The Anti-Copenhagen

Open-minded and intellectually diverse, the Heartland Institute’s climate conference was science as it ought to be.

White House Plots 2012 Campaign – Politico

President Barack Obama’s top advisers are quietly laying the groundwork for the 2012 reelection campaign, which is likely to be run out of Chicago and managed by White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina, according to Democrats familiar with the discussions. For now, the planning consists entirely of private conversations, with Obama aides at [...]

CPAC Speaker Condemns CPAC

Among the overwhelming exuberance and numerous standing ovations accorded to conservative speakers at this week’s Conservative Political Action Committee gathering in D.C., there remained one hold-out.

Ryan Sorba, representing Young Americans For Freedom in California, was roundly booed from the minute he stepped up to the podium. And no wonder - Ryan started [...]

Will the Fringe Hijack the Tea Parties?

When I was a junior communist living in 1960’s Canada, one of the few constants in my life was the unwelcome presence of Maoists at pretty much any gathering I attended. The cause de jour didn’t matter; it could have been “Get American Potatoes Out of Our Poutine!” It was all the same to them. [...]

Iranian Supremo promises punch that will “stun” West on February 11

I tend to think that those who can, do, and those who can’t, rattle sabers — but you never know. “Iran anniversary ‘punch’ will stun West: Khamenei,” from AFP, February 8 (thanks to Syzygy): Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran is set to deliver a…

John Fund: Who Rules the Tea Party Empire? – WSJ.com

The Tea Party convention held this past weekend in Nashville wasn’t the biggest such gathering (600 people) or the most representative (the ticket price was more than $500) but it did give the national media a pretty good angle on the views and direction of this disparate movement. First, it's clear the group has no [...]

Sarah Palin assails Obama at ‘tea party’ gathering – AP

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Sarah Palin, in a speech that was short on ideas but big on enthusiasm, took aim at President Barack Obama and the Democrats, telling a gathering of “tea party” activists that America is ripe for another revolution. Noting his party’s dismal showing in elections since Obama moved into the White House a [...]

Charles Krauthammer: The Electorate vs. Obama’s Agenda – RealClearPolitics

WASHINGTON — “I am not an ideologue,” protested President Obama at a gathering with Republican House members last week. Perhaps, but he does have a tenacious commitment to a set of political convictions. Compare his 2010 State of the Union to his first address to Congress a year earlier. The consistency is remarkable. In 2009, [...]

Former PM of Malaysia: Jews “had to be periodically massacred”

Mahathir Mohamad is well known for statements that are, to Western ears, outrageous. But as Andrew Bolt observes, Mahathir did not arrive at these opinions in a vacuum. Will we see unequivocal condemnation of Mahathir (and not just by dedicated Holocaust deniers), or the usual claims that his remarks were…

Modern, moderate Morocco expels five Christian evangelists

Moral equivalence alert: when was the last time a Muslim preacher was expelled from a Western country for proselytizing? “Morocco: Five Foreign Evangelists Expelled,” from ANSAmed, December 29 (thanks to Insubria): (ANSAmed) – RABAT, DECEMBER 29 – Five Evangelist foreigners (two South Africans, two Swiss and one Guatemalan) have been…