What is it with conservative women, they clearly know who the enemy is, and aren’t afraid to say so:

More Palinism:

Suppose a director general (roughly colonel equivalent) in the federal public service–say in the high-stress finance department–were arrested and so charged. Would our media be engaging in the full-court press they are now putting on the case of Col. Russ Williams?
Would they be asking questions about psychological evaluations (‘The generals hand the air force chief a list of recommendations after an “extensive file review.” That review does not typically include a psychological assessment…’)? Do they think Air Force transport pilots (the official biography stupidly deleted here) are somehow trained killers just waiting to explode?
It’s a helluva story. But f…… upchuck with our media’s anti-military, hurl-making, stinking, AGENDA.
Update: The agenda, Globeite in this case, in action:

Murder charges may unfairly tarnish military’s reputation
Canadians must differentiate between actions of one senior official [er, officer, you idjit] and Canadian Forces as a whole, observers say
…
“This is what Canadians will be watching for: will the military close ranks around this, as perhaps we’ve seen in the past, or will they openly co-operate” with the investigation, said Steven Staples, president of the Rideau Institute, an Ottawa think-tank that examines, among other things, the military and defence policy…

That John Ibbitson, the Globe and Mail’s (“Canada’s National Newspaper”) Ottawa news bureau chief and at the same strange time a columnist, can write such a thing without any honest characterization of St. Steve is flipping dishonest, er, journalism. But who’s a real journalist these days?
Perhaps the Globe might just cease fire (Mr Staples’ true love) on the Canadian Forces. Mr Ibbitson’s piece concludes with true, unqualified, crap from Mr Staples:

“This man was part of the elite, the inner circle,” Mr. Staples observed. That elite is exposed and vulnerable, too.

Count the colonels (and Navy captains, to repeat). Some “inner circle”.

Here’s Phil Jones, who recently stood aside as director of the Climatic Research Unit in East Anglia, gravid with data in a 1996 email:

In our maximum latewood density reconstruction from the polar Urals to AD 914, the most anomalous summer is AD 1032. A lot of other volcano
years are there with summers of -3 to -4 sigma such as 1816,1601,1783 and
1453 (I think this later one is Kuwae that is being found in the Ice Cores
in the Antarctic. However 1032 is 6 sigma and it may be the Baitoushan
event which you say is 1010 +/- 50 years or the Billy Mitchell event.

Jones nine years later in a 2005 email:

(McKitrick and McIntyre) have been after the CRU station data for years. If they ever hear there is a freedom of Information act now in the UK, I think I’ll delete the file rather than send to anyone.

Jones three days ago:

We interpret data. We don’t create or collect it. It’s all available from other sources.

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Taliban = “farmers in the wrong place at the wrong time”

Bonus:
Exxon slips $100,000 to the dark side.
… and speaking of courts (could be the start of a trend)
Update:
Chewbacca extra … click.

Chantal Hébert;

The advent of a right-wing challenger to Canada’s longest serving dynasty is more than just a political junkie’s once-in-a-lifetime dream come true.

More like the mainstream conservative remedy to the Liberals who have taken over their former party from the inside. But the rest of the column is still quite good.