columnist Steyn is being hauled before something called the "Canada Human Rights Tribunal," a parallel legal system to the normal Canadian courts, without all the bother of due process ... More ...
Free Mark Steyn
National Review By the Editors
June 9, 2008 8:30 AM
Most of the media in Canada and the United States ignored the British Columbia “Human Rights” Tribunal that took place last week in a windowless basement in Vancouver. Now, a group of provincial human-rights commissars will decide whether or not National Review’s incomparable Mark Steyn and the largest-circulating magazine in Canada, Maclean’s, will be fined or otherwise censured for printing an excerpt from Steyn’s book, America Alone. The piece argued that demographic trends indicate that Western Civilization will sooner or later be forced to confront problems associated with radical Islam. We believe that the right to free speech must be defended almost without exception, but it’s worth noting that Steyn’s article was perfectly within the bounds of reasonable opinion journalism. More ...
Let's move on, says Quebec accommodation commission
'What we are facing ... is the need to adapt'
CBC News (Cananda)
Last Updated: Thursday, May 22, 2008
The time has come for Quebec to get over its collective identity crisis and adapt to the realities of a secular, pluralistic society, says a provincial commission's report on the thorny issue of reasonable accommodation. "The foundations of collective life in Quebec are not in a critical situation," said the Bouchard-Taylor commission, in its final report on the state of so-called reasonable accommodation of religious and cultural beliefs. What we are facing, instead, is the need to adapt," and the government must play a leading role in establishing better guidelines for "interculturalism," ... More ...
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Melanomas gone in just seven days
The Sydney Morning Herald By Louise Hall Health Reporter
May 25, 2008
AUSTRALIAN researchers have discovered a range of new treatments for melanoma which could save up to 1500 lives a year. The Sydney Melanoma Unit at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital is conducting a clinical trial in which individual tumours are injected with a red dye called rose bengal. Unit director John Thompson said within seven days the tumours become necrotic and die, and within 14 days they simply lift off the skin. Professor Thompson said an earlier trial of 20 patients showed between 60 and 80percent of tumours were successfully treated with one injection. The trial also found that rose bengal didn't affect healthy tissue and seemed to induce a beneficial immune system response that killed off other tumours that hadn't been injected. "It has been interesting to observe that not only injected tumour deposits undergo involution [reduction] and necrosis but non-injected 'bystander' lesions sometimes undergo involution as well ... More...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Mark Steyn vs. the ‘Sock Puppets’
Pajamas Media - by Kathy Shaidle
May 21, 2008
Warming up for his appearance before a human rights tribunal next month, Mark Steyn recently confronted his phony "accusers" on live TV. He got the better of them, but they will have the upper hand in court.
Mark Steyn is in the business of making predictions. The possible consequences of some of those predictions recently led him to make another one: “My career in Canada will be formally ended next month.” How has it come to this? On June 2, Steyn and Maclean’s magazine — the nation’s oldest newsweekly — are obliged to defend themselves against charges of “flagrant Islamophobia” at a British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal. More ...
Monday, May 19, 2008
The Omniphobia Epidemic
American Thinker By James Lewis
May 19, 2008
Let us now take counsel of our fears.
We're afraid of ozone and CO2. We're afraid of smog and cigarette smoke. We're afraid of Republicans because they are warmongers, and of Democrats because they are in utter denial of the real world. We're afraid the earth is warming -- or freezing. Our bee populations are now collapsing. A new kind of voracious ant is invading. Only 20,000 polar bears are left in Alaska, way down, from, oh, about 20,000 previously. Flesh-eating bacteria are attacking people in Africa, again. According to the Daily Telegraph of London, we should be afraid of fat people because they pollute more than skinny ones -- don't ask why -- but we're also worried about millions of skinny people who are finally getting their chance to eat better. We're afraid of drilling for too much oil. But we're also afraid of pumping too little oil. We could switch to nuclear-powered electric energy, like the French have done, but that word "nuclear" just turns people off. Nuclear plants might just go up in a mushroom cloud some day, or so the naïve believe. We could exploit our huge coal reserves, but coal looks dirty.
See the pattern? It sounds like omniphobia to me, the fear of everything. More ...
The Anti-Human Agenda
Anti-humanity and anti-society environmentalists
Canada Free Press By Dr. Tim Ball
May 19, 2008
A tongue-in-cheek comment from my university said if we could just get rid of the students it would be a great place to work. Some environmentalists think if we could just get rid of all the people on the planet it would be a great place to live. Generally over-population is a major part of the environmentalists’ argument that humans are causing all the problems, including climate change. Satire is a good measure of this position typified by the bumper sticker that says, “Save the Planet, Kill Yourself.” More ...
Your Energy Future Under the Democrats
American Thinker By Larrey Anderson
May 19, 2008
The "energy plan" announced by the Democrats offers one thing: a significant slowdown of our economy for at least twenty years. Those who run both legislative branches of the congress, and the energy plans of both of their leading candidates for president clothe themselves in the mantle of righteousness. That the Republicans are allowing this to happen, right before our eyes, tells us much about the sad state of American politics. From their official website, here is the summary paragraph (including the bad grammar) of the Democrat plan to solve the energy crisis: More ...
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Understanding Hizbullah's power play
Jewish World Review By Caroline B. Glick
May 16, 2008
It only took Hizbullah a week to bring the government of Lebanon to its knees. The Saniora government's decision Wednesday to cancel its decisions to ban Hizbullah's independent communications system and sack Hizbullah's agent from his position as chief of security at Beirut airport constituted its effective acceptance of Hizbullah's preeminent role in Lebanon. What is interesting about Hizbullah's successful overthrow of the elected government in Lebanon is that after his forces defeated their foes, Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah ordered his men to retreat to their customary shadows. Why didn't Hizbullah just overthrow the government? Understanding why Hizbullah refused to take over Lebanon is key not only for understanding Hizbullah but also for understanding Hamas, Fatah and the insurgency in Iraq. More ...
