BOO!
Have you been following the sham "trial" of journalist and writer Mark Steyn? A Canadian magazine, Maclean's, published a piece by Steyn entitled "Why The Future Belongs To Islam," in which Steyn opined that the combination of immigration, intimidation through violence, and population expansion through significantly higher birth rates would result in a Europe dominated by Islamic culture within the next few decades.
A group of Canadian Muslims claimed that they were insulted by the article, and now Steyn's writings are being reviewed by the Human Rights Commission in British Columbia, based on allegations that Steyn's article "spread hatred against Muslims." This is frightening for a number of reasons, but particularly for the chilling effect that a guilty verdict will have on Canadians' ability to freely discuss religious issues. Oh, and did I mention that Canadian Human Rights trials have so far racked up a 100% conviction rate?
Roman Catholic Church officials have also been convicted in Canadian Human Rights hearings for such heinous crimes as publicly opposing same-sex marriage and backing up their views by quoting Scripture. This online forum discussion of the Steyn article might also count as hate speech. Remember, there is no "First Amendment" in Canada.
Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin has ordered political opponents digitally erased from TV broadcast footage. And in Venezuela, Hugo Chavez has formed two new state police services, with prison terms mandated for citizens who do not cooperate with secret police investigations.
Yet left-wing loonies and Hollywood stooges swoon in Hugo Chavez's presence, declaring him a hero who will save the Western Hemisphere from the evil imperialism of the United States. These same people think that the Chimpy McHitlerburton Administration is the Fourth Reich. Some people are just stupid.
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Europeans are happy to see George W. Bush leave the White House. Who knew?
I have compared the Bush Administration to the Kennedy Administration several times. Here is an interesting piece that makes several good comparisons between George W. Bush and Harry Truman. Harry Truman is now considered a hero. How will history cast Bush?
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The post-election violence in Zimbabwe has been particularly hard on women and children, who are crammed by the hundreds into filthy and overcrowded "safe houses" in order to avoid being kidnapped by government forces, as a reprisal for men and young boys fleeing the government troops rather than serve in Zimbabwe's corrupt military. Naturally, Zimbabwe's dictator, Robert Mugabe, had no idea that this has been going on.
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If you think that Democrats are the "count every vote" party, then you should read this sobering essay on the Democratic party's rules committee meeting that "solved" the Florida and Michigan problem:
Instead of simply counting votes, which is the only fair thing to do with votes in any election anywhere — the members of the Democratic-party rules Committee deem it in their purview to decipher votes, interpret votes, translate votes — anything but count them! Then, to add fantasy to falsehood they insisted on conjuring votes that were never even cast. After all, so goes their illogic, if voters didn’t show up who otherwise would have, its up to the Committee members to discern how they would have voted if they did.
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The sun is in the midst of an unusually long inactive period. There have been no observed sunspots for two years. Could this be contributing to the solar system "climate change" on Earth, Mars, and Jupiter?
The citizens of Union County, SD have approved a rezoning measure that will allow Hyperion Energy to build a billion-dollar oil refining facility. If the plan materializes, it will be the first new oil refinery built in the United States in thirty years. Meanwhile Iran is building seven new oil refineries in an effort to end gasoline imports. Imagine ... producing your own fuel weakens the ability of other nations to control your economy! Anyone in Washington, DC paying attention to this.
ExxonMobil will sell the few remaining gas stations that it owns, because there is not enough profit in the retail sale of gasoline.
Congress seems to have an unlimited ability to come up with bad legislation. The latest bad idea (thankfully put out of its misery by Senate Republicans) was a "cap and trade" plan that would have taxed gasoline an additional $0.53 a gallon, with the money going into a slush fund for "green" energy development. Such a tax increase would be devastating now. What was Congress thinking? In response, House Republicans are offering their own "REAL Energy Solutions."
And the Paris-based International Energy Agency says that we need to spend $45 trillion (yes, that's trillion with a "t") in green energy and nuclear power in order to combat global warming. I feel my wallet getting thinner already.
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If you haven't yet read this fascinating 2004 interview with Barack Obama about his understanding of the Christian faith, you definitely should read it now.
Old things suddenly seem new again with Barack Obama. We voted for "hope and change" in 1992, yet the "decade of hope" morphed into the true "decade of greed" with the expansion and bursting of the tech bubble. We voted for honesty in 1976, and ended up with a grievously weakened nation as a result. Incidentally, Walter Mondale is now on the Obama bandwagon. He's much too old for that magical VP spot, though.
Obama still has plenty of problems, though. A recent Rasmussen poll found that among likely voters, there was a strong feeling that the press was biased in favor of Obama. You can't swoon over a candidate and pretend to be objective. If the bias is this transparent, it could become a liability for Obama. Also, the race produced a considerable amount of criticism from other Democrats about Obama's policy objectives. Hysterical Democrat partisans will accuse McCain of racism if he even utters Obama's name, but it will be hard for them to smear respected members of their own party. Look for the Republicans to continue to use Democrat criticisms of Obama in the general election campaign.
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