An arrogant, angry, fact-deprived, righteous Leftist tries to school conservative talkshow host, Michael Graham, on how we all could give up gasoline tomorrow. He fails. Badly.
Note: At the time of this writing there is no absolute proof that the caller “Bill” and David Suzuki are not one and the same person.

The Calgary Herald’s Naomi Lakritz wrote a most interesting column yesterday about NDP MPs Pat Martin & Nycole Turmel stepping all over the wishes & legacy of Jack Layton:

What was it that Jack Layton wrote in his deathbed letter? “Love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So, let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.”
How quickly we forget. Or at least, how quickly NDP MP Pat Martin has forgotten. So has interim NDP leader Nycole Turmel, who, you’d think, would at least put on a facade of discipleship as Layton’s handpicked successor. Sadly, their reaction to Senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu last week contained nothing loving, hopeful or optimistic in tone and message.
And Martin, who stooped to the disgusting act of calling the grieving Boisvenu a vulgar name, appears to think anger is way better than love. No world-changing agenda, there – except maybe to help civility, compassion and empathy follow the dinosaurs down the road to extinction.

Charles Adler & Lakritz discuss her column here. More from Adler here.

h/t EBD

The Sierra Club disclosed Thursday that it received over $26 million from natural-gas giant Chesapeake Energy Corp. between 2007 and 2010 to help the group’s campaign against coal-fired power plants.

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Duluth, Minnesota Mayor Don Ness insists that there’s now a simple test you can conduct to determine if you’re a racist:
Step #1: Remove all face coverings, including but not necessarily limited to niqabs, goalie masks, and motorcycle helmets.
Step #2: In a well lighted room, stand in front of a mirror.
Step #3: Carefully look at your face.
If you determine yourself to be white aka Caucasian, honkey, cracker, gweilo, haole, hakujin, and/or macamba then YOU ARE A RACIST!!! It matters not what you think, nor how you treat others, you are forever guilty of racism!

Mark Steyn provides a clear picture of why so many Moderates and Center-Leftists are frightfully scared to ever deviate out of the role assigned to them by those on the Far Left.
The whole Susan G. Komen Foundation backtracking is discussed here by Dana Loesch.

h/t Paul in Calgary

Dennis Prager has just published a most interesting column. Here’s a snippet:

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.
Both seek to dominate society and to use state power to do so. Both seek to eliminate the Other — for Islamic fanatics, that means non-Muslim religions and secularism; for secular fanatics, it means Christianity and virtually any public invoking of God. The Islamists impose Sharia law; the American Civil Liberties Union and the left generally impose secular law. The Taliban wiped out public vestiges of Buddhism in Afghanistan; the ACLU and its allies seek to wipe out public vestiges of Christianity in America — as it did, for example, in Los Angeles County, when it successfully pressured the County Board of Supervisors to remove the tiny cross from the county seal. A city and county founded by Catholics — hence the name “The Angels” — was forced to stop commemorating its founders because they were religious.

Listen carefully to what Tarek Fatah says around 1:36. Brian Lilley handles things very tactfully but, in a Canadian context, it’s incomprehensible how a man despised by conservatives and applauded by Radical Leftists can possibly be labeled a “right-wing extremist”. Perhaps someone could publish a Fatah-to-English translation guide?

h/t Matt from Mississauga

How can any avid news readers forget the constant praise of China provided by the NY Times’ Thomas Friedman.   Video
The National Post’s Rebecca MacKinnon has just published a chilling article on one part of life over there. Well worth a read.

If you’re a conservative voter you probably base your electoral decisions on facts & logic. To begin to understand the mindset that the Republican Presidential candidate will be up against in November click on the “Continue Reading” link below. One wonders if the founders of the country ever thought things would devolve to such a banal, unintellectual mentality?!

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Hear my prayer. (h/t Jason)

A most interesting article has just been published in City Journal. It describes in detail, with example after example, how Governor Scott Walker’s changes are making things better, not worse. Quite a contrast from the dire predictions made by the public sector unions and their sympathizers.

The unions’ battle against Walker’s reforms has rested on the argument that the changes would damage public services beyond repair. The truth, however, is that the reforms not only are saving money already; they’re doing so with little disruption to services.
At the outset of the public-union standoff, educators had made dire predictions that Walker’s reforms would force schools to fire teachers. In February, to take one example, Madison School District Superintendent Dan Nerad predicted that 289 teachers in his district would be laid off. Walker insisted that his reforms were actually a job-retention program: by accepting small concessions in health and pension benefits, he argued, school districts would be able to spare hundreds of teachers’ jobs. The argument proved sound. So far, Nerad’s district has laid off no teachers at all, a pattern that has held in many of the state’s other large school districts. No teachers were laid off in Beloit and LaCrosse; Eau Claire saw a reduction of two teachers, while Racine and Wausau each laid off one. The Wauwatosa School District, which faced a $6.5 million shortfall, anticipated slashing 100 jobs—yet the new pension and health contributions saved them all.

h/t Matt from Mississauga

Here’s the speech John Stossel wishes would have been given last night.
Related: A State of Denial (or simply a speech given by a huckster who has zero respect for those he’s speaking to?)

There’s even an online petition against Lego!
Here’s more from Adler’s radio show.
h/t Matt from Mississauga

Kelly McParland eviscerates the Idiotic Left in this hilarious column.

Lorne Gunter skewers the phoney reports coming out of left-wing advocacy groups about massive cuts to the Federal Government’s workforce. He only wishes what they were saying was true!

Each of the more than 450,000 federal civil servants costs taxpayers an average of $92,000 annually for salaries, benefits and pension contributions, according to James Lahey, a former senior bureaucrat who has done the most comprehensive studies yet into civil service pay and benefits. The cost of a federal civil servant is nearly $20,000 a year more than the cost of an average private-sector worker.

Related: A new report from the Centre for Policy Hysteria

The Radical Left’s latest Racist Poster Boy is none other than Tim Thomas, goaltender of the Boston Bruins. Why? Because he refused to go to the White House today.
Here’s the statement that Thomas released:

“I believe the Federal government has grown out of control, threatening the Rights, Liberties, and Property of the People. This is being done at the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial level. This is in direct opposition to the Constitution and the Founding Fathers [ sic ] vision for the Federal government. Because I believe this, today I exercised my right as a Free Citizen, and did not visit the White House. This was not about politics or party, as in my opinion both parties are responsible for the situation we are in as a country. This was about a choice I had to make as an INDIVIDUAL.”

h/t ‘Snagglepuss’
Some of the comments at the Bruins Blog are priceless:

Way to put your own confused political leanings in the way of your team, your town, your fans…
You assume Thomas’s absence is a political statement, but for all we know, he may have had a roll with the first lady and felt the situation would have been socially awkward.
Typical knee-jerk liberals didn’t say a word when Theo skipped a Bush invite. Hypocrites.
First off, not so bad that you dissed the President of the United States, but this is a slap in the face to all the Boston Bruins fans. In case he hasn’t noticed, Massachusetts is a Democratic State. Why would Thomas take this stand. Doesn’t he know that Curt Schilling pretty much got run out of town for backing and working to get George W Bush elected?
Besides that, Red Sox management exercised their rights under his contract to put a stop to his foray into politics right quick. I respect most people for their political beliefs, but Glen Beck? I could see Ronald Regan, John F Buckley, Dwight D Eisenhour, but Glen Beck? The guy is a Nazi for god sake! My guess is that the Boston Fans will let their feelings known at the next home game.

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