Global warming with Dr. Kyoto
You have questions about carbon taxes and offsets, the good doctor has answers
Toronto Sun By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN
Sun, May 18, 2008
Good day, ladies and gentlemen. I, Dr. Kyoto, am here to answer any questions you have about man-made global warming. Yes, you sir, in the back.
Dr. Kyoto, what is a carbon tax?
A carbon tax is a mechanism by which wise politicians who always know what they're doing when it comes to social engineering, help you to do your part to fight global warming by using the tax system to encourage you to give up superficial luxuries that generate unnecessary carbon emissions, such as gas for your car, heat for your home and food for your table. Next question.
Dr. Kyoto, I'm a self-employed entrepreneur who makes multiple visits to my customers every day around the city and thus I have no choice but to drive a car. I can barely afford gasoline as it is, never mind a carbon tax. What should I do? More ...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Who Is Really Responsible For The High Prices You Pay For Gasoline?
Editorial By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
May 12, 2008
For the last 28 years, Democrats in Congress and a few Republicans have again and again opposed our drilling for oil in Alaska's ANWR area when we knew it contained at least 10 billion barrels of oil we could be using now.
• For the past 31 years, Congress repeatedly prevented us from building any new oil refineries that we now badly need.
• More recently, congressional Democrats defeated and discouraged any bill that would let us drill in the deep sea 100 miles out. However, it's somehow OK for China to drill there.
• As a further indictment of our Congress, since the 1980s it has continually stopped all building of nuclear power plants while France, Germany and, yes, Japan, plus 12 other major nations, did build plants and now get 20% to 80% of their energy from their wise and safe nuclear plant investments.
• From 1990 to 2000, U.S. crude oil demand rapidly accelerated by 7.41 quadrillion BTUs, according to Department of Energy data. And our rate of foreign oil dependency dramatically increased while our domestic oil production steadily declined.
Under the eight Clinton years alone, U.S. oil production declined 1,349,000 barrels per day, or 19%, while our foreign imports increased 3,574,000 barrels per day, or 45%. During this time, President Clinton vetoed ANWR drilling bills ... More ...
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Once-secret memos question Clinton's honesty
The Washington Times By Jerry Seper
May 8, 2008
A decade before Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton admitted fudging the truth during the presidential campaign, federal prosecutors quietly assembled hundreds of pages of evidence suggesting she concealed information and misled a federal grand jury about her work for a failing Arkansas savings and loan at the heart of the Whitewater probe, according to once-secret documents that detail the internal debates over whether she should have faced criminal charges. More ...
Canada's kangaroo courts leaping into free speech fights
National Post By George Jonas
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
TORONTO -- You can't dismiss a tribunal by calling it a kangaroo court. Not all kangaroos are equal. Some have a lot of common sense. A kangaroo in Bathurst Island, Australia, for instance, jumped on the racetrack in the middle of the straightaway just as the stock cars were rounding the corner. Maybe jumping on the track wasn't a smart move, but as the racers came thundering down the backstretch, the kangaroo was smart enough to look over its shoulder and leap out of the way. It now has a starring role on the Internet. What about the marsupials that sit on Canada's kangaroo courts, a.k.a. Human Rights Commissions? Will they be as smart as their Australian mate? More ...
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
The Biofuels Backlash
The Wall Street Journal Editorial
May 7, 2008
St. Jude is the patron saint of lost causes, and for 30 years we invoked his name as we opposed ethanol subsidies. So imagine our great, pleasant surprise to see that the world is suddenly awakening to the folly of subsidized biofuels. All it took was a mere global "food crisis." Last week chief economist Joseph Glauber of the USDA, which has been among Big Ethanol's best friends in Washington, blamed biofuels for increasing prices on corn and soybeans. Mr. Glauber also predicted that corn prices will continue their historic rise because of demand from "expanding use for ethanol." Even the environmental left, which pushed ethanol for decades as an alternative to gasoline, is coming clean. Lester Brown, one of the original eco-Apostles, wrote in the Washington Post that "it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that food-to-fuel mandates have failed." More ...
Gore's Myanmar Words as Inopportune as they were Repulsive
American Thinker By Marc Sheppard
May 07, 2008
Thirty days after Steve McIntyre caught NASA cooking climate history again - this time in a feeble attempt to somehow conceal the alarmist-embarrassing downward trend since 1998 -- Al Gore shamelessly portrayed Saturday's Myanmar cyclone catastrophe as a ‘consequence' of global warming. A mere 16 days after NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed that the Pacific Decadal Oscillation's cool phase shift would likely bring colder temperatures for as many as the next 20-30 years, Gore told NPR that the "trend toward stronger and more destructive storms appears to be linked to global warming and specifically to the impact of global warming on higher ocean temperatures." This just 6 days after a German study also predicted cooler ocean temperatures due to the Meridional Overturning Circulation entering a weak cycle, and in spite of there being absolutely no empirical evidence of a global warming / storm strength link. Gore's monotonous and baseless account of AGW forced violent cyclones and hurricanes came just two days after McIntyre reported that 4 of the past 5 months were "'all-time' records for Southern Hemisphere sea ice" levels. More ... .
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Amerabia
The Washington Times By Frank J. Gaffney Jr.
May 6, 2008
Even Americans knowledgeable about Europe's growing accommodation to the totalitarian ideology known alternatively as Islamism, jihadism or Islamofascism tend smugly to believe the same thing can't happen here. Think again. Every day, new evidence appears of similar acts of submission — the Islamists call it "dhimmitude" — on the part of the U.S. government, judges, the press and leading corporations. Eurabia, meet the United States of Amerabia. On May 4, an ominous alarm was sounded in a Pajamas Media column by Youssef Ibrahim, a former New York Times reporter. Mr. Ibrahim is an astute critic of the Islamists' steady, tireless and increasingly effective efforts to impose — on Muslims and non-Muslims alike — the repressive theo-political-legal agenda they call Shariah law. He warned that "In the very real war on terror, a noisy squabble over 'fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here' clouds a simple truth: namely, that 'they' are here already. Indeed, Islamists are busy constructing a wing of jihad in America's backyard." More ...
