Totalitarianism's New Home: Modern Environmental Movement

The U.N., unable to keep track of $21 Billion in its Oil for Food Scandal, now gives us the "facts" on "global warming." From the Washington Post:
Chris Landsea, who works at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's hurricane research division in Miami, said Monday that he would not contribute to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's chapter on atmospheric and surface climate conditions because the lead author had told reporters global warming contributed to intense Atlantic hurricanes last year.

Why the Democrat Party Must Not Be Allowed Back in Power

Democratic lawmakers made their first public rejection of a nominee of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday, refusing to reappoint to the state Board of Education a Silicon Valley businessman opposed by advocates of bilingual education. For the rest of the story go to: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hastings13jan13,1,5287809.story?ctrack=3&cset=true

An Environmental Disaster You Will Never Hear About

The modern environmental movement shares one thing in common with Saddam Hussein and his ilk: A totalitarian mindset that puts the ends above all else. They do not talk about the environmental destruction caused by the totalitarian governments around the world because they hate freedom more than they could ever hate a form of goernment they someday wish to emulate in so many ways, i.e. the amount of control they have over their people. As C.S. Lewis said in God in the Dock, "Useful and necessity have always been the tryants plea." Form the recent Harvard Crimson (which itself is probably shocking to some of you):

Saddam Hussein drained the Mesopotamian marshes in the 1990s, turning 95 percent of wetlands the size of Massachusetts to desert. At a Boston rally staged by people opposed to the then-looming invasion of Iraq, a small group of otherwise-minded citizens held aloft a sign that read, "Invade Iraq! Save the Garden of Eden." Go to this link for the full article: http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/010538.html

The Defeated Party at it Again

Mark Steyn has once again nailed it on the head in his usual witty way when it comes to why the Democrats are so lost. In his Sunday column, a response to Barbara Boxer's protest of this week's electoral certification, Steyn quoted Republican Congresswoman Deborah Pryce: ''Their objection is a front for their lack of ideas.''
For the full comun go to: http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn09.html

Duke University Welcomes the Barbarians

The Intifada Comes to Duke A university plays host to anti-Semites and terror advocates.

A new ritual on the American academic scene is the annual conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement. The PSM is an umbrella organization that connects various U.S. and Canadian groups; its yearly gathering offers an opportunity for the constituent elements to establish a visible presence on a prestigious university campus and plan strategy and tactics for a movement dedicated to delegitimizing the state of Israel. Over the past several years, the convocation has been held at Ohio State, the University of Michigan and the University of California at Berkeley. In October, it was the turn of Duke University. To see the whole story go to: http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110006102

The Humanitarian Crisis the U.N. Doesn't Want You to Talk About

When you combine nature's fury with a chance to take a shot at America the U.N. is front and center. When it is some of your members doing the killing and U.N. impotence in stopping it on display, forget about it.

Forced evacuations and mass rapes; brutal ethnic killings and rampaging militias; oil profits and arms sales. The deadly mix of politics, economics, and insecurity has displaced 1.6 million people and killed tens of thousands in the Darfur region of western Sudan since early 2003. The United Nations recently described Darfur as the "world's worst humanitarian crisis."
To read whole story go to http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0103/p09s02-coop.html

America the Generous

We are six percent or less of the world's population, yet we give almost half. We are a very small number of people, relatively speaking, and we carry the weight of a dozen countries. Secondly, we maintain a military structure that keeps the peace of the world.....Who is in the Indian Ocean with the aircraft carriers, helicopters, skilled personal? No one has the infrastructure in the world, we spend almost half a trillion dollars a year on our military structure, which is essentially the fire department of the planet and it is always at the disposal of people hit in a national disaster.....Incidentally on food aid, we five 60% of all the food aid in the world. It is simply irresponsible to talk about the U.S. as anything other than the most generous nation on the planet.Charles Krauthammer - FOX News Sunday