[Guest post by DRJ] Apparently Al Gore thinks his global warming opponents are quacks, and true believers are justified in pursuing civil disobedience to save the planet: “Gore’s new book, Our Choice: A Plan To Solve The Climate Crisis, gives global warming deniers short shrift, and shows little concern for displays of political bipartisanship: he likens [...]
Karen and Laurence, this latest example of a “lone shooter” reminds me of an oddly-similar situation from some 2 years ago, that of the supposed suicide of Colonel Ted Westhusing. It strikes me as rather coincidental as well that Major Hasan was, like Colonel Westhusing, well-educated and high-ranking. Neither of these men could [...]
What happens after all the fear mongering that Iran is developing a nuclear weapons bunker turns out to be bunk ? U.N. inspectors found "nothing to be worried about" in a first look at a previously secret uranium enrichment site in Iran last month, the International Atomic Energy chief said in remarks published Thursday. Mohamed ElBaradei also told the New York Times that he was examining...
The Tory leadership is delighted that the announcement of the new Europe policy has gone quite so smoothly. Team Cameron will be disappointed at the hostility of yesterday's Daily Mail but there has been no significant upset from within the parliamentary party or from The Sun or Telegraph. To a very large extent the party appears to have recovered its once secret weapon: Unity. And, as expected, The...
Dave Schuler thinks it's time to crack down on Iran: We should implement consequences for Iran as stern as we can make them, non-violent in nature but punitive in quality. We should muster all of the permanent members of the Security Council to participate in these measures but be prepared to proceed without them. A peaceful, prosperous, and just Iran is in Russian and Chinese interests as it is in...
Last year, 23-year-old Rashida Hill watched the presidential debates, visited the college political party meetings and put a Barack Obama bumper sticker on her townhouse door. She voted for Obama because she felt like the election was about "being a part of something." But on Tuesday, the Virginia Commonwealth University student didn't bother voting in the governor's race because, she said,...
(updated below - Update II) The criminal conviction of 22 CIA agents (and 2 Italian intelligence officers) by an Italian court yesterday -- for the 2003 kidnapping of an Islamic cleric, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, off the street in Italy and his "rendition" to Egypt to be tortured -- highlights several vital points: First , illustrating how these matters are typically distorted by the U.S....
What can you say ? Why are the British government still there after eight years? Isn't it obvious yet to everyone that the 'mission' of propping up a corrupt quisling puppet was never worth a single British soldier's life, never mind the five just killed in the latest disastrous episode? Bring the troops home, Gordon. Do it now, you pusillanimous idiot.
The point about political correspondents from national newspapers is that they are part of the bubble inhabited by politicians. They have no more idea what is going on in the real world than do the politicians they serve. This do we have Benedict Brogan in The Daily Telegraph op-ed telling us that, yesterday, Mr Cameron "took a difficult but necessary step to restore our trust not in politics...
IT PROBABLY WON'T BE A SWEEP.... Someone remind me, why does the special election in New York's 23rd matter infinitely more than the special election in California's 10th, which is also hosting an election today? Lt. Gov. John Garamendi, a...
Hat tip: Desert Rat Writing in the Guardian, Kim Howells – who had ministerial responsibility for Afghanistan until 2008 – said: "It would be better to bring home the great majority of our fighting men and women and concentrate, instead, on using the money saved to secure our own borders [and] gather intelligence on terrorist activities inside Britain." Kim Howells, a former minister,...
Look how ridiculous Hilary Clinton looks with Netanyahu in Gabriel's earlier post . Now see how she looks in this Independent article . Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, was forced into an awkward diplomatic pirouette yesterday, insisting to Arab foreign ministers that Washington had not capitulated to Israel's continuing hunger for new Jewish settlements even if statements she had made 24...
This pleases me. Governor Jon Corzine, the incumbent Democrat, was defeated by Chris Christie in New Jersey, where no Republican had won state-wide since 1997. I know nothing about Christie (other than that he is fat) and little about Corzine (ex-Goldman’s, using his own money in the election campaign and from the few stories that made the [...]
A week AWOL is a long time off the blogging - been flat out with work and pleasure meaning the blogging took a back seat. Back now and after reading this article , am all fired up! Al Gore is going to be a billionaire after fooling enough people to allow him to recieve Govt grants to fund his green ventures. His fictional drama Inconvienient Truth brainwashed others to not question his ideas while...
According to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Republicans have devolved from the “Party of No” to the “Party of No Show.” Led by Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), the Republican boycott of climate hearings has entered its second full day. During today’s hearing on the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, Whitehouse argued that being [...]