Friday, May 2, 2008
Outlawing the Pig
FrontPageMagazine.com By Janet Levy
Friday, May 02, 2008
The practice of political correctness may soon be tallying another casualty: the pig. Increasingly, as America and the rest of the Western world continue accommodating Muslim religious demands, pork food products are being singled out for removal from dining tables and pig-related trinkets banished from the desks of office workers. If this continues, good ol’ American food, such as barbeque replete with hot dogs and ribs and the typical American breakfast of eggs, bacon and sausage, might be seen as the equivalent of political poison. Could outright censorship of pig depictions in drawings, pig references in literary works and pig portrayals in movies be far behind? Could the well-known, cartoon figure Porky Pig become a cultural embarrassment of our unenlightened past as we fear to utter the “P” word? Though the notion may seem more appropriate for a comedy routine, an increasing number of pig-related incidents, accommodations and Muslim demands in recent years points to an uncertain future for our porcine friend ... More ...
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Doubts grow over ethanol
The Hill By Jim Snyder and Manu Raju
04/30/08
Sharply rising food prices may force Congress to reconsider the fivefold increase in ethanol production it mandated just four months ago, some lawmakers say. Few members appear willing to call for the outright repeal of the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS), which requires that 36 billion gallons of ethanol be produced by 2022. Of that, 15 billon gallons would come from corn. But the new concerns represent a significant turn for a policy issue that was embraced by both congressional Democrats and President Bush as a way to boost rural economies and domestic energy security. “We certainly did not anticipate what’s happened ... More ...
Earth Day Is A Holiday For Liars
Accuracy In Media
Guest Column | By Alan Caruba | April 22, 2008
I have followed the apocalyptic claims and the legislated mandates of the environmental movement since the 1970s and the single unifying factor has been the lies told to achieve various elements of the Green agenda. Since 1970, April 22 has been celebrated as Earth Day. It is generally regarded as the date of the birth of the modern environmental movement. There are several common attributes of environmentalism. High on the list is its barely hidden contempt for the human race, the view that the world's population has to be drastically reduced and that our consumption of everything from energy resources to agricultural and livestock production threatens the planet. The food riots occurring around the world are the direct result of environmental mandates for biofuels, based on claims of global warming, but the Earth is cooling, not warming. More ...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
An Old Newness
Townhall.com By Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Many years ago, a great hitter named Paul Waner was nearing the end of his long career. He entered a ballgame with 2,999 hits -- one hit away from the landmark total of 3,000 . .. What reminded me of this is the great fervor that many seem to feel over the prospect of the first black President of the United States. No doubt it is only a matter of time before there is a black president, just as it was only a matter of time before Paul Waner got his 3,000th hit. The issue is whether we want to reach that landmark so badly that we are willing to overlook how questionably that landmark is reached. More ...
Undoing America's Ethanol Mistake
Townhall.com By Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
Monday, April 28, 2008
The Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman once said, "One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results." When Congress passed legislation to greatly expand America's commitment to biofuels, it intended to create energy independence and protect the environment. But the results have been quite different. America remains equally dependent on foreign sources of energy, and new evidence suggests that ethanol is causing great harm to the environment. More ...
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Chickenfeedhawks
Global warm-mongering.
National Review Online By Mark Steyn
April 26, 2008
Last week, Time magazine featured on its cover the iconic photograph of the U.S. Marine Corps raising the flag on Iwo Jima. But with one difference: The flag has been replaced by a tree. The managing editor of Time, Rick Stengel, was very pleased with the lads in graphics for cooking up this cute image and was all over the TV sofas talking up this ingenious visual shorthand for what he regards as the greatest challenge facing mankind: “How To Win The War On Global Warming.” Where to begin? For the last ten years, we have, in fact, been not warming but slightly cooling, which is why the eco-warriors have adopted the all-purpose bogeyman of “climate change.” But let’s take it that the editors of Time are referring not to the century we live in but the previous one, when there was a measurable rise of temperature of approximately one degree. That’s the “war”: one degree. More ...
Settling Scores
If Hillary Clinton finds a way to win, she'll have a long list of grudges and grievances.
Newsweek by Eleanor Clift
Apr 25, 2008
I'm beginning to think Hillary Clinton might pull this off and wrestle the nomination away from Barack Obama. If she does, a lot of folks—including a huge chunk of the media—will join Bill Richardson (a.k.a. Judas) in the Deep Freeze. If the Clintons get back into the White House, it will be retribution time, like the Corleone family consolidating power in "The Godfather," where the watchword is, "It's business, not personal." Not that anyone will be sleeping with the fishes with Hillary in the White House, but with the Clintons it's business and it's personal. More ...
Friday, April 25, 2008
Food Crisis Eclipsing Climate Change
Gore Ducks, as a Backlash Builds Against Biofuels
The New York Sun By JOSH GERSTEIN
April 25, 2008
The campaign against climate change could be set back by the global food crisis, as foreign populations turn against measures to use foodstuffs as substitutes for fossil fuels.With prices for rice, wheat, and corn soaring, food-related unrest has broken out in places such as Haiti, Indonesia, and Afghanistan. Several countries have blocked the export of grain. There is even talk that governments could fall if they cannot bring food costs down. One factor being blamed for the price hikes is the use of government subsidies to promote the use of corn for ethanol production. An estimated 30% of America’s corn crop now goes to fuel, not food. More ...
Comment: When will our esteemed MSM put the question to our equally esteemed presidential contenders?
Greenpeace founder now backs nuclear power
Patrick Moore tells the Boise chamber that the world must wean itself from fossil fuels to reduce greenhouse gases.
Idaho Statesman BY ROCKY BARKER
April 24, 2008
Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore says there is no proof global warming is caused by humans, but it is likely enough that the world should turn to nuclear power - a concept tied closely to the underground nuclear testing his former environmental group formed to oppose. The chemistry of the atmosphere is changing ... More ...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Happy Earth Day
Human Events By Steven F. Hayward
April 22, 2008
More than 30 years ago political scientist Anthony Downs discerned what he called the “issue-attention cycle,” a five-stage process by which the public and especially the news media grow alarmed over an issue, agitate for action, generate piles of scary headlines, and then begin to draw back as we come to recognize that the problem has been exaggerated or misconceived, and the price tag for action comes in. While Downs thought that the issue-attention cycle for the environment would last longer than most issues, it appears the mother-of-all-environmental scares -- global warming -- is following his model and is going to begin to fade like other environmental alarms of the past such as the population bomb and the “we’re running out of everything” scares. More ...
Why I Left Greenpeace
The Wall Street Journal By PATRICK MOORE
April 22, 2008
In 1971 an environmental and antiwar ethic was taking root in Canada, and I chose to participate. As I completed a Ph.D. in ecology, I combined my science background with the strong media skills of my colleagues. In keeping with our pacifist views, we started Greenpeace. But I later learned that the environmental movement is not always guided by science. As we celebrate Earth Day today, this is a good lesson to keep in mind. More ...
Monday, April 21, 2008
President Obama and a Nuclear Iran
American Thinker By James Lewis
April 21, 2008
Assume for a moment: It's January, 2009, and Barack Obama has just been inaugurated as President of the United States. Ahmadi-Nejad explodes his first Bomb; he now has that itchy finger on the button as long as the mullahs stay in power. The Middle East goes wild --- with abject fear among the Saudis, and loud celebrations among terror supporters. The day of revenge against the Jews and the Crusaders has finally arrived. What would President Obama do? More ...
Bio-Foolishness
WALL STREET JOURNAL
April 21, 2008
Poverty, famine and violence are among the supposed products of global warming in the future. Yet these calamities are with us today thanks to a key element of "green" policy, biofuels. This feel-good measure is becoming a real-world disaster. The prices of wheat and rice this year will have doubled since 2004, according to World Bank projections. Soybeans, sugar, soybean oil and corn are expected to be 56% to 79% costlier than in 2004. The bulk of the increases have come in the past year and can be attributed to the West's push to turn these crops into fossil-fuel replacements like ethanol. Food prices will likely remain overinflated until at least 2015, the Bank says. The result of these rising prices is that 100 million people could slip back into poverty ... More ...
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Food or biofuel? Dumb question
Daily Inter Lake - Editorial
Saturday, Apr 19, 2008
The world is learning that there are consequences to an American determination to develop “alternative” energy. But Americans feel good about ethanol, right? So good that ethanol production has been subsidized to the point where corn for energy has become more profitable than corn for food. Of course, that means less corn being sold for human consumption. And fields that have long produced other crops, such as wheat, are being converted to producing corn for biofuel use, further restricting food supplies.The predictable result has been soaring worldwide food prices. More ...
Friday, April 18, 2008
THE GREEN ZONE
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Climate Change: The president's plan to reduce carbon emissions legitimizes the environmentalist agenda of destroying the earth in order to save it. At least one scientist says we need more CO2 emissions, not less. More ...
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Earth Hour all sour
Turn off the lights? Ha! Take that, enviro-whacko tree-huggers
Calgary Sun (Cananda) By IAN ROBINSON
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Let me tell you how I celebrated Earth Hour last week. Earth Hour was a propaganda stunt orchestrated by what my 10-year-old son refers to as "tree-hugging, Communist hippies." If my boy -- albeit a rare one who reads the newspaper every morning -- can figure things like this out for himself, why can't everybody else? I know most readers will think I'm the terrible influence that has him talking this way. But I don't talk politics with the boy unless he demands it. I talk about things that matter. More ...
Uncommon cold is an antidote to warming fears
dailyinterlake.com By Frank Miele
Sunday, Apr 06, 2008
You have to hand it to the global warming crowd. A little cold and snow doesn’t scare them one bit.
Here in Northwest Montana we recently received good news when it was announced that our local ski resorts are having record years for snowfall. The Whitefish Mountain Resort, for instance, had gotten 424 inches of snow at the summit as of April 4, a hefty improvement over the previous record of 406 inches, which was set in the 1996-97 season. More ...
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Global temperatures 'to decrease'
By Roger Harrabin
BBC News environment analyst
Friday, 4 April 2008
Global temperatures will drop slightly this year as a result of the cooling effect of the La Nina current in the Pacific, UN meteorologists have said. The World Meteorological Organization's secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, told the BBC it was likely that La Nina would continue into the summer. This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory. More ...
Comment: Not to worry ... for now. In five years we'll all be back on the climate change toboggan (if you can still find one by then).
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
The Tall Tale of Tuzla
Hillary Clinton's Bosnian misadventure should disqualify her from the presidency, but the airport landing is the least of it.
Slate By Christopher Hitchens
Monday, March 31, 2008
The punishment visited on Sen. Hillary Clinton for her flagrant, hysterical, repetitive, pathological lying about her visit to Bosnia should be much heavier than it has yet been and should be exacted for much more than just the lying itself. There are two kinds of deliberate and premeditated deceit, commonly known as suggestio falsi and suppressio veri. (Neither of them is covered by the additionally lying claim of having "misspoken.") The first involves what seems to be most obvious in the present case: the putting forward of a bogus or misleading account of events. But the second, and often the more serious, means that the liar in question has also attempted to bury or to obscure something that actually is true. Let us examine how Sen. Clinton has managed to commit both of these offenses to veracity and decency and how in doing so she has rivaled, if not indeed surpassed, the disbarred and perjured hack who is her husband and tutor. More ...
Monday, March 31, 2008
Watergate-Era Judiciary Chief of Staff:
Hillary Clinton Fired For Lies, Unethical Behavior
North Star Writers Group By Dan Calabrese
March 31, 2008
As Hillary Clinton came under increasing scrutiny for her story about facing sniper fire in Bosnia, one question that arose was whether she has engaged in a pattern of lying. The now-retired general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, who supervised Hillary when she worked on the Watergate investigation, says Hillary’s history of lies and unethical behavior goes back farther – and goes much deeper – than anyone realizes. Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. More ...
Monday, March 24, 2008
Canada’s Health Care System Cannot Survive Mass Immigration
Universal, free, two year waiting list
Canada Free Press By Tim Murray
March 23, 2008
A cynic might characterize Canada’s medicare system as the universal, free, democratic and egalitarian access to a two-year waiting list. You jump the queue only if you have the bucks and the referral to jump over the 49th, unless a life-threatening emergency sends you to the OR. America’s health care system, on the other hand is discriminatory and expensive, but it offers immediate access to the best medical treatment in the world. More ...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Medicare cuts make bone scans to avert osteoporosis fractures costlier
South Florida Sun-Sentinel, By Diane C. Lade
March 17, 2008
Health specialists for years have been trying to get osteoporosis bone density scans on the same public wavelength as mammograms, prostate exams and other routine screenings for older adults. But now some advocates fear this work may be undone by severe cutbacks in Medicare payments for these tests now donemostlyin doctors' offices and clinics. Doctors in South Florida and elsewhere say the Medicare cuts may push them to stop offering those scans, which could limit access for many seniors and others at risk of osteoporosis. More...
Comment: Imagine the cutbacks (or rationing) if we are forced into a Universal Health Care System, which will be nothing more than a Universal Medicare System.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Obama's Pastor Disaster
Orange County Register; By MARK STEYN
Saturday, March 15, 2008
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright thinks that, given their treatment by white America, black Americans have no reason to sing "God Bless America." "The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America," he told his congregation. "God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human." I'm not a believer in guilt by association, or the campaign vaudeville of rival politicians ... More ...
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Green Movement Also Behind Gas Hike
Cincinnati Enquirer, by Peter Bronson
Thursday, March 13, 2008
USA Today recently reported that 40 percent of economists say the biggest threat of a recession is from rising oil prices. I don't believe it. There is no way 40 percent of economists could agree on anything. But I do believe 40 percent of $3.50 gas is caused by eco-stupidity. More ...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Presidential Candidates Clueless on Energy
HumanEvents.com by Michael J. Economides
Tuesday, March 11 2008
It is certain that the United States is in for an energy price and supply shock the likes of which we have never experienced or imagined. While high prices, to a reasonable extent can be tolerated, hell will break loose if massive supply disruptions emerge. We are much closer to them than people think. Those who think that we can conserve ourselves to energy independence need not read any further. They are vastly wrong and it is pointless to argue with them. More ...
Comment: The most under reported statement made during the current silly season:
I once had a secret hope that in a Hillary Clinton administration some pragmatism would be provided by her husband until he kicked sanity away by actually saying recently, “We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions.” Really and really? Is this the guy of “it’s the economy stupid?”
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Al Gore: Leading Us to Peace? Really?
Town Hall By Austin Hill
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Thank God somebody was willing to ask. “Ask what?” you might be wondering. I’m getting to the question of what it is, exactly, that Al Gore did to enhance “peace” such that he has now won a Nobel Peace Prize. While the White House officially expressed “happiness” last week over Gore’s award, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi used the occasion to reassure us that Mr. Gore has sounded a “clarion call” that has “awakened the world” to the “very real threat” of global warming, the question of what has Gore done for “peace” remains. More ...
General Accuses MSM Of Killing Soldiers, Enemy Propaganda - MSM Censors Him
patdollard.com By Pat Dollard
October 13th, 2007
The Washington Post, the AP and others were brutally attacked yesterday by retired General Ricardo Sanchez. He accused them and their political masters of de facto treason, functioning not as journalists, but as lying propagandists bent on advancing Democrat Party power.
Sample:
“WHAT IS CLEAR TO ME IS THAT YOU ( the MSM ) ARE PERPETUATING THE CORROSIVE PARTISAN POLITICS THAT IS DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY AND KILLING OUR SERVICEMEMBERS WHO ARE AT WAR.” And: “AS I ASSESS VARIOUS MEDIA ENTITIES, SOME ARE UNQUESTIONABLY ENGAGED IN POLITICAL PROPAGANDA THAT IS UNCONTROLLED.” Read the rest of it here.
What part of secrecy don’t they understand?
Daily Inter Lake (Montana) by FRANK MIELE
Saturday, Oct 13, 2007
In its continuing effort to get the word “secrecy” stricken from the American lexicon, the New York Times earlier this month reported on several so-called classified documents related to the government’s tactical decisions about how to fight the war on terror. This is not the first time The New York Times has reported on “top secret” government documents, programs, or war plans. The paper’s argument, of course, is . . . If the New York Times is going to do away with secrecy, we suggest they begin at home. Let’s get a full public disclosure of all salaries at the Times, as well as a complete record of all contributions made by or on behalf of the employees of the Times. It would certainly be interesting to know whether any reporters covering particular beats have a conflict of interest, wouldn’t it? In addition, it would be useful for the New York Times to publish a full and accurate transcript of all editorial board meetings as well as meetings to determine what is and isn’t in the nation’s best interest. That might shed a little light on whether the paper really does have a liberal bias, don’t you think? After all, the argument used for open government also applies to the New York Times, doesn’t it? The newspaper declares itself a representative of “we the people,” and thus should owe a full accounting to “we the people” as well. More ...
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Gore gets a cold shoulder
The Sydney Morning Herald (AU) by Steve Lytte
October 14, 2007
ONE of the world's foremost meteorologists has called the theory that helped Al Gore share the Nobel Peace Prize "ridiculous" and the product of "people who don't understand how the atmosphere works". Dr William Gray, a pioneer in the science of seasonal hurricane forecasts, told a packed lecture hall at the University of North Carolina that humans were not responsible for the warming of the earth. His comments came on the same day that the Nobel committee honoured Mr Gore for his work in support of the link between humans and global warming. More ...
Comment: Thanks, Al.
Environmental Gore
Further damage to a once prestigious award.
National Review By Steven F. Hayward
October 12, 2007
Parson Al winning the Nobel Peace Prize was as predictable as his Oscar for Best Documentary, and represents the final debasement of a once-prestigious award. It used to be that the award went to people of genuine humanitarian or diplomatic accomplishment, like Mother Teresa, Albert Schweitzer or Doctors Without Borders. Now it goes to frauds and poseurs like Rigoberta Menchu, Yassir Arafat, the U.N. (three times now, counting Gore’s co-winner, the U.N.’s climate change panel), and Jimmy Carter. About the only way to top this would be to give the next Peace Prize to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. More likely the Nobel committee will, one of these days, simply pat itself on the back and give the award to . . . themselves. More ...
Comment: Anyone with half a brain knows that the award to Gore et al has nothing to do with world peace. Why not award the Nobel Peace Prize to those working to bring about peace, and create a new catagory for the doomsayers.
Khaled Hosseini
An Afghan Tale
The Wall Street Journal Online By EMILY PARKER
October 13, 2007
In Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel "The Kite Runner," a Hindi kid boasts that in his hometown the popular regional pastime of kite fighting has strict rules and regulations. This is not a wise thing to say to two Afghan boys in Kabul. "Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish customs but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck." More ...
Comment: Read all of this interview then, if you haven't done so already, read both novels. You'll be glad you did.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Taking Care Of Sandy
theconservativevoice.com by Paul R. Hollrah
October 11, 2007
During the months of September and October 2003, former Clinton National Security Advisor, Sandy Berger, made at least three trips to the National Archives, ostensibly for the purpose of briefing himself and his former boss, Bill Clinton, for their testimony before the 9/11 Commission. During the time that Berger was given access to highly classified material, he was seen stuffing documents into his trousers, his underwear, and even into his socks. By the time FBI agents arrived at Berger’s home and office he had already ... More ...
Comment: thesillyseason.com has much more on this here.
Al Gore’s inconvenient judgment
The Times Online (UK) by Lewis Smith, Environment Reporter
October 11, 2007
Al Gore’s award-winning climate change documentary was littered with nine inconvenient untruths, a judge ruled yesterday. An Inconvenient Truth won plaudits from the environmental lobby and an Oscar from the film industry but was found wanting when it was scrutinised in the High Court in London. Mr Justice Burton identified nine significant errors within the former presidential candidate’s documentary as he assessed whether it should be shown to school children. More ...
Comment: So much for the relevence of Hollywood and the Oscars. A step but certainly no giant leap.
Tough-talking Nicolas Sarkozy spells out terms of new relationship to Vladimir Putin
From The Times (UK)
October 10, 2007
After months of talking tough to the Kremlin, Nicolas Sarkozy got his chance last night to convince President Putin that the days of French indulgence towards Russia are over unless it cleans up its act. In what was understood to be his most difficult trip since taking over the presidency last May, the would-be new strongman of Western Europe was out to show the prickly heavy-weight of the East that France and Russia could do business together, but under new rules. More ...
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Clarence Thomas
realclearpolitics.com By Thomas Sowell
October 09, 2007
It would be hard to think of anyone whose portrayal in the media differs more radically from the reality than that of Justice Clarence Thomas. His recent appearances on "60 Minutes," the Rush Limbaugh program, and other media outlets provide the general public with their first in-depth look at the real Clarence Thomas. These media appearances are part of the promotion of his riveting new memoir, titled "My Grandfather's Son." Otherwise, Justice Thomas would probably have continued to confine himself to doing his work at the Supreme Court, without worrying about what was being said about him in the media. In an era when too many judges, including justices of the Supreme Court, seem to be ... More ...
Monday, October 8, 2007
When all is not as it appears to be
The American Thinker By Rick Moran
October 08, 2007
Do you remember 12 year old Graeme Frost from Maryland? He's the young man who gave the Democratic radio response to President Bush following the veto of the chidren's health care program SCHIP. In that heart tugging speech, Graeme pleaded with Congress to pass SCHIP and extend coverage to the middle class because without that program, he and his family would have been in a lot of trouble following a car accident the young man was in last year. Following up on the story, the Baltimore Sun reported ... More ...
Hiring the Nanny State
FrontPageMagazine.com By Bill Steigerwald
Monday, October 08, 2007
With his book “Nanny State,” Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi has thrown a conservative-libertarian rope around a disturbing political and cultural trend -- the nannification of America by moral busybodies and nitpicking maternalists who use government power to micromanage our personal lives and protect us from ourselves. Whether it’s outlawing trans fats in New York City or tag on school playgrounds, Harsanyi says the “nannyists” among us are not only creating a new culture of dependency on government but also eroding what’s left of our individual freedoms. More ...
Shut Up
The American Spectator By Ben Stein
October 8, 2007
Last Monday was a maddening day. The swimming pool heater was not working right and when I wanted to get my nightly swimming exercise before bed, the water was a bit cool. Plus, the water heater was broken and my shower was barely tepid. I lay in bed sulking and then turned on the TV. Ken Burns's magnificent epic about American participation in World War II came on. There were American children being ... More ...
Al Qaeda's War of Villages
Signs that the terrorists are losing in Iraq.
Opinion Journal (wsj,com) BY OMAR FADHIL
Monday, October 8, 2007
BAGHDAD--The latest chapter in al Qaeda's war manual in their war against the Iraqi people and the Coalition is this: raiding remote peaceful villages, burning down homes and slaughtering both man and beast. It's a campaign of self destruction. For about a year al Qaeda has been trying to build a so called Islamic State in Iraq. On several occasions al Qaeda has even declared parts of Baghdad or other places in other provinces the capital of this Islamic State. But now that they are losing one base after another ... More ...
Media Dishonesty Matters
The American Thinker By Randall Hoven
October 08, 2007
We are being fed false and misleading information, in matters big and small. It has come from trusted sources such as established newspapers, experienced journalists, Pulitzer Prize winners and Nobel Peace Prize winners. It has been going on for a long time, sometimes by carelessness and sometimes by deliberate lying. I have compiled a list of 101 such incidents. Did you know that Time magazine and other news organizations had a Vietnamese communist on full-time staff in Vietnam during that war? More ...
Comment: Do not miss "The Dishonest 101" list in this article.
Sunday, October 7, 2007
BUM RUSH
HOW THE DEMS PLAN TO TAKE DOWN
THEIR REAL OPPONENTS: RUSH AND O’REILLY
New York Post by JONAH GOLDBERG
October 7, 2007
In the parable of the million monkeys banging on typewriters for a million years, the reward is supposed to be the complete works of Shakespeare. But have you heard the parable of the million interns? Here, the prize is Rush Limbaugh's head, and Bill O'Reilly's, and Brit Hume's, and pretty much any other prominent conservative or non-leftist who doesn't kowtow to the Democratic Party and its “netroots" army of Lilliputian cannibals. This, in a nutshell, is the vision behind a group most people have never heard of, at least not until this week, Media Matters for America. Nearly every day, I get e-mail spam from this alleged “media watchdog" group. It's slightly ... More ...
Muslim medical students get picky
The Sunday Times (UK) by Daniel Foggo and Abul Taher
October 7, 2007
Some Muslim medical students are refusing to attend lectures or answer exam questions on alcohol-related or sexually transmitted diseases because they claim it offends their religious beliefs. Some trainee doctors say learning to treat the diseases conflicts with their faith, which states that Muslims should not drink alcohol and rejects sexual promiscuity. A small number of Muslim medical students have even refused to treat patients of the opposite sex. One male student was prepared to fail his final exams rather than carry out a basic examination of a female patient. More ...
A warning about peace without victory - in 1942
Daily Inter Lake by FRANK MIELE
Sunday, October 7, 2007
A little knowledge is said to be a dangerous thing, but perhaps even a little history is better than none. It at least provides the possibility of perspective as we try to navigate the reefs of modernity. Case in point comes from a World War II era newspaper which arrived at my desk almost arbitrarily two weeks ago, and which shed extraordinary light on our own contemporary wartime crisis with a seven-inch story that appeared on Page Two. The newspaper was the Coos Bay Times of Oregon, and the date was June 4, 1942. Get that date through your head — June 4, 1942 ... More ...
CODEPINK antiwar protesters purple with rage to be banned from Canada
Canada Free Press By Judi McLeod
Thursday, October 4, 2007
There was no welcome mat waiting n Canada for CODEPINK, the shrill arm of the latter day antiwar contingent, when they arrived for a visit yesterday, and it was all the fault of President George W. Bush. CODEPINK and Global Exchange cofounder Medea Benjamin and retired US Army Colonel and diplomat Ann Wright were denied entry ... More ...
Friday, October 5, 2007
But Why Is He So Angry?
TownHall.com By Mona Charen
Friday, October 5, 2007
National Public Radio was one of the first out of the box greeting Clarence Thomas's memoir, "My Grandfather's Son." Nina Totenberg acknowledged that it was, "in some ways a beautifully written book" but went on to declare it "a book of complete bitterness and rage." The Washington Post's front page announced that Thomas had "settled scores" in his "angry" book. And Washington Post columnist (as well as Charen pal) Ruth Marcus writes of Thomas's "blast furnace" anger. Imagine that. He hasn't gotten over it. Totenberg, for those who may have forgotten, was the journalist who first reported that Anita Hill had ... More ...
Israeli raid caused electronic disruption
over wide areas of Syria
WorldTribune.com
Friday, October 5, 2007
The lid of secrecy covering the Sept. 6 Israeli air strike into Syria remains tight but one new theory emerging amid the speculation is that the Israeli conducted an electronic warfare exercise in preparation for future strikes or an attack on Iran. Authoritative reports from the Middle East stated that the Israel operation included extensive electronic warfare jamming by aircraft. The Israeli were testing the capabilities of ... More ...
Inside France's secret war
The independent (UK) By Johann Hari in Birao, Central African Republic
October 5, 2007
I first heard whispers of this war in March, when newspapers reported in passing that the French military was bombing the remote city of Birao, in the far north-east of the CAR. Why were French soldiers fighting there, thousands of miles from home? Why had they been intervening in Central Africa this way for so many decades? I could find no answers here – so I decided to travel there, into the belly of France's forgotten war. More ...
Question: How do you keep a war of that magnitude a secret? Don't they have anyone to leak to over there? Is it fear or patriotism that keeps their media in check? A long article that needs reading before it too is swallowed by secrecy
CNN Meteorologist: ‘Definitely Some Inaccuracies’ in Gore Film
newsbusters.org By Paul Detrick
October 4, 2007
CNN Meteorologist Rob Marciano clapped his hands and exclaimed, "Finally," in response to a report that a British judge might ban the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" from UK schools because, according to "American Morning," "it is politically biased and contains scientific inaccuracies." "There are definitely some inaccuracies," Marciano added. "The biggest thing I have a problem with is ... More ...
Junk Science: Global Warming’s Trillion-Dollar Turkey
Fox News By Steven Milloy
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Last July, this column reported that the latest global warming bill — the Low Carbon Economy Act of 2007, introduced by Sens. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M. and Arlen Specter, R-Pa. — would cost taxpayers more than $1 trillion in its first 10 years and untold trillions of dollars in subsequent decades. This week, the EPA sent its analysis of the bill’s impact on climate to Bingaman and Specter. Now we can see what we’d get for our money, and we may as well just build a giant bonfire with the cash and enjoy toasting marshmallows over it. More ...
Thursday, October 4, 2007
‘So close to war’
We came so close to World War Three that day
Spectator.co.uk By James Forsyth and Douglas Davis
Wednesday, 3rd October 2007
A meticulously planned, brilliantly executed surgical strike by Israeli jets on a nuclear installation in Syria on 6 September may have saved the world from a devastating threat. The only problem is that no one outside a tight-lipped knot of top Israeli and American officials knows precisely what that threat involved. Even more curious is that far from pushing the Syrians and Israelis to war, both seem determined to put a lid on the affair. One month after the event, the absence of hard information leads inexorably to the conclusion that the implications must have been enormous. That was confirmed ... More ...
Comment: A very fine recap of the event, read it all.
Suspected '100 million dollar al-Qaeda financier' netted in Iraq
Agence France Press, by Staff
BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraqi and US forces have detained a man they believe received 100 million dollars this summer from Al-Qaeda sympathisers to hand out for "terrorist" operations in Iraq, the US military said Thursday. "The 100 million was what our intelligence reports indicate he has received spanning several months this year," US military spokesman Sam Hymas told AFP. "That is all the unclassified information I can give you." A statement from the military said ... More ...
Hirsi Ali earthquake
View from the Right
Ayaan Hirsi Ali has completely changed her tune on Islam. In an interview with Reason magazine, the things I've always criticized her (and other wishy wishy Islam critics) for not saying, she's suddenly saying, and all at once, and more. Well, she doesn't mention immigration, but she does say that Islam must be resisted "in all forms, and if you don't do that, then you have to live with the consequence of being crushed." She says that Islam must be defeated. More ...
COIN Is Not Small Change
Town Hall By Cliff May
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
It’s the Pentagon’s job to prepare for wars of the future. But somewhere between Vietnam and Iraq, military planners confused “future” with “futuristic.” They convinced themselves that combat in the 21st Century would resemble computer games. Satellites would provide intelligence. “Smart bombs” would do much of the killing. The enemy, overcome by “shock and awe,” would lose his will to fight. But the future, as they say, ain’t what it used to be. More ...
Saudi Squander
Where does all the money go?
National Review Online By Jonathan Schanzer
October 3, 2007
Five years ago, oil was $30 a barrel. Post Labor Day 2008, oil topped out at $82. This has produced a multi-billion dollar windfall for oil producing nations, particularly Saudi Arabia, which sits on the world’s largest reserves. Let’s see how the Kingdom spends (or doesn’t spend) America’s petrodollars: More ...
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
MoveOn.org Bullies Crack Down on Critics
Town Hall By Michelle Malkin
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
MoveOn.org, the left-wing extremists who bashed the commander of American forces in Iraq as a traitor, should get out of the political kitchen. The George Soros-funded hitmen can't stand even a bit of heat from Mom-and-Pop retailers who tried selling T-shirts and mugs on the Internet critical of the "General Betray Us" smear ads against Gen. David Petraeus. I heard from one of the independent T-shirt sellers targeted ... More ...
Limbaugh Makes His Case
He’s got the story on the “phony soldiers” controversy — if anyone will listen.
National Review Online By Byron York
October 3, 2007
On Monday evening, September 24, Rush Limbaugh was struck by a story that appeared on ABC’s World News with Charles Gibson. “A closer look tonight at phony heroes,” Gibson said in his introduction to the report, which was about men who claim to be veterans but are not. In the story, reporter Brian Ross discussed two men who claimed to have served in wartime, possibly to receive free veterans’ hospital and other benefits. And then this: “Authorities say the most disturbing case involves this man, 23 year-old Jesse Macbeth,” Ross continued. “In a YouTube video seen around the world, Macbeth became a rallying point for anti-war groups, as he talked of the Purple Heart he received in Iraq and described how he and other U.S. Army Rangers killed innocent civilians at a Baghdad mosque.” Ross played video of Macbeth saying, “Women and men, you know — while in their prayer, we started slaughtering them.” As it turns out, none of that happened. More ...
Comment: Will this be the end of it? Unlikely ... at least not until it's been completely flogged to death or something equally as easy to distort comes along. Example: the dead Mandelas.
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Marine Hero: The 5 Things I Saw that Make Me Support the War
Town Hall By Marco Martinez
Monday, October 1, 2007
Liberals often like to say that "violence is senseless." That’s wrong. Violence isn't senseless. Senseless violence is senseless. And I should know. Before being awarded the Navy Cross and having the privilege of becoming a Marine, I was a gang member. Sometimes it takes having used violence for both evil as well as good to know that there's a profound moral difference between the two. People often ask me whether I still support the war. I never hesitate when answering ... More ...
The unspeakable American culture
Journalism's elite don't dare speak of the patriotism that holds this country together.
latimes.com By Jonah Goldberg
October 2, 2007
In a recent speech at the National Press Club, Katie Couric expressed somber disapproval of the jingoistic excesses after 9/11. Among the things that vexed her: "The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying 'we' when referring to the United States." From what I can tell, nobody among the journalistic swells bothered to ask, "Who isn't 'we,' Kemo Sabe?" I don't want to revisit those supposedly Orwellian flag pins, which sat so heavily on so many journalistic lapels. But it's worth recalling that during World War II, civilian correspondent Walter Cronkite -- whose anchor job Couric now holds -- gladly wore a uniform, not just a pin, and subjected himself to military censors. He also used ... More ...
At War with Being at War
Town Hall By David Limbaugh
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman must be awfully tired of the global war on terror (GWOT). In his column "9/11 Is Over," he laments that "we've become 'The United States of Fighting Terrorism.' I will not vote for any candidate running on 9/11. We don't need another president of 9/11. We need a president for 9/12." Alrighty, then. Let's just declare the war over. More ...
Monday, October 1, 2007
Why Fred Thompson Will Win
Real Clear Politics By Peter Mulhern
October 01, 2007
Conventional wisdom is hardening around the proposition that Fred Dalton Thompson is too lazy, ill-prepared, tired, old, lackluster, inexperienced, inconsistent and bald to make a successful run for President. Of course, conventional wisdom rarely gets anything right. When it does, it's only by accident. In this case conventional wisdom is not just wrong but comically so. Thompson will win the Republican nomination for two reasons. First, he's a very impressive candidate. More ...
